presidente20

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by presidente20 5y ago
Those numbers are wildly optimistic. I would like to see which studies you are quoting so I can review them.
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by presidente20 5y ago
Do you have a source for those numbers?
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by presidente20 5y ago
Not hypothetical. This is actively being discussed in several countries. Relevant because vaccine passports make even less sense if the vaccines don't work.
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by presidente20 5y ago
There's a good chance that the AZ and Sinopharm vaccines don't work as well.
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by presidente20 5y ago
>It's biology folks? Read up about philosophy of science. Science has to be subjected to scrutiny and stand the test of time before we can be confident. Covid jab needs more time.
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by presidente20 5y ago
I think that's a false dichotomy. You're saying the success of vaccine A implies success of vaccine B? That because some people wrongly argued against vaccine A, I can't argue against vaccine B (even at such an early point)?
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by presidente20 5y ago
This is exactly the point. We have decades of evidence for most vaccines and you only need them infrequently. That's a world away from a 6m old vaccine that hasn't been through the normal approval process.
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by presidente20 5y ago
The infection rates for Covid and flu are in the same ballpark so the infection rate is basically irrelevant. So Covid to flu comparison is more like apples to apples. https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3883&#x2F
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by presidente20 7y ago
So the earth is 4.5 billion years old and the BBC think 135 years is a suitable sample size?
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by presidente20 7y ago
Handed down. The austerity has been a condition of the bailouts from the ECB & IMF. The Greeks even voted against the terms in a referendum which was immediately overturned. In Italy the EU even went to the lengths of appointing their o
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by presidente20 7y ago
Fair point but I think the problem is that the brain drain is exacerbating the other structural problems in the eurozone.
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by presidente20 7y ago
Spot on.
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by presidente20 7y ago
I think that's an overly conspiratorial view. I agree with your analysis in part but I don't think the EU is doing these things deliberately to undermine, it's more that it's their philosophy (which IMO is counter to the
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by presidente20 7y ago
No it wasn't. The point of the euro was mainly political - a step towards a single European state. Economically the benefits are reduced transaction costs and reduced currency risk between countries within the single market.
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by presidente20 7y ago
Not true. There are a number of important differences. The US gradually merged into a single currency over a long period of time. As a nation the states have a sufficiently integrated fiscal policy such that budget redistribution is possibl
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by presidente20 7y ago
But that's rational isn't it? The expected outcome is much lower for someone from a working class background so play safe. You won't have access to connections or sound advice from mentors in the know. You're less likely
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by presidente20 7y ago
Good point. The one thing in the article I agreed with is that it's better to do a traditional humanities subject rather than a vocational one (like communications, operations management, business operations). The latter seem to narrow
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by presidente20 7y ago
Great point. I think there are some subtle things about Maths in particular and science in general that make it more educational. One is learning to accept and understand things that are at first counter-intuitive. When solving Maths proble
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by presidente20 7y ago
The article contains a number of flaws IMO. Its argument seems to be: 1. Graduates with any degree earn more money and have less unemployment. No doubt true, but how do you discount selection bias here? Given that it's on average the s
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by presidente20 8y ago
It's surprising that the BBC think it's surprising.
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by presidente20 8y ago
That's right. The approach that works for me is optimising top-down. Save on the big expenses (accommodation, car, groceries) which requires planning and System II thinking. Try and save on the smaller stuff but as you're fighting
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by presidente20 8y ago
Not convinced. In history as automation has increased working hours have tended to trend downwards. I doubt anyone smart wants to burn out working under those kind of conditions.
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by presidente20 8y ago
Doesn't sound like a great company to work for. Insane production targets coupled with 'by the way we're examining all costs under a microscope'. The part about the midnight oil doesn't even make sense and seems to
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by presidente20 9y ago
This is quite shoddy journalism. Does the author present any evidence for any recent antisemitism? Not at all. Tweets here and there, images that can interpreted a number of ways. I find myself in the odd position of defending Corbyn, someo
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by presidente20 9y ago
I had no idea. My claim was clearly hyperbole but I think the substance of the point still stands... it was a high turnout.
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by presidente20 9y ago
I think you're getting caught up in the tittle tattle of 'why people voted' and other fear-based narratives. Why not focus on the core issues here? Is the EU founded on solid principles? Is it functioning well / showing
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by presidente20 9y ago
That's right, lets disregard the views of the people with life experience in favour of a bunch of highly impressionable, inexperienced teenagers.
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by presidente20 9y ago
That's massive by the standards of modern democracy. Can you name any issue which more people have voted on? Far less people than that vote in most governments.
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by presidente20 9y ago
I think for many people political views are quite tightly bound up with their sense of identity and therefore in practice political debates tend to end up being quite personal and negative. I tend to avoid politics except with very close fr
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by presidente20 9y ago
How many of those communist countries were democracies though? I think my point stands, it's pretty rare for democracies to go to war. If you take the example of WW1, I doubt many people would consider Germany to have been a democracy

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