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How Donald Trump plans on spinning 200,000 coronavirus deaths as a win
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Brazil’s densely packed favelas brace for coronavirus: ‘It will kill a lot of people.’
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The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860
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Best non-resident library cards for Overdrive access
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Phone recommendations: Pixel 2? 3a? Something else?
My OG Pixel died last night and while I'm waiting for tech support to get back with me on how I can still use MFA to do my job, I figured I would ask you all how I should proceed with getting a...
My OG Pixel died last night and while I'm waiting for tech support to get back with me on how I can still use MFA to do my job, I figured I would ask you all how I should proceed with getting a new device. My first impulse is to get a Referb Pixel 2 on Amazon for $99, as I liked my original Pixel, I like having the latest Android version and I like only paying $99 for an older flagship phone. Additionally, I was considering a Pixel 3a as it would presumably last a bit longer and has had good reviews but is three times as much and hasn't devalued nearly as much when used, which is good and bad.
I'm open to anything that's relatively stock Android and still updated, and am curious about iOS, Kaios or other options. Landlines are a hard pass.
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Why you should not put garlic in your vagina, as a treatment for yeast or anything else
@Jennifer Gunter: Why you should not put garlic in your vagina.A thread.Garlic contains allicin, in THE LAB it MAY have antifungal (i.e. anti yeast) properties. This is in a lab, not even in mice. Just a dish of cells. Your vagina is not a dish of cells. #vaginaisanogarliczone 1/8
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The US is betting that being furloughed is better than being fired for 600,000 workers
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Risk of Rain 2 gets its fourth major content update, including Artifacts, a UI overhaul, a new stage and more
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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A major medical staffing company just slashed benefits for doctors and nurses fighting coronavirus
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Norway's hazmat booksellers – two Oslo bookshop owners deliver books wearing full hazmat suits and gas masks in order to raise local awareness
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Do we suffer ‘behavioural fatigue’ for pandemic prevention measures?
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Mike Pence task force freezes foreign coronavirus aid amid US backlash
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Would you look down on a normal citizen wearing an N95 mask?
Recently found one in a perfect state. I sterilized it and now I can have one. Just wanting people's opinions if they saw someone with an n95 mask instead of a surgical mask. Like, it could go to...
Recently found one in a perfect state. I sterilized it and now I can have one. Just wanting people's opinions if they saw someone with an n95 mask instead of a surgical mask. Like, it could go to a hospital or something.
edit: I should mention I have type 1 diabetes
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AWA Studios launches digital version of comics with WEBTOON
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Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide "sick-out"
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Blood banks narrowly averted a supply crisis. But they’re ‘worried about four weeks from now.’
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vim_cubed
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William Deresiewicz: Solitude and leadership
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Walmart amps up its virus response for workers
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UN Report: Shared responsibility, global solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19
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The erosion of deep literacy
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Calls grow for Germany-wide use of face masks
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Starship users guide
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Home pizza oven put to the test by two professional chefs
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MacOS Catalina 10.15.4 has mysterious SSH issues, possibly linked to using a port greater than 8192
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Number of long-term care facilities with COVID-19 cases tops 400 nationwide
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Movie Monday Free Talk
We haven't had one of these in a while, and given the amount of time people are spending indoors, I figured it might be good to share some movie recommendations. I will post my own comment...
We haven't had one of these in a while, and given the amount of time people are spending indoors, I figured it might be good to share some movie recommendations.
I will post my own comment regarding some movies I've seen recently, but I wanted to also share some quarantine / pandemic movies that might be interesting given the strange times we find ourselves in. Warning: they are probably not a great way to take your mind off things, if that's what you are searching for, hence why I'm separating them from my other comment.
- Contagion (2011) - Probably one of the more relevant movies, and certainly on people's minds. It's an interesting worst case what-if scenario, and actually tackles some of the political struggle with organizing around a pandemic.
- Perfect Sense (2011) - Overshadowed by Contagion, which is arguably the better movie, but I liked the premise of this one: a disease that slowly takes away your 5 senses, one at a time. I didn't like the ending, but for a thought experiment it captured my attention. It threw in a love plot line which may or may not have been necessary when the reaction was more interesting, but it does help provide a ground floor experience of a more terrifying epidemic.
- It's a Disaster (2012) - I have somehow managed to miss watching this movie, despite it being on my watch list for some time. A comedy, which may come in use in this trying time, it centers around a group of friends who invariably become part of a self-quarantine at their house.
- Rear Window (1954) - A Hitchcock classic. Jimmy Stewart is confined to his NYC apartment due to a leg injury, and has all the time in the world to spy on his neighbors, where he becomes obsessive over a potential domestic dispute between a couple across the way.
- The Lighthouse (2019) - Superb acting by Willem Dafoe. Two men, a seaman fresh to the trade and a seasoned veteran, are servicing the sole lighthouse on a tiny island as part of a contract. They are forced to stay longer than either imagined due to a storm passing through them. They get at their wits end with each other and their sanity slowly falls apart. Beautifully shot in black and white and with authentic vernacular, it really transports you to a different time period.
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San Francisco Bay Area doctors see flatter curve after two weeks of social isolation
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Ozark life - A photo essay of the intimate beauty of daily life in rural Arkansas
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Internet Archive has created a National Emergency Library, allowing users access to all 1.4 million books in their collection with no waiting lists
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Good Company | Early Access launch trailer
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While some cities free people from jail and stop arrests, others are much more business as usual
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Exective branch non-compliance with law
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More details emerge on Mario Switch remasters – Sunshine, Galaxy and more to be re-released as special anniversary collection
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How to spark a victory mask movement in your community
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?3 votes -
Thoughts on recruiting
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Guy Fieri and National Restaurant Association launch relief fund
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Africa’s biggest city on lockdown to curb virus in Nigeria
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Las Vegas parking lot turned into 'homeless shelter' with social distancing markers
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Finland's center-left government gave its blessing to majority state-owned Fortum's strategy to cut emissions, but promised to push the company further
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What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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COVID-19 cases reported on both US aircraft carriers in western Pacific
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Agent57: Outperforming the human Atari benchmark
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Minos - Down The Drain (ft. Messiah) (2020)
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Simple DIY masks could help flatten the curve. We should all wear them in public
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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - March 30
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
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Folding at Home: Team Tildes information
Inspired by @moocow1452 original post on donating computer resources towards the cause of researching coronavirus. This new post is to organize the Folding @ Home information to be at the top of...
Inspired by @moocow1452 original post on donating computer resources towards the cause of researching coronavirus. This new post is to organize the Folding @ Home information to be at the top of the thread for new users who may be interested in donating their resources to the cause.
- Folding @ home: Coronavirus - What we're doing and how you can help in simple terms
- Folding @ Home Download here
- Tildes Team number: 238330
- Folding@Home Passkey registration
- Folding@Home Points information
- Folding@Home Team stats
- Extreme Overclocking team stats details
- Folding@home Active Projects - Where you can look up what your Work Unit is related to
- Folding@home Server Stats - Server Status, Assignment/hour
- Folding@home Client Stats - OS, CPU and TFLOPS count totals
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