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by hcurtiss 5y ago
"The SAT has been shown to be both culturally and statistically biased against . . . Asian Americans." Well, I'll be damned. Huh.
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No, it's a measure of how well you perform on the subjects tested by the SAT. There are many things that correlate with high SAT scores (e.g., grades, being Asian?), but it is definitely true that you can prep for the SAT without any
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MIT
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Premised on the undisputed fact that vaccine manufacturers are not liable for adverse reactions, leaving the victim with no remedy.
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The highest vaccinated countries have almost stopped it? Israel had among the highest vaccination rates in the world prior to its most recent peak, which has now declined. Other countries are going through the same thing. There is only a
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No matter how small the risk?
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The chicken pox vaccine was invented in Japan in the 1970s, was approved for kids in the US in 1995, and required in schools sometime in the early 2000's, depending on the state -- nearly 30 years after its invention. This is very unl
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Transmissivity /= mortality rate
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That paper was a meta-study from July of last year based on papers even older, and it's loaded with problems. This paper in the Lancet [1] and this paper in BMJ on Delta [2] both have mortality at significantly lower. World-o-meter h
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Every. Single. Year.
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“Relatively high mortality”? Can you think of any virus even close to COVID mortality that we take these kinds of draconian measures to prevent?
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Except for many cohorts, the overwhelming — near certain — odds are that they’d be fine after contracting COVID.
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If the owner has an iPhone, aren’t they notified that somebody’s placed an AirTag near them that’s following them? I thought this was one of the anti-stalking measures.
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Happy to. You can email me at heath at curtiss dot es
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As a former linear corridor permitting attorney who is married to a current linear corridor permitting attorney, I can tell you with confidence that there is no universe where we build any meaningful amount of new energy transmission in the
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The answer, IMHO, is to assign property rights and let people trade for the optimal outcome. People frequently and willingly make transactions that on average shorten their lives in exchange for short term benefits (e.g., eating at McDonal
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I'm principally a transactional attorney. The one piece of software that keeps me tied to Windows in addition to Word is Workshare Compare. To my astonishment, even after jacking prices after the recent acquisition by Litera, there i
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The "optimal" level of pollution is not zero. While there may be exceptions to individuals, to society as a whole, the benefits of an activity may very outweigh the costs. This is true of every human endeavor. There are always
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Having owned a 1970 F-100, I think you may be overestimating the crash protection they had in the first instance. This takes it from approximately terrible to . . . also terrible.
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I cannot imagine what you buy that your groceries have not increased in price in the last eighteen months. We too track every expense, and the grocery costs have increased 20-30%.
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Maybe. But that is not a universally held view. Many Europeans, including our family friends in Germany and Poland, would prefer to live in the American system, with its relatively low taxes and relatively greater freedoms (and tools to che
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True, but there definitely is a fiduciary duty, and shareholder derivative lawsuits for breach of that duty are definitely a thing. They are usually substantiated by irresponsible decisions producing low returns. The analysis is complicat
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Who would pay that debt for past emissions, and what price should they pay?
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John Talberth runs the Center for Sustainable Economy, an environmental advocacy organization in Portland, Oregon. He is an old general from the PNW "timber wars" of the 1990s, directly involved in pursuing the spotted owl injunc
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I don’t view it as obviously unjust as applied to individuals. That may suck for that person, but turning off the revenue demands substantially reduces the odds others are subject to ransoms. If all you do is focus on the individual case,
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If you make it a felony to pay ransoms (which I strongly support), there will be far fewer ransom demands. Yes, some of it will go underground, but in my view it’s the only way to actually decrease the demand side of the equation.
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First time I can remember them down.
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Well, at least their reactors.
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It's not necessarily that it's an uneconomic lease (I don't have any facts). But that initial payment is not the value paid to the government. The lease bid is premised on the risk of exploration, and the huge royalty payme
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I prefer maximizing human prosperity. That is not necessarily contingent on energy consumption, but at least throughout recorded human history there is a very strong correlation. So long as it does not compromise human prosperity, includi

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