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by war1025 6y ago
> This works out to something like 1 in 300. > A fatality rate of 0.3% also means that if everyone in the United States catches it, a million people will die Exactly. The first sounds completely acceptable. The second sounds unaccept
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by war1025 6y ago
> this would have been over in a month Yea. Because everyone would have starved to death.
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> People who affiliate with "opposing a democratic election with direct violence" are. The trouble is that many of the same people saying these actions were perfectly acceptable also have a habit of casually stating that all pe
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by war1025 6y ago
> how is that just a unusually deadly seasonal flu A smaller percentage of a very large number is still a very large number. In March / April, people were claiming something on the order of a >10% fatality rate. We are much close
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by war1025 6y ago
> It's not apathy, it's fatigue. I absolutely agree. > It's been 10 months of terror and horror I blame this squarely on the saturation coverage it has been given by media networks. People need time to hear themselves t
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by war1025 6y ago
Then add political affiliation as a protected class and prosecute people who break actual laws. My personal opinion is that this discussion about tech, politics, censorship, etc. is something that needs to happen, and maybe all parties were
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by war1025 6y ago
I think Coronavirus is best thought of as a cancer. It was easy to get under control in China. That was where it originated. It was centralized and easy to surgically target. The spread to Europe and later the Americas was basically the vir
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by war1025 6y ago
I could agree with this view if the article was titled something like "Deplatforming is not the answer" When you are in a politically charged moment like we were when that post went live, a headline of "We need more than Depl
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by war1025 6y ago
I went to the Brave website and had a look around Friday evening. I have also been using Firefox since back before it was even called that. Part of me thinks I should make the switch, and then part of me think that I'd just be indirect
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by war1025 6y ago
I don't know if Brave supports it, but I learned a while back that in Firefox you can add "smart bookmarks" (I think that's what they're called) where you put a "%s" in the url and then when you hotlink th
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by war1025 6y ago
> In any two-party environment where only _one_ party regularly _does_ proliferate bigotry and violent attitudes Anyone who believes this is a true depiction of politics in the USA is willfully blind.
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by war1025 6y ago
If you are that level of paranoid then you shouldn't have an HN account to begin with.
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by war1025 6y ago
There is a difference between "Quarantine when you cross a border" and "Shut down all commerce and tell people they can't leave their homes for months on end"
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by war1025 6y ago
Because your vote is just as anonymous as your upvote history, which is quite a bit more private than your comment history.
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by war1025 6y ago
> Does that make further mitigation efforts worthless? Mitigation efforts are certainly worthwhile, but there are significant diminishing returns. I would guess that 80/20 rule applies to mitigation efforts just as much as anything
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by war1025 6y ago
Indeed. I was introduced to him via his appearances on the Woodwrights Shop. I really appreciate the publishing work he does. We've bought I think five or six books from Lost Art Press, and I'm sure there are more to come.
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by war1025 6y ago
In the same way, in 2016 a lot of people voted for "not-Clinton".
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by war1025 6y ago
Then again, the other side voted for Biden, so it's not like we've got stellar options here.
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by war1025 6y ago
Well, my cast iron was a wedding present that my grandparents got in the 40s, so it didn't come "preseasoned", but it's also had 70-odd years of continuous use. It's probably got "seasoning" on it, but it
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by war1025 6y ago
You asked if I could look at this in a different part of this comment thread. What you say seems more or less correct to me. I think if you approach cast iron that way, you will have good results. Basically, you don't want the pan to l
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by war1025 6y ago
> Is there solid evidence that this is actually possible, as opposed to creating a layer on top of it? I doubt that's actually what happens, but if you think of it that way, you'll end up with the right result.
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by war1025 6y ago
> if I leave it out for 15 minutes without thoroughly drying it, it starts turning orange from rust The thing cast iron has going for it is that it's black, and black hides a multitude of sins. I'd guess the orange isn't
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by war1025 6y ago
> If you can wear clothes that morning, you can solder. I got a good kick out of this.
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by war1025 6y ago
I read somewhere a year or two ago that basically compared cast iron to wood, which has helped my intuition of things a lot. Here is a blog post [0] I read a few months ago about wood finishes. I think the following applies just as much to
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by war1025 6y ago
> what stops SOME modern manufacturers to do the same? I believe there are manufacturers filling that niche now. Field [0] is one that I'm aware of. I think there are four or five others. [0] https://fieldcompany.com&#x2F
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by war1025 6y ago
The youtube algorithm decided it needed to recommend a whole hose of cast iron videos to me over Christmas and they kept repeating this. So I went and washed my skillet down to a matte surface, rubbed oil into it, and cooked an egg. Worked
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by war1025 6y ago
> If there were reliable, science-based information about how to care for the pan best, it would have saved me a lot of trouble I think the trouble here is that the people who best understand cast iron are probably also the least likely
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> No need to bake in the oven or anything like that? Correct. I will sometimes do the oil and bake thing for our Dutch oven if it has been neglected a while and has bits of rust or other questionable-ness to it.
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It could be, but in practice I've found that you can tell the difference between "too hot" and "still cold" very easily.
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by war1025 6y ago
We have a Lodge cast iron wok [0]. That said, I don't know that I'd recommend it to anyone as we rarely use it. I read somewhere that unless you have a commercial-grade gas range, you are unlikely to hit the temperatures needed to

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