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by greycol 5y ago
I mean it is the perfect expression of what a lot of us hate about modern apps. The constant sucking up of all data for advertising. Lets be honest to follow best practice on security/privacy is a constant schlep of tweaking options an
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by greycol 5y ago
Sure now your only recklessly endangering those who can't get vaccinated and those who opt in. So maybe at steady state the numbers do work out in favour of it being less dangerous than driving proportionally(excluding the people who o
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by greycol 5y ago
If we have 100 people responsible for a bad thing happening to 10 people in that group that is proportionally the same as 10 people being responsible for a bad thing happening to 1 person in that group and having 90 unrelated people to the
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by greycol 5y ago
WHO confirmed cases so using your numbers that does change it to just another 1.2 million dead americans assuming no change in death rate due to other strains the vaccine rather than another 5.5 million.
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by greycol 5y ago
You'd bet wrong 1.3 million traffic deaths in a year. double it to 2.6 m for 2 years. In the 2 years of covid we have had 4.25 million deaths with still 90% us and 97% of the rest of the world left to catch it. You only need a unmasked
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by greycol 5y ago
Just to clarify for those worried about what looks like legitimate numbers. The 6000 (unverified though there are legitimate reports) deaths on VAERS (down from the 11,000 when those that were posted from overseas sources were removed) mean
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by greycol 5y ago
If I was a PR person and I had the choice of not doing my job and agreeing with toxic boss that "California is forcing businesses out by not ignoring my type of toxic behaviour, put that in!" or being bullied and possibly fired fo
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by greycol 5y ago
Yeah, with the additional punchline that "the lucky ones were the half that got shredded as they didn't need to deal with the hiring manager."
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by greycol 5y ago
If health care wasn't covered publicly in Europe you'd be paying out those larger amounts more often which would cause rates to rise and then differentiation with cheaper lower capped offerings.
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by greycol 5y ago
And people could ask to be delisted from it. Many celebrities and public figures exercised this option.
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by greycol 5y ago
The problem is your clear and measurable points don't actually point to a god. If you see some meaning in them that enriches your life that's great but they don't really count as evidence to those outside your religion (excep
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by greycol 5y ago
With short term outages like this your probably right that a single point of failure doesn't matter. It's the longer term outages that are the problem. That's because we start talking about knock on effects. It's not rea
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by greycol 5y ago
So there are a lot of negatives to trying to set up your home as a smart home, the constant fight against entropy is the most annoying. These kind of service shutdowns are way to common. If you are just getting into it you should ironically
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Samsung will shut down the v1 SmartThings hub this month(arstechnica.com)
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by greycol 5y ago
>Think of walking into a restaurant and they have a sign that says "Employees Only Behind Counter". Even if there was no technical/physical control preventing you from going behind the counter (eg there was no locked door
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by greycol 5y ago
I bet there's also more than a few people who work at places where work surges up to or beyond a full day but other days there's not much to do. If they're not empowered to actually treat their salaried job as a salaried job
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by greycol 5y ago
You can use a 15 minute break to be with family if you WFH. You can't use a 15 minute break to be with your family and complete a >15 minute round trip. If you believe being in the office is required, fine, but if that's your c
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by greycol 5y ago
But it will only be a few of them that view it as an identity. For them it'll be a chance to talk with people from different walks of life such as bankers, lawyers, doctors, artists, entrepreneurs, business owners, or COs. Since so man
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by greycol 5y ago
What is the downside of the police lying? Assuming they didn't have a warrant then they either lie and it doesn't make the situation worse as police are allowed to lie or they don't lie and guarantee a lawsuit. I'd under
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by greycol 5y ago
I didn't downvote it but the tone does seem quite adversarial to me. You could ask "what was the fallout?", "Did the client get compensated?", or "did you make procedural changes afterwards?" without being
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by greycol 5y ago
Basically the whole term Gain of Function Research is referring to any research that involves deliberate alterations to pathogens to make them more transferable(including the ability to infect other hosts) or deadly.
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by greycol 5y ago
The volatility is the problem as it makes calculations unreliable but a year to cover your costs on a 2 year (if you upgrade to the latest graphics card every generation) or 4 year (if you go every second gen) life is a reasonable investmen
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by greycol 5y ago
It's around 15% of the population (48 mil) of us population for marijuana. So yes the traffic stops were positively correlated with drug possesion. NB: The most optimistic reason for this correlation would be: 'Drug possession&#x2
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by greycol 5y ago
As a sister to my comment I'll also add you can effectively (though not legally) short more stock than you can buy. This is because to short you pay for a stock at the current market price with the promise to sell it back at the same p
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by greycol 5y ago
If you need to cover your short and there are no shares being sold you effectively must keep offering higher and higher prices until someone will sell you a share as you are legally obligated to buy a share[1]. To end the unlimited downside
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by greycol 5y ago
It does apply in the EU and that's the point, if a US company can't engineer a legal or technical work around then they can't operate in the EU without breaking either US or EU laws. If the US believes that it's in a str
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by greycol 5y ago
In the same spirit it might be worth noting that ' earn about 20% of annual income" could also be considered a bit misleading ' receive about 20% of annual income" would be a less controversial term.
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by greycol 5y ago
The way I avoid that (forced questions) is to enter no password during setup. Then add the password later in settings. This was also how you avoid setting up a pin in a previous version of windows. This was for windows pro, I believe they a
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by greycol 5y ago
I'll just point out: if you need 60 hours of income to survive you actually increase risk by having it split between several jobs. That is because having a portion of enough rent to not be evicted is equivalent to having not enough r
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by greycol 5y ago
If we're using the WHO definition of a pandemic it's a pandemic. If we're using the dictionary definition of a pandemic "(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world." it's a pandemic. If we&#x27

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