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by celtain 5y ago
You just said you're mostly done. If not the vaccine, what (mostly) ended the pandemic for you?
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by celtain 5y ago
Why is there much difference between getting a booster every 6 months rather than every 12-24 months? Compared to lockdowns or even just mask mandates, both booster schedules seem like a pretty minor inconvenience given the pandemic-halting
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by celtain 5y ago
Perhaps students could use or even operate them. Undergraduate level electrical engineers would love to have access to a fab, even one a couple decades behind cutting edge.
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by celtain 5y ago
There was a controversy, but the controversy was never over whether it was appropriate to ask for your honorific on a form, just what the options should be. E.g. nobody thought it was weird to ask if you went by Dr.
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by celtain 5y ago
At least 99% of the people signing documents won't have a public key that anyone else can verify. Even if you help them generate one, they'll probably forget about it and you'll be the only one with a record of it, so once ag
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by celtain 5y ago
You know the ERA hasn't been ratified, right?
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by celtain 5y ago
So the alternative to making the bikes take a detour was that there would be more congestion, not that the road would be closed to cars entirely? It sure doesn't sound like the "bike special interests" were the ones being unr
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by celtain 5y ago
To be clear though, that was a somewhat unusual race, e.g. the incumbent progressive Democrat probably would have won if he hadn't been knocked out in the primary. The ex-Democrat, Obama/Clinton/Biden-voting Republican who wo
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by celtain 5y ago
Has the medical profession told you that your current housing situation cures a major ailment?
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by celtain 5y ago
I don't think anybody is saying that the lack of windows is itself a good thing, even the "forced socializing" line of reasoning clearly uses the lack of windows as a stick to get people out of their rooms. It's just an
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by celtain 5y ago
>Which is great except 50% of people are introverts and need space to recharge. How many people live like this in real life? The vast majority of students? I don't think I knew a single person who lived without roommates when I was
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by celtain 5y ago
>We were trying to "flatten the curve" Not were, are . The entire lockdown/restriction/mask mandate set of policies has been based on managing hospital capacity. State and local governments are still using hospital c
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by celtain 5y ago
I'm not sure this is correct. People who avoid obesity-related health issues often just get old enough to suffer from some other, even more expensive disease. A cancer patient requires more expensive care than a typical diabetic or hea
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by celtain 5y ago
How is that analogy wrong? Both in terms of the technical implementation and the subjective user experience, you're making separate requests for a document each time. Analogies are always going to be imperfect, but I can't see the
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by celtain 5y ago
>there is an abundance of unskilled labor and the average person (the laborer) has to derive income from work. They can't just say, "Puh, this isn't worth it any more!" This was true throughout the 2010s, but under fu
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by celtain 5y ago
My standard workday lunch used to be a chicken salad sandwich with all the toppings. When I replaced that with a mushroom melt I realized I didn't actually care that much about the chicken itself. A lot of the meat I was consuming was
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by celtain 6y ago
Not all international disagreements are disagreements between sovereign nations themselves. It's possible that MAEU could sue JAXA or Hokkaido University in a Japanese court if they think they're violating Japanese law. If that&#x
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by celtain 6y ago
Few people completely stop eating meat for health reasons these days. Even reducing red meat consumption is no longer considered particularly important for your health. It's almost always about the environmental and/or ethical iss
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by celtain 6y ago
If you were already spending >$200/mo on spin classes, the price of a peloton is very reasonable as an alternative.
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by celtain 6y ago
>And pardon me for saying this, but part of me is ever so slightly disappointed Covid-19 is not a lot more deadly. I am a terrible person. I suspect that if it was a lot more deadly, it would have triggered a stronger government response
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by celtain 6y ago
I can see the value of letting people pay with time if they are less inclined to pay with money, but I wish we could let them pay by actually doing something useful with that time, rather than by having them waste it (and I don't think
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by celtain 6y ago
My problem with sales is that time spent looking for sales is not at all socially beneficial, it's human labor that's completely wasted. If we want poorer people to have better access to the goods and services richer people buy, w
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by celtain 6y ago
The Netherlands PPP conversion factor is less than 1, and was in 2009 as well. This means that each Euro spent by the Netherlands goes further than the exchange rate equivalent number of dollars would go in the US. Wouldn't adjusting f
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by celtain 7y ago
Also, the superdelegates would not have voted for her if she had lost among the pledged delegates. How can we know that? Because that's precisely what happened in 2008. Hillary had tons of superdelegates lined up behind her when the pr
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by celtain 7y ago
There are quite a few ex-Facebook people who have come out with scathing criticisms of the company, and plenty of Google's internal political fights have spilled out into the media. I'm fairly certain that if this has been happeni
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by celtain 7y ago
This kind of content came with the internet, not social networks. Traditional forum moderators have had to deal with really vile content for a long time now, along with the operators of almost any other media sharing website. Unless you wan
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by celtain 7y ago
In general, it's assumed that it's better for society if you consume later rather than now. Risk-free investment returns are how we incentivize that.
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by celtain 7y ago
Mathematically there's no reason the pocket money system wouldn't work with an arbitrarily high income disparity. Is there an interpersonal issue that you see arising?
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by celtain 7y ago
>If your prices are already beating the competition, and you already have a solid reputation for low prices, there is no incentive to continue lowering prices, even as you cut costs. If they could reach many more customers by lowering pr
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by celtain 8y ago
Even including stocks owned through retirement and pension funds, 84% of stocks are owned by the wealthiest 10% of Americans, and roughly half of all households have exactly $0 invested in the market. Saying that Uncle Scrooge and his buddi

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