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by nanis 5y ago
I recommend everyone look at total tax receipts as percent of GDP since WWII[1] and note how they never go above 20% no matter what the marginal rates are. I leave it to the intrepid reader to combine this observation with the intermediate
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> I’m fully vaccinated Temporarily . I am assuming you had your second shot more than two weeks ago. Soon, the definition of "fully vaccinated" will change to require the third shot and you will be counted among the unvaccinat
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1% of approximately 144 million filers is 1.44 million which means about $113,000 per filer.
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> We assess the effects of a county-wide mask order on per-population mortality, intensive care unit (ICU) utilization, and ventilator utilization in Bexar County, Texas. > ... > We were unable to detect a reduction in per-populati
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A lawsuit in three acts: Hey, Twitter, can you hear me now?(alexberenson.substack.com)
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Satire requires a certain level of intelligence which these seem to be lacking. Take this, for example: > [effects of scurvy] definitely sounds better than occasionally sucking on a lime. I am sure Ms. Baecht thinks that is a demonstrati
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> Of the 3,222 participants (response rate 50.5%) and after adjustment, 64.5% agreed with the extension of mandatory vaccines. It was considered a necessary step by 68.7% of the study population, while 33.8% considered it unsafe for chil
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by nanis 5y ago
Wow. I had never heard of mcsweeneys.net before the rant from the other day[1] which I ignored as a one off but this site seems to be teeming with people who love vacuous arguments. Here is this genius[2]: > Some who become ill with COVI
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> olden days dumb people just died and didnt reproduce. It seems like this is not an internally consistent statement. If "dumbness" is genetic and smart people make smart offspring and dumb people make dumb offspring, where do
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> I don't think a lot of people are in the halfway point where they think 1 shot is safe but 2 shots are unsafe. In fact, there seems to be grounds to believe that people are extra susceptible to infection and illness during the pe
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I start reading the story. There is a link to a ringtone[1]. I click and I am taken somewhere else[2]. Sad but typical. [1]: https://community.pagerduty.com/t/pagerduty-ringtones/157 [2]: https://commun
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Available on archive.today: https://archive.is/pRVcH > Then, there is the thorny question of a child being able to give consent to a vaccine their parent doesn’t want them to have. Nadhim Zahawi, Minister for Covid Vacci
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If that's the interpretation you want to go with, then the rule has to be followed consistently by reporting deaths from Covid19 among all people who "received the vaccine safely" instead of restricting such reporting to the
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> I specifically wrote the rate is lower for younger people. Exactly. The question is how much lower. If, as it seems, it is low enough compared to all the other things that might harm a child, it would be rational to introduce them to t
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If you look at the press release[1]: > 98.9-percent of new COVID-19 cases since Jan. 1, 2021, were people not vaccinated > 98.6-percent of COVID-19 hospitalizations since Jan. 1, 2021, were people not vaccinated > 98.7-percent of C
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> Ontario had 554 new reported cases of COVID yesterday. > - 319 were not vaccinated (213 of these were 12+ and therefore eligible to be vaccinated) > 16% of the population (eligible but not vaccinated) is driving close to 50% of r
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by nanis 5y ago
> Covid has a death rate of .5% (higher for older people, lower for younger) That is a very bold statement, given that mild cases are less likely to be recorded in official data sets, affecting the denominator much more for younger peopl
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by nanis 5y ago
You have to respond within 15 minutes with a geotagged selfie as I understand it. Given that one cannot know when one's chain is going to be yanked, it still sounds like torture.
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> UK Covid deaths 133,000 vs Australia Covid deaths 1054. Looking at all cause mortality and just eyeballing, it looks like in most cases Covid19 is reducing some lives by a few times while the fact that no one lives forever stubbornly p
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When I train developers on `git` in combination with GitHub, I emphasize that `git` the tool was written for a specific goal. Linus wrote it to replace BitKeeper for the express purpose of collaborating on the maintenance & development
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This URL on SFGate seems to work: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Health-Dept-Stop-taking-... ... Archived at https://archive.is/xteyf > JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In an article published Aug. 2
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https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1434591443855753220
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Such decisions involving comparing benefits and costs do not belong to scientists.
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I recommend categorizing some non-urgent, nice-to-have, non-intricate tickets as onboarding tickets. It takes discipline to set them aside and not touch them because it is so tempting to just get those done and out of the way, but they are
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by nanis 5y ago
Amazing ... I had just checked a few minutes before this post. I tried RC.1-4 and they were definitely improvements on 19.07 in terms of general feel, reduced need for weekly reboots etc.
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For the same reasons that the Soviet Union could not keep grocery stores stocked most of the time.
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> In the field of macroeconomics Actually, macro is voodoo ... The sub-discipline of economics that deals with individual incentives and behavior is micro economics.
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1433254293352730628.html The incessant quote-tweeting in a thread does make it unnecessarily complicated though.
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Just keep in mind that the API will end up living for a loooong time and spend at least 10 days thinking about it before creating it in 10 minutes.
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> The code that runs Google itself is not publicly reviewed. There are no commit messages, no attribution and no version history. How can a Googler "think like an owner" when they're being told to follow inflexible rules e

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