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24gttghhon A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal

This is the most out of touch, bizzare, sad, and disgusting comment I have read yet regarding this pandemic. You should be ashamed of yourself.

24gttghhon A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal

Not that I find that comment totally unbelievable, but citation please?

24gttghhon White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations

This didn't happen in WWI at the same time as the 1918 Flu pandemic, so I don't see it happening now. It was not a presidential election year, but elections were not cancelled from what I can find.

24gttghhon The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2

My assumption: They're made in China. Where everything is shut down.

24gttghhon This person does not exist

I have brought this up before, but this already exists.

https://www.computer.org/education/code-of-ethics

24gttghhon A small DIY air purifier

Last time I checked, most of those aren't safe for house pets either :/

24gttghhon Everything I Know About SSDs

A very basic nuclear reactor can be explained pretty simply I think. You enrich a bunch of let's say uranium. Pack it together in a rod, and put a bunch of those rods in a pond. Those rods have controlled (ideally) nuclear decay from their being in close proximity to other rods which generates a lot of heat, which is transferred to a separate cooling loop that boils water to make steam which drives an electric turbine.

Now I'm no nuclear scientist so please be forgiving with that description, but that's how I understand them to work :)

I can't even begin to explain how an SSD works, but I know there are no moving parts besides electrons.

edit: moved the "(ideally)"

24gttghhon 13.3" full color ePaper display

Where does one purchase this e-ink reader? I can't find them anywhere, and their own website link for it seems broken.

24gttghhon New York Fed Again Upsizes Liquidity Plans for Turn of the Year

If this is indeed the case, my outrage at the headline would seem warranted.

24gttghhon [dead]

Since "best" is a subjective term, I'll go ahead and disagree with UNC here. Best might have involved melting it down and using the copper in some new Cat6 wiring for a new science center, not paying a bunch of white supremacists an extortion fee.

24gttghhon The Nintendo Switch Switch

Sure? lol

24gttghhon The Nintendo Switch Switch

I'd presume anyone bringing a network switch with them to class would also have some Cat5e kicking around. Otherwise, what good is the switch doing them?

24gttghhon Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong

I called their argument shitty, not them personally. I stand by my statement.

24gttghhon Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong

What does that have to do with anything? You've completely ignored the concept of what "per capita" even means in this context. Person B could be in Country 1 with low per capita emissions, or Person B could be in Country 2 with high per capita emissions. It doesn't change the fact that on average, individual people in Country 2 emit more CO2 emissions than people from Country 1...

Also, deciding to not do something positive because other people are still doing something negative somewhere else is a shitty argument.

24gttghhon Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong

I'm pretty sure we can simply not put a price on our own exhaling. It doesn't have to be like (the opposite I guess) of Total Recall.

24gttghhon Recreation.gov

Yup. For example, one can camp > 1/4 mile from shelters/huts and more than 200ft away from of a body of water/trails/trailheads just about anywhere in the White Mountain National Forest in NH and Maine. Below alpine zone of course, except for winter (where you camp on greater than 2 feet of snow, but not many folks are that adventurous :)

https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb53637...

24gttghhon Tesla Cybertruck

https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PEDESTRIA...

Vehicles must yield to pedestrians in cross-walks in just about or all states it seems. I didn't read every single one in that PDF but i skimmed it.

In some states:

"Vehicles must yield to pedestrian in crosswalk on vehicle’s half of road or close to it. Pedestrians must not step off curb and into path of vehicle when vehicle does not have time to stop"

24gttghhon Half-Life: Alyx

I definitely have in the past. It's very disorienting and not worth the extra 5-15$

24gttghhon Apple's New Map: Midwest and Western U.S.

How can they possibly miss that? I want to like their maps, since they browse so quickly on my phone, but it's shit like this...the content is just bad.

24gttghhon Budapest declares climate emergency, teases carbon-neutrality

You missed the point. Many people (myself included are concerned about BOTH/All of it. Those who point out that we are responsible for "only" 20% usually have disingenuous motives toward shifting blame on to someone else, and towards inaction.

24gttghhon Budapest declares climate emergency, teases carbon-neutrality

Where would our economy be ruined by transitioning away from fossil fuels? The renewable sector has insane room for growth and employment. The fact that we'd all be way healthier with less pollution in the air and water would lead directly to less medical costs and less time missed from work and higher productivity!

24gttghhon Software Updates

>- office 2007

Mon dieu. What witchcraft have you invoked to keep that working for so long? Surely not on the same computer for all these years? I feel like MS Office was total garbage until they hit v2013.

24gttghhon Budapest declares climate emergency, teases carbon-neutrality

Oh, we're only 20% of a global genocide, so it's okay.

That's what your argument sounds like.

24gttghhon SpaceX and Boeing Still Need a Parachute That Always Works

Smaller parachutes would be larger surface area compared to one large chute also, right? More weight there.

24gttghhon German government expands subsidies for electric cars

No offense, but what hypothetical car are you buying for $5K that will last another 100K miles?

You can get used Nissan Leaf's in the price-range you're wanting. In Spokane tho I guess...

https://www.cars.com/for-sale/searchresults.action/?dealerTy...

Or used Prius's in Missoula:

https://www.missoulanissan.com/VehicleSearchResults?search=p...

edit: I am genuinely curious about the $5K car good for 100K miles.

24gttghhon Pine64 November Update – ANSI Pinebook Pro and PinePhone Preorder

No shit. Good price. Thanks!

24gttghhon Pine64 November Update – ANSI Pinebook Pro and PinePhone Preorder

Any idea of the expected price?

24gttghhon Pine64 November Update – ANSI Pinebook Pro and PinePhone Preorder

The simplest definition of profit seems to imply that someone paid more for something than was put into it. How does one get savings with no profit?

edit: I'm trying to ask a question; and I should add, it is my understanding that's how profit is defined. Why would this be downvoted? Do I really have to paste a definition of profit in here?

24gttghhon U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

I don't think GP was trying to say that exactly, but I am glad you phrased it like this. It is indeed sickening to think of music and art as meaningless.

24gttghhon The SpaceX Starship is a big deal

A solution to warming? Maybe. A solution to ocean acidification? No.