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autokad
5y ago
I feel like talking about genes in % similarity seems to be useless.
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5y ago
I know they are completely different virus, but I am hoping they can use the tech on HIV
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5y ago
you are hooked on some serious propaganda. Lets be clear, if the US stopped producing producing food and instead bought it from other countries, it would be the biggest disaster in human history.
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5y ago
and you somehow think if the US stopped producing food and started importing all of its food, it wouldn't cause famine.
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5y ago
#1 ) I dont think you understand how sensitive the global food supply is to changes. #2) The US isn't just a net exporter of food, its one of the dominant food producers (in exports) in the world. A country like Canada only became a ne
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5y ago
the government pays farmers (subsidizes) based on a lot of planning. this is done because special aspects about food (go read an economics 101 book - inelastic demand, prefect competition). in short, its meant to stabilize the system such t
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5y ago
I tend to disagree. most other theories ( such as a tree fall ) only considers the injuries and doesn't fit together as a story. The snow slab story fits all the other evidence: there was a massive slide of ice that rolled over the te
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5y ago
click bait tittle, they pay property taxes in NYC, just a much lower % rate. > "The combined 89th and 90th floor penthouse at One57 set the new high-water mark for a single-family residence sale in New York. While the owner paid nin
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5y ago
I guess you can't work for Amazon then. You'll never get passed the Customer Obsession LP
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5y ago
agree, I think tech employees should be weary of remote work. We'll probably see even harder interview process and less pay / benefits as a result.
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5y ago
you are focusing on the 50 and not the 400,000. so now that you established yourself as a troll, I really dont care to convince you of anything. > "I'm not convinced the economy wouldn't have declined if we hadn't lo
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5y ago
It's hard to talk about numbers like that, especially before they happened. I know in Philadelphia, the murder rate is up about 40%. When I was looking at deaths data from the CDC, I found that deaths were up (from 2% on average incre
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5y ago
As an American, here are my thoughts. From as early as February or March 2020, I had always felt they told us what we needed to know - about 600k people would die of covid-19 in the US. I thought maybe if we did some things we could get tha
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6y ago
> "Incidentally, i think the solution to web search is peer review: websites ranking other websites, and having themselves punished when they mis-rank (which is what pagerank was originally)" This is interesting because I had a
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6y ago
> "The remaining search results themselves are increasingly troubled. My own personal experience is that they are now often comprised of superficial commercial "content" from sites that are experts in setting their page me
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6y ago
its really really annoying that even smart people puppet 'self driving cars are safer than human ones'. self driving cars are orders of magnitude more dangerous than human drivers. its absurd to say otherwise, and to do so requir
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6y ago
point being, even if it was just 1 time, had you performed that action you would be very worried I presume.
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6y ago
0.00009% over a 30 year period means you have about a 1% chance of being blown up by starting your car. that's about the odds of catching HIV while having unprotected sex with someone who is HIV positive (depends on a lot of factors t
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6y ago
a thunder clap headache is also a symptom of a stroke.
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6y ago
I'm still having a hard time trying to understand why you where surprised they weren't uniform. You can add .0001% of something to a food and taste the difference depending on what you added. if someone making a sandwich puts mus
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6y ago
why do you hate elon musk?
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6y ago
that's a strawman. and also not very much. A lot of places either have no sidewalk or were already designed with a side walk and street in mind. so given that side walks usually don't even have enough space for a full lane of t
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6y ago
I didn't say we all should drive. I am just pointing out the backwards logic of the commenter, which I am 100% correct on. Hint: I don't drive, I walk.
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6y ago
I think you got it backwards mate. your basically asking hundreds of thousands of cars to suffer in favor of a few hundred bicyclists. Most people who bike strangely think most people want to bike but just cant. most dont want to. as an
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6y ago
maybe if it was proof of ownership, being large made it hard to steal
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6y ago
a lot of the big tech use their footprints as political power. who wants to bet California goes less after big tech if they keep their hq in San Francisco fully staffed?
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6y ago
I think news sources are desperate to downplay the importance of being outside getting sun and vitamin d because it highlights how them locking down everyone was probably one of the worst things that could be done.
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6y ago
saw it coming, but not a bad read. the 1884 makes it even more interesting, that they were thinking of this stuff then as well
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6y ago
well here's a start: #1 - stop using the internet to gauge what popular #2 - stop using what is popular to dictate law and how everyone has to act.
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6y ago
Yeah I think I might. I only mention this because I think its related to the article. possibly same type of story different company.
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