raducu

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721.
by raducu 6y ago
> A social safety net. I believe this would be great. But perhaps not, perhaps this was only in the what Ovid calls the Golden Age -- perhaps small communities of hunter-gatherers, perhaps never in the way we imagined. But I don't s
722.
by raducu 6y ago
Because this actually IS the prevailing view, but it is not really actionable. What is the alternative to drugs? A real advantage of depression is you won't challenge authority so you'll be more likely to appease the Alpha members
723.
by raducu 6y ago
Besides raving on and on about ADHD, the article offers little actionable stuff, dubious reasoning and outright falsehoods at places (like the fact that antidepressants are no better than placebo).
724.
by raducu 6y ago
Two things: 1) Politicians around the world are circumventing central banks with special laws, guaranteed loans programs. 2) Central banks can just "temporarily" buy treasury bills with fictional money -- the only thing keeping us
725.
by raducu 6y ago
But it does make perfect sense -- if at some point a certain category was shown to have a very high projected morbidity rate -- say the overweight elderly with diabetes -- you could approve the medicine just for that group if it was deemed
726.
by raducu 6y ago
But the US could have just bought the oil on the open markets. In 2008, the US imported 600.000 barrels of oil per day from Irak -- that's when oil peaked at ~150 -- but if the whole year the oil stayed at 150$/barrel, and the US
727.
by raducu 6y ago
I was talking about the rational objectives of the US as a state, if we agree that the US is a captured state by criminals with unknown strategic objectives or contrary to the US as a country, then, all bets are off. 1. The US was in no dan
728.
by raducu 6y ago
Ask Ukraine how they lost billions in ammunition due to a incendiary grenade dropped with a regular drone. Someone does not need to kill you in your vehicle or your house -- they can start a major fire while you are in there, drop a defensi
729.
by raducu 6y ago
But that is only partially correct -- the italian priest who refused a ventilator in order for a younger guy to get it, yeah, he fits the bill 100%. The scientist who self administers that vaccine... in order to what exactly, I'm not s
730.
by raducu 6y ago
This is not ethical, regardless! It creates a precedent and expectation from other scientists to do the same, which, down the road will lead to laxed testing standards in the future -- this isn't the wild west! What does self administe
731.
by raducu 6y ago
But what if all scientists feel pressured to do the same, in an effort to win relevance? .... what if .... entire nations feel pressured to do the same, not wait for trials, just proclaim victory on a hunch... like Russia?
732.
by raducu 6y ago
RF completely achieved its objectives in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, without putting a "we have won" show. Sure, there are sanctions, because Russia actually annexed Crimea. Russia knows very well that teritory grabbing in itself
733.
by raducu 6y ago
Most powers make the same false assumptions that they "easily won" an insurgency/guerrilla war. No you didn't win anything, you temporarily held territory, you wasted enormous resources, and were in fact beaten by goat h
734.
by raducu 6y ago
What war could the US start without the usual and immediate involvement of Russia, China or Iran -- I mean, except for a war with its own citizens that is. The US lost the Afghanistan war, is slowly losing Irak to Iran, lost all face and is
735.
by raducu 6y ago
The US victory was a textbook 19th century victory, but a 21th century catastrophic failure/pyrrhic victory -- in Irak and Afghanistan. You cannot win a war if you fail to reach your strategic objectives -- then it's not a war, bu
736.
by raducu 6y ago
The fiber is a fixed geometry. The satellite mesh is not, a straight line from point A to point B is not possible most of the time, given the number of satellites available and range of laser communication in space.
737.
by raducu 6y ago
I'm sure the IT sector employees wouldn't vote for Lukashenko anyway; if they can block the internet for the rest of the population, all is well. Oh wait, they can fake election results, kill anybody they please and are backed by
738.
by raducu 6y ago
Too lazy to watch it -- does it take into account the multiple criss-crossing satellite hops? I watched it -- no it doesn't :) It is comparing fiberoptics latency with straight line light propagation. So the worst case scenario of
739.
by raducu 6y ago
Light in vacuum is only faster if it goes in a straight line from point A to B, not if it zig-zags across 50 satellites.
740.
by raducu 6y ago
What is the lifetime of a SpaceX satellite? Judging from their high launch cadence, it seems satellite-satellite communication was just a means to excite the fanboys and motivate their employees, the same way the peddle the Mars stuff.
741.
by raducu 6y ago
But how many rounds are usually expended per missile intercept? How many rounds does an aircraft carry? Can CIWS intercept a Mach 3 missile while on an aircraft flying above Mach 1 (a relative speed of Mach 4+)? Is it a good tactic to point
742.
by raducu 6y ago
I know you said it was gradual, but did you have any psychedelics experience or some spiritual experience that facilitated that change?
743.
by raducu 6y ago
Am I missing something here? Why is this about Columbus, the skeletons are dated mid 1400's - 1600's. This is quite ridiculous. This is like that one star that is like 80 million years older than the Big Bang, in the estimated age
744.
by raducu 6y ago
It's not like there weren't voyages after Columbus, you know. The other strains could have come from the other, more numerous voyages after Columbus. The question is when were the first skeletons in America first shown to have had
745.
by raducu 6y ago
Has Phalanx ever been tested against a supersonic missile? Also, there is no way to install such a system on a fighter airplane.
746.
by raducu 6y ago
I think I saw a reddit post about hospital collection agencies, there was some good advice there; I'm not an american citizen so I'm in no position to give advice; I hope you sort it out without paying the 600$.
747.
by raducu 6y ago
Do you know any numbers for that excessive mortality in NYC? That would be pretty interesting.
748.
by raducu 6y ago
Yes, but it would be pretty pointless to get yourself tested 3 months after you suspected you had the virus.
749.
by raducu 6y ago
You are right, I missed that the number of tests was ~1 million, no way that was randon testing. So, probably the mortality rate is higher. I wonder if there is any bayesian tricks to estimate the infection range given 1/8 people got
750.
by raducu 6y ago
27% of people have antibodies, thus 2.4 million were infected. 23k deaths, thus a 1% mortality rate. I guess this the final nail in the "this is just a flu" .

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