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by black6 6y ago
> It seems that there are certain "neo-Malthusian" individuals high up in the chains of command who simply have no interest in implementing low risk, low cost measures that prevent loss of life, and instead use their power to f
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by black6 6y ago
https://hcqtrial.com/ "...an extensive discussion of the differences between the death rates of New York City and Lagos, Nigeria, which both received infected travelers around the same time. NYC's high rate has be
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Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf](borsche.de)
360 points by black6 6y ago|256 comments
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Tandem catalytic system efficiently converts carbon dioxide to methanol(phys.org)
3 points by black6 6y ago|0 comments
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by black6 6y ago
It's a business, like any other--it just sells something that cannot be redeemed until after death. Let's pull back tax benefits for religious institutions and treat them the same as the rest.
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by black6 6y ago
> Vaccines are definitively, unequivocally safe. Then why does this exist: https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
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Tracking Microaggression Cancel Culture(noodlegunned.com)
3 points by black6 6y ago|0 comments
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by black6 6y ago
Mass Drivers Cost Way Too Much ( https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Nowicki/SPBI1SI.HTM )
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Graphene-based textile cools in the heat and warms in the cold(newatlas.com)
1 points by black6 6y ago|0 comments
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by black6 6y ago
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So sha
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Peresvet: A Russian mobile laser system to dazzle enemy satellites(thespacereview.com)
2 points by black6 6y ago|1 comments
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by black6 6y ago
I would invite you to look at Shadow Stats for a real peek at unemployment numbers, not the “cooked” numbers from the BLS. http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...
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by black6 6y ago
I’m currently reading Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society (really a must-read these days, like Mumford’s Pentagon of Power and Kaczynski’s Industrial Society and its Future ) and I underlined this summary of Homans: “‘Formerly, w
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by black6 6y ago
All part of the plan following their acquisition by Altria (Phillip Morris). Altria already had the IQOS in development and the vape companies were eating into their customer base. By purchasing Juul Altria could publicly act as a vaping pr
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CV Locations(gonavy.jp)
2 points by black6 7y ago|0 comments
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Reason for negative Joule-Thompson coefficient(chemistry.stackexchange.com)
2 points by black6 7y ago|0 comments
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by black6 7y ago
I'm still waiting for the convenient floor-mounted headlamp dimmer switch to come back.
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The “Working from Home” Myth [pdf](cosmicweenie.com)
1 points by black6 7y ago|0 comments
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by black6 7y ago
> Another part of the answer is that fatigue is largely in our heads. Military schools like the Ranger Indoctrination Program really emphasize this point. The body will go on far past the point you think it will stop.
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by black6 7y ago
We (the public) are being misled about either the virulency, the morbidity rate, or both, with regards to SARS-CoV-2. The real numbers simply do not match the models.
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by black6 7y ago
A small village/town; away from the urban craziness; where you can walk over to your neighbor’s to ask for a pound of dried beans because the just-in-time retail model and cascading supply-chain effects means your local grocery store s
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Freedom Controller: web-based digital archiver(freedomcontroller.com)
1 points by black6 7y ago|0 comments
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Coronavirus and the blindness of authoritarianism(theatlantic.com)
114 points by black6 7y ago|134 comments
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The Intense, Competitive World of AOL Disc Collecting(vice.com)
2 points by black6 7y ago|0 comments
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by black6 7y ago
> I could easily imagine eye flickering or eye rolling when your brain OS is rebooting. That image reminds me of the transhumanist YouTube series H+. In one of the first episodes one of the characters keeps trying to “reboot” after his i
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Cups Printing System Lead Developer Has Left Apple, Begins Developing “LPrint”(phoronix.com)
2 points by black6 7y ago|0 comments
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Contractors use shell games to hide owners, cheat taxpayers(pogo.org)
164 points by black6 7y ago|68 comments
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by black6 7y ago
> Aside, I hate the practice of calling demonstrations "experiments". Me too! Demonstration was the word I was looking for, but it wouldn't come to me, so I just used experiment, instead.
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by black6 7y ago
> Students are given incredibly precise instructions and told to find a certain result. If they fail to find the result, they are made to redo the “experiment”. In my final Chemical Engineering Unit Operations lab course there was a dist
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by black6 7y ago
And, at least where I live, the need for the locals to put lift kits on trucks without some downward adjustment of their headlamps.

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