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by tboyd47 5y ago
This was probably the hold-up for FDA approval. They needed to see if a third dose would be recommended. But if two doses weren't enough to stop the delta variant, how can they be sure that three are?
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By "well-measured," I meant it's not long and rambly like most written material produced and consumed on HN. It covers a lot of different (though related) subjects in a short package and it was fun to read.
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by tboyd47 5y ago
This was a rare gem of well-measured prose here. I laughed out loud a couple of times and had to go back and read it over again. Thanks.
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:D
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No. The racism came after what I’m talking about from a different population of whites. Despite driving a devastating genocide of native peoples, it failed to wipe away the Indian influence completely from American and world culture, which
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by tboyd47 5y ago
By synthesis culture, I meant the period of intense cultural exchange between the Anglos and the Iroquois during the great migration and beyond. Squanto taught the Plymouth crew agriculture, politics, and war along the Indian pattern, and h
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by tboyd47 5y ago
I don't even see it as pure generosity anymore. There could have been a survival motive behind it. Before Squanto, the Brits who landed at Turtle Island had been treated either with shunning, captivity, or adoption into local tribes. S
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by tboyd47 5y ago
Squanto. Without his intervention, the Plymouth colonists all die, the Anglo-Iroquois synthesis culture never develops, Adam Smith never describes capitalism, and the geopolitical balance of power in the world never shifts west of the Atlan
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by tboyd47 5y ago
I'm gonna buck the trend here and say that this might be true. Software development indeed has lower stakes than other professions (legal, medical). No one is going to die or be put in an iron cage for life as a result of our work -- w
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I felt the same way about the text. In Bitcoin, it could either be interpreted as exempting both miners and node operators or neither. That is because the Bitcoin node software does both validation and mining, but the economic environment a
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by tboyd47 5y ago
Requiring people to consume a medical product, especially one that has not been subject to the full FDA approval process, just to live their normal lives is morally wrong. They are making people into test subjects for a multinational corpor
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by tboyd47 5y ago
It seems that the endgame is to keep on pushing tighter and tighter restrictions on certain communities of people, strongly discouraging open debate, leaving dissenters no other option but to physically remove themselves, until only the mos
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by tboyd47 5y ago
Start setting boundaries. Start with something small and I think you'll find it's quite addictive. Another thing is to find out who your supervisor is and what their priorities are. Sync yours with his/hers. Some tech compani
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by tboyd47 5y ago
Likewise; you don't have to accuse me of lying to make a point. Almost all of the arguments in favor of smartphones in this thread are based on caving to social pressure. Cell phones and texting are sufficient. And by the way, it'
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by tboyd47 5y ago
Things I enjoy about my life now, after having ditched my smartphone: * Being fully into a stimulating conversation with friends for an hour or more, without constant interruptions for people to check their phones and then change the subjec
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by tboyd47 5y ago
Cars are better than horses for a lot of reasons. But smartphones are delivering no benefit to mankind. At all. The only compelling reason to use them is social pressure.
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by tboyd47 5y ago
Who's alone? I've got people around me all the time who understand and support my decision. It may be hard for some people, but if you really want to do it, keep at it and don't give up. Seven generations from now, do you thi
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by tboyd47 5y ago
SMS is a drag, but all the apps you mentioned have desktop versions.
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Yes, you can. I did. I do fine. I'm happy with my choice :)
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You can always go back, any time! Get a dumb phone. It's great. Engage with others more authentically, more meaningfully, and more consistently.
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The Dollop.
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There are some subtle ways HN is different. I think GP's important insight here is that people need to start being selective about their social media engagement and ditching their smartphones entirely. I've used a flip phone for a
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by tboyd47 5y ago
Agreed. The tech is just more powerful than the human will. Going back to a basic phone (or even no phone) seems to be the only way out of this.
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No. Bad idea.
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I don't know if you and I would even be able to find data from the Mexican program to see this precipitous drop, but health ministers from Mexico's federal government have appeared on Mexican TV and said pretty much what Kory is s
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by tboyd47 5y ago
You're right that the studies have low sample sizes, but they aren't "low-quality." They're randomized, controlled trials in peer-reviewed journals. And the consistent replication does mean something. If you have 32
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The website is just a summary of peer-reviewed studies.
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A vaccine can't have a sample size. A study can have a sample size, but I'm not aware of any that have administered hundreds of millions of doses . If you're referring to the general rollout of the vaccine, then that is not
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by tboyd47 5y ago
Interesting. Why do you think they are refusing the COVID-19 vaccine given that they have been vaccinated before?
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https://ivmmeta.com/

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