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marknutter··on New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services
I guess it really comes down to whether or not someone actually needed it, which is a very difficult thing to determine.
marknutter··on New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services
Only 2.8% of all hospitalizations that required an ICU were people under 45 years old, though, and we have no idea what underlying health problems they may have had.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm

marknutter··on New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services
I wonder what percentage of people have been saved by ventilators vs. merely had their death delayed.
marknutter··on Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December?
I will do my best adjust my tone in the future. Sorry about this.
marknutter··on Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December?
Ok, let's call it CPC bashing then, if that makes you feel better. What they have done during this whole debacle is despicable, and their attempts to push the conspiracy theory that the virus came from the US Military is just the icing on the cake.
marknutter··on Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December?
There may not be bodies to "hide" because the mortality rate is far lower than what is being reported right now.
marknutter··on Signs you're following a fake Twitter account
Or maybe they've never gotten what they feel to be an acceptable or compelling answer.
marknutter··on Kickstarter employees vote to unionize
They're unionizing because they're politically likeminded. There's absolutely no other logical reason why they would do it.
marknutter··on How the cancel culture was leveraged against RMS
You have no idea how people's opinions about various topics will impact their decisions on other topics. This is thought policing and abject discrimination.
marknutter··on Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
Oh my god, I remember drooling over every iteration of your website back when I was first learning how to code. Glad to see you're still at it.
marknutter··on Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’
Who says we're not in a constant crisis?
marknutter··on [dead]
Seems like the editors at Quillette got on top of it pretty quick and removed the article immediately with a retraction notice.
marknutter··on Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfair and Inefficient?
By coming up with a cheap and effective cure for cancer.
marknutter··on Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfair and Inefficient?
Everything bought and sold privately is rationed based on your ability to pay, including such vital resources as food, shelter, transportation, clothing, and higher education, so why is medical care to be treated so differently? If we agree that because medical treatment must be rationed because it is a finite resources, the debate is really comes down to who decides how this rationing is done and by whom.
marknutter··on Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfair and Inefficient?
You can do this today, though. Retire now and your income will drop to the level where you can qualify for the ACA.
marknutter··on Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
...while continuing to collect a salary for effectively doing nothing. Sounds about right.
marknutter··on Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks
Because I don't buy that Guccifer 2.0 was a persona operated by the Russian military. Simple as that.
marknutter··on Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks
It's certainly false.
marknutter··on Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks
What are you basing this wild claim on?
marknutter··on Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push
This is called "moving the goalposts".
marknutter··on Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]
They donate to Democratic candidates at roughly the same rate. Does that counterbalance the harm done to trans people?
marknutter··on Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech is “a dangerous path”
Unless of course you're the side of the debate that was opposed to Net Neutrality. Then free speech worked out quite well, didn't it?
marknutter··on Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech is “a dangerous path”
Prove to me that you argue in good faith and are a rational actor.
marknutter··on Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
America isn't a cruel society, it's a society that recognizes that life is inherently cruel. No amount of collective effort will ever change that, and so Americans focus on strengthening themselves in order that they will be better able to handle the cruelty of life.
marknutter··on Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
Yes. They must be, how shall we say... "re-educated".
marknutter··on Why Is College in America So Expensive?
> If you saw a child about to fall into a well, and nobody else was around, would you help her?

Are you comparing poor adults to children about to fall into a well?

marknutter··on Did Russia fake black activism on Facebook to sow division in the US?
Anyone else think it's particularly gross when people voyeuristically root through people's comments history to try to discredit them?
marknutter··on Did Russia fake black activism on Facebook to sow division in the US?
Honestly, with the level of scrutiny Trump is receiving by the types of people who would be willing to edit Wikipedia pages and who are prominent in tech and the media in general, it's completely unsurprising to see such a large "Legal & Ethical Controversies" section. The left is drowning in their own data because criticizing Trump is such a cheap way to get clicks these days. It's what leads to so many duds in terms of scandals, like this Russia nonsense.
marknutter··on Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be able to buy ads
What makes you so certain we live in a world of objective reality?
marknutter··on Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be able to buy ads
Having swung right in recent years, I'm now dealing with this very problem. It takes a ton of effort to get the full picture on a given story. The more controversial it is, the more google's search results will be dominated by rags like Vox, Slate, and HuffPo.
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