poorjohnmacafee

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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Probing or partnering? The US is wide open for business, and foreign actors certainly invest billions buying influence in US politics.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
"I'm okay with youtube censoring memes that make fun of the president"
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
It is is depressing, that clear and obvious solutions were missing at economy-critical supply chain infra. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. But also it's 2021 where people are the most cynical
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Even so it seems the administration pretends they don't exist [1] or even wants to take their marketshare [2]. The established automakers have a cozier relationship with the established politicians I guess. [1] https://www.b
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Not an important factor for many, but buying from a nearby supplier instead of shipping from other side of the globe is a lot better for the environment too, what our politicians should be incentivizing along with renewables.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
The goal in Western capitalism is to create wealth for stakeholders. Those stakeholders can then get involved in politically impactful projects as wealthy individuals if they have a conscience. As competitive, innovative companies they will
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Or when countries like Denmark and Sweden halt moderna for under 30's citing inflammation reactions. As much as there is a crusade to dismiss the VAERS database it does pretty obviously suggest that there is quite a bit more risk here
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
He said: "treating people as members of a group rather than as individuals" is bad. Does anyone actually believe that it's better to treat someone as a member of a group instead of as an individual? Why is this controversial?
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Teen depression and suicide rates plummeting right now
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Or it's like 8 or 10G radio freq technology that certain govs use.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Our modern economy pushes people to appear as "experts" for the purpose of their career, personal brand, and earnings. If someone poses as smart/an expert/well-crafted or well-filtered it's because they are playing
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
The lab's published research program, the lab's funding, the almost exact proximity of the outbreak, the lab's and CCP's actions since October 2019, the whistleblowers, the analysis of the virus's genome, does not a
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
You are aware that the mainland's new HK security laws allow extraction out of HK for anyone who "threatens national security", i.e. goes against the CCP and their system. [1] [1] https://www.amnesty.org/en&#x
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Well "dating app" is a bit of a euphemism here for no strings attached sexual encounters since will be leaving soon, isn't it? Met guys who hosted primarily just for "easy hook ups", and am sure many woman enjoyed i
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Risks for cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, and of course diabetes, are all significantly increased with obesity. Risk of getting severe covid-19 is significant increased with obesity. I know plenty of relatively wealthy people who ar
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Definitely understand the appeal for first time founders, and founders who are early in their careers so don't have contacts in the industry they are building products for, but having gone through an accelerator myself, I can't re
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
If obesity it perhaps should be studied as a realtime pushback against modern diets by nature/natural selection, in reducing unhealthy people from the gene pool.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
The decline of industry/manufacture is largely a fake thing American politicians pushed over the decades to enrich their overseas partners. It will definitely come back, especially with the rise of ESG where environment concerns means
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Regulatory capture is understood and happens in other industries (e.g. the MIC). Feel is pretty naive if you don't think politicians are willing to incur massive opportunity costs to society at large in order to enrich themselves and t
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Well the whiteboard is in my opinion not about technical correctness, and I don't appreciate companies that obsess on the technical aspect of it. It's about testing if it's the type of person you can sit down and work through
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
They disappeared into their own fantasy land long ago. They announced that investors will have profit caps because their magical AGI will learn how to achieve infinite profit one day. Statements like this must be remembered so that in the f
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Instead of emotionally reducing it to "don't kill grandma" you could join a reasonable discourse on the topic and look at other factors like... The at-risk can get vaccinated - healthy youth don't get hospitalized - ther
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
As others have mentioned here you pass it along vaccinated or not. You can also have the vulnerable population take precautions, not the young population. To be frank what kind of sick society pushes the young population to take on risk (no
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
> are taking up a non-insignificant portion of available hospital beds Healthy, non obese young people do not get hospitalized by this disease at any significant rate at all, most aren't even aware they got it. If you're a heal
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Anything that raises your body temperature is not good before sleep. Your body temperature has to actually drop a bit lower from normal before all your regular sleep cycles can kick in.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Taiwan did seek to preserve the heritage of China after the communist takeover on the mainland, which sought to pretty much destroy said heritage in a cultural revolution.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Si anode batteries weren't already being made? Are they really the first company to produce it, or is this a press release? Remember studying them years ago in Stanford Ph240 class.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
That's a neat, pretty small scale set of jobs there.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
While true, I'm not sure if you're suggesting that the war on terror and its intrusions in our domestic lives have to do with risk assessment? Don't think I have to say it out loud but it's about literal trillions of dol
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
I read because I was curious what "climate career" means. From the article they mention: Urban farmer Environmental consultant Environmental scientist Environmental lawyer Environmental activist Or joining the proposed "Clima

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