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This seems like an important question that needs to be resolved.

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Just found out about this whole episode from this topic.
After a quick bit of background reading, Senator Hawley deserved it. I'm not surprised Woj was suspended in response though.

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I feel like my comment in post 97 was ignored. Fundamentally, the only way to make an electronic vote verifiable and trustworthy is if you enable the user to somehow confirm it - which removes the anonymity. IMO this isn't worth it for a high stakes election.

If you want better turnout, I'd sooner recommend doing what a lot of other countries do and extending the timeline for physical in-person voting. Like making it a full week, or having early voting booths out in specific places only for a longer period of time (a few weeks maybe)

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The technology is there to do it securely and accurately. The problem is keeping it anonymous (which is important to prevent coercion and bribery) without compromising either of those things. In a lower-stakes election where you're willing to accept the loss of anonymity you can do it online.

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In NZ there was a "wage subsidy" scheme, where any employer could get like $600 per week per employee for 3 months as long as they commit to pay 80% of usual pay to their staff. This was for any business that experienced (or expected) a revenue downturn, and was announced on the same day as the lockdown. They started paying it out within a few days of the announcement.

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You are now tracking this topic

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Like an 8? I have mixed thoughts. In a lot of the photos she looks awesome, but in the pics where she doesnt have makeup her face doesn't look so great.

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Dathrowed1 posted...

Methamphetamine is already a schedule CII medication. I've dispensed it myself

Interesting. We don't use it any more here, but there are people on other amphetamines (e.g. dexamphetamine)

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shockthemonkey posted...

We stopped worried about SARS and MERS because they stopped spreading, not because we cured them. So if we can mobilize a mass immunization then will it have that same impact? Like if the vaccine only works for a year then thatll still be an absolutely amazing feat in limiting the spread right? Please?!

Yes, even a short-duration vaccine could be used to complete an elimination strategy, or eventually eradication.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Annual "best guess" vaccines can fuck right off.

It doesn't seem like this is gonna be a problem with a covid vaccine. It's a pretty stable virus and hasn't had much meaningful mutation since discovery despite infecting over 7 million people

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Jabodie posted...

Makes sense. There's a reason there's been no strong vaccine made for any coronavirus.

This, kind of.
I'm not sure why this is headline news, this has been a widespread concern in the medical community for many months.

EnterTheTekken posted...

Was that more of the virus itself being resistant? Or that drug companies didn't want to sink millions into R&D for a vaccine to a virus that was treatable with existing drugs and that burned out quickly like SARS and MERS did?

It's not about being "resistant", it just might not be a strong enough antigen to induce a long-lasting immune response. The huge piles of money available for covid might help more people push development. Also, I dont know of any coronaviruses (SARS and MERS included) that are treatable with existing drugs.

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Hayame Zero posted...

Pairs meeting up is still fine under social distancing guidelines

Guidelines are different everywhere. Where I live it was very strict - if they didn't live in your house, you were not allowed to come within 2m of them. You weren't even allowed to drop off items to people's house unless they were someone who needs assistance

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I have a 2013 dumb-TV, but it's connected to my PC, and we use that for all of our media and TV (online stream/IPTV) needs anyway. So it can do pretty much anything a smart TV could, and more.

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Over 9000

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COVID-19 is, yes
BLM protests, probably not, but if they actually result in meaningful organisational or legal reforms in policing, then maybe.

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pinky0926 posted...

Ok maybe it wasn't underrated. Maybe it was really critically acclaimed and I was just living under a rock

It was awarded GOTY at several publications. Most winners that year were split between either Doom or Hitman

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Honestly, it's not obvious that he even recognised the guy

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If this scenatio includes the ability to delay onset of smoking until age 18-21, then cannabis for sure.

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iPhone_7 posted...

Did he seriously say all lives matter as he tried to murder people?

Yeah wtf

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JC2 for sure
San Andreas also great

SR2 I'm not so sure. I would probably put the original Crackdown above it. Or maybe Saints Row 3

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Not the worst, no.

Worst in the developed world though, maybe.

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Some brief internet digging has come back with the following suggestions, with varying degrees of similarity:

LaTale
Elsword
Dungeon Fighter Online
Ragnarok Online

Then there's always private servers. MS has a huge number of those still operating I think

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If she's into the side scrolling hack and slash-ness, the only stuff that comes to mind are things like metroidvanias (Guacamelee, Bloodstained, Castlevania games)

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KillerKhan420 posted...

Skipping ol W I see. He was the worst president of my lifetime.

This isn't about stupidity

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FabIemaster posted...

I don't think Trump has ever lifted an arm past his waist let alone throw a punch.

This is obviously false. He lifts food up to his mouth

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Nice.
Most of these are good games. The weakest probably being AC: Unity, FC5 and the first Watch Dogs

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NinjaBreakfast posted...

is this even correctly referred to as 'herd immunity' as opposed to general immunity

For it to count as herd immunity it has to be sufficient to prevent widespread transmission. Practically, this means reducing the R0 to <1

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You can see most of our stats here:
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-current-situation/covid-19-current-cases

We've had a total of 21 deaths. In the last 2 weeks it's been <5 new cases each day, so it's looking good

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Animal Crossing on Switch
Staw Wars KOTOR 2 on PC (first time)
Next will probably be Titanfall 2, Axiom Verge or Shadow of the Colossus

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New Zealand
Negative pressure isolation room with anteroom for getting PPE on/off. Rubber boots that are only for in the covid area, N95 mask, hair covering (disposable surgical cap), eye protection (either goggles or a face shield, personal preference), one of those yellow impermeable gowns, with gloves taped underneath the cuffs and a second set of gloves over the top so we can change them inside if needed.

