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by cltby 6y ago
> Setting aside for a moment the multiple orders of magnitude difference in lethality per participant Is this really true? I’m tempted to charge the entirety of the post-summer urban bloodbath to the BLM movement. This represents an incr
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by cltby 6y ago
> not an organized thing Do self-identified Antifa just spontaneously and simultaneously decide to engage in identical acts violence? Is there some remarkably prominent commie Schelling point us outsiders aren’t privy to?
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by cltby 6y ago
Interesting, could you point us to this definition? The Capitol attackers caused three to four orders of magnitude less damage than last summer’s racial reckoners, and I’m assured the latter’s actions were not terrorism.
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Biden to Implement First Doses First(reuters.com)
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by cltby 6y ago
To the extent you're suggesting you can easily live outside of NY but collect tax-free NY income, it's not really true. Any NY source income remains taxable by the state. In practice, this covers remote work too, despite the safe
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by cltby 6y ago
Education is indeed becoming the dividing line between left and right all over the world. Sadly, it is because the scope of "education" has been expanded to include subjects with no intellectual content.
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All I ask is that your social movement be less injurious to society than being wasted behind the wheel.
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There are over 110M drunk driving incidents in the US every year and nearly 7M crashes, drunk or otherwise [1][2]. If we conservatively attribute all of these crashes to drunk drivers, we find that 94% of drunk driving causes no damage or
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by cltby 6y ago
Point taken, but by this standard, we could defend drunk driving as overwhelmingly safe, war as overwhelmingly non-fatal, Vioxx as overwhelmingly heart-healthy, ISPs as overwhelmingly customer friendly, etc etc. It strikes me as pyschopathi
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by cltby 6y ago
> There have been quite a number of injuries and property damage, deployment of chemical irritants by the mob against law enforcement, and several explosive devices identified and defused You're right, I've revised my view of t
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by cltby 6y ago
The standard was set last summer. Leftists spent three months torching police stations, attacking courthouses, looting businesses, and confronting politicians in their homes. I continue to be assiduously reminded that none of this constitut
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by cltby 6y ago
It's quite unfair to call them terrorists when they've harmed no one and destroyed nothing. Remember, riots are the voice of the unheard!
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by cltby 6y ago
The BLM riots cost about $1-2 billion dollars of property damage [1]. Taking as given the standard gov't value of life of $9M, this works out to 110-220 life equivalents. This would qualify the BLM riots as one of the deadliest terror
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by cltby 6y ago
It seems widely agreed that 93% of BLM protests were peaceful [1]. That remaining 7% slice was responsible for $1-2 billion of property damage [2], on par with a serious natural disaster. I don't know how someone can continue to use th
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by cltby 6y ago
90% efficacy does not mean that 100% of the population is 90% able to fight off the disease. It means that 90% of the vaccine recipients are ~100% immune, while 10% are ~0% immune. This has a biological basis: did they seroconvert or not. I
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> If these weren't done for the COVID vaccine specifically, but some other vaccine, couldn't you still put some rough ballpark quantitative guesses on the COVID vaccine to help guide public policy better than "shrug, we ha
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by cltby 6y ago
What do hospitalizations have to do with immunity?
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by cltby 6y ago
> some people would win that race, and some wouldn't. You've basically answered your own question. At the population level, immunity is probabilistic. At the individual level, it's ~deterministic. Those who are challenged
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by cltby 6y ago
Your cells will take up the mRNA and manufacture spike protein, which is the antigen of interest. We should expect this to be pretty similar to just injecting the antigen directly, as the other vaccines do.
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by cltby 6y ago
Are you trolling? This is a comically slavish attitude towards "science," but sadly one that all too many people have.
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It's simply pathological to claim that we have NO DATA just because a large scale RCT wasn't performed. For starters, we have profound differences in the attack curves between treatment and control group, starting about 14 days af
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by cltby 6y ago
Two (or more) doses are fairly standard for vaccines. The first to trigger seroconversion, the subsequent ones to exercise the secondary immune response (and for those relative few individuals who did not seroconvert after the first jab). T
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by cltby 6y ago
> Anything more or less is pure speculation at best There are two lines of evidence. The first is empirical. It It appears that one dose of Moderna _is_ highly effective, perhaps 85% or more. Note the treatment-control divergence after a
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by cltby 6y ago
There's plenty of fat in this budget. The hypothetical worker in your link might consider increasing his labor supply beyond eight hours a day. Maybe he could forego his biannual iPhone upgrade. He might even cut his consumption of hig
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by cltby 6y ago
You’re not subsidizing minimum-wage companies. You’ve decided that workers should enjoy an arbitrarily high standard of living but are unwilling to shoulder the full costs of providing it (e.g. through taxes). Instead, you went to the ballo
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Rich guy: “Mind keeping your hands off my stuff?” Confiscationist: “he’s attacking me!”
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There’s plenty of tax revenue to fund nearly all such priorities. It’s sadly squandered, in large part because voters have ideological commitments to confiscation, and no such commitments to effective government.
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HN commenters are up in arms when e.g. Google stakes a claim on the off-hours output of their current employees. They would be even more furious if Google asserted ownership of future income of former employees. And if Google further
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The CA Franchise Tax Board aggressively pursues departing taxpayers who maintain even slight residual connections to the state. There are no bright-line rules to determine residency, so the state has great leeway (and incentive) to pursue p
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by cltby 6y ago
> Seattle is not a low-tax paradise Excepting special situations for certain PR and USVI residents, Washington state is as close to a tax haven as a US citizen is going to find. > nor are tax dollars completely and utterly squandered

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