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Trevor Bedford: 0.8% to 1% of the US being infected with SARS-CoV-2 every day(twitter.com)
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Why price controls are a bad tool for fighting inflation(noahpinion.substack.com)
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by themgt 5y ago
The movie "Don't Look Up" but the asteroid scientists funded by NASA create an artificial black hole to pull asteroids towards Earth with sophisticated "gain of destruction" methodology - how better to study the pot
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The Complicated Legacy of E. O. Wilson(scientificamerican.com)
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There are guaranteed to be healthy 18 years who've been double-vaxxed and fought off a COVID infection, possibly as recently as right now during the massive Omicron wave. Their near-term risk of winding up dead/in ICU from a poten
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by themgt 5y ago
So if we had: * variant "D" that kills 1% of the 20% of the population that isn't seropositive * variant "O" that kills 1% of the 20% of the population that isn't seropositive and 0.2% of the 80% of the popul
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Covid-19 Nationwide Wastewater Monitoring Network(biobot.io)
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Turkey or Tofurkey?(fredblog.stlouisfed.org)
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Sino-American Competition and the Search for Historical Analogies(scholars-stage.org)
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The definition of 'fully vaccinated' is changing to three Covid-19 doses(cnn.com)
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by themgt 5y ago
Wait until you hear about how Cameron filmed the scene with a helicopter going under a highway overpass. https://filmschoolrejects.com/terminator-2-helicopter-stunt/
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How Does This End?(nytimes.com)
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by themgt 5y ago
I find this technology story a bit weird. Afaict stackblitz is based on WebContainer™ which has a "working group" and is supported in Chrome/Edge so far: https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core
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by themgt 5y ago
I'm not sure why there's this assumption that this is some right-wing anti-woke initiative. It includes supporters like Nadine Strossen, longtime head of the ACLU, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, Larry Summers who served under Clin
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We Can't Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves. So We're Starting a New One(bariweiss.substack.com)
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by themgt 5y ago
Also you could just store IPv4 as an unsigned INT directly, rather than strings in a different table and an unsigned INT as a foreign key.
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by themgt 5y ago
Fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask in most settings. The choice is yours: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. - The White House, May 14, 2021 https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/videos&#x2
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by themgt 5y ago
This one is personal because it happened to me. Abusive tenant refusing to pay rent and stealing from me, in a house I myself was living in and renting as the sole lessee and subletting (which was allowed). So, I was already broke from thou
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Big Tech finally reckons with climate denialism(axios.com)
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The irony of WaPo's coverage of this topic using a misleading baity headline to sell outrage clicks ... Our legacy media corporations ought to dedicate a week of heavy coverage to a digital ad industry whistleblower and encourage every
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Teen girls are showing up to the doctor with tics(businessinsider.com)
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by themgt 5y ago
The labor force participation rate looks absolutely terrible. You see the huge immediate drop when Covid hit, then a nearly-as-immediate bounce back recovering half the loss. But since August 2020 it's been flatlined. Are those people
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by themgt 5y ago
In Iceland 95% of the most at-risk over 60 year olds are fully vaccinated and over 90% of everyone over 16 is fully or partially vaccinated. Four people total have died of COVID-19 in Iceland since the beginning of the 2021, around 1/1
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by themgt 5y ago
That is to say, as is ever clearer and ever more important to note, [identity] politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression and active agency
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by themgt 5y ago
Little gem from a (paywalled) WaPo story a few years ago: [Hillary] Clinton herself is here at Ozy Fest, in a flowing sky-blue caftan and white linen pants, looking like she was choppered in from East Hampton. For 45 minutes, she is the pr
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by themgt 5y ago
Found at 14,000ft on the Tibetan Plateau. Very likely altitude adapted denisovans, whose genetic adaptations to living in such low oxygen are still present in modern day Tibetans. Really incredible.
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> In Africa, while there was a lot of colonization, in most places the indigenous people were not displaced (and replaced) to the extent that they were in Europe, Australia, or the Americas The latest genetic evidence suggests there was
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by themgt 5y ago
A similar one I just became aware of is Dissociative Identity Disorder, or multiple personality disorder. There seems to be a huge surge of people doing TikToks etc showing themselves going through identity changes (often "rapid switch
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In leaked email, ULA official calls NASA leadership “incompetent”(arstechnica.com)
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The problem with explanations for Haiti's poverty that use events from the 1800s is that Haiti had a GDP per capita as high as South Korea until the mid-1960s, and as high as China's until the mid-1970s. Even as high as Vietnam un

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