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by jewayne 4y ago
In other words, you had opinions outside your job description, and couldn't be a professional and keep them to yourself. It comes as a shock to some people that a corporation is not a democracy, and that yes, that applies to THEM. We a
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by jewayne 4y ago
I would argue that in many cases the concept behind soft deletion is to make deletion permanent. Hard deletes retain no memory of what you wanted to be gone, so any malfunctioning sync process will continuously recreate the deleted record s
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by jewayne 4y ago
Here's a video on the topic: ("Why Traffic Congestion Grows Exponentially, Why It Matters, and What To Do About It") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHSCmQnGH9Q
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by jewayne 4y ago
You say that you won't ride a bus. But what I'm also hearing is that you really don't want to pay for a bus lane, either. That the very existence of public infrastructure that you will never use is a deep, personal affront to
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by jewayne 4y ago
I love how, even for men, life expectancy doesn't fall below one year until age 113.
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by jewayne 4y ago
But this is not true. The life expectancy for an 80 year-old Caucasian American woman is over 9 years. The life expectancy a 90 year-old Caucasian American woman is less than 5 years.
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by jewayne 4y ago
> Apart from a recent dip, average life expectancy in the US has been going up pretty much forever. I see no reason why life expectancy in the US will not continue to drop. At some level, we have made a conscious decision to rebuild our
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by jewayne 4y ago
Funeral directors hate this one weird trick...
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by jewayne 4y ago
I have yet to read the article, but the only way to prove out an intervention, is to test the intervention. "Ability to do X, in absence of intervention, is predictive of longevity" does not equate to "Training X as an inte
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by jewayne 4y ago
Wait, was midislack serious? Man, right-wingers are just beyond satire at this point.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Conservatism in 2022 is about the "right" to be indifferent to those outside your immediate social circle. Nothing facilitates this more than the car and car-dependent suburbia.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Honestly, the miracle in wind and solar has already happened, or is happening right now, depending upon your perspective. There are literally hundreds of utility-scale wind and solar projects up for approval in the US right now, including s
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by jewayne 4y ago
I mean, if they really wanted to make gas unaffordable, they could have raised gas taxes to European levels. I think most people know we are in a Catch-22: the majority of Americans are totally dependent upon affordable gasoline to go about
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by jewayne 4y ago
Of course, Medicare already exists. It just only covers the retired and disabled. And while it has its flaws, it at least covers all Americans over age 65. And it's amazing the ferocity with which conservative retirees will defend thei
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by jewayne 4y ago
I think the experience in Vermont suggests that it's unlikely to ever happen at the state level. It's far more likely to be a big bang at the national level.
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by jewayne 4y ago
Honestly, unless they're not in the midst of fighting a serious illness, most Americans just want to be sure that they have access to better healthcare than the people below them in the socioeconomic ladder. They're fine with heal
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by jewayne 4y ago
$500K as a software engineer? That's the very tip of the unicorn's horn. My friend works as a CEO of a (smallish) software company and makes half that.
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by jewayne 4y ago
> Forcing them to do better accounting, and have a clear price-list would probably help, but getting rid of the employer healthcare tax subsidy (or expanding it) would likely be a better solution. Believe it or not, it would be way easie
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by jewayne 4y ago
I think the majority of people say something to that effect at some point in their life. But the only real alternative is suicide of some kind, and how many people actually follow through with suicide?
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by jewayne 4y ago
45 million Americans are on the SNAP (food stamp) program. Does your definition of "thriving free market" account for this?
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by jewayne 5y ago
I hope you see the danger or irony of stigmatizing the discussion of bias.
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by jewayne 5y ago
> The old houses still around are the exception to the rule, not the norm. So true. In fact, you could teach the concept of survivorship bias by looking at old homes, and the statement "they don't build them like they used to&q
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by jewayne 5y ago
Another Trumpanzee shitting in the well of knowledge. The question isn't whether Pfizer is an Evil Corporation (of course they are). The question is whether the vaccine that they manufacture and market is effective. And in the full lig
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by jewayne 5y ago
Your descriptions aren't typical of the unvaxxed people I know. The unvaxxed people I know have, from the very beginning, been defiant against isolation, school closures, masking, and the vaccines. And most have spouted some version of
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by jewayne 5y ago
I think you've got the causation wrong. People didn't start rejecting the vaccine because of the mandates. Mandates came about because large percentages of the population weren't getting vaccinated. And why weren't they
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by jewayne 5y ago
First off, I need to point out that you are committing the logical fallacy of selective rigor. An increase in neutralizing antibodies is not the same as a clinical trial proving efficacy, but I'm pretty sure that increases in neutraliz
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by jewayne 5y ago
"no evidence". The first round of boosters have shown strong efficacy. Why would a second round of boosters not have any efficacy? It seems that you've chosen the wrong null hypothesis.
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by jewayne 5y ago
My favorite part is where the referenced document doesn't say that. It literally shows that a third shot of Pfizer-Biontech is still 90+% effective against the Delta variant after 10+ weeks. And close to 50% against Omicron after 10+ w
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by jewayne 5y ago
From 2011-2015 we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and I read the vast majority (if not all) of the NY Times' excellent "Disunion" series on the war. What struck me most was that at the onset of fighting, vi
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by jewayne 5y ago
I think the "calories in, calories out" argument isn't so much wrong as it is tautological. It's the equivalent of saying the key to winning in sports is scoring more points than your opponent. It not only answers none o

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