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by gojomo 5y ago
The original AdWords & AdSense pure-text formats weren't so bad, either.
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Wikimedia should also let users opt-into (small, tasteful) ads instead of fundraising appeals - a way to contribute indirectly, rather than an explicit donation.
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The person pushing the inflammatory "relying on billionaires to save us" framing is a manipulative hit-chasing Vox muckraker.
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I dont see much of your bullet-item beliefs from billionaires like: * Winfrey * Dorsey * Soros * Steyer * Benioff * Bloomberg * Simons * Sussman * Pritzker * Buffett * Scott * Omidyar * Williams * Kardashian * Lucas A few of them support IP
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>"they have very little understanding of a number of issues that 'middle-class' people face" I get the same impression reading private-school-educated Vox writers.
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Billionaires at least introduce a diversity of perspectives & approaches. Such diversity is usually missing from the mandarin class of ivy-leaguers & federal-government-lifers for which Vox's 'explanatory journalism'
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Interesting. But if they're that persistently delusional, even when Trump's actions & words are contrary to their beliefs, are their actions "entirely due" to Trump? The phenomena you describe suggest it's bigge
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Indeed, Fauci has the magic touch of the 'cooler', the person in a con who keeps the mark from getting angry. Everything Fauci's said, at every phase of this pandemic, has been optimized not to save lives or be truthful, but
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by gojomo 5y ago
By... getting vaxed himself? Why aren't the vax campaigns leading with Trump's action – and his repeated verbal endorsement of choosing to get vaxed – to overcome resistance in his followers? Such over-focus on Trump is a patholog
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Also Fauci in early March 2020 mocking the idea of people changing their travel plans as an overreaction. Also Fauci shooting-down lab-origin theories in public, while his private emails – still heavily redacted! – imply contemporaneous dis
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What Nobel-in-Economics work has been retracted? A Nobel-in-Chemistry went to an enthusiastic creator of chlorine gas chemical weapons (Haber). A Nobel-in-Medicine went to the inventor of the lobotomy (Moniz). Another Nobel-in-Medicine was
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by gojomo 5y ago
The Foundation uses the longer name when being formal, but regularly includes the Economics Prize as a 'Nobel Prize' in headers & lists - such as their top-level menu 'Nobel Prizes' (which includes the 'Prize in
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by gojomo 5y ago
A better title might name either the honored area-of-work, or the honorees. EG: "2021 Economics Nobel: Natural experiments help answer important questions" (an in-page header) ...or... "2021 Economics Nobel: Card, Angrist, &a
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by gojomo 5y ago
If the Economics prize is OK with the Nobel Foundation, which administers the prize along with the others, that should be good enough. (Did you know that the "MacArthur Fellows" – sometimes called "Genius Grants" – were
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by gojomo 5y ago
Has Ms. Crouse seen TikTok?
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So, a UUO? (Unidentified Underwater Object)?
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On the remote-work internet, no one needs to know you’re an old dog.
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Most of your points about coronavirus vaccine research also apply to coronavirus gain-of-function research: scientists have been studying these viruses for decades. They've also been proposing – & sometimes doing! – gain-of-functio
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You seem to be suggesting that because this 2018 grant was recently "leaked", we now have... perfect info on all other grants & projects, including any that are part of the 'black budgets' of the US or China. But may
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But why would one denial from one particularly finicky funding source (Trump-era US agencies) make researchers – who thought they were doing essential work – stop such essential work? Why wouldn't they use other funding, possibly from
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Does the example of the world's recent adaptations to COVID-19 give you confidence that "we" would make the necessary adjustments to redirect livestock feeds to humans in an emergency? I doubt that for any famine of the last
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by gojomo 5y ago
Why should the 2020 EUA or 2020 Warp Speed program excuse an early-2021 error in spacing? Some countries, & domain experts, got it right from the get-go. Those countries have benefited – saving lives – with their proper reading of the p
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by gojomo 5y ago
When should we schedule the full, honest picture, if not now, when he's on people's minds moreso than he will ever be again? I love the positive remembrances here. I also appreciate the full picture, like the joke about the "
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That rings a bell!
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When I had no computer, I wanted one of those <USD$200 ZX81s so badly – just from seeing it magazines, & maybe pressing some of its keys at the electronics counter of someplace like maybe a Sears . IIRC the video output often cut ou
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by gojomo 5y ago
There are more RCTs about vaccination – because of the taboo against human challenge trials, even among the vaccinated. But there's more evidence for natural immunity, from the 1B+ people worldwide who've had COVID & recover
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Supply constraints (not anything 'safety' related) were the original driving factor for slower 2nd doses elsewhere - but it was already confidently conjectured by domain experts that a longer spacing would likely be more effective
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Once all who want it are vaccinated, and further 80-95%-plus of the population is either vax- or post-infection- immune, the alleged 'multiplier' of danger-to-others is negligible. The protected are protected; those who want to ta
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There's growing evidence one natural infection is better than any vax for future immunity. One recent report, based on Israeli data: "Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine" https://www
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Theoretically, and in places of transient surges, sure. But most of US isn't currently at that level of health-care rationing. You know who else puts others at risk? Vaccinated people, overconfident, potentially walking around with the

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