That isn’t the point I was arguing, what masks also do is CAPTURE aerosolised contaminants. What that means is they can prevent the spread of disease, but they can also spread it as they essentially collect up every drop of that contaminant you are in and around.

And? Key and critical workers all over the world are in the same position, the whole point of everyone else being in lockdown is so that the people that did have to work could.

The fact there has been a massive heatwave in Europe lends it significant weight.

That isn’t true at all, countries with widespread mask adoption are not able to attribute that to stopping the spread. To date the only countries succesfully managing the spread are countries with strong public health system and robust and well prepared track and trace.

In context those numbers are remarkably low, other than the usual amazon bashing what’s the story?

Yeah, I don’t count that political cesspit, the US system for that is frankly a nonsense that has no place in this millennium. It’s a political question decided by a politicised not really impartial body and never revisited, it’s just a broken system.

Taking guns away and gun controls aren’t the same thing. The second amendment specifically references a well regulated militia: do you feel well regulated or belong to a militia?

Multiple guns isn’t unusual, it’s like having more than three golf clubs, you can play golf with three as long as you don’t mind never being under par.

Done enough work in the area I can guarantee they aren’t, the couple of articles I read that linked to areas I was working on were dead wrong. And that doesn’t speak to the fact they constantly hammer not just UK government but others for going with major suppliers, then hammer them for when the SMEs screw up.

They don’t cover stories on IT successes, and the UK is far more open than many governments in procurement and has NAO and PAC chasing down all the deficiencies and hauling them out on an active basis.

To be fair it doesn’t procure that many, and most of the issues came from the NHS and the sensible, but ultimately too impractical attempt to have a unified government IT platform that were both quite some time ago. Both suffered the same issue of just being too complicated to fix without fundamentally changing…

Real gamers? Unless you are a child or unemployed most people don’t have unlimited time to play games, any single platform is more than enough to fill the average humans time. Some people might have two, but a lot of people will only have one, especially if they do mobile gaming on a phone or tablet rather than…

I’m guessing it’s some fairly bespoke version of StoreMI paired with a suitable low latency SSD that’s more latency than throughput biased.

The SSD tech isn’t that different from Optane, but it HAD to improve simply because the amount of volatile memory on the system is lower. If you have 32Gb of system ram and then likely somewhere between 16 and 32gb on GPU having a super fast SSD is little redundant.

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Worth putting in context that so far the evidence in the UK where this is being actively tracked is that this is an incredibly small percentage and even smaller when considered under all cause mortality. And while there isn’t clear evidence of transmittable rate between and by children it does appear to be very low.

That assumes it wouldn’t be counterbalanced by a normal system of taxation.

That isn’t really how the world works, I’ve moved all over the world over the years from the most expensive places on the planet to the cheapest. I don’t think even a short move has cost me less than two months wages. And I’m pretty lucky that I’m resilient enough that I don’t really need to live near my family and…

I doubt it would work that way in practice, in any banded tax system implemented sensibly you never lose money when you move into the next band. In practice all UBI does is bathtub curve the tax system with a negative starting range, so it’s likely you will pay a lot of tax till you equal UBI i.e. dollar in dollar out…

In practice it wouldn’t really, all you are doing is effectively adding a negative range on the tax system with a bathtub curve rather than a linear one.