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by rpiguy 6y ago
There is no science behind the lockdowns. There is no logic in keeping Walmart open but closing Sears for safety. Yes I believe it is absurd the level to which we have locked down the country. Some of the states that had the strictest lockd
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Yes. And there are many millions of unafraid people. Doesn't mean they aren't cautious, but they understand risk. Children have a higher chance of dying in a car accident, are you going to stop driving tomorrow, because you know a
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by rpiguy 6y ago
This is ridiculous fear mongering. There are 5.1 million people working in hospitals. https://datausa.io/profile/naics/hospitals 800/5100000 = .00016 They are therefore three times less likely to die from Cov
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by rpiguy 6y ago
A lot of people simply aren't afraid. There is very little you can do bridge the gap between people who live in fear and those that do not. To put it starkly, most of the death has been confined to nursing homes and most people don&#x2
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Anti-mask people are non-violent in comparison to BLM and Antifa. There were six murders inside of Seattle'a "autonomous zone" including two minors. Anti-maskers aren't burning city halls, throwing Molotov cocktails into
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Agree that is exactly my point, but the article claims that capitalism drives cancel culture and that is what I was responding to.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Righteousness drives cancel culture. Power structures and capitalism have nothing to do with it. Historically communists literally cancel people by imprisoning them and sending them to re-education camps or worse. Today's virtue signal
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Tom was always in my top 8 spaces, I can't believe he would say such a thing.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
The experts have such a great track record this year... lol.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
The flu also also causes significant delirium in hospitalized patients: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/irv.12177 Brain swelling caused by the flu is more dangerous than swelling caused by SA
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by rpiguy 6y ago
I thought this was going to be about the Boeing 737 MAX.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Wow I can't believe your well-meaning original comment was flagged into oblivion. I am not a fan of any sex in Sci-Fi or Fantasy (straight or not) so it was a valuable warning. Do not be deterred by the intolerant mob.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
That one that blew up (Arriane V). lol.
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Titled like clickbait. "You won't believe what analysis of Goodwill women's tops sales reveals"
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by rpiguy 6y ago
This is good information, thank you. I had team members who had put down roots here and they would be terrified every time they had to renew. They were Indian so it was likely because of the queue you mentioned their green card application
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Money. Culture. While there is certainly an "academic ideal culture" that people imagine. Being able to research interesting things, share your knowledge, take sabbaticals, etc. It is a grueling path to get there, and when you do
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by rpiguy 6y ago
The H-1B program is terrible and needs to be reformed. It is supposed to temporarily shore up the supply of critically skilled workers that are in demand. While it does this, when the program was envisioned no one imagined H-1B visa holders
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by rpiguy 6y ago
No the risk takers are taking all of that into account and dismissing it as acceptable. It is a difference in values. You are arguing as if presented with same data that you have there is only one obvious and rational conclusion, but that i
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by rpiguy 6y ago
No the risk takers are taking all of that into account and dismissing it as acceptable. It is a difference in values. You are arguing as if presented with same data that you have there is only one obvious and rational conclusion, but that i
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Look there are two groups in the US. A risk taking group that sees the COVID-19 death rate as acceptable and not nearly bad enough to stay locked down. They believe that the purpose of the lock down was to "flatten the curve," par
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by rpiguy 6y ago
The thesis of the paper is that house values are assessed higher relative to their market price in poor minority neighborhoods. This is logical because poor neighborhoods are the most cash strapped and so the government does everything it c
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by rpiguy 6y ago
I thought about it, but I am not sure what I would report them for. For example, in the US you can legally bring your unpaid servants to the US on a B-1 visa. Conversely, if he is a paid employee and legally migrated with the family then th
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by rpiguy 6y ago
As an American I never really understood how bad the caste system was until I went to an Indian restaurant and arrived a few minutes before it opened for dinner. The owner, an Indian gentlemen, invited me into the restaurant rather than mak
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by rpiguy 6y ago
WHO sends team to China to take dictation of China's vetted and official narrative. Sort of like how the handled the first several months of the pandemic.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Trump should use the defense production act to force them to make the drug for cost, similar to how companies were ordered to make ventilators.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
They were reporting the opinion of many contrarian scientists and doctors. If they are liable for that then they could also be held liable for reporting on, for example, science that denies climate change. Not to mention the fact that the p
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by rpiguy 6y ago
News flash, opposing opinion may have caused doubt in The One Truth, lol. Writing stories like this is a great way to kill the free press. Just better hope whatever party or ideology you prefer is in power when the censorship comes.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Interestingly enough, Microsoft's BASIC was the fastest of all the early home computer BASICs sold in the US. Much faster than Timex Sinclair, Atari, and TI/99 BASIC. And it achieved those speeds with decent precision in FP. Apple
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by rpiguy 6y ago
BBC BASIC was also fast. A lot of the "Better" BASICs were also quite a bit slower at the time. Microsoft BASIC was relatively swift compared to most early peers, had decent precision FP, and had limited interoperability between p
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by rpiguy 6y ago
If they weren't a Japanese company I'd say just wait a year and they will sell the name to a Chinese company and you'll have Olympus cameras again in 12 months time at a fourth of the cost.

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