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by sk2020 5y ago
So I Brave searched “cdc weekly provisional counts of deaths by state and select cause 2020-2021”, and I got a useful table from the CDC that you may want to look at yourself. I summed deaths for all causes for FL and CA and divided by thei
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by sk2020 5y ago
Phase 3 trials won’t be complete for years. There is a revolving door between the leadership at the FDA and Pfizer. Countries with high vaccination rates have not reported the expected reduction in cases or deaths. The non-pharmaceutical in
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by sk2020 5y ago
“Long Covid” symptoms are unfalsifiable.
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by sk2020 5y ago
What is the baseline utilization of ICU space? I’m also curious what happened to those heroic efforts of retrofitting parking garages into field-expedient hospitals. Oh, and the notorious “gunshot victims are being left to die because of al
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by sk2020 5y ago
A $20 injection for 70% (for now) of about 8B people is around $100B which no longer carries any legal risk. That’s a lot of incentive to overcome.
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by sk2020 5y ago
If memory serves, the nominal price of most video games has not changed in about 30 years. US dollars are, at least officially, worth 2.5x less now than when Mario came with Duck Hunt. I’m not that shocked that alternative monetization stra
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by sk2020 5y ago
I would be surprised if dredging up seaweed from the ocean and barging it up the Mississippi and putting it on a train to Omaha where it will be trucked to rural Nebraska could possibly be cost effective against the grass in the pasture the
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by sk2020 5y ago
So the worst case is Amazon makes the compiler or some tool or integration a paid service? Is paying for a well-maintained compiler a problem? Ada, Java, FORTRAN, and (I think) Julia all do this, right?
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by sk2020 5y ago
I don’t actually see how Amazon stewardship is a bad thing. Corporate custody has been the case for several useful programming languages, with Java, .NET, and Go being obvious and popular examples. Replacing a core team of advocacy-oriented
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by sk2020 5y ago
Have you ever audited FF source? That’s a pretty big code base to exhaustively determine unwanted behavior does not exist.
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by sk2020 5y ago
100 references is a big round number for sure. I’m guessing these address treatments that do not prevent infection or transmission.
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by sk2020 5y ago
I mean to say the modern courtiers of the decrepit political class are the problem and warrior-kings at the head of barbarians are the solution. Hoppe would call this natural order.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Well, probably not the people with myocarditis or Bell’s palsy.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Your vaccine does not work unless someone or everyone else has one? Has this been observed with previous vaccine products?
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by sk2020 5y ago
Should we include “An Inconvenient Truth” or “The Day After Tomorrow”?
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by sk2020 5y ago
>latter days of the USSR Is it better to prolong the perverse, decadent rule of the senators and consuls or to embrace Clovis? Hit ‘em with your Coriolanus swag.
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by sk2020 5y ago
I don’t agree with that. The media isn’t a violent arm of government. They, and the greater intelligentsia, are more like a priesthood. They indoctrinate us regular folk with state-approved myths to give context and framing for our world vi
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by sk2020 5y ago
That’s the core value proposition of being a paid informant.
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by sk2020 5y ago
I would be a bit skeptical if anyone actually measured or even forecast impacts to sales prior to this decision. I had actually never heard of Tripwire until the story, so it’s excellent for increasing the company’s exposure to a broader ma
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by sk2020 5y ago
Or they’re domestic actors using Russian networks or tools to make their activity appear to be of Russian origin.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Personally, I’m much more mystified by how emotionally invested otherwise normal people become in initiatives to reduce the numbers of undesirable populations. Margaret Sanger wasn’t exactly subtle.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Given the targets are Iran and Belarus, I’d guess the “hacktivists” are US State Department contractors.
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by sk2020 5y ago
>once-in-a-century There’s a newsworthy virus (usually SARS-like) every 2-5 years. There are notable “variants” every few months. The perceived risk of COVID has a lot to do with reporting, which is fickle at best. Heart disease kills hu
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by sk2020 5y ago
I’ve skimmed the comments with the same dismay until I read yours. The lack of concern about using coercive force to control how people dispose of their leisure time is disturbing to say the least. Maybe that over a billion people out there
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by sk2020 5y ago
Detroit? It’s still here; just a bit dusty.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Regulatory burden doesn’t help, but I don’t think you should overlook the superabundance of cheap credit as a causal factor. If goods can be purchased with money borrowed far below market rate (like a mortgage) because rates are not determi
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by sk2020 5y ago
Where I live an AirBNB was being used as a brothel. Neighbors really didn’t care for that and they appealed to the local Planning department who gave the property owner a Morton’s Fork: cease operations of the AirBNB or rezone your resident
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by sk2020 5y ago
Lemmy, assuming it’s not still vaporware, is curated by an actual “I think Castro was good” communist. If you want a leftist Reddit, then I would advise you to consider Reddit.
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by sk2020 5y ago
It’s controversial because nobody can package and sell “natural” immunity. Given that there are about 7.5B people in the world, RNA injections are, apparently, only good for 90 days, and that Pfizer (or someone) gets $20/injection, the
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by sk2020 5y ago
I wish more people shared this opinion. There are many Reddit alternatives, which would all improve with wider adoption. As a technical problem, it’s a solved one, and there are some pleasant options.

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