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by marnett 6y ago
Tangentially related: Alex S. Vitale's book "The End of Policing" is currently free in e-book from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing Worth reading to familiarize oneself wi
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What about modern textbooks and academic pieces that students need access to? And, in particular, students from lesser privileged socioeconomic backgrounds in the US public education system?
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> The big mistake with COVID-19 was telling individuals to boycott masks and that it was wrong to buy or wear them. We could have opened whole new factories for producing them by now, if only demand had been encouraged rather than suppre
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No it is not. In 2005 it went from 1600 to 2400. In 2016 it went from 2400 back to 1600.
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The Fed is not the US government.
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Hmmm. Great question. What was the most "mind bending" moment in cinema? The ending to The Sixth Sense or the trial and conviction of Harvey Weinstein? When I think of mind bending I think of the thoughts and ideas that break one
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by marnett 6y ago
I stumbled across Chomsky’s “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post 9/11 World” at my local library on the east coast while I was a senior in high school. When checking out the librarian seemed confused, “interesting,” she said
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by marnett 6y ago
Never thought I’d see a mewithoutyou lyric on HN. This community never ceases to surprise me! (: The Fox, the Crow and the Cookie is still one of my favorite songs.
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They get more liberal overtime as well. The court is partisan. Even the current. You can look at 5-4 and majority decisions and there are tons of flip flopping by different justices.
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> Hearing oral arguments is going to be interesting. I don't know that it's ever been available to the general public. You're in luck. The audio has been recorded since 1955 and can be viewed along with transcript on Oyez
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What about a catered party for 500 with staff and celebrity chef? The wealthy can throw lavish events that are not necessarily a drop in the bucket, especially if common.
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Unfortunately in mitigating a national crisis it is a balance - and largely a dehumanized balance where everyone is diminished to a statistic.
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It will be, but you need the whole nation on lockdown before the national zeitgeist can shift that drastically. Some states just began their shelter in place today (for example Florida and Georgia).
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People needed to be indoors and locked down before they could be told masks work and should be homemade. Coming out and saying they work and are critical to prevent spread would have resulted in videos much scarier than someone fighting an
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> The need for action doesn't mean acting foolish. Irrational behavior in the name of "just doing something" will needlessly deplete more resources. I am genuinely interested in what your suggestion would be though. This i
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by marnett 7y ago
As the contrarian, can you at least enlighten us to what, in your opinion, would be the best strategy to proactively address potential bottlenecks? I think we can all agree, career shaming aside, that medical professionals and engineers of
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by marnett 7y ago
> That's not to say your idea is bad! It's definitely good and worth exploring in the future. There will be time to explore how to have smarter tools that can be used with a less general skillset can be developed. There will al
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by marnett 7y ago
There are clearly a lot of contrarians in this thread, perhaps that is because the premise of a flooded healthcare system is still too impossible for some to envision. And of course there are many levels to addressing bottlenecks. For examp
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> [...] would have survived under a competent practitioner. Bringing us back to the topic of this thread, a potential lack of competent practitioners if the pandemic worsens, and what the best solution to address this would be, such as a
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by marnett 7y ago
Re-reading Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle after being in Silicon Valley after a while really illuminated the character-type I found myself surrounded by: emotionally detached geniuses absentmindedly ruining the world. His style of storytelling is
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by marnett 7y ago
> because they suddenly need the liquid cash on hand (due to job loss) How much market volume do you think is attributed to retail investors?
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by marnett 7y ago
At least in the US the main reason is the public hysteria that would be brought on by the mass cultural shift. The reality is most households in the US do not have masks. There would be similar chaos that the US has seen with toilet paper b
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by marnett 7y ago
It is remarkable how quickly the arguments bifurcate around any subject matter now-a-days. The solution needs to be a balance of public health policy and economic policy. The layoffs will only get worse now through Q2; perhaps the zeitgeist
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by marnett 7y ago
> Has option to tile to equally size screens. Hangouts: Same. Are you describing Google Hangouts or Hangouts Meet by G Suite? There is no gallery view available for Google Hangouts (I've searched heavily for it in the past week, if
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I love his content so much.
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As a slight nitpick the US government did not sink any money during this ordeal. The Federal Reserve is not the US Government; it is our somewhat government affiliated private central bank. Bailouts, which are likely to come, will be from t
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> It can also invade your nervous system. I've seen several reports with respect to this. It is by far the scariest element of this disease so far.
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You can see my reply to the above commenter. I do agree the Fed is affiliated - my intent here was that the Feds action in the repro markets, however, is not.
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My larger intent behind the affiliation remark was "The Fed pumps $1.5T into overnight repro markets" is not a Government action and it is not government money - and theoretically all decisioning Fed decisioning is to be 100% apol
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Small tidbit but the Federal Reserve, which I assume is what you refer to with the statement around $2T, is a private central Bank. It is not public and it is not affiliated with the US Government or what we would typically consider a “gove

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