dave_b

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by dave_b 7y ago
Why would you assume total travel is constrained? Restricting travel from Europe to US will just eliminate that portion of travel, not concentrate it in the US.
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by dave_b 7y ago
Right and it wasn't the president's decision. Not sure what your point is.
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by dave_b 7y ago
Life Care Center in Washington had 120 residents a week ago. Now 19 of them are dead.[1] Does that sound like "just the flu?" There's plenty of evidence that this is much worse than the flu. R0 is >2, compared to 1.3. Mo
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by dave_b 7y ago
Nobody cares what you were thinking about. This whole thread is based on the author's decision to insert a push for single-payer healthcare into an article about the outbreak. And the point is that a general agreement that healthcare s
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by dave_b 7y ago
“Improving health care” != “single-payer system now!”
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by dave_b 7y ago
Obviously, the best health policies are debatable. Saying “our system isn’t prepared for this, therefore we need single-payer!” is moronic and insulting to the reader’s intelligence.
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by dave_b 7y ago
According to that, we should be just about out of antimony by now. Yet somehow the market for drugs and batteries still seems to be humming along. 2/10 fear porn.
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by dave_b 7y ago
Buying people off isn’t a result of capitalism, it’s always going to be a problem because of fundamental human incentives. Any system will fail if it’s administrators are corrupt and simply abandon the system. You’re basically blaming capit
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by dave_b 7y ago
How is it a problem that women are looking at the biological realities and choosing motherhood over a 9-5 job? Most people were originally sold on the “problem” being the supposed sexism that prevented women from doing what they really want
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by dave_b 7y ago
They’re playing the corruption game with politicians, but the rank and file of both sides hate them. That’s a much riskier situation than a big company wants to be in. The amazing part is that both sides hate them for their own political re
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by dave_b 7y ago
On the other hand, I have family members who have been radicalized into crazy conspiracy people who think white men are the root of all evil (can’t remember the direct quote but it was pretty close to that) by watching every news source ex
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by dave_b 7y ago
It’s also an old article, and the unemployment rate has since dropped to new lows. [1] 1: https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet
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by dave_b 7y ago
I’d also argue that, on average, the negative impact of an opioid-related death is greater than that of a smoking-related death. The latter tends to manifest as chronic health issues that extend into old age. Terrible, yes, but these people
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by dave_b 7y ago
He didn’t say it’s irrelevant, he said it’s secondary. And he didn’t argue that the overall thesis of the article is incorrect, he argued that it did a bad job of addressing the topic.
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by dave_b 7y ago
I think the heterogeneity of empires is a contributing factor to their eventual dissolution though. They tend to last a century or two at their height, and then start to break apart as more cohesive nations emerge. That’s not such a long ti
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by dave_b 7y ago
It’s all well and good to encourage understanding and whatnot, but the question is what actually works in reality on a societal level. It might sound nice to say “a strong economic system is not based on greed but on a willingness of each p
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by dave_b 7y ago
Business model has nothing to with anti-competitive behavior, it’s about being in the same industry / providing the same service.
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by dave_b 7y ago
He also never intended to be public about it, he kept his memo internal and posted it in a place that was soliciting feedback on the topic. It only became public when one of the activist types leaked it.
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by dave_b 7y ago
Literally the only evidence presented was a polite call for discussion, and a picture of the guy wearing a MAGA hat. Then the org directly responded, saying they reviewed the evidence and found he violated the code of conduct. Regardless of
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by dave_b 7y ago
It’s just a confusion between two different valid definitions of the word public , not some indication of the state of the culture. Public/private can refer to government vs commercial, or it can refer to “out in the open for all to s
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by dave_b 7y ago
Still, the car’s seeming confusion doesn’t inspire confidence in the readiness of this feature.
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by dave_b 7y ago
By “public space,” I meant the predominant avenues for public discourse (maybe not the best choice of words). Mainstream media, tech platforms, and universities are the specific things I had in mind.
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by dave_b 7y ago
Progressives of the past were all about the principle of free speech. Now that they have the power to control the public space, all they seem to care about are the technicalities of the first amendment. Arguments like that in the comic reve
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by dave_b 7y ago
tin foil hat intensifies
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by dave_b 7y ago
Right, one example I remember from watching the games back in January was stalker micro. The high EPM of the AI allowed it to micro them picture perfectly and blink every single one away right before it died. In doing so it won a battle aga
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by dave_b 7y ago
I imagine the breakout of total war would cause moderate to severe traffic congestion.
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by dave_b 7y ago
If you care about some people more than others, then you have an ingroup and an outgroup. Would you really want to not care for your own family members any more than you care for a random person on the other side of the planet? That’s what