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Why Has Google Censored the Great Barrington Declaration?(spiked-online.com)
7 points by hcurtiss 6y ago|4 comments
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I think this is an under-analyzed factor. It seems some jurisdictions are culturally more violent, and increasingly so (the U.S. in particular).
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For the record, I agree. I only mean to highlight the next stop is ammunition constraints/controls.
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“You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet… You know why? C
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
Then build them smaller. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a34198830/tw...
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Really? I find them pretty convincing.
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The Wall Street Journal editorial page?
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But "science" doesn't give you the answer of how to weigh costs and benefits relative to individuals and communities.
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
The projections of the scientists/epidemiologists were WILDLY inaccurate. IHME and Oxford both had major embarrassing downward revisions.
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
Is it that, or is it that our economy is highly competitive and without government intervention with universal requirements those kinds of perks mean your product costs more relative to your competitor, meaning nobody buys your product?
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This site has posts and likes and a feed.
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I grew up in an area with huge ranches and open range. Cattle were frequently turned out in the spring and would sometimes go weeks if not months without interacting with humans. Fencing riparian areas is hard, and cattle can be hard on t
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
Because most reasonable people discount future costs, and those sufficiently distant to zero.
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I hate that they make you work so hard for these prices.
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It sure seems like those would take a boatload of energy. I wonder how that's stored.
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
And for that reason, it's the most regressive form of taxation.
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
I'm not sure how old you are, but it's been a very long time since that was true. You're right that the Clean Water Act was as a big success, but those successes were mostly realized decades ago. At some point, the cost of
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
I think it's hilarious your comment was downvoted. Plainly it's finite. Otherwise, we'd just live on printed money forever and nobody would have to work anymore. What could go wrong?!
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
That Face ID like thing is actually one of my favorite features. It's on par with Apple's implementation. Unfortunately, battery life, accessory integration (e.g., WearOS), and app support all suck relative to the offerings on i
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
There's no free lunch. The government money has to come from somewhere too. Otherwise, inflation.
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>Even stores like Costco and all factories would have to shut down. That would kill a lot of people too. It's not obvious to me which would be worse, particularly in the face of such a low IFR.
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As I recall, if you paid more carbon tax you got more back. That is not, I think, how UBI is supposed to work (e.g., those paying more taxes don't get a higher UBI).
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
So, no garbage men?
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I haven't listened to those lately, but I don't recall them calling for a UBI. Didn't they redistribute it back to the carbon taxpayers?
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My experience was that the quality of the search results were much better.
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
I struggle to think of major social programs that we've cut at all, much less "to the bone."
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
That Office is for many people an objectively better and more powerful tool doesn't inform whether it holds monopoly status.
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
Skype for Business has always been an Office 365 install.
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What do you mean MS forced Teams on you? IT has always been able to control what apps install with the office suite, including Teams. Teams being freely offered as a bundled service certainly incentivizes its use, but there has never been
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by hcurtiss 6y ago
And not against Google for Meet? I’ve not read the complaint, but if Teams is impermissible, I fail to understand how you’d ever bundle services for a subscription fee. How do you even define an individual service?

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