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bjoyx

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    Comment #38456287

    It's Mastercard in Japan https://www.costco.co.jp/GlobalCard

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    Comment #30098014

    Have GMO advocates scientifically backed up their safety claims? The burden of proof lies on the side deploying self-replicating novel agents into the environment.

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    Comment #30019617

    Unscientific propaganda. The best scientific evidence we have suggests moderate consumption of alcohol protects the heart. From the Harvard School of Public Health: > More than 100…

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    Comment #27531255

    You are feeding a political movement that supports allowing a man, dishonest or not, to be jailed for protecting his sources, which will set a precedent that inhibits ALL genuine j…

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    Comment #27530864

    Source protection is when journalists (including heads of international organizations engaged in journalism) protect the sources of their information that enables said journalism. …

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    Comment #27530371

    You clearly out yourself as a disinformation agent by attempting to steer the conversation into character assassination, knowing full well this not about Assange the man but the le…

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    Comment #27443731

    False dichotomy. They could also show 3rd party timer and flight widgets in the search results.

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    Comment #22839717

    1. They should have stockpiled masks in advance of this epidemic 2. People can make their own masks at home

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    Comment #22831790

    If we can’t trust epidemiologists to protect us from an epidemic why should we trust radio wave scientists to protect us from radio waves?

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    Comment #22682710

    My point is that so-called "fact checking" here was incorrect. > Dr. Ho Pak-leung, a microbiologist and director of the Centre for Infection at the University of Hong Kong, describ…

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    Comment #22681187

    This was "fact checked" weeks ago as false (lol) https://factcheck.afp.com/novel-coronavirus-health-experts-w...

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    Comment #22159907

    Earlier measurements are likely to be biased downward: https://www.academia.edu/41743064/Systemic_Risk_of_Pandemic_...

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    Comment #22159343

    Higher than 2.0 "The mean estimate of R0 for the 2019-nCoV ranges from 3.30 (95%CI: 2.73-3.96) to 5.47 (95%CI: 4.16-7.10), and significantly larger than 1. Our findings indicate th…

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    Comment #15455716

    This link has a paywall with no way to get around it (clicking "web" and going through Google doesn't work)

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    Comment #14457076

    > Terrorism is closer to the threat posed by crush deaths from vending machines This is a fallacy. In the case of terrorism "past performance is not an indicator of future results"…

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    Comment #6426790

    Remember Minority Report? What happens when "big data" applied to the dragnet flags you as dangerous because of a false positive. Let's start by comparing patterns in the data of k…

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    Comment #6082649

    Translation: "I’m not making this speech because I want to moralise or scaremonger" -> "I’m making this speech because I want to moralise and scaremonger"

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    The Black Swan ...of Absence of Secrecy

    (Unlinkable note from http://fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm) Note 99 In the past, pre-Web days, people used to stash money in Switzerland. They felt safe --the last spot in th…