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by richardw 7y ago
"the overall estimated effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine for preventing medically attended, laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infection was 47%" https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr&#x
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by richardw 7y ago
If Afghanistan mistakenly killed 30 Americans there would be hell to pay
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Transported by trucks that do pay road taxes
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by richardw 7y ago
One good thing about advertising is that it allows the poorest free access to most content. Hopefully these initiatives will keep that.
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by richardw 7y ago
Interlink. Like cellphones allow you to choose the UI you want to call the person you want on any network, I think the future should be all services cross licensing content.
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by richardw 7y ago
You can wipe down a tablet but not a pad. Isn't there some risk of transmission via the paper pad? (Thank you for the insights!)
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by richardw 7y ago
You're betting against human ingenuity here. Solar still works in cloudy weather, and you can compensate by building more than you typically need. You can transmit increasingly long distances. Here's a line working at 2300+km. ht
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by richardw 7y ago
India has more arable land than China, no? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_India "India's arable land... is the second largest in the world, after the United States. Its gross irrigated crop ar
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by richardw 7y ago
Supply and demand is more core than anchoring and it was certainly discovered earlier. It's tested all the time. Add tariff, demand drops. That's also economics and works well in 2019. This stuff is now so obvious we've forgo
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by richardw 7y ago
Depends on the task. I've used more new stuff in the last few years than the previous decade and I'm 46. But I fully appreciate the tradeoffs. No shiny objects is the rule. But break it if it's an obvious (necessary?) improve
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by richardw 7y ago
Can, click on the "x minutes ago", and then flag.
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by richardw 7y ago
20k in US https://www.google.co.za/amp/s/electrek.co/2019/07/09/us-ele... 400k in China https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2019/07/the-nu... I'd
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by richardw 7y ago
Radio probably prevents exclusives to some extent. If you can't get your song onto general radio you're going nowhere. Can't have exclusive online when radio isn't. (generally, obviously there will be exceptions.)
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by richardw 7y ago
I didn't use the world slavery once, but I'll bite. They probably weren't entrepreneurs. None of that looks like a situation I'd want to have imposed on me. No individuals say "you know what I want to do today? Move
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by richardw 7y ago
Pyramids represent such amazing engineering and such untold suffering. Farming only started 10k years ago and 5k years later we had such an energy and time surplus that we were moving mountains around for our rulers' ego's. A lot
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by richardw 7y ago
Good pointer but...let’s try that. My guess is they stay online. Here’s a couple minutes of searching. All the same company. Google can’t even see the dupe content obvious to us: https://rivoniaplumber24-7.co.za/?wpamp htt
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by richardw 7y ago
I did. I also told a real plumber what was going on so he could report it. Now I see he's doing it too, or at least a minor version with one page per area.
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by richardw 7y ago
Search for "<my area> plumber" returns totally gamed results. Has for years. No idea why that obvious use case is so broken. My wife hired one and the plumber was useless so I investigated. I've found obvious spam nests
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by richardw 7y ago
I use more and reduce on the sites that make me type it in. Eg Netflix on smart TV. I don't want to spend time outrunning password guessing tech. QR codes, Samsung.
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by richardw 7y ago
Tried mountain biking? I enjoy getting out and combining the exercise with technical ability and social time. I can practice technique or watch my heart rate and cadence, or just enjoy the scenery. Travel to very nice places and ride way of
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by richardw 7y ago
Similar to how USB was used to overcome the airgap by Stuxnet. Flow of visitors to HK and back to the mainland means information gets past the firewall. Those people can pass the files on via the same method.
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by richardw 7y ago
What do people do to mitigate DNS services from going down? Is it possible to have multiple services for that? And CDN's too as per our recent CloudFlare issues.
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by richardw 7y ago
Three CDN's. And three DNS providers.
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by richardw 7y ago
It might be cheaper to add a generator for exceptional days. Build the rest of the system for efficiency.
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by richardw 7y ago
I think you can lens the lower radiation away from the sun. A fresnel-like arrangement that points light from under the panel in a direction other than that of the panel.
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by richardw 7y ago
I don't think it's a monster at all. It's a great country. I do think the leadership isn't giving the full due set of human rights to the citizenry. The people are more important then the current leadership.
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by richardw 7y ago
Not from the west. You don't have to trust people, but you should be free to make up your own mind. Read what they say and decide. In South Africa we used to have strict control over our news media. Having opened up, I'd rather re
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by richardw 7y ago
Maybe if they'd called it freedom software?
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by richardw 7y ago
In these outages there's so often someone dicking with the system. Config change, upgrade, etc. I once asked for a "stable" version of app engine that they largely left alone. Not sure if that's possible or would be bett
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by richardw 7y ago
It's a lot easier for those students to learn about it once outside of China. No firewall, less groupthink, less fear of being watched.

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