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by magduf 7y ago
Where was this? I used to work as an intern at a shipbuilding company making aircraft carriers. People wore stuff when they were required to, so hard hats were always worn, and the attached earmuffs seemed to be generally worn when someone
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by magduf 7y ago
>Why would you buy safety critical equipment from China? 1) Because that's where it's made 2) Because they're obviously a lot more competent at public health than we are. We don't know WTF we are doing.
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by magduf 7y ago
Surgical masks don't need to offer complete protection. For one thing, something is better than nothing. But more importantly, the reason people in Asia wear these masks isn't really to protect themselves from getting sick, it&#
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by magduf 7y ago
Interesting, but it's a lot easier to just toss out the inkjet and buy an inexpensive laser printer. You can even buy a small-office color laser printer for $200-300 these days. And 3rd-party toner cartridges for these printers are u
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by magduf 7y ago
Whoops, I left out a phrase. This should read: "...but the mass adoption of the internet made all that crap much more easily accessible to the masses..."
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by magduf 7y ago
Several decades ago, it wasn't nearly this bad or widespread. Sure, there's always been conspiracies and anti-science sentiments, but the mass adoption made all that crap much more easily accessible to the masses, so it spread li
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by magduf 7y ago
Then what exactly is the goal? If you're not better off after doing something than before doing something, then why would you do it? Hosting the Olympics doesn't help a host nation in any measurable way that I've ever seen,
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by magduf 7y ago
In my opinion, it's rational (which surprises me that it would be "populist" since populist thinking is rarely rational). The Olympics really are a terrible waste of effort and resources for the host nation, and the host nati
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by magduf 7y ago
You can't easily install the nice washlets in many places, because they require power to operate. If a bathroom wasn't designed for it, it's very likely to not have a power outlet near the toilet. In Japanese bathrooms, the
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by magduf 7y ago
What we "need" isn't important. Coordinated, responsible leadership sounds great, but that's up to the voters to decide. If the voters don't want that, then why should it be forced on them? Who are you to tell th
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by magduf 7y ago
>He must spend all his effort and distribute resources to stay in power which means not benefiting the people. Do you have any proof for your claim? I can point to multiple dictators in history under whose reign their people had (by the
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by magduf 7y ago
I may not be most people, but for various reasons, it does seem than web apps are taking over and native apps are dying, so this is only good for me. Maybe there's more of us than you think.
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by magduf 7y ago
What's wrong with something looking "old-fashioned"? That seems to be better from my point of view. I just finally got switched to Windows 10 on my work computer. Every time I start up a simple calculator, it takes up most
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by magduf 7y ago
I'd rather play it in a browser, even if it's much worse. With the browser version, I can just open my browser and point to the URL and run it. Easy. With a native app, this usually means I'd have to go buy a new computer ru
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by magduf 7y ago
I completely disagree, and I mean for all desktop software vs. web software. Web applications are generally better, because, as a Linux user, an in-browser application means I get to actually use the thing, instead of not using it at all.
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by magduf 7y ago
>What I said is that, likely, there are kids in Africa who, if they were given the same opportunities as Senna, would have turned out to be better F1 drivers than him. Yes, it is likely, just given the sheer numbers. But F1 driving is a
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by magduf 7y ago
Yep, you're right. Luckily, the 50/60Hz stuff really doesn't matter these days except maybe for some digital clocks on appliances.
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by magduf 7y ago
Maybe, but with all the people stuck at home, it really should be on everyone's Netflix to-watch list. Fantastic movie. Some other good picks relevant for these times: The Andromeda Strain (1971) Outbreak (1995) Contagion (2011) Invas
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by magduf 7y ago
People complain about dictatorships, but the absolute best form of government is actually a dictatorship, because it's efficient and looks out for the interests of the people. Of course, this means it has to be a "benevolent dict
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by magduf 7y ago
>nothing replaces the low-latency engagement (intimacy) of a one on one phone call. For a lot of people, texting absolutely does replace the intimacy of a phone call. I have an ex-girlfriend who almost never talked to me on the phone, a
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by magduf 7y ago
On Amazon, you don't know which seller's goods are being shipped to you, if it's "fulfilled by Amazon" or from Amazon directly. So if two sellers are selling the same item, with the same exact SKU, and both send the
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by magduf 7y ago
HIV didn't spread very quickly because it required fluid transfer (and usually sexual, even kissing generally didn't spread it). It's hard to have an "outbreak" when a virus is so difficult to spread between people
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by magduf 7y ago
Depends on your definition of "deadly". The MERS virus was much more deadly than this thing, and that wasn't very long ago. The problem with it was that it was too deadly: it killed people off pretty quickly. Pathogens that
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by magduf 7y ago
To be fair, various media outlets are also calling it a "close pass". You're right, of course, that it's much larger than the distance from the Earth to the Moon, but that doesn't stop mainstream media from calling
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by magduf 7y ago
This just goes to show, "truth is stranger than fiction". If someone had tried to make a movie that showed the true events of 2020, people would think it's ridiculously unrealistic.
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by magduf 7y ago
Wow, that's wrong on several different levels. I can't even begin... I understand that you don't need an electrical engineering degree to be an electrician, but still, these are some fairly basic concepts in the electric pow
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by magduf 7y ago
Sorry, I don't buy it. You could make the same argument about almost any sport. But the reality is that training is a huge part of skill, not just in-born talent. You can't just grab some random person from tropical Africa and
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by magduf 7y ago
As an addition here, look at Ebola. It was perfectly feasible to create a vaccine, but no one bothered as long as it was confined to Africa. As soon as white people in western nations started getting it, then suddenly there was a huge eff
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by magduf 7y ago
They probably never developed a SARS vaccine because it didn't turn into a major worldwide pandemic. There's lots of diseases that don't have vaccines mainly because it's seen as not worth the effort or cost. SARS and
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by magduf 7y ago
Sorry, I don't know anything about poker, but didn't Riker do this all the time on TNG?

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