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by bingbong70 5y ago
>What is high risk and what is low risk? At high risk are the elderly (65+ years old), the obese, and people of any age that are diabetic and/or have preexisting cardiovascular issues (which accounts for the majority of covid deaths
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by bingbong70 5y ago
Medical science has feedback latency. Be careful about trusting brand new scientific claims that haven't gone through rigorous testing.
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by bingbong70 5y ago
Newly developed vaccines for debilitating diseases aren't given to children indiscriminately en masse. We are dealing with a completely different scale here and we should be more careful about it. Rushing the medical feedback process h
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by bingbong70 5y ago
>Actually, vaccinating all kids is normal Vaccinating children with 20-100 year old (~1-4 generations of human feedback/testing) vaccines is normal, vaccinating them with 1 year old experimental vaccines is not. In my opinion, peopl
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by bingbong70 5y ago
Interesting that this is downvoted without a reply. I guess people have conclusive evidence that a foreign country didn't just attack China? Feel free to share/link it if you do. HN feels like the same kind of echo chamber that wo
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by bingbong70 5y ago
"It’s not the best system for everyone" but it's the best system for people that accumulated vast sums of wealth pre-capitalism and what they say usually goes.
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by bingbong70 5y ago
Gold was volatile when it was initially introduced as a store of value too. Look up the historical charts when compared to silver (the primary store of value at that point in history)
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by bingbong70 5y ago
I expect the fact that this virus emerged in Wuhan during the World Military Games makes the Chinese very cautious about allowing in 'investigators' from countries that potentially deployed this biological weapon.
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by bingbong70 5y ago
It is quite interesting to watch people rationalize what they experienced under Trump, even as a person that was not a fan of the sensationalist coverage he received in the MSM... IMO he was an objectively bad leader and his short-termist a
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by bingbong70 5y ago
Downvoters angry that ~90%+ of the planet doesn't believe white America's manufactured origin myth or is it something else?
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by bingbong70 5y ago
>This was never a problem pre-pandemic I think this was less of a problem pre-Trump more specifically. At some point the idea that foreigners and minorities should be treated like human beings seemed to become controversial in some circl
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by bingbong70 5y ago
UK and US both have private central banks. This is true for all G8 countries if I remember correctly. Most income taxes collected in the US/UK go directly to these private organizations. In many ways slavery in the US was 'abolish
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by bingbong70 5y ago
US dollar is guaranteed to lose at least 50% (lowball) of its value over the next the 10 years, most with this knowledge are choosing to protect wealth by investing in scarce assets. Bitcoin is an easy choice for wealth preservation as the
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by bingbong70 5y ago
A private organization (central bank) having a monopoly on printing and lending money to your government is acting "legitimately"? Many that have studied this system would disagree.
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by bingbong70 5y ago
People are looking forward to an economy that revolves around a deflationary/limited-supply currency like Bitcoin so, for example, excess housing supply doesn't get wasted for the sake of speculation/inflation-hedging. People
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by bingbong70 5y ago
Anything but believing black people... I remember when this same approach was employed until police bodycam footage taught us some cops do just go into a black neighborhoods and plant drugs on poor black people that are innocent, etc... I g
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by bingbong70 5y ago
This could start further upstream. Is it possible US immigration inadvertently selects for unassertive East Asians? East Asians were banned from the country for a long time, I would not be surprised if there was a specific selection criteri
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by bingbong70 5y ago
>True inflation the value of the dollar vs other currencies would drop, and it hasn't. The dollar index has dropped about 10% since 2020.
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by bingbong70 5y ago
...and American kids aren't taught that the US was selling oil and equipment to the Japanese so they could attack China...the cabinet cutting off these supplies while the US President was away at a secret meeting with Churchill in Alas
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by bingbong70 5y ago
Jacobin's criticisms reek of ignorance, slaves were clearly the engine of the country if you understand how they were also financialized. US slaves were securitized and used as collateral for loans/leverage/etc (slaves were t
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by bingbong70 5y ago
>We are not saying to "postpone" history lessons, but to contextualize them with other historical facts that are more important. Please give me some examples of these "facts that are more important" where racism and W
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by bingbong70 5y ago
>if I wanted to suck up to elite whites I’d embrace teaching kids of color about “white supremacy.” I completely disagree. White supremacist systems have operated across the globe for a few centuries now, the actual white elites/ben
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by bingbong70 5y ago
Coinjoins and whirpooling bitcoin is becoming cheaper, easier, and more widely adopted...chain hopping is also becoming easier thanks to decentralized exchanges and atomic swaps. If the government wants to censor transactions they have to e
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by bingbong70 5y ago
Do Jewish parents "save their children" from history lessons and postpone them? When is the holocaust and other info about historic anti-semitism introduced? I would be surprised to hear that they delay this, I believe some of the
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by bingbong70 5y ago
>I don't want my kids to be taught that there's this amorphous but pervasive "systemic racism" and "white supremacy" out to get people who look like them, but which they can't do anything about. Learnin
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by bingbong70 5y ago
>Sure. Neither is any country providing a $750/month UBI, much less $1500/month, from taxes. (Some countries do provide that sort of thing for citizens from oil revenues or whatnot.) Kuwait pays ~$10k per citizen, last I checke
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by bingbong70 5y ago
This is quite a succinct explanation floatingatoll, thanks for expanding.
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by bingbong70 5y ago
Doge has 129 billion coins in circulation with an expectation of having over 1.2 trillion coins in circulation (there is no max supply), it is 'funny' because it is an example of extremely bad money when we compare it to actual ha
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by bingbong70 5y ago
China has less carbon pollution per capita than the US. Not sure why we would measure pollution any other way... Does each US/EU/German/Japanese person have more right to pollute than a Chinese person? I think not. https:&#x
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by bingbong70 5y ago
I notice a common trend of nocoiners is minimizing the utility of the bitcoin network to make their job of criticizing it easier. It is intellectually dishonest and lazy and makes it impossible for people that have actually studied the tech

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