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Comment · 5 years ago
I could have been more clear, the distinction is semantic. I was referring to culling/sterilization to prevent reproduction in the sexually mature. Unborn persons are not adults, even if they will be.
Comment · 5 years ago
Eugenics has obvious issues when applied to mature individuals or groups, but I'll need convincing that the same moral position is warranted if we're talking about cells.
Comment · 5 years ago
>Compared to infinity, all dicks are small...

Wisdom for the ages.

Comment · 5 years ago
>> Use among 15-24 year olds fell throughout the decade,

>This implies that use among other groups than 15-24 year old had not fell throughout the decade.

Within the context of logic, that is not an implication.

Comment · 5 years ago
Are the people participating in the scientific studies of the drug participating in alternative medicine?
Comment · 5 years ago
I didn't bring up Hydroxychloroquine. My point was that it wasn't "alternative medicine" for the time it was authorized by the FDA.
Comment · 5 years ago
>"Alternative medicine" like ivermectine or hydroxychloroquine have no scientific, properly studied basis for being used.

When a medical doctor prescribes a drug for a purpose that is currently being studied scientifically, that is not "alternative medicine". Ivermectin is still being studied. Hydroxychloroquine was emergency authorized by the FDA.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
>No one bats an eye taking it today because it saves lives.

It saved lives in 1955. No one bats an eye taking it today because we know it's safe.

Comment · 5 years ago
Read the article. We're not talking about formal verification.

>It's Sunday morning and I just discovered that I've lost 3To of data and that all data pipelines have stop working because on Friday I ran for no reason

  hdfs dfs -rm /data

This is profound incompetence.
Comment · 5 years ago
Tesla might be "...doing it...", but that doesn't mean the stock price isn't confusing.

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