devinhelton

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by devinhelton 7y ago
The test-kit that the CDC sent to local labs had a faulty reagent, so all test requests have to be sent back to the CDC.[0] Local labs could develop or purchase their own test kits, but during an a public health emergency, they must get FDA
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by devinhelton 7y ago
While publishing the negotiated prices for each procedure code would be interesting, I don't see how it would change much since it wouldn't necessarily be the price they would actually charge me, and it wouldn't help me know
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by devinhelton 7y ago
Every book taking a stance on a controversial subject is going to have those kinds of criticisms from the opposite side. It doesn't make those criticisms true. I don't endorse the book or her particular worldview 100% but I believ
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by devinhelton 7y ago
However tasty meat may be, it’s ethically and environmentally bad. I disagree entirely, but there is no need to relitigate this debate here. If by any chance you have never read the pro-meat argument, the book The Vegetarian Myth by Li
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by devinhelton 7y ago
It makes perfect sense: meat is expensive and difficult to work with, so low-cost chains like these have been serving really disgustingly low-quality meat for quite some time now; in some cases it could barely even be called meat. Consume
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by devinhelton 7y ago
On their ingredients page ( https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/hamburger.html ) it says that the patty consists of: "100% Beef Patty. Ingredients: 100% Pure USDA Inspected Beef; No Fillers, No Ex
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by devinhelton 7y ago
That is why McDonalds undergoes the painstaking process of sanitizing their meat with an ammonia wash (prompted by the 90's nationwide beef e-coli outbreaks that resulted in serious litigation against popular burger joints), then addi
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by devinhelton 7y ago
Super-star athletes aren't really good examples to learn from. They often have to do unhealthy and extreme things to their body in order to achieve absolute peak performance at one specific task. NFL linemen and sumo wrestlers are unhe
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by devinhelton 7y ago
and a low BMI (body-mass index) indeed (I'm around 18) A BMI that low is not a good thing. It is evidence against your diet being optimal. Mortality rates are actually higher when BMI is below 20 ( https://www.bmj.com/
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How Subscriptions Are Remaking Corporate America(barrons.com)
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by devinhelton 8y ago
So does the New York Times owe an apology and a correction for this article? "Sitting, it would seem, is an independent pathology. Being sedentary for nine hours a day at the office is bad for your health whether you go home and watch
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by devinhelton 8y ago
Anything that makes the user invest a bit in the reputation of their account before they are allowed to message strangers would do the trick. Charge $10 for signing up. Limit @-mentions until you have built up a small following and activity
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by devinhelton 8y ago
Existing laws we already operate under have much more severe maximum penalties than people realize, and judges are (relatively) reasonable at applying them correctly. I don't think the system is working well at all. We have a situati
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by devinhelton 8y ago
It seems what happened is that all the promising/useful areas of inquiry from ancient philosophy have since become their own fields. "Natural philosophy" became physics/biology/chemistry and so forth. Thus universit
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by devinhelton 8y ago
"The dollar represents a claim against the government." What does this even mean? A claim means that I can turn in the piece of paper and get something back. I can turn in my coat check claim paper and get my coat back. Under a go
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by devinhelton 8y ago
No, that is not how banks work. You are not holding actual legal tender, your bank account is a credit with that specific bank that the bank promises to pay back to you with legal tender on demand. But the bank has lent out that money and m
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by devinhelton 8y ago
Similar thing happened with the original US dollar. After the Revolutionary War, everyone thought that the paper currency issued by the Continental Congress was going to be worthless, so veterans sold their paper dollars for a fraction of f
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by devinhelton 8y ago
I think it could make sense for the US government to provide a way to hold existing dollars in digital form, directly with the government. So I could go to a bank (or specially designated federal institution), deposit cash, and have that ca
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by devinhelton 8y ago
> then there are a lot of people who can’t afford to pay. And therefore, as with a lot of media, having an advertising-supported model is the only rational model that can support building this service to reach people. Hmm, but ultimately
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by devinhelton 8y ago
but the quality of their journalism is generally superb. What's an example to you of an article on a hot-point issue where you think the quality of their journalism was superb? And how do you know the quality of their journalism in t
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by devinhelton 9y ago
"We work in partnership with governments who release people from jail on condition that they work with Promise as an alternative to being in custody. We also provide support to people under community supervision. We use an intake asses
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by devinhelton 9y ago
I've been maintaining a compilation of articles arguing both sides of this issue -- https://countersearch.net/counter-articles#header-women-in-t... (Articles saying tech has a sexism problem are on the left, articles
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by devinhelton 9y ago
"We really just need better public education" I agree 100% as long as you put me, or people of my worldview, in charge of the curriculum and personnel.
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by devinhelton 9y ago
What about someone who commits auto theft? Seems like isolation is actually overkill and more inhumane than other forms of punishment. 24/7 GPS monitoring should suffice to make sure he doesn't steal again. But you still need puni
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by devinhelton 9y ago
It's cheap to point out the problems of a system with making a case for something that might work better. Answer my question: What should be done about the 20 year old man who robs someone at gunpoint or drags a woman into an alley and
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by devinhelton 9y ago
I am all for teaching empathy. I am all for teaching people to behave well because it is the right thing to do (not because of fear of punishment). But -- some percent of the population are predatory, or have the potential to become predato
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by devinhelton 9y ago
But throughout the whole range of history, not only is there no evidence of the existence of a metallic standard of value to which the commercial monetary denomination, the “money of account” as it is usually called, corresponds, but there
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by devinhelton 9y ago
> Facebook uses all this data to show you ads for things you might want to buy. Wouldn't you rather see that than ads for things you don't want to buy? No, I prefer poorly targeted ads. Seeing ads for stuff I might want to buy
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by devinhelton 9y ago
"It's important I think to understand that the NLRB isn't saying that it's unlawful to write the Damore memo." Well, they did call what Damore wrote "sexual harassment" and "discriminatory", and
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by devinhelton 9y ago
I think the reason is that we associate driving with negative externalities (pollution, renewable resource usage, etc.) and so if the response to congestion pricing is that people drive less and seek alternative means (using public transpor

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