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by themgt 4y ago
July 10, 2020: The new coronavirus is likely spreading through the air to some degree, the top U.S. infectious disease official said on Friday, one day after the World Health Organization urged further studies on the ways the virus is tran
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by themgt 4y ago
At peak ~7 months ago crypto's market cap was ~$2.8 trillion. Now down nearly $2 trillion. Tether's $70B market cap is currently over 50% of ETH's and nearly 20% of BTC's. The whole thing looks like an incredible shitsho
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Celsius Appears insolvent, and it's taking the whole crypto market with it(twitter.com)
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Russia’s Oil Revenue Soars Despite Sanctions(nytimes.com)
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Fire announces $75M expansion into off-campus free speech defense(thefire.org)
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by themgt 4y ago
The Federal Reserve is given a "dual mandate" written into US law by Congress and signed by the President? So not exactly a "law of the universe" but I wouldn't recommend going around arguing you don't "ha
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Is America the Real Victim of Anti-Russia Sanctions?(tabletmag.com)
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by themgt 4y ago
US troops are still (illegally) occupying territory in Syria to "protect oil fields" or something - odd how we never hear about that in the context of our newfound deeply held belief in inviolability of national sovereignty and bo
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A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus(pnas.org)
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by themgt 5y ago
The problem is TSMC points a gun back at us. Look at the Ukraine playbook: "ok Russia go ahead and try to invade, we'll turn it into a bloodbath for you while we cut you off from as much of the global economy as possible" The
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Scientific Nihilism(stuartritchie.substack.com)
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by themgt 5y ago
Having any more nuanced position regarding world affairs than "our guys: good. their guys: bad" is bad guy propaganda.
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by themgt 5y ago
It's also possible to go too far in the direction of seeing only tactics but never strategy, and taking countries publicly stated goals and motives at face value. Zbigniew Brzezinski was one of our most influential contemporary foreign
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by themgt 5y ago
Could you publish the Dockerfile? When attempting to run train in Docker according to tutorial instructions I get "Cannot load library: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/lightgbm[123]/lib_lightgbm.so: libgomp.so.1&quo
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by themgt 5y ago
Well, the chance that your doctor would intentionally murder you is likely higher than the chance your doctor would be using a rabid feral dog from a 3rd world country, which are responsible for nearly all of the "kill 25 thousand peop
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by themgt 5y ago
OneWeb is in deep trouble. Other than tiny Vega, Arianespace has done only 3 launches on its own rockets vs. 10 on Soyuz since 2021. Sounds like it's time for the EU to actually build a space program. The era of hard power is back. Wit
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by themgt 5y ago
Without federally subsidized HFCS added to 80% of supermarket products the average American's BMI might drop dangerously below 30, devastating the large sectors of our economy based around mitigating the effects of obesity!
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by themgt 5y ago
"Completely objective and fair rules are impossible, so Calvinball it is" is not a credible stance. Facebook's big recent decisions have been: * posting news articles about Hunter Biden's laptop: banned * posting about p
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International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War(en.wikipedia.org)
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by themgt 5y ago
Feel free to tell someone living in rural France, or Ireland, that they must live without an automobile. Well, I didn't. I lived in European towns/cities from ~10k to 350k people. Rural areas exist obviously but compared to US s
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by themgt 5y ago
I've lived in Europe for a few years total without ever owning a car and rarely feeling the lack of one, which would be effectively impossible outside 2-3 cities in the USA. I would be highly in favor of completely overhauling US infra
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by themgt 5y ago
The people who want the USA/NATO to start World War 3 (some of whom like Fiona "we're already in WW3"[1] Hill played key roles in preventing a pre-war diplomatic off-ramp) are doing their damndest to propagandize the pub
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Pausing at the Precipice(scholars-stage.org)
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by themgt 5y ago
The Quad is threadbare pseudo-alliance specifically designed around containing China, period. India has long been friendly with Russia and is non-committal on the Ukraine situation and is apparently talking about "how to establish a ru
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Thoughts on Shitpost Diplomacy(scholars-stage.org)
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by themgt 5y ago
They're averaging 1x a week with Falcon 9 which requires throwing away an upper stage and Merlin engine each time. So yeah you "could easily say" whatever you want, but this hot take that SpaceX is just talking bullshit like
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by themgt 5y ago
More information here[1]: Bovine-led biodiversity: For millions of years, European land has been grazed – by wild herbivores, and, far more recently, by domestic cattle. This grazing has kept parts of the land free from forest, providing o
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by themgt 5y ago
1) The US homicide/violent crime rate has been much higher than most/all of the rest of the developed world for many decades at least. 2) But since the early 1990s violent crime had been consistently declining, which got to the po
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John Mearsheimer: Why Is Ukraine the West's Fault? (2015)(youtube.com)
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This is extremely damning. NIAID and NIH directors were exchanging emails in the first days of the pandemic with experts pointing out aspects of SARS-CoV-2 that struck them as tending towards a lab leak rather than natural origin. This woul

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