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by Exmoor 5y ago
Full headline (presumably cut for HN length restrictions) is: > The head of the FDA is calling for an investigation into her agency's controversial decision to approve a new Alzheimer's drug
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by Exmoor 5y ago
I believe all vaccines, other than 3 Chinese ones with names starting with "Sino", target the spike protein and all indications I've seen have been that two doses of different protein-targeting vaccines work well together. Th
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I couldn't agree more. As someone who has used Audacity for many, many years and finds himself recommending it to people who have little to no prior computer audio experience I couldn't be more happy that there's some momentu
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I'll be interested to see how this compares to Malaria vaccine, R21, which was recently announced to be highly effective[0]. It seems like R21 is similarly effective and may not have the perception or scalability issues that a "li
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Well, the biggest difference is probably scale. Amazon has roughly 10x the number of direct employees as Microsoft spread throughout a much wider range of job types. Some of this is inherent due to what Amazon's business is, but a big
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Amazon rolled out Slack in summer 2020.
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Yuck. That'll keep me on 10 for the time being. With widescreen monitors it's so nice to be able to use as much of your vertical real-estate as possible.
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Honestly, I find this to be a lazy trope. MS has certainly laid some eggs before, but the "every other version sucks" narrative relies a lot on revisionist thinking. Vista was a resource hog on the hardware of the time, but the
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> Starting later this year, people will be able to discover Android apps in the Microsoft Store and download them through the Amazon Appstore I probably shouldn't expect different, but it's a bummer that you apparently won&#x27
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Which reminds me of the Death Valley Germans,discussed many times on HN.
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> Although the World Health Organization declared smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease, eradicated in 1980, there have been longstanding concerns that the virus that causes smallpox, the variola virus, could be u
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I can't claim I know the answer, but I know what I wish was the reason. I'd like to hope that millions of workers in low-end service jobs, such as food service and retail, saw that their jobs kept their heads above water but gav
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"Very rare" is, at best, a huge exaggeration. I can't post numbers, obviously, but from what I can tell based on employee available tools it's at least 25% of corporate employees. It seems rarer than it is for two reas
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Influencers say Russia-linked PR agency asked them to disparage Pfizer vaccine(theguardian.com)
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> What do feeling have to do with facts. COVID has at most 1% mortality rate. The basis for this is data from places with at least some level of health care. From the reports I'm hearing, a lot of India's rural population is no
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by Exmoor 5y ago
Chimney Swifts would be the type of swift that breeds in your part of the world. They apparently[0] use the insides of brick chimneys to build nests, so if you have one of those simply leaving it uncovered during the spring and summer might
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We know the labs were specifically trying to enhance the viruses ability to infect humans ("gain of function"). Regardless of whether or not SARS-COV-2 leaked from a lab, I think the world has seen enough to know that trying to en
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> the lab leak theory was dismissed with very little evidence to the contrary And the "evidence" to the contrary was largely a letter to the editor from people with major conflicts of interest[0]: >It later turned out that t
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by Exmoor 5y ago
Also until literally today nobody under 16 could get vaccinated and we're still several months away from vaccines possibly being approved for children. Studies show kids are less likely to catch and spread it, and when they do catch it
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I suspect that Vitamin D was collateral damage of the politicization that happened a year ago. People heard "Here's something that may improve outcomes" and lumped it in with all the medicines with questionable efficacy that
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There's been plenty of unforced errors on the part of the government agencies. Claiming that masks don't help because they didn't want average citizens to buy them all up and still saying you shouldn't wear a K/N95
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Honestly, web development has been exponentially worse than any other field of software development I have exposure to, including games. 90% of the time when I open task manager to figure out why things are so slow the answer is some Chrome
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As someone with a fairly minimal understanding of the different open source licenses, I was a little confused on how you could fork Python to a commercial project, but it turns out it's permitted under the license [0]: > Note GPL-co
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Vaccine makers have little incentive to recommend dosing intervals different than what they they ran in their studies, but I have yet to see a shred of evidence indicating that mRNA vaccines lose much effectiveness after 3-4 weeks and some
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It's a weird statement to make, because the route of I5 is fairly arbitrary, geologically speaking. Lower parts of downtown Seattle may be at risk, but is upper Queen Anne hill? Ballard may be partially screwed, but Crown Hill is hundr
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Seconded. I've played CS casually for almost two decades now and, although I specific details have changed over time, I never really knew the specifics about how each weapon effected you. For instance, I've always considered the S
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> It's hilarious to a certain extent that they built the thing smaller than all the competition and bulk it up with a wad of leather anyhow. That's essentially how I feel when I see the "Our thinnest iPhone ever" slid
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It's not considering the disease it's protecting against and the currently likelihood of getting it, but if we were talking a flu shot or a vaccine for some much less common disease that math would change.
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Perhaps previously, but at this point hundreds of millions of people have been injected with mRNA vaccines and the safety profile and efficacy seem much better than any other vaccine technology.
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Unlikely, because the part of the adenovirus they delete that allows it to replicate is what they replace with the portion that generates the spike protein antigen. So if some of the adenovirus is replicating it's inherently not doing

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