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by native_samples 4y ago
Trusting data only makes sense if it's trustworthy. This data isn't for all sorts of reasons. The lack of concordance with observable reality is only one of those reasons.
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by native_samples 4y ago
This year's COVID waves are quite harmless also to unvaccinated people. It's because Omicron is less dangerous, not because of vaccination, but of course public health authorities will ignore this and claim victory. What else can
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by native_samples 4y ago
That's not at all clear. Amongst people me and my girlfriend know it's the opposite. The effects of the vaccines were worse than that of COVID, both in terms of frequency and severity. Actually the focus on my heart problems is we
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by native_samples 4y ago
"Please including at least a few sentences that precisely describe the differences in the structure and chemistry of what you call the "Wuhan 2019 spike" compared to the Omicron spike protein." Huh, OK. Odd question th
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by native_samples 4y ago
That's like saying: Medical drugs have been in use for hundreds of years. Fearing experimental drugs isn't rational. Or Doctors have been doing surgery for hundreds of years. Fear of surgery isn't rational. There are at least
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by native_samples 4y ago
All of them are deaths. Total reports in VAERS of all problems including injuries is in the millions (for COVID vaccines). Meanwhile the underreporting rate is enormous, usually estimated at two orders of magnitude based on pre COVID compar
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by native_samples 4y ago
You really don't know that at all. Public health makes claims like that, but they distort data and lie with wild abandon, nothing they say can be taken at face value. Even if it were true, exchanging hundreds of thousands of deaths for
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by native_samples 4y ago
Healthy well reasoned skepticism is exactly what leads to "anti-(COVID)-vax sentiment", because the data is not good. If you doubt that, just browse this thread with showdead turned on. The people pointing out that the vaccines co
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by native_samples 4y ago
Sadly there is lots of evidence that vaccines can kill people. Obviously, there's the primary reports from people saying "the vaccine killed someone I know" and the medical experts denying everything, e.g this 29 year old man
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by native_samples 4y ago
Vaccines are by far the most likely cause. Consider this graph of people claiming disability benefits in the USA vs the vaccine rollout: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_... Note that it
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by native_samples 4y ago
Residential solar is very different to regular solar though. Grids weren't designed to aggregate lots of tiny feeds from people's houses, and it makes sense not to over-build that ahead of demand because in many cases the maths
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by native_samples 4y ago
Although that's true, I found in the past that a pure queues/actors based approach didn't work well for some kinds of app. I had to introduce locks again and ended up with a hybrid solution. The problem was that the app had a
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by native_samples 4y ago
Middle ground certainly exists and has done for decades already. MacOS X has shipped with a very capable PKI GUI for a long time. It's obscure and not well known, but: 1. Start the Keychain App and you can manage your certs and keys. 2
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by native_samples 4y ago
The obvious one would be to fine Apple until they implement Android-style mechanisms for openness. As pointed out above, although they're being lumped together, Android is leagues more open than iOS. Does it even make sense to talk abo
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by native_samples 4y ago
The referendum was set up that way specifically because Cameron felt he couldn't lose such an "extreme" choice, and then when people voted for less EU - as they always do in every country - the question would be sufficiently
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by native_samples 4y ago
That was investigated at the time, it appeared to be mostly children searching for what their parents were talking about. The idea that only ignorant people could vote against the EU is a popular meme amongst Remainers but actual polls have
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by native_samples 4y ago
The masses were indeed lied to a lot during the referendum campaign, but it was primarily by the Remain side: - Osborne: We will impose massive emergency taxes if you are naughty enough to vote leave (a lie). - Cameron: I will definitely no
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by native_samples 4y ago
Damore was cancelled and a woke NLRB lawyer making things up to ensure his cancellation stuck doesn't mean anything beyond the NLRB being just one more corrupted organization on top of so many others. Obviously, if you think Damore i
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by native_samples 4y ago
Not that theoretical. Scottish independence is a template for how you'd approach it without military conflict. The issue there being that despite voting for an independence party for decades they don't actually seem to want it and
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by native_samples 4y ago
Er, incompatible highway systems aren't really a thing even across borders. At most there are border checkpoints but it's not like the roads themselves can't be joined together. The lone exception is islands like the UK where
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by native_samples 4y ago
Having been to a French hospital and having been shocked by what I saw there, I wouldn't assume that more spending automatically equals more services.
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by native_samples 4y ago
Texas is enormous. If they switched to their own currency it'd be doing fine. This "clout" and "superpower" nonsense was talked up big time by Remainers in the UK too. Guess what - post leaving nothing is observably
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by native_samples 4y ago
Italy's GDP stopped growing when they joined the Euro.
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by native_samples 4y ago
Presumably the people who voted for the recall believe he's guilty of all three of those. Certainly, a prosecutor who refuses to prosecute criminals could be described as engaging in profound incompetence. It's hard to get worse a
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by native_samples 4y ago
Bolshevism/communism was or is a worldview that divides the population into oppressors and the oppressed. There's no middle ground or nuance allowed in this concept - everyone is in one of those two camps. The modern variant is th
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by native_samples 4y ago
A young person could simply argue that requiring prior experience is a form of age discrimination no different to saying "We are looking to hire someone to run a project, no usage of obsolete methods allowed" and then not defining
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by native_samples 4y ago
> By that logic, you shouldnt hire women, since they may get pregnant and take extensive leave on your company’s dime Although you're presenting this as obviously absurd, taking that risk into account was long practice wasn't i
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by native_samples 4y ago
No, it really is very rare. This isn't some local perspective issue, this is a virus with an IFR of less than 0.1% and by no means everyone caught COVID, many never did. Again - if it were actually not rare, there would have been suffi
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by native_samples 4y ago
This was around for a long time in the form of SSL client certs, but that never took off for all sorts of reasons. Presumably Apple nailed the UX problems but the general issue of how to back up your keys, get back access if you lose them,
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by native_samples 4y ago
It might be, but it's also possible that the larger body of context or knowledge is flawed in some way. Not so much the core physics of CO2 but the scalings of things. For instance some climatologists believe that natural cycles domi

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