Someone's main job is to watch everyone put on and take off the gear in proper order and with correct hand hygiene in between steps where appropriate. and the boots get removed and left in a disinfectant tub on the way out of the area.

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They still look very much like they're in growth, although it has been linear-looking growth for some time now. Basically 300-700 new cases most days for the last month
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

It's a fair approach to take if your main objective is just to prevent overwhelming the hospitals. They will probably need to have several cycles of increasing and loosening restrictions though. No way are they anywhere near meaningful herd innumity with those case numbers.

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Been working at hospital throughout this, including caring for a covid patient in ICU.
Somehow, none of our staff have tested positive, which I think is mostly thanks to the good infection control policies.

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Necessary? No, but if there's any kind of employer matching or tax advantage at all, it's probably the best savings deal you will ever get.

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I'm assuming remasters and compilations don't count, otherwise you gotta include stuff like MGS: Legacy Collection, Halo MCC, Rare Replay, Kingdom Hearts Story So Far.

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Bio1590 posted...

Makes sense, there's quite a few other coronaviruses that can be transmitted the same way (like Ebola).

Ebola ain't a coronavirus

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LeperMessiahXX posted...

It sounds like they don't have evidence it can be transmitted through contact with semen, which kind of seems odd. Why do this test and not see if it can be spread through contact with the semen? They had sick people wack off into a cup just to see if there was any traces of it in the semen.

Consider how different that study is from this one, the ethnics involved etc. Realistically to test this you would need to infect a tissue sample or animal model in a lab.

To demonstrate sexual transmission specifically in humans is gonna be difficult due to the amount of close contact involved in sex. Probably need to be an observational study. Or a weird gloryhole-esque setup, but that's probably not going to get ethical approval given there's risk of harm to participants.

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dj1200 posted...

lol why did they even decide to test it.

There's high expression of ACE2 in testicular tissue, so there was a plausible mechanism for this.

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monkmith posted...

that study has all the hallmarks of being shit, but if you're sick you shouldn't be having sex either way.

Study seems fine, honestly. They're not trying to prove that it is sexually transmitted. This is just the first step along that path (showing that in some infected men it is detectable in sexual fluids)

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I highly recommend making an account on IsThereAnyDeal to track historic sale prices of games you're interested in, and get alerts that cover multiple stores.

Make an account on GOG and download Galaxy to merge libraries across multiple storefronts

Follow places like /r/100percentdiscounts and claim things like the Epic Game Store free games every week

Xbox Game Pass is also a good service. As is something like Humble Monthly, especially if you're starting from basically nothing.

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A misguided sense of economic preservation. The most successful outcomes will be in countries that went early enough to aim for an elimination strategy (Vietnam, Taiwan, HK, Korea, Singapore, Australia, NZ, Iceland) because it enables the measures to be in place for a shorter period of time, and hopefully avoid repeated lockdowns.
It does depend on good border control over many months, but most international travel is off-limits right now regardless, so I don't think there's a lot of downside there.

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I don't have a desk at home, but I made a small form factor PC that I could fit into my TV entertainment unit (Ncase M1) back at the end of 2015. I've gotten pretty good use from it, especially since controllers are so easily compatible with most PC games in the last 10 years. Cost about 3x the amount of a console to get started, since I had no peripherals. Lots of cheap/free games though.

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Most of my exams have been 3 hours. The longest I've had was about 4.5 hours.

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It seems quite possible to me that by the end of 2020 the USA could have more deaths from COVID-19 than they did from World War 2

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solosnake posted...

Check out worldometers and the asian countries where mask use is widespread and compare the stats towestern countries that spread propaganda that masks are bad.

There's a huge difference between "masks are bad" and "We aren't making a recommendation for mass-masking of the general public"
It's well down the list of priorities in a situation like this. Contact tracing and isolation is probably the single most imporant, along with mass gatherings, especially indoors (and border controls for areas which don't already have widespread local transmission). Hand hygiene and physical distancing, and then masking probably just below that.
Most of Asia has managed well, but the strongest association is with acting early - Taiwan, Vietnam and Hong Kong who all put good border measures in as early as January. A lot of these were pretty draconian though (e.g. compulsory access of your phone's location data under penalty of fines). You see good efficacy in Australia and New Zealand who have achieved good control of the virus by enforcing physical distancing measures early in the ourbreak, but without the use of mass-masking.

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toyota posted...

Fuck outta here with that clown logic

With this logic then we should be discouraging people from washing their hands because they dont do it properly anyways.

Washing your hands poorly can't result in a situation where you're actually at higher risk than not washing. Using a mask incorrectly can.

Key things with a mask:

• Wash hands before putting it on, and before + after taking it off
• Cover both nose and mouth with good fit
• Don't touch any part of the mask while it is on your face.
• Moisture barrier: shouldn't be used longer than needed. Ideally under 15 mins, but up to 4 hours in some circumstances, sepending on the intention

The main risk IMO is people ignoring hand contact with the mask. Any droplets that transfer to your hand can be easily moved onto surfaces in the environment. Sometimes you also see people using it to cover the mouth but not the nose for some reason, too.

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008Zulu posted...

In Australia, my state, kids are allowed to go back to school. That's about it so far.

New Zealand here. Most employers are allowed to reopen, but nobody is allowed customers browsing inside stores, or sitting down. Only delivery and pick-up/takeaway sales, including for retail.
Kids can go to school if both parents need to work and the child is legally not allowed to be left alone (age under 14).
Last 2 days in a row we have had 0 cases nationwide. About 160 active cases remain.

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