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by spikels 5y ago
I would like to know this too. Why didn’t it take off last year and why now? My prior is that the virus took time to evolve to be hyper-infectious in the local conditions. Fits timescale and may fit theoretical models (many suggest viruses
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by spikels 5y ago
For this and many sites that rely on JS for their paywall try putting remove-js.com/ in front of the URL like this: https://remove-js.com/https://www.economist.com/diary/2021/0...
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by spikels 5y ago
> You can't realistically use the same rails for freight and high speed rail. Exactly. When Europe decided to upgrade their passenger rail system last century they cannibalized their century-old existing freight network. Now 75% of
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by spikels 5y ago
> "You and your family could travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas onboard a high-speed train," Biden said at the plan's unveiling. This makes no sense and will never happen. And this plan will make no signifi
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AP Posts 2015 SpaceX Launch Failure Hours Before Crew-2, Google News Spreads(youtube.com)
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by spikels 5y ago
Very cool. PR is evil. Goal is to manipulate people for the benefit of the business. Despite all the Tesla hate in the media (Bloomberg and NYTimes seems to have it out for them) whenever you get a unvarnished glimpse of how they do things
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by spikels 5y ago
As you agree challenge testing is unethical and it clearly would have had value (saving lots of lives) are you conceding that unethical research can have value?
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by spikels 5y ago
Ethics are highly subjective on the margins. In this case they completely missed this issue. However the opposite is more often the case. A good example is challenge testing Covid vaccines. This was widely deemed to be unethical despite lar
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by spikels 5y ago
Unfortunately this "pause" will also result in vaccine hesitancy (on top of vaccination delays). We know this from the EU experience with the AstraZeneca vaccine which is now distrusted by many people. This will almost certainly n
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by spikels 5y ago
> J&J is about 5% of all vax doses given. It hasn't really been very helpful so far This is a very misleading talking point being spread around today, including by the White House. Very disappointing. * J&J only requires one
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by spikels 6y ago
At this point don’t the benefits of continuing to using both the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines far outweighs the costs? And we have already accepted that there may be long term side effects that we won’t be able to detect because we have
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by spikels 6y ago
> I wonder how you'll find out about stuff you didn't know you needed to care about. I feel like this approach pushes us all deeper into our in-groups and away from a larger sense of community. Who decides “what I need to care
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by spikels 6y ago
Care to name a few of these “civilized countries” where the media can trusted due to laws against lying?
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by spikels 6y ago
NPR has repeatedly brought up fascism in relation to US politics. Here's a story I just heard: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/14/967917822/author-on-trumps-ac... National NPR shows tend to be more caut
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by spikels 6y ago
Prepare for the crossword to go down the tubes too. One of the crossword editors was a big proponent of firing their longtime science reporter for dubious reasons. I bet they are already censoring "problematic" words and clues.
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by spikels 6y ago
Mild climate
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by spikels 6y ago
WashPo treats its readers like mushrooms. Keep them in the dark and feeds them shit.
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by spikels 6y ago
"self-styled" Freedom of speech gets no respects anymore. Flynt was once celebrated by the media, now a fraud. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
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by spikels 6y ago
Can’t find the link but I think I read earlier today it was much higher than 25%.
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by spikels 6y ago
And Scientific American is a major source of politicized science.
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by spikels 6y ago
Great article. Thanks!
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by spikels 6y ago
The “food” in the TV series Hannibal was always amazing. Nice to finally learn something about where if came from.
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by spikels 6y ago
Very smart. Tesla joins the S&P500 in 13 days. Investors tied to this index are short at least $100 billion in stock. A $5 billion offering will have little impact on existing shareholders but take advantage of the high stock price.
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by spikels 6y ago
Nine months into this it would be nice if we had good data on the risk factors of transmission. I know it’s a tricky virus to trace but shouldn’t we have better info on which activities demographics, etc are the most risky by now?
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by spikels 6y ago
Huffing Sterno and crying like a baby will save us! Awesome ref - and an almost exact fit. Loved that book and movie as a kid. Michael Crichton had an interesting mind.
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by spikels 6y ago
Your point that Covid (and our responses to it) have both plus and minuses is valid. But then you undermine it with this: > If people stay home there are no accidents, no murders, no party drugs etc. There are still accidents, murders, e
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by spikels 6y ago
What do you think "population-based controls" means?
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by spikels 6y ago
From the study: > Vitamin D deficiency was found in 82.2% of COVID-19 cases and 47.2% of population-based controls (p<0.0001).
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by spikels 6y ago
My mistake. I forgot it is pointless to engage with you. Have a great day.
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by spikels 6y ago
This response shows the quality of your discourse: quickly declare victory and walk away. Would have been great to know even a single specific issue you have with Taibbi.

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