The Rise of the $10M Disc Golf Celebrity 5 years ago
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"Welcome to BBC News, America's most trusted news source".
A low quality hodgepodge of words, masquerading as an article promoting the BBC's Panorama's Are you Scared Yet, Human?
A few low quality choice of quotes:
Speaking to BBC's Panorama, Brad Smith said it will be "difficult to catch up” with the rapidly advancing technology.
Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive who is now chair of the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, has warned that beating China in AI is imperative.
Seth Moulton, chair of the US Future of Defence Task Force is urging tech companies to support the Department of Defence. "Because we're in a race, because we are in this competition, that’s really what it comes down to,” he said. “Are you going to help us win this race or are you going to essentially be against us?"
Are we sure this Ministry of Truth style doublespeak isn't already here?
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/facebook-ban-covid-...
Wikipedia data says (2017)
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/debt-to-gdp-continues-to-ri...
https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iroikDYIT5Q...
Canada's deficit is among the worst of all relevant countries at the moment.
Cancel The New York Times 5 years ago
"The octopus is oppressing America, and it is destroying America. In the New York Times the country seems literally on the brink of anarchy and war, all in service, to the power of the New York Times. Look what is happening! When times are good and people are happy and fulfilled and successful the New York Times is an irrelevant bore. When the world is ending as they would have you believe (it is not) they become more powerful than the president. They are the ones that choose the president. You may think that if you vote for Trump or Biden that it will get better. It will not! It will only get worse! The only way to get better is to stop reading the New York Times. And stop writing for any of its tentacles."
This resonates with me especially. In a time of excess we are led too often to believe we are on the brink of collapse. Manufactured crises.
Relevant readings talking about the NYT and journalism:
- https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/how-newspapers-handl...
- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
Citadel, Point72 to Invest $2.75 Billion Into Melvin Capital Management - 3 days ago [0]
[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/citadel-point72-to-invest-2-75-...
Absolutely disgusting what Robinhood did.
PR Puff Piece by Robinhood - https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-...
Keeping people safe from themselves. Stocks where Retail investors are blocked from buying by TD Ameritrade, Robinhood, etc. yet hedge funds and others are free to continue...
Just yesterday Discord bans the WallStreetBets community.
Note: I held a few positions in some of these volatile stocks
"We're suffering from success and our Discord was the first casualty. You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore. Discord did us dirty and I am not impressed with them destroying our community"
Key point for me. Under the guise of 'hate speech' suppression is occurring. Of course every platform has the right to dictate users of their platform yada yada...
The Cruise Ship Suicides 6 years ago
Australia (Victoria) just got 3 cases and mandated stage 4 measures including limiting gatherings to 15 people.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-31/victoria-coronavirus-...
UX Issues with Notion 6 years ago
Notion has had some great marketing, and has some useful features, but I don't think its as great as the hype around it suggests. YAWT, Yet Another Writing Tool. To be forgotten? in a few years.
When I used it, it seemed like a Jack of All/Master of None type of tool. Seemed like it was focused more on those who enjoy and find value in the act of taking notes rather the value of the note itself. I'm probably not the intended user, but for a lot of daily uses (Meeting notes, TODO lists, etc.) I found a barebones GDocs/Word/Pen and Paper to be more efficient and less taxing to pick up.
A closer look at U.S. deaths due to Covid-19 6 years ago
Don’t Eat Inside a Restaurant 6 years ago
Could it be argued it's the worst of both worlds? Virus still spreads, restaurants are forced to heavily reduce customer numbers and pay for new anti COVID measures. Decreased restaurant revenue and increased COVID numbers?
Don’t Eat Inside a Restaurant 6 years ago
Governments mandate closing by X time or mandate masks while not seated... of course to minimize risk and spread. These same governments don't mandate closing the restaurant completely for... the economy? I'm not left or right on this COVID issue, just interested in these arbitrary restrictions.
I think you misunderstood my comment. I already knew those 3 countries had a lower death rate.
6,000 preventable deaths? So with measures similar or better than Finland and Norway and Denmark the deaths would have been 164? (Current Covid deaths Sweden 6164).
It is possible the harms of lockdowns have been understated or misrepresented. The data on lockdowns isn't black and white and the response to COVID is very 'political'.
Exodus of Silicon Valley 6 years ago
This article reads like fiction with its emphasis on providing an exodus narrative, but this point stood out to me.
San Francisco had four times as many deaths from overdose this year as it did from the COVID-19 virus.
Is this being intentionally hidden? It isn't on any of the 5 most recent pages anymore.
Link to the tweet in question - https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13134498444139929...
If some countries aren't successful at containing the spread of the virus despite lockdowns, its because they didn't lockdown hard/good enough. If a country locks down hard and still many deaths occur, claim that the virus would have killed many more if they didn't lockdown.
Morton's Fork. If deaths are low it's because lockdown worked. If they're high we didn't lockdown hard or early enough. Two outcomes, same conclusion: More lockdowns. No consideration to the null hypothesis.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366614
Relevant other discussion on Covid-19 and athletes. Exaggerated headline proven to be false.
"2 more weeks.", "We don't know the long term effects", "Winter is coming". We are ~3 months from 2021, COVID-"2019" most likely will be endemic.
"You are 50% more likely to die in a car crash if the car is travelling > 70 miles/hour compared to < 40 miles/hour, therefore we should not allow cars to travel > 70 miles/hour."
Bad analogies are available for both sides of the debate.
So 1 in every thousand retail investors succeeds 10 times in a row. A lot more than a thousand retail investors out there.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
+1 to __blockcipher__ 's points. Maybe in the beginning draconian measures might have been justified, but current panic over cases (casedemic) and continuing moral panic and lockdowns are not.
Can you provide some articles/material regarding right wingers wanting to lock things down in Sweden? I'm not familiar with Swedish politics and would be interested in reading more.
+1. I hate this trend exacerbated by doomers making it seem like present day America is a horrible place to be in.
Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, Apple Arcade, and iCloud storage (50GB) for $14.95 a month
The Family plan includes the same apps, but with 200GB of iCloud storage. It’s $19.95 a month
Seems like a deal worth looking into considering I'm paying $10 a month for Spotify alone. Not sure how the Apple TV lineup compares to Netflix though, but the iCloud storage is a pretty nice add-on as well.
1 google search for "overwhelmed hospital" turned up this article from 2017/2018 - https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
New Jersey - At capacity, Elective surgeries cancelled
Alabama - Elective Surgeries Cancelled, state of emergency declared
California - set up tents outside, patients in hallways
Pennsylvania - Surge tents
Great graphs on that site, 57% of ICU in beds in use by COVID patients on 7/13 to 13% on 9/7. Seems like the peak has passed, but like you said it could be due to an increase in beds provided.