2019-nCoV

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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Such as?
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
This already exists — most social media is already curated. You only see tweets and posts from those you follow or friend. You can already block or ignore any undesirables. This works fine for self-curation. There is no need for holier-than
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Joe Rogan has self-claimed liberal views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ctTmQn8w7A
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
The no true leftist meme.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Joe Rogan has voted liberal his entire life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ctTmQn8w7A
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Authenticity. Deep conversation on interesting topics rooted in genuine curiosity. The long form is a rarity.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
What's pushing China from hiding their capacities and biding their time? Why push the world on this now than wait until 2047? Awfully, it looks like Xi thinks China's time has come.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Battersea and Castro aren't comparable. Inner areas East of Shoreditch or north of Regent's Canal are consistently dirtier than SF's worst.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
London is dirtier and just as inflicted with "undesirables", unless you're willing to continue paying SF rent prices, or live in zone 3 or beyond.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
You'll only find in NL, and even then, it's only (priced) for tourists. You have to accept that most facets of life aren't quite as convenient as in the states — but most European's hold that as a positive, not negative.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Weed is essentially legal in both cities. In Barcelona through membership. While personal consumption is tolerated in Berlin most places cigarettes are. > going to a store and buying a nicely packaged edible or a preroll is leagues above
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
How would people even contemplate changing their lives in 1919? There were no flights. No option to work remotely. No Zoom. No Amazon. No food delivery. No Netflix. No Tinder. The world was not ready. Timing is everything.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
> As precedent, I cite the 1918 flu. In 1918 people were getting arrested for not wearing masks. The following decade was called "The Roaring '20s," and I don't presume it roared because of all the social distancing a
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
The most intolerant wins. Now entrenched, most businesses will never veer from being remote-centric again.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
What if others are finding Zoom and remote life acceptable? How can you ever go back to in-person meetings until all others in said meeting were back in the office?
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
> I don't see any reason why we should be more afraid of Coronavirus in 10 years than we are of Polio today Perhaps not this same Coronavirus, but make no mistake, our pre-lockdown lifestyle is fragile. Giving billions of people unf
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
You don't understand convexity. You don't walk across a river that is 4ft deep on average .
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
That's thinking too macro. The virus will plausibly be eliminated in the US gradually, e.g. French red/green zones.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Counterexample: pubs reopened this past weekend in NZ and every venue was at capacity. No tourists, but increased domestic consumption. This will obviously be more pronounced in countries with a greater historic discrepancy between tourism
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Would you like next week's lottery numbers too?
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
It's an open container. Entrances to half the pubs in London are, British weather permitting, perpetually encircled with punters, fag and pint in hand.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
> If you want to solve crime problems, you have to explore preventative solutions, namely give people better paths and eliminate paths that empirically lead to only bad destinations. Education is the preventative solution. Censorship is
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
> If we're going to tie this to college campus censorship, a better analogy would be the tendency of many schools to ban speakers who might criticize the US foreign policy orthodoxy on Israel/Palestine. That's not who is b
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Opposed to them rioting about "the vehement censorship"?
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
What is wrong with relying on the existing legal foundation? Arrest them for arson, if and when they decide to ravage a cell tower. Should we halt the sale of knives because they can be misused to murder?
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
American males are an average of 5½ inches taller [1], which is an extreme advantage in Basketball [2]: > Empirically, the over-representation of extremely tall athletes in basketball lends credence to the theory that the sport provides
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Some women are uncomfortable sharing bathrooms with trans-women. Should we continue to dictate how these women should behave and feel?
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
The risk has never been that Rogan is holding reprehensible views. It's that those masquerading as progressive have a penchant for misconstruing in the most creative ways: https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Alex Jones has been on JRE multiple times in the past. Will he be allowed to return under the Spotify banner?
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
While counterintuitive, Australia is more urbanised than the UK. 60% of Australians live in 1M+ cities, while only 27% of Brits do. That's 15M dwelling in big Australians cities. Only 17.65M in the UK. https://ourworldindata

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