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by esja 6y ago
Would you write the same response about chemical or nuclear weapons research? I hope not. Yet we've just spent the last year proving that biological warfare will be potentially more deadly than chemical or even nuclear warfare. Decades
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by esja 6y ago
The same reflexive denial happened on HN. Yet the lab leak theory has always been consistent with the situation. It's also always been the best fit to the behaviour we've seen from the various actors.
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by esja 6y ago
I'd also assign a small but non-zero probability to the US not wanting to point the finger because they prefer the scenario where the general population comes to believe that the lab accident was responsible, but no hard evidence is ev
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by esja 6y ago
Are you saying EcoHealth/Daszak do not have material conflicts of interest in this matter? On what basis?
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by esja 6y ago
You're also forgetting that these people are scientists . Scientists only look at the facts and are completely unbiased - they aren't like normal humans, who might be worried about their entire livelihoods being cancelled (or wor
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by esja 6y ago
A proper investigation would not include Peter Daszak at all, due to his immense conflicts of interest on this topic, and his behaviour since the outbreak occurred.
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by esja 6y ago
Wuhan is nowhere near the caves where these bat viruses have been found. It's over 1800 kilometres to Southwest Yunnan, for example.
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by esja 6y ago
Intent.
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by esja 6y ago
NPR are a bit dangerous in some ways, because their reputation for being trustworthy (on most topics anyway) means that a lot of people take all of their reporting at face value, rather than applying some critical thinking or cross-checking
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by esja 6y ago
It's even worse when you consider that central banks have been deliberately keeping wages down through decades of inflation targeting, while ignoring asset prices. And fiscal policy has done nothing to compensate for this. It's ac
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by esja 6y ago
What percentage of the people being kicked off these platforms are actually Nazis? It seems very close to zero.
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by esja 6y ago
The article is about girls outperforming relative to boys . In that context anything which penalises boys benefits girls, by definition. This is basic logic. I'm not sure what else can be said here, so let's leave it at that.
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by esja 6y ago
Sorry, what? I gave an example of a teaching method which creates difficulties for boys relative to girls. You agreed boys have trouble with it. What is left to discuss?
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by esja 6y ago
How can they not benefit women? The article is about the relative performance of men and women, and this factor reduces the performance of men.
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by esja 6y ago
Imagine reading that men perform better in their careers, and saying to women: "The amount of insecurity in the thread is a little embarrassing ladies. Let's be open minded and entertain the possibility that men are indeed more ca
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by esja 6y ago
Male primary school teachers are a tiny minority, and that's true globally.
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by esja 6y ago
Would you consider kindergarten teaching to require a specific gender? Or carpentry? If not, please explain how you are going to persuade a huge number of women who wanted to be kindergarten teachers to instead become carpenters, while also
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by esja 6y ago
A great deal of teaching is built around the idea of students sitting still in one place for a long period of time, listening intently and working quietly. Boys seem to have a lot more difficulty with this (on average) than girls do. That&#
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by esja 6y ago
This is often forgotten. In aggregate, for every woman persuaded to become a bricklayer instead of a kindergarten teacher, a man must be persuaded to do the reverse. This is just never going to happen across all industries.
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by esja 6y ago
So? How does any of that prove Switzerland is xenophobic?
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by esja 6y ago
The difference between colour blindness (equality before the law) and your examples is that your examples are not mutually exclusive. You can save the rainforest and the arctic at the same time. You cannot give the final scholarship place t
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by esja 6y ago
About two thirds are from the EU28/EFTA countries. However: There are twice as many Asians in Switzerland as there are people from the Americas. There are also more Africans than there are Americans. The fifth largest immigrant group a
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by esja 6y ago
Switzerland has one of the largest immigrant populations in the world per capita: 29.9% according to the link below. Very few countries are ahead of this. Even Australia is only 30%, and Canada (which has often led the world in immigration
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by esja 6y ago
Quite a few people who voted against this did so purely because they didn’t want private companies controlling the system. If the proposal had been for the government to issue and control the identities, it may well have passed.
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by esja 6y ago
How is that fair to the child of Cambodian refugees whose entire families were murdered, and who started from less than nothing in America? “Sorry, your skin isn’t as dark as Oprah’s so she’s more deserving”? How will your two dimensional s
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by esja 6y ago
The whole point of the story is that he is black and gets treated unfairly (accused of a crime) because of that. It’s fundamentally about the racial discrimination that was rife at the time. Take that one element away by making him white, a
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by esja 6y ago
No, it was already very well accepted that you shouldn’t throw white people in jail for crimes they didn’t commit. It was not well accepted if the accused was black. The challenge was to persuade people (many of whom were racists) to see
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by esja 6y ago
Is an Asian child who is born poor less deserving of help than a black child who is born poor? If so, why? If not, why not? And if your ultimate goal is a society where race is irrelevant and we all treat each other equally, exactly how doe
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by esja 6y ago
The point was not that modern anti-racists are wrong because they disagreed with MLK on some topics, it was that they are wrong because they completely reject colour blindness, of which MLK’s famous statements are one well-known example. Pe
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by esja 6y ago
Sure, but that's not important to the point I'm making. If you asked almost everybody even two years ago what "racism" or "anti-racism" meant, and what Atticus Finch stood for, you would have gotten some versio

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