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Are those numbers really comparable? Agriculture can use more or less any kind of water, can handle sporadic supply and is spread over a wide area. Fabs need very large quantities of highly purified water in very small high density location
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Support for unlimited EU immigration is not 50%, it's much lower. You're thinking of people who voted to Remain, but a significant fraction of those people were motivated by the fear of "punishment" either from Cameron&#
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The person in the article was planning to spend months looking for work. That's not entering for an interview. Interviews last hours, not months.
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Voters felt levels of immigration in general were too high and leading to strained public services. EU law forbids restrictions on intra-EU immigration, so the only legal path to making voters happier was to heavily restrict immigration fro
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That's a common belief but there are a lot of exceptions that mean we should question how true this really is. 1. Mobile-first, mobile-only apps. 2. Minecraft or really any game. 3. The proliferation of Electron apps that are basically
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This is out-of-context quoting. The passage in question is actually about a woman he met and how she was not these things. The very next sentence says: "British Trader, on the other hand, was the sort of woman who would end up a use
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It's very far from a technicality, the meaning is totally different. Nobody would claim a TV station is selling it's viewer's data and yet they are willing to make this deceptive claim about tech companies, even though the &q
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It wasn't really paid. They claimed it was but everyone I know always got the charge waived, which makes sense when you learn it was only ever meant to be a scaling break (see my other comment).
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No it didn't. The only reason they charged, or claimed they would charge, was to slow down growth when they were falling behind with their server scaling efforts. The founders of WhatsApp discuss this in an interview somewhere. It was
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Because it's a large article. Apologies, I figured you could find it, there was no deliberate intention to obfuscate anything. So here's the link. It was discussed on HN a few days ago. https://nicholaswade.medium.com&#
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That was my first thought too but I looked at the list of claims. They're all very US centric and I hadn't heard of any of them, but none obviously jumped out as true but rated false. There was one about a fabricated quote assigne
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Let's strengthen the claim then. The article in question argued clearly and cogently that there is a lot of evidence that COVID was developed in a lab and then leaked, and specifically, far more evidence for that belief than evidence t
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I think the OP's point is that a lot of people who think they are debunking aren't very good at it, and end up dismissing instead. I realized just how low quality most debunkings are last year when I started wondering what happens
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"Lockdown theory" doesn't posit an absence of lockdown variables Yes, it does. What you're calling a strawman is the papers published around this time last year that motivated lockdowns globally. No model presented to
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They also look at South Korea. However, that doesn't really matter. Sweden is a counter-example because lockdown theory doesn't posit any sort of Swedish exception, so the existence of this place alone disproves the models. Going
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I think that would depend on how much intersection there is between the sort of scientists doing non-replicable research (mostly in academia, it seems) and the sorts of scientists developing working cancer therapies (mostly in pharma?). I d
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Re: India. Look at their case curves per million. They haven't really had any epidemic until now. Their infections per mille stats are far below places like the UK. What we're seeing in India is COVID round 1 combined with a third
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If you have any specific examples of anything in those articles that's wrong, please do present them. Otherwise, ignoring all the factual matters discussed in them has no intellectual merit.
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Irony is not sarcasm! There's nothing ironic about the way the article is written, especially as it's such an incendiary accusation to begin with - the very place one should not be using neither irony nor sarcasm. Such topics need
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A rather strange article. In some ways quite perceptive and reflective, but in other ways the opposite. One of the first examples is a little odd. errors of scientific understanding resulted in a 1927 article that promoted the virtues of a
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Then you should read what scientists write, not science journalists You can read both. In this case science journalists are both explaining the science (quite well, in this case) and also alledging bad behaviour by scientists, and if he&#
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I did but the article is very poorly written. The explicit statement that Nicholas Wade is not a racist appears both as the first sentence - unquoted i.e. this is not reported speech but a statement by the article author - and in the abstra
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No, sigh, it's the other way around. The people who believe the law was broken were lied to, by a corrupt set of regulators. Very apt, given the topic here. The Electoral Commission spent a long time trying to build cases against Leave
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How is the article not that? Wade is a life long journalist, now independent, who has done extraordinary research, and who had relied heavily on research done by other independents as well, which is itself based strongly on credible micro-b
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The article doesn't support the case for it being intentional. Negligence at best. One of the things Wade demonstrates is that China was most likely doing research on CoV viruses in ordinary labs with nothing more than gloves and a whi
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The article in question (assuming it's the same one I read on his blog) actually does tell us these things. The research was largely funded by the United States and the funding would appear most likely to have been signed off by ... An
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You're citing an article that literally has as its first sentence, "Nicholas Wade is not a racist". As citations go that's not very convincing. And at any rate, the attempted smearing of anyone who points to problems in
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Mmm, it's a good question. Completely agree we need far more journalism on these topics. Unfortunately the media can't do it because science journalists are all dependent on academia for stories and find it tough to bite the hand
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Was it lockdowns or was it border closures or was it the geographical location of New Zealand or was it chance? This is the whole problem with the pro-lockdown position. It's turned into an exercise in cherry picking. We don't nee
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It'd be really nice if that were the case. Unfortunately, at least in many countries, it's been scientists/academics attacking anyone who questioned the reliability of scientific output. For sure, politicians deserve their fa

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