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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Indeed. Being able to lose your source of income for posting something that contradicts the mainstream narrative counts as vulnerability in my book. I wanted to post a few examples of potential comments that would very plausibly get one rem
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Yes this is a great point, you can wipe out your "gains so far" but you can't really get deeply into the negative. Thanks for that nuance
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
I’m not endorsing the idea of prison time, but the short answer is: yes, of course there’s room, assuming we’re talking about C-suite level executives and maybe 1 or 2 hops below. That’s just a handful of potential prisoners and would be qu
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Oh god, I’d wager you just described 1000 different real real estate newsletters:P My biggest pet peeve is these “real estate investors” who don’t understand investing in any serious way and so falsely misrepresent renting out a property a
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Sorry for the late response but reproduction is literally the “reason” we exist. So from your genes’ perspective yes sexual reproductive organs are the most important.
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
The COVID-19 link is very plausible btw, inhaled NO has been researched as a COVID-19 therapy. (It just happens that that’s one of the less interesting benefits / effects of nose breathing) I have to imagine that these days putting som
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
I think one way to put it is that normies don't like a visible reminder of what the service/organization knows about them, but are otherwise perfectly content to not care about how the sausage is made. (Which is understandable sin
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Being opposed to something that is literally proven to actually happen is "tech-elite/libertarian mindset and borders on paranoia"? I don't understand your point of view at all, frankly. It's okay to say that you pe
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Some people just need a little acute upregulation of neuroplasticity to break out of their funk. For others it's a much deeper and more entangled and multi-dimensional problem. But just to agree with you, not everybody needs a heroic d
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I've never taken more than 3.5g of mushrooms, so not heroic, but even as little as 3g was enough for really profound life changes. 2g was just a fun experience and not much more. I've only done shrooms a handfu
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
I won't discuss the study much itself ( https://elifesciences.org/articles/62878 for the link to the actual paper btw), except to point out how sad this state of affairs is: > A key limitation of the present stu
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
How exactly are you using the lightning network without an initial transaction to charge up your metaphorical gift card?
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
> Like was there actually someone sitting there, using an app, seen the term blacklist and immediately started thinking it was an insult to them? My belief is absolutely not. It comes from an ideology that ascribes simple moralistic expl
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
> Blacklist's etymology isn't racist, but if black folks prefer that we use something else, and something as similar as blocklist is there and easy to use, it seems like an easy fix. Which black “folks” prefer the term “blockli
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Like mainly sleep “aids”, DPH just puts you into a fatigued state that is unlike naturalistic sleep. If insomnia / rumination / etc would otherwise keep one up and the diphenhydramine allows one to fall asleep and get a night of s
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Obvious fallacy here: we are all descendants of those humans who survived - at least until having children. Those who offed themselves early are selected out of the genepool. Note the above is not to suggest that there’s not a number of fac
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Yeah, and it’s not like a city water supply is the type of thing where such expenditure would be justified! (I recognize you also mentioned the difficulty, I just wanted to poke some fun :P)
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
No studies exist of infection to others for the obvious reason (too hard to track accurately). If you had read any of the literature you would know this.
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Yes, for example ushering in a new totalitarian age is much more likely than a (in children) very mild virus magically becoming super deadly. I really think you may not have ever read the literature on COVID-19 in children. We should be sho
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
What’s your point? As I said: > over the long run the set of all COVID-19-naive individuals becomes dominated by the very young (infants/toddlers), who have essentially zero risk of COVID-19 mortality.
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
This has not shown to be the case for COVID-19. Hell, school closures weren’t even recommended by the WHO for influenza which can directly harm children. You need to provide affirmative evidence before undertaking societal interventions w
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
These are closer to pop-sci articles than proper papers. Please read everything Macintyre ever published on the topic of masking in healthcare works before 2020. Start with this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
This article is about zero COVID . “Relatively minor flow” (btw I’m not convinced it’s even minor...) means you never eradicate the virus (which is why I oppose the idea of zero covid categorically)
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
You’re one step away from just advocating for a global world government. Massive centralized control never ends well. You’re close to the insight here though: there is a pragmatic solution, and it’s to stop waging war against an endemic res
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Very fallacious reasoning here. No-one is saying that infections are driven by Mexican immigrants. Rather they’re pointing out the obvious: if you’re trying to get to zero COVID, all it takes is one person to start the chain. Thus you c
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Viruses generally change to be less deadly and more transmissible. The “new variant” is just more transmissible. It doesn’t make sense to argue “oh what if this virus magically evolves to hurt children”. You need to propose a theoretical me
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Yeah I think the mink culling was an absurd over-reaction and highly unethical. Those poor minks. (Disclosure: I also think the same for the human lockdowns too though)
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic, (fairly) highly infectious endemic respiratory virus. Eradication is literally impossible, and even if we could wave a magic wand and simultaneously eradicate it from all humans on earth, you still need to worry ab
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Agreed, the reason minimum wage is bad policy and unethical is that you're making it illegal to pay someone below a certain threshold, which stated differently is making it illegal for a sufficiently unskilled worker to get any job.
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by __blockcipher__ 6y ago
Elastic doesn't need to make more money than Amazon. They just need to be able to make enough to have a healthy business, and so far they've achieved that. $500MM yearly revenue with 40+% growth is nothing to scoff at. It really s

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