Arodex

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Republicans like to throw around "FAFO" to justify their cruelty. Well, Republicans, FAFO.
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>If you surround the car with the intention of blocking escape, you can expect that the driver will push back. No, being blocked does not mean you are allowed to run over pedestrians. At least in any civilized country.
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Self-defense... Against what? Being unable to move?
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- The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. - Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover ev
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Musk has no problem "pulling the ladder behind him", and Huang's only duty is to shareholders - which means kissing Trump's ring to avoid retaliation. Americans voted for this.
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>Do you have any evidence of that? Evidence of what? That a space ship that breaks down releases debris? Or that "spaceship" is one of the biggest space vehicle right now? >NASA wouldn't allow operations that could pote
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They also have contracts with NASA that could be cancelled the same way the lunar gateway was, like in-space refueling. Which is: - completely unproven - could affect other parts of their business: if they try it and mess up, the debris fie
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Can't wait for the next model to be called "torment nexus" /s
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We heard for years that other companies in the launch business (ULA, Arianespace) were just incompetent, ossified businesses, and that SpaceX was revolutionizing the field; and now we discover that SpaceX, after all their effort, is barely
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"A little osmosis machine"... Where do I find these? Would it fit in my appartement? Can I install it without plumbing if I am only a renter? How often do I need to clean it? How often do I need to change the filter? How many kW a
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You clearly haven't tasted coffee or tea brewed with hard water. And I don't see why yeast or fish wouldn't be more comfortable in some range of mineral composition than another.
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100k? Closer to 2 million (in a country with a median age below 30 and a very pyramidal age distribution). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12615008/ >_sigh_ 2020, 2021.... I'm talking about clearl
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The flu doesn't care, yes; the question is more "do you?". Because, you know, the flu, or COVID, doesn't spontaneously appear. Every single person who died has been contaminated by someone else, who has some responsibili
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I know why statutes of limitation exist. I was wondering why it applied here. Apparently it wasn't completely straightforward, as nine jurors were needed to reach a decision on that point, instead of a single judge or even clerk.
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>Musk could have brought the same lawsuit in 2019 or 2021, meaning his claims were untimely for the 3 year statute of limitations. Why is a hypothetical ground for this decision? "You didn't complain immediately the first time
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Then why did the American justice system needed nine jurors when a clerk could have sufficed? The American judicial system is completely Byzantine and rotten, from top to bottom. Worse than many third world countries.
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>in terms of an age corrected population distribution, actually I think you'll find it's lower The data I linked is giving IFR for each age band, so that people see the actual data instead of sweeping affirmations like "th
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Except when it is political content against the EU or some European nation doing something Americans don't like. Then it is very interesting to HN, never flagged and raised to the front page.
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Are you sure you aren't "metabolically unhealthy"? Are you sure that if you happen to die, we won't find any "underlying health condition" during your autopsy? Are you fine with you death being dismissed as &qu
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Absolutely not. https://github.com/mbevand/covid19-age-stratified-ifr
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>Research and findings of Covid-19 in Italian sewerage suggest that Covid-19 might've been circulating in Italy in 2019 [1]. Nah, it is one paper, and they only did PCR which is extremely sensitive. It is more likely that they conta
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>The only actually serious one on that list Based on what? The final body count? This isn't a weather forecast, people and ressources flew towards making sure these emergencies didn't spiral into global pandemics. You are falli
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>Editor's note: Readers often ask us for follow-ups on memorable stories. What has happened to this story over the years? This article was originally published in 2019 but it has been re-edited and updated with new information curre
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It is a progressive tax. It is purely neutral when considered as a sales tax (same percentage, whether you buy a cheap loaf of bread or a luxury gizmo), regressive as a share of income when you consider the poor expend more of their revenue
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VAT is a progressive tax. https://taxfoundation.org/blog/value-added-tax-vat-progressi...
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But who is responsible is different. (And if you already see 60% error rates in standard, pre-AI note taking, how does that not translate into many deaths and injury? At least one country's health system in the world should have caught
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Are you equating sone teenage students shouting during a conference by some bozo on tour with every middle-aged political representatives from a single party rewriting the law to kneecap the fundamental civil rights of a third of their popu
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And yet once the South lost and slavery was banned, the financial crisis didn't happen... It also doesn't explain what happened after the civil war: the KKK and Jim Crow. The only possible explanation for these is...
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Democracy is a mistake, which is why we have Republics, with rules and constitutions. Not "anything you can get a slim majority to vote for, once".
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If collective punishment is the norm you want to apply, that rule may bite you back sooner than you think...

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