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by angelzen 5y ago
A legal precedent was set by González v. Abercrombie & Fitch. Being seen on the wrong side of the diversity issue becomes a legal liability that everybody avoids. Issues that everybody avoids morph into cultural dogma via groupthink. T
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by angelzen 5y ago
This is doubly true as experienced programmers argue that designing the data structures is the hardest part of coding. Code follows semi-automatically.
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Outrage is an emotion. By itself it does not lend credibility to your cause. There is an excess of outrage in society, thanks BigSocialMedia. Hoping for a collective calm down.
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Fish traps have been in use all around the world for millennia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_trap
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by angelzen 5y ago
They are vaccines in the sense they stimulate the immune system to fight the virus, but are weaker than traditional vaccines. It is pretty clear by now that VE against infection rapidly fades over time (6-12 months), say goodbye to herd imm
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Can't help with that. I'm interested in ethno-geography. Here's a nice map of early XIX century Coast Salish micro ethnic groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish#/media/File:Coast...
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by angelzen 5y ago
Sure, but not every small town has a distinct language and distinct set of laws. The OP talks about "food security for an estimated 10,000-12,000 K'ómoks People", unclear that the K'ómoks ethnic group was much larger tha
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by angelzen 5y ago
To the best of my understanding, B.C. circa 1800 can be described as 'patchwork of sovereign micro-ethnic groups in rugged terrain' Europe microstates: Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican, Liechtenstein, Faeroe, maybe Iceland and
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by angelzen 5y ago
Modern Europe is not a good comparison. Something like Papua-New Guinea is probably closer. Not even sure how far into Europe's past one needs to go to find an ethno-political system similar to B.C. circa 1800. Medieval Europe? The era
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by angelzen 5y ago
> California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who previously said that Democratic politicians should "lean into" COVID-19 policies such as vaccine mandates and issued the nation's first such mandate for schoolchildren, is trying to get
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by angelzen 5y ago
Europe is far from being dotted with microstates. There are a handful of relics, but most of Europe has been unified under some larger nation state. For a historical perspective, a political map of pre-1800 Germany with 'up to 350 stat
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by angelzen 5y ago
Striking is increasing the labor cost, possibly tipping the balance.
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https://mobilemonkey.com/articles/employee-tenure-in-tech-co... Here’s How Long Employees Are Staying AT The 10 Biggest Companies in Tech: Facebook – 2.02 Years Google – 1.90 Years Oracle – 1.89 Years Apple –
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by angelzen 5y ago
d) Ramp up population to 20B people.
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by angelzen 5y ago
What's the point of striking in the globalization era? The number of hungry would be workers that would gladly take 1/10th the meager salary of a Western worker is in the billions. What's to keep John Deere from uplifting the
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by angelzen 5y ago
Perhaps Silicon Valley should not be in the business of curating rural Ethiopia news?
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A sobering reminder that hurling accusations targeted at an ethnic group using social media goes far beyond clout accumulation and may translate into real world violence.
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by angelzen 5y ago
First author's layman description: https://twitter.com/rishirajgoel/status/1448711946010710023
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by angelzen 5y ago
Great link, summarizing recent research showing strong post-vaccination long-term B cell response. Then Twitter surfaces a recent breakthrough infection study among 620k US veterans in the "More Tweets" section: https:/&#x2
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by angelzen 5y ago
New medical information in the article: zero. Ivermectin as cure for covid: flamebait. Twitter death threats: flamebait. Both together: thermonuclear flamewar.
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https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674 > How do I permanently delete my Facebook account?
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by angelzen 5y ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.
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What is the 5 year effectiveness of the Pfizer covid vaccine? Please break it down by infection / symptomatic disease / hospitalization / death, then by age group, then compare it with a sizable unvaccinated control group.
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by angelzen 5y ago
In uncharted territory, one can believe that vaccines are likely to make a positive contribution and also opt-out from using the vaccine until more data is collected. It's called "precautionary principle". Generally speaking
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I merely expect said pilots to not pretend 'we are flying according to time tested FAA rules and regulations'.
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It is not a partisan point in favor of one course of action or another. Though not surprising that it is read as one. We have barely started to understand long term implications of covid infection, mRNA / classic vaccines or various tr
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by angelzen 5y ago
A candid quote from a virologist in a recent Nature covid paper: "We’re flying by the seat of our pants trying to figure this stuff out." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02795-x
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by angelzen 5y ago
> Molnupiravir [interferes with] accurate replication of the virus At first glance this sound like a really bad idea, given that the #1 concern is future covid mutations.
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Ivermectin was discovered in the '70s. A more accurate comparison: my team started using a new language called SQL.
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by angelzen 5y ago
$30 * 3 doses * 8B people = a cool $720B

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