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Making up expertise

jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00

*Peter Navarro: what Trump's Covid-19 tsar lacks in expertise, he makes up*

He *wrote books quoting expert who turned out to be fictitious version of himself.*

Reawakening volcano

jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00

A reawakening dormant volcano, located between Reykjavik and its airport, may cause substantial difficulties for both.

Parks

jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00

An incomplete consideration of the question of whether it is right to use the park yourself, if everyone else is staying away to avoid a dangerous crowd.

This discussion ends prematurely with an invalid conclusion: to deprive everyone and call it "fairness". There is some number of people who can use the park while staying sufficiently apart from each other. Since that is not dangerous, society should set up a system of rationing for slots to use the park.

The system should not commit incidental injustices through a bad choice of mechanisms. For instance, it should not require using non-libre software, and if authorities verify that park users have slots, that should not identify those users who do have slots.

The arguments for individual disobedience are much weaker against this helpful system than against a wasteful extreme of complete denial.

US hospitals and clinics putting staff out of work

jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00

US hospitals and clinics are shutting down departments, even closing entirely, putting their staff out of work.

Meanwhile, the hospitals that are still open are overwhelmed with patients, but they have no extra funds to hire the doctors and nurses that have lost their jobs. A national medical system could give them new assignments where they are needed.

Heating of estuaries along NSW coast

jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00

*Water in estuaries along NSW coast has warmed by more than 2C [since 2007].*

This is much faster than the ocean or the air.