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by JamisonM 6y ago
I would add to this that the presumption that private school tuition reflects the cost of private school on a per student basis in its entirety and can be fairly compared to per-student funding of schools is probably incorrect. (Even more s
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by JamisonM 6y ago
I would suggest that the BBC rewarding Prof Bill Buchanan with a quote in a story for this silly bit of grandstanding is a bad idea. He says, "one day we will build a digital world fit for the 21st Century ..." and I roll my eyes.
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by JamisonM 6y ago
But again, this doesn't really explain why US military hardware makers are concerned about this, unless the theory is that the US 5G equipment makers are pressuring the private industry groups that make military aviation equipment to p
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Perhaps also of interest: E-Ship 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Ship_1 In service since 2010!
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Pretty sure you need a tail-wind to use a kite system, this works in any wind.
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Is there some evidence to support this idea that this is "obvious" propaganda? A plausible link, like what dog does the "Aerospace Industries Association" have in the 5G network hardware market? From my not-very-informed
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by JamisonM 6y ago
I am going to go out on a limb and say that most of getting a Comp. Sci. degree at Concordia University isn't actually "listen[ing] to someone slowly recite a PowerPoint". Having attended a public University in Canada myself
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by JamisonM 6y ago
In the spirit of open discussion I would like to raise to you some salient facts. The article in question does not address the fact that I raised, and also you shouldn't make claims the authors are not making: "Our findings, based
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by JamisonM 6y ago
A vaccine scaled up to 1 billion doses 2 or 3 months later would by that logic cost 120k lives. You are assuming that there are no costs associated with one choice vs the other, but we know that is not the case.
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Saying that you are not being overconfident with that level of confidence seems like a red flag. If COVID-19 is primarily driven by superspreader events that are largely not happening anymore in the 2nd wave that is causing case increases a
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by JamisonM 6y ago
I am looking for 14 days quoted in the parent comment and not finding it. > Actually, most of the spread comes from superspreading events. I don't know if we can say this for certain at this point. I was very firmly on the "sup
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Gambling on efficacy would not have been a reasonable approach. I understand the temptation to think that this would be a good way to proceed but developing a complete supply chain for a dud would have been a total disaster for everyone inv
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by JamisonM 6y ago
I think it is fair to say that they invested $2B, if it were a dead end there was a chance that the machines would not be that useful, or at least they would incur a large loss on paying a premium for them at the time. Conversely it shouldn
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Absolutely nothing. In fact the acceleration in testing was mostly facilitated by the western world's absolute bungling of the COVID-19 response! If the planet were not blanketed in hotspots that match the demographic profiles required
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by JamisonM 6y ago
I think it is record time, as I understand it if this vaccine (and many others) had been under the regulatory regimes in those jurisdictions they would have been ahead of that pace as well. As far as I can tell the 1st phase of the Spunik V
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Yes! And there is also a significant number of people that do not know what populations they may or may not actually belong to!
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Look at who the entity Alphabet itself donates political funds to the majority of the time. Look at which party's policies are more favorable to investor returns. Examine which side of the political spectrum is overwhelmingly running m
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by JamisonM 6y ago
YouTube in particular has been demonetizing channels that they think are harmful to their business for a long time, their behaviour in this instance is consistent with that.
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Why would burning some marginal percentage of the very wealthiest individuals' money make everyone worse off? Seems like it would just put a slight damper on the inflation rate of country estates and enormous yachts. (Heck, for all int
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by JamisonM 6y ago
This is a sort of standard reply that seems very clever but entirely misses the point. Colonialism or any other system of injustice has winners and losers, heck even "perfectly just" systems would have winners and losers. The winn
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Really it is worse than that, the media narrative pushed by the litigants is about "fraud" but most of the losing lawsuits don't even allege fraud!
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> it's not like Google is going to get in > trouble for allowing people to post about > conspiracy theories Actually it is exactly like that, they see lost revenue coming if they get tagged as the go-to place for misinformatio
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by JamisonM 6y ago
LOL, ongoing court cases! The fact that politicians and private actors choose to beclown themselves in front of state and federal judges shouldn't prevent businesses from being able to see the plain truth that is staring them in the fa
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by JamisonM 6y ago
The business practices, profit sources, and donation habits of the Google/Alphabet on the other had point in entirely the other direction.
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Particularly if you own a lot of property!
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It is certainly not for me to tell you how to feel about your home country, but it is not that hard to imagine a version of the past with less colonialism and a better outcome. Consider only Thailand's example as something to think abo
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by JamisonM 6y ago
If you want to dispute the facts go ahead, but don't bother with this character assassination BS. Brian Burgess is a political operative, not a journalist. The State of Florida has all of her email correspondence at work and after firi
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Why? Because regardless of the legalities here she is doing good work in a state that is committed to hiding the truth from residents.
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by JamisonM 6y ago
You misunderstand the nature of Gupta's expertise and how it might relate to the issue at hand. She has also demonstrated her lack of qualifications in this matter with her public statements even in the areas where she would be legitim
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by JamisonM 6y ago
Inspired by your citation I went out and had a look on the Internets.. a direct quote from Sunetra Gupta in May: "the epidemic has largely come and is on its way out in [the UK]." How is this a credible person to listen to? It bog

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