chrismcb

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by chrismcb 5y ago
Handshaking isn't gone.
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by chrismcb 5y ago
As someone who is hard of hearing I can't wait for people to stop wearing masks. On the other hand, I wish we knew more how this is transmitted. People eating indoors isn't the main vector of transmission. And masks don't hel
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by chrismcb 5y ago
You know that precovid about 8000 people died each day in the USA?
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by chrismcb 5y ago
How does this square with the first sale doctrine?
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by chrismcb 5y ago
No one would call it gouging. Gouging had to do either necessities in a time or of need. Not a manufacturer raising the price due to higher demand
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by chrismcb 5y ago
Are you saying new York is a republican state? Or low vaccinated with 85% having at least one vaccine? Yet only about 15% of the blacks are vaccinated. I've never heard a black person day they have been denied, but I've heard ple
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by chrismcb 5y ago
You don't think society needs small businesses? Out big businesses for that matter, as many big businesses received bailouts. Personally I would say a healthy society requires a good number of businesses.
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by chrismcb 5y ago
They did.
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by chrismcb 5y ago
What "works?" Statistics? You can do everything wrong and still not get covid. About 10% of the population has gotten covid reach year (at least in USA) sure that probably goes up if you don't follow all those protocols. But
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by chrismcb 5y ago
In the USA there was a lockdown across the entire country for weeks. The only shopping people were doing were the grocery store, and even then most people weren't Restaurants were mostly closed, other stores were closed. Some essentia
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by chrismcb 5y ago
I'm not exactly sure what your point is here. It wasn't possible to eat at Applebee's, because it was closed. People who tried to stay in business were drug of to jail. The lockdowns we're effective. But lockdowns aren&#
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by chrismcb 5y ago
A lot of them were silenced. A lot of scientists were also afraid to speak out against the status quo. If you disagreed with the government you are called anti science (despite the policies having nothing to do with science) it belittled fo
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by chrismcb 5y ago
I'm not sure I agree. Yes we didn't know much about it (why not, it had been going on in China for almost three months) But the original idea was 2 weeks to show the spread. It was too save the hospitals. But somehow that morphed
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by chrismcb 5y ago
One thing that has annoyed me is that we have done very little research into things, like how it really spreads, how effective are masks, shutting down schools. Research into therapeutics. It seems, at least in USA, to be all about getting
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by chrismcb 5y ago
". If holding people accountable so that they don't sacrifice grandma and the immunocompromised for "the economy"" But isn't that the point of this article and the OP? That it wasn't just about sacrificing
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by chrismcb 5y ago
"incumbent players" typically the person who uses something that can be trademarked first, wins. Match has been around forever. I don't see how this other company got a trademark. And yes it is confusing. As far as being clon
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by chrismcb 5y ago
It was also more fun watching the analog dials as well
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by chrismcb 5y ago
ESPN used to talk about the regression to the mean a lot. And it always bugged me, as you are talking about skilled players. Perhaps a player's skill improved
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by chrismcb 5y ago
After successive black streaks about the only thing you can say is maybe the wheel is biased toward black. Assuming no green, and a perfectly unbiased wheel, black if a fifty fifty chance. Which means the next infinity sounds half will be b
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by chrismcb 5y ago
The problem has posed by von Savant specified the host knew where the prize was. And claims the host reveals a non prize for. It is fairly obvious the host won't reveal the winning door, as it would end the problem. Not sure how the as
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by chrismcb 5y ago
YOU aren't missing anything. But a lot of people can't give over "two doors means fifty fifty"
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by chrismcb 5y ago
It isn't the Monty Hall problem if the host doesn't know where the prize is. The problem is generally stated, up funny, the host knows where the prize is. The issue isn't poorly worded, it is that a lot of people can't u
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by chrismcb 5y ago
But you have no protections if you do that
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by chrismcb 5y ago
Money. Yelled wants all of the taxes. And thinks people are getting rich by falling to pay taxes on $600 transactions. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ye...
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by chrismcb 5y ago
I got most of my knowledge from magazines, based, and a few good books. But you make a very valid point.
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by chrismcb 5y ago
Keep in mind that the solar panels work year round. Not sure how long that battery week last in an outage, but you can recoup a lot of the investment the rest of the year.
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by chrismcb 5y ago
"people that treat red arrows like stop signs..." I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you saying people stop at the red arrow then turn? In some cases that is legal. A right red arrow out a left on a one way street.
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by chrismcb 5y ago
Reading your comments, it doesn't sound like your friend are being assholes and rubbing their with in your face. If they are then ditch them. But if they are just enjoying their success and trying to share it with you. Then there is a
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by chrismcb 5y ago
It isn't even a romantic utopia, it is more like a living hell. Rich people create businesses and jobs, that is usually how they are wealthy. If the marginal tax rate guess up to 100% sorry 10 million, there is very little incentive fo
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Personally I think it should be 25 years But yes. That is how copyright works. At the end of the term, the item falls into public domain. If that term is 20 years, then your photo should be public domain by then. That should incentivize yo

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