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Yeah, lie to the public for the greater good. If lying gets more people to wear masks and get vaccinated, and can prevent thousands of deaths, so be it. What's wrong with lying?

Your assumption is that everyone is just as rational as you. Scientific agencies should just give out the exact probability numbers and let people decide for themselves. That's not…

Do you know what else stops viruses from replicating in-vitro? Bleach, alcohol, baking soda, hydrochloric acid, probably even concentrated sugar and salt solutions. In-vitro result…

Lets not turn hackernews into a fake news dissemination service, and upvote some guy's unproven assertion just because you hate uber. With the millions of rides Uber makes, what ar…

I don't know why seemingly knowledgeable people like the author keep spewing bullshit about drivers losing money. I live in an immigrant community in NYC. Pretty much every other p…

The western greed might actually backfire. What are the chances that if we let the virus spread unchecked in the poorer countries for a few more years, the virus accumulates more m…

Let's not forget that Aleksandr Kogan - the guy who harvested the Cambridge Analytica data was a research associate at Cambridge. Can facebook trust all the researchers at NYU? Can…

Money is just one factor. I can think of tons of other factors - low interest rates, relatively rich city people moving from smaller apartments to houses to escape Covid, low suppl…

27.6% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. How much more data do you need to feel confident?

US has the worst of both worlds. It's very expensive and the wait times for specialist visit are not particularly fast. Forbes says it takes 24 days on average to set up an appoint…

This is a great 3 minute podcast about how US health insurance companies started a propaganda campaign to scare Americans about Canadian Health Insurance system - https://www.npr.o…

Lot of the anecdotes like yours probably stems from a deliberate propaganda campaign started by US Health Insurance companies. This is quick npr podcast about it- https://www.npr.o…

Lumber prices are already falling from the record high. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lumber-prices-post-biggest-ev...

Seems like a regular run-of-the-mill supply and demand mismatch. Once new mills are open, and existing mills start ratcheting up production, the prices will fall.

The Federalist Society ideals involve "checking federal power, protecting individual liberty and interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning". If they truly car…

Game theoretically, you want to be the hoarder. Let others spend and you reap the rewards of a deflationary asset. In effect, people will still try to hoard as much as possible, an…

This seems like an extreme case of cognitive dissonance. People who hold bitcoin (or are somehow vested in it) are trying really hard to rationalize the energy costs associated wit…

American universities attract the best students from all over the world. For example - at Tandon School of Engineering about 80 percent of graduate students hail from foreign count…

Did you actually read the article? Quoted directly from that article - "Unfortunately, there is no proof that alcohol actually causes better health".

yeah, just at the convenient time for Netanyahu to detract the press and the public from his corruption trial- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/world/middleeast/netanyah...

I am afraid that we might be on the verge of another dot com level bubble. It's interesting to see how one inflated asset is propping up another. Tesla - which rose by 1000% in 202…

I don't know if people have already forgotten, but it used to cost 5$ - 10$ per trade to buy stocks before robinhood came along. For better or worse, they made trading cheaper and …

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I don't think you can flash freeze leafy greens and still maintain the texture. Have you eaten flash frozen lettuce for salad?