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Dan you continue to be a Nazi ideologue in the service of sociopaths. I have tried for years to help you but it's hopeless isn't it. You won't stop sucking their ass in the promotion of fascism. You horrible piece of evil.

I wish you would get what you have created for yourself but there is no justice. The innocent will be oppressed by the elitist liars you support as a sycophant and justice will never prevail. It's horrible. You could switch sides but they are tossing bones at you and you will sell out the good for a tiny token. It's horrible.

Yes, Stalin and some others were pieces of shit. Do you know what the Union Army did to Native Americans?

You have the right to be identified as the author of the work.

That's a pretty cool idea. The cave works as a sort of library.

It's astonishing how virulently your very sensible post is getting downvoted. By bots? Or actual HN real people? Either possibility is very very bad for humanity.

even people who recover, this does long term lung and maybe heart damage

The problematic ACE2 receptor sites are also in the brain, intestines and liver and have seen damage. The brain one is the most alarming one from a survival perspective. We survive, but with irreparable permanent brain damage. We're no longer ourselves, we have a different personality, and we are incapable of doing our previous jobs. Is death preferable?

Here's an article from a far more reputable news media organization published today also which says the policy is a disaster:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/anger-in-swede...

For nearly 2 million years, ancient humans crafted stones into hand-size balls, but archaeologists were unsure why.

Wait, for nearly 2 million years ... humans? Starting and ending when? Do we have human remains from more than 2 million years ago? Turkana Boy is 1.5 million years old and close to modern physiology, once you get back to 2 million isn't it australopithicus and such?

That changed when Assaf and her team came across a cache of 30 stone balls in Qesem Cave in Israel, where humans lived from about 400,000 to 200,000 years ago

I wonder if 2 million is a typo for 200 thousand?

these stones "might have helped enhance human caloric intake and adaptation in the lower Paleolithic period," (2.7 million to 200,000 years ago), at Qesem Cave and possibly beyond, the researchers wrote in the study.

Whew, OK, so 2.7 million years ago is their starting point on this. That's interesting. Who was shaping stones that far back?

An interesting other site is the Cerutti Mastodon site in San Diego with 130kYBP mastodon bones possibly crushed with similar stones which were found at the site.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065

All of my dreams lately are nightmares where I find myself at WalMart during prime shopping hours surrounded by crowds, and without a mask.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-vaccination-is-n...

The New York State Health Department reports the average vaccination rate for measles among the nearly 200 Jewish K-12 schools in Brooklyn — mainly in Borough Park and Williamsburg — is 96%, six percentage points higher than the statewide average among private schools. In contrast, six other New York counties have a vaccination rate below 50%.

OK so that Novartis thing. Trump gets elected. According to the second article there Novartis tracks down Trump's lawyer and signs a contract for him to "advise" them on US health care policy matters.

Then after they sign the contract they meet with him and determine that he "would be unable to provide the services that Novartis had anticipated". Without details but it sounds like they said, "OK we gave you all this money, we don't really want legal advice, we want you to influence the President or tell us privileged information" and Cohen said "No way that is unethical." They then had to pay the rest of the contract since it could only be terminated for cause and "lawyer refuses to commit crimes" isn't valid cause.

So yeah, Novartis is one of many companies that makes generic HCQ and sells it at near cost. It's not a money maker for them at all. It definitely sounds like they were trying to do something unethical and illegal here, but how is the fact their lawyer refused to go along with it evidence of something wrong with Cohen or any of his other clients?

Thanks for that link. So that's a mutual fund that like most mutual fund includes some pharmaceutical companies.

Like most people with any 401k retirement savings or other stock holdings (includes most people in the US), I have a mix of mutual funds and indexed funds that include stocks I've never heard of and don't care to know anything about. I bet I own part of some company that makes HCQ as well. I probably also own Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Defense, Offense, and a bunch of other horrible things, as probably nearly everyone that posts here does as well without realizing it.

This is this the more toxic variant though right? It’s meant to be hydroychloroquine

Hydroxychloroquine has fewer side effects than chloroquine which has fewer side effects than quinine which has fewer side effects than the bark it's made from that contains a bunch of other compounds including quinidine.

