alea_iacta_est

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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Indeed, when the government can take away your ability to earn a living, it is communism.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Not being able to earn a living is violence.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Here you go: For stoicism: - "Enchiridion" of Epictetus. - "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius (my personal favorite that I keep reading over and over). - "Letters from a stoic" from Seneca. It's not a lot of
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
At 35, it's not an uncommon feeling, some call it a mid-life crisis. The reason imo is it's an age when we start feeling our body is getting old, the feeling of "immortality" of our 20s is gone, we realize the clock is t
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
2 years in, we don't even have the numbers of people hospitalized from covid or with covid. It's not science reportings that is dead, it's science itself.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Your last link says it all: "COVID-19 has triggered lockdown measures for billions of people around the world." A lockdown at such a scale never happened before covid. Your "counter-fact" is incorrect.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Keep your condescending tone for your friends "my dude".
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Ok so what about lockdowns then?
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Yes, similar as in "if we don't do that, insert_whatever_crazy_idea_here, we're gonna overwhelm the hospitals!!!" Because it's been the justification from day 1: "not overwhelm hospitals".
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Lockdown and quarantine are very different. And it's you who mentionned "completely novel and exotic government actions", to which I point out that it's already happened with lockdowns. There's nothing in history th
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Let's see, those for freedom and individual choice would be more brainwashed that those against? Interesting theory.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Oxford definition: "an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances."
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Exotic like what, lockdowns for example? How crazy of me...
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
> That's not how anything works. That's how everything works, it's called a precedent.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Are you sure you are on the right side of the argument yourself? Suppose next year, the government mandate that you lose weight, or stop smoking or run everyday, all that of course for the "greater good". And then the year after t
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
> "the something of somewhere is always the nothing of nowhere" Never heard this one, what does it mean?
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
And the next time the government will want to force you to do something you disagree with, who is gonna fight it, the spineless white collars that we pretty much all have become?
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Very interesting explanation, thanks.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
It's both time and cost really, in vivo studies cost a lot of money.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Ask them: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Scoop: every single time you see a result about how effective is a covid vaccine against such or such new variant, it's based on in vitro results.
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Ask HN: Old US documentaries about aviation and X planes
1 points by alea_iacta_est 5y ago|1 comments
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
meanwhile: Today in the WSJ: CDC Advisers Consider Pfizer Shot for Young Children
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
earth is fubar, pay $59 for more details.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Whites are more vaccinated, percent wise, therefore "Vaccine rejection is higher among whites than it is among black and Hispanic Americans". How do you go from one to the other here?
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
Garbage article. Lie: > Vaccine rejection is higher among whites than it is among black and Hispanic Americans The data: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demogr...
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
It's unethical for the public to know who's the buyer, that's what they meant.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
> What Branson & his team did today was incredible and will pay off in spades for the future of humanity. Terrestrial tourism has already pretty much destroyed this planet, what long-term good can you foresee here, seriously?
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
It's a completely useless endeavour that only an unenlightened civilization would find attractive.
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by alea_iacta_est 5y ago
I can't wait for that new wave of rich people telling us how "earth is beautiful from above" and how us peasants should "stop making kids and eat burgers" that they can continue jumping in their little rocket and en

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