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Comment · 6 years ago
Many governments (including the one that occupies my country Switzerland) drove economies into the ditch. These governments won't admit that this was wrong from the start. Now they have to pretend the USA is too dangerous.
Comment · 6 years ago
IMHO companies should include older designs, or allow people to adjust everything. So Windows 10, for instance, could come with the designs of 10, 8 and 7.
Comment · 6 years ago
>How superficially do they check their customers?

I'm not an expert but maybe they just believed in the books. Or maybe they checked the documents, but the documents were forged, so checking the documents would have been useless.

Comment · 6 years ago
One country should decide to fine Apple. The fine should be a tenth of the market capitalization. Problem solved.
Comment · 6 years ago
I think the public must get the message that there was no terror virus. This will let the idea terror virus disappear. People who are having the idea will have to realize that have been taken in by charlatans. This won't feel nice.
Comment · 6 years ago
I think the fear of a terror virus was so great that a virus that didn't have such a bad quality was mentally turned into a virus that has this bad quality.
Comment · 6 years ago
Isn't it also possible that the PCR test was wrong and it was something else, like a cold?
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm not sure if it's the case but maybe 60% is the possible maximum?

I hope I understand it correctly how germs spread. Is it like this?

Imagine an infected person infects 4 other persons, and the incubation period was 1 year. Probably everyone would get the germ.

But if the incubation period was 1 second, at a certain point 1 infected person would find less than 1 person who is infectable (not already infected / had an infection that is gone now / has had an immunity? / etc.).

Comment · 6 years ago
They are so annoying that I block scripts of captchas in uBlock Origin. So far I've blocked the scripts of recaptcha and hcaptcha [1]. If a website uses a script captcha I leave. But recatcha told me once I was a bot, so I guess it's OK that I don't use websites that don't like bots.

[1] The 3 uBlock Origin filters:

  ||www.google.com/recaptcha/*$script,important
  ||www.recaptcha.net^$script,important
  ||hcaptcha.com^$script,important
Comment · 6 years ago
Is there a market for these tiny photographs?
Comment · 6 years ago
I do the same on 19.10. I also use another Chromium anyway, one that has hardware accelerated video playback.

https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-...

It's available on Ubuntu 20.04.

Once the regular Chromium had a higher version number than the Chromium in the PPA. aptitude updated to the regular Chromium. I then gave the PPA Chromium a priority of 1000 by creating a file called /etc/apt/preferences.d/saiarcot895-chromium-beta with the following content:

  Package: *chromium*
  Pin: release o=LP-PPA-saiarcot895-chromium-beta
  Pin-Priority: 1000
Comment · 6 years ago
If Bilgex(Bill Gates) can be trusted, why didn't he rescue Achaogen, for instance? He apparently doesn't know what's needed. Also, vaccines can only make sense if the target doesn't change all the time and the benefit is orders of magnitude higher than the possible damage.
Comment · 6 years ago
I don't know why Canada has an extradition treaty with the USA. Hostage-taking for the USA doesn't always work well apparently.
Comment · 6 years ago
If people cared about spying, there would be end-to-end-encryption in 5G. Maybe it'll come with 6G.
Comment · 6 years ago

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