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Why was the US removed from the Johns Hopkins CORVID-19 map?(coronavirus.jhu.edu)
7 points by gitrog 6y ago|3 comments
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by gitrog 6y ago
> Pragmatically one could argue that economically and socially it would be fairer to just let people who contract COVID die. But politics intervenes and forbids that. Really? And what if two thirds of the world contracted it and ~3% of
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by gitrog 6y ago
I'm not sure why you're calling the author's character into question here...
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by gitrog 6y ago
This is such an outrageous thing to say. Do yourself a favour and go read the paper: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s... Researchers go and model data, making every caveat imagina
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by gitrog 6y ago
I'm not sure why shutdown prevents routine patients though? At least, in my country anyone needing to go see a doctor is exempt from the lockdown.
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by gitrog 6y ago
Again, no one is making Bill Gates overlord. But he has actual data and experience backing up his side of the debate. What exactly do you have? Where are these sources that offer insight into the economic ramifications of keeping an econ
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by gitrog 6y ago
Where did he argue that Bill Gates has never made a bad judgment call? You still have zero evidence for your take on this, no matter how practical it may seem. You are going on your intuition and common sense on how to solve this crisis f
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Ask HN: What can a developer/engineer do to help in the fight against Covid-19?
1 points by gitrog 6y ago|1 comments
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by gitrog 7y ago
> There's no such thing as hate speech. There most certainly is, you just don't like any of the definitions of it. You're also confusing dealing with personal psychological problems and causing duress to another person bas
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by gitrog 7y ago
> Humans can't survive without property in nature This is a loaded statement. Humans can absolutely survive without property, they did so for hundreds of thousands of years before the concept of property was defined. What is speech
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by gitrog 7y ago
You haven't demonstrated why theft is bad for society though? If Robin Hood steals from the rich to give to the poor, is that bad for society simply by virtue of theft being seen as generally wrong? You really can't see how hate
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by gitrog 7y ago
You're basically criticising leftists for pointing out how power structures in the world are abused and phrasing it as somehow being maternal and therefor... questionable? Or is your problem only with the causal chain? Which leftist c
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by gitrog 7y ago
This seems like a ridiculous oversimplification for finding good alternative forms of government. A small community of people could come up with the greatest governmental system we could ever dream of, but if the leaders of the current syst
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by gitrog 7y ago
I'd suggest you read and/or watch a little more of Chomsky before making the claim that he doesn't call out governments.
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by gitrog 7y ago
That may be the official policy, but I think you only have to glance at the US to see that it doesn't always act on this. Of course, at some scale, government would be forced to act, but there is a lot of space in between where allowi
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by gitrog 7y ago
> The effect is most certainly not the same, the fact that we are able to carry on this conversation on an American news site is evidence of that. I believe this study is stating exactly that we could carry on this conversation, up to th
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by gitrog 7y ago
For the record, I posted this specifically because I feel that it provides a clearer picture of what censorship in China really is like, as opposed to the cartoonishly evil portrayal that most of Western media paints it in. Although I don&#
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Censorship in China Allows Govt Criticism but Silences Collective Expression [pdf](dash.harvard.edu)
73 points by gitrog 7y ago|54 comments
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by gitrog 7y ago
Politicians stealing money isn't solely an African phenomenon, and in many "first world" countries the lower and middle classes suffer due to lobbying which politicians can use to enrich themselves and their cronies.
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by gitrog 7y ago
Elon Musk does manage to make time to write a bunch of drivel on Twitter from time to time though.