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by dnissley 7y ago
I think the first point is what most people are talking about when they're saying the WHO said "masks don't work". "Masks don't work" being short hand for "masks will only help you in these very narro
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by dnissley 7y ago
It used to be, but the culture wars drove me away from it years ago. I think I checked out after this discussion: https://www.metafilter.com/145707/Privilege-doesnt-mean-you-...
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by dnissley 7y ago
Is potential surveillance by government entities the primary reason you are against companies generally doing whatever they want with user data? Are there other rationales? Just like your friends, I personally don't particularly care e
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by dnissley 7y ago
You even see it among states in the US: - New York: 4152 cases / 29 deaths - Washington: 1228 cases / 75 deaths In this case at least it appears that in Washington there was a connected set of old age homes that got hit pretty ear
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by dnissley 7y ago
It doesn't seem to say here, but in other analysis I've seen it as the day the 100 case threshold was crossed.
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by dnissley 7y ago
Screen addiction and various dopamine hits from social media have produced a catastrophic collapse of various IRL social institutions that traditionally facilitated opportunities to meet new people. The book "Bowling Alone" docu
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by dnissley 7y ago
On the other hand, "Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism" [1]. Which wouldn't necessarily swing the election obviously one way or the other (left or right, Democrat or Republican -- although my gut tells me it would
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by dnissley 7y ago
I think that when you do a thing to make money, and it has consequences, you are tacitly saying that you approve of the consequences. The problem is this logic is too simplistic and leads to purity spirals. If I sell food to someone who I
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by dnissley 7y ago
A great companion piece is https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay... You may have read the excellent article How Doctors Die. If you haven’t, do it now. It says that most doctors, knowi
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by dnissley 7y ago
https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/...
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by dnissley 7y ago
H1-B definitely benefits H1-B recipients.
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by dnissley 7y ago
Indeed. Atomization was well under way before social media came along.
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by dnissley 7y ago
I think graphics switching only works when running on battery power. Wonder if there's a way of make it still work when plugged in...
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by dnissley 7y ago
Immigration went from an issue that was hard to make progress on (e.g. come to a compromise) to an issue where that is impossible.
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by dnissley 7y ago
Would that not just directly lead to it swallowing an amount of federal tax revenue proportional to other services that are subsidized? E.g. healthcare/education? And then proceed to munch on GDP bit by bit?
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by dnissley 7y ago
This American Life: Before things went to hell https://www.thisamericanlife.org/665/before-things-went-to-h... An epic immigration compromise was in the works in the 90s... So what happened?
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by dnissley 7y ago
To be fair there are a lot of very unhappy coupled folks out there as well stuck with essentially the opposite problem: the attraction has left the building and hasn't been there for a very long time and waiting for it to come back is
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by dnissley 7y ago
Historically hasn't this activism always been about improving working conditions? I was empathetic with the initial walkout since it was addressing working conditions directly (covering up sexual harassment and forced arbitration). The
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by dnissley 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/2159/
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by dnissley 7y ago
I'm not saying I can't think of anyone that's been harmed by tech -- there's obviously plenty of those just as with any big business or sector of the economy. I'm taking issue with the idea that there is a large gro
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by dnissley 7y ago
What large groups do you speak of?
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by dnissley 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
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by dnissley 7y ago
Is Gibson's going out of business? I had heard reports that the college had renewed the contracts to receive product from the bakery that they had previously broken off, and can't find anything that indicates the store is closing.
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by dnissley 7y ago
There's actually 5: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft
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by dnissley 7y ago
Can you tell me why it's absurd? I'm not even on the right, but I certainly take issue with a lot of the ideas coming out of gender studies (and similar) departments and how easily they are accepted as truth and how quickly they s
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by dnissley 7y ago
Can't tell if sarcasm or serious.
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by dnissley 7y ago
I think that might be jumping the gun? That's a very popular meme but I'm not sure it's at all accurate -- I haven't heard a convincing case. Perhaps you could explain your thinking here? Here's my take: The FBI cal
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by dnissley 7y ago
The previous poster never mentioned that they care about any of that, so why bring it up?
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by dnissley 7y ago
Depends on the suburb. There was forest in my backyard growing up. But there were plenty of other areas nearby with nothing like that.
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by dnissley 7y ago
The fully leveraged life of a luxury car: 1. Lease vehicle to some rich person for the first 3 years who will have few to no problems and return it to the dealership for the next new model once the lease ends. 2. Dump it on some middle-clas

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