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by nostromo 5y ago
My state (Washington) just hit its 700th day of the state of emergency as declared by the governor. This gives him the ability to do just about anything, so he's refusing to let it go. Welcome to day 701 of 14 days to flatten the curv
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by nostromo 5y ago
And Rivian is down 41% since Q4 ended... that'll be a big headwind next quarter for Amazon.
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by nostromo 5y ago
A flat green roof. Which is much worse than just a flat roof. The drainage will clog and they’ll risk having a leaky roof every spring. And you can’t get up there with a snow shovel because it’s a green roof and you’d scrape off all the
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by nostromo 5y ago
> Since I easily generate more electricity that I will ever use (see above for why policies drove us to an installation larger that necessary) my household has no incentive to conserve at all. ... so? You're generating energy from
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by nostromo 5y ago
A heated pool for a single-family home in the wilderness seems particularly decadent and indulgent. It looks like they wanted a California house, with flat a roof and giant windows, in the Canadian Wilderness. But there's a reason hou
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by nostromo 5y ago
> There’s a common factor to all of your 1:1s, so that may be worth looking into. This was rude and uncalled for.
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by nostromo 5y ago
PG has experience in this space, remember. He played a role in helping detect and prevent spam back in the day. https://www.infoworld.com/article/2674702/techology-business...
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by nostromo 5y ago
The crazy thing is this is creating a breeding ground for conspiracy theorists. When the media, the government and "science" double-down on policies we all know are total bullshit, it makes people lose faith in the media, the gove
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by nostromo 5y ago
> They'd also know that pretty much the only condition we're treating nowadays is Covid. This isn't true. Here in Washington State we're experiencing peak Covid, and only about 30% of hospital capacity is for Covid.
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by nostromo 5y ago
What about smokers? What about the obese? What about people who took risks and acquired HIV?
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by nostromo 5y ago
They come sealed from reputable manufacturers and pharmacies in India that you can read about online. I suppose someone could create fraudulent drugs, but honestly, it's probably cheaper just to sell you the real deal. And just like o
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by nostromo 5y ago
I've purchased prescription drugs from Indian pharmacies online and they take a while to arrive, but they do make it through customs and arrive and they are legit. The funny thing is, I mostly do it because I don't want to go to t
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by nostromo 5y ago
Both sides seem to be engaging dishonestly though. For example, there is no scientific basis for vaccinating children 12-18. They are not at risk. You don't even need to be vaccinating healthy people under 30 for that matter. Childr
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by nostromo 5y ago
Read the results in the paper: https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2113017/suppl_f... Group A and Group B had the same amount of deaths. Group B also had more adverse reactions, some serious and
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by nostromo 5y ago
When the public is discussing if we should mandate vaccines or not, and at what age, and in order to do what activities... including important activities like receiving an education... yes, you need to have these conversations outside of t
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by nostromo 5y ago
Sure, but it makes me question these HN comments like "the author is clueless about statistics" and the like.
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by nostromo 5y ago
It's worth noting that the author is a PhD biochemist from Rutgers. I have no idea if her concerns have merit, but I don't believe it should be shot down without consideration either.
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by nostromo 5y ago
But this is the reason we have randomized trials. Because the human body is complicated and you can't say with certainty that those "other" deaths were not related to the vaccine in most cases. I'm happily vaccinated, b
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by nostromo 5y ago
It’s shocking to me how much the courts and executive branch have hollowed out the Civil Rights Act. > It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise t
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by nostromo 5y ago
The pandemic will never end. It’s endemic and has several animal reservoirs. You will likely catch it several times over the next many decades of your life.
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by nostromo 5y ago
> I don't think the printed money induced food demand Food purchases are way up since Covid. https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/food/united-states
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by nostromo 5y ago
Inflation is never evenly distributed. That doesn’t dispute the cause for widespread inflation. Inflation is higher than it’s been in 40 years, and that timeframe includes several energy cost spikes, many of which were worse than the curre
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by nostromo 5y ago
Print several trillion dollars to induce demand while shutting down industry worldwide off and on for two years, which reduces supply. It’s obvious this will cause prices to rise dramatically.
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by nostromo 5y ago
I'm glad that he and I seemingly share the same goals. That is: the downfall of Twitter. Firing everyone in sight and deploying dark patterns for short-term revenue seem like good first steps.
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by nostromo 5y ago
This is a pretty typical opinion for progressive white men, who don't fear sexual violence the same way women often do, and often don't live in high-crime neighborhoods. When the violence reaches your front door, it'll be ha
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by nostromo 5y ago
Gun violence spiked in 2020, and continued to increase in 2021. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls "Homicide" is a fungible term, one that is gamed by city officials and prosecutors that want to show lo
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by nostromo 5y ago
> The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century, according to data published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). https://www.cnn.c
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by nostromo 5y ago
Look at shootings and homicides, which are reported more consistency than low-level crimes (people have given up reporting many of these). 2020 was up 50%. And 2021 is outpacing 2020.
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by nostromo 5y ago
Seattle, as an example, lost 1 out of 5 cops between 2020 and 2021. Crime, including violent crimes like murder, are all up. Closed cases are down. There are new lists of crimes that are “deprioritized” every few months. This last month
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by nostromo 5y ago
It’s interesting that the cities who wanted to fire all cops and then ran them out of town with pitchforks are suddenly upset cops aren’t policing as much as they used to. De-policing was the goal and that goal has been partly achieved. No

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