12elephant

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by 12elephant 5y ago
> fewer people engage in the discussion or share the information More like fewer people engage in the discussion or share the information _where those researchers are looking_. In reality, you're going to push people off Twitter and
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by 12elephant 5y ago
On the contrary, banning people makes people seek out their narrative even more. This idea that people aren't smart enough to make their own decisions and need you to spoon feed them the "right" information is the real proble
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by 12elephant 5y ago
Probably not.
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by 12elephant 5y ago
What is one mRNA vaccine that has been approved by the FDA?
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by 12elephant 5y ago
> those who cannot be vaccinated You mean the same people this mandate will prevent from participating in society?
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by 12elephant 5y ago
Also Time Magazine: https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/bitcoin/time-magazine-to-ho...
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by 12elephant 6y ago
> If you say wait a second, but one of those is a fact about the world and the other is an insane conspiracy theory, then to them you're now a censor, an opponent of Free Speech. No, if you remove the video from YouTube on the groun
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by 12elephant 6y ago
Is it really that they don't want people to criticize their bullshit? Or is it that they don't want their bullshit to be censored off the face of the planet? Whether or not we agree with their views, should they not be able to exp
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by 12elephant 6y ago
I was never talking about fact checking. I'm taking issue to your casting morality as objective. It is not. That is all.
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by 12elephant 6y ago
Depends on what's being done with those resources. Example 1 - Drumming up support for a war with Iran. No it's not correct to direct resources to where they are most effective. (According to me.) Example 2 - Trying to get homeles
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by 12elephant 6y ago
> I think that looking at past history of voting fraud shows pretty conclusively that _vote by mail_ fraud has always been a very low percentage. If fraud was committed successfully, it's not going to show up in the data. You won&#x
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by 12elephant 6y ago
It doesn't matter what I think. My point is that ethics are subjective, not objective.
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by 12elephant 6y ago
There is video of Twitter employees admitting there are on-going efforts to silence "shitty people" on the platform. It's quite clear who these "deplorables" or "shitty people" are. What is the most annoyi
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by 12elephant 6y ago
That's what already happens. Look at the comments on any prominent person's tweet and you'll see people going back and forth about what's right and what's false. No one needs to do anything here. People can research
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by 12elephant 6y ago
There is no objective "ethically correct" anything. You'll say one thing is "ethically correct", and someone else will say the exact opposite thing is "ethically correct". Neither of you is right, and neit
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by 12elephant 6y ago
N95 is the US standard, so it makes sense the US makes more of these than other countries. Compare production capacity of N95s in the US with FFP2/3 in the EU, or KN95 in China. Then we'll really see how US production capacity sta
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by 12elephant 6y ago
Yes, let's throw out valuable field evidence just because it doesn't fit some narrow definition of "valid experiment". Compare 700 people who received a treatment to 700 demographically similar people who received the st
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by 12elephant 6y ago
The remaining population of COVID patients is a good control group. Or, if you prefer, randomly select sub-populations with similar demographic statistics.
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by 12elephant 6y ago
A single piece of anecdotal evidence does not constitute scientific fact. ~700 pieces of anecdotal evidence is a study.
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by 12elephant 6y ago
That's wishful thinking. The virus will survive in Africa, or India, or many of the other places that are incapable or unwilling to enforcing a complete lockdown (many of these places are in the US itself). As I mentioned above, we hav
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by 12elephant 6y ago
So what happens when we end quarantine in 6 months? We'll just have a COVID epidemic 6 months from now. Isolation does not stop the spead, it only slows the spread. As soon as isolation is lifted, whether that be in a month or 10 years
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by 12elephant 6y ago
Furthermore, the studies on chloroquine started at least a month before the US president ever mentioned hydroxycholoroquine in mid March. E.g. this one from early Feb: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0
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by 12elephant 6y ago
They're already buying corporate bonds: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/file...
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by 12elephant 6y ago
The Fed is also buying corporate bonds as of today: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/file...
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by 12elephant 7y ago
The flu vaccine is not a true vaccine. It's a best guess vaccine at how the virus has mutated, and is often ineffective.
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by 12elephant 7y ago
What no one is talking about is how much social distancing/isolation is needed to avoid hospital saturation. I ran the numbers for Canada, and it looks like we'd need isolation measures for 2+ years. I don't see how that&#x27
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by 12elephant 7y ago
Good SEO tools are things like SEM Rush, Moz, ahrefs. That kind of thing. These tools are good for monitoring but they're not going to help you go up in the rankings, or get more traffic. There are really only two ways to get better ra
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by 12elephant 7y ago
> however it still could be a strain that was collected and analyzed at the Wuhan lab. I don't know if we will ever have the full story on that possibility. Exactly. It's possible. Who knows if we'll ever know. The only th
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by 12elephant 7y ago
Yes – sibling, not ancestor. Regardless, the analysis is premised on the RaTG13 genome, and I am somewhat skeptical of analysis based on RaTG13. I think accidental release of a naturally evolved virus is still a plausible hypothesis. To dis
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by 12elephant 7y ago
The evidence that it's natural is based on similarities to a common ancestor, RaTG13. Googling "RaTG13" will turn up results suggesting it's natural over artificial. What is truly bizarre is that the gene sequence of thi

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