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by jjcon 6y ago
Is that very fundamentally different from like... eating food? ‘The administration of beef to the stomach delivers genetic materials which are used to create energy to power the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in your blood.’
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by jjcon 6y ago
It’s called the ‘Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine’ in virtually every language and country (see Wikipedia pages per language). Most people outside of Germany just say Pfizer vaccine because it’s a lot shorter and has some preexisting name r
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by jjcon 6y ago
> the vaccines provide little protection against an upper respiratory tract infection They prevent symptomatic covid infection which includes respiratory symptoms.
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by jjcon 6y ago
>You cannot chose to not pay your taxes. But you can move to another state/country. They aren't claiming it is apples to apples but claiming apples to oranges is disingenuous at best.
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by jjcon 6y ago
Are things really that different than they were before though? I still chat with my neighbors, doctors etc etc... everyone is just as friendly as before. I think it’s just our main connection to the outside world has been doomscrolling... I
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by jjcon 6y ago
> COVID does worse in warmer climates Is that really substantiated or has it just been theorized? California and Texas have been doing poorly compared to Florida so heat itself doesn’t seem to be the differing factor if it is a factor at
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by jjcon 6y ago
Are insults illegal where you are?
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by jjcon 6y ago
> read the comment you just replied to I can’t read your comment anymore, it was removed for breaking HN rules Beyond that though - it wasn’t an aside... the whole point of their comment (and thus this thread) was switching distribution
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by jjcon 6y ago
There were rumors that minor disruptions could cause shortages but supply was still having no trouble meeting demand (that is until COVID)
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by jjcon 6y ago
> It's not so long since Vietnam went from not growing coffee to being one of the world’s largest producers in under 20 years. I bet they could do it with cocoa too. It’s right here... maybe do a read through before breaking HN rule
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by jjcon 6y ago
The above was in a response saying they could take 20 years to invest in cocoa elsewhere - the shortage is very temporary in comparison
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by jjcon 6y ago
Due to COVID yes, but there are shortages of everything right now - cocoa isn’t unique in any way in that regard
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by jjcon 6y ago
First you made a principle argument now you are admitting it is a matter of degrees - regardless you are at risk of hurting someone with your car every time you drive. All one can do is take precautions to a reasonable degree and carry on -
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by jjcon 6y ago
Again though... how is this any different than having to commute to work? The thresholds might be different but this is a matter of degree not principle as your inflammatory language suggest.
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by jjcon 6y ago
Life is one big calculated risk in our and others lives... have you ever driven a car? With the precautions they have set up (I think the data speaks for itself...) I’d rather a little bit of risk and have my livelihood.
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by jjcon 6y ago
Are you assuming all those cases were contracted at the plant? Given their precautions and the fact that they have less than the general surrounding population... that seems pretty unlikely
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by jjcon 6y ago
> UK state’s addiction to snooping GDPR has nothing to say on state snooping and if you think Germany or plenty other members aren’t.... I’ve got some bad news for you
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by jjcon 6y ago
I kinda see this as the next step after self checkout - conventional wisdom was that there would be too much theft and I think there is slightly more (intentional or accidental) but it is more than offset by the fact that you can pay just o
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by jjcon 6y ago
> The whole point of a criminal justice system is to reduce crime. I think the justice system is just what the people think it should be... not some unarguable objective goal. Having said that... people value revenge. If we automatically
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by jjcon 6y ago
Fundamentally though it is not still about some level of revenge? Just because we got more sophisticated to take into account things like intent doesn’t really change the math. You’ve made a nice quote but drawn a distinction without drawin
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by jjcon 6y ago
Even if that were the case, is outcomes the only thing to value here? Revenge for the wronged is a part of the justice isn’t it?
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by jjcon 6y ago
> Being in the prison system is far worse than lack of freedom. That's why prison reform is so important. Or maybe that is kinda the point of prison? I’m all for nonviolent offenders to go into rehabilitation etc etc... but for the
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by jjcon 6y ago
WRT sex? Yeah that seems like a reasonable conjecture- but there are counter examples I can’t really figure. Even atheistic American liberals are totally backwards on sex/bodies. Everything sexual is offensive, or gross. I feel it used
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by jjcon 6y ago
Yeah I’m typically one to evaluate people on their ideas despite any shit in their past but... cold blooded murder is probably where I draw a line
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by jjcon 6y ago
> A bare breast is more difficult to get through the censors than a body riddled with bullets. I see this point a lot and I think it is a good one but I have some theories on it too. I think that violence (at least to a point) is part of
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by jjcon 6y ago
There is a huge difference between the latency you need to feasibly pull of a live performance - and the latency you need for high quality audio production. Why you would be considering doing that on an android though I'm not sure. Tho
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by jjcon 6y ago
Based on seroprevalence which the 98% was not based on so using it now would be misleading
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by jjcon 6y ago
The 98% is not based on seroprevelance data so using it now would be misleading - their stated number should still hold regardless of seroprevelance
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by jjcon 6y ago
> which were deliberately intended to demean black people in America So if someone makes caricatures to demean the irish should we ban those? Seems pretty ridiculous...
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by jjcon 6y ago
Google takeout rips out a lot of metadata information and virtually all organization you had - there are a couple open source projects trying to replace or augment gphotos takeout so it is useable but as is it isn’t a viable option for larg

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