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by mcguire 3y ago
Could you explain how this is in the customers' interests?
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Note: not because I don't believe it; I just want to see the evidence.
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Ok, so now I want to see the details of his first claim, " Until vaccines became available, there was little difference in COVID death rates between blue states and red states. "
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Have you seen the amount of ink used by analytic philosophy?
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I personally like Angus Graham's translation, Chuang-tzu: The Seven Inner Chapters and Other Writings from the Book Chuang-tzu, as well as his essays on it, A Companion to Angus C. Graham’s Chuang Tzu. For one thing, it gave me som
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by mcguire 3y ago
" Without individual lifetimes, you don’t need to write destructors, nor do your programs need to walk data structures at run time to take them apart. " Destructors are a very bad idea if you are using any form of garbage collec
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" But in practice, extremely few medical conditions are checked for and “excluded” before concluding a diagnosis ... – the great majority are not checked for at all. Very often, ... is diagnosed “by default”, because no known alternati
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by mcguire 3y ago
My initial thought was, "Why wouldn't this be showing up everywhere?" Then, I thought "Oh, yeah." Poking around on the CDC site, it seems like the most recent data they have up is from 2014.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Probably the second. The first would be a very sketchy calculation (although the Bank of England claims to calculate inflation back to the 12-13th century).
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Out of curiosity, are the Protocols of the Elders of Zion an "unpalatable opinion" or a "refutable claim"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of... https://www.bran
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by mcguire 3y ago
If 10 out of 10 claims a person makes are verifiably absurd, is that not empirical evidence of something? See Derick Lowe's response to this claim.
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My friend, I've seen people here, on HN, writing that they would be happy with a medical doctor trained by YouTube videos. There are people here who have expressed the opinion that any form of regulation is a positive evil. And you c
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by mcguire 3y ago
You mean the drop from 8.52/1000 in 2003 to 8.12/1000 in 2008 that roughly followed the slope of the decrease from 9.59/1000 in 1968?
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by mcguire 3y ago
By "fixed", I believe the parent poster meant mandating fewer studies, as in zero.
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In the second case, you can hold the people who "cook[ed] the books to get FDA approval ... while knowing the side effects" responsible. In the first you cannot.
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Derek Lowe ( https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/500-000-excess-dea... ): " I do not see the effects that Unz is talking about. Not at all. A single-cause change in the death rate of the magnitude that he
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by mcguire 3y ago
Derek Lowe ( https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/500-000-excess-dea... ): " "We find the largest rise in American mortality rates occurred in 1999, the year Vioxx was introduced, while the largest dr
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by mcguire 3y ago
The article concerns allegations made by Ron Unz ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Unz ), who currently runs The Unz Review ( https://www.unz.com/ ). The Unz Review currently has the following article at
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by mcguire 3y ago
Oh, no doubt. There will be an investigation looking for a relationship.
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An intentional tip, right? Not an "overheard conversation".
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https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio... " The median household wealth in 2021 was $166,900. The 10th percentile of household wealth was zero dollars, meaning 1 in 10 househol
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by mcguire 3y ago
The short answer is "history". A longer answer is that I suspect it's a bad idea in the long term. For one thing, I don't see how you wouldn't have "students who are disadvantaged for being born in the wrong st
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The students benefit, but are now in San Francisco looking for a MTFAANG job. I'll admit neglecting interstate commerce as a second order effect.
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The key point is that the plane does not crash in a populated area (and secondarily that a military plane is destroyed if crashing in an area not controlled by the owner); in both of your examples, the pilot routinely does the first if not
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by mcguire 3y ago
What is your opinion of Chattanooga, TN?
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by mcguire 3y ago
I'm curious about your opinion of the states' decisions to reduce funding for public universities. Neither the state collectively, non-parent residents of the state, nor the in-state parents get any future economic reward for fund
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by mcguire 3y ago
_____, _____, land value tax.
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Retarding the progress of science is sometimes (often?) a good thing. Many people regard Einstein's later career as fruitless, but by attacking quantum mechanics, he improved its foundations as well as making it much more acceptable.
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by mcguire 3y ago
I learned C from Schildt's C, The Complete Reference ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C,_The_Complete_Reference ) that didn't either mention that it was Windows specific or that there were other options. :-(
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This is a very common thing in writers from the 1920s to the 60s---they made their living selling articles to magazines that paid a fraction of a cent per word. If they wanted to eat, they had to hammer something out as fast as physically p

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