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4,420karma·3,770submissions·August 18, 2015
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Incoming complaints about how it's obviously tool-assisted
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That's when the article was first published. As it states, it is updated twice a week. Look at the most recent entries.
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From the article: >Singapore has long been a draw for wealthy Chinese, Indonesians and Malaysians who would come for short trips to shop, play baccarat at the casino or get medical check-ups at wor…
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>You've linked to an article from August 2020 That's when the article was first published. As it states, it is updated twice a week. Look at the most recent entries.
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>I know two people who had covid and who right now have a second covid infection by the british mutation. One of them also had their first vaccination. As of today, there are only 84 confirmed case…
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As of today, there are only 84 confirmed cases of reinfection worldwide, with three deaths. https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/08/covid-19-reinfection-t... …
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>It's fucked up that "it's wrong because that's what Trumpists say" is considered a powerful argument. >The same as not wanting to publicize the results of the vaccine e…
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>It's political. Trump accused the Chinese of negligence and/or intent. If Trump said it, then all left leaning folks rejected it outright as horrible and racist. Another example: Just la…
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>It would take the sort of effort (for the US or EU) only possible with total hindsight. But if Trump tried to seal our borders with force in Jan 2020, there is no way Democrats would have accepted…
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>I wonder what role if any his COVID coverage played in his firing. The Times was pushing hard for McNeil to get a Pulitzer for his COVID19 coverage until his firing.
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>NVIDIA kind of did it with the NVIDIA Shield some years ago, and I think they're still supporting it. Shield no longer receives updates. GeForce NOW still runs on it, though. https:/&#x…
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This explicitly did not happen with No Time to Die . https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/james-bond-film-no-tim... …
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>Also strongly recommend binging the first season in particular; they did a very good job of conveying the feeling of humans blundering about not really knowing what they are doing in the big new u…
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>I understand that this came across as rude, but I'm not trying to say that Germany is a Kafkaesque hellhole. I love Germany. Simply this - there is no 'good faith' defense when brea…
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>I support universal healthcare but I think the British system is not the best. It is the best at one thing - providing near-First World quality care at near-Third World total cost. The rhetoric ar…
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>I've considered getting a larger Android tablet for the purpose of playing games on GamePass /xCloud with a paired xbox controller. As far as I know, [there is still no tablet-sized cont…
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baylearn is correct and you are wrong; it is flagged.
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Don't forget "food deserts"!
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>Modern electronics, at least the bulk that are in daily use are much more shielded, higher quality, and resilient enough to not bring down civilization. Does the same shielding required for consum…
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From the Associated Press article: >Instead of learning a foreign language, Michigan students could take computer coding classes to replace the high school graduation requirement, under a bill that…
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>[0] try to satisfy anyone advocating decriminalization of X by reducing some instances of X from a felony to a misdemeanor. DA Boudin has made it clear that such "minor" crimes won'…
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>Colleagues are peers, people I graduated with are peers, but von Neumann is almost like another species. Von Neumann's contemporaries agreed, which is why he and other Ashkenazi Jews from Hun…
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If the city can build a subway station on Randalls Island as part of Triboro RX, that location (which already has many athletic fields) would be a good place for a large complex of swimming pools.
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No. Thus the coining of "BIPOC".
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If Bezos doesn't want to be the next Bond villain,[1] buying MGM is the best way to avoid being depicted as such. [1] Not him specifically, but a bald man described as an "Internet mogul&q…
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Which of course is ridiculous, given how IMF agents are constantly donning and removing their own rubber masks!
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Trump gave/gives out his number to almost anyone, including reporters. I can't find it right now, but there is a Times article in which the author recounts how after "a reporter'…
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>It doesn't matter if export are restricted because of "America first" or because of an outright ban. The result is exactly the same. Being the first to buy something, and being in a…