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by beerandt 5y ago
Just asking can be coercion. Rattner v. Netburn (2nd cir) held that government officials simply asking for more information about a previously anonymous author of a published article is coercion based on this language in a letter. That a la
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Equally... that when they repeat it and get different numbers, the failed trial will be ignored in favor of the passing trial, without first invalidating the previous results[0], and without using any increased burden of proof. Passed+Faile
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by beerandt 5y ago
Correct or incorrect is sort of irrelevant, because it's a problem itself if they aren't including severity of symptoms in the study. If they are ignoring symptoms to approve a vaccine who's primary remaining benefit is ... r
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The entire point is that the vaccine didn't improve the risk profile for kids under 5. Which means that scenario playing in your head is just as likely to happen (or more likely, not happen) whether your children are vaccinated or not
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Vaccines still lower disease severity. Not for kids under 5. That's why it's not approved. >And of course you don't want to infect your child with a disease Breakthrough cases are so common now that the media refuses t
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by beerandt 5y ago
The speech development and language problems are going to be a huge issue, in hindsight, if not already. Not just kids learning verbal skills and to speak with masks on, but non-verbal-receptive kids, who rely more on facial expressions and
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by beerandt 5y ago
>The biggest reason the under 5s vaccine is taking so long is that they don't suffer severe enough symptoms that they can easily test the efficacy of the virus . How does anyone convince themselves that this is actually a problem?
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by beerandt 5y ago
You can disable play services and uninstall the launcher updates to fix this, then running Netflix will prompt you to enable play services. Clicking the first "enable" prompt in Netflix will start play services without enabling it
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Historically true, but Liquefied NG has turned the economics of the industry on its head in regards to where shipping makes financial sense.
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They're shipped in oxygen free containers to prevent ripening and bruises while in transit, and then are over oxygenated to quickly ripen once unloaded to dockside facilities. Before that, shipping distances were limited and the majori
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by beerandt 5y ago
Negative spot prices are not good for a market, and lead to overall higher prices, not lower ones. It's a mechanism of the market over correcting. Investors don't want to spend capital for a product that they might have to regular
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by beerandt 5y ago
This is absolutely wrong. Transmission is not a near zero marginal cost, and the cost to operate absolutely does depend on the design capacity, including the operating voltages and number of sources and taps. Additionally, wider geographic
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by beerandt 5y ago
Because broadly speaking, public schools rely on 100% of the local school tax revenue to educate somewhere between 50-90% of the students. They rely on private school tuition to further subsidize public schools via reduced enrollment but no
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by beerandt 5y ago
Because private school parents can pull their kid out and take their tuition elsewhere. They actually have options and can make good on bargaining threats to walk away. Additionally, you don't have public sector or really any teachers
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by beerandt 5y ago
The capex of an unreliable power source's backup/stopgap is a cost of using that unreliable power source, and should be attributed as such. It is not a cost/efficiency that is attributable to the inherant characteristics of
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by beerandt 5y ago
There's similar efficiency losses for EVs, but (besides battery efficiency or thermal penalties) they're just further upstream.
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The study included single and double layer; both were an increase vs no mask, but only single was statistically significant.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Surprisingly, wearing an unwashed single layer t-shirt (U-SL-T) mask while breathing yielded a significant increase in measured particle emission rates compared to no mask, increasing to a median of 0.61 particles/s. The rates fo
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by beerandt 5y ago
That's when you pull out a blue pen and start striking clauses and making edits, then ask them to initial. Reciprocate when they want to read the changes you made, if their heads don't explode first.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Think of it as the body of a camera cracking. Some amount of light will leak in and expose the film/sensors. Just depends on how much.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>considered a type of imperialism Interesting to consider, as sort of a tolerance paradox.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Most arms manufacturers have contracts with the government, including contracts to operate govt-owned ammunition factories. Even smaller companies that don't make a product with a major govt/ military contract often have contracts
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by beerandt 5y ago
Expenses just reduce your net income. It costs money to cleanup an oil spill. The fines, afaik, are not tax deductible and are paid after calculating taxable income. This is true for any business, but I don't get why oil gets singled
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's a little bit different here since there's an actual editorial response, and not just removal or similar. The whole reason facebook has 3rd parties do the factchecks is so it can claim that it isn't responsible for the
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by beerandt 5y ago
You're looking for what is known as "the green book" published by aashto Geometric Design of Highways and Streets https://aashtojournal.org/2018/09/28/aashto-releases-7th-edi... But this comes
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Your interpretation of the study is wrong (and probably shows your internal bias in this matter). They claim to be comparing efficacy of natural immunity to that of vaccination, but they're not. They're not really "measur
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by beerandt 5y ago
That's an unbelievably poorly designed study, for many reasons. It basically says unvaccinated people who are already or recently sick (with any "covid-like" symptoms) are more likely to go to the hospital once they catch cov
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's because there are two main types of studies getting published: studies based on the actual virus or real world observations, and studies based on a pseudo-virus or simplified modeling. This study is the latter- it only tests eff
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>similar to pharmaceuticals. It is a pharmaceutical. Using any given drug without doctor or pharmacist oversight isn't a great argument for less regulation. Even if you're overall against most regulation and govt overreach.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Not just the idea/ propaganda, but the govt mandate that methanol be added to ethanol to make denatured spirits, aka the "poison alcohol". It was literally a government created problem, with the same government claiming to be

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