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by jariel 6y ago
So they controlled with 2 other groups, those diagnosed with the flu and those with respiratory trace infections. Some things stick out: 1) That we are all locked up in a state of anxiety is a little bit hard to control for especially becau
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by jariel 6y ago
"after having had a year to see that they're perfectly capable of doing so" ? Who says that it worked out? 'Remote Everyone' was a forced experiment, there's no assumption that the situation was ideal.
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by jariel 6y ago
It's uncanny how bad the major players are at this. You can click here [1] to see your supposed 'interests'. It's uncannily bad. 'Combat Sports' , 'Boating', 'Construction and Power Tools' a
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by jariel 6y ago
US Lawmakers discover their entire culture is built around consumerism? This is an Onion headline? In Canada, we have 'CBC for Kids' which thankfully is not consumerist, but is bizarrely more ideological than anything else. An ser
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by jariel 6y ago
Until they had to bike in Canadian winter? Or on SF hills? Or 30 Km to work with 2 kids to drop of 8 Km in the other direction? The Netherlands is nearly a perfect place for biking, which is why they bike.
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by jariel 6y ago
There needs to be several layers below 'correct'. If we can just get to 'correct' the world would be already so much improved.
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by jariel 6y ago
When the government is buying and selling currency at some rate commensurate with capital coming in and out of the country -> it's a capital control.
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by jariel 6y ago
? That crisis was literally started by misguided attempts at currency controls (!) i.e. Thai pegging their currency to USD and unable to 'hold the wall against the sea' so it eventually came crashing in. So yes, Thailand 1997 demo
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by jariel 6y ago
Imagine putting nuclear weapons on your lawn and pointing at your neighbour and being surprised that they decide not to trade with you.
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by jariel 6y ago
Capital controls come with huge costs, it's another form of import/export controls. Imagine being told the part you need to manufacture your car is 4x the normal price because of intense focus on capital controls, or worse, that y
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by jariel 6y ago
? Or likely the complete opposite in that most people don't have access to the direct science, nor have the ability to translate it into policy, and we rely on institutions and the medical community to set up the basis for behaviours,
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by jariel 6y ago
Some foreign owners want their money out of 'wherever' and are willing to pay a premium as a store of value. They're not interested in the hassle of 'renting'. Or, the price is not a big deal, they want a home in LA
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by jariel 6y ago
Yeah, I think you're missing the point, which is young women are having their stuff put up online and it's systematically distributed by entities that may very well have the capability to do better. That's a legit story. Edit
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by jariel 6y ago
Basic civility existed for thousands of years before abstract notions of 'economic equality'. That's an ideological idea that's nuance and I'm not sure most people even buy into as it's stated. My grandparents
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by jariel 6y ago
RedBull is a master class in marketing, from top to bottom.
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by jariel 6y ago
"One driver allegedly cut her trip short after falsely claiming to have arrived at her destination." What is wrong with people? I can understand something like this maybe happening once? But that this happened 14 times makes me lo
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by jariel 6y ago
Now Google, Microsoft and Oracle can go ahead and copy little startup's APIs, or even Stripe? Using Stripe? You're literally one-click away from our new Google Payments? Just change this URL, and you're good? I'm not as
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by jariel 6y ago
They are doing considerably worse than those in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea. If the US had stayed in South Vietnam, they'd likely be living at the same standard of living as South Koreans, instead, they continue to live in a fairly o
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by jariel 6y ago
It's not bewildering if it's literally always been true. A few points: Samsung is not cool. Or rather, maybe a little bit among some very middle/lower class people. Selling mobiles is done primarily through carriers - this is
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, murder is up 30% in the US overall this year [1] I suggest the BLM protests would have been smaller without the pandemic as well. (Less people with not much to do, people pent up inside and frustrated, slightly more easily risible). Th
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by jariel 6y ago
Here is the classical misdirection: "The push was led by Jo Ann Hardesty, the first Black woman elected to the City Council. She cited a 2018 audit showing nearly 60% of people stopped by the gun violence team were Black — though they
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by jariel 6y ago
They are not cherry picked, they are have a modern relation to colonialism. If the UK were to have been more deeply involved in India up until 1997 (i.e. a soft political distancing instead of sharp uprising) then India would be wealthier t
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by jariel 6y ago
This is interesting because Max Roser makes his case that he's implicitly not supporting colonialism because most economic expansion happened after colonialism. Except that the established colonies of Canada, Australia, NZ did exceedin
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by jariel 6y ago
The author made the assertion that it was 'not due to free market capitalism' while essentially using facts to demonstrate that this was the case. When a nation is poor and backwards, due to, gosh, 50 years of 'Central Planni
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by jariel 6y ago
This is true, but this is not Israel's calculation, far from it. They are playing a zero-sum game of outbidding others so that they are 1st, no matter what. Countries like the UK that invested in supply chain efficiencies well ahead of
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by jariel 6y ago
To be clear - does the NFT come along with the publishing rights? Because that would make it different than regular NFT.
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by jariel 6y ago
Getting a warrant to spy on your neighbours wife would be like robbing a bank and leaving a note for the cops. It's literally a crime done right in front of the police, with official records and signatures for you to be prosecuted. The
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by jariel 6y ago
Some things that have changed: 1) We've gone from function to content mostly. 'Apps' used to mostly deal with files, like Word, otherwise, hey were standalone. Now we deal with an incredibly variety of content. 2) We've
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by jariel 6y ago
If they were paid for their actual time (i.e. something like overtime) they would have made in excess of $25K and could have invested it wherever. That they happened to work at Apple and it did what it did was a little lucky. I think Jobs w
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by jariel 6y ago
I know from personal experience that however long you've stayed up, that 8 hours of sleep is the most you can do to help at that point, in other words after 20 hours of 'lost sleep' you can really only sleep for 8. (Edit: you

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