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babecafe867 karma

Do you have a love/hate relationship with that red border?

babecafe19 karma

OK. This drug is used for non lethal sedation at lower dosages and euthanasia at higher dosages. The level of contamination was lower than the sedation dosage when orally ingested. So what consideration went into the characterization of this drug as a euthanasia drug rather than simply a sedative? Were you intentionally choosing a sensational headline over a more balanced one?

babecafe17 karma

I don't do deliveries myself, but many times when I'm waiting for my own order, I see drivers having to hang around as one or more orders come out piecemeal, plus they have to inventory the order to make sure that nothing's missing. In my area, they don't just "pick up a bag of food," they're putting it in their own packaging to keep food hot/cold through delivery.

babecafe6 karma

The FCC seemed to rely on a totally nonsensical analysis that stated that because Internet services came with DHCP, and sometimes email, it qualified as an Enhanced Service under the Communications Act. You've have to be very foolish to rely upon a service providers email address, which would go away anytime you changed service providers, and all DHCP does is assign you an IP address and suggest an IP address at which you can get DNS. I'd assert that if you care a whit about privacy, you're better off using any DNS service OTHER than your service providers. It struck me as a particularly weak argument on the part of the FCC, yet I haven't seen a concerted effort anywhere to expose and overcome it.

Are the technical arguments, which any internet guru could explain, too esoteric for the courts to comprehend?

I'm shocked that Pai has gotten this far with such bullshit arguments.

Nevertheless, the BIGGEST problem is that cable companies refuse to do any significant overbuilding, while ATT is trying to destroy their twisted-pair infrastructure without running fiber-to-the-home as they have endlessly promised but refuse to deliver, so we only have ONE broadband supplier of internet access per address in the vast majority of the country, and the FCC is rubber-stamping this pathetic failure of the free-market system.

babecafe2 karma

Recent flu vaccines have been estimated to be 45% effective for influenza, due to a combination of choices of strains targeted and the effectiveness of the component on each strain.

Are there any estimates as to the likely effectiveness of a COVID-19 vaccine? What effectiveness would be required in order for the vaccine to significantly blunt the spread of the virus to the recent estimates of 40-70% of the population?