rweir

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by rweir 3y ago
very cool - looking forward to seeing the rest.
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by rweir 6y ago
nope, obviously that's a continuum but it's been found to be much further towards the airborne end than was originally generally thought: [here]( https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS
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by rweir 6y ago
very serious, during the day and evening, between zone 1 and eastern zone 2, I see extremely high compliance. it appears to vary enormously by area, which is very surprising to me.
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by rweir 6y ago
> covid has kept him fairly serious. no it hasn't, it's kept him doing what he always does, wandering from tactical decision to tactical decision. the March lockdown only happened when public pressure became unbearable, he all
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by rweir 6y ago
yes, obviously things mutate, but all your other information in this comment is out of date - the current information is the strain they're talking about is 70% more infectious.
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by rweir 6y ago
No other western country has actually been willing to do what NZ or Australia did - strict contact tracing, strict lockdowns, and a near-complete ban on entering the country, with those that do being picked up the police or military at thei
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by rweir 6y ago
> Compliance with mask wearing on TFL is less than 50% where? my counter-anecdote is I've taken to counting everyone on the carriage I'm on (between zone 2 and 1), and it's never more than 2-3 people without a mask, somet
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by rweir 6y ago
Just the US value from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... vs #2 (Switzerland) is $US800 000 000 000 for all US residents in extra spending.
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by rweir 6y ago
people getting their groceries locally instead of driving in to the centre of a city is a good outcome, though perhaps not for all of the inner city supermarkets. I am deeply unconvinced this is a broader problem - e.g. Regent St or Oxford
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by rweir 6y ago
> This is true but complex. It depends on the type of service you receive. I feel this is never adequately priced into these discussions. everything about healthcare in the US is expensive and complicated, even if you "have insur
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by rweir 6y ago
saved you a search: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/15/statista-how-far-behind-us-i... . includes this depressing factoid, "American workers took an average of just over 17 days of vacation in 2017, the hi
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by rweir 6y ago
this may be the most depressing post in the whole thread - healthcare is fucked, insurance is too expensive for normal people, but hey, bankruptcy is pretty easy!
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by rweir 6y ago
I disagree, a combination of cost of health care even for insured people, enormous worst case out of pocket costs and terrible wages means that people are conditioned to not go to the doctor (and conversely that some people are conditioned
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by rweir 6y ago
this is a common pattern I see in discussions, the idea of "going to the hospital and not worrying about bankruptcy" is just unintelligible and so you end up with discussions like this, about how "pregnancy-related-costs are
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by rweir 6y ago
I don't understand your point? Nuclear testing occurred in Australia but not by Australia.
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by rweir 6y ago
Australia doesn't have nukes because they don't want them, not because the US told them not to or promised to use them on it's behalf. it's so historically uninterested that it doesn't even have a nuclear power ind
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by rweir 6y ago
facebook and twitter have also been uncritically spreading false rumours from trump and only in the past couple of months have done anything to arrest the swirling hive of insanity/bad faith/malicious interference that is qano
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by rweir 6y ago
if it was me, I'd skip straight to Qi-only just to avoid the amount of whinging they would have to endure (here would be among the worst) about "omg another cable change!!11" for their...second cable change in two decades.
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by rweir 6y ago
it's already a weird USA-specific question, even in Australia, world leader in rich-country-shitty-internet, it's not an expensive addon.
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by rweir 6y ago
they got rid of stupid puzzles at least.
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by rweir 6y ago
why do any police forces get military hardware at all? it seems mad to take an already over-armed group and then give them APCs and even more guns.
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by rweir 6y ago
blimey that's some niche spam!
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by rweir 6y ago
London was under lockdown until June, everyone is already acting like it will be locked down again in the next week or so, and has had strict mask and hygiene and social distancing rules for six months, had a government direction for everyo
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by rweir 6y ago
the US hasn't even been able to match the measures[0] Sweden put in place, though? there's still thousands of people showing up with no masks to breath on each other at rallies etc [0]: https://www.newscientist.com&#x2
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by rweir 6y ago
uh because presumably if you ask people if they want safe water, they say yes, and yet ... if Flint isn't an indictment of US democracy, what would be?
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by rweir 6y ago
Could we all just wait until there's a (reviewed) paper in Nature or something?
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by rweir 6y ago
It seems very unlikely they'll be able to resist burning it, though.
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by rweir 9y ago
It shouldn't have been a vote without an actual /plan/. "Would you like to 1) no change or 2) SUMMARY OF A DETAILED PLAN INCLUDING E.G. WHETHER THE U.K. REMAINS IN THE SINGLE MARKET OR THE CUSTOMS UNION OR HAS A HARD 19
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by rweir 9y ago
yes
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by rweir 10y ago
> Are there no provincial or city income taxes? no. there are "rates" paid to city/town for garbage collection, etc, but that would be on the order of $2000 more, for home owners only, for the nicest parts of cities.

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