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Try putting the filter on the suction side of the fan. This will put less load than normal on the fan and there should still be enough airflow to cool the motor.


18 months into the pandemic we have a rapidly evolving virus, waning vaccine efficacy, and breakthrough infections common enough to warrant a third booster dose.

It would be silly to risk altering one’s broad-based, naturally acquired immunity by taking an unnecessary vaccine dose. Just like no one got a chickenpox vaccine after contracting the disease there is no need to get a COVID vaccine after contracting the disease.


The CDC reccomends that adults over 50 who might have had chicken pox get the Shingrix (Shingles) vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/shingles/public/shingrix/in...


The CDC has been a fountain of bad science during this past year. Some of us wonder about the veracity of all their prior recommendations now.


What bad science? I think they get a "A" for science and a "D-" for communication and social "science".


What examples of bad science?


You can always check overseas scientists’ recommendations as a cross check.

Looks like the UK NHS recommends the shingles vaccine for all 70-79 year olds for instance. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/shingles-vaccinat...

France recommends for ages 65 to 74 https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/french-national-h...


Shingles sucks. Get the vaccine if you can.


66% efficiency sounds amazing for compressed air. I was expecting 10%.


Sparrows moved into the neighbourhood this year. We noticed their chirping is incredibly annoying. Turns out it’s the two-chirp version.

For us this sound doesn’t fade into the background because it sounds synthetic or man made. About as annoying as a back up beeper on a truck.


Discoverability is horrible on the iOS App Store. I have looked for a good RSS reader on there in the past and only been served shovelware.

I found out about NNW from DF the other day. Even after using and installing it, it is nowhere to be seen when I search for RSS.

Apples broken App Store system surfaces cheap crappy apps. Apple wants users to make impulse purchases so they can skim 30% off the top. It’s a bad experience and is doing tremendous long term damage. Steve Jobs would be pissed.


> Steve Jobs would be pissed

Discoverability on the App Store has always been horrible.

That, and App Store performance (search, page load, etc) are high on the list of things that baffle me most about Apple.

These are not hard problems to fix. There is no incentive to not fix them. Customers are suffering. FTFAS.


I can't even remember where App Store hides the search button every time I look for an app (which I have to do because iOS provides no other way to search for an app already installed on my device)


> There is no incentive to not fix them.

I think there is an incentive not to. If you buy Apple hardware, you are stuck with these stores. They know you will complain but ultimately comply and accept.


That makes no sense. Wouldn't Apple want you to download as many apps / spend as much money on new shiny things as possible?

I think it's just incompetence.


you mentioned zero incentive.

no incentive to fix =/= incentive to not fix


Florence Italy was home to Hug A Chinese National Day during the Chinese New Year when many Chinese people are allowed to travel globally.

Hopefully fewer visited the UK and even fewer had close contact with the locals.


> Hug A Chinese National Day

A rational person can't possibly believe that this is the cause of their troubles, even if there were such a thing.


I agree it’s hard to believe such a thing existed and undoubtedly accelerated the spread of the Wuhan Virus. Many lives could have been saved if Italy embraced social distancing instead of virtue signalling.

Proof: https://www.westernjournal.com/italian-mayor-starts-hug-chin...


I hope he’s right.


Tesla and Volkswagen are already selling government subsidized electric cars and installing government subsidized chargers. Now they get the chargers for free. No one voted for this enormous wealth transfer from poor to rich. Nor a car ban in under 20 years.


A carbon tax and rebate along with a similar carbon tariff on imports is by far the best way to combat climate change. Efficiently price the externalities caused by emitting CO2 and let the market fix the problem itself. The rebate ensures that the carbon tax is not regressive.

But to work properly, the carbon tax needs to be above CAD100 per ton, almost doubling the price of gas.

But that's unpalatable to most, so instead they have to resort to far inferior measures like electric car subsidies.


No one voted for climate change either, yet here we are. Sometimes you just have to deal with reality.


I disagree. Scientists have been sounding the alarm over climate change and man's impact on it with pollution and emissions for over 3 decades at this point.

One could argue generations of the electorate have voted for it by de-prioritizing, or completely ignoring, the issue and candidates who stood for it.


> Now they get the chargers for free.

The car industry gets fuel stations and roads for free as well.

Charger costs will reduce. Battery based chargers will be a game changer for infrastructure cost:

https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/13/volkswagen-battery-based...

They can be installed anywhere with no need for big transformers or high power cabling. And they offer some charging capability during power outages.


Gas stations are built without our tax dollars.

Imagine a future where we wait for our government-mandated chargers to charge. Hopefully there’s an app for that.

If costs keep dropping, EVs will become a no-brainer for most. Scrap the government incentives and we will achieve the inevitable.


> Gas stations are built without our tax dollars

Are they? They need fuel to sell. Where does that come from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/15/climate-change...

> Imagine a future where we wait for our government-mandated chargers to charge

This is infrastructure building. Canada's got the right idea here. Build roads, build chargers. Makes sense.


You're comparing charging stations to gas. A more logical comparison would be electricity in charging stations vs gas in gas stations.


It's all part of the same system. What use is a gas station without gasoline?

Do you want $3.3 billion going to fuel subsidies or do you want $8 million going to EV chargers. If you're interested in a smaller government spend, you want to pick the EV chargers.


That’s what I though too. 8 million is peanuts for Canadian government. Even for the provincial one. I think it’s more a PR move.


"Scrap the government incentives and we will achieve the inevitable."

Government incentives helped overcome the industry chicken-egg problem. Purchase subsidies are effectively R&D dollars towards what is inevitably the future of cars.


Amen

This isn't a big enough issue to topple this monitory but hopefully soon they get out of power. Very poor fiscal management. Budgets apparently don't balance themselves


Finally. Thank you!

I consider the previews spoilers. And autoplay destroys pacing because it skips the preroll/credits.


Paywalled beyond the first two paragraphs.


If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...


Please don't complain about paywalls.


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