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by modriano 5y ago
People may like the idea of small government, but that's probably the top issue of only a handful of Connor Roy types and college libertarians, and tangible issues like "property values" or "safety" probably matter
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As every new case is a result of transmission, a difference in the per-capita rate of new cases between vaccinated and unvaccinated people shows an identical difference in the rate of transmission.
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In one of his videos he explained his process with videos. He wants to rule out the possibility of deceptive editing, so he only includes takes done in a single shot (at least for the portion where he demonstrates the technique). As a resul
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The Spanish flu of 1918 killed ~675k people in the US [0] and the US population was 105M [1], so the Spanish flu killed off a bit more than 0.6% of the entire US population, or about 1 in 150 people. Despite massive improvements in sanitati
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McM is just a warehousing and distribution company; they don't make any of the things they sell. They define products by specs rather than manufacturer (is few brand names are used in the catalog/site), which makes it much easier
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Obesity isn't contagious, so it doesn't really tax healthcare systems like a virus that produces exponentially increasing demands on local healthcare systems. It's kind of like trying to compare O(n) to O(2^n) without admitti
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How does obesity place undue burden on others' ability to live safely?
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Actually, there is. The new-daily-cases-per-capita rate for unvaccinated people is at least 6x the rate of vaccinated people, per the most recent data in this NYT analysis [0]. And the reduction was observed for Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J
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What evidence is there that more lives would be saved by diverting FDA employees from other tasks (like evaluating the safety of drugs, vaccines, medical devices, food, etc) to redacting trade secrets from documents that on the order of 10^
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How many lives would that have cost, though, and for what benefit? The size of the sample that had already received the vaccine without issue made it basically impossible [0] for there to have been an unexpected danger. And without approval
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Should they have delayed the emergency authorization of the vaccines until these 330,000 pages had all been reviewed and redacted? It would have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, but I can't see any benefit from that course of actio
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Wow, that cookie prompt had such a dark pattern that it destroyed any credibility. I had to scroll down past multiple feet of blank space to get to the "accept my cookie choices" button, while the "accept all cookies" wa
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Per this US Census and HUD report [0], there have between 600k (2018) to 1M (2020) single family home sales per year over the years since Zillow started Offers. Per this Barron's article [1], Zillow bought 9680 homes in Q3 2021 and les
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Median housing prices have been consistently rising [0] since Zillow started their property buying program in 2018. In their most recent earnings report, Zillow announced $422M in Q3 losses from their home buying program and expects $240M t
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No worries, I had heard the same after a chemical plant in Houston exploded and devastated some nearby residential property. It wasn't until some of the urban planning youtube channels I watch (including the one I linked) focused on Ho
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That's not true. It's correct that Houston's building restrictions aren't referred to as "zoning", but Houston absolutely has regulations and ordinances that produce the same effect [0][1]. [0] https:/&#x
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But the reason Japan doesn't have this kind of sprawl is that buildings are depreciating assets in Japan with an expected lifespan between 20 and 40 years, which both creates regular opportunities to build higher occupancy buildings an
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I don't know, "Brown Sugar" kind of seems incoherent. The tone absolutely doesn't fit with the content of the lyrics (which don't inspire thought, by the way). It's just not a great song. If, in 50 years, you s
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I guess if your list is long enough, any song can be one of the greatest, but it starts to feel strained past 25th (eg "what's the 38th greatest meal you've ever had?"), and I could list 50 greater rock songs (than &quot
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> ...two of rock music’s greatest songs... I don't often pay close attention to the lyrics in songs, but after hearing the Rolling Stones were pulling "Brown Sugar" from their set list [0] because of it's offensive ly
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My title is "data scientist", and my main job function has been researching homicide and developing policies that reduce the homicide rate/increase the homicide clearance rate. I was embedded in the homicide unit of the Burea
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I looked up Ajax Fasteners to see if they made more than fasteners, and it seems like fasteners really were the bulk of their business. How can it possibly be true that there were no other suitable fastener suppliers in a country with massi
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I went there around 8 years ago thinking "oh, what a funny idea for a museum" and came away with the 2013 world champion mustard (Maille Dijon) and a love of mustard. That museum is really a (not so) hidden gem and I highly recomm
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How does some tiny org harvesting some data harm FB? Will FB sell fewer ads because some third party extracts mother's maiden name, make of first car, home state, and whatever else is revealed in response text? Will the third party org
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It's much less than the full picture to say Houston doesn't have zoning restrictions. Technically there are no rules called "zoning restrictions" there, but they have complex ordinances that produce very similar effects.
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Actually, what I said was >...the freedom to go for a run in public without being shot or harassed (which is not really afforded to Black Americans)". I could quibble about that claim, or point that I've read countless tweets a
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You clearly didn't read the collected stories in that article. The NYTimes requested letters from Black people on their experiences running after a Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, was murdered awhile running and a big part of the national na
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A) most abortions aren't in response to rape. [0] B) most rapes aren't surprise attacks in a darkened alley or parking garage; it's by an acquaintance or intimate partner of the victim. [1] [0] https://www.usatoday
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How often do you make use of your freedom to make meaningless antagonistic gestures to Muslims or Christians? Would you rank it as more or less important than the freedom to go for a run in public without being shot or harassed (which is no
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I stopped using Facebook in 2017. I felt absolutely miserable while angrily reading the stream of ragebait Facebook kept feeding me. Facebook has been really damaging to the mental health of my parents which has been an absolute nightmare f

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