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by citilife 6y ago
Personally, as a parent, taxpayer and U.S. citizen, I'm appalled by this. Reality is that we pay taxes for children to go to school to get an education. I personally think we need school choice for the very reasons presented by this sc
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by citilife 6y ago
To be fair, there was a large influx of people to Texas recently. Plus the lowest temperatures in 30 years. Not an excuse, per se, but it makes sense things were stretched. Personally, I live in Illinois, we use nuclear power and have to sa
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by citilife 6y ago
Let's not forget, government regularly hands out massive amounts of money to private enterprise -- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/fed-hires... The "speaking" fees are really
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by citilife 6y ago
Isn't that kind of like REI in terms of setup?
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by citilife 6y ago
They've been counting any flu related illness as COVID, hospitals also get additional funds for COVID-19 hospitalizations. Only a handful of influenza tests have even been ran: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
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by citilife 6y ago
> Is it possible that Sars-cov-2 epidemic will eventually save more lives than it cost, through the long term and short term effects of decreased pollution and climate change? Climate change wont directly lead to death, we'll have t
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by citilife 6y ago
I for one am not concerned. The true mortality rate appears to be <1% and of that 90% are >65. What does that mean? To put it into perspective you may only know one person in your friend group which knows one person who dies. Your fri
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by citilife 6y ago
You assume the steady stream of disinformation is only coming from facebook, and not the news corporations. The reality is that CNN, MSNBC, Huffington post, New York Times, FOX, etc. all are shoving fluffed up pieces with an extreme bias. E
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by citilife 6y ago
> the Russian government You sure about that? "They" have been claiming Russia is the boogie man for years, but it's never been proven. In this case, it does appear like a complex hack. Wouldn't be surprised if it&#
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by citilife 6y ago
Yes, there were 3 domestic terrorists (with 2 FBI agents effectively suggesting it...). My concern is more at the government level - are there any threats from conservative republicans in office? From the rights perspective, it appears they
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by citilife 6y ago
Do you have links?
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by citilife 6y ago
None of those are the government, sure there are radical citizens (domestic terrorists), admittedly. Everyone universally thinks this is bad. That being said, the right appears to be concerned about all their constitutional rights taken awa
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by citilife 6y ago
Honest question, why do the liberals feel in danger? I personally don't attribute myself to either side, nor did I vote for either. However... I've seen rioting (been caught up in one and feared for my safety), noticed stuff being
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by citilife 6y ago
I think the actual issue is that the claims of fraud are not being evaluated. I've watched tens of hours of testimonies thus far, seen the evidence, reviewed the data myself, and there's definitely something to all this. The issue
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by citilife 6y ago
Kelly was discussing that this morning on the radio still had it pending at SCOTUS. They believe it may be merged with the Texas case. So, unless I'm missing something, the former comment appeared correct.
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by citilife 6y ago
Really glad this passed, but we can't get COVID19 support and / or get some election reform. There is even have video evidence of illegally adding and counting votes... but oh no! Can't discuss how to improve that process...
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by citilife 6y ago
Really glad this passed, but we can't get COVID19 support and / or get some election reform. They even have video evidence of illegally adding and counting votes... but oh no! Can't discuss how to improve that process... htt
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by citilife 6y ago
Honestly, excess deaths so far are relatively low, 10-20% increased risk of death this year... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lettergram/covid19-analysi... In terms of what that means, if you're 15 - 45; 1 per
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View Trends in Case Law(case.law)
1 points by citilife 6y ago|0 comments
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by citilife 6y ago
Any time you provide increased funding to a customer, the price of the goods will go up. This is the same reason raising the minimum wage would likely increase prices of other goods. An easy-ish solution to this is: 1. Breaking up unions&#x
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by citilife 6y ago
I am one of those without a PhD, but have taken the time to the learn the math & contribute quite a bit to this area. That being said, I also don't think deep learning itself is not really a "science". The issue I have is
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by citilife 6y ago
I've actually done work on synthetic data development -- https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily... Generally, we use it to avoid utilizing 'real' data. Accuracy usually is the same
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by citilife 6y ago
They also wont let banks or oil companies purchase co-branded clothing... https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/fintech-bros-not-welcome.h... IMO the whole refusing service is weird, not giving out advertisement
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by citilife 6y ago
It appears to largely be a manipulation / changes in the reporting -- Here's the FAQ attached to the report: https://www.bls.gov/cps/employment-situation-covid19-faq-may... > In the establishment survey, w
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New List of Americans Tracked Without Needing a Warrant(newsweek.com)
62 points by citilife 6y ago|9 comments
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by citilife 7y ago
Something weird happened in California, where 20% of their tests were coming back positive, then all the sudden 04/04/2020 they started seeing <10% positive tests: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lettergram&#x
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by citilife 7y ago
Why not just an anti-body test & if you feel sick, do a regular test. People with anti-bodies go back to work, people who feel sick get treatment, everyone else is in lockdown. In 12-18 months we have a vaccine and / or are all sic
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Covid-19 vs. the Economy(austingwalters.com)
2 points by citilife 7y ago|0 comments
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by citilife 7y ago
Even if people meet socially outside of work, they still aren't _required_ to go to work. Which means a lot of people can practice social distancing. People are scared, many will avoid groups (others may throw parties, but can't h
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by citilife 7y ago
Printing money and giving it to everyone essentially taxes every dollar by the same amount. That's not necessarily the best solution here.

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