#Basic

The fate of Japan's influenza season has interested me, so I put down some simple thoughts based on the Japanese data available.https://sigma1.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/what-happened-to-japans-influenza-season/ Basic points are: 1) MHLW regular we
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As people are sharing Prince Philip anecdotes... In the early sixties my dad was a very junior UK diplomat and was sent to the Turks and Caicos islands as “deputy
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I'm having fun 'peeking in' to what the Lean community is doing (via mostly lurking on their Zulip, but I've perused the source code too). They are genuinely trying to
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One thing I don't think most people know: the US balance of payments data basically shows China's reserve holdings pretty cleanly ...(it thus captures the period when China diversified away
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maybe this is obvious and I was just completely clueless, but I had no idea that Medicare isn't free. I had no idea that unless you pay, you won't get
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religion stuff and also discourse:listen. I am a gay married Catholic. you can shit on my ships and my favorite characters all you want, I will just block you and
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I've been urging health systems here to target tracts instead of zips & even I am a bit stunned by the magnitude of effect hereOne thing it makes me think
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Sometimes I see people say that T/RFs don't care about or target trans men. Or that there is not a specific way that trans men are targeted.I don't think this
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I want to harp on this again and again:The world is FAR, FAR more complicated than any student or novice can possibly understand. The procedural approach to education presupposes a
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When more people voting is bad for you, the autocratic solution is to make voting more difficult. When that is not enough, the real message becomes that democracy is bad,
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We’re taking a page from the best nature guide books and bringing you a Field Guide to Black Holes this week. Check back each day for a new page in
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I have an entire lever arch file of notes on people who died after being sanctioned or denied benefits; I knew this was going to be difficult bt JFC someone
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helloooo. pls check this thread because I need the active beauty influencers to show out for me real quick like this if you are an active beauty influencer focusing on
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Trans rights, cunt. @KiraIsSolid I'm slowly losing every single one of my braincells looking at this literal brianlet's takes. You seeing this shit? @THEVIDEOGAMERE1 Mf too stupid
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People who are actually “cancelled” don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets.This has been a public service announcement. The term “cancel culture” comes from entitlement - as
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Every Andrew Yang fan I've ever interacted with has big "easily duped into joining a cult" energy. There's a huge subset of people whose main personality trait is "being a
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