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by peytn 6y ago
One might reasonably believe that clearly defined exit criteria might boost compliance if chosen carefully with community input. I can see the other side of things. In my opinion we are doing a very poor job of meeting people’s needs.
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by peytn 6y ago
Doesn’t seem like that condition leads to termination. As things return to normal, fewer surveillance tests will be conducted by definition, so the test positivity rate will rise.
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by peytn 6y ago
Hmm, that’s a little fishy.
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by peytn 6y ago
Yeah somebody just calls you up basically and talks about how they have this great company/opportunity and emphasizes that they have close ties to the local government.
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by peytn 6y ago
I was surprised to learn he backtracked and said he was “exploring” the idea. Curious if anybody has a more recent update. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/9/21210250/coronavirus-bil... He certainl
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by peytn 6y ago
I believe for Pfizer the preclinical DART and teratogenicity studies in rats are still ongoing, but nobody expects the readouts to be anything bad. That was in the last update I saw, so my info may be out of date.
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by peytn 6y ago
I liked it too. In the case of the pandemic, if we were as smart as we think we are, we would’ve had the public doing drills. We didn’t put in the work ahead of time. The countries that’ve done well are the countries that faced SARS back in
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by peytn 6y ago
One counterpoint: everyone knows that as the makers of these tools we have power over others. Somebody somewhere must have a plan to manipulate us. Personally I take whatever I read with a huge grain of salt and stick to time-tested princip
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by peytn 6y ago
I’d be fine with that. Climate change is hard enough that I don’t think banning dissent and reinforcing groupthink is gonna get us to a good place. We should think about designing better solutions and incentives to adhere to those solutions
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by peytn 6y ago
Yeah, that’s another good nuance. Ultimately many factors drive hyperinflationary healthcare costs. Everyone’s making money. I think my takeaway from the whole conversation is that the insurance business can be counterintuitive to outsiders
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by peytn 6y ago
From a personal conversation with an insurance company board member, I’ve been told this isn’t a factor as most aren’t running anywhere close to that line. The bigger factor in his eyes is healthcare providers building local monopolies. I d
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by peytn 6y ago
The other factor is that hospitals have wised up over the years and started merging, which turns them into local monopolies and makes insurance companies price-takers.
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by peytn 6y ago
That sounds extreme. Without taking sides, I suggest another possibility is that the author may have a bias, agenda, or angle to the story.
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by peytn 6y ago
I’m not so sure because Wuhan is on an alluvial plain and thus probably doesn’t have too many bats relative to other places. The han in Wu han is the same as the Han people, so it’s a safe bet that Wuhan is a hub for culture and educat
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by peytn 6y ago
I don’t know, there’s really not much concrete information to go off of at this point. I think any reasonable person would naturally side with the people asking for more evidence and/or transparency. In this case that appears to be the
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by peytn 6y ago
Maybe, I don’t watch TV, and it’s probably not a good source of common sense. The government has plenty of tools. I’m frankly not going to be convinced they need me to abandon my principles in order to stay in power. If the president is doi
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by peytn 6y ago
I decided a few years ago that my line would be banning a sitting president. I don’t consume political theater and don’t know what’s happening, but I’m going to stick to my principles. If what he’s done is so bad, there are ways to kick him
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by peytn 6y ago
I can vote and lobby for change. I’m asking where do others stand? If we don’t decide what is right, somebody else will.
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by peytn 6y ago
Unplugged. I feel like I still haven’t gotten a clear answer on whether there should be a limit on Google’s ability to control information on its platform and what that limit should be. Can Google route emails from its competitor’s recruite
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by peytn 6y ago
It’s no secret that we have this power. Furthermore, there are people who know that we have this power who are also experts in drumming up hate.
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by peytn 6y ago
I’m aware that there is a difference. My question was at what point in between the two does it become not okay?
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by peytn 6y ago
I’m asking where the line is so I can make that trade off. At present, it looks like the community has decided that I need to be silenced.
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by peytn 6y ago
Where’s the line? Do I need to think about unplugging my Google Home Mini? For the record, when I said I’d kill for some sushi, I didn’t mean it literally.
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by peytn 6y ago
Seems like that principle would be easy to circumvent by simply letting private companies do the tracking and punishing in return for favorable treatment by the government.
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by peytn 6y ago
I’m sorry, that just sounds like an excuse. The policy we chose was bad for almost a year. To me that’s inexcusable.
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by peytn 6y ago
It’s clear through this all that we’ve seen great power wielded. Regardless of who you support, I hope anybody reading this remembers that there are more important things than winning. The government has a monopoly on violence. It doesn’t n
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by peytn 6y ago
I recall that the science deniers were the ones in favor of border restrictions. Besides, I don’t envy anybody whose position is so weak they must resort to finger pointing. A scientist would let the data speak.
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by peytn 6y ago
They were free to not do business with the city of Montgomery, if I’m following the logic of some of today’s discussion correctly.
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by peytn 6y ago
That sounds inconvenient. I’ve been ordered to stay at home off and on for almost a year, and it’s been inconvenient too.
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I’m certain we could have figured out something earlier. We spend several billion dollars annually on an organization with a singular mandate to do so.

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