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by xienze 5y ago
> I do wonder though if some of the second cases aren't people going in with the flu and having some covid fragments in their nose. This is why using PCR tests cranked up to absurd cycle counts isn't the best way to determine _
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by xienze 5y ago
> Vaccine isn't necessarily easy for everyone, and catching COVID isn't necessarily hard for everyone There seems to be this prevailing belief that Covid infection == near certain death, when that's just not the case, but
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by xienze 5y ago
> I don't understand how people can be so anti-universal healthcare in the US. Because I have zero faith that it will end up costing me less, and have a similar level of quality. I’m in tech. Combined HHI is something in the $200s
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by xienze 5y ago
> people pick away at stuff that's orthogonal to the issue and won't resolve anything. Sometimes it’s a case of “I don’t know the answer to that, but I’d like to help. I’d like to know more about why you’re doing that so I can
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by xienze 5y ago
I’m not an expert on the subject but I imagine lumber that builders buy is bought in terms of futures contracts. So whatever you buy today at a low price won’t actually be delivered for several months.
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by xienze 5y ago
> The $500 to $1000 a month in the OP Why does everyone lack foresight in regards to where UBI will eventually lead? People are just going to keep voting for the guy promising more and more UBI bucks. Yeah maybe $1000 isn’t much, but g
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by xienze 5y ago
> I don't believe the same people who champion a UBI would suddenly become cold and say to a disabled recipient, "No, you will not get extra money because of your special needs. You will get nothing else because we dismantled y
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by xienze 5y ago
> The discussion in this thread is written more as if Amazon is pushing out capable talent. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they have a stated goal of cutting the bottom 10% every year? I gotta think that can't go on f
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by xienze 5y ago
> The far-right Capitol rioters killed at least one officer Surprise! Months later it turns out he had died of natural causes: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/19/988876722/capitol-police-offi... > Man
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by xienze 5y ago
Ehh I think it’s a little more complicated than that, and I’ve argued this for years, that Google et al certainly plays a part. Consider their infamous busses, that allow employees who simply can’t fathom the idea of living in Mountain Vie
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by xienze 5y ago
Another way to look at it is that cryptocurrency has been around for what, ten years? And it seems in the past six months or so there’s been more ransomware attacks, certainly more high-profile ones, than there has been in the previous 9.5
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by xienze 5y ago
Yep, your 401k will be indirectly affected by this. The real fun starts 20-ish years down the line when our elected officials decide to directly seize 401k assets in the name of "equity."
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by xienze 5y ago
> The allegedly "kiln dried lumber" home depot has been selling has been criminally wet throughout the last year too. Eh it’s always been that way. Warped and with plenty of knots too. It was considered poor quality back when
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by xienze 5y ago
> Well, one of the underlying reasons for the lack of imagination might be... keyboards. That and the fact that it would probably take me longer to search for whatever obscure mathematical symbol is supposed to represent <whatever>
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by xienze 5y ago
> I still do not understand why it even exist? Is it a tool to get around trading in USD? Why is it so popular? You can’t keep USD in a crypto wallet, only tokens that operate under various protocols, ERC20 being the most popular. ~Mos
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by xienze 5y ago
> The annual population growth in the US in the last 40 years is around 1%, and is diminishing (latest numbers show 0.5%). Population growth isn’t evenly distributed over the entire country.
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by xienze 5y ago
> You shouldn’t be able to make a tonne of money by just buying a house and sitting on it. Maybe you should instead think of it as sitting on a piece of _land_, not a house. Twenty years ago you bought a house in the middle of nowhere,
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by xienze 5y ago
> I don't think theres a school district in the country that will advance a kid with a 50% average to the next grade. You’d be wrong to assume that. Here’s a kid that made it to 12th grade having only ever passed 4 classes. 0.13 G
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by xienze 5y ago
> Why not sample earlier blood and see how far back COVID originated. Because if people found out that Covid had been spreading in the US for months before the “official” starting date of March 2020, they’d come to realize that they woul
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by xienze 5y ago
Bit plain, could stand to have some more animation.
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by xienze 5y ago
How is not charging someone tax on unrealized gains some special, favorable agreement? It's common sense for physical assets.
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by xienze 5y ago
> Gains on that property deferred for up to 25 years. Well yeah, before that point it hasn’t been sold, so paying taxes on unrealized gains on what the house “should” be worth is bullshit.
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by xienze 5y ago
> It almost seems like a lot of people don't want the data to indicate that natural immunity is strong and long lasting, even though the data shows that reinfection is extemely rare. I too remember when the concept of "natural
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by xienze 5y ago
Crypto is an... interesting market. The vast majority of trades are done by bots. Some external event causes BTC to swing and bots key off that, magnifying the effect. When it’s a REALLY big event like today and people are trying to cash
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by xienze 5y ago
Take a look at the top 100 charts at any random time of day. They’re almost all carbon copies of the BTC chart.
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by xienze 5y ago
> Which if you pay the ransom, means also relying on the word of the people that are actively extorting you. As weird as it sounds, reputation matters for these guys. If you have a track record of taking the money and publishing data an
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by xienze 5y ago
The bigger IMO problem with ransomware attacks isn't necessarily that they're holding your data hostage, it's that they can and will publish it. You might be able to tell them to kiss your ass because you have backups, but t
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by xienze 5y ago
> We can't even spot China from putting ppl in concentration camps how are we going to regulate their rocket program. We can, we’re just not going to do anything about it because decades of outsourcing American (and others) industry
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by xienze 5y ago
> For representative democracy though I think we can experiment with assigning voting weights to age ranges, in a way that allows fresh ideas to exist The problem here is that you would be brushing off the concerns of an older group by s
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by xienze 6y ago
Exactly, we already have the “censorship resistant social network” (gab), but for reasons completely unrelated to not restricting speech third parties seem hell bent on nuking it from orbit. Such is the fate of any similar social network.

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