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by gerbal 6y ago
This looks a lot like quackery. A miracle diet that will cure almost all ailments? Sounds too good to be true. The author encourages parents to disregard Physician advice in favor of a vaguely formulated diet advice and expensive supplement
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by gerbal 6y ago
You are correct, I've edited my comment to be appropriately hedged
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by gerbal 6y ago
It really depends on vaccination rates and the transmission rates of vaccinated people. Vaccines aren't going to reach mass distribution until February or March at the earliest. It's an open question just how much vaccination redu
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by gerbal 6y ago
> Yelp, GrubHub, Seamless Interesting choice of examples! Grubhub owns Seamless and bought Yelp's delivery service (formerly Eat24). Grubhub also owns AllMenus and MenuPages. So an individual restaurant has to compete with 5 differe
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by gerbal 6y ago
The op-ed pages have always been longform twitter, not journalism. The journalism and op-ed sides are different departments with no influence over the other.
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by gerbal 6y ago
The container was filed with Nitrogen, so no pesky Oxygen corroding everything.
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Erlang OTP 21.2(erlang.org)
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by gerbal 6y ago
I took a watch. Honestly, it's lazy and dumb. The siloing of modern social-media justifies the behavior of Cernovic and his ilk? There is genuine propaganda being actively promoted by malign actors in our media ecosystem, but Cernovic
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by gerbal 6y ago
So what is reliable media? What can be trusted? Who do you trust? > We've never had a media that's more blatantly bias and unreliable than the one we have right now. Can you provide a citation or evidence of this claim?
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by gerbal 6y ago
> I want the truth. That's something all US media is failing to give us right now. What truth is this you are so deprived of? I presume you have some "real" source of truth that's more reliable than media that fact-ch
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by gerbal 6y ago
It sounds a lot like you are deliberately seeking bias-confirming right wing propaganda!
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by gerbal 6y ago
Right wing propagandists flooded twitter and reddit with deceptive edits, frame grabs, and narratives. I expect there are now multiple retaliatory take down campaigns by multiple groups and bot networks to try to preserve only videos that s
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by gerbal 6y ago
unmoderated forums tend to drive off anyone but those holding the most extreme and toxic views.
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by gerbal 6y ago
How is this product "Zoom for Developers"? What makes GitDuck like a video conferencing platform which supports 100+ concurrent users? To me "Zoom for x" implies video calling as a primary feature.
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by gerbal 6y ago
The TVA is government owned, but self funded. Apparently it's turned a healthy profit since the 70s.
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by gerbal 6y ago
This is off the AP Newswire, here's the AP original with a bit more detail: https://apnews.com/0336437987fec77627c17ca9a4c781bc
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by gerbal 6y ago
This is also common for most credit card processors. But keeping 3% is very different from 30%
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by gerbal 6y ago
The full text of the paper is available on ResearchGate[1] or paywalled from the publisher [2] [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342022024_Conservat... [2] https://www.nature.com/articles&#x2
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by gerbal 6y ago
> In many ways, it's even worse for the environment than just burning the oil directly. This seems like a testable claim. Is there research about this subject that could confirm or debunk this claim?
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by gerbal 6y ago
It depends on the region, the age of the school, the wealth and demographics of the community. The poorer the area, its more likely the schools are overcrowded concrete boxes built in the 60s-80s. US Schooling is very inconsistent and varie
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by gerbal 6y ago
> There's no measure that will be realistically implemented in the next month that would cut R in half Universal masking can cut R substantially, but it requires high levels of compliance [1] [1] https://royalsocietypubli
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by gerbal 6y ago
Do various sorts of batteries (gravity, fly-wheels, LiON) provide reasonable alternatives for some base load and peak generation?
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by gerbal 6y ago
With those assumptions, it seems fair to state that, given enough time, any sufficiently large group of humans will commit an atrocity against an internal or external minority. Shouldn't then societies try to structure themselves again
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by gerbal 6y ago
> > One of the challenges of doing that nowadays is we have a president who thinks cultural genocide of Uighur muslims is 'absolutely the right thing to do' and that Tienanmen square massacre was also the right thing to do.
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by gerbal 6y ago
> The rumors are the spark that I mentioned. The long-existing anti-semitism is the wood pile that is ready to be set ablaze. Which arrives at the question, how does anti-semitism propagate through societies? It doesn't spring from
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by gerbal 6y ago
The assertion in that article is that all BLM activists and the whole movement are black separatist and racists because a "media commentator" taunted Tucker Carlson? That article also does not mention that she lost her job as a re
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by gerbal 6y ago
> You don't have pogroms without previous animosity. Somebody saying something might spark the fire, but the wood has been there all along, soaked in gasoline. That presumes the victimized communities have done anything to warrant
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by gerbal 6y ago
That's not true at all. This sounds a lot like the random anti BLM propaganda you see on facebook. The core tenants of BLM are that CURRENTLY black communities are policed in a radically different way than white communities. BLM ac
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by gerbal 6y ago
Hate crimes spring to mind. People tell lies about minority groups, give themselves permission structures to justify violence, and vigilantes take it upon themselves to "fix" the problem with violence. A lot of people have been mu
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by gerbal 6y ago
Postgres can be used as an effective event centric database and pub/sub queue with NOTIFY and LISTEN

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