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by ghoward 5y ago
How can it be bull crud if they are using the accounts of people who have actually lived in Israel?
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by ghoward 5y ago
I wish I could upvote your comment more, but putting it in my bookmarks will have to do for now.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Fortunately, the claim the Israel is an apartheid state appears to be false, according to those who lived through apartheid. [1] [2] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcEL-NlxBk0 [2]: https://www.youtube.com&#
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by ghoward 5y ago
I think your last sentence is the key to Amazon's problem. They have the money; they just don't want to spend it.
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by ghoward 5y ago
If you look at the amount of actual chat, it's already far below Libera. What this means is that probably most of the users left are either bouncers or lurkers that just haven't disconnected yet. However, this is speculation on my
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by ghoward 5y ago
Uh...mRNA vaccines are experimental. And every vaccine is different. Just because other vaccines are good doesn't mean these are.
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by ghoward 5y ago
It is unfortunate that people have to self-censor like this! You shouldn't have to, but that's not your fault.
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by ghoward 5y ago
You are absolutely correct. To be honest, what I do does not work for the vast majority of people, and even though I do it, it does make me nervous. But one big reason I still do it is that the current culture thinks I am a terrible person
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by ghoward 5y ago
There's a lot of evidence that masks protect against bacteria, but the jury's still out for viruses. Also, you are correct that people should be strategic, but a lot of people aren't, and they are not changing their masks reg
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by ghoward 5y ago
They do that in the environment that the masks are designed for.
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by ghoward 5y ago
It is an unfortunate thing that fear is such a strong driver.
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by ghoward 5y ago
The carbon dioxide is only replaced in the volume behind the mask. If that is not a big volume compared to a full breath (and it isn't), then the carbon dioxide you're breathing in isn't 10%. It's (v_mask * 0.21 * 0.5)&#
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by ghoward 5y ago
The medical field uses masks in the environment they were made for. And they are changed regularly. In the non-medical world, people don't do that. If people used masks properly, I wouldn't have much of an argument, but they don&#
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by ghoward 5y ago
Does heightened levels of carbon dioxide hurt? Everything we know about heightened levels of carbon dioxide in buildings says, "Yes." Why would masks be any different?
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by ghoward 5y ago
And people are far too quick to think that masks do work and/or are not harmful. What happened to the Precautionary Principle?
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by ghoward 5y ago
Long-term effects are just that: long-term. We can't know what long-term effects the vaccines have until they have been used for a long time, even if millions have had them.
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by ghoward 5y ago
My reply to Linus: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/06/a-letter-to-linus-torvalds/ .
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by ghoward 5y ago
My reply to Linus: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/06/a-letter-to-linus-torvalds/ .
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by ghoward 5y ago
Notice that the two Approvals are different. They are different in the law.
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by ghoward 5y ago
How can science claim they are safe when we haven't even had the chance to do tests for long-term effects yet?
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by ghoward 5y ago
Has their advice for the past year been correct? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27460858
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by ghoward 5y ago
Not GP. No, an EUA is not the same thing as the normal FDA approval process. And even if it was, I personally would want more results about long-term effects before I got it.
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by ghoward 5y ago
The model only tests how oxygen and carbon dioxide replace each other, not nitrogen. So 50% of the 21% is oxygen, the other 50% is carbon dioxide. Of course, it could be even worse, that carbon dioxide starts replacing the nitrogen behind t
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by ghoward 5y ago
There is some trust there, but again, I can and have looked at what he's doing. Plus the fact that someone who has taken Google out of Chromium probably cares about privacy. It's still less trust required than the trust required f
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by ghoward 5y ago
That's because of the Precautionary Principle. Also, as viruses mutate, they tend to get less dangerous.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I agree with you about the value of anonymity. For me, though, I use my real name everywhere because I don't want to be able to hide behind an anonymous identity, and the reason for that is that it's easier to be like the jerks th
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by ghoward 5y ago
I...can neither confirm nor deny how much I love watching compiles happen...
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by ghoward 5y ago
> People have been wearing protective equipment such as masks for decades, and the negative effects are none. Have you yourself seen studies that say the negative effects are none? If so, point me to them; I've only found a few, and
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by ghoward 5y ago
My mistake, though it seems that it might be default for something, since it is installed on my system. Edit: figured out what it is: firefox-bin can be installed, no fuss, but firefox requires elogind or systemd, neither of which I have on
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by ghoward 5y ago
I update every night, including Ungoogled-Chromium. I'm not awake for the night, so why not do it then? Gentoo may be rolling release, but they batch the updates every day.

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