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by JamisonM 4y ago
"It needs to be determined whether such protection against severe disease at reinfection lasts for a longer period, analogous to the immunity that develops against other seasonal “common-cold” coronaviruses,4 which elicit short-term im
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by JamisonM 4y ago
In the case of a genuine outbreak there has indeed been real lockdowns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Samoa_measles_outbreak "The one big difference is that an infection seems to convey pretty much lifelong p
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by JamisonM 4y ago
So the first study is a population that is mostly using the Chinese vaccine that is not very good and the second study just validates that getting vaccinated before getting infected is very good (and the reinfection population was only 210
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by JamisonM 4y ago
Vaccines are clearly better than natural immunity I don't know why you think the opposite, the data is public and available for you to view. We agree that vaccines plus natural immunity are better still. Lockdowns forever are not requi
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by JamisonM 4y ago
I guess the short answer was no, since he didn't even get it! I suppose my original point stands!
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by JamisonM 5y ago
"COVID will spread until everyone gets it at least once" Unfortunately evidence seems to indicate that everyone getting once is also not very effective, the reinfection protection of past infection seems to be sub-20% from Omicron
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Sorry, I don't understand how this reply relates to my comment. Are you saying that the price bump will keep him on the board? The fear of a drop will keep him on the board? I can see that, but in the long run the valuation shouldn&#x2
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I guess there is a high probability that he will drag boardroom disagreements out into the open, so in that sense they will have to "argue" with him. In general boards vote to settle things and then it is settled, they are not sup
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by JamisonM 5y ago
It can be true for the purposes of harassment that enforcement can be inconsistent, and that can work to a certain degree. When a matter such as this comes before a court the spotty enforcement will be a problem for the employer. Employers
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by JamisonM 5y ago
And the real issue is most likely too-short yellows!
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I am wondering about how your initial response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine was so ambiguous: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vogre&next=30589151 And then all of your subsequent comments seem to be extreme
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by JamisonM 5y ago
It sure seems like that "war on fakes" site is full on non-debunkings of things. This article for example is just re-printing Russian government talking points: https://waronfakes.com/civil/fake-russian-soldie
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by JamisonM 5y ago
The authors are not doing a particularly good job of framing the losses or the benefits with their wording in the article. They link to a source that indicates that losses can be as high as .. well, exceeding the value of a seed stock used
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Your reply doesn't seem to address my point directly. The appeal to "time" doesn't really work given that that Moscow stock exchange has been closed since last Friday and seems unlikely to open this week. Cuba has change
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by JamisonM 5y ago
"No it doesnt because is not a democratic country, why is it so hard for people like you to understand that things work very different in a democratic country than in non-democratic country?" I sympathize with this position but I
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by JamisonM 5y ago
"any sanctions strong enough to truly harm Russia would destroy the stability of the world's financial system by triggering a global liquidity crisis" You'd need to back this up with some real evidence for it to be convi
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I think that the motivation is of interest because we take motivation as a moral element of any crime - the killing of another person is judged more harshly when it is pre-meditated, less if just intentional, less still if accidental but re
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Words have typical meanings and then they have legal meanings, you can look at the details of the first conviction under the law and draw conclusions about the threshold for "stirring up hatred": https://www.report-it.o
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Indeed, it is not just about that, but that is the principle element of the law at issue. It is certainly also true that if you were to host a race-based violence promotion party in your home you might be subject to prosecution. It is also
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by JamisonM 5y ago
The linked article is intentionally misleading. Why would anyone take seriously the idea that the courts in Scotland regard "stirring up hatred" as the same thing as the courts in China? If that is the standard for criticism for e
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by JamisonM 5y ago
No the natural progression is that if Daddy attacks a disabled person in the street and the kids affirm that daddy was always on about how disabled people should be culled from society that daddy gets a much longer sentence for the crime.
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I think that if your family members are avowed violent criminals committed to attacking people based on their being a member of a group that is clearly discernible in society their confession to you of that fact should be admissible in cour
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by JamisonM 5y ago
This headline is a ridiculous caricature of the content of the bill as I understand it. The bill as I understand it is largely about adding a modifier to a sentence for an actual crime committed that might be motivated by hate. So the fol
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Freezing bank accounts when you have not been convicted of a crime happens all the time and is the way things have to work. If you let money flow freely in the banking system contingent on criminal convictions any old drug cartel could pay
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Reasonable people can disagree but I do see what you mean - I thank you for your honest consideration of my opinion, a rare treat! Subsequent statements and clarifications have made it clear that these donors were not subject to any action,
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I think actually you will find in the normal course of life your recourse against a financial institution that freezes your funds in Canada are many and very affordable, even free. It is a highly regulated sector, there is frequent reportin
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by JamisonM 5y ago
IDK, he said the scope is a donation of over $100,000 - so probably zero people should be worried?
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by JamisonM 5y ago
You can get yourself all twisted up in semantics if you want.. lots of people seem to be arguing all sorts of goofy stuff - Canadians that work in the banking sector actually know the government is telling the truth. That is what is actuall
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I don't know very much about this stuff but it seems to me that the fairly dense housing just "behind" the wall relative to the prevailing winds would suffer from A LOT of snow accumulation. I am sure I would enjoy living in
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I think that we can rely on the courts to assess the situation and make an assessment, you can't codify into law the exact criteria. There are always tensions between rights, some combination of the laws, the courts, and the complian

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