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by jdminhbg 5y ago
That's a pretty far cry from "the winter wave started at Sturgis." > Following a 10-day motorcycle rally in South Dakota attended by approximately 460,000 persons, 51 confirmed primary event-associated cases, 21 secondary
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> What was seen in 2020 was a winter wave which kicked off with Sturgis in South Dakota Is there any actual evidence for this?
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Very true. Visit high minimum wage areas like San Francisco and Seattle, with no visible misery at all.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Actually the old have been fucking over the young to protect themselves since March 2020.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
This seems like it's going beyond a simple uncharitable reading and straight into psychoanalysis-from-a-distance.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
He's not talking about the wealthy, he's talking about scientists, most of whom are not rich, or at least not "super-elite" level rich.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
The Census Bureau fuzzes numbers for privacy reasons, which becomes more apparent the small the district is. Liberty Island (home of the Statue of Liberty but no actual people) is listed as having 48 residents for example: https:/&#x2
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Relationships have in fact been literally commoditized for most of human history, through dowries, bride prices, etc.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> In the US, the way we do tip on receipt is a lot more natural if you're asking for a signature. Without a signature, you're just handing someone a tip option, which is awkward with our current way of doing things. Most place
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
This will unlock your phone but not authorize Apple Pay. So the Watch is much more convenient for payments in mask mandate areas. I find it more convenient to tap when unmasked too but that’s more personal preference.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
What about someone who is unskilled at art but skilled at navigating the federal job application process?
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
China didn’t really achieve Zero Covid if they exported it to the rest of the world. They may have stamped out some local outbreaks.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Scraping is legal, but that doesn't mean the site has to make it easy or possible for you. You can scrape my site, but I can also IP ban scrapers.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
The SEC tweets are of course much easier for us to get away with. The only reason they’re of any interest at all is that Elon is rich and powerful.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
I'm not sure creating a multibillion dollar vaporware fraud shell company and being a dick on Twitter are comparable sins.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Apple definitely has pre bought TSMC’s entire new process runs, but the poster above was talking about a different arrangement, where Apple buys and owns actual machinery that is located on a supplier’s factory line.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
The Wayback Machine isn't searchable, or at least not nearly as searchable as Twitter itself. If I have a fight with you now, I can just go to search.twitter.com and put in "bad word from:AzzieElbab" and find any of your bad
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
I actually think if it were just the taxes, the innovation probably wouldn't have happened. The bigger problem is that you can't really sell a national canned hard liquor drink, even if the liquor in it has been diluted by mixers
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
I actually prefer the flavor of Partake's IPA and Pale Ale, and the almost total lack of calories is fantastic. It's so great for having with dinner on weeknights without having to worry about your sleep quality or weight gain.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
This is correct. What people want is a canned vodka soda, but vodka is taxed at a much higher rate than malt beverages (and depending on the state, harder to sell/purchase). The innovation of using sugar as a fermented base to get clos
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> Microsoft still controls 70-90% market share of computer operating system industry. Definitely not, unless you are defining computer in a way that only includes computer form factors that existed in the 90s and also excludes server com
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Graeber was a good writer but a bullshit merchant, and that sentence is his oeuvre's purest distillation: It sounded good and right to him when he wrote it, so nobody bothered to check if it was true or not.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
The good news is there's no way this total lack of privacy controls at the IRS will ever be used against non-billionaires.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Yes, yes, I realize that you can't just s/bad word/*/g across your database of comments. Nevertheless, it's a much easier job than teaching an AI which references to monkeys are from cuddly wildlife accounts, and wh
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Profanity can be removed with a regular expression. What counts as "hate speech" is necessarily impossible for even humans to agree on, let alone algorithms. It's becoming increasingly clear to me that the general public, and
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Housing and medical care are in fact included in the CPI: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consumerpriceindex.asp
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
At $7M a pop, they’d show up in their operating expenses pretty quickly if they were common.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> The unvaccinated are still vectors for the infection of those who cannot be vaccinated, such as the immunocompromised Is it actually the case that immunocompromised people cannot be vaccinated? The ones that I know have been; as far as
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
There are lots of articles like this that report breathlessly on the numerator but don’t make any kind of effort to find out what the denominator is.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Or suddenly you realize you can be effective working over Zoom instead of in person as long as you have those couple meetings a year, so you have new business or employee relationships that only existed locally in NY or London before. That’

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