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    New Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand still in early stages, expert warns

    in Thailand News

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    12 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

    Dr Yong Poovorawan, head of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn's Faculty of Medicine, said that the cycle threshold in the outbreak is low, meaning asymptomatic patients or those with little symptoms could spread the virus very well.

    Seems garbled to me: "The CT value is the number of cycles necessary to spot the virus. PCR machines stop running at that point.... A test that registers a positive result after 12 rounds, for a CT value of 12, starts out with more than 10 million times as much viral genetic material as a sample with a CT value of 35."

     

    If cycle threshold in the outbreak  means the mean cycle threshold of the people who've testing positive, that being low implies high viral loads. ie they're unlikely to be asymptomatic, and conversely more likely to spread the virus.

     

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    How to buy in Thailand: laptop North American version without Thai keyboard

    in IT and Computers

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    Consider getting a Thinkpad; they have a lot of replaceable (even user replaceable) components, including the keyboard (about $20 in Asia). I think the keys may even be replaceable individually. Some models also have an LED above the screen to light the keyboard. I've come to prefer this to a backlit keyboard; those don't light up things nearby, like the cup of coffee you then spill onto your laptop, forcing you to buy another backlit keyboard...

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    Explainer: Can anything stop Trump from pardoning his family or even himself?

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    16 hours ago, webfact said:

    Under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, individuals can decline to speak to investigators if doing so might lead to self-incrimination. If someone receives a pardon and no longer faces legal jeopardy on the federal level, it may make it more difficult for them to assert this constitutional right.

     

    However, since a presidential pardon applies only to federal crimes, pardon recipients can still lawfully refuse to cooperate if the conduct they have been pardoned for can also be prosecuted as a state crime.

    So could this turn out to be Trump's downfall, if 'pardonees' questioned as accessories in investigations of Trump,  are unable to 'plead the 5th' & therefore risk committing contempt or obstruction of justice, after the date of the pardon, if they refuse to spill the beans on him? (Not to mention if they're investigated under state law.)

     

    That'd be a strangely apt twist of fate...

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    Masks Block 99.9% of Large COVID-linked Droplets Says Study

    in COVID-19 Coronavirus

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    The Czech experience (a strict mask mandate beginning March, cases, deaths etc very low through summer, dropping the mandate, followed by  a sharp pickup in cases) pretty much confirms they work in practice too, despite the odd(ball) paper to the contrary.

     

    Given the cases over the last few days, I think they might be wise to bring back mandatory mask-wearing in Thailand about now, at least for a couple of weeks. (It'll also protect people from the pollution!)

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    Gal Gadot defends Cleopatra casting after ‘whitewashing’ backlash

    in Entertainment

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    21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

    “First of all, if you want to be true to the facts then Cleopatra was Macedonian,” Gadot told BBC Arabic's Sam Asi.

    I think she should have told him something quite different... If black and latino kids in Brooklyn could put on "Fiddler on the Roof" in 1969, how is one basically mediterranean woman playing another basically mediterranean woman (of whom no reliable depictions exist) even an issue in 2020? 

     

    I guess we're just lucky it hasn't morphed into "Cleopatrans".

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    Is 20 pushups max potential for some guys?

    in Body and Fitness Forum

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    20 minutes ago, BananaBandit said:

    I suspect this body type tends to be rather sensitive to strength-based exercise (maxes out early, takes longer to recover, etc.).

    Bodybuilding lore has the concept of a 'hard-gainer'; I think that covers your description. Not sure if they have a good way of dealing with it (short of roids + huge amounts of protein).

     

    But there is the 'greasing the groove'* approach (due to/named by Pavel Tsatsouline). That involves doing multiple sets an exercise per day, (more or less) every day. But with plenty of rest (say >30 mins) between sets and going nowhere near failure (maybe <70% or maximum reps?)

     

    Might be worth trying (read up on it first tho, my description may not be quite right).

     

    *Cue riotous thinly-veiled obscenity.

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    Drilling fibre cement board.

    in DIY Forum

    Posted · Edited by onebir

    1 hour ago, VocalNeal said:

    Ordinary bits OK but will wear quicker than with wood.

    Tungsten steel bits might last a bit longer, and don't cost that much more. (But I see they give you 2x 6mm in that pack, so I guess they'are a bit brittle, especially the smaller diameters?)

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