1helloworld1

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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Yeah, lie to the public for the greater good. If lying gets more people to wear masks and get vaccinated, and can prevent thousands of deaths, so be it. What's wrong with lying?
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Your assumption is that everyone is just as rational as you. Scientific agencies should just give out the exact probability numbers and let people decide for themselves. That's not how the world works. Our brains just cannot intuitivel
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Do you know what else stops viruses from replicating in-vitro? Bleach, alcohol, baking soda, hydrochloric acid, probably even concentrated sugar and salt solutions. In-vitro results don't really prove anything. Is there a double blind
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Lets not turn hackernews into a fake news dissemination service, and upvote some guy's unproven assertion just because you hate uber. With the millions of rides Uber makes, what are the coincidences of this guy's battery being low
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
I don't know why seemingly knowledgeable people like the author keep spewing bullshit about drivers losing money. I live in an immigrant community in NYC. Pretty much every other person in this community is a Uber driver. Some are very
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
The western greed might actually backfire. What are the chances that if we let the virus spread unchecked in the poorer countries for a few more years, the virus accumulates more mutations on the spike protein making the existing vaccines i
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Let's not forget that Aleksandr Kogan - the guy who harvested the Cambridge Analytica data was a research associate at Cambridge. Can facebook trust all the researchers at NYU? Can't one of them just leak and sell the scraped data
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Money is just one factor. I can think of tons of other factors - low interest rates, relatively rich city people moving from smaller apartments to houses to escape Covid, low supply because of construction halts during Covid, high price of
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
27.6% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. How much more data do you need to feel confident?
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
US has the worst of both worlds. It's very expensive and the wait times for specialist visit are not particularly fast. Forbes says it takes 24 days on average to set up an appointment with an specialist in the US - https:/&#x2F
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
This is a great 3 minute podcast about how US health insurance companies started a propaganda campaign to scare Americans about Canadian Health Insurance system - https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931990578/
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Lot of the anecdotes like yours probably stems from a deliberate propaganda campaign started by US Health Insurance companies. This is quick npr podcast about it- https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931990578&#x2F
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Lumber prices are already falling from the record high. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lumber-prices-post-biggest-ev...
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Seems like a regular run-of-the-mill supply and demand mismatch. Once new mills are open, and existing mills start ratcheting up production, the prices will fall.
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Hospitalized Covid patients have one thing in common: They're unvaccinated(nbcnews.com)
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
The Federalist Society ideals involve "checking federal power, protecting individual liberty and interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning". If they truly cared about protecting individual liberty, they would
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Game theoretically, you want to be the hoarder. Let others spend and you reap the rewards of a deflationary asset. In effect, people will still try to hoard as much as possible, and only spend when absolutely necessary.
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
This seems like an extreme case of cognitive dissonance. People who hold bitcoin (or are somehow vested in it) are trying really hard to rationalize the energy costs associated with bitcoin. But there is no way to avoid physics. Energy - no
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
American universities attract the best students from all over the world. For example - at Tandon School of Engineering about 80 percent of graduate students hail from foreign countries - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11&
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
Did you actually read the article? Quoted directly from that article - "Unfortunately, there is no proof that alcohol actually causes better health".
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by 1helloworld1 5y ago
yeah, just at the convenient time for Netanyahu to detract the press and the public from his corruption trial- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/world/middleeast/netanyah...
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by 1helloworld1 6y ago
I am afraid that we might be on the verge of another dot com level bubble. It's interesting to see how one inflated asset is propping up another. Tesla - which rose by 1000% in 2020, bought bitcoin. Ark Invest Etfs - some of the bigges
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by 1helloworld1 6y ago
I don't know if people have already forgotten, but it used to cost 5$ - 10$ per trade to buy stocks before robinhood came along. For better or worse, they made trading cheaper and much easier for newcomers. Brokerages like TD Ameritrad
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by 1helloworld1 6y ago
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by 1helloworld1 6y ago
I don't think you can flash freeze leafy greens and still maintain the texture. Have you eaten flash frozen lettuce for salad?
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by 1helloworld1 6y ago
"The Democrats have the power now and they will use it to suppress any opinion they disagree with" - that's quite a leap. Isn't it Trump and the republicans who want to repel Section 230 so that all websites are forced t
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by 1helloworld1 6y ago
Another mini dot-com bubble in the making. Anybody remember when Cisco became the most valuable company in the world? I don't, and I am pretty sure a lot of young investors in their 20s and 30s don't. This phenomenon is nothing ne
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by 1helloworld1 6y ago
Shouldn't the republican party be worried? If the trend continues and a lot of companies move from California to Texas bringing along a lot of liberal employees with them, won't that tip the already narrowing margin towards the de
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by 1helloworld1 6y ago
Isn't it pretty well known in the finance world that using stale public information to predict the market is a fool's errand? Unless you have some kind of specialized non-public data (e.g satellite images of number of cars parked
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by 1helloworld1 6y ago
Nobody in power cared about George Floyd's death until the violent protests. As Noam Chomksy once said - See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

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