covidthrow

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by covidthrow 5y ago
Based on 2020, about $45,000 profit per minute.
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by covidthrow 5y ago
That's not even close to what happened. The administration left it alone for days saying they'll let private business sort it out. (Default investigation notwithstanding.) When a bunch of news media started reporting the group was
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by covidthrow 5y ago
Which is kind of silly, because apple varieties demonstrate that people are willing to pay a premium for strains with good taste/texture. With the exception of selling to industrial food makers, it seems perhaps that marketing—or lack
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by covidthrow 5y ago
For me, the effect is less (or possibly just less noticable) after a few weeks. But some coffee or tea gets me going pretty quickly and the effects wear off. I've always been a slow morning person, so 30-60 minutes to start feeling nor
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by covidthrow 5y ago
The key is to hunt for commercial-grade appliances. In some cases, they can be found and offer similar form factors to consumer devices, and in others you may be out of luck. Commercial kitchen appliances, washers/dryers, and flat pane
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by covidthrow 5y ago
I can't reasonably assert that one should or shouldn't. I just answered parent's apparently rhetorical question, "Who gets hurt if I wear a mask?" Their assumption is, "Nobody," but the truth aligns more c
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by covidthrow 5y ago
The CDC has no authority regarding the masking of either vaccinated or unvaccinated people. Its guidelines may influence state response, but they do not supercede or even augment them. Yet they have been treated as supreme authority by many
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by covidthrow 5y ago
Nobody, directly. Who gets hurt if social structure is affected by the apparent identity of masking? There are plenty of instances of catastrophic social division due to physical differences. I think your choice should be your own, and base
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by covidthrow 5y ago
You're being downvoted, but it's abundantly clear that at least some view masking as a moral or intellectual signal, and this "othering" is certain to have some impact, either personally or socially. Furthermore, just
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by covidthrow 5y ago
I can't judge your cynicism, but I can say it's quite suspect that media outlets—apparently—behaved as the mouthpiece of the state: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27145446
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by covidthrow 5y ago
Thank you for noticing this. This is a media blitz, and one may wonder why there are prepared, published stories about CDC guidance that hadn't yet even been published. I'm sure there are many rational reasons for this. One, indee
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by covidthrow 5y ago
Perhaps, but what I've witnessed: (in the broadest strokes of unspecificity) Rural: "I don't like what the city folk are doing. They should change." Urban: "I don't like what the country folks are doing. This i
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by covidthrow 5y ago
Plaintext transport doesn't matter if at least one part of the payload chain is cryptographically protected/verified. If you have a machine that's air-gapped and its only IO is strictly humans (read: keyboard/screen,
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by covidthrow 5y ago
I fear that you're being downvoted for pointing out the even bigger threat of our national media's exceedingly more dangerous acts of propaganda, presumably because readers either don't recognize it or are wilfully blind to i
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by covidthrow 5y ago
McDonald's used to fry their fries in a 93% tallow oil blend until they stopped in 1990 because of hysteria over cholesterol in beef fat. Guess nobody considered the patties were still chock full of (much more) beef fat, but oh well. (
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by covidthrow 5y ago
I don't think this is a "gotcha". I asked for a threshold, accepting that there are varying costs and benefits. I think that your justification is lacking, however. As though there are no positive externalities for suburban l
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by covidthrow 5y ago
Sure: - suburban areas largely "subsidize" the cost of education, which far exceeds the cost of roads and utility infrastructure subsidized by the cities. The quality of schools in suburban areas is also largely higher than in c
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by covidthrow 5y ago
When you stop subsidizing suburbs, will you also stop subsidizing the flyover states? How about the impoverished? Medicare for unhealthy people? Education? Fire departments? Like, what is your "I don't care for subsidies" thr
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by covidthrow 5y ago
These here city folk don't much care for our kind. Nevermind the shirk for the value of diversity—both geographically and functionally—they've optimized the life out of life and gosh darn it, so can you. Sure, subsidize things the
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by covidthrow 5y ago
Thank you for clarifying the value of the study.
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by covidthrow 5y ago
I responded to the correct comment: the one that effectively said, "if you don't like it you can leave," in response to their parent comment that suggested they're not enthused to be asked to pay more taxes while we have
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by covidthrow 5y ago
It doesn't have to be incomprehensible. Just diggable. Click through to finer and finer granularity. Searchable. It's just ("just") a data vis problem. I'd work on it but too busy. Maybe for the future. Could be fun
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by covidthrow 5y ago
Less than 15% goes to roads, schools, and (I assume you refer to when you sardonically say "killing people domestically) law enforcement. You appear to have a high view of government spending, and that also seems to be because you&#x27
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by covidthrow 5y ago
I think they're being downvoted, in part, because a lot of people here either assume it is being spent well, or justify it as a necessary evil. What might be valuable would be for someone to whip up an app that allows you to input th
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by covidthrow 5y ago
I can understand your perspective, but that's only held up if one subscribes to the (erroneous and misunderstood/misused version of) Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance: > A tolerant society should be tolerant by default, &
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by covidthrow 5y ago
I agree with this characterization. I have an extensive analysis of how I came to the same conclusion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603166
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by covidthrow 5y ago
I don't. I haven't really found any, and this is the conclusion of my own observations over the last year. Prior to lockdowns and work from home, I didn't pay much attention. Once I was forced to stay inside, I tuned in a lot
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by covidthrow 5y ago
Not really, if you consider the source of these beliefs. One group got their perspective from the cultural monopoly in media and academia. Another group got their perspective from mainstream conservative media. Another group got their persp
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by covidthrow 6y ago
In my (limited) experience, mistakes among LEAs is more along the lines of they have data that doesn't match a real person. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but getting people mixed up isn't something that I've see
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by covidthrow 6y ago
FWIW, I used to work for a background check company and they operated exceedingly ethically. If there was a hit, for example, they would reach out to the given agencies and confirm that it was actually that exact person before reporti

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