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by wonnage 7y ago
Like many others, I started off skeptical about masks due to public health messaging and all the general caveats about how hard it is to wear a respirator correctly. That’s no longer the case. Wearing a mask of any sort reduces the risk of
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by wonnage 7y ago
America has the yugest complex around; with Biden as the frontrunner we now have two old men running for the president, both trying to Make America Great Again, only slightly disagreeing on the methods and period of time we have to go back
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by wonnage 7y ago
I've heard that Mars is tough because the gravity is high enough that you need a lot of braking to land, but it's not quite high enough to maintain a thick atmosphere, so you can't use drag (e.g parachutes) to help reduce wor
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by wonnage 7y ago
HN, where techies attempt to make logical arguments for why they don't wash after they shit
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by wonnage 7y ago
(Laguna and Van Ness are parallel N/S streets, maybe you meant a different intersection?) Not to detract from your point, though. A lot of the Market St. intersections are deathtraps because of the diagonal grid-cutting nature of that
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by wonnage 7y ago
Fond memories of being an infil $$ PA sniper :)
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by wonnage 7y ago
Amazing game - I spent several years in the early 2000s playing a spinoff called Infantry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_(video_game) . Sony ran it into the ground and I wound up trying SubSpace since it was su
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by wonnage 7y ago
> who don't give a damn about human rights in China I don't think this is limited to China. Google has no qualms surveilling on behalf of the US government either. But it's not really a matter of ethical sense. Google is b
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by wonnage 7y ago
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%9D%9E%E6%B4%B2%E7%8C%AA%E7%...
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by wonnage 7y ago
You clearly didn't read the article at all because it has nothing to do with wind power.
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by wonnage 7y ago
HN, where Uber not being able to run their scooters is equal to Jim Crow because “word swap”
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by wonnage 7y ago
It's slightly less secure but much more convenient, which I think is worth the trade-off. Just having 2fa on means you don’t have to worry if a website has its passwords compromised, which is probably the biggest threat for most people
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by wonnage 7y ago
The article isn't about how to use a text editor
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by wonnage 7y ago
> So long as Blizzard takes advantage of US resources to run their business in China, they should espouse many of the same morals as the the US. They also use Chinese resources to run their business (I.e, all the money they make there),
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by wonnage 7y ago
China's authoritarian government works . And that scares the shit out of the West. But instead of channeling that fear toward some productive outlet, we decided to bury our heads in the sand. Trump is just a symptom. So we continue to
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by wonnage 7y ago
You can't use statistics without a model. The problem is that you have a shitty model and it's annoying when you keep parroting it like you're so logical. Your model as inferred from this comment is that there's some way
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by wonnage 7y ago
I feel like the entire tech world is overthinking this. First, the Great Firewall already blocks the known "dangerous" sites. If you manage to access them via VPN, then chances are Tencent is getting your VPN's IP, and it&#x2
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by wonnage 7y ago
No, because unlike Taiwan, Hong Kong is internationally recognized (as well as by its own government) as a part of China. The Qing government declared a war on drugs in the 1800s, and started seizing and destroying British opium shipments.
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by wonnage 7y ago
I'm assuming that the website still works, since it's probably the source of data for the app anyway. At the end of the day, Apple taking down the app seems like an expected outcome, and HK is outside of the great firewall, so any
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by wonnage 7y ago
China isn't like the US, where Apple can use their trillions and lawyer up. China will just shut you down and take your shit. Guess where hkmap.live and the Chinese App Store employees responsible for approving it end up when that happ
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by wonnage 7y ago
HN, where you can find paranoid vegans blaming people for getting sick
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by wonnage 7y ago
Did you even read your source? 100k includes Oakland and Hayward. also, did you seriously think that the problem with homelessness is that they didn't have a house to stay in?
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by wonnage 7y ago
> entitlement spending on retiring boomers coming due in the next few years This is a frequently overblown fact. 12.4% of the population was >65 in 2000, increasing to 15.2% in 2006. So this huge incremental wave of retiring boomers i
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by wonnage 7y ago
This is an amusing take. Nobody cares if you (as a foreign tourist) go to those sites, in fact if you’re on T-Mobile roaming or in a hotel that caters to westerners, you don’t go through the firewall at all.
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by wonnage 7y ago
These are dubious claims considering the rise of populist leaders in various western democracies. It’s also annoying to see westerners comment on how “those” people think politically. Chat with any Chinese taxi (well, didi) driver for a bit
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by wonnage 7y ago
How does one mention Gitmo and forget about it in the very next sentence???
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It's great that you have these skills, but it's unsurprising that lots of people don't bother anymore. Nobody really needs to build a shed or fix a car themselves anymore. I say this having been raised by a loving immigrant
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by wonnage 7y ago
Assuming the patients were covered by insurance it's unlikely they paid anywhere near that amount. Those were the hospital's costs.
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by wonnage 7y ago
Working in the fields in sweltering heat for less than minimum wage means you're not trying hard enough, all you have to do (in addition to dying of heat exhaustion) is to work hard and pursue your dreams! - guy with a website with a b
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by wonnage 7y ago
Apparently every English student in China learns the following exchange: How are you doing today? / I'm fine, thank you, and you? I've had trouble explaining why this is a weirdly formal response that native speakers would pr

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