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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

hace 2 añosdiscuss

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.

bwilli123

hace 2 añosdiscuss

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

bwilli123

hace 3 añosdiscuss

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

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

bwilli123

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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)

bwilli123

hace 3 añosdiscuss

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.

bwilli123

hace 3 añosdiscuss

“The consulting industry has infantilised government”

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

bwilli123

hace 4 añosdiscuss

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

bwilli123

hace 4 añosdiscuss

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."

bwilli123

hace 4 añosdiscuss

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

bwilli123

hace 4 añosdiscuss

..."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

hace 5 añosdiscuss

  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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