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by sfj 7y ago
I think we never should have climbed down from the trees.
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by sfj 7y ago
How can you suggest to be in cash when they are literally printing trillions with no sign it will slow down? I know that a lot of it is supposedly not going to make it into the real economy. But if there is one thing for sure, it's tha
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by sfj 7y ago
I think older people are more worried about those they are taking care of than themselves. At least it's true in my case.
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by sfj 7y ago
> Amphetamine salts are apparently used to treat ADHD. Some people use them illegally to concentrate for mid terms and finals at college or similar. I'm not personally aware of any valid reason to think they are appropriate for covi
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by sfj 7y ago
Any lingering aftereffects?
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by sfj 7y ago
So only focus on pain misery and death all the time until it stops? Unless we are seeking out what works rather than what is broken all the time, we're going to miss a lot ways to make life better.
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by sfj 7y ago
> S. Korea is the only country that literally "flattened the curve." See unbelievably flat graph @6:50 in link above. Taiwan has also done so. It has a similar story, burned by SARS, also. https://www.cdc.gov.tw&#x2F
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by sfj 7y ago
What does food that regulated by the FDA have to do with this?
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by sfj 7y ago
Write a letter
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by sfj 7y ago
> It seems like you'd need to manually administer this strain to millions of people. Yes, but this doesn't seem too hard. Just have some infected people spit in a cup, and mix it into large vats of raspberry jam and people can
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by sfj 7y ago
> And now our consumption will shrink. What's this do to king dollar? Every time we consume we're exporting those little green pieces of paper, you know? Shrinking consumption actually props up the dollar, because we're gi
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by sfj 7y ago
What about an underwater setup where the VR headset is merged into a scuba mask? Eventually we could move on to having tubes implanted for feeding and waste. You could stay in there indefinitely, forget you ever even existed outside the sim
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by sfj 7y ago
Over one hundred replies to this? How to get attention on hacker news, just gripe and whine about your interaction with a big corporation, I guess.
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by sfj 7y ago
Not exactly the same, but checkout Tabletop Simulator. It's a 3d play environment which can play very many board games, card games etc. The steam workshop must have tens of thousands of popular board games created within it.
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by sfj 7y ago
I know the others, but what does ecology have to do with it?
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by sfj 7y ago
> And if there are defector predators that try to gain an edge by eating more than is sustainable, other predators will try to stop them from doing so. You're talking about a virus, you know... an inert molecule.
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by sfj 7y ago
Then what are you paying them for?
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by sfj 7y ago
It never worked for me. I always got the impression the therapist was blowing smoke up my ass. I also have a hard time rectifying the idea that you can pay someone to listen to you, and at the same time try and hold the belief they really c
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by sfj 7y ago
Obesity is a body type, not a disease
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by sfj 7y ago
Meanwhile, Taiwan is donating 2 million masks to the US: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-s...
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by sfj 7y ago
They didn't try it along with Azithromycin. With this included, the most promising results were observed in the prior studies.
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by sfj 7y ago
How long do you want to wait while people are dying? It has been in use since 1947 to treat malaria, and so we already really understand the risks. Given the urgent nature of the disease, why would you not try it, even if there is a small c
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by sfj 7y ago
It may be the least bad option, but it still fits the definition of propaganda. They are lying to the public.
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by sfj 7y ago
I wasn't talking about a specific industry. And even if I was, a dozen passenger airlines go broke every two months? I'd like to request a citation on that one. And I wrote more prudent , not “suddenly resilient”. Why don't
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by sfj 7y ago
You think that bailing all these companies out has no effect on how companies run their business going forward? And you claim I have an “innocent view of the world”...
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by sfj 7y ago
Our genes are the software.
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by sfj 7y ago
Not to mention family reunions would get weird when you are biologically exactly the same age as your great grandfather.
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by sfj 7y ago
Why aren't we letting them fail instead of allowing these idiots to stay in business? Say American Airlines went bust. It's debtors would get its planes and other company assets, who would then in turn sell them to other airlines.
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by sfj 7y ago
I never said they didn't have full value. I'm just looking at what would happen to society in this sort of scenario. It may be harsh to say it, but there is a potential brightside whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.
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by sfj 7y ago
There are some virii, such as dengue fever, where getting one strain, makes getting the next strain much worse. This is because the change to the immune system to fight off the first strain creates a new pathway for the second strain to use

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