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+1 on this, folks with just enough experience to have strong, yet naive, opinions is the bane of my existence. It is almost akin to a religious discussion, whereas folks will back …

I have realized that a really good open world video game with lots of replay value has an amazing value. $60 at 200 hours of gameplay works out to $0.30/hour, which I am struggling…

So this is total anecdata but I have never been assaulted by someone that was stoned, and never seen someone become sexually aggressive or belligerent when stoned. I'm sure they ex…

Except for the fact that the Fed increasing the US money supply by 45% in 2 years was the cause of the inflation.

If only it was the UBI and not the Fed increasing the money supply by 45% in 2 years that caused the inflation.

It's not the checks that caused the inflation, it was the Fed increasing the money supply by 45% over 2 years.

I don't think it was the stimulus checks and unemployment benefits but the Fed increasing the US money supply by more than 45% in 2 years.

This is the real reason, why worry about people/orgs that don't have money? Plus, can you imagine blast radius of a bug in the system that could get a bad signal and shutdown your …

The real reason is us-east-1 was the first and by far the biggest region, the same reason that new services always launch there but other regions are are not necessarily required (…

I agree with your sentiment but some of the quotes in the article from internal Google memos look pretty damning. One of interest says their "Jedi" advertising program, which was m…

> In terms of time, these vaccines very much have not been fully vetted in the same manner as any other vaccine. This is a tired, out-dated argument, all 3 vaccines in distribution…

As many folks as we have dog piling onto "vax bad" train, there is no shortage of people with incentive to dig in here. The fact the vaccine has been fully vetted in the same manne…

Much more nuance that the original post, makes sense. I don't think you conveyed this in the original comment, which I conflated with effectively "They keep changing what they say,…

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here, it doesn't seem relevant to my comment. My point is that using the fact that science changes as new information comes in, thus t…

Adenovirus vaccines have been in use since the 70s.

> What does say about your WW2 mortality claim then? That statement doesn't even make sense. I'm refuting you statement that folks are not dying of COVID, their dying with COVID. I…

Science changes as new information becomes available, that's why it's so great, it's self-correcting on a long enough timescale. If you want a 100% verifiable, stake-your-life-on-i…

I would venture a guess that some of that is due to the people sticking spoons to their faces, saying they were magnetized by the vaccine. Do we really need to give those people a …

Seems like you owned yourself. By your own statement "But you can't prove this because we can't go back in time and run to separate Earths". Right now in the US, we don't have an a…

I agree with the sentiment, however it does not appear folks are putting actual science forward in their arguments. How do you rank people sticking spoons to their face and saying …

"Think of the children!" one of my favorite ways to see people trying to get out of an argument. Who could possibly argue for wanting to hurt children! I would love some citations …

Adenovirus vaccines have been in use since the 70s.

> Age standardized mortality rate (that is, accounts for an increasingly old population) is at 2008 levels in the UK. This doesn't account the total lack of treatment early on, pat…

I would be completely shocked if your "personal risk assessment" is accurate. There is no clear indications on which folks will get long COVID, "age, health status, lifestyle, and …