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  • Doesn't frequent cleaning of sinuses cause irritation? I believe healthy sinuses should be mostly self cleaning. Of course if you have some long-term condition then it's different

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    Trump rejects second Harris debate
  • She needs to still show up as scheduled, say that just because trump won't make time for the American people doesn't mean she will ignore them

    That reminds of the 2020 presidential election in Poland when both candidates did exactly what you describe - they debated at the same time but in separate studios. And the story how it came to that is wild.

    This was after the first round of the elections (where two candidates are selected for the second round), which involved things like last-minute rescheduling of the elections, last-minute candidate swap and effectively throwing away 20 million dollars of public money. Currently there are several criminal investigations conducted against people involved in organisation of that first round. And of course it was all in the middle of the pandemic. So the political chaos was at its absolute peak.

    The two candidates were the country's president representing then ruling party and capital city's mayor representing then biggest opposition party. Both of course wanted the debate. The issue was that then ruling party turned the public broadcaster into a party propaganda machine compared by experts to that created by Goebbels. And the core of that propaganda was that the second biggest (private) broadcaster in Poland (owned by Discovery Group) is anti-Polish and cannot be trusted.

    Both broadcasters offered they can organise the debate. The private one I believe was also willing to jointly host it. But the ruling party candidate couldn't agree to a debate hosted by the private broadcaster because that would significantly impact the propaganda and expose his many wrongdoings to the manipulated ruling party voters.

    On the other hand, the opposition candidate couldn't agree for the debate hosted only by the public broadcaster because that would effectively be 2 hours of him trying to deny lies spread by hosts and the other candidate.

    The 2nd round was coming close and no compromise has been found. So on the same day the two broadcasters prepared their studios for two candidates with audience. Ruling party candidate went to public broadcaster, opposition candidate to private one. Both declared the other as a "no-show" and proceeded to have a "debate" with hosts and audience.

    Few days later the opposition candidate lost by a small margin.

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    53 states
  • Revolutions tend to maintain the status quo just changing the rulers to those who can keep the friendly facade a little bit better

    Those problems must be solved but revolution will probably hardly gonna help

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    Woman who was denied a liver transplant, after review highlighted alcohol use, has died
  • That would help to some extent with scarcity in opt-in countries. But there are already opt-out countries which still face the same dilemma. Because if you're even one organ short how do you fairly decide who's gonna die... Can you even fairly decide about someone's life and death...

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    Woman who was denied a liver transplant, after review highlighted alcohol use, has died
  • From my limited knowledge organ donation criteria are horribly restrictive on a personal scale but unfortunately make sense on the macro scale. Organs are such a scarce resource that as I understand there's no other option.

    This girl's death was undoubtedly a tragedy, but as fucked up it's to say if she lived someone else would probably die in a similar agony. Was she treated fairly - I don't know, can we make this system better - I unfortunately also don't know.

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    Automation be like
  • One more advantage is that you now have the full process well documented (via code) and if you realize some change is needed you can repeat the task quickly.

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    Inaccuracies
  • You are indeed correct, some artistic freedom is definitely expected from that kind of series. But relying on Russian propaganda sources and making Legasov a hero doesn't qualify as artistic freedom but misinformation. Also the representation of the soviet reality was at least inaccurate - my dad who was raised in the former soviet block summarised it as "representing how Americans think it was not how it truly was".

    Chernobyl is a good and very interesting series and it's good that it raises at least some awareness about the catastrophe. But imo it could be more technically and historically accurate without losing its attractiveness.

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    Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
  • I do know from experience that networks are complicated and users are dumb, but I still think that if someone with barely any knowledge and without malicious intent can mess with your network then something's wrong with the setup.

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    Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
  • But if the bio or art major can seriously affect your network then is that even their fault? What if someone had skill and malicious intent?

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    Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
  • If someone deploys their router using a uni network as wan then I don't see how that could affect other uni network users? I can imagine some internal services might not work behind such a router but it would be illogical of the user to blame anyone but themselves.

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    Shelf Life Rule
  • The cost of carrot production is slightly higher if you include all the water and labour but still a bit less than 250m

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  • Possibilities to adapt ZBOX into TrueNas server

    I have ZBOX MI571 with an i7-6700T and 16GB (SODIMM) RAM laying unused. And I want to make a personal backup/archive server, for which I think TrueNas will work best.

    The box has more than enough computational power for running TrueNas. But as far as I could find it has only one SATA and one M.2 SATA port, so not enough to have a boot-pool and a redundant storage-pool. And it doesn't have any spare PCIe ports.

    So I'm wondering what's my best option here? Can the drives be somehow reliability attached through USB for example? Or will it be best to buy a used mobo and ram and replant the CPU? Or should I just sell the whole thing and build a server from scratch?

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