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by aakresearch 4y ago
You almost got me, friend, with these platitudes. Almost. First class right here!
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by aakresearch 4y ago
This was once posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289832 , so give credit there, if you want. It is like periodic table for chemical elements, singularly the one best thing about documentation that I ever re
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by aakresearch 5y ago
This response is so single-dimensional that I couldn't have done a better job at exposing the extremity of your position than you've done yourself. It is also so predictable and unimaginative that it could have been written by a b
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Right now, in Victoria, AU kids from grades 3 to 6 must wear masks full day in school - and only those grades. So must people on public transport. The fare for maskless PT ride is $3600. I don't know what is the fine for school kids, b
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by aakresearch 5y ago
> A big reason those measures were as not as effective as they could have been was that people were actively undermining them pretty much from day one. Communism is a wonderful thing, if only everyone and their dog were on the same page,
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Precisely. We should not try things which, blatantly obviously, do not work, because it distracts and takes precious resources from things that actually do work. That applies to BLM in the same way as it applied to covid, as well as climate
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Your response is the perfect example why I no longer try to discuss this topic with any covid-response-enthusiasts. You're, obviously, entitled to your beliefs, and must consider them well-backed by your knowledge, life experiences and
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by aakresearch 5y ago
>> played a big part in this theater. May I extend a big "Thank you" to you and GP for recognizing and admitting this. You have now contributed to the restoration of trust in society in a great way. At least for me, personal
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Early 2000's.
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by aakresearch 5y ago
> Yep, that's definitely how we handled smallpox, polio, mumps, measles and more, diseases that use to kill or cripple huge numbers of people, and whose general eradication has come at little to no cost in terms of life, liberty and
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Moscow cops have a sixth sense for non-natives. Even I was not looking like one, I was stopped, like, 8 times during my 3-months gig there. Carrying a few bank notes in the passport was an ordinary practice.
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by aakresearch 5y ago
> “Theoretical model” is a tautology. Of course. > And it really should be attainable: We’ve successfully eradicated smallpox worldwide, we are close to doing that with polio, and many other illnesses have been eradicated from certain
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by aakresearch 5y ago
> First, because the vaccines are 80-95% effective in any specific individual (if boosted, potentially much less if not) and that isn’t good enough for society as a whole until the vaccine uptake is higher. That's a theoretical mode
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by aakresearch 5y ago
> Particularly when the drawbacks to them are so minor, while the potential advantages are huge. Does it justify mandatory wearing of religious symbols and tattoos? After all, there are almost no drawbacks, and "potential" ad
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Here we have a textbook example of gaslighting. Dismissing victim's concerns as childish - check; dismissing victim's pain as irrelevant - check; logical manipulation in order to persuade victim that they are the sole source of th
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by aakresearch 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_communism
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by aakresearch 5y ago
But who decides which reasons are "legitimate" and which are not?
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Comparing vaccines to software is an analogy I find very nutrient-rich. Basically, it can illustrate many points pro and contra, depending on what direction you're coming from. Pushing webapp code to master certainly won't result
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Thank you very much for writing this, very helpful explanation indeed! Probably more so than a traditional right-left abstraction. I'd be very interested to explore this framework further. Could you recommend something to read that cou
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by aakresearch 5y ago
My nana lived a long and good life. When I was a little boy, I discovered that she's actually one year older than her official documents suggest. She revealed that it was not done by a mistake or a typo, but by a deliberate action. The
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by aakresearch 5y ago
I am with you. I have looked at age distribution of covid deaths multiple times and it seems to me that the risk is roughly the same as the background probability of dying from any cause within a year as presented here: https://w
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by aakresearch 5y ago
I am for privacy and against mandates. Especially against mandates as currently implemented. I just think that it is not overly hypocritical to take a pro-privacy and pro-mandate position at the same. These positions can co-exist. See http
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by aakresearch 5y ago
> I'm not advocating executing them but I just don't give a fuck about them any more Thank you very much! Upvoted. That's exactly what we've been asking for. Some of us may have a chance to see the light of another da
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Wow, I find myself agreeing with every bit in your post. How these people managed in one breath to piss off their supporters and opponents alike is astonishing. Squandering their obligation to support people, at the same time insisting on p
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by aakresearch 5y ago
> Why are people like you so damn negative about this and so deliberately intent in disrupting society when it's in such a state of stress? Why are so many of you so intent in trying to undermine and sabotage the rest of us when we&
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by aakresearch 5y ago
> you don't deal with institutions and collectives the same was as you do an individual. It is a useless comparison. I agree, in general. Until they forget that they are dealing with live individuals , not abstract bits in a statis
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by aakresearch 5y ago
For me the u-turn from support of UBI to rejection was driven by realization that UBI is a perfect control tool for any government. When they needed a big stick to push vaccinations the initial pass of locking people out of restaurants, pub
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by aakresearch 5y ago
As somebody who was bullied in my childhood and early youth, I can say that there is no way one could go back to their bullies and collaborate with them politely. The only way to "get rid of the baggage" is to cut these people out
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Prior to 2020 I didn't know and din't care who was the Premier of my state in Australia. I was very proud to have spent a decade and half in Australia and quite glad to see my kids becoming true Aussies. Fair dinkum! Team Australi
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by aakresearch 5y ago
Are you genuinely curious or it is just a bait to subsequently dismiss a response under pretense that any "inconvenience" cannot possibly outweigh "common good" of universal mandatory masking? Because such was my previou

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