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by unishark 5y ago
It wasn't completely under the radar though. Doctors in China were thinking it was a "mere" SARS outbreak, which was fairly close to correct. However concern about public health was not the top priority of the govt.
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Another one: refusing to close schools because they served as daycare for higher-priority constituencies.
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How do you measure competence? China plays whack-a-mole with its population. They certainly haven't eliminated dissent. They have the world's largest army as the only real backstop against opposition.
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I think identifying pandemics is literally a defined responsibility of the WHO. Regarding which, the WHO-commissioned report states: "The WHO waited too long to declare a public health emergency of international concern, the panel said
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Yes I do believe there is literally a right of free movement: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/networks/europe... All rights have limitations of course.
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In page 60 or so the document talks about how to impose laws and security without a govt. There's also a section on non-government approaches to make polluters pay. Presumably the owner of the well would end up much poorer for their ac
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> At a meta-level, using unethical as a qualifier seems like an attempt to bolster an argument without having to provide a logical argument. I seemed like more of a disclaimer to avoid such ideological battles and deliver a nuanced view.
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> But way more than is acceptable. Is it? Far fewer of them still will get severe symptoms. And this of course requires the unvaccinated person to actually be infected. From what I read, my risk (of at least an unpleasant time) is worse
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by unishark 5y ago
There is no universal right to immigrate to the US, or anywhere else generally, so immigrants can be subject to whatever requirements the local govt decides at any given time. The discussion here was about a supposed "free travel"
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I think they should require vaccination for travel (and schools and many other things) but I also think it is a problematic precedent. How is limiting state power during a particular emergency situation a terrible precedent? The state can a
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I've always viewed the Calvinism theory as a kind of anti-American theory that violates Ockham's razor. The desire to prove one's self by overworking strikes me as an innate adolescent approach to competition. Whether it&#x27
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I think the problem was that students need to also have a smartphone or something available during the test for questions and announcements or something, since the software locks down the testing computer. And there was no way to prevent pe
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What is included in "taking from someone"? Am I allowed to purchase or gather cheap resources and make much more valuable products after applying skilled labor?
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IP rules restrict others' production or ownership. Wealth is owning of the products themselves. You don't become less wealthy in that sense if another person makes a copy of something you own.
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Well in the kind of political views such arguments come from, a victim would be someone who's rights were violated, not just someone for whom the interaction turned out to be detrimental but consented anyway.
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Occam's razor in terms of scientific theories means choose the theory with the fewest variables, not just compare guesstimated probabilities or something. From that, I would guess the poster means the lab leak is preferred as it has on
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I didn't say the trait would decrease its own overall prevalence. The trait wasn't simply to be depressed if get the genes, it was a predisposition to being depressed if circumstances not good for reproduction. If resources are li
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I assume you're talking about the first one? Having the gene for depression here would not always cause the individual to be depressed. Actually that would hold for both cases. The trait is passed on because it benefits the species. Yo
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Well I can imagine a couple, though I don't have any particular reason to prefer them. If people who are unsuccessful in achieving status in their tribe or whatever (totally independent of their fitness otherwise) become depressed and
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I'm not arguing any strawman. I don't accept your non-acceptance of my contention. I say 30 years is recent. Particularly given I was referring to evidence on a prehistoric timescale. I hope that clears everything up for you. Tota
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by unishark 5y ago
I think the point was that human history predates the recent increase in depression. Having unmet needs you need to work to fill is the baseline state of all animals, and the unending grind to fill them is what we are evolved to do.
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It's a level of negativity bias which seems to be overwhelmingly widespread nowadays. Things are either pure or else evil. I think it comes from taking the upsides for granted. So the downsides are seen as seen as unnecessary and resul
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> Why is this bad? They are now being very efficient with the use of their land. They have taken less of a rivalrous resource from the rest of society but have managed to shape it to their satisfaction. Their point of contention was in i
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by unishark 5y ago
I think it's even less likely to be true in geographical terms; counties where people bought more houses last year are probably more likely to be the places where people buy more houses this year. Even if the individuals who did buy ho
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Well if the ethical position is that manipulations based on science are "unnatural" and therefore objectionable, then it is pretty directly anti-science.
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Meanwhile your reduction tactic can be used to claim entitlement to anything. You have to give me whatever I want or modify your behavior in whatever ways I insist upon, because the only alternative for me to get my demands met is by creati
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> In my experience immigration status alone is not enough to put into a group that has increased risk of being discriminated against. This logic is kind of bizarre. You don't want to generalize, but only when it comes to putting peo
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If the technology itself is hot and there's a big unmet demand, other companies are doing most of the marketing already and you just need to inform customers you have it to sell also.
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Funding yourself is like representing yourself in court, you get a naive investor who doesn't know anything more than you do and doesn't reign in your dumb ideas. While the rest of us need to get funding from experienced investors
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Aren't a majority of startups founded by immigrants?

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