yostrovs

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by yostrovs 6y ago
Every time I check out BBC, DW, France 24, or any other European world news service, America is almost always first to be discussed. What Trump says, shootings, demonstrations, etc. It's all domestic affairs, but covered as though it&#
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by yostrovs 6y ago
Scientific American has changed its coverage drastically in the last few yeard. If you look at the headlines, there's an incredible amount of articles that discuss society, racism, government,etc. It's not science. This article is
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by yostrovs 6y ago
It's disturbing that YouTube has the capability of mass banning a certain point of view with just a few keystrokes, it sounds like. Wasn't built for nothing.
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Some of us believe that "helping" doesn't really help. Most countries that are screwed up are screwed up because of who rules there. Given a reasonable government things would be totally different. Helping usually just feeds
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by yostrovs 6y ago
Heating does as well. Perhaps the Swiss should forgo that too. They are some of the richest people on Earth, having benefited more than most from the fossil fuel age. Remember, Russian oil oligarchs, Saudi oil barons, and all other anonymo
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by yostrovs 6y ago
I went to look since you didn't quote it: "The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.[1] The WHO Constitution, which establishes the agency's
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by yostrovs 6y ago
WHO, being staffed by scientists, should recognize that Taiwan indeed exists, that it has its own government that responded to the pandemic, and that China is not in charge there. Pretending otherwise leads to losing credibility, as everyon
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by yostrovs 6y ago
WHO, being staffed by scientists, should recognize that Taiwan indeed exists, that it has its own government that responded to the pandemic, and that China is not in charge there. Pretending otherwise leads to losing credibility, as everyon
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by yostrovs 6y ago
It's not clear how the WHO is actually helping with the pandemic. Do they treat patients, develop vaccines, tests, antibody tests, or treatment protocols? What do they do exactly? Seems like they talk and have press conferences where
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Yes, and when he came back and was asked about Taiwan again, he said he already discussed China and ended the conversation. Taiwan doesn't exist according to WHO.
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In January they said the virus doesn't transmit between humans. Then they said travel restrictions are xenophobic. Then they said the world should thank China for its efforts.
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"Are we really going to isolate or quarantine 4 out of 10 US adults and imagine the economy can get back on track?" Better than everyone pulling their hair out at home. Plus, why not have people choose themselves whether they&#x27
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Liberals, libertarians, and anarchists are not different extremes of the same thing.
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Puritans, mostly because of the modern misunderstanding of the term, are blamed for all enforcement of any vice in the United States. I'm saying that the larger society, made up of different religious beliefs, has its own course and it
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Anyone above 40?
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It's mostly visual. I would add location and latest weather to any software trying to recognize the mushroom. The mushrooms that people commonly forage for are not that numerous, so the algorithm needs to know about a dozen or two vari
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Including in the winter and across boros? What if you're 65, live in the Bronx and work on Wall Street?
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by yostrovs 7y ago
The Puritans had beer upon arrival, so don't lay this on them.
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No one wants to use public transport in Wuhan, but cars are selling like before the pandemic. I wonder what New Yorkers will do with fear of subways. There's no space to park already.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
There's really two art worlds the way I see it. One is real, the other is pseudo academic. You can like and not like whatever you want, but there's a world of dealers, critics, promoters, and others that actually control the museu
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Fauci has been a bureaucrat longer than most people on HN have been alive. And he's been in charge of a department of the US government that hasn't been responsible for anything before the current event. Perhaps he's being li
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by yostrovs 7y ago
I lived in the most prosperous communist country and I know for a fact that the numbers reported are lies. You are free to believe whatever you want since you haven't established the need for skepticism in this sphere. But when lied to
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by yostrovs 7y ago
You can argue anything you want. I just don't believe the numbers reported. Not for healthcare in Cuba, not the virus in China. And literacy rates in communist countries were made high so kids will be indoctrinated into Lenin as quickl
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by yostrovs 7y ago
France can pretend that Google doesn't exist.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Only those that never lived under communism would believe those numbers. Same as the information on the coronavirus from China. https://www.econlib.org/about-that-cuban-life-expectancy/
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Our experts said not to use face masks. There's a debate of whether to listen to the experts.
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They were spies anyways: "Foreign news outlets in China are barred from directly employing Chinese nationals. They are instead employed through the Beijing Personnel Service Corporation for Diplomatic Missions, which is affiliated with
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by yostrovs 7y ago
A lot more people already fled Venezuela than the virus will ever kill there, that's for sure. Also, as a correction... Venezuela is not a developing country. It is de-developing.
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by yostrovs 7y ago
Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History by Milton Friedman is a great read about this and similar topics. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97822.Money_Mischief
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by yostrovs 7y ago
You're twisting history. The tea party backlash was to the bailing out of banks.

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