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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Where did you get that absurd interpretation? They’re saying: a good IC gets fired by a bad manager. Later bad manager gets fired by their manager (we’ll call them good manager). Good manager then goes back and asks good IC if they want the
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Usually what is really meant by stress is a state of chronic sympathetic arousal / insufficient parasympathetic activation (I agree that people use the word vaguely and in a lot of different ways)
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Methylation is a metabolic chemical reaction your body does, facilitated by enzymes, that sticks a methyl group onto stuff. There’s different genetic mutations for more or less copies or less efficient copies of the relevant enzymes. The id
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> Even if prevalence per case is the same as flu; covid would still at least double the overall societal prevalence due to it being in addition to flu. This sounds true if you don’t think long and hard about it, but actually the mechanic
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Here's a good heuristic: if those same experts are ones that denied that inflation was a risk before it actually happened, you can take their opinion with a grain of salt. I saw many classical economist types denying that printing tril
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Calling them “neutral” is a mistake. At least from Putin’s perspective.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Or conversely, when you have a flappy monitoring system that constantly complains about non-problems and half-problems, it gets very hard to notice when an actually serious alert is firing.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
https://youtu.be/Vpwkdmwui3k?t=133 If Trump is Putin's puppet why did he publicly criticize Germany for being overly reliant on Russian pipelines for their energy needs?
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
The capacity for the company to pay a hypothetical dividend increases as the company generates more free cash flow. So that increases the value. You are hitting on a correct notion here though, which is that if the market totally went away
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> It's easier to fix issues and deploy new or experimental technologies in a period of easy money and customers flooding your doors than it is when you're skating by on thin margins. But this describes to me the "sell $1 f
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> "got natural immunity which is superior" is factually incorrect, at least to every statistical study done by national health orgs. Natural immunity of an unvaccinated person is superior to a vaccinated person without natural
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> At least 1000 workers of the Rideau Center are out of a job because the protestors kept trying to force their way into the shops without masks. Those workers are "out of a job" because of the very COVID policies that the truc
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
And the truckers and everyone else on their side feels that leaving the emergency powers in the hands of the government is unreasonable. Thus why the two respective sides are at an impasse.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Not the GP but it seems like for most people their line is a full end to all the COVID restrictions, not just the vax mandates. That sentiment was echoed in this podcast I listened to the other night: https://youtu.be/H-T_EG
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Alberta hasn’t fully lifted the restrictions, nor has Kenney taken the option of reinstating the restrictions off the table.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
It’s (imo very obvious) satire. It’s pointing at the implicit belief that one can solve the deep problems in one’s life through the process of time, through becoming more productive/efficient/etc. I think it’s an implicit belief s
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> is one claim I am not familiar with (usually I hear “psychologically addictive”, like any pleasurable activity), but maybe I am out of date on the latest research. That's because there is a lot of misinformation spread by stoner t
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Who here is arguing that private businesses can’t deplatform? I’m arguing that they shouldn’t , not that they can’t. I’m not going to bite on the ivermectin/ventilator stuff because it’s just completely absurd. BTW the way you used th
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Customers are always free to leave. Nobody is forcing someone to pay for spotify so your argument is absurd on its face.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Yeah as an example of the maga censorship they removed songs by Bryson Gray for anti-lgbtq themes I don’t care for his music myself but personally I don’t agree with censorship
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Agreed. Some people feel that the mass asymptomatic testing serves to give perpetual fodder for sensationalist media headlines, as well as justification for public officials to impose new rounds of lockdowns, etc. As such those people belie
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
As long as the current COVID protocols stay in place (people needing or feeling they need to get tested after every possible COVID exposure, testing young children any time they have a runny nose so they can go to daycare, etc), I doubt tha
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> There would need to be many more meetings and countless committees from groups of random people who all acclaim to hold some sort of power. That's a description of our statist status quo :)
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
(1) Hopefully part of raising your son to feel American involves instilling a sense of "Americanness" that is orthogonal to one's racial identity. And conversely, hopefully he could distinguish between "Chinese people in
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
This is an artifact of the refusal to admit that SARS-2 is an endemic respiratory virus. If you have to isolate whenever you encounter a possible COVID exposure, it will always be untenable to be able to actually function as a society. We n
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
How selfless of you to lockdown just to save those pesky anti-vaxxers. I’m sure destabilizing the global supply chain and continuing to worsen the epidemic of missed medical appointments, cancelled elective surgeries, et al will increase hu
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> In fact, whenever someone purchases or sells something, there are two objects being exchanged. One is a currency and the other being the object of sale. Supply and demand for the currency affects the price just as much as supply and de
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
The part you quoted doesn’t seem to address the output half of Friedman’s statement, repeated here for convenience: > can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Not sure if you saw it but another user pointed out that there's already a section in the guidelines about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29542871 > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing,
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Sorry for the false alarm. My spidey senses started tingling but I should have held back a bit. As you mentioned, I was flat-out wrong about the previews. Not sure if I scrolled straight past that section or what

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