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PCR tests only detect live virus, not antibodies.

there are several antibody tests for covid. As far as I'm aware, the vaccines only trigger the anti-spike protein antibodies, so if you test positive for other types of covid-19 antibodies, you've probably had it.

it's running linux. apt-get update :)

(not sure what distro they're running)

I really hope you're being sarcastic

if only there were a handy article on anandtech, linked to on HN that could answer this question

a good video about what the right to repair is and isn't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvVafMi0l68

your GPS device doesn't actually transmit anything

neither is AZ

y...yes? they should use an appropriate license

Iit's a multi-million dollar company. I'm sure they're just winging it as they go along

ubuntu was created and is maintained by a large company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)

Sony did the same with the PS5

he sure does sound alt-right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Monster#Politics

I really enjoyed following along with this book: http://raytracerchallenge.com/

this is different for each disease based on how quickly it transmits.

for SARS-COV-2 you need around 70% immunity in the population to achieve herd immunity

not really sure if having a nuclear reactor would make much of a difference in this case

nobody is making you use chrome.

I'm using firefox

the whole point Epic is trying to make is that the rules are illegal, as they are anti-competitive

I expect that to happen. it's the same on twitter for example.

but I'm not expecting the action to be to collapse the thread

The iOS 14 runs great on my iPhone 7. it will also run on the 6S, or the 2016 iPhone SE. The new SE will probably get OS updates for around 5 years or so.

if you're not logged into it in the browser, it can't follow you around

all of google's internal architecture was built with only IPv4.

Take a look at kubernetes, which is based on google's Borg. It's only now, slowly getting IPv6 support

you can build your own https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14209

the whole point of the app is to isolate people that have been in contact with positive cases before they become contagious.

if everyone has the app, you won't have an exponential growth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs

if you use an android phone, check this URL: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline

that information is a lot more sensitive and a lot more useful to law enforcement. most people don't even know how much your location is being tracked.

the contact tracing framework by comparison, isn't really very useful for anything other that just that...contact tracing

sure, they can lobby for that....they have been lobbying for backdoors since the 90s.

the way the contact tracing framework ACTUALLY works makes it doesn't really make it useful to them.

they could lobby to change it

they can lobby with or without the framework being implemented

A couple of concepts that I think the OP has wrong. I'm only talking about the Apple-Google contact tracing framework:

* you need a key from a doctor to be able to mark yourself as positive.

* when you get a notification that you came into contact with someone positive, that's it....nothing else happens. it's up to you to go get tested (possibly with a priority because of the app)

* you are giving up 0% privacy by using contact tracing

law enforcement already has location from cell tower data.

to be able to read the ids from contact tracing apps, they need to capture the phones and decrypt them, at which point there's probably more evidence to be found than some random ids

where does your article talk about the key?