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by pasabagi 5y ago
Japan is also not 'an island in any meaningful sense'. Yet it seems like when it came to coronavirus, it was an advantage. It's obviously easier to control borders when everybody needs to go through passport control to enter
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, that's the other thing: there was a time when the UK did have top-tier per-capita death rates, so that's where the idea came from that the UK was 'number one'. In regards to CR, you would expect the Czech repub
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> worst Covid deaths per capita I think the point is that the countries that have worse deaths-per-capita are poor (eastern european states), conspicuously dysfunctional (Belgium), or both dysfunctional and unlucky (Italy). The UK was po
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I'm not sure I'd call it 'partisan'. Opinions were divided, but in terms of 'party politics', especially mainstream party politics, I don't know. Kerry voted for the Iraq war, for instance. along with a ma
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The war on terror was bipartisan, though, and supported by political parties across the spectrum around the world. The UK's (nominally) social democratic Labour party pushed it, for example. I think the real demarcation line is that un
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess the trades are very tightly coupled with the construction industry, which is very volatile, so there's always going to be labour over/undersupply problems. I personally wouldn't encourage people to think of the trades
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Joseph Bosco served as China country director in the office of the US secretary of defense, I hope this is not a senior position. This article reads like a less literate David Icke's fever dream.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think it depends on which lockdowns you are talking about. I've been living in Germany, where lockdowns seem to happen at the time you expect them to happen (when cases start to spike), and the deaths-per-capita are about half that o
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by pasabagi 5y ago
>However, if lockdowns have a notable effect, we should see this effect regardless of the timing, and we should identify this effect more correctly by excluding studies that exclusively analyze timing This seems like a really weird take.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Can anybody explain to me why gas is considered sustainable? Is it far more efficient than coal in terms of CO2 released vs calories produced?
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It's probably just a matter of fixing some inane configuration file under /etc/. Don't get me wrong - I find that kind of thing annoying too. But it's nothing compared to the Windows approach of interrupting your wo
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess the difference is that these problems are fixable: maybe they're going to be annoying to fix, but you can actually do it. In windows, some problems are simply outside of your control, or if you dip down into the registry to fix
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It is significantly more predictable, though. If I switch on my Windows computer to do some work, say, for a deadline, it's out of my control what happens next. If I'm unlucky, there's literally nothing I can do to make the c
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I was exaggerating, but the demographic slump that happened as a result of WW1 was a problem for french military planners, which is why a large portion of their army were reservists or badly trained. Per your other point, you're shifti
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by pasabagi 5y ago
MAD was a dumb idea in the first place. Everybody has known, since the first world war, that a major power confrontation is very likely to end your nation, even if you win . The French were so demographically destroyed they literally could
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It should be fine. If you consider the UK as a sort of upper-bound[0] on how many people can die if you just relax all restrictions in a vaccinated population, it works out to an average of 250 deaths per week. That is, as a worst-case scen
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I don't know what Socratic dialogues you've been reading, but if somebody started speaking like they were out of one near me, I'd probably report them for being a replicant.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
For everybody who was angry, there were probably two quiet fans who were hoping you would chuck the locks in the river. A personal favourite is when the city employee comes with an angle grinder to cut them off en masse .
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Perhaps it's a reaction to the normal bias? I'm constantly surprised by how people will take extremely partial accounts from somebody on one side of an issue and no real expressed or implicit commitment to accuracy at face value.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Kinda? It's on a scale. Where I grew up (London[0]), the concept of culture was that everybody brings their own, and it's cool to have a whole load of different cultures living side-by-side. In Germany, it's a lot more like y
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The weird paradox about Germany is that, while the political structure incentivise this kind of nuanced, fairly sensible policy, it's probably on the more immigrant-unfriendly side of european states, culturally speaking. You're g
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Yeah, I know the 'rule'. The least messy war that comes to mind is the first gulf war, and that had loads of direct targeting of civilians[0]. Most wars (second gulf, various israeli wars, etc) are way worse. I cannot in fact thin
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Really? I don't know of a single war off the top of my head that didn't have many high-profile incidents of militaries targeting civilian infrastructure (with people inside).
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It's how insular groups / cults work. The group looks for converts, so people who are normally isolated and rejected feel welcomed, and group members try to be welcoming. Members adopt a progressively more weird lexicon and lifes
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I was just trying to apply the same standards to Chernobyl as you apply to other accidents. (Obviously, if you talk about QALYS injuries, most polluting industries, especially in this era, could be associated with arbitrarily high numbers o
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> sharia Can anybody offer some insight into what people mean by that? I know that in the 19th century, sharia was basically just a legal tradition, that drew on Islam (just as western legal traditions draw on Christianity, or eastern on
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think it was more like 60 people. 30 people was just the number who died in the initial explosion. Presumably a lot more people would have died if it wasn't for a really expensive and heroic cleanup / disaster management effort.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I see your point. On the other hand, if I was a judge, I think I would be incensed by Thedacare driving the situation right to the brink, then using the consequences of their terrible negotiating strategy on third parties as a way to force
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The surprising thing is that a judge would go along with it, since his injunction, and by extension his office, is essentially being instrumentalized as part of a negotiation tactic.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It's typically called 'dead cat' PR. I don't think Boris deserves any particular credit.

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