All quinine class drugs produce heart arrhythmia as a side effect in some patients, more so with increasing doses, and all come with warnings that they should not be used or should be used with caution in patients with heart conditions. These contraindications of these widely used drugs have been known for decades.

They were giving 1.2 grams a day to the patients that died. That is significantly higher than what is known to be a safe dose. CQ is also not indicated for anyone with underlying heart conditions. Since COVID-19 is known to cause heart damage as well as lung damage in the late stage of the disease using these drugs in the late stage of the disease has built in problems.

The article doesn't mention anyone in the lower dose group dying of heart problems, though heart attacks and related problems are things that are known to happen to people with COVID-19. The lower dose study is continuing and was not halted. Presumably there will be a subsequent study published with those results. I agree that it is a bad idea to be taking 1.2 grams a day of CQ. During the century of widespread CQ use the fatality rate due to side effects was certainly no where near what they managed to obtain by overdosing patients in this reckless study.

Hm, the pseudo-study (it was a after the fact data review) found a near halving of mortality rates in the HCQ group. Yet that is described as no evidence of efficacy. Odd.

What about sending Atlassian a cease and desist order, citing copyright law? They are not hosting your personal copyrighted content with your permission any more and have given access of it to unauthorized parties. I think you should consider seeing an IP lawyer. Since they are not being reasonable and are forcing you to legal measures, simply restoring your account is insufficient, you will want a settlement. Each violation of your copyrighted material might be good for $250,000 in fines.

His link to the actual letter of the Pope is very clear that he refers to laborers and wages and a Universal Basic Wage, not a Universal Basic Income given to all, including the idle. His criticism of your article is on point and warranted. Your response is not adequate, you merely restate your case that he has disproven using original documents.

It's possible that the Pope also supports UBI for the idle. His letter here does not support that claim though.

do try to behave

Wow, what insufferable arrogance obnoxiously delivered. Nothing I said was jerky. You seem to be projecting.

From your first reference:

an extensive literature review produced no scientifically reported cases of fatal CO poisoning attributed to diesel fuel exhaust.

Petrol engines produce 12% CO. Diesel engines simply do not do so, contrary to the claims of the ethically challenged injury lawyer source you provided as your primary reference in your earlier post. Can Diesel produce high CO levels? Yes, but it is hard to force this. The Nazis used diesel to asphyxiate Jews with CO, but they had to meddle with the engines.

Submarines and mines. How does anyone survive there in the presence of diesel combustion engines.

1955 study of relative emissions of diesel, gasoline, and propane engines:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00966665.1955.10...

Note in particular the charts beginning on page 105.

exhaust gases from Diesel engines contained less than 0.1% carbon monoxide, whereas the carbon monoxide concentrations in the exhausts of the carbureted engines ranged from 1.5 to 12%. The reason for this difference is the well-known fact that carbureted engines generally operate with a deficiency of air whereas Diesel engines always operate with a substantial excess of air

It's basic science that has been known for a very very long time.

What you are claiming is wrong and has never been known to be the truth by anyone qualified to discuss this matter.

Tell you what. I bet you $1 million USD that you are wrong and that a normal diesel engine produces vastly less than 12% CO emissions. We each put our funds with a third party broker, we have an independent party do the testing, and winner takes all. Do you consent? If you would prefer a different wager amount, so state. Funds to be transferred to the third party broker by each of us in advance of testing. You're a well known famous billionaire guy so this will be peanuts with a guaranteed payoff for you if you really believe your claims.

The article mentions yomali out of Malta. Yomali's just an ecommerce, billing and hosting site doing payment processing for the people selling these guides. Much as Google and AWS host services for numerous questionable companies.

Malta has some weird tax advantage apparently because a lot of ecommerce goes out of there. Also Cyprus.

Yomali's owned by an Israel guy who says his name is Mike Peters. ( https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/326673 )

It's likely he and his company have little to do with these ebooks other than handling payment processing for them along with many other small companies.

Right I own that car and you are right its claimed emissions were a lie.

