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Comment · 5 years ago
Because good senior programmers are rare (as can be observed if you post a job listing).

Most of this stuff comes from students / junior developers, where yes, they probably visit stack overflow every 20 minutes

Comment · 5 years ago
You're not supposed to eat the xylitol, just get it onto your teeth. So use xylitol toothpaste.
Comment · 5 years ago
A 100% effective "behavioural" covid vaccine (which also works for ALL other respitory diseases):

Don't be indoors with other people.

Comment · 6 years ago
A new human doesn't come out of thin air, evolution has "trained" them with billions of inputs for billions of years.
Comment · 6 years ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178078/

Just look at the prior chinese coronavirus-related studies, they did antibody tests in villages near bat caves for SARS-like coronaviruses, some of villagers had antibodies in 2015 despite no reported SARS infections ever near the area.

Simplest conclusion: Zoonotic diseases sometimes jump from bats to humans in Chinese rural areas. The case clusters stay inside the isolated communities and stop naturally due to low population and lack of super-spreader events that can kickstart an epidemic.

In 2019 it happened again, but this time a villager who was infected visited Wuhan => pandemic

Comment · 6 years ago
Handwashing is overrated IMO. Yes, it's important for doctors and nurses(who touch dozens of sick humans a day), people who are in contact with animals, and small kids who don't have any concept of hygiene.

But for the average adult, they just do not have that many harmful bacteria or viruses randomly on their hands.

This caused some major issues with the Coronavirus. Eg. if you googled anything related to it in march, the search results displayed a "wash your hands message" even though the virus is spread by droplets AKA sharing air indoors with an infected person.

I can only imagine how many unnecessary infections and deaths this caused when people thought they were safe if they just washed their hands often. To this day, I'd say about half of the population has no clue how respitory diseases spread.

Comment · 6 years ago
Video games in the evenings with friends, with voice chat.
Comment · 6 years ago
I hope we do start to go back to the more decentralized way of living, where smart highly educated workers don't concentrate in the largest cities and instead live all over the country. This is how it used to be 50 years ago.
Comment · 6 years ago
Isn't it interesting how these sort of exploits exist for probably every hardware/software out there, just that they are never discovered? Since the amount of people with the knowhow for reverse engineering, discovering, and actually building something out of the exploit is so miniscule.
Comment · 6 years ago
? Nuclear accidents don't come out of thin air, they are caused by humans, some countries/areas have higher risks of accidents, and most areas have zero risk.

Russia is definitely a high risk area (if not THE high risk area), considering their soviet legacy of ancient nuclear power plants etc.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
https://images.says.com/uploads/story_source/source_image/75...

Looks like prime batcave-like conditions for coronavirus spread.

Comment · 6 years ago
Coronavirus deaths lag new cases by about 3 weeks
Comment · 6 years ago
I doubt there are really too many of those. At the most, I'd say under 50k.

The real reason for the fee is just to stop spammers on the App store. It probably blocks around 99% of them, without the fee I'd wager the appstore would be unusable.

Comment · 6 years ago
Ehh.. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2010-07-01%202...

Seems that people only started searching SARS in december by which the new coronavirus was already public knowledge or at least public rumor

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