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Comment Re:I have no issue with that. (Score 1) 408

Not sure about your exact location, but here in the LA area of SoCal getting a vaxx appt was the easiest thing ever last week. And that's with me using a site built by the state health dept. The process itself was stupidly well streamlined. I have to say that at least in my area anyone who wanted to get vaxxed should have at least their first shot done by now.

Comment Re:And with forest fires, ariborne sparks set few. (Score 2, Interesting) 164

Have you considered the possibility that perhaps depriving hundreds of thousands of children of proper education for a year+ to improve your and wife's chances of survival is not THAT beneficial for the human race in a long term? Just saying.

Comment Re: Let's ask the other way around: (Score 1) 90

I can confirm some of that. I know of a large insurance company here in SoCal that runs a large mainframe system fronted by Java apps that act as translation layers or transaction brokers sometimes. The folks who know how to support the mainframe backend are getting pushed out very rapidly, it will be interesting to see what happens....

Comment This is awesome (Score 1) 92

The obvious use case for this is the fitness market. If you use something like Strava, right now you need a fitness device + a phone capable of talking to the fitness device. Once a fitness device has a dellular capability, it can get your running/cycling segments, upload activities, do live tracking without needing a phone to talk to the servers. This will be a real killer for the Garmins and the Polars of this world. The other good use case would be health monitoring - for the diabetics, etc. There are probably many, many others.

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