I now have the fix and it complies with emissions regulations, and gets the same mileage as before. It was stupid of management and engineers to try to defeat emissions tests because clearly they were capable of delivering the car they promised using the engineering skills they had. Being dumb cost them billions of dollars and has nearly destroyed the company, a fine company. Someone just didn't want to do things right at the time and maybe got off on scamming. Current status is that this car has unbelievably low emissions and gets astonishing mileage and also has high performance.

Only problem is service costs a lot and requires specialized technicians. I hear Teslas and Apple products have a similar issue.

I can smell it

Mine has no smell before or after the fix. I can smell petrol exhaust.

The CDC, FDA and WHO have been pursuing a non-science based approach from the beginning apparently designed to spread the virus.

I just made you a nice green salad. Before I hand it to you I sneezed.

Do you eat it? If you say no, then like me, you realize the CDC are massive disreputable liars. If you say yes you eat it, you are foolish.

The bathrooms are non-negotiable.

Do you pee at the grocery store these days too? You couldn't pay me anything to use a public restroom anywhere in the US until we have a cure for this virus. I go to the bathroom before I make a store run. And I make store runs very infrequently, they are very concise runs, I avoid everyone, and I go only during extreme off hours, and I wear an N95 face mask that I heat sterilize afterwards. I also extensively sterilize everything I buy, which takes nearly a whole day to do properly. Things I can't directly sanitize go into a queue in the garage and are not used for 20 days.

Going into any public bathroom is an unnecessary risk. These drive in theatre bathrooms should be closed and locked, as should public restrooms in parks. Laws against urinating in public such as in the bushes at a public park should be suspended. Peeing into a cup in one's car should be promoted as a safer alternative to finding a public bathroom. These are all temporary measures but are necessary. Public bathrooms being non-negotiable? Then stay home.

We need to socially normalize peeing into a cup. My dad certainly made it the only option when we did cross country drives. No way were we stopping at the rest stop, that would ruin our record transit time. He wasn't the only dad, these stories are common.

"Pee in a cup, it won't mess your lungs up."

Petrol cars aren't that bad especially when only idling for the airco. Diesels are disgusting idling.

Petrol cars do not do complete combustion and emit carbon monoxide which is toxic. Diesels don't. Modern diesels, running on mandated low sulfur fuel, can have lower levels of troublesome emissions than petrol cars. Trucks are a different matter though as they generally are not subject to the same emission standards at present.

I don't think the article actually has any evidence to support there IS a "surge in drive-ins around the country".

Well there probably is. But drive-ins at this point are incredibly rare. When I was a kid, many decades ago, it was already past the golden age of the drive-in and the few remaining holdouts were in the process of folding.

Some tenacious holdouts made it. A few closed theatres reopened.

https://www.driveinmovie.com/united-states

Currently, there are about 325 Drive-in Movie Theaters still operating in the United States. There are many more that are permanently closed but still remain standing and could potentially be re-opened at some point in the future. In fact, there have been several drive-in theaters that have been re-opened the past couple of years after sitting dark for 20 and even 30 years.

So 325 maybe wasn't even the nadir as many have reopened and I doubt as many have been built anew. It's not a lot of theatres on the national scale.

I disagree. I think a fair price is below zero. The news sites should pay Google if they want their sites listed.

The newspapers should pay Google if they want to be listed.

the fact google search is a monopoly

Except it's not. I never use Google, I use DuckDuckGo. If DDG fails I try Bing. I have google and facebook domains blocked from access in my system because I don't like their tracking. Lots of other people search without Google. Google is simply not a monopoly in the search game.

Ah, so that's why MicroFocus stock suddenly started surging a few days ago. I got stuck with some shares when they spun off from HP. It's my worst performing stock and I couldn't figure out what the heck they did. But now COBOL oriented companies are booming.

Eventually it gets to someone who actually does the work for $55/hr or less.

In my observation, after 5-10 layers of indirection, it eventually ends up overseas with a young foreign national who makes $3 an hour and absolutely does not have the required security clearance.

it just makes it easier for you to share the data with health care providers

I don't want to share any more information with these corporate heath care providers based on real world experience with them. Is that "allowed".