collias

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by collias 6mo ago
Can you expound on this? First I'm hearing of it, and I can't find anything about former CIA helping to organize.
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by collias 7mo ago
Taxing the rich is not going to solve any of this. It may help some, but it's nothing like the panacea certain people pretend it is. If we took all the assets from all the billionaires in the US, that total is something like $6-7 trill
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by collias 11mo ago
I'm totally on board with a gaming-focused distro from Valve. I'll switch the second they get proper Nvidia GPU support. So far, no luck with that.
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by collias 1y ago
But water doesn't make me as happy.
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by collias 1y ago
Logic Pro does this. Even GarageBand (free if you have an Apple device) has pretty decent AI drummers.
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by collias 1y ago
I find this to be profoundly depressing. I've just recently re-discovered the joy of writing my own songs, and playing them with (actual) instruments. It's something I get immense pleasure from, and for once, I'm actually get
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by collias 2y ago
Econ 101. If an employer can pay someone less to do the same job, they will. https://www.epi.org/press/a-majority-of-migrant-workers-empl...
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by collias 2y ago
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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by collias 2y ago
Why not both?
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by collias 3y ago
Stunningly beautiful write up, Lars. You have an amazing gift. God bless you and your family.
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by collias 3y ago
To be fair, I'm not sure choosing electric over gasoline cars at that time would have much effect on our current climate situation, assuming equal timelines for renewable tech. All those cars would have needed electricity from somewher
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by collias 4y ago
The more worrying thing here is the "circulate" part. Meaning that the lipid packages containing the mRNA sequences are traveling throughout the body, instead of staying at the injection site.
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by collias 4y ago
To add to this, there has been evidence that the spike proteins created by the mRNA sequences stay around in the body longer than expected. CDC has now implicitly admitted this. CDC snapshot July 22: https://web.archive.org/
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by collias 4y ago
How are they getting these cars? They only offer Teslas, and ordering a (new) Tesla right now puts you at least 6 months out from delivery.
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by collias 4y ago
Repairability is certainly something that could be improved, and extending the life of your machine is great for the environment. However, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a machine with a better power-performance curve than the M
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by collias 4y ago
Those two things are not mutually exclusive, and likely go hand-in-hand.
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by collias 4y ago
Western Europe definitely gets the better end of the deal on the Gulf Stream. Places like Spain and France get the pleasant end of the stream that brings slightly warmer weather than they otherwise would have given the latitude. Meanwhile,
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by collias 4y ago
Give every home owner 30-year locked interest rate mortgages at <3%, then immediately raise the rates again, and no one wants to sell...ever. It makes no financial sense to sell a property locked into such a low interest rate while rates
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by collias 5y ago
Reminder that many European countries do not suggest the vaccine for children, and some have even banned it in the case of Moderna.
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by collias 5y ago
Covid-19 vaccines don't prevent infection, and it is impossible to achieve herd immunity with them. These are facts, and they are relevant to the comment I was originally replying on.
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by collias 5y ago
I wasn't implying that Covid is harmless, only that vaccinating children against it should be a choice given the data on risks/benefits we currently have.
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by collias 5y ago
It's a neutral point. Neither the vaccine or the virus have been around long enough for long-term data.
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by collias 5y ago
Data from other countries with a >90% vaccinated rate for Covid would suggest otherwise. Take a look at Israel or Ireland in the past few months, for example. Israel is currently debating whether or not a 5th booster will be enough as th
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by collias 5y ago
You're right, no vaccine is 100% effective. But there are vaccines that are more than ~75% effective at preventing infection, which is the number that Fauci kept mentioning when this all started.
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by collias 5y ago
Sure, here's some research: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm As of last week, a total of 727 children 0-17 have died from Covid since the pandemic started, and that's i
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by collias 5y ago
Herd immunity only applies if the vaccine is sterilizing and prevents infection. The Covid vaccines do not, so herd immunity is impossible with them.
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by collias 5y ago
Those vaccines are actually sterilizing/neutralizing, preventing infection for diseases that are significantly harmful for children. The Covid-19 vaccines famously are not sterilizing, and Covid-19 itself does not pose any sort of sign
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by collias 5y ago
The very conflict this article is about gave birth the the Red Cross.
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by collias 5y ago
I'd definitely consider 50% efficacy against the most prevalent variant (by far) after 10 weeks to be "waning". That might change if we ever get a booster targeted toward Omicron specifically, but we don't have one, and
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by collias 5y ago
I agree with you that the risk/reward matrix varies greatly per individual; there are many like you who have had similar reactions. I was just wondering what data your "3 is important" statement was based on. Why the first bo

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