Nice job trying to cherry pick data. But no. We have less than 200 ICU beds available now, and that's after they activated overflow plans over the last week. Screen Shot 2020-06-30 at 3.13.22 PM.png For proper context, do we know what that same graph looked like this time last year, and the year be...

Pugchief, I wonder how exactly the Democrats will manage to do away with debates? I can understand the motivation but that would hardly go unnoticed. My guess is some kind of COVID excuse, like Biden can't leave his basement. It won't look good tho; Biden will look weak. TV shows and podcasts have ...

I find it amusing that people keep lamenting that mask-wearing has "become so politicized". How can it be otherwise? There is no hard science with which to prove or disprove that mask-wearing makes a difference in slowing down the spread of Cooties-19. It's basically all guesswork, hunches...

Yes, and in what I'm doing, although it is at the other end of the scale in terms of the amount of hardware resources, efficiency is still tremendously important. No one wants to spend a ton of money on persistent memory devices if they can't get the astounding performance that those devices are ca...

Good stuff, Smithers! Made me laugh.

Is C++ still used? It’s the primary language I use in my current job. :) In embedded applications (e.g., firmware and software that runs on smartphone modems and other low-power chips) and in video games, the hardware resources are relatively limited and you need to milk every last drop of performa...

I was referring mainly to the reporters who write about the “mystery”. Seems like they could do a little journalistic legwork on street level to see who’s setting off the fireworks. Maybe they feel it’s unsafe, so they just report on it without doing any basic investigation.

I’ve heard about that fireworks “mystery”. It seems like it shouldn’t be that hard to solve. Just observe who’s roaming around the relevant neighborhoods at that time of night. Maybe review some security camera footage.

But it's pretty obvious to me that he is going to come down on the terrorists like a ton of bricks when the time is right. I'm guessing right around the Democrat convention, but it will definitely be before the general election. Not doing anything to stop the lawlessness is about the only way he co...

The most amazing thing about this whole situation is that there are people who think it is going to keep Trump from being re-elected. CHAZ/CHOP specifically, or the BLM protests/riots in general? If you mean CHAZ/CHOP specifically, would the criticism (from conservatives, presumably) be that Trump ...

Get docs who agree that masks are worthless and show the proof. This statement particularly caught my eye. Isn't the burden of scientific proof on people who propose the new recommendation or mandate (e.g., mask-wearing) for everyone? Prior to March, not wearing masks in the U.S. was the norm, and ...

flyingpylon wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:25 am And this from Texas:
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Financial incentive from the CARES Act. See my recent comment in this other thread: viewtopic.php?p=199605#p199605

My sense is many of these states with rising cases lean right, so why on earth would they be in the camp of wanting to potentially over count cases? Perhaps because the CARES Act adds a 20% premium for Covid-19 Medicare patients. I.e., hospitals everywhere have a financial incentive to overcount Co...

The impression I got from Trump's "Kung flu" pun and other edgy comments from his Tulsa rally is that he was doing more than just trying to make his audience laugh. I think he was implicitly making a broader point about free speech. The more Trump exercises his free speech with controversi...

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:41 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 9:03 am When they’re done with chess pieces they’re going to find something wrong with pianos.

You mean like this? https://youtu.be/0h2jZtuRuic

Or this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdFk35yT0ac

This study (pre-print abstract only, not yet peer reviewed or published) found something quite interesting and unexpected: Some people infected with SARS-CoV-2 apparently develop T-cell responses to it without the corresponding B-cell antibody production, meaning even though they test negative for S...

Wondering what you all think. I'm thinking that my workplace is going to make the mask wearing a permanent requirement while on campus, which means that by default I'm going to be working from home, and only going in when it's absolutely necessary (e.g. inpatient service or a lab experiment) and on...

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1273251292031250433 Today is the last day of my seven day challenge to provide a current example of systemic racism in America. No examples yet, just conceptual takes. And then the context comes after that. An essay broken up into 16 tweets in rapid success...

They also showed video of the incident at Wendy's in Atlanta where the black man overpowered the police and took one of their tasers and got shot in the back trying to run away. Personally, I don't think they should have shot him in the back like that but it isn't as clear cut as the George Floyd c...

I think everyone should ignore CHAZ. Let the city and state sort it out. And civil court if need be. I would think a property owner in there could sue the city and state, at some point. But otherwise, don’t give them any attention. Hard to argue with that. The whole CHAZ situation with the crude, h...

My Dad used to tell me that all the time but I think it came in the form of "nobody owes you a living". Unfortunately, a majority of Black Americans don't have Dads to tell them that which is probably a big part of the problem. It’s even worse than that: Their single mothers on welfare se...

...There are a lot of people who support leftist political ideology but don't want to live under its consequences (high crime, high taxes, economic stagnation). So they eventually move for financial and safety reasons, but they don't change their leftist politics. You mean like California ⇢ Texas? ...

I'm pretty sure Seattle must have a leftist government. Let them figure out how to deal with it. They have all the answers. I'm pretty sure in a few years time when all the producing-class have left the city they will regret whatever solution they chose. The potential problem with letting leftist c...

Planet Fitness doesn't have a time limit for long you can stay. They have the capacity limit in place along with extra cleaning. It seems to be working pretty well for them so far. Let's check back in six months and see if it's still working pretty well for them. I predict bankruptcy for any gyms t...

Gotta love the stock market. Does well for weeks, then it suddenly shits its pants for no apparent reason.