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Especially because people who are overweight have a 70% more chance to get very ill from covid.

This is not what the stats are saying. And what about South-Africa with a vaccination rate of 26%?

Let's talk about eating unhealthy and heart diseases.

I would like to have a cheap laser engraver/cutter but I am just afraid to buy one. Most kits don't have any protection at all except for some goggles. This might be fine for yourself but not for someone stepping into the room.

Lasers are no joke.

'Don't look into the laser with your remaining eye' is also no joke.

I mean inacurate vector math

But arent there other applications where this is ok?

For example path tracing (ray tracing) doesn't need to be very accurate because multiple samples per pixel are used.

A gaming card that uses less power is very welcome in laptops for example.

"then what does it care for"

Wel most of the time it's an investment. So for those bidders the perceived market value is very important.

But you can also imagine this scenario: someone has a ring from a great great grantparent. The market value of the ring is $10. But the owner would only sell it for $100000. Then their would noone to bid against.

Things are worth what the highest bidder is willing to pay. There are no other reasons involved. Taste doesn't matter, history doesn't matter, material doesn't matter, the creator doesn't matter.

The highest bidder does have his reasons, but they can be very different from person to person.

Ow wow! I remember that the sounds were so real after I purchased a sound card!

I am still amazed by the animations. They are still looking very good. Great game.

I am not saying people give a fuck it is legally accurate. But since nobody ever reads the terms and conditions this could help to give a quick understanding of what you are paying for.

Everybody knows that renting a car is different than buying a car.

That's a different problem. Right now the problem is that people think they buy something but they don't.

Nobody is going to read the terms and conditions before buying. But when you are going to rent something you know the ownership is not transferred to you.

I think one simple legislation could help a lot: forbid to use the word 'buy' in this context. Instead it should be 'hire' or 'lease' or something.

Once I 'bought' an e-book that was copy protected by Adobe (my fault I didn't read the specs before buying). But because you can only read it when Adobe's servers are online no ownership is transferred to you as buyer. You buy rights to read the book on their terms.

'Hire this book' would be fair to use in this context.

(Afterwards I successfully converted to book to an e-book format that I owned with some Calibre plugins).

The author was lucky to earn a huge amount of money.

99% of the people can't do anything with this advice because they don't have any savings to begin with.

I wonder if the author even understands how lucky he is.

I run my own email. But I think it is a software problem.

It would be nice of you could just install an email program that will set all the right settings for you. DNS, database, roles and rights, certificates, firewall and so on.

There is server management software that can do this but then you have the same problem: it is just complicated for most people.

"Except of course that it isn't an artisanal choice, a very practical one that is made increasingly impossible by the few very large email providers that are left. It should be as simple as hosting a web server."

I don't get this one. How do large email providers make it difficult to host your own email?

I host my own email. It was a pain to setup so I try not to touch it since it is running fine. Setting up email on your own server is just complicated unless you install server management software. I am not sure big email providers are to blame for this.

Most advise is like: do what I did, if you were me, in the exact place and time as I was, surrounded by the same people as I was, and so on...

I think advise in the form of a small life lesson is more helpful. For example: 'Take good care of yourself if you work hard.' is more helpful than 'Work hard to become successful.'.

Yes I think you are right: LKS Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong.

Could it be that there is almost no distinction between brain parts but that the way a fetus grows 'specializes' certain parts?

Every virus infection can turn into a long recovery. There is no proof this is longer for Covid-19.

The Epstein-Barr virus for example can make you tired for months or years.

I am not saying long Covid isn't a thing, but it is not 'special' in any way.

Virus infections can cause damage. Years ago I had an infection that damaged a nerve. So virus infections can leave marks. But most of the time, as with Covid, you will recover from it.

A Japanese study showed that Omicron is reproducing 70 times faster in the bronchi but 10 times slower in the lungs than Delta. That's why it is giving less lung problems and therefore doesn't make people as ill as Delta.

Not only for gaming. I have been using Blender for over 15 years on Linux and 3D hardware support is getting better each year. Maybe some people don't like proprietary drivers, but I have been running Nvidia drivers just fine with a RTX card (on Windows you will have proprietary drivers anyway).

And as a Steam user I can only agree with the article. Games are running just fine.

There is no difference between what is injected.

It's more like a retraining program. It's almost like the difference between short and long term memory. One shot will turn on short term memory after a week or two. Repeating shots will turn on long term memory.

But what I personally think is interesting is that a natural infection works longer and broader after just one 'dose'.

It is amazing how complitacted the immuunsysteem is. And I also think this is the reason we should be careful with giving healthy young people the vaccins.

Exactly this. People heavily underestimate how many domain names are registered.

There is a huge chance that you hit a mailbox when you make up an email address.

This reminds me of the multi-tasking myth.

People who multi-task think it works because they did a lot of different things throughout the day.

But when performance is measured the conclusion is that multi-tasking does not work and only hurts the brain.

Off topic but related: sometimes I see developers who track interactions without checking if analytics is available.

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Medhi Sadaghdar (Electroboom) explains this. Medhi says the video is right but starts with a trick question. That's what the controversy is about.

https://youtu.be/iph500cPK28

As in: almost zero.

I am not saying the PCR-test are unreliable. See my added example.

I am not saying the PCR-tests are false. See my added example.

In South-Africa almost nobody dies of Omicron while the vaccination rate is around 26%.