quartzite

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by quartzite 7y ago
How can China become zeroth world shortly when half of the country is still living in third world conditions? I suppose if you only consider how the wealthiest in Shanghai and other Tier 1 cities live their lives then yes China is approachi
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by quartzite 7y ago
Hard to have a war economy when winning the war means shutting your economy down.
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by quartzite 7y ago
Yes, and it's the best proxy we have.
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America’s Intensive-Care Dividend(wsj.com)
1 points by quartzite 7y ago|0 comments
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by quartzite 7y ago
That's irrelevant, what matters is that a high IQ society has a vested interest in measuring IQ as a proxy for general intelligence and standardized testing results should reliably correlate to IQ and general intelligence.
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by quartzite 7y ago
This is exactly correct. Those who fight for fair admissions on the basis of intellectual ability and academic potential should hold up the SAT and standardized testing as a cornerstone of the admissions process. Standardized testing signif
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by quartzite 7y ago
Which is precisely why this bailout will cause inflation.
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by quartzite 7y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. We have massive debt and our Federal Reserve is now resorting to buying treasuries again but in spite of that yields are rising! This should disturb everyone. Helicopter money won't necessarily
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by quartzite 7y ago
And the problem is that during an extended period of curve reduction there will still be people pushed out of medical care due to surging cases (but not spiking!). The total area between the number of patients and hospital capacity curves m
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by quartzite 7y ago
Exactly. All this talk of "flattening the curve" is counterproductive if the curve remains flattened right at capacity for an extended period of time, which is what these measures will cause, rather than spiking for a short period
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by quartzite 7y ago
It will be impossible for us to permanently stop the spread with half measures. As viral spread continues due to half hearted social distancing, when will we be able to return to normalcy? Given the characteristics of this virus even a few
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The Jews of West Africa?(unz.com)
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by quartzite 7y ago
In the US at least we have massive tracts of wasteland perfectly suited for this purpose. Beats pumping poison in the air everyone breathes.
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by quartzite 7y ago
That's not true. Most of the iron smelting cultures in Africa dissolved on their own without European interference.
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Our Universe May Have an Antimatter Partner on the Other Side of the Big Bang(physicsworld.com)
2 points by quartzite 7y ago|0 comments