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A point made by Theo- t3․gg in the following. 'React is the last framework.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1FLEnKZTAE

bwilli123

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Successive federal governments wanted to keep up appearances with the US, & kept them on station for too long. Oversight & discipline became frayed. Certain US special forces wouldn't work with them because of it. The grunts were sacrificed to protect the top brass, but especially the politicians who looked the other way. Particularly embarrassing to do otherwise when one (Ben Roberts-Smith) has already been given a Victoria Cross.

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At a meeting of the 'Five Eyes' months before on Vancouver Island, Australia was nominated/volunteered to start the Western anti-Huawei campaign.

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These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo&t=1858s

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University of Western Australia Study finds nasal spray could aid battle against COVID

Nasodine Nasal Spray is based on povidone-iodine, the same active ingredient found in Betadine throat gargle, and has been in development for almost a decade as a treatment for the common cold. Laboratory experiments showed a 15-second exposure to the nasal spray reduced infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 by 99.97 per cent, while a 60-second exposure completely eliminated viral infectivity.

  A subsequent pilot study of six COVID-19 patients, who were shedding the virus from the nose, looked at whether the laboratory results translated to people.

The trial showed that a single Nasodine dose (four sprays per nostril) reduced viral shedding in five of the six subjects (83 per cent) at five minutes after the dose, with an overall 79 per cent reduction in viral shedding at one hour after the dose.

https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/Article/2022/February/Study-find...

bwilli123

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Betadine gargle is 1% povidone-iodine. As a nasal spray dilute by 50% with water. Active protection for 3-4 hours minimum (again according to numerous studies)

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Povidone-iodine (taken nasally or as a gargle) kills viruses and bacteria. All types, including Covid, with 99.9% effectiveness according to numerous studies. Has worked this way (and safely) since the 1950's. Given that it's effective, and cheap to produce it's no wonder big pharma lobbied so hard for their own expensive partial treatments.

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“The consulting industry has infantilised government”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycVBoWsGLJs

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We already have self driving cars. We call it public transport.

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from the twitter link ..."The Optus hacker says they accessed an unauthenticated API endpoint. This means they didn't have to login. The person says: "No authenticate needed. That is bad access control. All open to internet for any one to use. The API endpoint was api[dot]http://optus.com.au. Yes, that looks weird, but the hacker says it worked otherwise a DNS error occurred. That API is now offline, so there is no more risk for Optus. It was used in part to let Optus customers access their own data."

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https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Kirk/status/1573652986437726208

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..."In my interviews with Baker and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in 1994, Baker acknowledged (and Shevardnadze confirmed) that he told the former foreign minister the United States would not “leapfrog” over a reunified Germany to move closer to the borders of the Soviet Union. There are reports that Baker was willing to put this commitment in writing, but that national security adviser Brent Scowcroft convinced the president not to do so."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/18/bill-clintons-role-i...

bwilli123

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  It's reasonable to assume that Apple chose 30% because that was the prevailing standard in the physical retail world.

That markup has been competed away in some circumstances (eg Costco) but otherwise still holds generally (Walmart 32%) It reflects unavoidable costs to all retailers, like local rents, staffing, transport etc Given that tech does not have a retail's fixed costs why has that markup not been competed away to establish a markup based on tech's unavoidable fixed costs?

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https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-...

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"The Taliban has fought against the US and the Kabul state for two decades in the face of casualties that would have shattered the morale and recruitment of almost any other army. The Vietnamese communists are the only parallel I can think of – and indeed, the Taliban may have learned the importance of discipline and organisation indirectly from communism. There are provinces in Afghanistan where five Taliban governors in a row have been killed – and yet a new volunteer for the position has always stepped forward. This marks a striking contrast with all previous religiously inspired Pashtun tribal uprisings, which grew rapidly but also collapsed quickly after the first major defeat." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00396338.2021.1...

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...I've long since retired, my son's moved away I called him up just the other day I said, I'd like to see you if you don't mind He said, I'd love to, dad, if I can find the time You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kids have the flu But it's sure nice talking to you, dad It's been sure nice talking to you And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me He'd grown up just like me My boy was just like me...

The Cat's In The Cradle Harry Chapin 1974

bwilli123

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Likely a timezone issue. Protonmail is in Switzerland (GMT+2) Minsk is (GMT+3) but could also depend on server clock setting on either side.

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https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1397863844740055052

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"The Coronavirus might have been spreading quietly in humans for years, or even decades, without causing a detectable outbreak – Dr Francis Collins, Director, The National Institutes of Health." https://johnmenadue.com/who-had-covid-first/

bwilli123

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A 'feeling' doesn't guarantee any more than that.

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Submissions

Ask HN:What's the oldest unresolved, and significant software bug you know of?

Have you seen *this* keyboard before? Probably not. But let's zoom out first

Facebook Australian news shutdown (extended version)

Ask HN: Far UVI breather instead of filter face mask?

NSF Has Spent $62.5M on ‘Intersectionality’ and STEM

Google is eating Apple's ecosystem for lunch

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