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by CompactNotice 4y ago
This was in February, so the situation has likely improved even further as more people have acquired natural immunity: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1492138139103768576 If influenza deaths had been count
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Biden Is Now All-In on Taking Out China(foreignpolicy.com)
4 points by CompactNotice 4y ago|0 comments
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Musk Tweets Complicate US Diplomacy from Ukraine to Taiwan(bloomberg.com)
7 points by CompactNotice 4y ago|6 comments
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Musk's Twitter Buyout Gambit Is Getting Costlier by the Day(finance.yahoo.com)
10 points by CompactNotice 4y ago|5 comments
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Testing ground names found in code prompts investigation into Tesla Autopilot(cnn.com)
1 points by CompactNotice 4y ago|0 comments
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by CompactNotice 4y ago
But no one is "pretending it will just magically go away." You're contending with an obvious strawman here. They're simply judging that we do not need ongoing threats of lockdowns to control a virus with an IFR about 1.5
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by CompactNotice 4y ago
Authoritarianism can always solve some problems -- always just for "the duration of the emergency" of course (now running well over 2 years in China). "The science" has absolutely nothing to do with the policy tradeoffs
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by CompactNotice 4y ago
acknowledging modern germ theory in public policy Are you equating this with the public policy choice to impose lockdowns?
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Shanghai Quietly Shuts Down Schools, Bars, Gyms as Covid Returns(bloomberg.com)
20 points by CompactNotice 4y ago|18 comments
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Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates(npr.org)
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by CompactNotice 4y ago
Who did they buy those assets from, and where did they get the money to buy them in the first place?
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by CompactNotice 4y ago
Asset inflation ran quite high throughout QE. The same number of dollars might be obtained by selling half of what one purchased with borrowed money at the start of the program.
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by CompactNotice 4y ago
In fact, a loan on generous terms which causes the broader market to judge your entire industry as explicitly backstopped by the government, and thus lend you money at lower rates of interest than you would otherwise pay, is a gift that kee
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Bank of England widens gilt purchases as it warms of financial stability risk(ft.com)
2 points by CompactNotice 4y ago|0 comments
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Do central banks’ mounting losses actually matter?(ft.com)
99 points by CompactNotice 4y ago|230 comments