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> FTA: "Visa tells them that Gab has been flagged..."

And also, flagged here on HN. I thought the folks here would turn out to be better than the folks at VISA. I guess I was wrong about that.

There's plenty of independent journalists on YouTube/Patreon/Alt-Tech, some more reliable than others. Hopefully, in the future, more people will start getting their news from the independent YouTube/Alt-Tech journalists who wound up migrating to those platforms after they were laid off from their mainstream media publications during the past decade of layoffs for that industry. Anyone can find a list of such YouTube/Alt-Tech channels by searching Reddit. Of course, that also means having to go through the process of weeding out the biased low quality journalists. Hard hitting debates are rather rare on YouTube, but, as a general rule, I have found that the YouTubers who are willing to debate others (and who present facts during that debate) are better sources of information than those who are unwilling to ever debate anyone.

Sometimes a virus will mutate to become less deadly. Could that be happening right now with COVID-19? Maybe. Judge for yourself...

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/doctors-...

We are discussing Facebook censoring the POTUS.

HCQ has been around for 70 years. Remdesivir's issue is that everyone gets to be the guinea pig. Sometimes it's better to go with the devil you know.

This article does an excellent job at debunking a poorly made conspiracy theory video. Getting the truth out there is important. Despite this, I did find one or two instance of needless spinning of the truth in this article.

1) I'll admit that it's a silly theory that anyone would create a pandemic to ruin the world economy just to market a vaccine. However, saying it's silly idea because once everyone's had the virus they'll be forever immune to it and therefore won't need a vaccine is equally silly. Science suggests that your antibodies might protect you for roughly two years. So, you'd still pay for a vaccine.

2) A good yardstick for evaluating the accuracy of any COVID-19 article is how they describe hydroxychloroquine. Saying that there are 169 trials of it going on right now, and that it's being prescribed off-label so much that it's getting hard to come by, and then saying there's "no solid evidence, only hope" may be technically accurate, but it's more spin than I can tolerate. Rather than linking to an article from March back when no real studies on it had been completed, it would probably have been better to have the link text be "Doctors are seeing promising hydroxychloroquine results when combined with azithromycin (or tocilizumab)" and to have that link go to the URL below:

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/221558/c...

At this moment in time throughout the world there are some hospitals that provide very promising medicine for COVID-19. However, other hospitals are simply allowing patients to suffer without prescribing any medicine. I can't understand why so much of the media is basically suggesting that those Yale doctors are wasting their time by prescribing hydroxychloroquine. Those front-line Yale doctors just might have more medical expertise than the mainstream media.

I did read about how Swedish hospitals stopped using chloroquine for COVID-19 due to severe side effects. I've googled, but I'm unable to find anything definitive regarding whether or not Sweden has given up on hydroxychloroquine, which seems to have less severe side effects. In the US, hydroxychloroquine can only be obtained when prescribed by a doctor (depending on which US State you live in, your governor may or may not allow it to be dispensed outside of a hospital setting). Even though hydroxychloroquine has been around for over 70 years, there's risk associated with it. It's obvious to me that the front-line doctors at Yale are throwing everything they can think of at this virus to keep as many people out of the ICU as possible. They've obviously made a lot of progress in a very short time. It reminds me of the way some startups with minimal runway develop an MVP and then keep iterating in an attempt to get better results. It's a harsh environment, but that's what forces people to innovate quickly, and sometimes succeed. As they say in the movies: GO! FIGHT! WIN!

I'm quite impressed with the work that went into these simulations. The folks who put this together did a great job. It would have been a great method to explain to the public how lock-downs save lives by not overwhelming our hospital ICU bed capacity, but for one critical omission. My idea for a way to improve these simulations would be to include what could be the most important public policy issue of them all: In many US states, the governor has forbidden (or greatly restricted) pharmacies from dispensing hydroxychloroquine. How many people could be kept out of the ICU (when the medicine is used in conjunction with azithromycin or zinc) if governors allowed pharmacies to dispense this medicine? I've yet to see a study where hydroxychloroquine, when used in conjunction with z-pak or zinc, was found to be ineffective against COVID-19. Of course, that's not proof of anything, but, with 25% unemployed in some of the biggest US cities, rigorous scientific studies may wind up taking more time than we can afford to wait. Therefore, it seems to me that the best way to find out what works to save lives (and keep people out of the ICU) is to look at what the front-line doctors are doing at one of the most prestigious hospitals in the world:

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/221558/c...

I'd love to know where you got those statistics. I couldn't find anything on country mortality rates for COVID-19 ICU patients. However, since the US obesity rate is way higher than Sweden, it is surprising that the COVID-19 death rate in the US is around five percent, while it is around ten percent for Sweden. Of course, Sweden has decided not to impose a lockdown, so I have no idea how much that might be overwhelming their hosipitals.

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/04/the-latest-coronavirus...

In addition to contemplating what benefits your site might have over YouTube, you should also consider what benefits your site would have over YouTube's many competitors (e.g., BitChute, Vimeo, Daily Motion, etc, etc). I'm getting ready to start trying some alternatives to YouTube, but I'd love to hear what benefits (aside from less censorship) your site would have over YouTube.

