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> It may also be expected that the symptoms of the patients infected via facal-oral or conjunctival route will be lighter than those infected intranasally.

That seems like the hypothesis they suggest. Interesting implications.

It completely makes my day that the solver is on HN.

William Gibson had something like this in one of his later books. Spook Country maybe? As I recall it was simply called the Ugly Shirt.

I just ran through this - works flawlessly. One peculiarity that might help someone else in my shoes: I was connecting to my VPN node through Terminal (with Solarized Dark) on OS X and generating the QR code with the suggested command but the result was a little 'off' somehow and didn't read as a QR code to my phone. By replacing 'ansiutf8' with simply 'ansi' I was able to get a smoother, readable QR code. Just a heads up in case someone else follows this excellent guide and gets the same issue - I fully blame Solarized ;)

Someone skin this to mimic 'Dark City'! Complete with signs to Shell Beach...

Somewhere (possibly Reddit?) I learned about the unlabeled mute button for gas station TV ads. For certain pumps there are two rows of five or six unlabeled white buttons on the left and right of the screen - pressing the second button from the top on the right hand side of the screen mutes the blaring advertisement for me about 50% of the time. The times it works is pure bliss. YMMV but it's worth a try.

> John Gaughan, an American manufacturer of equipment for magicians based in Los Angeles, spent $120,000 building his own version of Kempelen's machine over a five-year period from 1984.[62] The machine uses the original chessboard, which was stored separately from the original Turk and was not destroyed in the fire. The first public display of Gaughan's Turk was in November 1989 at a history of magic conference. The machine was presented much as Kempelen presented the original, except that the opponent was replaced by a computer running a chess program.[63]

That is a wonderful detail. I like the irony.

I bought an iPhone SE when it came out. It's the perfect phone in my opinion. I am fully prepared to use it until it falls apart and it's so well built I think it may take a while.

Nothing they released after it makes sense to me. Too big and they deleted features I want while adding nothing useful to me. I wasn't expecting an SE2 so I wasn't disappointed when it failed to appear.

This iPhone and my MacBook Pro 2015 are the last Apple products I'll expect I'll ever own. Not out of spite but because they no longer make things I need, or even want.

Wow! Anyone else reminded of the gargoyle rig from Snow Crash?

I went from "probably vaporware" to "I should look into buying one of these" just from looking through this teardown.

This is very cool but unfortunately it looks a bit rough in Solarized Dark since some of the output defaults to black text.

Suggestion: configurable text colors. You already have a config file. I may try to hack it together myself later - if I get it working I'll make a PR.

Overall though this is a cool idea and looks very well executed. Nice work!

I would love to see the terms for that emergency 5 million in cash. Probably eye-watering interest rates.

> Hell, even major freelance marketplaces try to track your every billed second by taking screenshots of your desktop or webcam "just to make sure you're working".

Well that's some dystopian nightmare stuff I had no idea was happening.

EDIT: refine quote and add italics

For a good perspective on this see Ken Burns' documentary series about the creation of the national parks. It will open your eyes to the constant battle the parks face from commercial enterprises, and explains why the parks are such a unique system that should be protected at all costs.