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How the Bobos Broke America(theatlantic.com)
5 points by missinfo 5y ago|3 comments
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CDC: Masks reduce your chance of Covid-19 infection by more than 80%(twitter.com)
6 points by missinfo 5y ago|3 comments
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by missinfo 5y ago
To balance that out with some constructive environmentalism, try this book next; https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmi...
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by missinfo 5y ago
Maybe Opendoor will follow, but there's also this perspective: Selling or shorting Opendoor due to Zillow’s flaws is akin to shorting Google due to Yahoo’s inability to monetize search well or return long tail queries properly. https:
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The tax on unrealized capital gains(marginalrevolution.com)
9 points by missinfo 5y ago|1 comments
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by missinfo 5y ago
> things have been going badly across the board for more than 50% of students How does this compare to traditional colleges? We hear a lot about students saddled with massive debt and useless degrees, but I don't have a good sense o
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How NFTs are creating a generational divide between platforms(theverge.com)
2 points by missinfo 5y ago|0 comments
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by missinfo 5y ago
The claim that cigarettes cause cancer has been disputed by Marlboro's own research, finding that cigarettes prevent cancer.
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by missinfo 5y ago
True, this is a good outlier example.
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by missinfo 5y ago
Even worse, they are increasingly deferring to Twitter.
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by missinfo 5y ago
That is amazing. Why is the Flexport CEO apparently the only one trying to diagnose and solve this critical problem? It's not even that hard. He lays out a relatively simple solution: 1) Executive order effective immediately over ridin
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by missinfo 5y ago
It seems to be a combination of authoritarian personality and a disconnection from physical reality. This is a mob that was formed online and mostly consists of privileged, coddled minds. That's why they are so fragile and equate mere
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The War over Academic Freedom(newstatesman.com)
51 points by missinfo 5y ago|82 comments
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Four Olds(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by missinfo 5y ago|0 comments
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by missinfo 5y ago
He clearly has an engineering and physics mindset and the very DNA of his companies is all about engineering. He attracts excellent engineers in large numbers. I think they would disagree with your assertion.
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by missinfo 5y ago
"Launching a new global currency by giving a free share of it to every person on Earth is an enormous challenge." - https://worldcoin.org/ This strikes me as a good problem to solve. Giving a free share to every p
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by missinfo 5y ago
Anti-intellectuallism is fully bipartisan at this point in time. Framing it as belonging to the other, the unenlightened side, is just tribalism and itself anti-intellectual. This trend is increasingly prevalent in both parties. If we are t
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by missinfo 5y ago
Sure, but in this case these are adults and they know exactly what they are doing. Intuit didn't force them by gunpoint. The politicians have agency here and are ultimately responsible. They chose to put their donors over their voters.
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by missinfo 5y ago
"They persuaded the Internal Revenue Service for more than a decade..." "The tax preparation industry guided Washington down a different path." Be even more upset with the IRS and politicians. They are literally responsi
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NIH Admits to Funding Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan(nationalreview.com)
40 points by missinfo 5y ago|3 comments
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by missinfo 5y ago
"they can never handle them." -> "a vocal minority can't handle them." Bill jokes about everyone. Dave jokes about everyone. South Park jokes about everyone. Most are fine with that and are able to laugh at thems
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by missinfo 5y ago
Maybe he has a reason we're missing. What's his argument? What's the steelman argument here?
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by missinfo 5y ago
Time in the market beats timing the market.
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by missinfo 5y ago
Why ever sell your stock if they continue to go up? The answer is whenever you need the money. Same with Bitcoin. People need a store of value that beats inflation. Cash is shedding its value. The return on cash is literally negative betwee
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The Continuing Bizarre Decline in Science Reporting at the New York Times(daringfireball.net)
25 points by missinfo 5y ago|12 comments
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by missinfo 5y ago
I think it's both a supply and demand issue. A much greater supply of dollars = more buying power, plus people working from home increased demand of certain items like lumber and computer chips. On top of shortages of everything for th
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Social-Justice Blowups Are Mostly About Intraelite Jockeying(jessesingal.substack.com)
12 points by missinfo 5y ago|0 comments
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Hospitals brace for strikes as California workers protest staff shortages(calmatters.org)
4 points by missinfo 5y ago|0 comments
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by missinfo 5y ago
That's a non-sequitur. The claim isn't about what's easier to prevent. The claim is that unvaccinated are more of a burden on our healthcare system. Ok, I'm open to that, but let's see the data. I'm not bored o
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by missinfo 5y ago
How many patients currently in hospitals are obese vs unvaccinated?

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