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Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work(washingtonpost.com)
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US Navy set off a 40k-pound explosive to test its new supercarrier(businessinsider.com)
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American Airlines cancels hundreds of flights amid staffing, maintenance issues(yahoo.com)
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Inflation Disproportionately Hurts the Poor(wsj.com)
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The housing market is on fire. The Fed keeps adding gasoline(cnn.com)
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Decadence and Andreessen's Dilemma(douthat.substack.com)
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The Censored: Bret Weinstein(taibbi.substack.com)
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by throwkeep 5y ago
There are valid concerns and a difficult risk benefit analysis for some cohorts, I think. What are your thoughts on this? Put yourself in her shoes: "I held off on a COVID vaccine because I wanted to wait for data with positive signals
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by throwkeep 5y ago
I think a better solution is funding students instead of systems. Give everyone the ability to opt out of broken systems, force all schools to compete for students.
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Ok, but let's not get confused. This is different than being an anti-vaxxer. You can speak up for something like Ivermectin AND be a pro-vaxxer. The most prominent voice on this is Bret Weinstein (biology PhD), who is more vaccinated t
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by throwkeep 5y ago
> Many people pushing Ivermectin have a vested interest in proving the vaccines are unnecessary. What is their vested interest in a generic, cheap, decades old, off patent drug? Vested interests tend to be in new, patented treatments. Th
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Speaking of cult like, what is this thing with calling people who are on firmly on the left, like Bret Weinstein and Joe Rogan, alt-right?
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by throwkeep 5y ago
> If Ivermectin worked on COVID-19, the manufacturer of Ivermectin that has made no money on vaccines for COVID-19 would probably be pushing it wouldn't they? No, because it's out of patent. There's little profit to be mad
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by throwkeep 5y ago
> "The problem with #Crypto, as in most things, is the leverage," he tweeted. "If you don't know how much leverage is in crypto, you don't know anything about crypto." Wasn't a lot this knocked out when
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“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning controversial books”(twitter.com)
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How California's new digital vaccine 'verification system' works(sfgate.com)
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by throwkeep 5y ago
It’s insane these are a thing. I didn’t know about them until the recent Paris Hilton documentary. She was sent to something similar and if I recall correctly was taken in the middle of the night, as though being kidnapped.
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by throwkeep 5y ago
> “They’d been asleep long enough that the house had already gotten to 78 degrees,” English said. “So they woke up sweating.” This is silly. 78 degrees is not that bad and it’s literally what the Department of Energy recommends setting y
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by throwkeep 5y ago
PG has an essay on that, submarine articles: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Isn't that a tautology? They aren't 24/7 sources and we don't have the battery technology to power modern industrial society. In addition to renewables we need nuclear energy; a constant source of safe(1) clean power, co
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Not sure if sarcastic. Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are all heavily engaging in censorship. For example, they banned people last year for talking about the lab leak hypothesis, which is now acceptably mainstream(1). They are currently cens
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RCT: A 5-day course of Ivermectin was found to be safe and effective(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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A Pill to Treat Covid-19? The U.S. Is Betting on It(nytimes.com)
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Lumber Prices Are Falling Fast, Turning Hoarders into Sellers(wsj.com)
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The backlash against In the Heights, explained(vox.com)
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by throwkeep 5y ago
Please let us plebs invest in Stripe already!
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The Nightmare That Is a Reality(wethescreamers.com)
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by throwkeep 5y ago
“The role of BlackRock alumni in the Biden administration is the latest chapter in a decadelong rise in both Washington and on Wall Street. BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world with $7.8 trillion under management as of Septem
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Federal Reserve Now Projects Rate Increases in 2023 as Economy Heals(nytimes.com)
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by throwkeep 5y ago
He talks about his investment in Coca-Cola all the time, and is often drinking coke during his interviews and shareholder updates. He's pretty upfront about it.

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