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by jmckib 5y ago
What other sources are you already subscribed to? I'm always looking for recommendations.
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by jmckib 5y ago
The op-eds are clearly labeled as such (which I'm thankful for because I have no interest in reading them with the occasional exception). There are also clearly labeled "Analysis" and "Perspective" articles that can
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by jmckib 5y ago
Washington Post lets you cancel through their website without talking to anyone. It's also significantly cheaper than NYT last I checked. I'm a subscriber, and I think it's a pretty solid paper especially for national politi
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by jmckib 5y ago
On Mac don't screenshots go straight to Desktop?
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by jmckib 5y ago
No, the vaccines were very effective at preventing any infection, both symptomatic and asymptomatic. There were studies done by giving the participants regular covid tests, usually once a week, so they would catch asympomatic cases as well.
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by jmckib 5y ago
Yep, "false equivalence" is the response I always get from an antagonistic audience when I try to use an analogy. Of course an analogy is not an equivalence, but that gets conveniently ignored. These days I just make the most dire
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by jmckib 5y ago
50% effectiveness against infection is still pretty significant. And note that OP said "essentially no viral vaccine prevents infection." I think we can agree that is not the case.
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by jmckib 5y ago
I'm confused. Weren't covid mRNA vaccines very effective at preventing infection, even asymptomatic infection, against delta and earlier variants? Only with omicron has the effectiveness been significantly reduce, but not to zero.
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by jmckib 5y ago
Did you catch this article from the other day? I don't know much about Diocletian's monetary reforms (I'm still busy reading up on the history of the Republic), but his Edict of Maximum Prices was mentioned in it. https:&#
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by jmckib 5y ago
I love subtitles, but for me they tend to spoil the timing of the lines being delivered, especially with comedy. Unfortunately subtitles are necessary even when I'm able to play audio as loud as I want, because it's almost always
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by jmckib 5y ago
I was agreeing with your comment until I looked at the OP's reply, apparently the robber literally requested a single dollar. Super weird.
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by jmckib 5y ago
Wouldn't the solution be to automatically repeal any laws that are not regularly enforced? A "use it lose it" rule. We could regularly commission studies to see which traffic laws are not being enforced.
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by jmckib 5y ago
Unfortunately a new study (not yet peer reviewed) has just come out where they compared the brains of people before and after having covid, and they found "significant losses of grey matter surrounding the olfactory and gustatory syste
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by jmckib 5y ago
This likely depends on what state and what park you're in. I've travelled the US in an RV and I've definitely seen people scolded for simply enjoying a glass of wine in a state park. Lots of parks also have huge signs all ove
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by jmckib 6y ago
How are folks from India able to get vaccine here? Is there someone selling it to the highest bidder?
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by jmckib 6y ago
I canceled WSJ a little while ago and it was a total nightmare. Had to call a number, got put on hold for about 45 minutes, then had to answer a bunch of questions and deal with an aggressive sales pitch. Never subscribing again because of
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by jmckib 6y ago
> We have ~10x the population of Canada, and California alone could use up all of Canada's medicines. Not sure Canada would go for it. Couldn't Canadian drug companies increase supply if the demand was there? In the short term,
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by jmckib 6y ago
In addition to that, Thanksgiving often requires traveling to another area (which is what the headline is specifically about). You also don't need to attend Thanksgiving, but you do need to work. We are probably going to have vaccines
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by jmckib 6y ago
Could that be in your head? Vitamin D lasts a long time in the body, seems unlikely you'd be able to notice any difference after four days.
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by jmckib 6y ago
Yes, I do find that counter-argument unconvincing. Do you? It will always be painful, but right now it is especially painful because of a contentious election in three months that is going to rely on mail-in ballots more than ever before. A
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by jmckib 6y ago
How are these changes going to be set in stone? What prevents the next administration from undoing it? Personally I tend to lean towards privatizing or eliminating the USPS, but the timing for this isn't good if you care about people b
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by jmckib 6y ago
I've been struggling with this recently. I'm traveling through New York state in a bit, and my in-laws warned me not to go to New York City because it's being looted and burned to the ground. I wasn't planning to visit a
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by jmckib 6y ago
It won't stop being a risk until we have a vaccine, but the risk may be smaller, and once the risk gets small enough we may be able to keep it that way through testing and contact-tracing.
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by jmckib 6y ago
If I'm talking to somebody like this I will usually say, "I don't have time right now to respond to all of these points, but here's my take on the first few (or the most salient points)." You will probably never con
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by jmckib 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing, only google has an incentive to do this and it would be too risky for them, legally and to their reputation. Either this isn't happening as much as people think it is, or some third party has an unknown r
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by jmckib 6y ago
I'm sure you're right. Lobbying for tax avoidance is a classic example of rent-seeking. I'm just trying to point out that this is an empty gesture from the government. It makes people feel good but it doesn't really prev
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by jmckib 6y ago
The best way to disincentive tax avoidance would be to not allow it in the first place. A one-off policy like this punishes tax avoidance without necessarily discouraging it in the future. It depends on how likely businesses think it is for
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by jmckib 6y ago
The government can invent jobs, but it can't invent infinite jobs that accomplish something that people want, and even when it can the task won't generally be accomplished as efficiently as a private company would. It's also
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by jmckib 6y ago
He says that they are contagious, but he doesn't say highly contagious (I know you're not the one who made that claim, I just wanted to clarify). I'm not sure if we know yet how contagious people without symptoms are, but it&
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by jmckib 6y ago
I don't doubt it, but where did you hear that?

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