I wouldn't call IQ a completely useless yardstick. Likely through examining all of the evidence regarding IQ and military performance, the United States government has come to the conclusion that an IQ below a certain level disqualifies the person for military service.

Unsurprisingly, US law is a bit complicated on this, but to summarize, it implies that an IQ below 81 (“tenth percentile”) is disqualifying, and dictates that persons with IQ's between 81 and 93 (“thirty-first percentile”) cannot comprise more than 20% of all enlistees.

One aspect of what can be found in the NYT article is a graph that shows the people at the very top of the income pyramid paying a 70% tax rate in 1950. However, there's a nominal tax rate versus what someone actually winds up paying after various deductions an loopholes. An earlier study by the same authors of this latest publication that the NYT is citing indicates that those in the top 1% were paying around 40% in 1950. Based on that, I find the claim that those at the very top paid 70% in 1950 to be highly doubtful. Am I right about this? Well, I guess I'll have to wait a week for this latest book to be published, or until the NYT issues a correction. The earlier study from these same authors, which was cited in the link I posted above, can be found at:

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/133/2/553/4430651/

Here in the USA, we have the best congress money can buy. Politicians are immensely corrupt and quite beholden to their campaign donors. If any member of congress dares to refuse a wealthy organization a favor, that organization can wind up bankrolling someone to primary that member of congress. As long as the supreme court maintains that money is speech, I can see no way to solve the problem of money in politics.

Rather than pull up the specific data regarding US/UK/Canada, I'll just reply with a link to a general overview of how free (but rationed) government provided health care compares to what exists in the USA:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/03/05/what-soc...

In my opinion, the best yardstick for a health care system is how long you have to wait to be treated for cancer. By that yardstick, countries like Canada and England stack up quite poorly when compared to the USA. Canadians don't come to the US to save money on health care. They come to the US because they have an expensive potentially fatal medical condition, and they might not survive a six month waiting period for treatment.

If China can ever be persuaded to stop building new coal fired power plants, then there would be reason to be hopeful. If the rest of the world was willing to sanction them like crazy over it, China would likely cave and focus their efforts on solar. Despite the current state of affairs, Scott Adams is an optimist about the future...

https://www.scottadamssays.com/2019/09/23/a-message-for-chil...

The beauty of the video is that once you've seen it, you can't un-see it (aka, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain").

Thanks for the info on that. It's an entertaining little app. With a wide range of data sets (e.g., other crypto coins, stock market, Forex), this sort of thing could be turned into a fun group game at a party, with onlookers cheering on participants as they compete simultaneously on their tablets. It would be way more entertaining than most board games. Upon further examination, I've noticed that when you click the sell button, you're selling roughly ten shares (about a tenth of your starting position). I wonder if you'd consider adding a button or two to "Sell All Shares"/"Buy With All Funds"?

Great stuff! It was quite exciting to play! I figured I'd attempt to go long when above the trend line, and get out when the price fell below the trend line. Only in the world of crypto trading would an annualized return of 640% over 3.75 years be described as "Better than nothing" and "At least you came out ahead". I guess those lackluster assessments are deserved when you consider that my net return of around 25K was only about ten percent better than just buying and holding. Did you use some kind of javascript framework to create this?

It would be great if you cross-referenced each politician/topic with the interest group donations that the politician received (within a reasonable time frame). You could then use that data to rank politicians as least and most lying, and least and most influenced by campaign donations.

Sounds like you've been looking for free career advice. That's an extremely important subject. Accordingly, quality advice for that subject is likely to cost you a small amount of money. If you get good advice, it will be the best money you've ever spent. If you're willing to spend less than $100 for the advice, you could try contacting this person:

https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronClarey/videos https://www.patreon.com/AaronClarey

The most popular CMS is WordPress. Is there a .NET CMS that you feel has more functionality than WordPress? Perhaps your site will be in a domain for which a .NET CMS would have some advantages?

This sort of thinking might have been understandable back during the '90's. However, today, people have plenty of free space on their hard disk. The track record of Windows 10 has been so poor lately that it's surprising that MS got so overconfident that they decided that they didn't need safeguards like this any longer.

What are you waiting for? Go for it!!

Those young employees had so much power that they acted like they were the "Kings of MySpace". It's no surprise shenanigans ensued. It reminds me of some other youngsters back then who called themselves "The Kings of MySpace":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N1lIl3pGac

Figure out what exactly you want to do after you end your solo lifestyle. Once you've done that, then sell the business. It should net you a tidy sum. If your heart's no longer in it, then sell it to someone who will embrace your SaaS with gusto.

You might be right. I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable about YouTube to argue whether or not Google's new censorship policies are quickly getting out of hand. But, someone like Tim Pool seems to be quite well informed on that subject, and he makes a compelling case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoN-MZV7-7c

YouTube could wind up with cesspool videos? The horror!! It's a good thing they've now got these new guidelines in place to remove all the garbage videos. I'm sure that all the remaining allowed videos won't hurt anyone's feelings. /s

I'm not advocating for zero censorship. I just think this reads like they're heading down a slippery slope.