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sleavey

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    Comment #29368912

    > and the way he so articulately breaks down how he thinks and approaches problem solving Agreed. I think this video is a nice (simple) demonstration of his style in this regard: h…

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    Comment #29358904

    It doesn't require the browser to be always on, unless you want to download something (which is the same as a normal download). Do you mean it's better for the health of the swarm …

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    Comment #29282416

    While we're at it, let's give lower priority to obese, smokers, alcoholics... or let's not. It's a slippery slope to start discriminating against people based on whether the admitt…

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    Comment #29245715

    They should at least make their sign-up and login password fields have the same max length attributes...

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    Comment #29226131

    Didn't they get banned or there was a campaign to ban them after someone was killed by someone riding a fixie, in London?

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    Comment #29211431

    What happens when the fees due on collection get so high that the importer / final delivery company / final customer changes their mind about collecting the container? Who has to s…

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    Comment #29205589

    Would you be in favour of applying this policy to all people displaying behaviours deemed at higher risk of requiring hospital treatment? And who should decide what constitutes ris…

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    Comment #29205161

    We weren't talking about mandates, but I'll bite. The difference is you don't have to trust the government to know seat belts save lives; the law on seat belts is common sense to a…

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    Comment #29205009

    I did the same calculation and came to a similar conclusion. Here's one such calculator: https://www.qcovid.org/Calculation . There are others based on more recent data, as well as…

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    Comment #29180492

    Cavities. We trade off bandwidth for peak sensitivity by sending the same light back and forth between mirrors in the arms of the interferometer hundreds of times. As the gravitati…

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    Comment #29140360

    I started out with OpenSCAD but found it limited me eventually with some of its lack of advanced features, probably because it focuses on solid geometry. I recently switched to Cad…

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    Comment #29137420

    I got one second hand from someone I worked with who was moving away. I also didn't realise how much fun it would be. There's great satisfaction from tuning the device to print per…

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    Comment #29104410

    Yes, npm is typically used to build minified JavaScript code for WordPress plugin distribution. WordPress developers themselves use it for the Gutenberg editor. I personally dislik…

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    Comment #29101336

    I happened to come across this project yesterday on reddit [1] and have spent the last day dreaming of building one. The quality of the documentation and activity on Discord is a b…

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    Comment #29064668

    You either didn't read or understand my comment, or you're intentionally choosing not to address my points, so I won't reply to you any more.

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    Comment #29063943

    ...in which case, restrictions should never have been mandated, and those who looked at their personal risk and decided that going about their lives as normal was acceptable should…

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    Comment #29063547

    > High vaccination rate (meeting state targets) leads to revoking mask mandates and reopening schools and social venues. This increased social contact leads to a spike is cases. No…

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    Comment #29063503

    The title is not misleading. It's a statement of fact inferred from data presented in the first paragraph. Calculating per capita hospitalisation would be a measurement of a differ…

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    Comment #29063463

    I didn't mention masks nor the effect or lack of effect of the current vaccines on case rates, I only added a supporting statement to the previous comment that they are doing very …

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    Comment #29063383

    > There is no consensus, yet There is no reasonable hypothesis for how humeral vaccines could induce antibodies in the mucosae, therefore stop viral replication there, and therefor…

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    Comment #29063212

    A few more: Vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have similar viral loads in communities with a high prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant https://www.medrxiv.org/content/1…

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    Comment #29011269

    What makes you think Australia's lockdown worked, yet? They've not as far as I'm aware opened up and demonstrated they're free of SARS-CoV-2. And since the current vaccines aren't …

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    Comment #29010206

    Bitcoin aligns incentives. It's in the interest of those with lots of bitcoin to have everyone else use the same fork, so their coins have value. This discourages bad behaviour fro…

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    Comment #28940897

    Anyone else learn about the Viking landings on North America from Age of Empires 2 (1999)?

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    Comment #28917191

    Possibly there needs to be something classified as a sweetener, yes, but the definition of "sugar-free" is apparently also anything with 0.1g or less sugar per 100g, so may it be t…