allovernow

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by allovernow 7y ago
The way things are going now, it looks like we're heading into global recession or possibly depression territory. The combination of the current global economy and this sudden crash brought about by a global pandemic is unprecedented.
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by allovernow 7y ago
This. Everyone is speaking so authoritatively as though they knew crypto was not a hedge. This is the first real such test that crypto has seen. Yes, it appears to have failed, but no one could have predicted this with any certainty.
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by allovernow 7y ago
Can't count the number of downvotes I've received for pointing out that the official Chinese numbers are hugely underreported. This article is just the tip of the iceberg. This is why I don't entirely trust their claimed reco
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by allovernow 7y ago
>The inhaled aerosols of e-cigarettes contain numerous potential toxicities, some of which could be dangerous for health with long-term use. The safety of prolonged aerosol exposure is not known Could be. The jury is out.
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by allovernow 7y ago
Sort of off topic, but aside from addictive potential there is very little in the way of evidence that vaping is harmful. And it's been around for some 15 years now - probably long enough to show some degree of long term harm. Similarl
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by allovernow 7y ago
>Ahh, the old cowardly downvote without comment because you don't like the reality of the situation that there is one party that's very much to blame People are probably downvoting silently this time because explaining to you t
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by allovernow 7y ago
You're not considering the upside of relaxing these regulations. There are far more legitimate labs than there are theranoses.
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by allovernow 7y ago
That's why I mentioned beacons for collision avoidance. They wouldn't be expensive. If we're about to build this industry from the ground up I would expect to see something like that done anyway.
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by allovernow 7y ago
Do you really think some moron bumbled his way into the most powerful office in the world? Have you stopped to think about how unlikely something like that is? You may not agree with his style (I don't) or his personality (hate it) but
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by allovernow 7y ago
You realize both countries can screw up, right? And the fact that the NSA belongs to a country that screwed up doesn't prevent them criticizing other responses? Moreover, the Chinese government has still to my knowledge not cleanly rel
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by allovernow 7y ago
This was clear from the start. In typical authoritarian communist fashion, China clamped down on the spread of information both internally and externally. Here's probably the best known example[0], but the most egregious manipulation c
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by allovernow 7y ago
To be fair, autonomous flight is probably an order of magnitude easier than autonomous driving. Particularly because it's far more predictable and you can put beacons on drones to automatically avoid collisions. The sky is mostly empty
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by allovernow 7y ago
You're missing the point. The freedom may make the virus less likely to spread as information about it is easier to come by. The more people know and the sooner, the better off we all are.
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by allovernow 7y ago
How do we know that the numbers are trustworthy? They weren't for the first two months and China has clamped down on any information leakage. Meanwhile as of last week their factories were still at around 50% capacity or less (check po
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by allovernow 7y ago
Well, NYT also accused him a few years ago of covering up 3 Cholera outbreaks in his home country of Ethiopia. Given the display across the world right now I don't know if the experts are that much more informed than the collective wis
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by allovernow 7y ago
>The basis of the argument is that China is authoritarian regime that we should not be doing business with I don't think anybody is saying that. What I'm saying is that criticism of the Chinese response/government is neith
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by allovernow 7y ago
The difference is that in the US all of this is due to incompetence, but given the nature of our laws and society people are free to point out the shortcomings of the response. In China you are publicly admonished and/or disappeared fo
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by allovernow 7y ago
This was all verifiable in real time and is consistent with the behavior of authoritarian regimes. You want to pretend China isn't interning Uigurs as well? Hell, that doctor whistleblower who ended up dead from the virus was officiall
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by allovernow 7y ago
Well the admin was very quick to shut down travel from China. And the Trump did order masks from 3M early on. I don't deny that there has been a display of incompetence to date be careful not to let partisanship blind you into denying
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by allovernow 7y ago
No, I mean China. I personally witnessed the tweet before it was deleted. > https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/chuck_schumer_q...
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by allovernow 7y ago
And a surprising lack of reporting on the dozens of side channel leaks from China - videos of dead bodies, videos from leakers including the young doctor who was admonished and succumbed to the disease... Yeah a lot of it was rumor and hard
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by allovernow 7y ago
>and still seems sharp as a tack That's highly subjective and no doubt any assessment is likely to strongly align with partisanship. Which is why we need age limits. You can't expect people to objectively evaluate whether those
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by allovernow 7y ago
That's a bit of a stretch...there are probably dozens of other obvious correlations in places where authoritarianism pops up, because authoritarianism is much more likely to spring up where people are poor and uneducated...
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by allovernow 7y ago
Not if you avoid other people.
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by allovernow 7y ago
Yes, I've been saying this from the start as well. Also note that they used China's severely misleading statistics from day 1 with no disclaimer. The WHO is incompetent and/or corrupt.
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by allovernow 7y ago
>I hope this will make people realize that we need to abolish centralized institutions in our highly complex world. While I too favor decentralization, what we really need to do is return merit to our institutions. We need a social clima
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by allovernow 7y ago
And Bernie is 78. There should really be age limits for government, especially given how much we now know about cognitive decline.
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by allovernow 7y ago
You know Democrats (media and Schumer's tweet) immediately accused Trump of sinophobia when he (appropriately) shut down travel with China? This is really not the time for petty partisan politics. Both parties are propaganda machines.
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by allovernow 7y ago
The quality of medical infrastructure is going to play a small role in outcomes when the entire system is overwhelmed many times over in the next month or so.
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by allovernow 7y ago
Honestly at this point the socially responsible thing to do is not to attend, regardless of whether they cancel or not. You are not just putting yourself at risk by attending. We all must take steps to combat the spread. But I don't en

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