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by nanis 5y ago
> So if 0% of those 65+ in one state have their vaccination compared to 100% in another state You can prove anything if the antecedent is false and I am not interested in bogus arguments. 1. Mortality from COVID19 ( y ) is strongly assoc
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by nanis 5y ago
For some, truthful attribution of causality matters. > The mortality burden of COVID-19 is not randomly distributed across age groups. Indeed, age appears to be the “strongest predictor of mortality” from COVID-19, with one’s risk of dea
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by nanis 5y ago
> And the meetings it takes to do Sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, demos, retros are really killing any possibility of developers having a flow of uninterrupted time to do what they need to. This is because the Scrum "masters&qu
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Baron Jean Michel PMG de Selys Longchamps DFC(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nanis 5y ago
Whose chips do the servers use? Who makes the power supplies? In other news, some undesirables use the public transit system.
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by nanis 5y ago
Subject to historical revisionism: > 2. Air bags are designed to work with seat belts, not replace them but accurate regarding the effects of not wearing one: > If you don’t wear your seat belt, you could be thrown into a rapidly open
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by nanis 5y ago
If what I did there is not transparent, then, it seems, we have reached the end of this conversation.
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by nanis 5y ago
> but rather than private entities should have the freedom to moderate their platforms. Do you think the Nazis were able to publish their positions in _Die Rote Fahne_? > One of the points asserted was that this requires us to agree t
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by nanis 5y ago
It is hard to make the comparisons I would like to make mostly because of the piss poor way the data are disseminated (or not disseminated). For example, the CDC overwrites the previous information with every week's update. That is why
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by nanis 5y ago
These days you MUST wear a seatbelt because the explosive device that will go off inches from your face will kill you with the slightest provocation if you do not. Ironically, airbags were developed to _replace_ seatbelts as people like Ral
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by nanis 5y ago
Curiously, no one seemed to think that when they did not get the flu vaccine nor did they seem to think there was anything wrong with one's apartment being surrounded on all sides by heavy pot smokers during winter. I bring up those tw
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by nanis 5y ago
Having grown up in an actually polluted city where we had to keep ammonia in a container in the living room to scrub CO during winter months, "destroying the environment" by breathing thing is a little overwrought. Also, reducing
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by nanis 5y ago
We may agree philosophically, but you are either not aware of how enmeshed political power is with a few large communications platforms or you are purposefully distracting from that point. > it's to prevent and disallow them from be
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by nanis 5y ago
> The idea that the Jewish population was responsible for the harms and ills of pre-WWII Germany was a devastatingly harmful idea. Come to think of it ... If the pre-WWII harms and ills of Germany did not exist, would the scapegoating ha
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by nanis 5y ago
With an actual private, for-profit business, consumers have the power of taking their money and spending elsewhere. In this case, there is a dominant communication medium that is not subject to the discipline which the rest of us can impose
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by nanis 5y ago
That is a bogus argument. 1) Killing people is already a criminal act; 2) There are some people killing/beating people up with the slightest impetus. They will find that impetus whether Twitter allows people to discuss anything negativ
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by nanis 5y ago
Imagine, for a moment, a world in which 1 out of 15,000 fully vaccinated against measles are getting hospitalized from measles and an additional 1 out of 50,000 fully vaccinated against measles are dying from measles. And these numbers are
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by nanis 5y ago
> balance between free speech versus disallowing harmful ideas to propagate? There is no balance. The very fantasy of such a balance relies upon the presumption that 1) there are harmful _ideas_; and 2) that there is an authority that c
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by nanis 5y ago
Definitely revealing the real game the "green" movements have been playing in service of the Союз Советских Социалистических Республик. Keep in mind that even with an ever-expanding pie, strife over "fair share" has been
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by nanis 5y ago
With this image[1] from this question on SO[2], the output[3] is missing the last row. FWIW, I've had the occasional miraculous-looking results from AWS Textract, but you do need to keep an eye on what's happening. Update: I just
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by nanis 5y ago
Except that the digital ones allow frequent invalidation as the commercial and bureaucratic power centers collude.
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by nanis 5y ago
> "_If this peaked your interest_" It didn't.[1] [1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/pique-vs-peak-...
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by nanis 5y ago
Curiously, once again, today's update to the page where CDC lists numbers of hospitalizations/deaths from COVID19 among those fully vaccinated against COVID19 has not occurred yet[1]. Maybe it will come, maybe it won't. Back
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by nanis 5y ago
>> Does the population of Serbia actually buy into that sort of rhetoric? > By and large, yes. Serbia has an aging population and especially older people You mean those who remember Clinton bombing passenger trains to make up for t
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by nanis 5y ago
Conflating cost and price is a common habit it seems. You get paid $22. That gets you about 2.9 gallons of gasoline in Denmark which converts to about $10 in the United States. So, talking about how much the gross pay of Danish workers is w
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by nanis 5y ago
> But the slower speeds provide more time for drivers I can't react to something coming straight at me on my six. And, the drivers of these motorcycles tend to be busy on their phones.
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by nanis 5y ago
How about we start with not allowing motorcycles on the sidewalks? Whether the engine is a two-stroke or electric motor does not matter. In the NYC metro area (including cities/towns in NJ and CT), being on the sidewalk means having to
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by nanis 5y ago
If trade through Ottoman rules lands and seas had just been a matter of "pay the fee and get through", a lot of the pressures that defined the boundaries of European life would not have been there. Now, the fact that the Ottoman E
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by nanis 5y ago
It is not an either/or: First, there was knowledge preservation. But, without the incentive to apply that knowledge to solve problems created by the fact that major European powers could not freely travel East without circumnavigating
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by nanis 5y ago
> It has nothing to do with "champagne socialism" ... The author, who does not seem to have come within a thousand miles of any other work than armchair pontification, is one for thinking it'd be great to have such labor u

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