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by asabjorn 6y ago
Dr Birx on the coronavirus task force says government is classifying all deaths of patients with coronavirus as 'COVID-19' deaths, regardless of cause. See video-proof in [1]. This is due to the highly unusual CDC guidelines on ho
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> couldn’t avoid a brush fire that left the hospital system overwhelmed Agree with most of what you say. However, the hospitals were not overwhelmed as evidenced by USNS Comfort leaving NYC after only treating 182 patients [1]. Similarly
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Density in Sweden is 64 per square mile while in NY state its 421 per square mile. However, much of the population live in cities such as Stockholm that has population density 12,800 per square mile compared to 66,940 for NYC. If the dire h
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by asabjorn 6y ago
3,3k has so far died in Sweden and the population is 10 million. I believe 22k has died out of 8.3m in NYC, so NYC seems clearly worse. The strategy was to face more infections short term in favor of quick herd immunity so it’s actually a v
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Sweden is doing better than NYC without the catastrophic economic consequences NYC is experiencing https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/sweden...
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It’s across the whole population over the preceding week. The CDC report key takeaways section is recommended reading
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> If the legislature resists, or the court doesn't grant the stay, that sucks, the bars and restaurants will open, people will get sick and die. Or maybe the Republicans will turn out correct and everything is fine. This assertion n
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by asabjorn 7y ago
It is worthwhile to notice that there are as of April 13 there are 11k weekly coronavirus related deaths according to the CDC out of 600k tested [1]. In a normal flu season there are 8k daily flu deaths [2]. The ones that are the worst
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by asabjorn 7y ago
How is that a misunderstanding of the requirements to be a platform to be protected from liability under section 230 [1]? [1] https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
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by asabjorn 7y ago
They rely on Section 230 [1] protection, which only applies to platforms, to not be liable for what is published on their platform. If they have editorial control they are liable like newspapers are liable. [1] https://www.eff.or
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by asabjorn 7y ago
If we are to trust Apple on the claim that they are a platform and not a publisher, removing for an editorial reason like this put their claim in doubt and I don't think they have the leeway you describe here as a platform. If Apple is
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by asabjorn 7y ago
As Snowden said the problem isn't the data policies, but the data collection to begin with. Solve the latter and the former is irrelevant.
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by asabjorn 7y ago
Agree that doing political activism on company time to get the company to ban targets of your partisan political agenda seem highly inappropriate.
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Yes, and hydro often has incredibly large negative effects on the environment. Same with wind energy that kills more birds than almost anything else. For instance, the Aswan dam on the Nile has decimated the flood deltas ecosystem and disru
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by asabjorn 7y ago
At this point I think most people are concerned about hate speech policies. Normal opinions are censored through these rules, and the claims of harm are rather dubious. Why should companies be trusted to enforce elusive controls on our spee
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by asabjorn 7y ago
I would agree that replying to others with out of context links pushing a counter-narrative is an unhealthy way to engage others. Like most others in polarizing discussions I sometimes fall into the trap of misinterpreting what the other sa
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by asabjorn 7y ago
How is this contributing to a flame war? It’s facts relevant to the topic as well as to the parents comments claim and it took me a long time to research thoughtfully. It is inconvenient and unfortunate facts. I also wish they were not tru
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The claim though was that it had improved on these and other points. And at least on these there seem to be a big and widely published degradation. Can always talk about data on the other points as well to see what they say.
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Environmental? China emit more CO2 than the EU and US combined https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/20... Human rights? They have started putting Uighurs, Buddhists and Falun Go
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by asabjorn 7y ago
If China abide by WTO rules, environmental protections required by developed countries and had to abide by basic human rights for religious groups the Muslim Uighur, Tibetan Buddhists, Confucian Falun Gong and other groups would be freer [1
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by asabjorn 7y ago
Let us look at the facts from [1]: - China require companies to transfer all intellectual property to a venture owned 51% by Chinese before getting access to market - people running joint ventures like clockwork open competing companies cut
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by asabjorn 7y ago
I typically listen to it on Apple podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id146999956... or Spotify where he posts the episode earlier https://open.spotify.com/show/3qv
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by asabjorn 7y ago
You are right the authors are clear on being Christian and that they are part of western tradition. And for disclosure my fiancé is Hindu and I am a Christian so other more unusual mixes can also learn from each other.
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Yes, it’s very fun. Studying this is the rabbit hole of rabbit holes. I recommend the podcast The Portal by Eric Weinstein if you want the idea equivalent of this stuff.
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I am not saying so either, because only a fool would claim men don’t have emotions and don’t need to be seen. What I am saying is that seeing and learning how to be seen is hard, and approaching others and oneself as a narrative is directly
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by asabjorn 7y ago
That is a euphemism I used because I think anyone reading the article can infer what I meant and I wanted the focus to be on productive resources for people to learn how to think adaptively instead of what to think about these issues. In my
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by asabjorn 7y ago
I thought the book was one of the better ones I've read on the topic, so I recommended it. It is not a spiritual book. I likewise would recommend reading "Islamic Patterns: An analytical and cosmological approach" when approa
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There is much beauty and wonder in the interplay between as well as within the genders. However, men are not imperfect women that would be improved if we adopted the other genders mannerisms. We both need to be open to listening to each oth
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by asabjorn 7y ago
As I stated the unbanked are likely to be very old or poor so that use government services that require an ID. For instance, they rely on food stamps or Medicaid or social security. A large part of this 6.5% and the cohort you talk about th
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by asabjorn 7y ago
Forgot link of evidence that banking require ID https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/can-i-get-a-checkin...

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