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by yibg 6y ago
I’m all for data driven decisions. We just need to be more careful to dig into the details of the data. A simple excess mortality figure may not be relevant. Both covid and the lockdowns could have caused increased or decreased mortalities
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by yibg 6y ago
how much protection would be enough for you to wear one? 50%? 75%? Hell, even 1% is higher than 0 and really, what's the harm? Yea most people don't get very sick, except for the 300k that are dead just in the US.
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by yibg 6y ago
Isn't mask compliance an important metric here that's not shown? Having a mandate doesn't really do much if people don't actually comply with it.
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by yibg 6y ago
Because the virus particles travel on other things, and those other things are big enough to get blocked.
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by yibg 6y ago
Looking back yes not much skills gained. At the time what kept me in there were a couple of things: 1) chasing the next thing. Next item, next perfect build, next stat. 2) the multi player aspect. Be it pvp or a coop game with some online “
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by yibg 6y ago
I can certainly relate to this, my poison of choice was diablo 2. At first playing and discovering all the various items and stats was fun. Killing monsters and advancing was fun. At some point it just became a habit, then towards the end i
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by yibg 6y ago
Everyone country does this to every other country that they can. Not like the US doesn't (or at least try to) pull off stuff like this too. So if it's an act of war then every major power has pretty much at some point declared war
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by yibg 6y ago
There is a fundamental difference here though. Being a teacher is a form of employment, where at least theoretically there is a match of supply vs demand. Music in this context is more like a business, where there may not be demand. You don
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by yibg 6y ago
But then it turns out it's a common practice used by a lot of social media apps. The argument isn't that TikTok doesn't collect data, it's that it's not doing anything different / special compared to the other
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by yibg 6y ago
Shouldn't those acts be labeled evil (or good) instead? I mean we don't say the US government as a whole is evil because of the child separation policy (some people do but not most). I'm pretty anti CPP for the most part, but
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by yibg 6y ago
Or you know, people actually have different views on things.
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by yibg 6y ago
Good way to shut down discussion huh? Us vs them. If you say anything bad about us or anything good about them you're automatically bad too. Maybe that's your intention.
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by yibg 6y ago
Laws are only useful if they are enforced. If TikTok break said laws then action can be taken against them just like against anyone that breaks laws. If there are no laws in place at all, what’s the punishment for.
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by yibg 6y ago
One problem is the current administration has very little credibility. To say “we have a tonne of evidence, we just can’t show you. Trust us”, just doesn’t cut it anymore because we know how much this administration lies. This isn’t an atte
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by yibg 6y ago
For one, I don’t think we should strive to be more like China. Second if we are going to ban TikTok at least make up some law they are breaking. For all it’s issues, at least there are laws the Chinese can point to for banning Facebook and
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by yibg 6y ago
To be honest I feel more comfortable with China having my data than the US. For one thing I’m a non citizen living in the US. I have no idea what data the US government has on me or how they’ll use it against me. We’ve also all seen the hos
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by yibg 6y ago
The world isn’t black and white. One can be anti China for most things and still agree with them for some things. Similarly one can be pro “west” and still disagree with the US. I find it problematic that anything in support of China or aga
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by yibg 6y ago
I’ve see plenty of anti China content on TikTok though.
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by yibg 6y ago
I honest would like to know, from your perspective when should a police officer NOT have gun drawn? Seems like you think there is danger lurking every where, so should cops just go around with assault rifles at the ready all the damn time?
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by yibg 6y ago
Be harder to find counter examples. I can't think of many "western" nations where it's normal for the police to go in to a house for a non violent office with people with no history of violence with guns drawn.
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by yibg 6y ago
I keep roughly the same amount of clothes and get new articles if the existing ones get worn or no longer fits. Typically I'd purchase a few tshirts, socks and underwear at the half a year or a year mark to replace ones I've gotte
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by yibg 6y ago
Yea connecting men in America that finds Japanese and South Korean women very attractive with vulnerable suicidal Japanese and South Korean women won't be a recipe for abuse at all...
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by yibg 6y ago
Isn't this why the results are compared against the control group?
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by yibg 6y ago
Things aren't black and white. Supporting an enemy of the state is quite a bit different from doing business with a legitimate arm of the government, or choosing to support or not the current social issue. You may disagree with policie
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by yibg 6y ago
I don't know, we seem to have done ok about companies not being political a decade ago. It seems it's only recently companies, especially prominent ones, started getting dragged into political positions. Maybe this is an extension
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by yibg 6y ago
The article and comments here matches my observations. There are many ways to be a 10x engineers but basically none of them is about writing better code or solving algorithm problem (outside of a few very specific domains). Writing good cod
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by yibg 6y ago
I used to look at yelp reviews before deciding on a restaurant to eat at. I'm now completely ignoring yelp reviews because I don't trust them. Strange I do still trust google reviews. Maybe I shouldn't since I don't know
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by yibg 6y ago
Well the simple answer is because they can? And I don't think there is actually anything wrong with that. You can buy a house for cheaper in the rust belt, and probably other things are cheaper too, hence a lower COL location. Let&#x27
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by yibg 6y ago
Location also determines the costs of other things to a certain degree. Prices of gasoline, food, housing etc are all higher in high COL areas, so why is it surprising wages are too? I get the argument that "well I'm doing the sam
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by yibg 6y ago
I'm not familiar enough with this case. Which friends was the rule waived for?

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