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by mnm1 7y ago
The same way the US is considered first world with half of its population living in poverty, a third or more without proper healthcare, almost one percent in prison, etc.
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by mnm1 7y ago
What? An almost maxed out mbpro in 2014 cost around $2800 (512gb/16gb/i7). The same laptop is now priced over $4000 (2tb/64gb/i9). They are roughly equivalent just under top of the line laptops. They are absolutely going
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by mnm1 7y ago
Yeah, if they are forcing people to work and possibly transmit this deadly virus they are indeed a monster on par with any murderer. It makes sense indeed.
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by mnm1 7y ago
So does this provide sick leave for companies that only offer vacation (paid time off) but no actual sick leave? Or are employees working at those places given the middle finger again and told to use their vacation days that don't exis
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by mnm1 7y ago
Seriously. All the talk about markets this and that but when the market acts and these companies go bankrupt mostly because of their own incompetence, it's time for a bailout. It's absurd. Either you let the market run its course
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by mnm1 7y ago
It was either a scam or it had valid, valuable patents (logically maybe not legally). You can't it have both ways. If the patent is valid, then it wasn't a scam. That means it developed something of value for all that investor mon
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by mnm1 7y ago
Sounds like we will need the suggestion in this article just to ramp up mask production. And the willingness to make mask wearing mandatory by law. There are too many idiots out there who will not do it otherwise.
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by mnm1 7y ago
Yes, the government should step in with those measures regardless. Without that, this isn't possible. Then we are stuck doing nothing like the UK, despite having almost two months lead time on this.
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by mnm1 7y ago
The quarantine in China will end at some point, but you claim it won't end in the US if we give the government that power, a power it already has. Which one's the free country again?
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by mnm1 7y ago
I do. A shit ton. Most people I've talked to, in fact. Not that it matters who you or I know. Option 4 is the same as option 3: do nothing like the UK. People will act in what they perceive is their own self interest. For most people,
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by mnm1 7y ago
The people making these laws are completely out of touch with reality. Come to think of it, so are the people executing them and judging them. When you're a multi-millionaire with no care in the world, it's hard to relate to the h
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by mnm1 7y ago
That's exactly what you want to do in a pandemic. Stand in line close to a dozen other people so you can buy a gun and shoot the virus. People's stupidity never ceases to amaze.
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by mnm1 7y ago
This is a global pandemic with a death rate of <1% to 6% depending on the place. The world isn't ending. Electricity isn't going away. Neither is bread. The whole idea is to not have to go to the store and expose oneself to the
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by mnm1 7y ago
I guess he never thought of hiring a developer to put up a shopping site for his items? This could be done in a few days using something like Woocommerce or Magento. Can't say I feel sorry for the guy though.
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by mnm1 7y ago
Compare this to growing up as a teenager in suburbia. I could not play any sports, despite wanting to very badly. My neighborhood had few kids, spread in housing developments that stretched for miles. I loved basketball but there were no co
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by mnm1 7y ago
You can freeze bread for weeks, maybe even months and even preserve freshness.
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by mnm1 7y ago
Are you joking? This is the worst response to this crisis imaginable. It's impossible not to criticize the government for completely fucking everything up (already listed the top things in another post so I won't rehash). Nothing
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by mnm1 7y ago
Despite the pres making this disaster worse in every way possible (cutting cdc funding, still not testing, still no quarantine, still no real action other than declaring this, way way way too fucking late with everything, hiding info, preve
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by mnm1 7y ago
Painting? That's the reality, The US response is a disaster that will likely surpass Italy. We have done close to nothing. Maybe he's trying to help because we are too fucking incompetent to test on our own. The question is, will
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The Earn IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online(eff.org)
16 points by mnm1 7y ago|2 comments
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by mnm1 7y ago
Doubtful. I wfh and have hit Comcast's cap a few times in the past. Radioactive? I have no fucking choice even though less than a mile away in all directions there's century link. The solution is to get a lower speed. I went from
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by mnm1 7y ago
Can this be used off label now? Or do we have to wait for our incompetent bureaucracy again, like with the testing, while ignoring tools that work?
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by mnm1 7y ago
America is still not the same. I'm not talking about airport security, although that's a minor, minor difference. I'm talking about the government, the society, the culture. The terrorists won on 9/11 and they've be
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by mnm1 7y ago
So in your mind, Medicare for all only covers covid 19? Because that's what I'm talking about. Covering treatment for the once in a hundred years pandemic. Clearly, even that's too much for our shitty, decaying American socie
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by mnm1 7y ago
This is a token gesture. Free testing is not enough. Free treatment should be a minimum. Does anyone think that the improvements to unemployment can pay for a few weeks in the icu? That would bankrupt anyone without decent insurance or a hi
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by mnm1 7y ago
Yeah it's clearly a token move to pretend like they're doing something. The cv19 test is free but all the other tests they will undoubtedly and necessarily run before that are not. And if you end up in the er as a poor person, you
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by mnm1 7y ago
I never once mentioned the electoral college. That's not even part of this discussion.
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by mnm1 7y ago
Who is blaming here? This is a movement by the concerned for everyone. Our government is the one that has completely failed us, not just employers. Employers are expected to fail us. Every one of the issues above could be solved by a govern
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by mnm1 7y ago
Maybe because our government isn't doing shit to speak of at almost any level and we have no idea how bad the spread is here given the lack of testing and information coming out. Last I checked, we had around a thousand confirmed cases
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by mnm1 7y ago
The difference is that doctors are making this decision in Italy due to a medical system that is overloaded and cannot treat everyone vs. in the US, the insurance companies are always, not just in times of crisis, making this decision so th

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