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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 how the world works. Our brains just cannot intuitively grasp probabilities (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-our-brains-do...). Presenting the precise and most accurate information to the public without any embellishment sounds great in theory, but it doesn't work in practice.

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 results don't really prove anything. Is there a double blind study that proves effectiveness In Vivo?

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 are the coincidences of this guy's battery being low and surge price happening at same time?

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 person in this community is a Uber driver. Some are very industrious and do not mind working long hours or working on weekends. Making more than 100k per year (after all expenses) is not unheard of.

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 mutations on the spike protein making the existing vaccines ineffective?

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't one of them just leak and sell the scraped data? There are no guarantees that the scraped data will be used for just academic purposes. Facebook probably doesn't want another data-leak fiasco.

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 supply because of construction halts during Covid, high price of lumber (which is slowly coming down).

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 appointment with an specialist in the US - https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/03/19/doctor-w...

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.org/2020/11/06/931990578/why-americans-have-...

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.org/2020/11/06/931990578/why-americans-have-...

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 cared about protecting individual liberty, they wouldn't have complained about one person's satire. They making a big fuss about it is quite antithetical to their organization's ideals.

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, and only spend when absolutely necessary.

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 with bitcoin. But there is no way to avoid physics. Energy - no matter how it's produced- is lost as heat while mining bitcoins.

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 countries - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/american... American academic STEM research is sustained by the constant flow of the best students from all over the world who are willing to spend 12 hours a day for 4-6 years for a meager grad student stipend. Some are actually even willing to pay for the privilege.

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 2020, bought bitcoin. Ark Invest Etfs - some of the biggest actively managed etfs, hold significant amount of Tesla, and with the profit generated from Tesla's phenomenal rise, they are investing more on bitcoin. I believe in the future of cryptocurrencies, but the current state of bitcoin is abysmal. It's slow, expensive and the hacky patches on top (lightning network) either haven't been widely adopted or are still buggy. This all seems so much like the pets.com of the dot com bubble era. Great idea but terrible implementation. https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/07/09/bitco...

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 much easier for newcomers. Brokerages like TD Ameritrade, E-Trade, Schwab used to charge outrageous fees for trades, but still sold the order flows.

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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?

"The Democrats have the power now and they will use it to suppress any opinion they disagree with" - that's quite a leap. Isn't it Trump and the republicans who want to repel Section 230 so that all websites are forced to moderate content? Let's not forget foxnews - the most watched cable news in the United States. It has been spewing republican propaganda since 1996, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.

Another mini dot-com bubble in the making. Anybody remember when Cisco became the most valuable company in the world? I don't, and I am pretty sure a lot of young investors in their 20s and 30s don't. This phenomenon is nothing new. Issac Newton, after losing 3 million dollars (in today's valuations)- "I Can Calculate the Motions of the Planets, but I Cannot Calculate the Madness of Men".

Shouldn't the republican party be worried? If the trend continues and a lot of companies move from California to Texas bringing along a lot of liberal employees with them, won't that tip the already narrowing margin towards the democratic party?

Isn't it pretty well known in the finance world that using stale public information to predict the market is a fool's errand?

Unless you have some kind of specialized non-public data (e.g satellite images of number of cars parked outside parking malls, number of cargo ships moving in and out), trying to predict the market with historical data does worse than "Just give me some monkeys, darts and a dart board".

Nobody in power cared about George Floyd's death until the violent protests. As Noam Chomksy once said - See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Not surprising since they produce a lot of original content that's pertinent to the smarter crowd.