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by krona 6y ago
A very modern book burning.
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by krona 6y ago
If Gutenberg could've been pressured in to restricting what combinations of words were allowed in his press, the enlightenment ultimately may never have happened. Simple as that. The problem is today's printing presses are not own
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by krona 6y ago
How many people do you think your false equivalence incited, and should ycombinator.com be confiscated as a consequence?
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by krona 6y ago
Exactly. I'd put this right up there with the burning of the Reichstag.
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by krona 6y ago
Strangest 'insurrection' I've ever seen. More like an Instagram photo op. Still, they'll spend the rest of their lives in prison.
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by krona 6y ago
No doubt the NHS in London is close to capacity, perhaps even more so than it usually is this time of year. It's hard to know for sure. It doesn't help, however, when activist NHS nurses lie on (and abetted by) national media; ima
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by krona 6y ago
> This change in the virulence is more scary. I think you mean infectivity (relating to transmission), not virulence.
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by krona 6y ago
Also, Huawei are building a 500 acre R&D facility next to the ARM headquarters in Cambridge, UK.
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by krona 6y ago
b and g are mutually exclusive, though?
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by krona 6y ago
You're implying she could've done all this research in her bedroom? I doubt it.
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by krona 6y ago
This committee is Norwegian, actually.
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by krona 6y ago
Then by your own definition, and the statement issued by the EU commission, this is a bad investment. I've worked for the large, sclerotic organisations that once put man on the moon. They will take your 100bn, crush it in to dust, and
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by krona 6y ago
Trade is not and was never was the primary purpose, either for the EEC or the EU. This was the lie (officially documented) that was sold to the UK population on the first referendum, in 1975.
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by krona 6y ago
It's unclear whether the collapse of the European banking system will have the effect of boosting support for rejoining the EU, but it's not impossible.
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by krona 6y ago
Its explained in the podcast by work of David Figlio [1]. One theory (from the podcast) is boys are more sensitive than girls to poor environmental factors involved in educational attainment. 1. https://www.aeaweb.org/articl
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by krona 6y ago
The same is true here. Wuhan hosts a bat virology research institute because bat viruses are a higher risk here than in most places. Except the bat in question doesn't originate in Wuhan. I can't remember the cave exactly but th
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by krona 6y ago
it isn't any more dangerous if it came from a lab, nor does knowing the origin really help dealing with this crisis at all. Viruses used for gain of function research are selected for high rates of mutation and adaption. If we had kn
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by krona 6y ago
It's debatable whether we'd be dealing with multiple significantly more transmissible strains of the virus if we hadn't amplified the evolutionary pressures (and time scales) necessary for it to happen.
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by krona 6y ago
There is a right to ask permission for emergency authorisation in the EU. It was not given , and still probably wouldn't have been given if the UK hadn't rolled out the vaccine.
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by krona 6y ago
One tends to loose friends and get alienated when you start throwing veto's around. It's just not very British, is it?
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by krona 6y ago
I'm still waiting for the house price crash you promised me 4 years ago.
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by krona 6y ago
> and I don't think we'll be selflessly rising above those any time soon. The UK has expressed continued interest in raising animal standards beyond those enforced by the EU - the PM even mentioned it in his speech as an exam
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by krona 6y ago
There was never an ambition to diverge on day one. But as the COVID vaccine authorisation and rollout has shown, the UK is (somewhat) free to choose to do things which will influence the EU (in this example via the German press) to the mutu
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by krona 6y ago
Section 2.4 of NHS standard operating procedure for COVID-19 local vaccination services deployment in community settings: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/si... See also the press rel
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by krona 6y ago
I'm curious as to kind of integration you're referring to. On paper, monetary union has prevented the economic integration from happening. The diverse economies of the EU are diverging; the north is reliant on export markets outs
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by krona 6y ago
Some theories are more falsifiable than others. The theory that there was fraud on a scale large enough to swing this election should be falsifiable in any sane, working electoral system. In parts of the US, however, I'm less confide
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by krona 6y ago
> Oh great. Do you have sources? The trial simply didn't test for the effect the vaccine has on transmission, so the theory hasn't been disproven.
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by krona 6y ago
> but still potentially better than no vaccine at all. There's no 'potentially' to consider, the Swedish Medical Products Agency reported the relative risk in 2011: ... The relative risk of narcolepsy was four times hi
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by krona 6y ago
> It seems almost impossible that the vaccines pose a greater risk than the risk of not using them. How about to a baby, or an unborn baby? The relative risk is almost certainly higher to a baby, but how high? We don't know, since
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by krona 6y ago
1. Relative risk 2. The study of the vaccine thus far evaluated immunity, not transmission; not the same thing. 3. A 90 year old is far more likely to die of the virus regardless of whether she is infectious.

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