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by eej71 5y ago
Of course he can take a stance. And by the same token the rest of us are free to criticize it.
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by eej71 5y ago
He certainly has a right to do that. No doubt I wonder if Mr. Young will apply the same moral stringency to the rest of his distributors. I also wonder if his fans are aware of his own unscientific misinformation campaigns in regards to GMO
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by eej71 5y ago
What's your assessment of the vaccines ability to reduce severity of infection and reduce the number of people who need hospitalization or even length of hospitalization?
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by eej71 5y ago
So I went rummaging around to see what the stats were for flu risk vs. covid-19 (w/ vaccine) risk. Judging by the this website of historical data, looks like deaths per year seems to average around 15/100,000 a year. It's int
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by eej71 5y ago
I think a bump in pay makes a lot of sense - but I sometimes get the sense that there's a large disconnect between what people _feel_ the risk profile is (with vaccines) vs. what the actual risk profile is. From my standpoint, vaccines
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by eej71 5y ago
As far as I can determine, once you are vaccinated, the risk of serious illness drops down considerably. So much so that (from what I can assess), you are effectively back in range of "its just the flu". No?
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by eej71 5y ago
Here's a fun polarizing stat for "the other side". "More than half of democrats believed Bush knew about 9/11". https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2011/04/more-than-h..
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by eej71 5y ago
I think you've asked a good question. I would rephrase it a bit as - to what in reality gives rise to the concept rights? The answer in this thread appears to be - if enough of a majority of people in power say its true, then its true.
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by eej71 5y ago
I think its perfectly reasonable to be opposed to a government's growing and seemingly insatiable need to inspect, surveil, and judge every aspect of our lives. And yes, I understand that "its just money". But ... at what poi
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by eej71 5y ago
Making bad choices happens all the time. Learning to correct them is a good skill to build up.
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by eej71 5y ago
Agreed! Towards that end I would recommend the recently published book _America's Revolutionary Mind_. It provides a comprehensive (and sometimes exhausting!) overview of the influence of Locke and other enlightenment thinkers on the e
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by eej71 5y ago
The less popular Magnavox Odyssey2 had something similar called Computer Intro!. https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/Computer_Intro !
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by eej71 5y ago
One advantage of being older is that you have a chance to see panics come and go. For example, it would be a challenge to convey to you the utter certainty and despair that existed in the 70s with the prevailing belief that we would be runn
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by eej71 5y ago
A population of 1b would be devastating setback. There’s a reason why some of us view environmentalists as misanthropes.
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by eej71 5y ago
I’ll point out that it was frequently the boomer generation that thought of themselves as the ones who would make it right. That they understood what was wrong unlike their idiot and narrow minded elders. This idyllic view of themselves and
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by eej71 5y ago
I think you are thinking of the general maxim that the goal of executive management of a corporation is to maximize share holder value in the long term. As with most maxims, there is a lot of wiggle room.
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by eej71 5y ago
I agree very much with this. Many of us rely on facial expressions - both sending and receiving - to improve communication. Its a big loss for some of us and I look forward to masks going away.
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by eej71 6y ago
They are listing on NASDAQ. Though they will be tradable on NYSE as well.
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by eej71 6y ago
I used to share that viewpoint until I read The Wright Brothers by David McCullough.
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by eej71 6y ago
I can understand that perspective, but for many families work and school schedules become synchronized. Introducing a one hour shift for some parts of the year becomes very challenging especially for families where both parents work. For so
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by eej71 6y ago
Perhaps I'm deeply misinformed, but as a hedge against a modest amount of regular inflation, stocks generally perform quite well over the long term - especially when compared against other asset categories.
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by eej71 6y ago
Meet Jack Barsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Barsky
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by eej71 6y ago
While I"m sympathetic to his worries, I can't help but wonder if Michael Burry is actually just a one hit wonder. Granted, I'm not even a one hit wonder so he's still one up on me. But still. I'm not sure his conclu
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by eej71 6y ago
This College Humor skit captures the evolving advice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ua-WVg1SsA
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by eej71 6y ago
As with all these changes, it's mostly about coordination and legacy systems. Just as Y2K was a challenge and just as the 2038 date will be a challenge, it's all about pushing changes through legacy systems. ascii->unicode, ip4
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by eej71 6y ago
The MAGA flavored anarchists and nihilists who stormed the US Capitol Building will hopefully be brought up on as many felonies as possible, tried in court, and ideally spend some real time in a real jail. Even better if they can also track
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by eej71 6y ago
One perspective to take is this. 1) CDC reports 5101 deaths for the 35-44 years ago group. I assume YTD with "Date" being "recent". https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/inde
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by eej71 6y ago
Our local library makes it pretty easy. Ours works through an app called Libby that connects with my library card and I then download books to the kindle.
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by eej71 6y ago
I loved the Image Writer II. But maybe that's not the printer you were thinking of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageWriter
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by eej71 6y ago
There is always more wealth to create.

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