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by angelzen 5y ago
Some days I forget how acrimonious our culture wars are. It didn't occur to me that mask wearing (or not wearing) has become a symbol. I was operating under the assumption that it's a minor personal choice.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Incidentally, I originally wrote 10, but then I cut it down to 3. More than happy to accept your correction. [This refers to paragraph I ended up editing out because it was not constructive enough, sorry for any confusion. Sometimes I wish
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by angelzen 5y ago
I would be grateful for a handful of links to the highly educated people arguing about this, if the discussion happens to be public. I did speed read a few top academic Google hits on RCTs, but none of them tackled the particular issue of l
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by angelzen 5y ago
Somebody was kind enough to explain in a fair amount of detail how the process goes. It is an difficult ethical question. Mine is also an unfortunate formulation, perhaps "went under the radar" reflects the sentiment better. Here
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by angelzen 5y ago
They keep going up until they don't, and then the Fed quantitatively eases the losses. Sounds like Zillow's problem was they didn't sink enough money into their scheme.
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by angelzen 5y ago
https://www.kuow.org/stories/it-s-easy-to-commit-election-fr... " KUOW news editor Gil Aegerter was poking around on the Washington state elections website when he noticed something strange: You can print out a ba
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by angelzen 5y ago
Man, will this lack of self awareness come around to bite USA hard. FWIW, WA state, of which I am a resident, only acceded to US statehood in 1889. Two years after Taiwan became a Chinese province. Before that being just a prefecture subord
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by angelzen 5y ago
> social status coincides very closely with race in the US So I'm curious about this statement. As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, twice as many whites than blacks are in poverty. If social status were almost substitutable for rac
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by angelzen 5y ago
haves (rich) and have-nots (poor) ? Sorry, perhaps you meant something else?
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by angelzen 5y ago
If only there were a country that went full on reeducation. "The Soviet man was to be selfless, learned, healthy, muscular, and enthusiastic in spreading the socialist Revolution. Adherence to Marxism–Leninism, and individual behavior
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by angelzen 5y ago
> the division between the haves and the have-nots largely align along racial lines There are twice as many white people in poverty than black people in poverty, even if the rate of poverty is twice as large in the black population compa
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by angelzen 5y ago
He is not wrong. The cumulative effect of small ingroup preferences is segregation, see this little cute simulation https://ncase.me/polygons . To enforce desegregation you need to either suspend freedom even for small choic
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by angelzen 5y ago
Pfizer's 5-11 covid vaccine FDA application estimates a bunch of numbers that roughly match the OP numbers in Table 14, page 34. Though we should not confuse myocarditis in boys 200/M with myocarditis mortality, which is 0. And, o
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by angelzen 5y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write an in-depth informative mini-article. It is a difficult issue. Usually the following would be none of my business, but we are in a pandemic that affects billions of people around the world. It is uncomfor
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by angelzen 5y ago
One of the hardest things to internalize in life for someone possibly on the spectrum (look what site we are having this conversation on) is that people don't care what is right, they care what other people think it's right. Nobod
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by angelzen 5y ago
"Got away with it" in the sense that it went under the radar of most media and average people. I only found about it recently, and it was quite a bit of surprise, especially in the context of "science" being thrown away
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by angelzen 5y ago
Back in the old days we used to do long term vaccine controlled studies. Cursory Google search finds: > A long-term follow-up study on the efficacy of further attenuated live measles vaccine, Biken CAM vaccine, S Isomura & all, 1986
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by angelzen 5y ago
I'm not that concerned about the irregularities in the original article, which are reported for some sites in Texas, though they are signs of rot. I am concerned that we promote, even mandate, mass vaccination for a novel coronavirus
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by angelzen 5y ago
What I still can't wrap my head around is that they vaccinated the control group after less than a year and got away with it . Here we are, with a novel coronavirus, a novel vaccine technology and a novel vaccine, and we can't ev
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by angelzen 5y ago
"narcissists showing how much better they are at following The Rules than you" He didn't though. Unless you do show off how much better you are at following The Rules on a regular basis. And yet you called him "borderlin
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by angelzen 5y ago
One of the points is to create social coordination. I know that you know that everybody knows that there are too many / too few Xs in this institution, keep that in mind when the next X shows up at the door with an application in their
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by angelzen 5y ago
I draw two lines: no vaccine mandates and vaccines are unnecessary for kids. But, the data we have so far does show that vaccines are very good at preventing severe covid & death among adults. While natural immunity is also good, the in
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Waning of BNT162b2 Vaccine Protection Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Qatar(nejm.org)
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by angelzen 5y ago
The narcissistic part comes when people boast on Twitter how they are doing their supreme civic duty by taking the vaccine, not like those disgusting filthy diseased barely human individuals that choose a different path. Take the vaccine fo
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by angelzen 5y ago
Haha, Russia only has to look at the gas knob a little and Europe starts groveling. Doubtful that Europe can muster the will to defend its lands, even the Neo Ottoman Empire is a credible military threat. Between Pax Americana fading away,
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by angelzen 5y ago
Within the realm of possibility that the TSMC facility in Phoenix is just a late empire blunder.
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by angelzen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Qing_rule "Taiwan under Qing rule refers to the rule of the Qing dynasty over Formosa (coastal areas of modern-day Taiwan[1]) from 1683 to 1895."
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by angelzen 5y ago
Shortage of cheap TVs, electronic components (top 3 exporters: HK, China, Taiwan) or antibiotics (China: 90% of global market). Nothing of consequence. No gains whatsoever. Other than proving that US is an obsolete paper tiger that is incap
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by angelzen 5y ago
Oh, we are such a bunch of over-rationalizing social unfits. The way things work in practice is more akin to the small kids in this adorable video: https://twitter.com/Kolamide/status/1453655850447515648 Good luck
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by angelzen 5y ago
Seriously speaking, the point of using identity markers as admission criterion not to be fair or coherent. Good luck telling the hiring manager that race is self-declarative after they rejected you without disclosing the motives.

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