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Depends on what you want. If you still want to use FB messenger, sign in with Facebook, view your family pics etc and just don’t want the newsfeed, unfollow everything is what you want.
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Covid is more dangerous to kids than chicken pox, we still vaccinate kids for chickenpox though. Hundreds of children have died of Covid-19. https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...
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“Yet people are still more afraid of Covid than myriad other risks we accept on a daily basis” keep in mind a lot of people are older than 40 or have treasured family members who are 65 or older. COVID’s risk isn’t symmetric across the popu
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What you’re asking for as someone said is pretty much Heroku. Heroku is so expensive up front that it usually seems cheaper to DIY on AWS directly though.
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The article states significant costs were borne by Merck and the associated company as the US government (BARDA) declined to fund the development of the drug. If the drug development had been fully funded by the US government, I’d see a str
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Doesn’t seem that unreasonable. $712 for a course of medicine that reduces the death rate from COVID-19 by 50%? The $17.74 they are comparing it to ignores the need to pay for R&D. How would drug companies pay for all the trials and sci
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Subscribing through the NY Times iOS app already solves that problem I think, there’s no need to delete your account, just go to the Apple subscriptions management page and end the subscription.
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Several deaths, and more serious accidents, are attributed to Tesla Autopilot though, which Tesla marketing has confused customers into thinking is equivalent to FSD. Compare Tesla’s initial approach (or lack thereof) to driver monitoring v
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SMS, MMS, and RCS are examples of such standards, although only SMS/MMS have full support on both iphone and android.
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Many Israelis have received a booster shot. Comparing “double vaccinated” population there would need to take into account and adjust for the reasons why that segment of the population did not receive a booster. Otherwise you aren’t compari
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Yes, although you can get to it directly from the irs.gov site it does seem confusing at first that it’s on a .com https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
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No, it’s usable by any income level. You’re thinking of Free File, which lets lower income users use TurboTax and other products for free. https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form... > Free File
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Moreover, the simple cases are also supported by the IRS free fillable forms product. https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/
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> It is this insistence of the church to allow pedophiles continue as priests that absolutely convinces me that there is a very active lobby of pedophiles in the Catholic church / Vatican Except that in the USA, a single credible ac
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/do-the-right-thing/2... Note also > 4 percent of Catholic priests in the U.S. sexually victimized minors during the past half century. No evidence has been published
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Other studies show the vaccines provide between 40-70% reduction in COVID-19 Delta infections.[0] Looking at your link, it looks like the comparisons they make are purely based on COVID case counts and vaccination percentages. There are oth
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> Governments could have used the last two years to execute on policies to reduce these chronic diseases: better food, better air quality, better water quality, a less stressful lifestyle. Governments have been working on these problems
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This means you would lose money to inflation every year. Simply invest in a total market fund and you get the average returns of the market. Even investing in 1999 or 2007 in a total market fund would put you ahead of a savings account by n
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The referenced travel by Greta was in a sailboat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_Greta_Thunberg Probably not practical for most though.
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Your example is good, but it doesn’t seem to work when applied to the actual conditions of vaccination. “1 gold coin a day” vs receiving a free vaccine shot once or twice, and possibly a free booster a year later if you’re got a health cond
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No need to read their minds. Go to https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/ or elsewhere and social media posts of people who have followed these trajectories have been catalogued. They post anti-vaccine stuff bu
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Your link is to a public housing project. It discusses the reasons why it became a slum, such as white flight and desegregation. Not sure if you have ever lived in an apartment if you think grocery shopping is a “Herculean” task. You just t
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Urban and suburban are different lifestyles though. Suburban residents typically have a SFH and need multiple cars to do their errands and commute. Residents of an urban core would be more likely to live in multi family housing and use publ
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https://apnews.com/article/africa-tunisia-cabinets-ac917418a... > Tunisia has been without a head of government and in limbo since Saied froze the country’s parliament and seized executive powers on July 25. The mov
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> Because of the way they are constructed, Randomized Control Trials will never show any benefit for any antiviral against COVID-19. Not Remdesivir, not Kaletra, not HCQ, and not Ivermectin. The reason for this is simple; for the patient
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I didn’t downvote you, but perhaps it’s because you didn’t back up the word “criminal” with a source. What law does it break if facebook doesn’t send your post to everyone in the group? If you wanted to send a letter to all of your friends
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It’s unlikely they’d want to let someone accused of “terrorist activity” download their data, since if it was actually a terrorist some future investigation would probably blame them for materially supporting terrorism which is illegal.
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Haha :-) My home address has been listed in WHOIS for years and it’s never been a problem for me, I give my phone number out to any company that interacts with me and asks for it. When I grew up we always got paper phone books and you could
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The drug is extremely expensive, it’s a vast waste of money if it doesn’t work and millions are prescribed it. Running another trial makes sense if “test subjects” are needed but giving the drug general availability when the previous trial
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Don’t feel like sending traffic through Apple or having a potential speed slowdown or technical issue by adding more hops to my requests. I don’t care about my own privacy or about government surveillance of myself.
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