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>Mask recommendations weren't withheld... Withheld? That's not how I remember it. >"There's no reason to be walking around with a mask," infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60 Minutes. https:
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5y ago
You might want to avoid medical textbooks.
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>But its not higher quality than digital, its just more work to operate. There are desirable differences aside from "more work". Many people listen to vinyl rips because the original mastering had greater dynamic range. Here&#x
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5y ago
I agree. 4% is the most commonly discussed yearly withdrawal rate, and it might be too high.
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The oughts were a particularly bad decade for stocks, one of three in the past century. It isn't fair to choose a test period where stocks under-performed 50% of the time. A portfolio that includes some gold would have performed well e
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5y ago
I'd greatly appreciate an example of someone arguing that we should "[embrace] of monarchy and caste".
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5y ago
>The cow—a symbol both of religious reverence and communal vigilantism— whose value in a modern economy, irrespective of the politics around it, one would assume should decline as increasing numbers adopt urban lifestyles far removed fro
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>The consequences of data collection don't relate to people within our social circles so it is much harder to be viscerally affected by it. This reminds me of how people discovered that their friends/family members were Stasi i
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A 9x mother will benchmark one baby per month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_births#Nonupl...
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>The system itself is built to be exclusionary, where it has a cap of 4.5 B users. 2^32 is exclusionary? I don't see an easy way to make planets more inclusive. You could replace planets with moons (2^64 max users), then usernames n
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>..."photographs can steal your soul"-levels of tech-spiracy... It's a microphone connected to the internet. If corporations and governments choose to use this variety of device nefariously, they won't be stopped. Man
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I desperately want to read more about this.
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>it's not the government that was doing those things, it's the virus that was making it so they can’t buy something, they they have to wear a mask, they have to inject something in their body, they can’t go to a concert, etc. T
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This is the subject of the first episode of King of the Hill (1997). https://youtu.be/OsjmmpyGgHY
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Low interest rates, QE, stimulus, and rocketing stock prices facilitated the hot real estate market as much as proximate covid policies. You are correct to guess there is a substantial discussion that you're ignorant of.