iridium_core

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Why should poor people without jobs live in New York, one of the most expensive cities? Wouldn't it be cheaper and more effective to pay them to leave, and give them bus tickets to do so?

Comment · 5 years ago

And would those sites be conservative media, who also advocate breaking up big tech?

Comment · 5 years ago

Its sustainable politically if you call anyone who opposes the scheme racist - only a single country in the top 10 migrant contributors to Canada is of European heritage:

https://www.cicnews.com/2020/02/a-quarter-of-canadas-immigra...

This is already causing long-term social problems, like sex-selective abortion which is prevalent in Indian communities in Canada even after multiple generations:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S170121631...

If the USA is restricting immigration, and Canada is not, this is just another driver for the top talent to flee Canada to the USA.

Canada might succeed in becoming a dumping-ground of migrants, a country of cheap back-office labour and expensive housing, but that sounds like a terrible place to live or develop any cutting-edge technology.

Comment · 5 years ago

Just legalise all drugs and let the free market decide. We could create innovative new substances which are safer and less socially damaging, compared to the plants and fermented liquids we happen to have stumbled upon millenia ago.

Comment · 5 years ago

The tweet might be disagreeable, but it is still an important statement from a foreign Government. Twitter has no right to be 'Ministry of Information'.

Comment · 5 years ago

Influenza does the same: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/can-the-flu-and-other...

These unprecedented restrictions on human freedom (Lockdown) are probably also a factor in pyschosis - limiting people from regular socialisation, exercise etc.

Comment · 5 years ago

So incessant, and seemingly ineffective, lockdowns have succeeded - in selecting for a variant of COVID which is resistant to lockdown? What biological or physical mechanism could allow it to spread more than the original?

Comment · 5 years ago

Their production source code has the salt for the encryption algorithm hard coded as the (presumably H1B worker's) name "Amalesh"

Comment · 5 years ago

We need Russians - or people outside of the progressive bubble of Europe and North America - to create an alternate internet, please. Starting with browser, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook replacement. Then onto OS - mobile and desktop.

Comment · 5 years ago

Is there any evidence that this new 'variant' has any impact to infectiousness or death?

Or is it simply genetic drift?

Comment · 5 years ago

And what % of economic, scientific, and cultural output is that 10% responsible for?

Comment · 5 years ago

Look at the data directly: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#z-scores-by-country

Difficult to see much excess death in the UK in the past few months beyond levels seen in the 2018 and 2017 flu seasons.

New lockdowns also seem to be coordinated across the global right now, independent of local conditions. This absolutely seems like a coordinated global action to achieve some kind of strategic aim.