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by thombat 7y ago
Why not? Because what evil puppet-master settles for "probably ok" when a slight extra effort buys certainty.
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by thombat 7y ago
An all-encompassing conspiracy orchestrating events across the globe, sparing no effort or expense to weave us all into an inescable spider's web of connected threads, that then says "eh, probably nobody is even going to listen to
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by thombat 7y ago
When WHO relayed the Chinese belief/hope of "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission" (Jan 14) there were only 40 identified cases, mostly with plausible links to the presumed origin at the market. It should be read
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by thombat 7y ago
Like the endless YouTube conspiracy-oriented channels which rant about the vast Illuminati/Jewish/Deep-State/whatever conspiracy that holds our world in thrall and assassinates with impunity, yet somehow can't manage to
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by thombat 7y ago
Can you expand on thst WW3 reference - it's not a story that made the rounds here.
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by thombat 7y ago
If you consider a simplistic economic model then there should be no public pensions or healthcare at all. The moment that somebody's direct economic output falls below a defined threshold, be it due to retirement, illness, lack of retr
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by thombat 7y ago
Not back to square zero - you have the core of a new outbreak amidst wide-spread monitoring for it and a population that is generally practicing better infection control. So perhaps a few dozen are infected before the flames are doused agai
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by thombat 7y ago
Sunday afternoon the long distance trains in Germany had many Army and Navy personnel in uniform (which gets them free travel; may have been more in civvies paying their own way), including old reservists. We asked: they're preparing t
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by thombat 7y ago
However at least for Germany the embedded map is very outdated, possibly hasn't been updated for a week or more?
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by thombat 7y ago
One of the relevant data sources listed is "Mapping 2019-nCoV" https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/ , and that shows Germany as having 3 deaths and 25 recovered cases. Perhaps these
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by thombat 7y ago
But you'll need to hope that you don't need a hospital for anything at all for a while - so avoid accidents, keep living with that little surgical problem, etc. You may be relatively safe from COVID-19 but it's in addition
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by thombat 7y ago
And Flash won, of course. Oh, not that film?
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by thombat 7y ago
It isn't for me, in Continental Europe. Where are you?
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by thombat 7y ago
Just listened to Fit the Third: Marvin hums up some Floyd. Maybe just this once sanity ruled.
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by thombat 7y ago
As an example of the sort of old design which used to be grandfathered in there's the Helios crash [1], where on a plane built in 1997 the exact same alarm horn was used for two situations (configuration error during take-off, and loss
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by thombat 7y ago
If it was true then presumably we'd see the DNA of identical twins diverging with age (proxy for number of infections). Do we?
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by thombat 7y ago
And you will have to click on that hamburger menu, since even on a device with a keyboard there will be no shortcut for using it. It's not merely nostalgia that has me pining for those bygone days of being able to drive almost every
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by thombat 7y ago
When I bury my father, I will be very sad. If I should have to bury my daughter, I would be devastated.
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by thombat 7y ago
If you assume that only 400 other people in all of the USA have been travelling beyond its borders and/or in contact with such travellers, then it's ok to assume that all potentially infected have been tested.
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by thombat 7y ago
Almanzo was born over 40 years after this "year without a summer" - does "Farmer Boy" actually mention it, or is it another bad summer?
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by thombat 7y ago
One thing to tinker, another to claim that a steam-powered rocket would ever get to high altitude. Nevermind flat Earth, that's just setting your face against engineering.
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by thombat 7y ago
But it was certainly a consensus in educated Western Europe, or Columbus wouldn't have been heading west to get to the East Indies (his innovation was to be obstinately wrong about the diameter of the Earth, which would have doomed the
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by thombat 7y ago
Back in the dark ages (pre-streaming) Sky Movies showed "Dr Strangelove". The UHF scrambling only affected the picture, not the audio, so even though we didn't have a Sky subscription we could still listen in: it works wonder
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by thombat 7y ago
Voyager 1 is still functioning, but within 10 years will finally run out of power. That's going to be the limiting factor even for self-repairing systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Future_of_the_probe
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by thombat 7y ago
That 4x more focused means "it ain't me, coz right now I'm commenting on HN" ...
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by thombat 7y ago
And Nokia was one such company, in the latter days of S60 smartphones. One (of many) re-orgs produced three main phone divisions called something like: entertainment, executive, and enterprise, with high-level features partitioned between t
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by thombat 7y ago
So the 2021 census is projected to cost twice as much as the 2011 one did, but unfortunately the cause of this isn't explored in the article. However it does note that there's "a drive to get most people to complete next year
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by thombat 7y ago
It only looks pitch black in Uber's badly-exposed dashcam video. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22307013
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by thombat 7y ago
Since the lander and gateway are yet to be built let alone tested (at least Wikipedia still has them as a "concept") it seems too soon to say what the final cost will be. By way of comparison the first full Apollo stack flight was
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by thombat 7y ago
According to the per-year costing in [0], about 80% of the entire Apollo program cost was accrued before the first moon landing. That suggests that even just one mission will come with a substantial price ticket, even if no hardware is buil

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