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Why would you assume total travel is constrained? Restricting travel from Europe to US will just eliminate that portion of travel, not concentrate it in the US.

Right and it wasn't the president's decision. Not sure what your point is.

Life Care Center in Washington had 120 residents a week ago. Now 19 of them are dead.[1] Does that sound like "just the flu?" There's plenty of evidence that this is much worse tha…

Nobody cares what you were thinking about. This whole thread is based on the author's decision to insert a push for single-payer healthcare into an article about the outbreak. And …

“Improving health care” != “single-payer system now!”

Obviously, the best health policies are debatable. Saying “our system isn’t prepared for this, therefore we need single-payer!” is moronic and insulting to the reader’s intelligenc…

According to that, we should be just about out of antimony by now. Yet somehow the market for drugs and batteries still seems to be humming along. 2/10 fear porn.

Buying people off isn’t a result of capitalism, it’s always going to be a problem because of fundamental human incentives. Any system will fail if it’s administrators are corrupt a…

Thank you for putting this issue to rest. Now that you’ve emphatically declared your personal speculation to be true, I’m sure everyone else will stop with all their silly speculat…

How is it a problem that women are looking at the biological realities and choosing motherhood over a 9-5 job? Most people were originally sold on the “problem” being the supposed …

They’re playing the corruption game with politicians, but the rank and file of both sides hate them. That’s a much riskier situation than a big company wants to be in. The amazing …

On the other hand, I have family members who have been radicalized into crazy conspiracy people who think white men are the root of all evil (can’t remember the direct quote but it…

It’s also an old article, and the unemployment rate has since dropped to new lows. [1] 1: https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet

I’d also argue that, on average, the negative impact of an opioid-related death is greater than that of a smoking-related death. The latter tends to manifest as chronic health issu…

He didn’t say it’s irrelevant, he said it’s secondary. And he didn’t argue that the overall thesis of the article is incorrect, he argued that it did a bad job of addressing the to…

I think the heterogeneity of empires is a contributing factor to their eventual dissolution though. They tend to last a century or two at their height, and then start to break apar…

It’s all well and good to encourage understanding and whatnot, but the question is what actually works in reality on a societal level. It might sound nice to say “a strong economic…

Business model has nothing to with anti-competitive behavior, it’s about being in the same industry / providing the same service.

He also never intended to be public about it, he kept his memo internal and posted it in a place that was soliciting feedback on the topic. It only became public when one of the ac…

Being a Muslim can serve as a useful heuristic for “likely to be a suicide bomber.” The current zeitgeist of Islamic violence and stochastic terrorism that revels in extreme verses…

Literally the only evidence presented was a polite call for discussion, and a picture of the guy wearing a MAGA hat. Then the org directly responded, saying they reviewed the evide…

It’s just a confusion between two different valid definitions of the word public , not some indication of the state of the culture. Public/private can refer to government vs commer…

Still, the car’s seeming confusion doesn’t inspire confidence in the readiness of this feature.

By “public space,” I meant the predominant avenues for public discourse (maybe not the best choice of words). Mainstream media, tech platforms, and universities are the specific th…

Progressives of the past were all about the principle of free speech. Now that they have the power to control the public space, all they seem to care about are the technicalities o…