amrcnimgrnt

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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
Thank you for your comment. I have a follow up question, if you don't mind. I'm not an expert, so is my comment mostly correct? I only brought up CPI to illustrate an example of a widely purchased thing not being included in that
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
There are (very) good arguments for it, too long for me to type right now (HN search it, they're there). But I disagree with the arguments, I think it should be included. That being said I think there is also a measure called "a
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
Sure, mine was an example of a product I despise that Americans cherish (Hershey's) to point out the difficulty in getting a good measure of inflation. Whether or not chocolate, in particular, is tracked more closely is not my point. M
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
This is a huge problem, thank you for writing it down. Grab a Hershey chocolate bar. How much chocolate is in there? Who knows?
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
They kinda measure it, through heuristics. But it's like the heuristics for the price of a house (which is considered an investment and not included directly in CPI): you can't capture it very well. For example, lets say a chocola
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
"While not getting vaccinated doesn't seem to serve any valid purpose" Well the "doesn't seem" is crux of the matter, isn't it? For whatever reason for those who don't want the vaccine, the vaccine do
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
I want to thank all those who answered my questions politely. I'm pleased to say you appear to have been the majority. Unfortunately, I'm still unconvinced that the unvaccinated are harming anyone other than themselves. This opens
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
Thank you for giving me an objective metric, but I don't think the objective standard follows from your first sentence: most people consider the pandemic over in their local area.
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
"Ruling by the European Court of Human Rights ..." I care as much about the opinions of the ECHR (or any other court[1]) about as much as I care of the opinion of martians. They are not god-oracles of morality. I'm a thinking
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
My only objection to your original post was your tone. Specifically dismissing my question as blase. Otherwise I thought your father's condition was the only good objection I've read so far. In fact, my wife being temporarily immu
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
Those are really just issues with your government and their decision about what are the appropriate responses. It's not the unvaccinated that are hurting you here, but the government response to them. If the unvaccinated are fine dying
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
Fair enough, but then you have to tell me at what level is the "pandemic over" for all practical purposes. We're at a seven day avg. of 300deaths/day right now. Car fatalities are 100deaths/day [2] . Smoking is >
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
Who cares about Islamic leaders? Don't Muslims have freedom of conscience independently of them. Religion is, ultimately, about the individual's relationship with the higher. To dismiss someone's religious complaint because o
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
The pandemic will never end, no matter how many ppl we vaccinate in the West. We'll never vaccinate Central Asia and Africa. Even if we could, COVID bifurcates quicker than we can vaccinate the world. Ergo COVID will never go extinct.
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
I understand your point, but saving others from themselves is paternalism writ large. It's not to be taken lightly. Anyway, the COVID death rates right now are bellow diabetes, smoking [1], etc. On a purely "save people from thems
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
I asked honestly, and seriously. I want to be taught, explained to. Not given lip. I take (strong) exception to be characterized as "blase". My kids aren't eligible for vaccination either. I can assure you Im not "blase&
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
I don't mean this polemically, or rhetorically. I'm honestly asking because I've given this some thought, and it's not entirely obvious to me. "Who are the unvaccinated hurting, exactly?" It appears to me that
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by amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
"obviously they are creating a lot of value for customers as well" Or not. It's been well over a decade (more or less since I've been economically independent) that I've been trying to avoid cheap, made in a death c