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by kansface 5y ago
How about we just not punch people in any direction?
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by kansface 5y ago
This argument is hopelessly generalizable. Who in the world would does it not apply to!? Literally ever organization does “bad things” sometimes. That’s just the nature of groups of people. You are throwing out the baby with the bath wa
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by kansface 5y ago
In California alone, at least 20 Billion dollars (over 10%) in pandemic relief funds were fraudulently given away. Quite a bit of it went to felons in jail! This is surely an underestimate. The Netherlands are not comparable to the US.
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by kansface 5y ago
I'd wager voting (federal elections) kill way more people than Americans who die downstream of booze. Its just a question of locality, really.
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by kansface 5y ago
I thought the problem with CA was that the state budget isn't fungible - 90%+ of the money is allocated via ballot measures or the state constitution and can't be touched by the legislature.
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by kansface 5y ago
My understanding is that Illinois is in a economic death spiral wherein taxes are high enough given the quality of life that people leave the state thereby increasing the burden on those who remain l, perpetuating the cycle. Pensions are t
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by kansface 5y ago
Diffs are easily in the 10k if not 100k range. No company but proverbial FAANGs can cope with that. Exploits are hard to spot by design and may span commits and even major versions. Only a computer process can handle that scope.
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by kansface 5y ago
People are now skipping routine cancer screenings, check ups, and altogether avoiding any health care out of fear of catching covid. Its not hard to find stories of people with heart attacks not going to the hospital! Kids are missing rout
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by kansface 5y ago
California has a way younger population, probably much healthier too.
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by kansface 5y ago
Tons of people are skipping routine screening and exams. Lots of people are straight up avoiding any medical treatment out of fear of catching Covid. (including routine vaccination!). Raw numbers aren’t helpful here.
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by kansface 5y ago
The claim is absurd even if its factually true. Why would you possibly care about CO2 when visibility is 4 blocks, your lungs are filled with coal dust, life expectancy was 2 decades shorter, and kids are dying of polio and smallpox? It
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by kansface 5y ago
I am totally unfamiliar with this doc, but it does claim: > case outcome: .... fatal ... 1223
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by kansface 5y ago
There is currently a government mandate requiring most adults be vaccinated while at the same time, the government (another agency) is unwilling to publish the evidence it considered in favor of the emergency authorization and the concomita
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by kansface 5y ago
> Yes. And still the US had less CO2 production, less plastic waste, and more sustainable lifestyle. This is frankly, an absurdly ridiculous comparison. Pittsburgh and Lorain, Ohio, where I had relatives working in the steel mills were
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by kansface 5y ago
I don't think this logic is correct. Viruses can not become infinitely transmissible/deadly; clearly there is an upper ceiling. Second, people gain immunity after infection. We'd expect the first variant that infects most
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by kansface 5y ago
I imagine they steal the bike.
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by kansface 5y ago
Doesn't Italy have stone masonry construction that has lasted centuries? Maybe you need a really good foundation to pull it off?
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by kansface 5y ago
No contract between the front and back end is obviously an extremely tight coupling. I’ve seen this end really badly when you have to cleave them after the fact (particularly with embedded JS in server side templating). For a small produ
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by kansface 5y ago
> A priori it seems astoundingly unlikely to me that rent prices are causing people to become homeless at the margins.... There's a huge gap in means between someone who just barely can't afford rent in SF and someone who lives
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by kansface 5y ago
If environmentalists made major impact shutting down mines, the price of coal would go up incentivizing new ones or at least to increase the output of existing ones - demand hasn’t changed. Just the same with buying gas stations and shutti
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by kansface 5y ago
The people who were killed last winter can’t be killed again. They were definitionally the most susceptible and we haven’t replaced that demographic. You can’t naively compare the two waves without a control since they effect very different
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by kansface 5y ago
I’m ignorant of research into the efficacy of standards within bureaucracies for which you make a very strong claim - do you have some convenient evidence you can share?
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by kansface 5y ago
There is a perverse, stable equilibrium. When traffic becomes better, its much more convenient to drive. When flights are cheaper because demand is lower, more people can and will travel. When the price of beef declines because some peop
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by kansface 5y ago
Obviously, the material a mask is made from stops medium sized particles from flowing through some highish percentage of the time. No good faith actor is disputing that. Studies don't control for real world usage, actual public adopt
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by kansface 5y ago
I don't understand this study. Why not compare the hospitalization/fatality rates between _current_ omicron/delta infections between similar cohorts? Comparing to an earlier wave is hopelessly confounded on prior infections
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by kansface 5y ago
> every year more vulnerable people are added to that set as population ages, gets fatter, has more advanced coronary or metabolic disease, etc. The number added each season is not necessarily the same number as the ones removed in the p
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by kansface 5y ago
> Applying an equivalent tax on imports from countries that don't impose a similar tax, called a Border Carbon Adjustment, to prevent domestic manufacturing from being disadvantaged ... to encourage companies to audit their supply
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by kansface 5y ago
Exactly right! The doctor has her own problems to care about!
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by kansface 5y ago
This is a really good explanation.
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by kansface 5y ago
Check out The Trial or The Castle for examples of old world systems that existed outside of the grace of human rationality, indifferent to justice and human suffering alike.

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