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by angelzen 5y ago
> Abbott, who was previously vaccinated and also later tested positive for COVID-19, noted in his order that "vaccines are strongly encouraged for those eligible to receive one, but must always be voluntary for Texans." FWIW, v
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by angelzen 5y ago
Thanks raphlinus and walterbell for surfacing the Oklahoma reinfection report. It is the first time I see epi data on this topic from a credible source. A couple of interesting points: * Sept 2021 reinfection / breakthrough ratio is 1.
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by angelzen 5y ago
That is an interesting observation. I double checked: "One result of this is that only about 4% of Amish people are obese, compared with 36.5% of the overall U.S. population." https://time.com/5159857/amish-pe
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by angelzen 5y ago
Intriguing: One thing’s clear: there's no evidence of any more deaths among the Amish than in places that shut down tight— some claim there were fewer here. That’s without masking, staying at home, or another important measure. Sharyl:
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by angelzen 5y ago
I used to think the same way, but I now I believe BTC is here to stay. There is too much uncertainty in the mainstream monetary system. A bout of hyperinflation and everybody is wiped out. People are desperately looking for alternative valu
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by angelzen 5y ago
TL;DR It was always a sham based on exporting Western garbage to low income countries. China, one of the largest garbage destinations, closed its doors, oops. My 3 cents: 1. Products are not designed for recycling. 2. Too much cheap plastic
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by angelzen 5y ago
This comment is low effort defamation. Why don't you link 3 pieces of alleged covid misinformation the Brownstone group published. Should be easy, since apparently there is lots of it and you claim to be in the know. FWIW, I never hear
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How to Fix Our Broken Relationship with Covid Math(persuasion.community)
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The background. Modern world imagines it can p-hack itself straight into Utopia. Girard may be articulating old wisdom, trouble is modern world has lost its connection to old wisdom altogether. > The real insight would've been to pr
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by angelzen 5y ago
We can geek confounders all day long. At the end of the day, after all confounders have been accounted by reality, the epi data is what the epi data is. Asking for someone's vax passport status (in UK) says little about the risk of the
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by angelzen 5y ago
Thus we became compulsive social connections hoarders. https://www.google.com/search?q=compulsive+hoarding&tbm=isch
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by angelzen 5y ago
Haha, not sure about below 30, but below 18 both covid and vaccines have minuscule negative impact. Instead of arguing whether the impact is 1:100,000 or 1:90,000 (AHA, vaccine mandates for children are a moral imperative because after adju
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by angelzen 5y ago
The jury is still out. We have not gone through a handful of construction/decommission cycles of nuclear power plants, simply because the lifetime of a nuclear power plant is over half a century or more, and France started its nuclear
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by angelzen 5y ago
> Fossil fuel subsidies need to be phased out. Fossil fuel subsidies are a social stability measure. There are going to be hard times when people can't afford fuel to heat their homes in winter, and have to endure lectures by the pr
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by angelzen 5y ago
People fail to realize that modern economic activity is a small veneer on top of vast energy consumption. Coal & gas prices exploding will reflect into exploding inflation, which will reflect into imploding purchasing power before long.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Great chart. The items with constant or decreasing prices are made overseas by people that cannot afford them. This is not a healthy balanced system.
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by angelzen 5y ago
I am not familiar with the Nordic legal environment, but this could be that because Pfizer has a better safety profile than Moderna, so they'd rather use Pfizer. At the same time, both Pfizer and Moderna are much safer than raw covid a
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by angelzen 5y ago
Not sure there are any conclusions to draw from this information tidbit. Nordics halted Moderna, true, but Pfizer is offered instead of Moderna.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps you'd get a better response if you were to formulate your questions in a less pointed way. For example, try 'covid vaccine sceptics' instead of 'anti-vaxx'. I can't speak f
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by angelzen 5y ago
May decency prevail. I stumbled recently on an interesting chart. Have not doublecheck the math, but comes from FinancialTimes, so I expect it to be credible. Bottom line, you need to vaccinate between 800 (60+yo) and 25,000 (<18yo) peop
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by angelzen 5y ago
alexberenson may have his own biases. But the situation is strange. From the opposite corner of the country, the ferry system in Puget Sound is already cancelling tens of crossing a day because of sick calls leading to "lack of Coast G
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by angelzen 5y ago
Given that vaccinated people can also get infected and transmit the virus, it is bizarre that we have accepted so easily the premise that only unvaccinated people need to take a weekly PCR test.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Not top 5 languages, but Scala & Rust fit the bill.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Try Result + combinators + ? operator. https://learning-rust.github.io/docs/e6.combinators.html https://learning-rust.github.io/docs/e5.error_and_none_propa...
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by angelzen 5y ago
1 dude making wild claims on Twitter != MIT alums.
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A large number of US universities make signing a DEI statement a precondition for employment. Some also require an annual progress report on DEI targets. Dorian Abbot had the temerity to propose an alternate framework, MFE. Some factions ca
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by angelzen 5y ago
Dorian Abbot has his own account of the situation. One of the document he links is a dozen different MIT associates and alumni tweeting in support for the talk to be cancelled. https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-aband
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by angelzen 5y ago
> we've historically done so much to hurt minorities Please speak for yourself. I haven't done anything to hurt anyone.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Dorian Abbot's crime was writing an op-ed in Newsweek. He did not enter Twitter's house, Twitter went after him. https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-an... https://www.newsweek
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by angelzen 5y ago
perverted sense of fairness. > per·vert·ed: (of a thing) having been corrupted or distorted from its original course, meaning, or state.

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