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I think you should read the study yourself instead of taking some journalist conclusions who really loves flashy titles

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

From the study: Inconclusive results, missing data, variable adherence, patient-reported findings on home tests, no blinding, and no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others.

I was immediately triggered by "Weight (Mass) to energy conversion technology". I guess a better name to call it is "Nuclear Powered BS wheel"!

Too bad such BS end up on top stories of HN

Re:"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:59AM (#25137447)
If "Equal pay for equal work" is applied on a long term, That may have a great effect on demography and how cities/countries operate. I can imagine some people living in high COL areas will prefer relocating to other still-nice-locations with lower COL and also the other way around for people already living in lower COL areas. That should relieve higher COL areas from the huge pressure and give more juice to lower COL areas that enables it to improve its infrastructure and services making it even more attractive. Eventually, this high contrast between high COL and low COL areas would start to normalize even for non-remote non-high-paying jobs!

Ask HN: How to break out the loop of being an employee to your own business?

I've been thinking a lot and also searching around in a way of breaking out of the loop of being an employee to my own business. I can describe my situation as I'm working as a full-time software engineer where I'm getting paid very well compared to software engineers and of course compared to most jobs in my city but I'm stuck in a loop where I can't save really big amount of money to start my...

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