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Comment Re:Thats great and all but.. (Score 1) 303

It is not about the vaccine's lasting. The vaccine disappears from the body pretty quickly. It is about your body's immune system learning the virus structure and being able to respond to it.

People get the flu many times over their life and are not immune to more cases. Your body is just not that good at fighting respiratory tract infections. At least the upper respiratory tract kind.
The vaccine is very good at protecting people from severe cases that get into the lower respiratory tract.

Comment Re:Firefox not vulnerable (Score 2) 35

Why should it go and look up everything in the favicon cache ? Seems to me if the web site gave me an icon once, I can keep that icon until I actually visit that site again. Otherwise just opening the menu is going to cause a whole bunch of address lookups and data fetches which is really stupid to do just to present a flashy thing on a menu.

Comment Re:Netflix may know what I liked (Score 1) 32

Netflix "knows what you like" by genre. But it never seems to take production quality or writing into account. And yes what you feel like at the moment is definitely going to change.

One thing they don't seem to take into account, is stuff you have skipped over before. If I skipped over it before, I did not want to watch it. So why when I do shuffle-play does it get presented?
If I stopped in the middle of episode #1, I probably did not want to watch it.

Comment Wrong Question (Score 3, Insightful) 193

The real question is
Does the government have the power to tell people to stop doing something that endangers others ?

And the clear answer to that is yes. Your personal freedom ends where you become a hazard to others. And a government representing the will of the people has the power to act to protect the people.

Comment Trumpistan (Score 5, Insightful) 352

People will die because Trump wants to look good. Trump has equated more testing with more cases and more cases make Trump look bad. So testing has to go down.

More testing should lead to getting more people isolated which long term leads to less cases.

Welcome to Trumpistan where the idiot in chief makes irrational decisions that lead to death and suffering.

Comment astronomy near is not general near (Score 2) 36

The secondary articles really missed the distinction between astronomical scale and peoples general conceptions. The quote here is a footnote in a secondary article from the link.

Near to the sun, would generally mean at least nearer to the sun than I am right now, not way way further from the sun than I am right now. The article authors should have described the distance with a better term than "near".

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