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   by new_time 6y ago

   This is like asking "is a relationship code for abuse?" A relationship done poorly can be abusive. Similarly, public private partnerships done poorly can lead to enrichment of politically connected cronies. But that is not the onl
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   That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen (1850)(bastiat.org)

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   by new_time 6y ago

   Precisely right. That's why printing cash (whether in the form of UBI or any other cash printing social program) is not a sustainable solution for lifting people out of poverty or building a healthy economy. There are always negative l
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   by new_time 6y ago

   However this saves us from inflation, since the money circulates among the wealthy and corporations rather than among the common person.
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   by new_time 6y ago

   Many lines of evidence indicate that it is.
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   Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence [pdf](web.mit.edu)

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   by new_time 6y ago

   We can't wait for markets to sort themselves out while a few executives and their well connected friends control and decide the information we get to see and hear. The stakes are too high to wait for a market solution here.
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   by new_time 6y ago

   Why do I need to see a doctor to get a mole or skin lesion checked? Why is it necessary for someone to go through 4 years of undergrad, med school, etc etc just to examine a mole and remove it with a scalpel?
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   by new_time 6y ago

   In the 19th and early 20th centuries there was in the US a proliferation of medical schools - many unaffiliated with Universities - with very few entrance requirements, extremely uneven quality of education and little standardization in
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    by new_time 6y ago

    While I don't see any examples of on this list, except perhaps for Pula, emerging archaeological evidence indicates that in the Balkans region around 7000 years ago massive towns (cities?) began emerging with up to 40,000 people living
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    by new_time 6y ago

    We will never be able to rid ourselves of the virus at this point. The only thing we can do is get healthy people out into society to build up immunity and eventually herd immunity. An additional benefit to this is we will have many people
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    Non-Indo-European root nouns in Germanic [pdf](sgr.fi)

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    Exit Strategies for Covid-19: An Application of the K-SEIR Model(papers.ssrn.com)

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    by new_time 6y ago

    Ida Tarbell's father was an oilman who was ruined by Rockefeller and Standard Oil while she was a girl, which is important to keep in mind when contextualizing her work. She lived her life in part as a crusade against Standard Oil and
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    by new_time 6y ago

    Futures prices are significantly higher than $0. This is less noteworthy than it seems. https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-...
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    Watch Out for China Buying Spree, NATO Warns(forbes.com)

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    Gilead drug produced 'rapid' recovery in coronavirus patients, report says(marketwatch.com)

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    A 3D guided tour through Ancient Rome(khanacademy.org)

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    China to ban online gaming, chatting with foreigners outside Great Firewall(taiwannews.com.tw)

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    by new_time 6y ago

    The devil on the shoulder has appeared
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    by new_time 6y ago

    The mad rush to shout down the Wuhan Bio Lab escape theory was always so odd to me. It was mentioned as a possibility and then there was a sudden deluge of headlines proclaiming the idea was patently ridiculous, etc. But if you actually rea
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    by new_time 6y ago

    Exactly, this seems like an friendly handshake agreement to cooperate with an official name and press release. OTOH, pacts like the popular vote compact signed by some states in the past few years is almost certainly unconstitutional.
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    by new_time 6y ago

    In any sufficiently high dimensional system with resource constraints it's inevitable there will be tradeoffs. Or more simply, no system is perfect.
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    by new_time 6y ago

    I love the United States' flexible decentralized model. Different states have sufficient autonomy to tinker and try different approaches, allowing the best ideas to emerge from the collective. It's one reason why the US is such a
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    Real Analysis Is a Degenerate Case of Discrete Analysis [pdf](math.rutgers.edu)

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    FDA grants emergency authorization for first saliva-based coronavirus test(rutgers.edu)

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    Deadly pathogens have escaped the lab – over and over again (2019)(vox.com)

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    by new_time 6y ago

    Well said. It's a disturbing trend throughout the internet that the Left completely disregards publications that don't follow the accepted narrative. Those individuals and publications that do follow the narrative - very often ent
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    by new_time 6y ago

    This article from 2014 (it is untainted by coronavirus politics) documents the long history of viral outbreaks from labs throughout the world. This is a known and relatively common phenomena, appearing to occur once every few years. https:
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    by new_time 6y ago

    This is a great example of an author taking a few methodological issues, doing some aggressive nitpicking, redefining some terms on the fly and then grandly extrapolating out to a ridiculous conclusion. The author tries to say that people w