unpolloloco

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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Your point still stands (those people had high contact jobs), but most of the people who died did so prior to vaccine availability. It's only been the past ~4-5 months where there's been widespread availability. And there are very
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Easy solution: pay more. Easy to get people to go back if they get paid well enough! At some point, the employer will find enough people to go back to work - and that point is what (economically) the job is worth. A lot of people realized t
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
And to add some more nuance to point 4: there were a LOT of people who could have retired years ago, but chose not to for various reasons. This was their reason. I've seen estimates as high as 2M extra people in the US have just flat o
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
The other problem is that prices have no relation to quality. The random private university that will saddle you with $250k in debt and no job prospects costs the same as Harvard, which will both give you more aid and give you a foot in the
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
But what about that million people who die every year now? Are the few thousand people who will die because of AI mishaps worth more than the million who die due to human mishaps? Not to say that we shouldn't be cautious here, but over
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
You could say the same for human waste
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Contest that with your insurance company - they should be free...
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Why not both? It's not safe, but it's better than other options! Why I don't get is why the cat owner can't just flush the irradiated poop? Maybe litter in the pipes isn't good?
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
There's a good argument to diversify giving type too - as well as diversifying investment. Give some now, give some later. That way, you get the best of both worlds - impact now and greater impact later!
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Easy solution for this "problem" - allow and encourage more immigration!
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
It's not a stupid fuel in cases where you need massive amounts of energy and can't spare the weight... Like rockets and... rockets
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
I'd be curious how this number has changed over time. I'd suspect that (as a percentage of overall population) this number is the lowest it's ever been in human history. Still something to continue improving!
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Unpaid doesn't always mean that it's the least glamorous (in the absence of compensation for anyone). Take anything on Dirty Jobs, for example. If you're talking the difference between washing laundry and cleaning out septic
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
The problem with herd immunity is that the rate differs based on the variant. For something much more transmissible (like the Delta variant), herd immunity numbers are much different than for the original one. There's an argument that
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4 Cleaning for an airborne illness is just theater. Upgrading air handlers, increasing airflow, and spacing people further apart matter. Cleaning stuff randomly just mak
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Mostly, limited visual field. Screens aren't able to lure you in through peripheral vision
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Absolutely. But the paper is talking about a long-term mortality divergence between populations, not a peak in 2017 like you were claiming (and there's nothing about 2020 data in this paper).
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Did you read the paper? It effectively has three US data points it's using: deaths in 2000, 2010, and 2017. And it's comparing to European countries in the same time to calculate excess deaths. But they're defining excess
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
What are you talking about? Ohio gets plenty of springs and falls, interspersed between winters and summers! Sometimes all in one day...
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
If I'm reading this correctly, this paper is defining excess deaths as the number of people who died in the US who wouldn't have were those people living in Europe instead of the US at that point in time? Which points to structur
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Except in CA, where you get high COL, high crime, and wildfires half the year...
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
At this point, isn't non-mask-wearing somewhat similar? The death risk to vaccinated people (for now) is lower than for getting the flu (even with the flu vaccine). So, the risk is only significant to unvaccinated people, who have had
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Is that a bad thing (in the long run)? More people with work experience = more people who are enjoyable at higher rates later on. Maybe a bit of short-term pain, but everyone's better off in the long run?
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
No - just that it's a massive PITA
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
Diversity doesn't matter in practice if management doesn't want to spend the resources to engineer for diverse use cases. I've been over-ruled too many times when I've pushed for "fringe" use cases - including
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by unpolloloco 5y ago
1) That means those are probably just empty containers at this point due to diffusion. The DDT is already in the environment and has been for decades. 2) Those ones are the dangerous ones right now. And moving them risks massive immediate r
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by unpolloloco 6y ago
On that line of argument, you should use the roadster, not the model s. The Model T wasn't the first car, but it was the first widely accessible and usable one for the masses. Tesla's innovation is more comparable to that. That sa
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by unpolloloco 6y ago
What did they add to their water that causes liver failure?!?
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by unpolloloco 6y ago
In particular, Paul (one of the writers) was - take that as you will. Overall, it's generally extremely progressive (for its time and context!).
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by unpolloloco 6y ago
I'd guess you're a Gen X from your comment? I'd claim that, for the younger generations (middle millennials and younger), that the very claim that the church has all the answers is the problem itself. They deal in relatives

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