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by j_walter 5y ago
The WHO refuses to acknowledge that Taiwan exists...because of China. A supposedly independent organization that is supposed to be above politics...won't recognize an island of more than 30 million people. Taiwan proved that they knew
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by j_walter 5y ago
The US has been trending down per capita for the last 50 years...but the problem is we have more people so the total output is higher. China's trend, as another poster said, is always going higher. https://datacommons.org&#
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by j_walter 5y ago
Who do you mean by "we"...because some countries don't give a shit about the impact they are having on the world and still pollute the air and water worse than EU and US countries 50 years ago (China, India, etc).
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Yep...because if anyone has a huge amount of skepticism of Chinese information it's going to be Taiwan. They have recently taken a turn for the worse, but they managed through over a year with very little infections (<1,000) becaus
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by j_walter 5y ago
China refused to let the WHO in and do actual investigative work. Instead they took China's word for it and repeated whatever they said as fact. China covered up the spread of the disease and instead tried to hide it. The fact that
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by j_walter 5y ago
Despite that fact...the seemingly bought and paid for WHO were still claiming in late January that there was no person to person transmission. That stopped the US from doing any sort of checks of any sort and life went on...all the while t
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by j_walter 5y ago
Thats very possible...I was going off information my significant other mentioned to me yesterday that she heard on the news. Hearsay of hearsay...so my bad...
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Yes, but some are better at never getting infected in the first place, like chicken pox, hepatitis or measles.
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Sure, but everything also said its spread through the air...no coughing == less droplets. The spread concern would be if people aren't taking the same precautions because they aren't showing symptoms, but if still wearing masks o
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by j_walter 5y ago
I haven't seen any good information on transmission. My gut feeling is that less symptoms == less transmissibility, but I have no data to back that up. One study has put the delta R0 around the same as Measles...which is 3x original C
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by j_walter 5y ago
Politicians certainly didn't deliver a great message about it though...when they are the ones that are giving out 99% of the information about the vaccine (since I don't think the drug companies can advertise a non-approved drug).
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39% effective against infection, but the big sticking point is that it "Largely prevents severe illness"...ie keeping people out of the hospital. That is the crucial need right now with the delta spread.
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by j_walter 5y ago
I've used Ubiquity AirMAX products (2x nano m900 if I remember correctly) for my point to point network sharing between my house and shop for a few years now without issue. Both are PoE and both ends transmit through walls without muc
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by j_walter 5y ago
Love Storj...concept and execution are done extremely well.
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by j_walter 5y ago
Cash for clunkers anyone? How much waste did that create...turn in a 20 year old Civic and get a bunch of money to buy a brand new vehicle that probably gets worse MPG.
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by j_walter 5y ago
I would really love to use some of my crypto that I obtained from mining to pay my mortgage directly. Much less likely to set off alarm bells...
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by j_walter 5y ago
Is it annoying...yes. Does it take more than 2 minutes to remove the pinned Edge and change the different default file types...no. C'mon...Microsoft is trying to get you to use what they view as a superior product. It could certainly
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by j_walter 5y ago
Sounds like your mind is made up and you seem to have a serious dislike for comments that you are skeptical of. You don't know me and I don't really care about what you think of my stand on women's rights based on a comment
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by j_walter 5y ago
In no way was I saying that there is no sexism or misogyny going outside of Afghanistan, but trying to compare being held back in your career with being unable to leave your home without a male relative is making light of the plight that th
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by j_walter 5y ago
Those organizations don't have the widespread adoption that the extreme Islamists do...which is the Taliban and they now control a country of 38M people. What you are talking about is small cults in isolated pockets of society.
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That infrastructure they have...and the $/weight is much easier to manage.
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by j_walter 5y ago
You think that's the only money that got issued? The loans that went to companies was absurdly abused and had almost no oversight. Trillions of dollars went into the economy in a matter of months...
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by j_walter 5y ago
Depends on your definition of inflation... >In economics, inflation (or less frequently, price inflation) is a general rise in the price level of an economy over a period of time. When the general price level rises, each unit of currency
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by j_walter 5y ago
I didn't necessarily mean double the amount of people...but at least have enough cross training that a single person won't cripple your company. I've seen this far too many times that one or two people have too much of the k
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How will someone lower prices when the government has done nothing but print money in the last 4 years...let alone the free cash giveaways in the last 18 months. People are using that money to buy bigger or more houses...thus driving up th
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by j_walter 5y ago
Many managers don't realize the need for redundancy in their workforce. In technical industries you are taught to have machine/system redundancy to ensure no line interruptions...but there is little attention paid to making sure
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I'm sure everyone is shocked that the government liked the powers that it gave itself under emergency measures and wants to keep those powers. Like "temporary" taxes that never end...once you give a little bit of power you ne
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by j_walter 5y ago
Yes...but don't let the facts get in the way of the slant of the article trying to convince you nothing is wrong with NYC. Just believe what it's telling you and don't question anything.
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Big difference between biology and biotechnology though. Biology is one of those fields that many people are drawn to yet the post-college career is not quite what they seemed. Recently interviewed a candidate for a low level tech job that
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by j_walter 5y ago
I think the fact that there are only two labs in China that study Coronaviruses...and the outbreak location is a few hundred yards from where one of the labs is...is enough of a coincidence that it should be THE theory that it somehow (leak

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