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by rory 5y ago
No argument on either side is particularly logically persuasive , so the best we can strive for is plausible . Something akin to "Dust Theory" from Permutation City is a semi-plausible theory of non-creation (although, as it&#
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The challenge here would be that nesting levels can be added inside or outside the previous level, so to prevent reflow, bracket size would be dependent on order of addition and could vary wildly between different "nests".
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Correct, as I mentioned up-thread ketamine use has dangers.
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> In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to opioid pain relievers and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates. > Increased prescript
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I think you may have replied to the wrong comment, or at least, I can't figure out how yours relates.
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The important difference between these drugs is that opiates are incredibly addictive, while ketamine is less addictive than tobacco or alcohol. Ivermectin isn't addictive at all. Ironically, the opioid crisis is caused far more by peo
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It seems like you're just saying you don't believe ivermectin works? That's fine and likely correct, but logically it's completely unrelated to its mutual exclusivity to the vaccine. For instance, if you get tetanus afte
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It's pretty simple: had ivermectin not existed, would that person have gotten vaccinated?
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(As the GP) I really appreciate and generally agree with your perspective, but: > the idea that there's some kind of widespread anti-Republican medical discrimination or corruption going on is a total mischaracterization of what I
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This is true, but just because the two are on opposite sides of the culture war doesn't mean they're medically mutually exclusive.
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Perhaps on the margin some would, but I suspect most would fall into the "natural immunity" camp. So in my mind, we need to weigh the damage done by blocking safe ivermectin use for some number of people to the damage done by a mu
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> People take ivermectin instead of vaccinating or complying with NPIs Doing one thing but not another doesn't imply you're doing one thing instead of another. Do you truly believe the people ODing on ivermectin would be li
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Although it has more dangers than ivermectin, why shouldn't you have access to ketamine if you feel it helps you? A lot of people believe it has off-label benefits for their mental health, and maybe it does. Perhaps we just have differ
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Ivermectin probably doesn't do anything to fight Covid-19, but the American media has really shown their corruption in the way they've treated it. It's clearly a safe drug to take in human-designed doses, and it's cheap
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> The US would concentrate on high performers, often to the detriment of their peers. That's very interesting. This is anecdotally very contrary to my experience in middle-class public school, and my sister's experience as a
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> That sort of exists in the mortgage interest tax deduction but with rates near 0 that’s become far far less effective. FYI, mortgage interest on an investment property is also tax deductible. In fact, there's no limit on it like t
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Could it? The article says: > For decades, other surveys have found that around 10% to 20% of American gun owners were women. ~15% -> ~47% is a pretty notable demographic shift IMO. Imagine if the same shift happened for new softwar
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Electronics are a particularly complicated thing to manufacture, though. I know an engineer who started a small business (in the USA) that makes specialized types of plastic-coated copper wiring. The process is 90% automated and runs around
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Thanks for pointing that out, it's a relief. For the lazy, the footnote basically says that the discontinuity at 280g is not caused by an increase in seizures at this amount (which would indicate police fraud), but by prosecutors choos
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The fuel for fission comes from rocks. The Earth is full of rocks!
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Again, it seems like you're basically agreeing with the trappings of argument. I am talking specifically about eradicating SARS-COV-2 , not eliminating a virus in abstract. It's obvious that there are some viruses we are able to
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That's not eradication. See "Definitions": https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su48a7.htm
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The claim being debated is eradication, so containment is a serious goalpost shift.
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Inherently, no. Currently, yes.
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It seems like you are basically agreeing with me while pretending to disagree. Of course we could eradicate the virus with a magically high vaccination rate using a magically effective vaccine. But that's not possible in our current re
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No, it's not a question, because vaccine-hesitant people generally aren't doing the math like you are. They're just saying "<100 is better than 100, so I'll go with the option that might be fine."
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To play devil's advocate, the retort to this is that if you don't get the vaccine you're some <100 percentage more likely to get the virus, but if you do get the vaccine you're 100% likely to get the vaccine. I think
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John Kerry comes to mind here, although at least the official story states that his grandfather chose an Irish name essentially through dumb luck.
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> this just feels like it's almost attacking these companies Can you explain why you feel that way? It just seems like something similar to price transparency to me.
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Oh and it's plain CPI btw. I agree Ivo should have mentioned that.

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