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by tboyd47 6y ago
I was done being scared of the virus in April when I saw all the lies and scams piling up. I've been back to normal life as much as possible. Most of my family and friends are the same way. That includes some who are over 60 years old.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
> It doesn't protect Twitter any more than it protects its competitors or anyone else who publishes contend uploaded by other people. That's technically true, but practically, I'm not so sure. Section 230 created the condi
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I think GP's cynicism is warranted in this case. I listened to the first hour of this hearing, including Cruz's rant, and it's pretty clear that Congress is not touching Section 230 anytime soon. They're content just dra
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Mediating variables?
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C-Span: Facebook, Google and Twitter Execs Testify on Social Media Regulations(c-span.org)
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Is that because those who have already been exposed possess natural immunity, making the vaccine less effective?
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Absolutely. If you don't have a good attitude, you can't learn anything and no one will trust you with any responsibility. Where I'm from, "having an attitude" actually means you have a bad attitude. You should say
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I see either 1 of 2 things happening. Either these large companies will lobby Congress for laws forcing all companies to offer full-time remote, or half these workers are back in the office by 2022.
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CommonAuth (2015)(tyler.boyd.cloud)
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by tboyd47 6y ago
It would have been interesting to see where the citizens of Turkey stand on this as well. Back in 2009, they did a study of each country's views on government regulation, and Turkey was the only country in the world where the majority
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I totally agree. It's as if the author got his view of Americans from reading Alexander de Tocqueville.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
There are 4 on the website. But FYI, other types of studies besides RCTs are valuable in drawing conclusions, too. https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/vaccine-rando...
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by tboyd47 6y ago
"Leading candidate" still doesn't mean it's not going to be a flop. If you look at what the press and medical experts were saying about Remdesivir throughout this period, it was lukewarm at best. But they were saying it
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I was talking about the BioCentury article, not his article. Anyway, thanks again for finding that, because it's a valid counterpoint.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I didn't know "hydroxychloroquine truther" was a thing. I do find the 142 positive studies to be compelling argument. The science does indeed seem to be in favor of the drug. But I'm not a doctor or researcher so my opin
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Do you really equate analyzing timelines critically with practicing gematria?
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Thanks. That seemed to contradict my reading, but then when I clicked into the BioCentury article he referenced, I saw this: > By Selina Koch, Executive Editor | Feb 27, 2020 | 7:56 PM EST > Editor's note: Updated on Mar 17, 202
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Yeah, sorry for being obtuse. I'm saying that it should be no surprise that Remdesivir doesn't work because it didn't work in February, either. It makes you wonder why it was ever presented as a valid option. Perhaps the on
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Well, don't you find it odd that Remdesivir was known to be a stinker in February, then got all this publicity and fanfare exactly one day after the hydroxychloroquine protocol was discovered, and now apparently it's back to being
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Look at the timeline, people: > In a trial in China over February–March 2020, remdesivir was not effective in reducing the time for improvement from COVID‑19 or deaths, and caused various adverse effects, requiring the investigators to t
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by tboyd47 6y ago
This is a rare case where the political class actually has a better grasp of the root cause of a social problem, and is further along in solving it, than the people at large. In the past year, we've seen both sides of the aisle clamori
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Perhaps Twitter is being set up as a sacrificial lamb to quell the Techlash. In that case, I'm wrong. But I don't think Section 230 will be repealed. The US government doesn't want to destroy the tech giants. It wants to use
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by tboyd47 6y ago
They probably have been doing this for a while, and this was just the first time they got called out for it. Regulatory action has been in the works for some time. Whether or not it goes through depends only on politics. The mainstream medi
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by tboyd47 6y ago
So, if I choose not to do so, is my choice political?
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by tboyd47 6y ago
> SPINCO exclaimed in frustration, "We took all the measures public health offered, even added a few, and still the pandemic struck us again!'" People need to realize that all of the measures and mitigations -- all of them
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by tboyd47 6y ago
> Glen Weyl is Founder and Chair of the RadicalxChange Foundation and Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist (OCTOPEST). Jaron Lanier is the author of Ten Arguments for Deleting You
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by tboyd47 6y ago
If you are on W-2, there is exactly one person who you are truly accountable to at work: your supervisor. This is the person who was given an amount of money to do a task, chose to hire a person with some of it, and chose you to be that per
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Gold is obviously not just an "arbitrary natural resource." There's a reason why we say "gold standard" and not "silver standard," "aluminum standard," or even "dollar standard." Nevert
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I'd actually be more okay with that because their models don't influence policy.
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> In such a world, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year in the United States. I find it interesting to compare wages in terms of their value in gold. Gold has been used as money for millennia, so it lets us go

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