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by makomk 5y ago
A few people, sure, but for the most part what I've seen people attacking is the idea that the Covid pandemic is some kind of unique crisis that demands an aggressive response. Also, South Korea has very much not contained Covid. They&
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Most people who've heard about what's happening in South Africa probably know that they've had major problems for pretty much their entire existence as a country which lead to this. (There's been an unfortunate tendency
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Hydrogen is highly explosive at almost all concentrations in air, extremely easy to ignite, and leaks through most widely-used materials. It's much worse in all these aspects than common fuels like gasoline, LPG, natural gas, etc.
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The risk is that even if that lower dose with a lower antibody response works fine with existing variants, it might not fare so well against future mutations. I think this has already happened to a certain extent with the currently circulat
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It doesn't matter whether your justification for why this should happen is altruism or selfishness, the same problem remains: a vaccination program of the scale and speed we've already seen is literally unprecedented, it's as
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The half she kept is the identifying details other than names of the actual, real-life people she based it on - so much so that their friends immediately recognised them in the story - and the half she changed is stuff internal to their rel
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I'm pretty sure the significance of a proposed bill is rather different from the EU than in typical democratic countries like say the UK, US or Canada. In most democracies any elected politician can propose a bill, and so they often do
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Yeah, this is just what respiratory pandemics look like. Honestly, vaccination has been astoundingly successful this time around compared to previous pandemics, and even this news just downgrades it from almost unbelievably effective. The t
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The UK regulates and bans guns in ways that would be unacceptable even to US gun control advocates. (Actually, maybe especially amongst US gun control advocates. All the big, left-leaning pro-gun-control celebrities would lose their armed
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South Korea seems like a bad example, because they had twice as many Covid cases as China with less than a twentieth the population. Actually, it looks like even New Zealand has reported substantially more Covid cases per capita than China,
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No community transmission yet . Australia's hotel quarantine has been very leaky so far when highly transmissible strains of Covid reach the country.
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Big tech companies like Google and Facebook have encountered problems where running the same crypto operation twice on the same processor deterministically or semi-deterministically gives the same incorrect result... so the check needs to b
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Paying taxes can only act as an incentive for governments to keep the population healthy if it costs them less than they'll get from that person in taxes - so if you're old, retired, or not able-bodied enough to work, well... (Thi
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The way US healthcare is structured these days, I think increased costs mean more profits for the insurers - it's their customers as a whole that get screwed.
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If anything, the condominium collapse in Miami suggests that Strong Towns is worrying about the wrong things entirely. They've been pushing for denser development on the pretext that low-density, suburban single family homes are suppos
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Actual infections 5x the number of cases detected through testing in rich, developed countries with relatively widespread tests seems pretty plausible, I think there's some evidence the UK was close to that despite testing pretty heavi
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It's amazing how little some trusted institutions care about this. For example, the BBC has been bragging about how many people rely on their coverage of the pandemic, but have an obnoxious habit of repeatedly overwriting old articles
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Apparently there's a CNN article about this here: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/29/politics/nyc-mayoral-race...
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Manufacturers don't generally ship internal drives with any kind of partition table at all in my experience - that gets added when you do the initial install, which generally depends on what mode you booted the installer from and in tu
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Edited my comment to include a link. The chart you've linked only include the "twenty countries currently most affected by COVID-19 worldwide", whatever that means. Probably something to do with current cases or recent deaths
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To be clear, your justification for why YouTube needs to censor themselves - "anti-science activists leading an otherwise-developed country to top the chart in pandemic deaths" - is itself widely-believed misinformation. Here&#x27
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No, dividing the number of reported cases by the number of reported deaths absolutely does not give the infection fatality rate. For example, the UK has one of the most widespread testing programs in the world and also monitors the actual i
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The whole reason that regulators had to step in was that companies absolutely were pushing these kind of complex, high-risk non-cryptocurrency financial products to ordinary consumers that didn't understand how they worked as a way to
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They insist on this because doing so makes it harder for people who only want the particular style of cheese and don't care where it's made to find any product other than the one that's been given an EU monopoly. For example,
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The US did have contact tracing early on though, and as far as anyone can tell it did work pretty well at containing the cases coming in from China - maybe not well enough that it could've contained them indefinitely, though that'
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See, this is the real problem - it's not just the lab leak theory, the efforts to get Trump out of office seeped into and warped every aspect of the media coverage of Covid-19. For example, border closures. Putting aside the fact that
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I'm starting to suspect this isn't because the vaccines are inherently particularly good, though. They're incredibly effective against one particular strain of Covid-19, and for a while that was pretty much the only thing i
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Even in the modern era there's a lot of fraud and scamming going on. This sounds like a classic Ponzi scheme, and Bitcoin-based Ponzis are just one corner of a broader universe of similar scams all across the globe. They've even b
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Not something I could easily dig up - it's been a few years now since I last looked in on any of this, and all the convenient summaries like this one insisted that they were part of some universal "manosphere" that could be p
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Having spent a few years following feminist discourse a while back, this doesn't work because the idea that patriarchy hurts men too is only permissible as a way of demanding that everyone treat existing, women-centric feminism as alre

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