JamisonM

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by JamisonM 5y ago
Then you use the yellow one, problem solved.
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by JamisonM 5y ago
But your point doesn't stand because they aren't cyan!
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by JamisonM 5y ago
"racializing all facets of everyday life, including emojis" Every representation of humans is racialized, they exist in a social context where race exists. Pretending that it is not and then complaining when someone says, "he
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by JamisonM 5y ago
If you've watched the Simpsons, the "Simpsons Yellow" is white, it is clearly demonstrated in the show - Apu isn't yellow! It undermines your whole point!
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Joseph Francis Ladue founded Dawson City and became a very rich man by expoiting the gold rush that way instead of mining (he ended up making some money directly from mining stakes as well in the end though). I believe his reputation and li
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I don't know what the OP meant but I certainly would mean specifically "the pandemic is to blame". If there were no discernable response to the pandemic from any organized institution in society there is a pretty good chance
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by JamisonM 5y ago
That's cap and trade, right?
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Yes, I would characterize this as lying, the idea that anyone at Tesla is dumb enough to think that this is not intentionally misleading is laughable. But Musk appears unconstrained by ethics in most things.
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Giving away vaccines is a necessary if not sufficient condition for success, we can pile on additional conditions to the point of paralysis if we want.. but bottom-line, there are hundreds of millions if not billions of people who want vacc
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Regardless of the margins involved, I think it is improbable that AZ would want to produce an obsolete vaccine when those facilities could be producing a better one if they have something ready to go. Its not like everyone involved here is
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by JamisonM 6y ago
> The problem is that this option is to buy AZ's current vaccine that have a high probability of being ineffective in 18 months. I doubt that is a "high probability" occurrence. If it does occur and AZ makes a lot of money
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by JamisonM 6y ago
The rich countries shouldn't stop buying they should buy and give away for sure. Not some strings-attached bullshit but just straight-up dropping refrigerated containers of them at airports. Politics is unfortunately going to get in th
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by JamisonM 6y ago
It is a no-brainer to spend this money. Someone in the world is going to have a use for these vaccines, buy them and then give them away if you don't need them in the end but in the meantime just book more supply. 18 months from now if
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Your impression is correct. The fact that it is an "old idea" is indeed unimportant, but what is very, very important is that large scale study over long periods has already been performed on that vaccination platform so we really
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by JamisonM 6y ago
He's not engaged in an honest discussion, he's trapped in the fallacy that you can fight a novel virus with only concrete data about that virus validated over long periods as opposed to just making fairly rational assumptions with
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Lots of comments here about locking workstations, etc. I think the answer to this sort of stuff is if you have a high-profile and important twitter account shouldn't the content actually be running through a CMS that has some sort of g
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by JamisonM 6y ago
I don't have strong opinions on this topic or any particular expertise but I looked at the "cap Height" vs "point size" examples rendered to support the thesis of the article and thought to myself, "The differe
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by JamisonM 6y ago
I would love to see a "land tax" instead of a "property tax" - so if you have a bungalow on land that would be very profitable as a tri-plex you get taxed on that potential vs. on what you happened to have on the land...
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by JamisonM 6y ago
I'd like to say that as a rural grain farmer I would like to live in a condo in a dense and walkable neighbourhood with an excellent range of ethnic cuisine expertly prepared by my diverse neighbours. I consider that desire just as rea
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by JamisonM 6y ago
"Wouldn't simply ONLY building new buildings/housing be more effective?" Yes, the vacant house tax is just politics, Vancouver has had some actual success with build-build-build but that strategy is limited by NIMBYs in
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by JamisonM 6y ago
If every empty house on the market in SF or Vancouver came on the market tomorrow it wouldn't make a dent in housing prices. Vancouver has actually seen some price declines as recently as 2018 and CMHC says it is driven by new construc
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by JamisonM 6y ago
There has always been lots of support out there for 1st time home buyers, some measures have been clawed back on that front because they are obviously ineffective. Everything else you cite here seems to be random arm waving in the general d
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Zoning is largely local though, so the actual political control of the thing that would make this situation unsustainable is held by incumbent owners. There are of course still limitations to the impacts of higher density as well, the desir
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by JamisonM 6y ago
"The fact that the US and Europe could not make masks and protective equipment because we don't even make the cloth or the machinery required to manufacture these things at scale was a shocking revelation for anyone not in manufac
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by JamisonM 6y ago
You don't seem to be familiar with the definition of "lie" or something, I don't understand it. "Behind the scenes, it's hard to find anything they did wrong." Off the top of my head: They botched the Chin
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by JamisonM 6y ago
We were still importing cases on airplanes after mandatory pre-boarding PCR tests to fly to Canada so the notion that lower specificity at-home test kits were the key to unlocking the pandemic needs a lot of evidence to be compelling. Looki
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by JamisonM 6y ago
In the modern world it is much less costly to stockpile a moderate amount of excess cash flow. There have been no real serious shortfalls of goods in a once in a century pandemic and the cash would have served anyone well!
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by JamisonM 6y ago
"deadly lies" I agree with a fair bit of what you are saying here but their behaviour in most cases does not comport with the definition of "lie".
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by JamisonM 6y ago
AstraZeneca has staked their reputation as an extremely large firm that makes all sorts of pharmaceuticals on the safety and efficacy of this vaccine, the idea that they have no incentive to ensure the quality of the product is absolutely b
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by JamisonM 6y ago
On its face the UK has administered doses to over 25MM people thus far I believe (remarkably hard to find the exact number to date from an official source with a simple google!) and unless you are among the oldest on HN or in remarkably poo

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