2021-12-01
Worthy
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Crypto is a cesspit of people swapping claims on non-economic nonsense in one giant orgy of internet memes and fools trying to screw each other playing mutual harm negative-sum games while chanting “we’re all going to make it”. All this while the house takes an enormous rake and changes the rules of the game to its liking whenever it likes. It’s a great racket, but like the poker idiom goes: “If after ten minutes at the table you do not know who the mark is—you are the mark.”
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Horseshit
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Right-clickers vs. the monkey JPG owners
I need to pause here and just acknowledge that I am very aware of how wildly stupid all of this is. But, like all things that have ever happened on the internet, just because it’s stupid right now, that doesn’t mean that it also couldn’t snowball into a genuine sociopolitical movement. A cartoon frog meme was on flags held by the insurrectionists that broke down the doors of the Capitol building, ok?
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- "Mostly False"; it was the Walmart "CFO", and no one from CNBC ...
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Alien hunters have spent 60 years finding new solutions for the Drake Equation
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Investors Snap Up Metaverse Real Estate in a Virtual Land Boom
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Alt Buys Majority Stake in Steph Curry Rookie Card Valued at $5.9M
celebrity gossip
COVID / VaxCult
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(Nov 6, 2019) Pandemic simulation exercise spotlights massive preparedness gap | Hub
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Omicron already in the Netherlands a week before South Africa alerted the WHO
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WHO advises at-risk groups to postpone travel due to Omicron variant
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Los Angeles Now Enforcing Vaccine Mandates For Indoor Businesses
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Over 7,000 Marines Unvaccinated As COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Deadline Hits | ZeroHedge
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Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity
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Federal judge blocks Biden vaccine mandate for health care workers nationwide
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Brazil reports first Latin American cases of Omicron variant
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The epidemiological relevance of Covid-19-vaccinated population is increasing
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Efficacy of Merck’s Thor-inspired Covid pill crumbles, vexing experts
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West Virginia offers free guns as incentive to get Covid vaccines
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Raw Wastewater “Leading Indicator” of Future Covid-19 Outbreaks, Yale Study
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Teenagers arrested after escape from Covid quarantine facility
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Hong Kong's zero-Covid policy keeps movers busy, gives recruiters headaches
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Omicron Fails to Halt Art Basel Miami as People Crave Normalcy
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Why Moderna won’t share rights to vaccine with the U.S. GOV that paid for it
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Stricter coronavirus testing being weighed for all travelers to U.S.
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Epidemiology of Acute Myocarditis in HK Adolescents After Pfizer Vaccination
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Jim Cramer Demands Biden Impose Military-Enforced Vaccine Mandate For All Americans | ZeroHedge
"The federal government needs to require vaccines, including booster shots, for everyone in America by, say, January 1st".
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COVID topics: what did the news actually talk about? - Renato Budinich
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: No, Covid 19 Is Not an Old Person Problem | naked capitalism
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comment:
This is about how molnupiravir will create variants by accelerating viral evolution while not killing the virus.
Curiously, Gauteng was one of the places where they trialed it. That does not change the fact that the branch is very long and dates back to 2020. So if this was indeed a chronic infection, it probably started there. But what if this was an HIV patient that someone tried to cure with the drug and that gave it the final mutagenic boost? We will never know…
And yet the FDA approved it despite quiet vigorous objection by many on the panel pointing to precisely these issues. We are doing our absolute best to help the virus…
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More than half of employers to require Covid vaccines as omicron fears grow
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A reason for optimism on Omicron: Our immune systems are not blank slates
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Domestic Travel Ban for Unvaccinated 'Not Off the Table' Says Psaki – PJ Media
Culture War / Re segregation / Faith Fights
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Why Woke Organizations All Sound the Same: The Sociology of Organizations
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What happens when you’re the investment? Social capital becomes economic capital
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Immigrants keep us out of nursing homes
The estimates imply that a typical U.S-born individual over age 65 in the year 2000 was 0.5 percentage points (10 percent) less likely to be living in an institution than would have been the case if immigration had remained at 1980 levels. We show that immigration affects the availability and cost of home services, including those provided by home health aides, gardeners and housekeepers, and other less-educated workers, reducing the cost of aging in the community.
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Why Big-Tech Censorship will Fail - by Nicholas
The justification for censorship always finds itself more in ethics and appeals to emotion than in its underlying mechanics. From the Dataist viewpoint, it’s all about the data of course! Harari concludes that “capitalism did not defeat communism because capitalism was more ethical, because individual liberties are sacred...Rather, capitalism won the Cold War because distributed data processing works better than centralized data processing, at least in periods of accelerating technological change.”
- See also "What happened in 1971?": "the elites" decided this thesis was correct, and decided to remove the "accelerating technological change" or "expanding economy" parts of it. Or maybe demographics / birth rate explains it well enough.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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The Teenagers Getting Six Figures to Leave Their High Schools for Basketball
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Alumni Withhold Donations, Demand Colleges Enforce Free Speech
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Israel ‘cancels’ prize to mathematician – and dishonors itself
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Campus Reform | University offers racially segregated 'processing space' after Rittenhouse verdict
Media / ShowBiz / Censorship
TechSuck
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HN Jobs threads:
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Had to shift some Starlink satellite orbits to reduce probability of collision
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Microsoft shareholders back protest vote over sexual harassment claims
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Tesseract 5 released by a random person who has been thanklessly maintaining it
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Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00) | Hacker News
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Qualcomm’s new always-on smartphone camera is a privacy nightmare
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Fed Chairman Jerome Powell retires the word 'transitory' in describing inflation
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Fed Chair rebrands inflation after securing second 4 year term
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PayPal "buy now, pay later" soared nearly 400% on Black Friday
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Ghost Kitchens Are Proving to Be a Messy Business, as Reef Global Shows
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Why inflation can actually be good for everyday Americans and bad for rich people - CNN
But on the whole, inflation can actually be a good thing for many working-class Americans, especially those with fixed-rate debt like a 30-year mortgage. That's because wages are going up, which not only empowers workers but also gives them more money to pay down debt. Plus, in the case of a mortgage, your monthly payment will be the same but your house will increase in value.
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Private payrolls post better-than-expected growth of 534K in November, ADP says
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Capital One ditches all consumer overdraft fees ($150M in annual revenue)
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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As Biden Goes Off-Script, White House Tech Team Cuts the Mic and Blasts Music
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(Nov 23 2021) New York Moves to Allow 800k Noncitizens to Vote in Local Elections
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'How will we survive?' Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor sounds alarm in fight to overturn Roe v. Wade
+ [Breaking911 on Twitter: "JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Evidence of fetal pain is not proof of life" / Twitter](https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1466080275843239945)
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Joe Biden greeted in Minnesota with 'FJB' and 'You Suck' signs
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Court Throws Out Messages Obtained by FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom
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Texas woman wins round in lawsuit challenging swat teams destruction of her home
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Looting charges against Union Square theft suspects. It’s a legal gamble
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Capitol riot: Michael Jackson imitator clashes with judge in court - BBC News
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The video then fast forwards to Morrison handing his phone to the officer so he could speak with NBC News' booking producer Irene Byon. The officer asks Byon why the network 'has a reporter following vehicles,' to which she replies: "We, we, we were just trying to respectfully... just trying to see if it's possible to, um, find any leads about, um, about the case, and so we were just keeping our distance just to see where people involved in the trial, um, are positioned. By no means are we trying to get in contact with any of the jury members or whoever's in the car, we just were, um, trying to see where, um, where key players in the trial may be at."