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by jhayward 5y ago
> It not that top colleges are biased against the lower classes, but that lower classes may just be less inclined to apply or score lower on standardized tests Oh, my. This is such a straight-textbook example of not seeing systemic bi
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The size of the federal government, as measured by employees per capita, is smaller than it was in 1950.
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by jhayward 5y ago
> helps with a likely contributor to Alzheimer's There is no evidence, and plenty of failed trials, to indicate that Amyloid plaque is a cause of Alzheimers.
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by jhayward 5y ago
And blowing out the drug budget for medicare for a very expensive but futile treatment.
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by jhayward 5y ago
If you don't understand the legislative history of tobacco regulation in the US, you should probably not comment.
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Thalidomide.
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by jhayward 5y ago
The entire article is basically "conclusions from a lifetime of systems thinking". Of course it is opinion (a conclusion), explicitly so.
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by jhayward 5y ago
> Wyoming is already the biggest net energy supplier in the country [1] so it has the required grid access, This is a misunderstanding of what the EIA is saying. The "net energy export" of Wyoming is coal in gondola cars carri
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by jhayward 5y ago
> unfortunately the false positives with our PCR testing is abysmal This is nonsense. The vast, vast majority of positive PCR tests are positive after < 30 cycles.
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by jhayward 5y ago
Your comment was indeed false, and many many studies have been done to compare natural vs vaccine immunity. Vaccination with a highly effective vaccine, e.g. Moderna or Phizer/BNT yield higher antibody response, and are more protectiv
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by jhayward 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offenders_executed_in_...
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by jhayward 5y ago
Whistleblowers have functionally no protections, I don't know how anyone could have knowledge of whistleblower cases and claim otherwise. Any attorney will tell you - if you are going to blow the whistle on some entity that is powerful
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by jhayward 5y ago
> barring something like a legit mental illness What would be an example of a 'non-legit mental illness'?
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by jhayward 5y ago
Geomagnetic storms are not EMPs. An EMP is a high-frequency, very intense burst in the electric field. A geomagnetic storm is a low-frequency, low-intensity change in the magnetic field. The effects of EMPs vs geomagnetics are very differ
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by jhayward 5y ago
"get out there and hunt him down" is literally vigilantism.
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No. The essence of a Ponzi scheme is that outsized returns are fraudulently produced by using new investment funds to pay for withdrawals rather than being invested or retained. That's pretty much what Tether is alleged or suspected t
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by jhayward 5y ago
Texas gas taxes are $0.20 state tax, plus $0.184 Federal tax for $0.384 per gallon total. $400 / $0.384 = 1042 gallons of gasoline in equivalent taxes. Typical annual mileage per vehicle runs around 12,000 miles. Most cars get much be
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by jhayward 5y ago
> mostly what Assange has done s good No, colluding with the GRU to create false documents interfering with the US Presidential election, resulting in the disaster that was Trump's election can not, in any sense, be called 'g
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by jhayward 5y ago
The lead author, Jay Bhattacharya, with Trump advisor Scott Atlas, is a primary author of the "Great Barrington Declaration" which attempts to foist the Hoover Institute's anarchist/libertarian viewpoint on the world th
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by jhayward 5y ago
There's at least one prominent physicist [1] who is working on showing that time is an emergent property of quantum physics rather than a fundamental one. [1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/10&
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by jhayward 5y ago
It's not clear that the staff would have to be fired. Their work can just be directed to more directly helpful things, such as helping people find jobs, training, child care, etc. rather than operating some arcane qualifying system of
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by jhayward 5y ago
Please read more carefully. I quote myself: "They provided a mechanism, which the article notes is somewhat suspect in its underlying effect , for owners to identify their property" This is clearly referring to the text you quot
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by jhayward 5y ago
The government has no duty to go to lengths to seek out prospective owners and deliver property to them. They post a notice at the site of the warrant and anyone with an interest goes to them. Since the owners allege that they put their nam
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by jhayward 5y ago
This is not an honest reading of the article, which itself is of course slanted. The warrant allowed the "nests" of boxes to be siezed, but not their contents. However, the government is supposed to safeguard items that are innoce
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by jhayward 5y ago
> Nuclear is the only way to reduce our carbon emissions in both the short term and long term, This is clearly untrue, to the point of being deliberate misinformation.
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by jhayward 5y ago
Every single bit of Python relies on code written in C. What is it that you are trying to refute here?
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by jhayward 5y ago
Yes, everyone with ILI symptoms (influenza-like-illness) who goes to one of the clinics or hospitals participating in the surveillance program gets tested for about 30 pathogens. That's how we know what's going on with all those
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by jhayward 5y ago
I believe that is essentially what airborne surveillance cameras (used to) do. They used a line-aperture moving film setup. I don’t know how they accounted for the velocity of the aircraft.
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by jhayward 5y ago
Muni wireless is still a potentially viable model in the “last 200 meters” type design. The equipment and frequencies needed are just barely starting to be available.
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by jhayward 5y ago
From Dr. Rasmussen’s thread it seems like this is most likely a manufacturing error rather than a design error. Still, it is pretty unforgivably incompetent to let such a mistake make it out the door.

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