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by briefcomment 5y ago
This seems like a straightforward study.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
You mean by freeing up hospital beds? That's orders of magnitude less of a benefit than stopping exponential contagious spread, so not nearly as compelling of a reason.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
I would assume any sort of attack, if it's not able to outright kill the virus, would accelerate mutation. The experts have conceded for a while now that the vaccine has been proven to reduce symptoms, but not necessarily reduce sprea
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by briefcomment 5y ago
I'm not saying anything about experts. I'm saying that the concept that you should get the vaccines for others looks like it's moot. That means the only consideration you should have about getting the vaccine is if you want
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by briefcomment 5y ago
N=1, I spend all my media time on Youtube. Haven't watched a show in years. Watched some of the NBA playoffs though. Also watched Tenet in a huge empty theater.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
If vaccines don't stop transmission, then the only reason to get a vaccine is to protect yourself from severe symptoms. That contradicts what I've often been hearing that you should get the vaccine for the benefit of others. Whe
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by briefcomment 5y ago
This is the CDC
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by briefcomment 5y ago
Why do people expect geriatric bullies to make good laws?
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74% of recent Covid cases in parts of MA were among the vaccinated – CDC study(cdc.gov)
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by briefcomment 5y ago
Taking the handouts is the most rational thing to do. Why would you expect people to do otherwise? Relying on unspoken normative rules is maybe possible in a society with well defined and perpetuated values, but in our current society, ut
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by briefcomment 5y ago
Are you talking about Flynn? Imo, being apolitical, that looked like an inconsequential offense, and the FBI response to it looked like a dumb waste of time. And the longer they dragged it out, the dumber it looked.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
If 100% of people think IAs are villainous, IAs will have a hard time recruiting capable people, so they will shrink and be less efficient. It will be easier to litigate against them too, since they have less of an ability to subvert the l
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by briefcomment 5y ago
If sentiment against IA becomes really negative, they'll have a hard time doing particularly egregious stuff. Right now, plenty of people are totally fine with IAs.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
Sure, but the more often we elect interlopers, the less often they can use that tactic without being obvious about what they are doing.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
It's probably naive to think parts of the government and government contractors aren't deeply connected.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
> first attempts will probably fail First hundreds of attempts? In your experience, is that a reasonable number?
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by briefcomment 5y ago
Right, like a parent sees the value of an extra income, and subconsciously recognizes the benefit to their sanity to not recognize that they live with an abuser, so they let things slide.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
If we kept interlopers in power long enough, it could start to work. Four years or less is probably not enough time for this to work.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
Ok, but intelligence has a history of doing things like this, and have undeniable unimaginable power. Quite a bit more capable than your rock.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
> There was no deep state/intelligence community/media conspiracy against him I mean, if it was successful, you wouldn't even know.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
> What can an American citizen do at that point? They can elect someone that can give the agencies a hard time. I guess every time that happens though, we get a one term or less president.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
It's almost like when a parent is in denial about their spouse abusing others. They turn a blind eye to it.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
You think AI is so primitive that we can't make any headway into the biggest problem we currently have? That seems like a fairly fringe view. Especially on a problem that has well defined data like medical imaging.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
I wonder if there are people who don't view intelligence agencies negatively nowadays.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
Don't forget bats.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
Right, so is phlogiston to fire as our current understanding of what's happening is to reality?
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by briefcomment 5y ago
You think a 100% failure rate on the hottest topic in the world right now is likely?
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by briefcomment 5y ago
I'm curious what people find is more likely given this evidence: - 100s of models were done incorrectly, and none even remotely correctly - there is no phenomenon to correctly model Both seem extremely unlikely. Not sure what the alte
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by briefcomment 5y ago
You're not compelled to put something in your body.
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by briefcomment 5y ago
What does this even mean? They made various demographic buckets, and this particular one had the highest count?

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