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by hurricanetc 7y ago
If the WHO is scared to be aggressive in their recommendations because of blowback six years ago then they are even more incompetent than I thought. It’s not as if outbreaks like this happen often. It would be difficult for the WHO to be la
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
It’s pretty difficult to cross the ocean by yourself. The only way for this virus to have infected Japan or the US is via plane or boat. Both could have been prevented. What will be more damaging to Japans economy? Banning travel to and fro
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
The WHO has come across as pretty incompetent in my opinion. We could have stopped this disease from spreading outside of China but the WHO consistently downplayed the severity and claimed travel bans were overkill and would be too damaging
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
We could have stopped it completely with total travel bans but the WHO advised against it because it could be damaging to the world economy. Why is the WHO concerned about the economy? Well I have no idea. And is this virus going pandemic g
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
This isn't a fair criticism if the gloom and doom is true. Japan's economy is contracting, Germany's economy is at a virtual standstill, and Hong Kong is in recession. China and India report next week and are both likely to
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
For the military... not really. They have a concept called “high year of tenure” which limits how long a soldier can remain in a rank without being promoted. You are meant to advance and if you don’t advance you will be separated out. For e
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
You absolutely can use a phone or tablet without an Apple or Google account.
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Because there is virtually infinite red tape and paper pushing to do it. There are new, smaller, safer, and easy to build plants that have been waiting approval for years and years. The US has never had a nuclear disaster but we’ve had coun
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
We’re living in a coal energy disaster right now. People fear the wrong things.
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
It wouldn’t cost so much or take so long if there hadn’t been decades of misguided propaganda and whining about nuclear. The fact that nuclear is expensive is not an engineering or construction problem. China is building nuclear fast and ch
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
It only failed on older gen1 MobilEye hardware. So this particular vision problem has been solved for a long time.
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Who cares? $10 billion could fully fund global fusion research for the next 5-10 years.
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Storing conversations is introducing a massive security hole. One single person in a group can compromise every message from every user. Secure messages shouldn’t persist and if they do they aren’t secure. Being able to export, upload, and
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Boeing is right but the FAA can’t afford to give them a waiver because reciprocity agreements might go up in flames. Boeing will pay twice because their incompetence highlighted the incompetence of the FAA. Not that I particularly care. I h
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
There isn't much point in having a secure chat application if you want all your chats to be portable and exportable across devices and operating system upgrades. You may as well just use Telegram and opt for 1:1 secret chats for when
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Prosecutors were able to show that the only way she was able to keep and maintain the house was through profits from selling meth. And it was a jury of her peers that voted to allow the forfeiture. If a politician accepts bribes and buys pr
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
She should have taken the plea deal. She wouldn’t have been able to afford to keep this property were it not for her illegal activities. Prosecutors offered to allow her to sell the house and keep most of the proceeds but she declined. She
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
You’ll get shouted down for this suggestion. But there is no amount of money the MTA can’t waste. The MTA is a bloated, incompetent, and completely unsalvageable organization. The subway system in NYC will never be fixed, properly upgraded,
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
People have an excuse for everything while holding all of human knowledge in the palm of their hand. It’s not 1975. All of human knowledge is a few taps away. If you are ignorant on finance it is because you don’t care or don’t want to know
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Sponsored content should be labeled as such and it should include who paid for it and how much they paid. This is absurd. Wild Wild West in the “free world.”
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
I hear what you are saying but it’s 2020. If you don’t have basic financial literacy it’s because you don’t care. And fundamentally I don’t understand how someone could be short on paying bills every single month and not think to themselve
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Carrot Weather, JIRA, and Rosetta Stone. There may be others that are Catalyst that I am not even aware of. But I use those three heavily on a daily basis.
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Not quite the same. VW wasn’t making special vehicles just for testing. It was software on every vehicle designed to trick a dyno. I guess it could be theoretically possible for Apple to software cheat the FCC but it really does seem easier
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
I am loving Catalina. The new Reminders app is a huge upgrade that allowed me to stop relying on shoddy third party apps. Using Apple Watch to authenticate is handy. Sidecar is useful as hell on business trips. iTunes is no longer a bloated
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
You’re delusional or a sociopath if you think working for Facebook is doing anything positive for society. Facebook has to be the single worst thing to happen to humanity so far in the 21st century.
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
It really isn’t. You can get into complicated topics but at the core it is simple arithmetic. Addition of what you earn and subtraction of what you spend. Financial literacy is about exercising self control and utilizing skills that are alr
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Self control is on the individual.
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Financial literacy is arithmetic and basic math. Addition of pay, subtraction of monthly expenses. Interest is not difficult to calculate, either. We give everyone the tools they need. If they are still incompetent that is on them. You hav
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
> But that savings of $600 per month is more than outweighed by the huge repair costs we've incurred. It'll take ten to fifteen years to make up the difference, to break even with the condo expenses. Unlikely to ever break even
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by hurricanetc 7y ago
Basic math and arithmetic are taught. We give people rope and if they hang themselves with it that’s on them.

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