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by mikem170 5y ago
Section 2.3 of the reddit post [0] (titled: "And if it were created in a lab, SARS-CoV-2 would have been engineered by an idiot") mentions covid having a polybasic cleavage site, which is suboptimal for humans (the "ford focu
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This reddit post [0], by a PhD with a background in high risk biocontainment viruses, goes into great detail that the evidence, including genetic evidence, points to covid-19 crossed over from nature hundreds of miles away from Wuhan, befor
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by mikem170 5y ago
There is the Berkeley Fast File System (BSD Fast File System, FFS) [0]. OpenBSD defaults to it. FreeBSD defaults to the Unix File System (UFS). I'm not sure about NetBSD and the others, but I assume they are pretty much either FFS or U
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> the answer is very heavy education and genetic engineering for improved IQ and work ethic, to constantly improve humans to be able to achieve more without personal strain That sounds like a lot of work. Isn't tech supposed to make
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by mikem170 5y ago
From the reddit post I link to, table of contents, Q4, subitem 4.4, in summary: > We also know that the overall genetic diversity of the above cases cannot be explained exclusively by looking at the cases from the Hunan market. In other
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After that I still saw a pattern where the media kept proffering worst case scenarios at every step, with no studies to back them up, even contradicting known science. The most recent example of this is fear-mongering headlines indicating t
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by mikem170 5y ago
This extensive reddit post [0] was interesting, by a high risk biocontainment virus Phd person, documenting the reasons he was sure covid-19 was not created by, or accidentally released from, the Wuhan lab [0]. Question #4 in the table of c
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by mikem170 5y ago
Are you saying that you don't want to take any risk of dying of covid, but your odds of dying of the flu don't bother you?
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I did some more digging on Swiss referendums [0]. I thought I'd pass along what I found: - .6% signatures required for a local referendum, 2% at federal level (somewhere else I saw 50k or 100k signatures required federally, some with 1
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by mikem170 5y ago
My comment was more directed towards the generic problem of a small (loud? rich?) minority having undue influence over the local representatives who decide on issues. I personally would tend to agree with you on the specific issue we were t
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by mikem170 5y ago
I agree that my use of the word "magic" there was over-enthusiastic. The preference for local governance in Switzerland is a key factor, as you pointed out.
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by mikem170 5y ago
In a democracy everyone needs to vote. Which can be at the polls. Why do you assume that everyone needs to sit in on every legislative session? It could be that way, but I don't see where it has to be. There's a lot of ways to be
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by mikem170 5y ago
I was adding more info about Switzerland's referendums, as compared to California's. Maybe I did not understand your comment on California.
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The document on Switzerland said that at a federal level the ability of the people to remove laws forces representatives to proactively compromise with possibly offended groups of people before passing a law, knowing that enough signatures
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Could be that a lesser amount of people negotiate on an issue, which then gets voted on by everybody? I agree that the voters would need more time to learn about the issues they are voting on, but not everyone needs to be involved preparing
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> But, it's actually the same tiny group of people writing their letters to the local paper and attending the council meetings over and over. > We Can't Have Nice Things in democracies, because of a small number of people I
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Agreed. I'd add that perhaps "the system" is not optimized for the people. For example, perhaps the people of towns/cities should be able to vote on things "closer to home" for themselves (like property taxes a
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by mikem170 5y ago
> direct democracy sounds good in practice, but these days pretty much every proposition is written by a special interest group I think a key part of direct democracy is to make it as local as possible. It's my understanding that Sw
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by mikem170 6y ago
Could be demographics driving the housing demand, also. The large millennial generation are now in the housing market, and the baby boomers haven't sold yet. In 20-30 years the baby boomers will not be around. That will change the dema
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by mikem170 6y ago
I wonder if SpaceX is going to be next to the moon either way, NASA contract or not...
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The only downside is if an attacker's post is the first result on a google search of your name, which can easily happen for an unusual name having no other internet presence. Some people figure it is good to have a lot of other results
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I had the thought that if something like this happened to me I might consider changing my last name to "Smith" or "Jones". Maybe it would be fun if we all did that ;-)
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by mikem170 6y ago
Have I been tricked, or are you being pedantic? Based on my experience looking at a variety of specific city, town, and county zoning regulations I hardly see any that allows a primary dwelling anything close to as small as 120 square feet.
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I appreciate the clarification on codes versus zoning. However I did some digging and found that there's a big difference between what the commonly used international residential codes allow, and what zoning commonly allows. From an ar
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Is that common or an exception, particularly in cities where the jobs are? And does that change the point I was making, that zoning is a bigger impediment to more/cheaper housing than codes? It isn't safety codes that says I can&#
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by mikem170 6y ago
Maybe we need to dedicate lots where self-policing groups of homeless people can put their temporary shelters, provide them with a porta potty, somewhere near a bus stop so they can get to work. This would be such a boon for so many struggl
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by mikem170 6y ago
Zoning is the big problem in the US. It is illegal in most cities to build a tiny house, or a decent shelter to sleep in, even if you follow all the safety codes. Zoning says you must have a minimum of 1000+ square feet (100+ square meters)
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by mikem170 6y ago
> I'm sure if you took the people that hung that banner and made them hold hand with one of the students as they died, their enthusiasm would quickly fade. Maybe this has a tendency to happen in larger group-think situations. Those
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by mikem170 6y ago
You intentionally chose the words you said, but it doesn't matter how you framed it? Ok, maybe we should back up. I objected to your "survival of your species" characterization of the pandemic, but am happy to agree to leave
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by mikem170 6y ago
Correct! I've been pointing this out, also. I found this article [0], referencing the J&J FDA trails where they saw a 50% increase in blood clots in the vaccinated group, which was not considered statistically significant at the ti

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