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by toolz 5y ago
> I know someone who died because their non-emergency procedure was pushed back because of hospital conditions. I'm sorry to hear this, but let's be clear about what happened here. They did not die because hospitals were full.
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by toolz 5y ago
this is some very dangerous misinformation. US hospitals were quite a bit less full in 2020 than projected back in 2019 (projections using pre-pandemic data). If hospitals are filling up today (I've not seen much data for 2021) then it
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by toolz 5y ago
> Antivaxxers are an obstacle to this and should NOT be legitimized in any way agreed, but also anti-anti-vaxxers are an obstacle that sensationalize and demonize rather than converse and educate. > The only way out of this state of t
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by toolz 5y ago
> legitimizing antivaxxer stances makes the problem worse. Do you believe what I've posted legitimizes antivaxxers stance? If so, what specifically have I said that does such? Speaking of the dangers of over amplifying the fear, MM
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by toolz 5y ago
What are these problems you speak of? We have countries like Gibraltar which has been 100% vaccinated since April of this year, they continue to have case spikes. It's indisputable that the vaccine doesn't prevent transmission and
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> downplaying the risk they pose is dangerous Over-amplifying the risk is dangerous. Wales, according to [1] has had well over 94% MMR vaccination since 2012. The herd immunity threshold for measles is >95%, which is very unique to m
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which is why I gave stats from the CDC
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by toolz 5y ago
I personally don't know anyone that abstains from MMR/polio/chickenpox vaccines. I think this whole anti-anti-vaxxer meme has really got people riled up and ignoring just how many people are already taking vaccines. over 92%
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by toolz 5y ago
That seems like a very uncharitable interpretation, especially since the word itself doesn't mean anything of the sort. Basic means fundamental or rudimentary. I take "basic techie" to mean a person with many of the fundament
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Maybe, but alas, I'm basic and wouldn't change it for the world. I value other humans too much to try and distance myself from them. We're social animals, it seems natural and good to embrace that.
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Would you rather have unique tastes that make you relatable to no one or would you rather have preferences that put you in a category of people that makes you relatable and approachable? I've never understood this aversion to "bas
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That's not my impression, my impression is that it's laziness channeled into virtue signaling to show all the other lazy people out there that if they are fed up with having to struggle for results then instead they can redefine t
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by toolz 5y ago
No one buys plastic from the US anymore. The plastic that's recycled in the US goes to a recycling facility that then pays the landfill to bury it with the other trash.
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> hell that's legal even on stock exchange Just want to point out that there is a lot that happens in the SEC regulated stock exchange that appears to not even be attempted to be corrected. Naked shorting is still happening all the
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I do the same, losing out on 5 months of savings gaining interest is likely to be a very significant amount of lost potential. Compared to a doomsday scenario where I might lose half of my investments and job at the same time, which would m
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by toolz 5y ago
Why are school shootings the bar here? Do we care about murdered children, or very specifically only murdered children in school by a gun? Certainly the US has tons of room for improvement, but it seems very disingenuous to cherry-pick a su
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by toolz 5y ago
My partner, a woman in tech, frequently tells me there is one type of person she feels holds her back professionally. It's the type of person that treats her like she is weak and needs to be coddled and protected from anything that cou
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by toolz 5y ago
You say that as if this is a problem that isn't extremely common. Almost everyone in long term relationships stops to think at times if this was the right relationship for them to bind themselves to.
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by toolz 5y ago
Bad data is worse than no data. I would suggest using those data points make ones decisions less reliable.
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presumably the code being distributed to users could then be redistributed by those users, making this not a SPoF it just happened to be an overly trusted point of failure
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by toolz 5y ago
> The word gambling has a meaning. I'm aware of that and I'm aware of the meaning. Which is why I used the word. > People don't procure fiat currency primarily in order to profit from its change in value. They use it to
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by toolz 5y ago
Yes crypto is gambling. So is fiat. This seems to be where people get confused. They think just because everything is priced in fiat that fiat somehow is immune from value swings. Which it's really weird that people believe that given
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There are many articles describing how crypto can help in this category, from people who lack the proper documentation to open bank accounts to people who live in areas that are too high risk for traditional banks to include them. Lack of s
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by toolz 5y ago
I see so many first world people writing about crypto not solving problems for them. I'm sure it's not malicious, but crypto is trying to bring equality to finance. Of course it's not going to be obvious or even the focus of
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by toolz 5y ago
I mean if that's the definition of augmented reality - wouldn't literally all glasses be augmented reality since they either tint or do something to distort your vision?
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by toolz 5y ago
Hope you'll edit and include the name of the app. If they've solved a problem for you then they deserve the mention!
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by toolz 5y ago
I can't get over how incredibly laggy chess is. It's the single reason I moved to lichess as I started on chesscom.
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by toolz 5y ago
I would suggest unenforceable laws are not only ineffective but have a net negative consequence on society. Maybe this is enforceable, but I'm certainly nowhere near clever enough to imagine how it could be enforced and given the state
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by toolz 5y ago
No, it very specifically supports the hypothesis that masks are not effective. Maybe not to the rigor you would hope for, but to my knowledge this is the most rigorous covid/mask study to date, so it's the best we've got. Tha
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by toolz 5y ago
Quoting the results section. > Although the difference observed was not statistically significant I'm not sure I understand your objection, but you most definitely can say there was no statistically significant benefit.

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