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Besides the U.S. Navy videos, there's only one video (out of hundreds I've seen) that has me genuinely wondering if it might be real evidence of an advanced vehicle (aliens or not)…

The Patriot Act was not inherently time-limited. A virus will have an end at some point through a vaccine or therapies. Terrorism does not have any end. In fact it is timeless.

If you want to convert this from a contentless ad hominem to an actual argument feel free to point to some relevant examples in history, if you can.

You seem to have two basic arguments: 1. That the lock downs were unnecessary/ineffective. And since the evidence and experts disagree with you, it seems incredibly dubious that yo…

It is a huge hammer and this is a huge problem. We normally arrest people for endangering the public. People not abiding by the lock down are clearly endangering the public. They s…

Your personal liberty ends where my nose begins. When it comes to rights, we always have to ask "what are the reasonable trade-offs?". There are no absolute rights, even in the U.S…

The local government is doing what the majority of its citizens want it to do. This is exactly the purpose of having a government. Every libertarian I know believes governments sho…

IIRC this is why the U.S. military (in certain cases?) uses a pre-generated list of code names. If you let humans do the code names, they'll choose names that leak info.

I wonder how it is cleaned. Parts of it look like they might be hard to clean effectively. Is it water resistant and capable of being (safely) sprayed down with a disinfectant?

I like the idea of supersonic passenger jets existing again. I'm not sure I really see the point though. Would you rather fly in business class comfort for 8 hours or with less com…

Yes, and no one should try to play competitive games across a continent. Competitions must be regional. Internet latency is great within a few hundred miles.

You can't run a server for yourself for most games. You have to sign into a proprietary service to download/run games. We already lost this battle. I'd like to at least get some ad…

The main benefit of cloud gaming might end up being a significant reduction in cheating. The problem historically has been that game clients have access to a lot of game state that…

It is true that you can succeed well at tech companies without a degree from a top school. Class, race, gender, sexual orientation are not barriers to success. That's the positive …

I've really enjoyed this series. I do wish they just told stories about developing their games without the contrived framing of every one as a "near death" story. It's just unneces…

Of course there are productivity boosters. The dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, vehicles, computerized booking, and many other pieces of technology have replaced the need for many add…

Real heros exist. But only children believe they are infallible. As the pretend hero, Malcolm Reynolds, said "It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was on…

Unless the spread was much faster in some areas than others due to population density, for instance. Back to the confounding variables question...

1. Early mass testing might have have flooded hospitals with scared people, the same way it seem to in Italy. Whether it was incompetence or reluctance, it may have been a positive…

Everyone knew what was happening in China. The starting line was the same for all countries. I became 100% sure we were in for a hospital-overrunning pandemic by mid-January. I can…

By that metric, California is doing 10x better than Switzerland with 4x the population. And 10x better than the UK with 0.6x the population. There are so many variables involved th…

I'm basing my comments on data: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ In what way did the U.S. "completely drop the ball"? As far as I can tell there are two things that could…

You're espousing an unfounded conspiracy theory based on a very forced interpretation of one person's offhanded remark. Instantly disprovable with facts: 1. NY is not politically a…