IvyMike

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by IvyMike 6y ago
> It seems that the urban cores with the most problems are under complete control by a combination of democratic politicians or democratic socialists. In many cases, they control the county and state of the cities with the most problems.
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The watches were not stolen, because, as the article states, the watches had been moved long to a safe location long before. But I'm wondering about your scenario: if the watches had been stolen, how would it make sense for the store
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Neither--the binary proposition is ridiculous. Public officials can clarify comments, but I reserve the right to consider them in the context of their wider statements and actions. It seems silly not to.
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> "thug" is not a word of any color. I have seen it used plenty referring to white people. By Trump? It's possible there are a few examples, but he sure seems to apply that word in a suspiciously biased way.
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His explanation feels disingenuous in the context of his other tweets, his "you have to dominate" statements, and the use of the military the past few days. Trump has continued to escalate things, and while I hope that it doesn&#
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Arson is a crime, but a crime worthy of the US military? That feels insane. The choppers were by all accounts being used against groups of peaceful protesters who were nowhere near the church in question. They were not the ones involved i
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> odds of contracting, 1 in 350 "Why are we even bothering to fight the stove fire? Only one in 50 of my appliances has burned!"
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The devil seems to be doing just fine without any help these days.
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Indeed it was a curfew violation. That is not a valid reason to illegally use the might of the US military.
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> No one at the CDC (at least no career bureaucrat) ever denied masks were effective, though. Not the CDC, but the U.S. surgeon general, Feb 29th: "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general pu
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Looks like this was the intended URL: https://markosaric.com/google-amp/
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Your other comments are dead, but I'm still missing something. Why can't you buy it in the kindle store and send to your kindle over WiFi? P.S. I am very aware that your operating system doesn't support Adobe Digital Edition
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> If I want to read your book on my Kindle, the only option is piracy. It's in the kindle store... what am I missing?
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The NCSA and Cern web servers had the ability to let users on a system publish content from a specially named "~/public_html" directory. At UIUC, the engineering labs quietly enabled this functionality for all engineering stu
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> Not so much when it comes to process heat and district heating. Are you saying we are using more coal than renewables for heating? Or are you comparing all fossil fuel usage v. renewables?
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Compliance is already way down; as someone who has to drive across LA a few times a week (from one isolated situation to another) it has gone from "Night of the Comet" ghost town to "not quite the normal traffic jams but sure
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Where are we getting this data from? The data covering late April is especially suspicious. See the section “takes about 8–16 weeks for nationwide data to become a reliable metric of total deaths.” in this article. https://arcd
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Note your comment about how unimpressed you are is 214 bytes longer than the demo.
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by IvyMike 7y ago
It is a good instinct to be concerned about this. But far as anyone can tell data, food has not acted as a transmission vector in any statistically detectable number of cases. The numbers don't show it, and the detailed disease tra
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Theranos was in fact testing people, who received both false negative and false negative results. From the article I link below: > At its height, Theranos operated 40 “Wellness Centers” in Walgreens stores in Arizona and a single locati
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by IvyMike 7y ago
Pro-mask evidence links: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/frkfit/stealth_tra...
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I guess we needed a control group.
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by IvyMike 7y ago
Conversely, just saw this twitter post by @gloomfather: "Oh dude yeah you gotta try baking your own bread in quarantine. It takes 14 hours to do right and it’s boring as shit, but the results are often quite disappointing." :)
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They call this "trying to catch a falling knife". Good luck.
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If you haven't clicked through, the confluence of huckers in this story is simply unbelievable: > Honestly, I wasn't sure how to begin this story or how to fit all the insanity into the title. It's a story involving patent
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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Supposedly that's why Hitler had his distinctive mustache.
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> absolutely no mention of COVID-19 preparedness at the recent Democratic debates I guess you are referring to an older debate but here is what they said on the subject tonight. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrati
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Somebody films a movie today staring Kevin Bacon and anyone with an Erdős number of 1 and we get a new record holder, E-B number of 2.
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Others have mentioned that this is almost certainly the result of a long course of A/B testing. The problem with this kind of aggressive A/B testing is that it's a game of "how far can we push the user?" So instead

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