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by chkaloon 6y ago
Yes! That is an astute point. Corporate farms are efficient. Monoculture forests are efficient, etc. But they are fragile. Unions and income transfers cause inefficiencies, but without them, society becomes fragile.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
And all the pensions and retirement accounts of teachers, firefighters, anyone with a 401k/403b/125 account are the ones propping up those mortgage holders and "capitalists". There is no imaginary backstop here, except t
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Problem is, there's always two parties in every transaction. Holiday for the rent payer is a death knell for the landlord. Mortgage holiday is the same for the bank and its bondholders/depositors.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Not if Mitch can help it, unless, of course, his eventual KY challenger starts climbing in the polls.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
I am afraid we are in a real Wile E Coyote moment here. You know, where he's suspended in air for a few seconds before he goes crashing to the ground? Our crash may come in the fall when UI payments stop and the rent floats become unsu
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by chkaloon 6y ago
I think we're saying the same thing. Vox ruminating on the finer points of canister markings distracts from the true issue here.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
This argument is a purposeful distraction by the administration's supporters. The focus should be on the fact that a protest was cleared so the president could do a silly photo op. A blasphemous photo op. This "tear gas" argu
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Awesome. Some observations/questions: - The control rooms probably required a good amount of maintenance themselves with all the mechanical switches, light bulbs, and paper loggers. - Why the white lab coats in a nuclear control room?
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Exactly. That's the key section of the article. Tough to defend that
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Amazing work. Thanks for the trip down memory lane
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by chkaloon 6y ago
If you believe the humans roughly follow a bell curve in terms of success/work ethic/conscientiousness/mental health/ability to get your sh*t together, pick your metric, there will always be some tail on the bell curve w
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Cool. But I wonder about this stat: 63 manned stations, "would need about 500 tons of materials to create all of these stations" 500 tons seems WAY low.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Fine article, but all the "on the other hand"-ness gets tiresome. One can't drift in the dark forever. Occam's razor, people. It works pretty well.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Nope, should read an article before commenting on it.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
They have cheap trial periods that you can actually stop and start repeatedly. Of course, if you're a regular reader you should pay for it, but then they should also prevent re-using the trial period over and over. So maybe they don&#x
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Seeing those diagrams brought back swarms of memories from 20+ years ago working on UML diagrams on HL7 committees. Ewww.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
This Vox Weeds episode pretty much sums up my anger at this point in history. https://megaphone.link/VMP6490531372
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by chkaloon 6y ago
All of the above. I would add a breakdown of local community institutions - churches/temples/mosques, fraternal clubs, unions, etc., and the switch to online "communities" with no real human contact.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
In times like these what society needs is a leader who appeals to our better angels, who pushes everyone toward the greater good. Instead we have one that puts the worst of human foibles on full display, thinking only of getting the blame e
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by chkaloon 6y ago
I suppose it's only fair that if software engineers think they can play epidemiologists, that epidemiologists could think they can play software engineers.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
If it is significantly non deterministic based on the number of cores, then yes, it should be tossed.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
BS, flim-flam, conspiracies, and Cliff Clavens will always flourish at times like this. I remember before the Internet, mimeographed and Xerox'd flyers were the primary transmission method. The difference now is the Internet, and the f
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Unfortunately this study shows correlation but not causation. Hopefully more studies are under way.
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Epic launches health research network(ehrn.org)
1 points by chkaloon 6y ago|0 comments
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Except for blaming the media for criticism of a flawed study.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
I saw it at the Louvre as well. I saw it as a group of women taking charge because the men were being a-holes.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
I just came here because "The Intervention of the Sabine Women" is one of my favorite paintings.
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by chkaloon 6y ago
Cool, but how does define the "whole galaxy"? I assume there's not a hard defined edge. How do you decide what should be made brighter for the effect in the photo?
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This Week in Virology – Latest in On-the-Ground Covid Treatment from NY(microbe.tv)
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by chkaloon 6y ago
As they say, you don't need to out run the bear, only your partner

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