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by mcguire 5y ago
Your model of X, Y, and Z cannot make predictions. How do you validate it?
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by mcguire 5y ago
Which is why economics is not a science.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Hmm. I'm not sure I'd go strongly either way. According to reports ( https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/investing/tesla-profitability... ) Tesla received $1600M in regulatory credits and had a net in
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by mcguire 5y ago
I seem to recall, several years ago (when stopping the engine at traffic lights and restarting as soon as the driver released the brake), at least one company was exploring moving to 24V. However, the effort failed precisely because the lif
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by mcguire 5y ago
The case fatality ratio is actually around 1.6% ( https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality ) or about 8 times greater.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Why are you not complaining about their censoring "adult material and violence/gore"?
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by mcguire 5y ago
If FB/Twitter is a town message board, then why are you concerned with what they do?
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by mcguire 5y ago
Is there anything that would convince you? I mean, the paper is saying that, as more women move into an occupation, pay for that occupation goes down.
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by mcguire 5y ago
" ...to be a good way to prevent the transmission of an airborne disease, especially like Covid, which involves generally a lot of coughing. " But that's the point! COVID can be spread by asymptomatic individuals! No coughi
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by mcguire 5y ago
Because Walter doesn't see any difference between Stalin's Soviet Union and election regulations.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Clearly, there's nothing to be done. Thoughts and prayers, ivory-billed woodpecker, thoughts and prayers.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Yes, absolutely. They were demonstrably engaged in a conspiracy attempt to kill everyone.
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by mcguire 5y ago
And suddenly I'm reminded of the web app I put together that needed three DB drivers...
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by mcguire 5y ago
Is she as smart as you are? Does her job require similar levels of knowledge and skill to yours? (One, possible) short answer seems to be that when women move into male-dominated sectors, the pay falls. " Occupations with a greater sha
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by mcguire 5y ago
" At a large scale, it starts to be pretty difficult to maneuver if each dept of 30-50 people has built or contracted all their own infra & services. " This is one of the biggest risks I've seen, for both large organizati
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by mcguire 5y ago
" restricting freedoms of unvaccinated " No shirt, no shoes, no service. TOTALITARIANISM!!!
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" After the stock issue got solved masks suddenly magically became effective for everyone around the summer time. " Technically, it was roughly the end of March and April, when evidence of asymptomatic and aerosol transmission beg
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by mcguire 5y ago
You are right, many epidemiologists and related experts did assert that masks would not be useful to fight coronavirus. And they were wrong. On the other hand, if it's a "colossal messaging fuckup" and damages "credibili
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by mcguire 5y ago
And here we go again... Up through roughly April-May 2020, many, if not most, epidemiologists and virologists believed that masks would not help the situation: they thought respiratory viruses were spread through large droplets produced by
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by mcguire 5y ago
" Look at the most recent issue of vaccine boosters. The FDA panel of experts (whom we're supposed to trust now, right?) said boosters are not necessary [for the general public ( https://qz.com/2061783/why-the
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by mcguire 5y ago
Specifically, 55.07% (fully) and 8.47% (partially). ( https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations )
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by mcguire 5y ago
Likewise, they have the responsibility not to harm other people with their bodies.
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by mcguire 5y ago
The UAE? 300 new cases / day, 5500 active cases, and 2 deaths / day, for a country with 10M people. (3 new cases / day, 55 active cases, 0.02 deaths / day, per 100,000.) Compared with, say, the US: 112,000 new cases &#x2
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by mcguire 5y ago
Yeah, most people tend to get squidgy about abstracts like "free speech" when the crazies come out of the woodwork and start calling for treason, mass deaths, and so on.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Translation: "elitist authoritarians" => "those who know what they are talking about". https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110475
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by mcguire 5y ago
How about "The safety of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines: a review" ( https://pssjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13037... ) Which has the amusing paragraph: " Notably, a recent survey conducted by
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by mcguire 5y ago
Here's a simple chart of relative risk by age group: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi... There are roughly 53,300,000 people aged 18-29 and ~3400 deaths ( https://ww
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by mcguire 5y ago
" ...totalitarianism behind vaccine passports... " Problem: An ongoing pandemic, requiring greater or lesser levels of isolation. Solution: A vaccine. Vaccinated individuals are much less likely to suffer the ill effects of the di
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by mcguire 5y ago
Pro tip: if you declare any and all "serious attempts to address the concerns" as "disinformation", then the only thing left is ostracism and censorship. BTW, ever heard of Duane Gish?
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by mcguire 5y ago
If you don't mind my asking, how old are you? And did you grow up in the United States? If you grew up in the US and are (significantly) older than Facebook and Youtube, you were raised in a society that had significantly greater sup

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