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No, the point of this paper is that masks are not completely, absolutely, perfectly, 100% effective and foolproof, and therefore we shouldn't use them at all. I really have to wond…

Correlation doesn't guarantee causation, but the Asian countries where mask-wearing has been commonplace for a long time have done far, far, far better with this pandemic than nati…

This is the key here, and what all these "masks don't work!" people seem to constantly miss somehow. No, masks are not 100% effective at filtration; any idiot can see that. They do…

Why can't we have both?

I've read that SSDs can't be used to replace HDDs for long-term archival use: if you leave them powered off for too long, the data degrades. I can store data long-term on a regular…

The WD product manager's response: "Bwahahaha!!! Seagate's drives are crap too, and we own Hitachi! Where are you going to go now? Bwahahahaha!"

I usually have pretty good success hitting F5 to reload and then hitting Esc at just the right time before the ad stuff loads.

>while The Troubles didn't induce the UK to give any concessions it wasn't already willing to give beforehand. If you look farther back in Ireland's history, it seems like Ireland'…

What exactly are nutjobs going to do with any of these weapons? We've had cases of nutjobs getting their hands on tanks, or building their own armored bulldozers, and going on ramp…

Sounds to me like the military is simply shooting itself in the food with its "up or out" policies. Why force highly-trained and experienced people to leave just because they've go…

That probably doesn't matter to the people pushing the NDA. Why should they care about the realities of contract law, when they can just make up lies and get people to believe them…

Because the volumes are low. It's the same with any technology. High volumes = low cost, and vice-versa. When the manufacturing is geared up to produce enormous volumes and there's…

Well it's pretty obvious that China is vying for the position, and the likeliest to achieve it.

I guess we can look forward to Chinese hegemony in the future, since the US doesn't want to do it any more.

When has any organization put peoples' lives over politics? Anyway, the WHO/Taiwan debacle seems to resulted in Taiwan handling this pandemic better than anyone else, considering t…

You seriously think the Chinese government is going to stoop to K&R with random Americans? The Chinese government is the last entity I'd be worried about with this kind of informat…

If China wants to waste its resources having people spy on me on Zoom while I play board games with friends on it, then this seems like a good thing to me. But I wouldn't use it fo…

>Personally, I would try to stick to apps by companies headquartered in your home country. Why is that? It seems like the opposite would be the best advice: make sure to use someth…

>There is a range of consistencies for which bidets are wholly useless. Specifically, sticky ones. For these, you need friction from a solid, high-surface-area object. You've obvio…

It's utterly amazing that American society is so unhygienic that we still don't have bidets or washlets in common use.

Well then maybe that law needs to be rescinded.

After seeing how Boeing and American-run airlines operate, I'd have a lot more trust in Chinese-run airlines and airplanes than anything run by American managers.

Sounds good to me. I'll bet there's some Chinese airlines that would like to expand their operations and have the cash to do some buyouts.

The problem is that these people are going to be taking up precious space in your hospital's ER and ICU units. Remember, younger people aren't as affected by this as older people. …

>Welcome to a pandemic. Americans today aren't used to being vulnerable. If anything, it's just a reminder of how thin the facade we project on the world actually is. No, the probl…