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wbsss4412
11mo ago
60,000 IU per day or per week? 5,000 IU is most likely a daily dosage in this instance.
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4y ago
> I can't! That's the only thing you provided. Quotes aren’t editorializing. I’m referring to the quotes + the fact that he has yet to provide any proof of those assertions.
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4y ago
Disregarding any editorializing from the AP, not following up these quotes: > “People think, when they hear AIDS, they hear HIV. No, the vaccines aren’t causing you to be infected with the HIV virus,” said Malone, during a taped intervie
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4y ago
I find it amusing that simply because I pointed out the faults of Dr Malone, you assume I’m some sort of devotee of the Washington Post/NYTimes. This is a fabrication inside your own mind.
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wbsss4412
4y ago
Well I can see why you’d put so much faith in a man of such unimpeachable integrity.
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wbsss4412
4y ago
You don’t believe what, exactly? The quotes? The source from the article is the AP, are you claiming the AP fabricated these quotes? > In a video circulating widely on social media, Dr. Robert Malone, a frequent critic of COVID-19 vacci
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4y ago
> In November 2021, Malone shared a deceptive video on Twitter that falsely linked athlete deaths to COVID-19 vaccines. In particular, the video suggested that Jake West, a 17-year-old Indiana high school football player who succumbed to
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4y ago
I don’t see how targeted ads are any less insufferable than a viagra ad. I don’t watch ads for fun. No matter how “relevant” an ad may be, you’re still breaking context to insert yourself, and distract me from, the thing I’m actually inte
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4y ago
Not sure what services you’ve looked at, but it definitely doesn’t cost $10/month. Your personal solution seems pretty good though.
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4y ago
> This makes sense because most are being sold at a big loss Your article is 3 years old and the economics of BEV production have changed rapidly in that time span. It quotes battery pack cost per kWh at $190-$210, but current prices are
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4y ago
You can install chargers on the curbside. Is that the solution? I don’t know, but honestly all of these issues are solvable problems and the idea that we can’t figure it out in 13 years says more about our self belief than it does about the
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4y ago
I’ve owned a BEV for over a year and can’t charge at home. I rely on workplace + public charging. It’s been pretty great honestly. You don’t have to spend 40 minutes at a charger either. That only happens if you want to go from empty to fu
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4y ago
> Quantitative easing (QE) is a monetary policy whereby a central bank purchases predetermined amounts of government bonds or other financial assets (e.g., municipal bonds, corporate bonds, stocks, etc.) in order to inject money into the
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4y ago
> Wouldn't QE be anti-liquidity since it's net result is more cash goes to the Fed and QT be pro-liquidity since the opposite happens? You have QE and QT backwards. QE => fed builds up it’s balance sheet, it sends out cash.
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4y ago
> EDIT: Maybe this helps - you're taking for granted that the US Treasury auctions an increasingly large amount of Treasuries to cover an increasingly large amount of debt, but The Fed doesn't create that debt, that's a se
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4y ago
The fed removes liquidity every time it receives a coupon payment or a bond matures (ie, it gets paid cash by the government). It could stop all open market operations and it would continue to remove liquidity from the system by virtue of t
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4y ago
> Yes, so they aren't 'removing liquidity' because they are still 'injecting liquidity' at literally every treasury auction (as they have been for 15 years). They are simply injecting less liquidity than they hav
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4y ago
I’m aware that is the case. If they weren’t doing that, though, it would result in a massive uncontrolled level of tightening. I don’t see how it’s somehow a bad thing that they are being intentional about the draw down. If I were to buy a
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4y ago
> yet it's fighting inflation and has the largest national debt out of any country in the world ... is this simply a circumstance that the US is "less bad off" than the rest of the world? Debt is usually benchmarked agains
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4y ago
To add, they sell mortgage backed securities too.
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4y ago
“Liquidity” literally means the ease with which assets can be converted into cash. In the context above it’s saying they have removed cash from the system, in specific reference to the M1 money supply. It’s one of those words that gets used
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4y ago
> Is that removing liquidity? Not really, it's just decreasing the active injection of liquidity that the Fed has been doing for the past 15 years. This is a pretty ideologically based statement. The fed is quite literally removing
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4y ago
Note that many people on this and other forums have been talking about how the fed just prints money forever and is out of control. This is them destroying money. It might not be enough for you personally, but let’s not pretend that money p
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4y ago
To add, both parties usually get additional value out of an exclusivity deal, which is why they voluntarily enter into an arrangement. In the case of Amazon though (and I caveat this with the fact that I’m not aware of the full details) thi
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4y ago
Ah yes, so according to you, in the “real world”, shareholders interests and the interests represented by the government are functionally equivalent. This must be why we have no minimum wage laws, worker protections, nor does the FTC ever b
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4y ago
Setting aside the fact that your own measure means that 42% of Americans own zero shares, meaning that it is already not representative. The fact that 58% of Americans own a share does not imply that they are shareholders of every singl
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4y ago
> What would the alternative be? There will always come a day when founders and investors want to move on. Retirement age comes faster than you might think. Even if you deny an exit strategy, the principals are still going to stop eventu
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4y ago
You can argue whichever is better for society, more anti trust, more big corp acquisitions. My point is only that the idea that without big corp acquisitions, founders would have no options besides walking away and letting their product die
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4y ago
I’m making my comments in the context of the thread: >we need new antitrust laws that are a bit more proactive when it comes to super-massive companies like Adobe > What do you think happens to VC investments when it’s harder for comp
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4y ago
I suppose I just don’t understand you original point then? > What would the alternative be? There will always come a day when founders and investors want to move on. Going public means you can move on and sell your shares at any time on
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