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Question about Folding Home “outside” for Covid-19 research

With the outdoor air temperature being the only thing that changed under quarantine, has anyone else with a gaming rig and NVIDIA card felt the urge to stick it outside in cold weather and run a few cycles of Folding@Home for COVID-19 research? If so, how are you protecting your machine from the elements or "weather events"?

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If you don't want to pay then don't pay no pay. The people who pay nothing have a higher insurance deductible than you because they have all these chronic health problems and they have the expensive medications that they have to take... healthcare isn't cheap, even for the people who live in socialism
That's a bit racist to call a place a slum
Socialized healthcare doesn't really apply here. Regardless of whether or not the healthcare is free, people still go see a doctor anyway.
Where would it be stored these days to be publicly accessible? Microsoft owns GitHub and I bet it made Torvalds unhappy.
Re:Edward Snowden Reconsidered on Sunday September 16, 2018 @08:21PM (#18002163)
Well, there is always some degree to "fake news" in every article you read, but yes I agree that Edward Snowden is a patriot. William Binney probably had the perfect solution to counter domestic and international terrorism, however his program was shutdown because the majority of the people working for Uncle Sam at the time wanted something far more than stopping terrorists. Sure, they may have had good intentions, but with power like this, there is no stopping others from coming along and corrupting it for their own purposes.
Re:To Restore Civil Society, Start with the Library on Sunday September 09, 2018 @08:27AM (#17945579)
TomJen, where in the States do you live?
Re:To Restore Civil Society, Start with the Library on Sunday September 09, 2018 @08:18AM (#17945558)
Well, you can't rely on police for everything. I mean, they aren't your personal dobermen.
I deleted my Facebook account a few days after I opened it. Just not worth it.
Re:Black People as Scenery on Saturday September 08, 2018 @04:13PM (#17942536)
Blame Hollywood. This is like the whole "Black people die first" thing that still continues to go on.
Why are trolls from the Netherlands interfering with US affairs?