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Bograff··on Doctors Say Shortage of Protective Gear Is Dire
We should have stockpiles for just this sort of situation. They were either inadequately supplied or are sitting on resources.

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Bograff··on Drug cartels use dollar bill serial numbers as random keys for delivery receipts
I'm not up to date on the issue but India had an issue with black money and people hoarding cash without reporting the income. The laws were passed to combat that IIRC.
Bograff··on Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value
This may be more work than some are willing to do but I took the opposite approach. I browse /r/all almost exclusively but I've got RES filtering any subreddit I don't want to see in my feed again. The list of filters gets long.
Bograff··on Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
They sort of earned that by gaming the front page algorithms. The mods would repeatedly sticky 2 minute old posts and encouraged all their users to upvote the stickies. This caused any post of their choosing to surge into the the front page. They would have 1/4th of the front page full of posts less than 2 hours old pre-election.
Bograff··on Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
It use to show up in my /r/all feed when NSFW filtering was off. Definitely stood out among the other NSFW content you would be scrolling past.
Bograff··on Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem
>There are some freaky good stalkers out there.

That doesn't quite do the situation justice. The stalking gets crowdsourced; often to people who are well practiced at it.

Bograff··on A Double First in China for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
I feel like this outlook discredits a lot of wonderful young people out there.
Bograff··on The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science
It's important to make the distinction between Pure Science and anything on the sliding scale from technical description to ELI5. There are levels to it, you and I know.