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With testing being so sporadic/underutilized/unavailable (in the US, at least), the "reported cases" are probably a measure of "serious enough COVID19 symptoms to actually seek medical attention" and out of those, a certain percentage will be hospitalized. Again, it is a case of "garbage in...

Wow, two Monty Python quotes in five minutes on this forum (Clive Johnson's was the other). It's gonna be a great day!

Worth reading for this bit alone!

I want to keep a couple things separate: #1 COVID19 the virus and our response, vs. the response by other govt.'s including the Chinese govt. #2 China (the people) vs. the Chinese govt. Without going into much detail, over the last 30 years, we have watched the biggest tech and wealth transfer...

Oh yeah, you can...isn't that what old people do? Now, get off my lawn!

Well here is some more disturbing news...I've seen reports before of patients catching the disease TWICE, but the documentation was spotty, not sure whether to believe it or not. Now, however, this seems to be high quality info...

Saw some people playing on the PTU, yes, EMP has been fixed. Be aware that if they drain one shield then launch the EMP it will power down the ship, but definitely not OP anymore.

What's your current CPU? I think AMD has some great options now, and will be great chips for the next couple of years. GPU's are almost at the point where the next upgrade cycle is around the corner, although with the pandemic, who knows?

That's a fucking great monitor! I plan on getting the C9 or it's successor in a year or so... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6M85rboYy0

I think that 1440p is the real sweet spot. Linus Tech Tips had a good video on this, let me dig it up: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehvz3iN8pp4

Speaking of masks, I thought that it would be a nice merch item to have a TEST mask. The problem, though, is that if the TEST logo is big enough, the yellow "ball" on a black background is just going to look like we are wearing a bondage gag, or something rude like that... Maybe we could have...

I think I had posted a news story about this earlier, here is the CDC's MMWR report: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e6.htm?s_cid=mm6919e6_e&deliveryName=USCDC_921-DM28169 Gist of the report, in a single picture:

Apologies in advance for being pedantic: Dr. Spock: Mr. Spock:

Sounds like they are going to have an NPC acrobatic team?

The logistics of testing 11 million people sounds staggering...to do it in under 2 weeks? Amazing... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/china-begins-massive-effort-to-test-11-million-people-for-covid-19-in-10-days/

yeah, pretty much in California, it is all industrial-sized farming. If it is a "family" farm, it is a family that bought out a whole bunch of other families a while ago, and incorporated...

But, the PS5 is *highly specialized* for running games/graphics....if our PC's didn't have to run the (bloated) Win OS with all its spyware, we would have a lot more resources to spare.... To give a historical example...the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) was fairly unimpressive hardware-wise, but...

He'll be fin at 1080p ... the only caveat is, I hope he has an SSD!

I just found another book I may be interested in...I guess I'll order it and find out: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/books/review/enemy-of-all-mankind-steven-johnson.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Book%20Review I had never heard of this guy, but, what a fascinating...

Hopefully their 600% spike in bookings meant they went from 1 up to 6...