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by spikels 6y ago
Many journalists today come from wealthy families and have went to schools like Harvard and Princeton. They don’t need the shitty pay (although many are well paid) and are driven by the desire to be influential (i.e. power) more than any co
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Completely disagree. You just don’t like like Taibbi because you wear your politics on your sleeve and you just don’t like some of the things he’s uncovered in recent years. He’s just part of the prior generation of journalists with the old
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The change in journalism is one of the most important developments in recent decades. While always a business the economic incentives have completely changed and thus the product has been reshaped to best profit from the new environment. Th
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Could this idea work for rockets leaving earth? Use a ground based laser to create a hole in the atmosphere then fly a rocket thru it to space. Edit: Some quick research seems to indicate that atmospheric drag is a relatively small part of
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This theory is commonly called “Peak Oil” and has been repeatedly been debunked in practice since it was first proposed in the 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil#Predictions While certainly the quantity of f
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Even our most powerful political leaders are actually afraid of intelligence services as Senator Schumer once explained. > Schumer: “Let me tell you. You take on the intelligence community. They have six ways from Sunday at getting back
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This is not some new development. I think politics has clouded many people’s memories and judgements. The USPS has been struggling for decades - at least since the 1980s. It had a near monopoly of written communication until then with a fe
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This is more evidence the news media is self destructing. “Enterprise stories” are where reporters take the time to learn something rather than just rewrite a press release or someone else’s reporting. This type of reporting has been under
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The first thing you need to understand is journalism is a business...
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Not an urban legend. YouTube removed videos from a US ICU doctor who has a channel called MedCram that does videos for medical students and ongoing education for doctors. They removed all his videos that discussed HCQ around the time the Yo
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You don’t think “homeless people” are a bad thing!? The first step is recognizing the problem. More of the same is not a solution.
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Do you really want to get your information from a source where hiring decisions depend on a single person with huge interests and biases? I don’t.
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> Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.0 Your 0.002% number is the POPULATION Fatality Rate not the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR).
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On the other hand this means it is much more infectious and there are many more infective asymptotic carriers. This will almost certainly make it impossible to contain using traditional public health means such as contact tracing and quaran
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by spikels 7y ago
The biggest problem at the moment is the debt markets have almost completely stopped functioning. Let me repeat what the other poster said: “We are talking about companies with plenty of assets and strong businesses”. And they still can’t g
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Not data analysis, just weakly argued opinion. Author even accuses “Germany’s virologists” of “lying”. While this seems like pessimistic bias I think much of the confusion about mortality rates stems from the multiple definitions. Is the de
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Not exactly. Here’s the only attributed quote from the German government: > “The German government is very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in Germany and Europe,”
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Don’t think it’s Chinese propaganda but this is the only “official” statement in the article: > “The German government is very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in G
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Sounds like the proverbial fake news to me: extraordinary claims, denied by company, doesn’t make sense, etc.
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For some people for some purposes at some times. A good transport infrastructure should be multimodal (i.e. lots of competing options). Thoughtful regulators can balance these interests to provide diverse options. However - as pointed out a
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Kinda explained in the 9th graf: > Unlike some desalination systems, there is no accumulation of salt or concentrated brines to be disposed of. In a free-floating configuration, any salt that accumulates during the day would simply be ca
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Interesting article that goes into some of the details of China’s energy price regulation and planning. Apparently they had been fixing both input and output prices. I can see how this could easily produce this “weird” situation: mismatches
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The coal power situation in China is bizarre. You are correct that many coal plants are currently operating well below capacity. However China continues to build massive amounts of new coal power plants. Appears their planning efforts have
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The weasel word is “convenient” which mean expensive to produce.
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Ditto for every identity group.
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Seems it’s all the tourists and the university campus that make Lincoln Road work. The key is lots of pedestrians that aren’t dependent on cars - tourists in hotels and students on campus are perfect. Unfortunately Market St doesn’t have mu
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This will turn San Francisco’s Market St into a “Transit Mall”, an urban planning idea from decades ago that failed 85%+ of the times it has been tried. The one new and hopeful element is the protected bike path. However because the area is
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The study ensured that all participants had adequate calcium by supplements as needed.
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Here are two possibilities: 1) It probably easier to measure density than strength. Additional measurement noise could mean the strength difference is not statistically significant while the density difference is. 2) The relationship betwee
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You see the point then...

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