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schemy

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    Comment #24184232

    Which is what's happening right now. The only difference would be that you don't need to do industrial espionage on google to see what works first, so the cost of the seo would dro…

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    Comment #24173052

    >They should feel lucky that Australia got to squeeze in a few months of relatively normal life in between lockdowns. Victoria didn't. It went lock down, more lock down, slightly l…

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    Comment #24167911

    A mathematician, physicist, and engineer are taking a math test. One question asks "Are all odd numbers prime?" The mathematician thinks, "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is …

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    Comment #24167868

    India is going to overtake China in population by 2022, and the Indian population pyramid is lagging China's by 30-40 years. This is going to be a very interesting time when China …

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    Comment #24156314

    >They didn't "have" to do that and most places aren't yoyoing around Most places aren't anywhere near zero cases a day. Both Australia and New Zealand were and have had to go back …

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    Comment #24149510

    Are you worried about your children living on the streets? Because for 1/3rd of people this is a reality when the federal money stops flowing.

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    Comment #24149475

    New Zealand has just had to quarantine 1/3 of their population, again, because of 4 cases. Until the virus is contained everywhere you will yo-yo between closing everything and ope…

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    Comment #24142056

    The cult of free for corporations must die. I am not the same thing as Google and pretending that is true in any sense is how we got in this mess. Firefox should require licenses t…

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    Comment #24139738

    But that would mean they believe in history. It's after all just dead white men.

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    Comment #24139730

    >the subject of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was married to a slave trader; one possible model for Titian’s Venus of Urbino, a famous Venetian courtesan, was gang-raped; and the F…

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    Comment #24130264

    It's an American term and like usual cultural imperialism means everyone else must use it too.

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    Comment #24126554

    The other option is giving up on the modern web and sticking to small easily implemented standards.

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    Comment #24115810

    Yes and? If I owned slaves and called them unpaid indefinite interns the law would rightly disagree. You can call the relationship whatever you like, but the law is there to keep t…

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    Comment #24108958

    Rust is the future and always will be.

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    Comment #24107800

    > Last I checked Red Hat was a for profit company not a commune. Last I checked Red Hat was bought by IBM and everyone with half a brain was bailing out.

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    Comment #24107788

    Freedom zero should be only for people.

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    Comment #24103959

    I'm not interested in digging up the information on this because it was over 10 years ago, so take it with a huge grain of salt. He had this huge presentation about a laser zapping…

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    Comment #24096849

    I was expecting something about Morse code. I too was disappointed.

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    Comment #24094952

    In the same way that it's more efficient for me to drink high octane fuel rather than eat food.

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    Comment #24094931

    It doesn't. The sun provides about 300W/m^2 on average at temperate climates, that's 7.2kwh per day. Wheat takes about 4 months to grow and nuclear power costs 0.77c/kwh. That's 66…

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    Comment #24088624

    It means that people who have no idea what science is like to pretend they have a deeper reason for their biases other than their innate preferences. They do not like that pointed …

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    Comment #24087668

    Look at Sweden?

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    Comment #24087642

    https://www.google.com/search?q=sweden+covid+deathrate&oq=sw... Sweden's death rate is down to zero today and has been trending down since mid April. Summer Holidays did not start …

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    Comment #24085816

    What is it a difference of then? Shoe size?

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    Comment #24085296

    >This evidence completely invalidates the premise of your first point regarding r0. You do realize that it's exactly the opposite right? If asymptomatic r0 is high a quarantine wit…