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Comment not about privacy (Score 1) 226

The marks that this scam is aimed at aren't concerned about privacy as such. They'll eagerly hand over their private info to Snarler, GettrByThePussy, mOAN, NewSmax, and even GRU... just so long as King Obummer II and Narc Cuckerberg, can't censor their memes about lynching Killary.

Comment Re:I give it 2 weeks... (Score 1) 45

Apple actually added a feature to prevent this. If you have an iPhone it is supposed to notice that you have an airtag traveling with you that isn't yours. It then alerts you and you can make it play a sound to help find it if needed. I suppose you could use an AirTag to stalk someone who doesn't have an iPhone.
Medicine

Can You Get Covid-19 Again? It's Very Unlikely, Experts Say 55

An anonymous reader shares a report: The anecdotes are alarming. A woman in Los Angeles seemed to recover from Covid-19, but weeks later took a turn for the worse and tested positive again. A New Jersey doctor claimed several patients healed from one bout only to become reinfected with the coronavirus. And another doctor said a second round of illness was a reality for some people, and was much more severe. These recent accounts tap into people's deepest anxieties that they are destined to succumb to Covid-19 over and over, feeling progressively sicker, and will never emerge from this nightmarish pandemic. And these stories fuel fears that we won't be able to reach herd immunity -- the ultimate destination where the virus can no longer find enough victims to pose a deadly threat.

But the anecdotes are just that -- stories without evidence of reinfections, according to nearly a dozen experts who study viruses. "I haven't heard of a case where it's been truly unambiguously demonstrated," said Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Other experts were even more reassuring. While little is definitively known about the coronavirus, just seven months into the pandemic, the new virus is behaving like most others, they said, lending credence to the belief that herd immunity can be achieved with a vaccine. It may be possible for the coronavirus to strike the same person twice, but it's highly unlikely that it would do so in such a short window or to make people sicker the second time, they said. What's more likely is that some people have a drawn-out course of infection, with the virus taking a slow toll weeks to months after their initial exposure. People infected with the coronavirus typically produce immune molecules called antibodies. Several teams have recently reported that the levels of these antibodies decline in two to three months, causing some consternation. But a drop in antibodies is perfectly normal after an acute infection subsides, said Dr. Michael Mina, an immunologist at Harvard University.

Comment a better idea (Score 3, Funny) 34

If they wanted to do something truly great with the Atari brand, they would finish the Atari 1450XLD project and bring it to market. My parents promised to buy me one as soon as they were available. That was 36 years ago. I still am waiting to have a computer with speech synthesis, a 300 baud modem, and a floppy drive all built-in! No more cables running everywhere to connect all these separate things.

Comment I knew I was a good tipper but (Score 4, Interesting) 262

I live in Austin which has Ride Austin as an Uber competitor. It is a not for profit ride sharing service which pays the driver more than Uber does. I have never used Uber, but I use Ride Austin. If I take a ride that costs $25, i will usually tip about $10. I did not realize that was more than most people would tip. I assumed that the driver probably makes $1-2 plus whatever I tip which is why I tip that much.

Comment My daughter has worked on molten salt reactors. (Score 5, Informative) 256

My daughter is a nuclear engineer who has worked on molten salt reactors. She thinks they are great. There are multiple advantages of molten salt reactors. It eliminates the inherent problem of highly pressurized water. But the big advantage is being able to access the fission products and extract each isotope for use. Instead of calling it all nuclear waste and burying it in Yucca mountain you can use it for all sorts of things. There is a probability curve (a double humped curve) that predicts what fission products are made. The fission products can be sold which yields another revenue stream for the reactor operator and is a supply of medical isotopes which otherwise have to be specifically made and rare earth minerals which would otherwisr need to be mined. The main advantages of Thorium over uranium are that the Thorium fuel does not yield plutonium or other transuranic elements. Also, Thorium is very abundant compared to Uranium. The second one isn’t such a big deal right now because Uranium is currently so cheap, but will be Important in the longer term. Also, since Thorium reactors can’t make plutonium you have less of a chance of plutonium being diverted for a nuclear weapon - though that is a lesser concern in my mind because an energy reactor is a poor way to make fissile plutonium.

Comment The travel distance is too short already (Score 5, Insightful) 156

I have one of the new MacBook Pro laptops and the keyboard on it is completely unusable because the keyboard sucks. I use it plugged into an external mechanical keyboard but if I had to work on the built in keyboard my productivity would be terrible. Why can’t Apple make a decent keyboard anymore? I honestly do not care about the laptop being thin anymore. The Titanium PowerBook G4 was thin enough for me. Subsequent iterations to make it thinner have offered zero value to me as a heavy user of Mac laptops over the years. I didn’t mind the laptop being thinner until they started sacrificing basic usability of the machine for thinness. It is insanity. I wish they would license MacOS to someone else or make a laptop with a usable keyboard.

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