Correlation doesn't guarantee causation, but the Asian countries where mask-wearing has been commonplace for a long time have done far, far, far better with this pandemic than nations where no one wears masks in public.
This is the key here, and what all these "masks don't work!" people seem to constantly miss somehow. No, masks are not 100% effective at filtration; any idiot can see that. They don't have to be 100% effective, they…
Why can't we have both?
I've read that SSDs can't be used to replace HDDs for long-term archival use: if you leave them powered off for too long, the data degrades. I can store data long-term on a regular HDD and stick in a closet or…
The WD product manager's response: "Bwahahaha!!! Seagate's drives are crap too, and we own Hitachi! Where are you going to go now? Bwahahahaha!"
I usually have pretty good success hitting F5 to reload and then hitting Esc at just the right time before the ad stuff loads.
What exactly are nutjobs going to do with any of these weapons? We've had cases of nutjobs getting their hands on tanks, or building their own armored bulldozers, and going on rampages. It's a pain, but it's not a…
Sounds to me like the military is simply shooting itself in the food with its "up or out" policies. Why force highly-trained and experienced people to leave just because they've gotten to a plateau in their career where…
That probably doesn't matter to the people pushing the NDA. Why should they care about the realities of contract law, when they can just make up lies and get people to believe them under threat of lawsuit? It's just…
I guess we can look forward to Chinese hegemony in the future, since the US doesn't want to do it any more.
When has any organization put peoples' lives over politics? Anyway, the WHO/Taiwan debacle seems to resulted in Taiwan handling this pandemic better than anyone else, considering their proximity to China and the huge…
You seriously think the Chinese government is going to stoop to K&R with random Americans? The Chinese government is the last entity I'd be worried about with this kind of information (unless, of course, you live in…
If China wants to waste its resources having people spy on me on Zoom while I play board games with friends on it, then this seems like a good thing to me. But I wouldn't use it for work meetings.
>There is a range of consistencies for which bidets are wholly useless. Specifically, sticky ones. For these, you need friction from a solid, high-surface-area object. You've obviously never used a proper washlet.
It's utterly amazing that American society is so unhygienic that we still don't have bidets or washlets in common use.
After seeing how Boeing and American-run airlines operate, I'd have a lot more trust in Chinese-run airlines and airplanes than anything run by American managers.
>Welcome to a pandemic. Americans today aren't used to being vulnerable. If anything, it's just a reminder of how thin the facade we project on the world actually is. No, the problem is that America has an incompetent…
Trump isn't really that conservative, he's just an egomaniac without any real principles. The conservative nutjobs have just latched onto him and made him their new savior, for now. Notice how Trump's story changes…
>Though going to church might be the worst of all options since church goers tend to skew more to the older side of the population. Actually, probably not, which is why "megachurches" is an important qualifier here.…
>Why single out megachurches? Why not? From my observations, megachurches tend to be very different from many other Christian churches, including in theology. Christians aren't all the same, but there are some definite…
Look at the infection rates in those countries: they're S-curves. New infections are being found, but the rate of increase is far lower than it was previously, and the majority of cases are cleared up. That shows…
Where was this? I used to work as an intern at a shipbuilding company making aircraft carriers. People wore stuff when they were required to, so hard hats were always worn, and the attached earmuffs seemed to be…
>Why would you buy safety critical equipment from China? 1) Because that's where it's made 2) Because they're obviously a lot more competent at public health than we are. We don't know WTF we are doing.
Surgical masks don't need to offer complete protection. For one thing, something is better than nothing. But more importantly, the reason people in Asia wear these masks isn't really to protect themselves from getting…
Interesting, but it's a lot easier to just toss out the inkjet and buy an inexpensive laser printer. You can even buy a small-office color laser printer for $200-300 these days. And 3rd-party toner cartridges for these…
Correlation doesn't guarantee causation, but the Asian countries where mask-wearing has been commonplace for a long time have done far, far, far better with this pandemic than nations where no one wears masks in public.
This is the key here, and what all these "masks don't work!" people seem to constantly miss somehow. No, masks are not 100% effective at filtration; any idiot can see that. They don't have to be 100% effective, they…
Why can't we have both?
I've read that SSDs can't be used to replace HDDs for long-term archival use: if you leave them powered off for too long, the data degrades. I can store data long-term on a regular HDD and stick in a closet or…
The WD product manager's response: "Bwahahaha!!! Seagate's drives are crap too, and we own Hitachi! Where are you going to go now? Bwahahahaha!"
I usually have pretty good success hitting F5 to reload and then hitting Esc at just the right time before the ad stuff loads.
What exactly are nutjobs going to do with any of these weapons? We've had cases of nutjobs getting their hands on tanks, or building their own armored bulldozers, and going on rampages. It's a pain, but it's not a…
Sounds to me like the military is simply shooting itself in the food with its "up or out" policies. Why force highly-trained and experienced people to leave just because they've gotten to a plateau in their career where…
That probably doesn't matter to the people pushing the NDA. Why should they care about the realities of contract law, when they can just make up lies and get people to believe them under threat of lawsuit? It's just…
I guess we can look forward to Chinese hegemony in the future, since the US doesn't want to do it any more.
When has any organization put peoples' lives over politics? Anyway, the WHO/Taiwan debacle seems to resulted in Taiwan handling this pandemic better than anyone else, considering their proximity to China and the huge…
You seriously think the Chinese government is going to stoop to K&R with random Americans? The Chinese government is the last entity I'd be worried about with this kind of information (unless, of course, you live in…
If China wants to waste its resources having people spy on me on Zoom while I play board games with friends on it, then this seems like a good thing to me. But I wouldn't use it for work meetings.
>There is a range of consistencies for which bidets are wholly useless. Specifically, sticky ones. For these, you need friction from a solid, high-surface-area object. You've obviously never used a proper washlet.
It's utterly amazing that American society is so unhygienic that we still don't have bidets or washlets in common use.
After seeing how Boeing and American-run airlines operate, I'd have a lot more trust in Chinese-run airlines and airplanes than anything run by American managers.
>Welcome to a pandemic. Americans today aren't used to being vulnerable. If anything, it's just a reminder of how thin the facade we project on the world actually is. No, the problem is that America has an incompetent…
Trump isn't really that conservative, he's just an egomaniac without any real principles. The conservative nutjobs have just latched onto him and made him their new savior, for now. Notice how Trump's story changes…
>Though going to church might be the worst of all options since church goers tend to skew more to the older side of the population. Actually, probably not, which is why "megachurches" is an important qualifier here.…
>Why single out megachurches? Why not? From my observations, megachurches tend to be very different from many other Christian churches, including in theology. Christians aren't all the same, but there are some definite…
Look at the infection rates in those countries: they're S-curves. New infections are being found, but the rate of increase is far lower than it was previously, and the majority of cases are cleared up. That shows…
Where was this? I used to work as an intern at a shipbuilding company making aircraft carriers. People wore stuff when they were required to, so hard hats were always worn, and the attached earmuffs seemed to be…
>Why would you buy safety critical equipment from China? 1) Because that's where it's made 2) Because they're obviously a lot more competent at public health than we are. We don't know WTF we are doing.
Surgical masks don't need to offer complete protection. For one thing, something is better than nothing. But more importantly, the reason people in Asia wear these masks isn't really to protect themselves from getting…
Interesting, but it's a lot easier to just toss out the inkjet and buy an inexpensive laser printer. You can even buy a small-office color laser printer for $200-300 these days. And 3rd-party toner cartridges for these…