spurgu

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by spurgu 5y ago
Maybe someone has the answer to the main reason I'm not using Firefox: Is there a (sane) way to map Cmd+D to highlight the URL bar? I was trying to do this about a year ago but it proved insanely complicated. I managed to update omni.j
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by spurgu 5y ago
But, if it's actually true that symptoms are milder than those of Delta (which has been the indication), should we be embracing Omicron with open arms? Just hypothesizing here - it'll take a good while until we have actual useful
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by spurgu 5y ago
Whoa. This goes against common sense. Stop and think for a bit: How would there be transmission going on in the world at all if there were no asymptomatic spread?
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by spurgu 5y ago
They reduce at around 33% with Delta. Used to be 50% with Alpha. Not any breathtaking amount.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Exactly. We only restrict society to the point where it's practical . And this is where we run into issues with Covid restrictions. Some arguments sound just like this, that we should lower speed limits to the point where practically
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by spurgu 5y ago
Won't this present issues later on? In a couple of years your immune systems won't be properly "trained" anymore. Something like this happened in New Zealand with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) already: https:/&
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by spurgu 5y ago
I mean the vaccine doesn't prevent transmission/infection for Delta (or Alpha) either, it just makes the symptoms milder. Edit: For whomever downvoted, here you go: > Prior to the emergence of the delta variant, it was reported
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by spurgu 5y ago
> I've been listening to the radio for 20 years now and I feel like I've reached the pinnacle of what music is about If you listen to the radio yes. But it's also objectively different. Music up until the 90's was 99%
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by spurgu 5y ago
Or taken to an extreme view, hide/block pedophiles by all means and pretend they don't exist.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Curious: Do you always disregard anything coming from right-wing media news outlets? Coming from a European this seems like a massive omission in news input, which logically seems to lead to echo chambers and polarisation. There's tons
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by spurgu 5y ago
Almost 9 years 9 months here, 5 cities, 4 countries, 3 timezones. :)
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by spurgu 5y ago
> You do not have relevant acquaintances to confirm that anecdotally - numbers aside, as a real risk? That seems like a weak counter-argument. If this was the case we'd be hearing, and reading, about it everywhere.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Sure. What's your point?
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by spurgu 5y ago
I don't know what you're after but that's literally what the sentence after the one you're quoting is saying.
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by spurgu 5y ago
How about you for example read the first link there and stop spreading hyperbole: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/9371...
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by spurgu 5y ago
Getting vaccinated is also a good option if you're concerned about your health. In fact, the optimal might be to get vaccinated and then get Covid on purpose. Thus you get the mildest possible case. After that your immune system is pro
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by spurgu 5y ago
In Finland it was over 50% last time I checked (BMI of 25+). Or it might've been deaths. In any case a significant number.
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by spurgu 5y ago
What? I have no clue where you're getting the "1000x viral load" from? And in any case if you're young and healthy there's nothing to fear from Covid. The only argument to be made is that the vaccine slightly decr
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yeah, same. It's sad to see. I'm already mentally preparing to cut down on traveling starting May next year (when it's been 9 months since my second jab).
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by spurgu 5y ago
Firefox? I tried the Reader mode (+ reload) in Brave, doesn't work. I wasn't aware of CF blocking Archive.is, interesting.
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by spurgu 5y ago
https://archive.md/wYlqN
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by spurgu 5y ago
Can it really be that decoupled from being ready and willing to improve? What's a skill you enjoy doing that you wouldn't want to improve on? I'm thinking a wide area of topics here from cleaning the kitchen to chopping wood
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by spurgu 5y ago
> I'm not quite following the distinction you're making here between young and old What I was getting at is that the vast majority of people dying in the ICU are 60+. So scaling up ICU's isn't gonna do much for them.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Eeeeh damnit, looks like you're right. Didn't even read the whole comment, got triggered right at the beginning. :D
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by spurgu 5y ago
I haven't used it as a desktop, but as a minimal VM for bastion SSH servers.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Or Gibraltar which is 100% vaccinated.
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by spurgu 5y ago
I was lying in bed for two days until I self-diagnosed with appendicitis and decided to go to the hospital. Turned out I was just in time. What I mean is I won't seek medical help unless absolutely possible (I live in EU countries wher
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by spurgu 5y ago
It's been 2 years now, you're beating a dead horse. Time to look in the mirror. > Not one more death. Ever. This is insane. First of all this is an unrealistic/impossible goal. People die all the time. Dying is normal. Esp
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by spurgu 5y ago
> overloading hospitals This has been the #1 (if not the only) concern from the beginning. It baffles me how little focus is being put into it. Why not pour a ton of resources into hospital capacity, equipment, training staff (quick cour
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by spurgu 5y ago
Why haven't governments been working hard at increasing capacity in terms of ventilators and hospital beds and other needed equipment, since March 2020? Back then governments actually did that, and set up emergency beds. I know that th

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