SolaceQuantum

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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
> I've found helpful to read the official opinion of opinions I disagree with. Start to finish, including the dissent. With respect to modern rulings, I have yet to walk away finding the arguments abysmal. In almost every case, I di
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
If you’re interested in short stories To be published I recommend trawling The Submissions Grinder. This is duotrope but free.
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
There is currently no proof that antibody testing is detecting antibodies greater than the false positive rate except in New York, which itself has biases in its study (only testing people who are already out in public, and that's only
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
From what I understand Germany’s infection rate has actually increased as a result of the reopening moves.[0] 0. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/germanys-coronavirus-infecti...
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
It looks like it’s several times more deadly than the flu if a hospital can provide optimal treatment . Should we go ahead and rapidly infect everyone the death toll will go to Italy. Additionally, I would suspect that the cost of rapidly
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
I actually heard Germany’s infection rate has now increased directly related to their reopening (before R0 was <1 now it is ~1?)
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
I don’t think Amazon is inventing anything new in the space of driving out competition using a technique derived by gilded age industrial revolution
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
I think, unfortunately, the definition of decent in this case is viewed as luxury. Most specifically the concept that everyone should be able to own a house within a reasonable commute of work in a desirable location. This cannot happen whi
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
There are definitely personal details that are dangerous for you to talk about with your co workers. It is still legal to fire someone for being gay or trans in a significant minority of states. There are two Supreme Court cases right now p
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
A business is supposed to be responsible to avoid hiring people into hazards they didn’t sign up for when they were hired, but now cannot leave for risk of being jobless in the worst downturn since the Great Depression.
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
Serial Experiments Lain seems to be kinda happening.
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
That’s not what I asked but okay. Also the reference is what looks to be on some persons blog post.
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
What are the laws preventing UPS from delivering to extremely rural areas?
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
This doesn't work for people who want to have children, who may have healthcare conditions, who need to take care of their parents, etc. Spending significantly less than you earn won't mean much if inflation means anything you ear
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
Yes, if black swan events happen every 10 or so years, and the black swan events wipe away all the gains of before... is that really helpful advice?
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
How does the reasoning of buying stocks and bonds work over time given the current crisis has wiped out all the gains for many people made in the past several years utilizing this strategy, and before that was 2008 which did the same?
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'I become a person of suspicion'(nytimes.com)
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
Art would most definitely help us populate a new planet or harvest space materials. It paves the way, quite literally, in the imagination to even understand it might be possible and the implications of such. Additionally, a society that has
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
What legal standing is preventing someone from posting “Apples treatment of Developers is neither fair nor consistent”????
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
It’s more than just inconvenience. If Apple can be protectionist about its Apple store than the developers can be protectionist of their skills and careers as developers on the Apple platform.
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
Didn't the federal gov't just cut SNAP benefits? The maximum a single person can receive is 6$/day, the average a single person receives is $4/day.
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
> That is because people don't think about things objectively which they should be doing. But I am an objectivist so I suppose I am biased. But whether or not they are thinking about things objectively has no basis on whether or not
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
Handling a problem dispassionately requires resolving the meta-problem of emotional response around the problem in the first place, especially if it's part of what made the problem happen. EG. A co worker's parent has been hospita
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
Someone feeling a certain way is a fact. In fact, if a conflict is that someone is upset, it is the critical fact before we can conclude a decision requires making!
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
Am I missing something? The NYT lists each state having at least 100 cases. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c...
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
Amazon was unable to appropriately document a man who was dead in a warehouse enough to get them medical help for a significant length of time.
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
This may be a bad interpretation but- If a company functioning is a matter of national security, it should be significantly more controlled by the nation.
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
NK Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy, which has won a hugo for every book in the trilogy. Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon and Who Fears Death are also excellent books. I also highly recommend Jeff Vandermeer's Sourthern Reach trilogy, o
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
"what percentage of us had the forethought to divest our retirement accounts at that time? (I'm not looking for bragging anecdotes here, my point is that most people didn't.)" The people who were educated and briefed o
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by SolaceQuantum 6y ago
This is a very weird evaluation: It describes a post mortem on all of humanity from a site that, from what I can see, is mostly an entrepreneurship op-ed e-zine? Certain points are also reflect a strange dissociation or at least misundersta

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