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Comment · 6 years ago
Reminds me of Radicalized by Corey Doctorow. The short story of that name within the collection of stories by that name.
Comment · 6 years ago
Sure. Pets. We could perform tricks in exchange for slices of robot made pizza. Sentient robots may get bored too. Weird bipedal monkey creatures with delusions of grandeur should be good for a laugh at least.
Comment · 6 years ago
Boston Dynamics. Their robot overlords may one day replace us thus neatly solving most of our problems.
Comment · 6 years ago
You did not mention Waterfox. It seems to have better compatibility with modern web sites than Pale Moon. Not sure what is going on with Seamonkey these days. I may have to give that a try. The problem I have with Firefox is that it is now way too similar to Chrome to bother with it. Maybe Seamonkey has retained its own identity.
Comment · 6 years ago
May I ask approximately how old you are?
Comment · 6 years ago
I will continue to say C/C++. To me they are not distinct enough as languages to truly be considered fully separate and they use the same compilers. The fact that they use the same compiler is to me a devastating argument. No other distinct languages use the same compiler.

>A language is also its good practices, patterns, idioms

The usual argument, but I disagree. If programmers don't have freedom of expression then fuck programming. We should all be free to write our own programs the way we want and not have to worry about standard practices or cultures.

Comment · 6 years ago
Extremely biased article. The author clearly hates Libertarians and does his best to just laugh at them and misrepresent their beliefs and makes not a single coherent argument of any kind. He is clearly used to being in a bubble and preaching to the converted. Libertarians are not the same as Trump supporters.
Comment · 6 years ago
A console that can't even play red dead redemption is a tough sell.
Comment · 6 years ago
Do you have a citation for that? Is there any actual evidence to support that idea?
Comment · 6 years ago
N95 masks very likely do provide a lot of protection from airborne virus droplets and aerosols, but they are still unavailable in most parts of the world including the US. I was able to find some Korean KF94 masks though. There is no evidence for one way protection btw. It may be true but right now it is entirely speculative.
Comment · 6 years ago
>Dr Fauci did eventually admit that the guidance on masks was not optimal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI

That is Dr Fauci himself on 60 minutes in early March saying that Americans should not be wearing masks. I guess he changed his mind. People want to say, "Yes he changed his mind due to new evidence." Ok what evidence? I want to see it. And it better be from just before they changed their views and not after they changed their views.

Comment · 6 years ago
I have noticed that pretty girls seem to remove their masks more often. I think they miss being admired.
Comment · 6 years ago
He can learn from his mistakes as he searches for a new job outside of public health.
Comment · 6 years ago
Death rates may not be the only problem though. There is evidence that covid damages the heart and sometimes even the brain. This damage might cause many deaths years from now.
Comment · 6 years ago
None of that is really necessary. You can just explain that the masks have small holes in them that are big enough to allow oxygen in and co2 out but small enough to catch most of the covid droplets. Even a child can understand the basic concept. The problem with cloth masks is that the holes are too big for them to be very effective.

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