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Comment · 6 years ago
What the words means in common usage doesn't have to track what immunity actually is. Colloquially, immunity means sterilizing immunity. Actually, immunity doesn't have to be sterilizing.
Comment · 6 years ago
Google will display videos from other sources both at the top of the web search and in the videos search.
Comment · 6 years ago
I don't think the OC implied that musicians (or their agents) shouldn't have pricing authority, just that the market won't bear the prices they seem to want.

The moment a digital file exists, your competing price point is free. People can still pirate, and don't because of youtube and streaming sites. You don't have to think that's right or fair (I don't), but it's absolutely the reality.

Comment · 6 years ago
>But it's true, a black individual is on average more likely to commit a crime.

More likely to be convicted of a crime. That's a subtle but very important distinction.

Comment · 6 years ago
I honestly can't. And in any case, the real test is the individual characters in isolation.
Comment · 6 years ago
That all seems very reasonable. Apps downloaded from other sources are much more dangerous than apps downloaded from Google Play.
Comment · 6 years ago
I don't think most users would appreciate having a site spike their CPU for a few seconds when they visit...at least I wouldn't.
Comment · 6 years ago
Assemble carrying weapons and with half the crowd claiming that the entire disease is fake, though?
Comment · 6 years ago
You didn't claim they weren't, but I just want to point out how each of those points is very, very subjective. For me:

- I'd much rather be in-person, where I can better gauge what others are communicating and more readily have two-way communication about the material.

- I'm way less focused when on my own computer, on my own time.

- I find I communicate way less purely online than I would in-person.

- Automatic grading sucks, especially for programming, as it can only really test inputs and outputs, and misses a ton of nuance. I want to also know if my code sucks, regardless of it producing the correct output or not.

Comment · 6 years ago
Those hospitalized tend to be elderly. How many frequent smokers live to be elderly?
Comment · 6 years ago
The DOE land on which ORNL sits has a massive stand that they used for testing of this idea. They'd suspend a reactor to test shielding effectiveness. You can see it from a few spots on I-40/I-75 and on Highway 95 going by the lab's west entrance.
Comment · 6 years ago
Do the other common solutions claim to have e2e encryption?
Comment · 6 years ago
You don't need live viruses, just their RNA.
Comment · 6 years ago
"mainly baseline lung damage" could you expand on what you mean there?
Comment · 6 years ago
This is the first spam message I've ever seen on HN after using it for several years, which is quite impressive really.

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