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penneydon In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

Major manufacturer of cabinet hardware - seems fine.

penneydon Industry spent millions selling recycling, to sell more plastic

Did Gov. Baker previously support the ban on plastic bags?

penneydon CSS Zen Garden

<handgrenade>tables handle grids quite nicely</handgrenade>

penneydon At U.K. Parliament, Long-Forgotten Secret Passageway Is Discovered in a Wall

In the video they showed on the BBC the 'secret' door had a keyhole in the wooden panel, not exactly super secret.

penneydon SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor

Cribbed from the Reddit thread but the tldr is that two drugs are needed to stop infection, but only one is necessary to prevent spread, and it's a drug we already have.

The other interesting take is that ACE2, the pathway the virus is using is both inhibited by nicotine and expressed up to five times more in Asians which could explain why smokers are under represented in the Chinese cases and why there are so many infected in Asia.

penneydon Breakthrough discovery could lead to ‘one-size-fits-all’ cancer treatment

Here is the Nature article - sounds promising... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-019-0578-8

penneydon Google Kills Cloud Print

Ridiculous - who on earth is making these kinds of decisions?

penneydon Australia’s Darling River is running dry

penneydon Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electric vans.

Because dirty diesel has no ill effects?

penneydon Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electric vans.

He also stated the goal is to be carbon neutral by 2040, that's a solid goal. So it goes beyond the vans.

penneydon Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian

Less than that of a van that continues to generate carbon after it leaves the factory.