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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
linked an academic paper... 33 citations... every actual MD I've shared it with has responded with something along the lines of " very interesting " or " compelling " or " explains what some of the nurses are
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
I admit that I don't live in bizzaro world--where some crazy old man's conspiracy theories must be suppressed, while multi-billion-dollar corporations that deceive broadly, frequently, and incompetently are the " good guys .&
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
In that case, " The Weekly World News " has a lot of corrections to issue.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
What does David Icke have to correct?
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
When did David Icke try to pass a gun range in Kentucky off as Syria? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/business/media/turkey-syr...
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
If his methodology is not on point, his hypothesis should be waaaay off point, and very easy to debunk. If that is the case, why are you attacking his lack of credentials and politics instead of his hypothesis? edit: here is an actual paper
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
This modern tendency to purge instead of rebut is very disturbing. If the man is talking nonsense, it should be easy to refute him. It would also serve as a great " teaching moment " to help everyone sharpen their BS detectors.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Good. For every elite university performing actual " brain drain ," there are a dozen others importing a fifth-column of mediocrities for cash and prizes. Now corporate espionage is off the charts, and our elite are too short-ter
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
i must concede that bailing out local bureaucrats who haven't been doing their jobs in order to help predominantly able-bodied dependents of the state is a slight improvement.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
you make relieveing the government of its social obligations so it can do more wars / interventions / bailouts sound like it has some kind of humanitarian dimension...
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Turing completeness in config files is a proven bad idea. If it is truly needed, use/write a config generator instead. We have so many tools in the build chain now that config generation can be easily automated into the deployment pro
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
I heard about hydroxychloroquine here , 38 days ago--long before Trump, or this "simple country doctor" said a peep about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22426143
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Information is such a powerful commodity these days, and this dude probably had plenty of it. Have to wonder if this was ordinary suicide, or the Gary Webb two-bullet variety. ps> suicide as safe guess
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
shhhhhhh! Be quiet, and let natural selection run its course.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
One man's unsubstantive flamebait, another man's hope and optimism...
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
This is one of the very few times I wish jwz were more unpleasant than he normally is.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Leave it to some ivory tower nerd like Guelzo to make a moral and legal point of a hospital's responsibility to torture grandma on her way out, then loot the estate after she passes: " 52 patients were given non-invasive ventilati
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
macbook air is a good computer. put it in a drawer. it might still come in handy one day. shitting it up and wearing it down with kubernetes is a guaranteed wrong move.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Get a degree in a real subject like math, physics, chemistry... The prereqs are probably the same.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Elixir. I don't recommend it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20660260
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
I think there's a little more to it than that, but just a little... A most uncomfortable truth!
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
the basic math in his article wasn't undefined
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Many of the older, business-driven mainframe designs have hardware BCD instructions--for faithful/performant implementation of grade-school-style dollars-and-cents base-10 arithmetic. On the other hand, a great deal of PC evolution has
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
if i had reason to be this paranoid about doing something on the computer, i probably wouldn't do it on the computer... see what Ron Minnich amd Bunnie Huang have to say about the state of modern hardware and bios. that, and i believe
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
perverse, yet not surprising
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Amen. Tell any given hall-monitor type about a seemingly coordinated effort toward a single goal, then watch them scoff and dismiss. It is so tiresome. Then reveal the steady paychecks behind the effort--that the endeavor was ordinary comm
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
You got me! Fair-and-square.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Why does astronomically priced remdesivir take precedence in most mentions when, from the chart, chloroquine seems to have a similar inhibition rate, a slightly lower cytotoxicity, and a much lower cost?
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
How many hundreds of megabytes for basic UI elements? I say this not an attack on Tailwind, but as an attack on web "standards."
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
the vulture approach to investing tends to be materially profitable yet karmically ruinous

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