woodandsteel

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by woodandsteel 6y ago
If we let the virus run wild then over a million Americans would die from it. And the hospitals would be vastly overwhelmed, so many more people who need hospitalization from other causes would die. And many millions would suffer severe dis
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
It doesn't matter if some other things are more important. If it is helpful, then it should be included in policies. Do you agree? And this matters because in the US and an a number of other countries, a large proportion of people refu
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
No, I am not going to give you a reference. If you have been paying attention to the story, you have seen a hundred stories about the various nations and their policies. I think you are playing dumb. Also I explained your description of the
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
This article has some interesting points, but overall it is click-bait. The recommendation at the end is, “We don’t know how well cloth masks work, so distancing should come first, but masks are likely to work to some extent and not everyon
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
I live in California, and the mask rules at the state level were not dictated, only recommended, and in most locations where they were law they were not rigorously enforced. And then Gov Newsome relaxed social distancing, and the infection
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
During the housing price bubble 2001-2007, the economics profession on the whole, lead by University of Chicago economists (which is where Friedman taught) told us everything was fine, due to efficient market theory.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
The valuation makes sense. In the coming years the auto market is going to be moving rapidly to ev's and away from ice's. Demand for ev's is going to outrun supply, in part due to battery shortages. Tesla is expanding rapidly
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
No, testing shows none of the countries are anywhere near herd immunity. They beat the disease back with the standard program of testing, contact tracing, quarantine, social isolation, masks, and so on. The standard program works, and when
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
The Chinese government tells us it is supported by 99.9 % of its citizens, but it acts like it is scared to death the population is on the verge of revolting.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
The problem is that when parties are highly polarized, politicians who want to be the sort of leaders you are talking about can't get into leadership positions and often are voted out at the primary election stage.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
WMD's are wonderful for keeping other countries from attacking (but who wants to invade Russia?), but of little use for offensive purposes.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
The problem is that voters often disagree greatly, and the only positive way forward is a compromise, but strong partisan and ideological polarization makes that impossible.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
A very good comment. I would add that the parties used to be more moderate in part because the Democrats included both Northern liberals and Southern racists, and the Republicans included many Northern liberals. But when the civil rights la
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Casiopea is totally wonderful. I learned about them when I got onto the young drummer Kanade Sato. Here she is backing up Mukaiya at a very young age on a wonderful Casiopea song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C3Nml8IBf0
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
World's best 1 3/4 year old drummer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FzBfjjO34U
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
>The biggest benefit is market manipulation and collusion. Your claim would be more persuasive if you gave us a few specific examples.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Oh dear, you are making the argument that if it is very bad to be wrong in one irrational way, that makes it just fine to be wrong in another irrational way. Wouldn't it be better to be just, you know, right?
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
So you're saying when the Manhattan Project scientists thought the atomic bomb might set the whole atmosphere on fire, they were mistaken.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
We are trying to answer this question with our minds, so how we think about the question and if it can be answered will depend on how we think about our minds. If you take the scientific position that are mental processes are the produce of
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Making the tanks strong enough to handle the pressure if the liquid turns to gas is very expensive. It is much cheaper to make a tank that just holds a liquid.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
This plant is not using compressed air, it's using liquified air.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Except if you have a spy in the group that transport the bombs, they just tip off some people with guns to grab it. And given the number of Islamist extremists in Pakistan and how much they would love to have a bomb, it seems rather likely
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
>This is common in all government run systems No, that is not at all true. There are lots of government run systems, like the health care systems in most developed countries, that are just fine. The problem with Pakistan is it has a high
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
I disagree. Think of how the gay movement took the word "queer" and turned it from an insult to something neutral or even positive. The way to change peoples minds is to change the meanings of words. In particular, take the most c
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Well it depends. For people who don't have a way to charge up slowly, like at home or at work, fast charging is crucial. But for those who do have a slow option and rarely go long distances, fast charging is a low priority. But beyond
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
"Because the FCC doesn't care" Not at all true. The head of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is very much in the pocket of the telecom industry.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
The larger importance of this is that for a lot of potential ev purchasers, 400 miles is the lower limit of what they consider acceptable range. Yes, I know that is rather arbitrary and irrational, but that's how it is. 400 mile range
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
"Propensities toward attraction were recognized, but it never formed a core part of personal identity" Like many words, "gay" "straight" "bisexual" and so on have more than one meaning. One of those m
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Synfuels are very important for saving the climate. Yes, we need to eventually move all transportation to batteries, and we now have the technology to do that with cars and increasingly with trucking. But for ocean ships and long-range airp
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
I agree. They wanted to fool people into thinking the situation is worse than it really is, so they faked a photograph.

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