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by javagram 6y ago
Trump’s own employees leak to the media regularly that Trump doesn’t read the intelligence briefings and can only focus on pictures and very short briefings. https://www.axios.com/trump-doesnt-read-his-presidential-bri... &
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by javagram 6y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted as your statement that an IFR of 0.3 to 1 was always about the expected rate is completely right. E.g. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387 published by Dr. Fauci
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by javagram 6y ago
Not really, no. You can go back to medical journal articles from early march and see they were using Chinese and Korean data and predicted between 0.1-1% death rate per infection (IFR). Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted Anthony S. Fauci,
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by javagram 6y ago
Time from infection to symptoms is 1-15 days. Then add the time that you’re in the hospital trying to be saved before you die. “ Yang et al. (4) reported that the median time from symptom onset to radiological confirmation of pneumonia was
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by javagram 6y ago
Contact tracing a protest makes no sense anyway. Taking down a list of people who dined at a restaurant during a certain time period is one thing. How are you supposed to contact trace a 10,000 person protest? No one is going to know the ra
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by javagram 6y ago
There were many other signs being held. You’re choosing to focus on the people holding a haircut sign. In any case as a legal matter it makes no difference. Government restrictions on 1st amendment rights to assemble and protest can only su
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by javagram 6y ago
> A First Amendment violation might be harder for some Republican senators to stand behind. Not really, as senators their first loyalty is to the voters who elect them. Polls show trump has >80% loyalty from GOP voters, who are the on
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by javagram 6y ago
FWIW, I don’t think the majority of the officials intended to lie about this. It wasn’t anything that started this year or anything - they’ve had the same message about masks since as far back as the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. https://s
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by javagram 6y ago
Following it further we can even see the pull request and the requirements. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9302 Interesting as I didn’t realize Brave did all their development out in the open l
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by javagram 6y ago
My thought would be that it might be funded by his campaign, similar to his other campaign apps and website. Completely hypothetical of course but they could either just make it owned by the campaign, or stand it up at arms-length and have
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by javagram 6y ago
8chan, Gab, and goat are all for very out of the mainstream opinions. The POTUS has a strong support base, including multiple major media outlets that share information about him. It’s a totally different story. I think he could easily stan
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by javagram 6y ago
> Investigations, evidence collection, interviews, etc can all be done by any old bureaucrat. Much like the FDA investigators and Fire Marshals don't need the authority of an LEO. So a police detective? I don’t really see how renami
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by javagram 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Georgia_(co... This page says Georgia has 42k police officers. I think the disbandment you mention was clearing out old corrupt officers and replacing them with new recr
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by javagram 6y ago
> Look around. Most Americans would say no to this question. Actually random polls say the exact opposite of your guarantee. Only 15% of Americans support cutting police funding. https://today.yougov.com/topics/polit
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by javagram 6y ago
That doesn’t make sense. There are 300 million guns in America and plenty of crime happens every year. It’s true crime is down from the historical highs of the 70s and 80s, but there are very much still murders and thefts that need to be in
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by javagram 6y ago
Do you know what gerrymandering is? It has almost no effect at all on the presidential election. Only two small states, Nebraska and Maine, allocate their electoral votes based on congressional district winners. The electoral college does
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by javagram 6y ago
My point is that the people asking Zuck to censor are asking to censor 40% of the country. Personally since I disagree with the 40% I do see it as the “real problem” but I don’t think facebook censoring them is the solution. It might be pos
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by javagram 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_e... An unbroken history of being held every 4 years even in the midst of a civil war and WW2.
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by javagram 6y ago
https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-takes-down-washington-protest... > Off Twitter, viral text messages of screenshots of doctored tweets have circulated throughout the country. Some of the false text messages claim that extr
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by javagram 6y ago
I am taking it seriously. The logic that demands Facebook censor trump from their open platform doesn’t have any clear limiting factor that means that Trump shouldn’t be censored off other communications service providers. Not a MAGA type b
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by javagram 6y ago
You forgot one. 2012: Facebook (via an open, neutral platform) helped Obama win the election. They are wonderful. E.g. “Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election” (The Guardian, February 2012)
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by javagram 6y ago
The real problem is that ~40% of America supports/votes for the POTUS, following him on social media, re-shares his memes, etc. People are looking to generally open communications platforms like Facebook and asking them to censor, but
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by javagram 6y ago
I think the limit of 3 is because you’re on the free tier. They are trying to transition to a model where they can make money. I don’t blame them for it, but I did switch to using iCloud Drive instead of Dropbox because I am already paying
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by javagram 6y ago
Trump promoted it in a press conference, which prompted world-wide interest. Elon Musk also promoted it https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239650597906898947?s=20 Background: * https://www.nytimes.com
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by javagram 6y ago
The POTUS is certainly advised by some very smart people but he has a mind of his own. Analysis of his tweets have shown they often match the programming of his favorite Fox News TV shows exactly. (A time stamped remark based on something h
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by javagram 6y ago
Yes, Raoult published a study. And previously to his study Chinese and South Korean doctors experimented with HCQ as a treatment as well as trying many other drugs. Raoult’s study is problematic as you can see by reading it. He explicitly r
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by javagram 6y ago
The issue was also that “orange man” was not basing his statements on any convincing evidence. However people across the world associate the prestige and respects of the POTUS office as conferring authority on his statements. They think he
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by javagram 6y ago
More like an issue with social media I think. What front page carried an accusation of “insider trading” over the HCQ? It appears to have been a story spread by twitter and facebook posts. https://www.politifact.com/factchec
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by javagram 6y ago
> I believe the US media were shouting the HCQ will kill you Mainstream media sources in the USA were mainly warning not to obtain HCQ without a prescription (as several people did in various countries and killed themselves/spouse w
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by javagram 6y ago
Zinc has been pushed as a cure/treatment for common cold for decades. The actual track record of whether the OTC zinc tablets you can buy in a store work is quite uncertain though. Lots of studies coming down one way or another, and un

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