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lagilogi··on Launcher wipes entire SSD when uninstalling
It would if you installed it right in C: without subfolder. It would definitely was all your games if you installed in your games directory without a subfolder of it's own.
lagilogi··on A coronavirus antibody test that is more than 99% accurate is now cleared in US
Regulatory "red tape" exists for a reason. And it is a very good reason.
lagilogi··on May Sky Challenge
I cannot see the sky from my apartment. So If have to wait until I leave for work or other reasons.

I don't remember my parents having this problem with their newspaper. They did look at the newspaper before the sky every morning.

lagilogi··on Let's hear scientists with different Covid-19 views, not attack them
That is not how science advents, not currently. Collaboration takes a backseat in science when your name, reputation, career prospects are in the line.

If you advance an argument that lack proper and vigorous proof, I have no reason to hear you. I will however tear your work to pieces. As many pieces as I can, so I can ride that train as long as I can.

That's how science advents currently. Otherwise all of us academics would be building our work on top of each others' collaboratively and productively. Minorities and women would not have been shunned out; graduate slave labor, and adjunct faculty would have been unthinkable.

lagilogi··on Ask HN: How well do you think your team handled the start of lockdown?
I informed my supervisor that a lockdown was imminent and that we should prepare for it, e.g. set up users' VPNs, do a test run to identify needs, etc. My supervisor told me to mind my own business and not encroach on her authority, in writing.

The stay at home orders came in two days later.

She violated the order a number of times because she had no readiness for remote working. She forced a number of staff to violate it as well.

My employer is not an essential business.

lagilogi··on How did the U.S. end up with nurses wearing garbage bags?
I suspect hate speech is not appropriate nor acceptable on HN.
lagilogi··on Blue Origin pressures employees to travel to rural TX to test launch New Shepard
This comment is encouraging and promoting self harm.
lagilogi··on ‘More scary than coronavirus’: South Korea's health alerts expose private lives
> the man, known only by his case number,

In other words, this is inaccurate and a clickbait. I would not have expected that from the Guardian.

lagilogi··on The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2
You should be the one wearing the mall though no?
lagilogi··on Trump offered to pardon Assange if he denied Russia helped leak Democrats emails
When was he convicted?
lagilogi··on Cops can seize Oregon woman’s $354k home following meth dealing conviction
This allows for the legal argument to seize the house of corrupt politicians and police officers. It also allows for the seizing of businesses from their owners and boards when their practices lead to economic crises.

It will however not going to be interpreted by lawyers and regulators as such. Because a politician, police officer, businessman, corporation all are more of a person in the eyes of law, compared to a simpleton woman charged with distribution.

The rule of the law does not exist.

lagilogi··on PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran
Mail theft is a federal crime. I would pursue this with them only if for the simple fact that if you don't, the next thing that gets stolen maybe your shiny new electronics being shipped.
lagilogi··on Giant tortoises show surprising cognitive powers
I keep getting surprised at the inability (refusal) of humans that we are not the only intelligent (and emotional) life form on this planet. It is extremely annoying.
lagilogi··on Ask HN: What can Firefox do to get you to make the switch?
Dark Reader for dark/light mode, ublock origin for ad blocking.

I understand you want these baked in, but if they baked every feature everyone wanted into the software, it would become an ugly monolith monster. This goes for Chrome as well as fx.

lagilogi··on Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs
There are a number of stock markets that went down significantly and never recovered. I think Japan was one example.
lagilogi··on Earth’s sixth mass extinction has begun, new study confirms
From the abstract at source, which is written better:

> Even under our assumptions, which would tend to minimize evidence of an incipient mass extinction, the average rate of vertebrate species loss over the last century is up to 100 times higher than the background rate. Under the 2 E/MSY background rate, the number of species that have gone extinct in the last century would have taken, depending on the vertebrate taxon, between 800 and 10,000 years to disappear. These estimates reveal an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last few centuries, indicating that a sixth mass extinction is already under way.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253

tldr; everyone except the human species is getting extinct.

lagilogi··on San Francisco Bans Cashless Stores
OP specified civilized countries.