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by ouid 4y ago
The same article. Look at the data. for aerosols one hand width above the surface of the toilet, the numbers are a factor of two different lidded vs unlidded. The 12 times claim is only for samples collected at "seat height".
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by ouid 4y ago
We know about the pathogens which are likely to make you sick from fecal-oral transmission. We have studied them pretty well because they are common. The most likely candidate for a pathogen that could be spread through toilet plumes is cal
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by ouid 4y ago
I am not ignoring that effect. I am dismissing it with two arguments. The first is that this extremely unlikely to ever be your largest exposure to a pathogen. The reason that it is important in a hospital is because they essentially autocl
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by ouid 4y ago
That is not, in fact, established. And the question was "what's the harm?"
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by ouid 4y ago
Yes, you save, according to OP, 2 seconds, 4, since you then have to open the lid every time. Since it has no impact on your health, you should prefer to save the time. There is literal shit everywhere all the time. There's shit inside
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by ouid 4y ago
It takes 2 seconds. Why spend 2 seconds doing something useless?
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by ouid 4y ago
This is nonsense. C diff in hospital settings is not a reason to close the lid when you flush in your home. The lid on a hospital toilet is designed to close a lot more than the lid on your home toilet. The amount that your home toilet lid
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by ouid 4y ago
This "article" is an example of highly motivated reasoning. The first potential cause that he proposes of this "decades long 'phenomenon'" (yes, I'm doubing up on air quotes, sue me) is social distancing.
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by ouid 4y ago
this is a weird double standard. The only reason to use a vpn is because of fears of the CIA or whatever in the first place.
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by ouid 4y ago
i flagged the post, but VPNs are not "unlikely" sources of astroturfing. I do not particularly trust the startup incubator that launched many of these VPNs to take a particularly critical view of astroturfing, so i have chosen to
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by ouid 4y ago
Its possible you dont know what state means. But the US has plenty of mass warrants that require companies to keep logs even in the presence of promises that they dont. In fact, they are obligated not to reveal that they are now keeping log
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by ouid 4y ago
absolutely not. people are wary of signing up for new subscriptions, because cancellation is not clearly protected in most jurisdictions, and people are aware that they can forget to cancel. People dont forget to renew their world of warcra
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by ouid 4y ago
This is PR and the comments are astroturfed to absolute hell. VPN is the most heavily advertised business I am aware of. There are a lot of reasons to mistrust this behavior. 1) it doesn't cost mullvad very much to not autorenew subsc
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by ouid 4y ago
Dont listen to any economist that is also popular enough to qualify as a politician. Entire generations on political discourse have centered around one hacks poor simplification.
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by ouid 4y ago
PR is not facts.
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by ouid 4y ago
What follows is loose speculation, but I do not think the equilibrium price of a single bitcoin after a crash is any more likely to be $100 than $1. This is due to the anatomy of a bubble. A belief in the long term value of cryptocurrency i
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by ouid 4y ago
>Firm’s founders say they still believe in the future of cryptocurrencies. How the fuck is this the subtitle? The firm's founders saying they believe this is evidence of nothing . A responsible journalist would not include it at al
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by ouid 4y ago
>hurl vitriol. This is criticism and advice. It is not this forum's job to tell people that their ideas are good and their business models are sound when they arent. It seems like the claim is that it is a worse idea than you think
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by ouid 4y ago
I had a lot of finals, and the answer to this comment that I did not write was essentially accurate. The people who think about computers this way are the people who have to implement them on analog devices, aka the electrical engineers. Th
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by ouid 4y ago
No. As long as there is a mechanism for adding new identities to the system, (presumably you want this, because people can be born), people can disguise themselves as new people. This is not trivial to accomplish, but there's no law of
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by ouid 4y ago
Right, and the parent comment is asserting that that is worse in every way. Which it is.
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by ouid 4y ago
A computer is broken up into small discrete steps where error correction can happen. The essential idea is that the logical space of the computer is a suitably "discrete" set of points in the actual phase space of the system on wh
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by ouid 4y ago
long distance travel is even better suited to mass transit, as it's more laminar.
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by ouid 4y ago
You just do the thing. It's not like they're walking the appalachian trail or making a baby. You can start at the end, and the fact that they haven't is a serious problem.
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by ouid 4y ago
Is the claim that you will get rich by giving someone else your money now? yes -> it's a Ponzi scheme. no -> it's not a crypto project.
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by ouid 4y ago
Identifying wasteful spending is expensive and inaccurate. An auditor will produce some number of false negatives (remaining wasteful spending) and false positives (useful spending that was cut). Both of these cannot be zero, and the closer
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by ouid 4y ago
Cutting out wasteful spending may make your shitty schools cheaper, but it will not make them better.
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by ouid 4y ago
I believe that you have missed my point. Nick behaved rationally . Someone lost 827 million dollars, but it wasn't Nick. Nick lost his job.
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by ouid 4y ago
My favorite part is the pictures of it on the website. "Hold your corporeal money next to other real things, like pizza and gameboy cartridges and magic the gathering cards. This is a real thing. That you can own. Like this baguette, o
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by ouid 4y ago
Nick didn't lose 827 million dollars. Nick lost his job. Nick behaved rationally. Every choice was a choice between certainly losing his job, and maybe losing his job.

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