qplex

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by qplex 6y ago
I do mean SARS which first surfaced in the 2000s in China. Swine flu has been around for much longer, at least for 100 years.
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by qplex 6y ago
Viruses like this can spread very quickly and develop to pandemias only because we can fly from China to New York in one day.
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by qplex 6y ago
All the recent outbreaks of viruses like this have originated from East Asia. I really wouldnt give much praise to the great governing elite that failed to prevent this in the first place, despite scientists telling them about it a long tim
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by qplex 6y ago
Great idea. Decentralizing would be a very effective way to combat disease like this. It would also make society more resilient to other kinds of disasters.
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by qplex 6y ago
If we didn't have unlimited travel across borders this epidemic would have never happened. Absolutely nothing would need to be built to achieve this.
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by qplex 6y ago
Let me just say that typing {}[] is super painful on many international variants of QWERTY. Typically you need to press a modifier for both (Alt Gr). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#International_variants
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by qplex 6y ago
FreeBSD and Linux have pretty cute mascots too. Puffy is exclusive to OpenBSD. Tux and Beastie are more generic. Also: "Early versions of OpenBSD (2.3 and 2.4) used a BSD Daemon with a halo, and briefly used a daemon police officer for
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by qplex 6y ago
Me too. People fail to grasp the difference between rendering the whole system unusable and just the OS. On a PC pretty much the only thing that can brick the machine is a BIOS update.
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by qplex 6y ago
I've never seen an OS update brick a PC. Linux or Windows, doesn't matter - you can always recover via BIOS. How can Apple users live with crap like this?
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by qplex 6y ago
Indeed the more socialist systems (look at northern europe) are way more resilient to economic downturns. However a country absolutely needs to stay afloat in foreign trade, or secure domestic production of essential goods.
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by qplex 6y ago
What's to look up? Firefox studies was called project Shield before. Disable studies and it's gone.
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by qplex 6y ago
So they push this background addon to 1% of users that tells them if Telemetry is enabled or not. This is much better than some vague claim. What about the other things you mentioned? >changing your Firefox settings and/or install &
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by qplex 6y ago
>and even send them telemetry data when you disable telemetry! -- they can also remotely change your Firefox settings and/or install "experiments", at any time, without any notice to you! Please don't spread fud and l
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by qplex 6y ago
Some telemetry is on by default, at least in the official releases.
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by qplex 7y ago
>Sedentary, no-sports? Eating farm-produced food? Watching TV? Having clothes? Driving cars? Yes. You're getting there... You know those great clouds of smog that surround cities? That kind of stuff. It's not just "driving
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by qplex 7y ago
This is a good point. We might have antibiotics to fight serious infections but the modern way of living is still slowly killing us in many other ways.
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by qplex 7y ago
There used to be all kinds of nice rules. Like that X would run on tty7.
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by qplex 7y ago
I think a straight 'no' suffices. Linux most definetly wasn't a commercial project in the early years.
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by qplex 7y ago
"When you feel bored and sick"? Sorry. I guess I tend to think in a dualistic way.
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by qplex 7y ago
I'm only saying one should not have to continually withstand frustration or bad circumstances. Sometimes giving up (and doing something else) is the right thing to do. Sometimes you need a break to be able to continue. And so on. In an
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by qplex 7y ago
I'm not suggesting to change any goals; just to have a break from any singular activity for a while. But whatever myth you think there is for goals that require delayed gratification simply does not exist (at least for most people). Th
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by qplex 7y ago
Really, when your mind tells you that you are bored and sick, you should do something else. If the circumstances force you to eat shit, it's still not the right thing to do.
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by qplex 7y ago
I'm absolutely glad that I did things _my way_ instead of succumbing to some general false conceptions of "doing the right thing". This includes things like skipping military service and basically living as an outlaw for many
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by qplex 7y ago
I bought rubber gloves and it completely changed the game for me. Washing dishes is a zen-like experience. As the utensils, glassware, cups, plates and whatever pile up, you start to feel the itch to clean up the mess. As you finally get to
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by qplex 7y ago
So from your linked study: >"The remission rate for combined treatment did not differ from that for CBT alone (P = .42) " With the conclusion: >Children and adolescents with OCD should begin treatment with the combination of
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by qplex 7y ago
What "most evidence". Please provide something tangible instead of analogies.
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by qplex 7y ago
I'm not a doctor, but I really would not recommend SSRIs. At all. This is from personal experience, but there are a lot of anecdotes and research around that agrees. I didn't really read this book, since this wasn't really ne
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by qplex 7y ago
Thanks for refreshing my memory. Those were pretty cool programs back then. I definetly remember Windowsblinds too (and geez, it seems they're still around ...). I was into LiteStep, which basically was a shell replacement for explorer
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by qplex 7y ago
If it doesn't translate to anything useful, like better performance then yes, it's just waste of money. People who think computers bring some great magical benefit for everyone to everything are delusional. In many cases iPads or
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by qplex 7y ago
Ever? Browsers have been free for personal use for a _long_ time. Here, see the announcement for Netscape Navigator (October 1993) [0] >Customers who download the software do so for personal use only. Commercial users can purchase suppor

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