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by aianus 7y ago
Anecdotally, this fits with my observations at the grocery store in Canada. All the regularly priced milk, chicken, and eggs were sold out around March 25th but the "organic" milk and chicken at double the price was still in stock
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by aianus 7y ago
You are correct, I apologize, it says that Oxfam published the report ahead of an upcoming IMF meeting.
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by aianus 7y ago
IMF says 500 million people worldwide who were out of poverty will or have returned to poverty because of the recession. IMF poverty line is < $1.90 a day so surely many of them will die from malnutrition or preventable disease as well.
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by aianus 7y ago
> I don't know why they won't do this The number of Chinese (still a minority) that want to eat exotic meats greatly outnumber the Chinese who want to read dissident books or use Twitter instead of Weibo. Censorship is not very
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by aianus 7y ago
WHO claimed throughout that border restrictions were useless yet 80% of coronavirus cases in Canada on March 14th were directly connected to international travel. That's a whole incubation period after you say it was obviously going to
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by aianus 7y ago
Where else are you gonna go but the USD? The second reserve currency is the EUR, the EU is already actually starting to break up with the departure of the UK, and is way more likely to continue to break up than the US. As for CNY, China is
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by aianus 7y ago
Were engineers incredibly hard and expensive to hire immediately after the dotcom bust or the 2008 financial crisis?
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by aianus 7y ago
No, I don't think they care, but the rule is there on the books. It is obviously up to the other members of the WTO to enforce the rules.
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by aianus 7y ago
> There should be no reason for the international market to think they can get some of that money. Unless the Chinese companies receiving the subsidies are barred from exporting their products, then the global market will buy those subsi
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by aianus 7y ago
The contractors that drive for Uber, etc, don't qualify for unemployment benefits so the reduced burden on UI should even out with the reduced contributions, no?
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by aianus 7y ago
> All said, a 0.1% death rate is still pretty dangerous and catching the disease is something like raising your risk of death by 50% in a given year. Lockdowns are still justified under those numbers. 0.1% of the rest of my life is ~3 we
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by aianus 7y ago
High prices encourage people like me who have more than enough to get off their asses and share the excess. There is already plenty of TP in existence in the country for everyone, it’s just poorly distributed because the gov has removed the
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by aianus 7y ago
I might be within the law (although in some places like BC all reselling is straight up illegal) but some busybody would still call the cops on me and online listings would be taken down by the likes of amazon or ebay.
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by aianus 7y ago
I have an entire Costco package of toilet paper that will last me months while some poor bastard near me is probably wiping his ass with his hand (or worse, flushing paper towel and causing thousands of dollars of damage) because there is n
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by aianus 7y ago
> Seeing that doing nothing will likely lead to lead to millions of deaths, how would the lockdown possibly kill more than that? The lockdown is wasting months to years of billions of people's lives. That has to be equivalent to s
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by aianus 7y ago
The WHO continually and explicitly encouraged countries to leave borders open at a time when all cases (outside of Hubei) were imported from abroad. Since almost all cases at the time were Chinese, I don’t see any reason for this advice oth
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by aianus 7y ago
What about the millions of elderly people who will die this year of natural causes and whose final moments on Earth will now be of loneliness, boredom, and despair? Depending on the duration, of course, the lockdowns seem to have the potent
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by aianus 7y ago
~57 million people die every regular year for whatever reasons Even doubling that does not "destroy everything"
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by aianus 7y ago
> Usually directors will interact with the board Did you mean "executives"? Directors and The Board are the same thing; it's The Board of Directors.
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by aianus 7y ago
McDonald’s releases a limited time McLobster in Canada if and only if the price gets low enough.
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by aianus 7y ago
I don't see why it's limited to short text messages. Your pre-shared OTP can be a rack of 8TB hard drives delivered to an embassy by the Marine Corps which covers a whole lot of documents and media before it's exhausted.
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by aianus 7y ago
Yes you can, I turn on Uber Driver every night on my commute home from work and they only give me riders heading in the same direction. You can do this up to twice a day on Uber.
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by aianus 7y ago
I didn't say it was unique, just that it's not random that it happened in China and not America.
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by aianus 7y ago
These viruses don't originate in China by random chance. Although, ironically, they originate in China because of too little government control over hygiene in wet markets and game meat, not too much authoritarianism.
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by aianus 7y ago
You don’t need to go to college at all to get a good job in America (at least in tech in SV, ymmv). Anecdotally Germany doesn’t have that culture, they really really care about those pieces of paper. I’ve even had a coworker in SV who was 1
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by aianus 7y ago
You can die from quitting alcohol cold-turkey, which is not true for nicotine.
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by aianus 7y ago
> (the vendor of the financial product) who just sold something that was effectively worth nothing It's not necessarily worth nothing. It has a very high chance of going to $0, but it could also have a very small chance of going to
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by aianus 7y ago
In Canada the carbon tax revenue is given back to the taxpayers as a credit. If you pollute less than average you end up richer and if you pollute more than average you end up poorer.
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by aianus 7y ago
Why can't you do this safely with AWS? You can restrict the API key to write only to the zone _acme-challenge.<your domain>.
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by aianus 7y ago
Of course it is, union dues are literally a percentage of your salary.

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