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by allturtles 6y ago
This post is really low quality. The author has made no serious effort to articulate the arguments in favor of intellectual property.
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I believe GP is defending facts against malicious lies. That seems always a good thing, regardless of whom the lies are directed towards.
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Viruses are like super mRNA vaccines. They commandeer your cells not to just create a single protein, but to create a bunch of proteins in order to form new viruses. And unlike mRNA, they reproduce and can stay in your body for months or ye
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by allturtles 6y ago
This sounds like special pleading to me. We have two new possible things that could be introduced to your body - a vaccine or the virus. In neither case is it possible to know what hidden long-term effects they could have on you. But the vi
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I am not saying outright that the pause is not justified. But it has a substantial cost, and it would be good to see that our health authorities have considered this and weighed the balance of costs and benefits. e.g. it might have made sen
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by allturtles 6y ago
There currently isn't enough vaccine to meet demand. Pausing J&J distribution will cause a larger gap between supply and demand. The 7 day average of deaths from Covid in the U.S. is 985. Even a week's delay in getting to full
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I'm fascinated by the assumption by many in this thread that eating pizza left out overnight is common. I've never done it, and I went to college. We had refrigerators. I mean, if you have a refrigerator why not put the pizza in
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by allturtles 6y ago
Good to know, I hadn't tried it, I just based my comment on reading the policy.
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Agreed, this is just blocking an abuse vector. It also only blocks writes (comments/uploads) not access , you can still watch videos just fine.
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> there were 141 deaths in the control arm, a 47.6 percent mortality rate That seems very high to me. I checked quickly for data, and I found a study[0] showing mortality rates for hospitalized covid patients in the U.S. between from 9%
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Most interestingly, the upshot of his video is he could find no primary source validating the popular "swindle" story about the building.
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I understand Hank as saying there that there ought to be south Asian voices in the writers room, not that they should have complete control over what Apu says. I don't know what's special about this case. I mean I understand what&
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> and i believe an indian writer should be deciding what apu says This seems to belie the entire concept of fiction writing. Must that writer also be a straight married male with children and own a convenience store? Can a male writer wr
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by allturtles 6y ago
> children are impressionable Like how exposure to pictures of demons and pretending to be wizards turns young D&D players into satanists? And exposure to violent rap lyrics turns them into murderers? I have looked at the pictures, s
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An abstraction/simplification/shorthand is not a lie. People don't say "multiplication is repeated addition" because they are trying to hide the truth for some selfish reason. It's a pedagogical strategy to hel
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Most of the water in the southwest is used for agriculture. (e.g. per http://www.arizonawaterfacts.com/water-your-facts , in Arizona it's 73%). In case of severe water shortage, water will obviously be reallocated to hu
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The Age of Steam(technicshistory.com)
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There are so many great parts to Moby Dick. It has a reputation for tedium, so I was surprised the first time I read it at how much humor is in it, often mingled with deep insight, e.g.: > Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism
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I didn't say currency should be worthless. Obviously a worthless currency is... worthless. Saving for the future is great. There are lots of ways to save money sans BTC, holding currency just usually isn't one of them. I don'
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But if acquiring currency and holding it causes you to get rich, that's a serious defect. That means it won't get spent which means the economy grinds to a halt and depression ensues. This is not a feature we want for a currency.
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Between The World and Me spent over 100 weeks in the NYT bestseller list. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the other book cited, wrote another book, How To Be An Antiracist, which was a bestselling book in the U.S. 2020. Another bestselling book i
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by allturtles 6y ago
I think the distinction between public and ivy here may be data noise. If you scroll down to the chart that compares ivies and public by subject, you'll see that in political science courses, Leviathan is the most assigned book in both
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by allturtles 6y ago
Sorry, why is this troubling, can you explain?
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The town squares and public parks are still there. The existence of Twitter, Facebook, etc. have accustomed people to the ability to air their opinions globally free of charge, however that is a very novel phenomenon. It's hard for me,