Exmoor

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by Exmoor 6y ago
Edit: I'm an idiot who was trying to do too many things at once and misread. Removing my incorrect commentary on 95% CI numbers. I'll leave the excerpt from the study since that's useful info. >Findings: The first dose of
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Looking at the raw data [0], cases reported on Saturday/Sunday are a little higher than last week, but the weekday cases rates match up week to week. Seems more plausible it's just noise in the data to me, but time will tell. [0]
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by Exmoor 6y ago
This is the second time today I'm seeing something about a new wave in Germany, but I'm just not seeing this born out in the overall data for the country [0]. Looking at the data I see a continued decline since mid to late Decembe
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by Exmoor 6y ago
This could become increasingly important more of the population becomes vaccinated and case rates continue to fall. If a variant that is able to evade vaccinated immunity occurs we have the technology to quickly develop updated mRNA vaccine
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by Exmoor 6y ago
A huge chunk of what we now consider internet culture was derived from the Something Awful forums and some of the other sites that sprouted out of it (4chan). I believe most/all the images in the video the OP is derived from were from
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Wow, this is way more interesting than I was hoping for when I clicked on this link. Identifying birds computationally is an enormously tricky problem, but because they're tasked with reducing wind turbine's killing protected sp
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by Exmoor 6y ago
1) You're (outside of some relatively small models) very right here, but TV manufacturers are starting to push 8K sets with negligible benefits for most people's scenarios and little to no native resolution content. 2) Absolutely.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I cannot speak specifically for J&J, but by the number of adenovirus licensing agreements I've seen for Oxford, Sputnik V, etc. I would guess that existing facilities can be converted to produce a viral-vector vaccine much easier t
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by Exmoor 6y ago
While I share your concerns about the government, and was suspicious of the numbers (heck, more than suspicious, I dismissed them out of hand), the more data that we see the more reasonable they seem. Using two different adenoviruses was, i
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I would add the 6ft rule, but it's unclear to me that people even now realize that's it's based on assumptions about transmission which were proven wrong pretty early on.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
For what its worth, I've seen KN95 masks and N95 masks being in stock from trustworthy retailers at reasonable prices (~$1 per mask) so I picked some up. My layman's assessment was that they did a significantly better job of sea
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Cynical answer: Because at big tech companies culture leads them to believe they have to have a competing product in every new market rather than letting their "competitors" go unopposed. Occasionally it works out, but often you j
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Here's a source for the reinfection rate. I've seen a few studies that all came to the < 1% conclusion: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.21249731v... The Manaus data is interesting
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Agreed. Use it for what its useful for, ignore the rest. Social media in general is mostly noise. The key is to optimize the best use and ignore the rest. Honestly this is much easier on LinkedIn since I have a pretty limited subset of acti
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I've been wondering when these chickens would come home to roost. There are a few countries who have heavily touted how many vaccines they've agreed to buy, but aren't being nearly as vocal about when they're going to
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Since you asked, my layman's strategy would be to keep prioritizing the groups at most risk of negative consequences to get the mRNA vaccines and open a second "lane" with less stringent requirements to get a shot of the J&am
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I agree that the AZ vaccine was safe and should have been given US approval. That said, this data is for a single dose compared to AZ's two doses so it is a bit apples-to-oranges.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I suspect the title was abbreviated to fit HN length requirements, but it cut out perhaps the most important part. This data is for a single shot. There is an ongoing trial for boosting with a second shot down the line, but having a single
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I've seen a few explanations of this that aren't as doom and gloom as some of the media reports. The first is that the seroprevalence data is based on blood donors, which is not a random sample. It looks like they tried to control
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Not just the difference between indoor and outdoor light, but also the incredible variations between a sunny day in the summer and a cloudy day in winter. There's a pretty incredible difference.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Here's a link to the actual study: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.427948v1 I believe most of the vaccines approved or pending approval (Johnson and Johnson) target the spike protein, so I
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by Exmoor 6y ago
A few years ago I started seeing anecdotal reports of greatly reduced numbers of insectivorous birds. I shrugged it off at the time, because a few anecdotes about missing Swallows is not data, but the anecdotes (and now data) have been pili
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I take posts from MirrorlessRumors with large grains of salt, but Nikon is certainly in a rough position here. The market for standalone cameras has been shrinking and the market that remains is largely moving towards mirrorless where Nikon
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I can believe that the company who named resources sequentially, enforced no security validation for viewing posts/media, and didn't strip metadata from media uploads also didn't have engineers especially skilled in optimizat
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by Exmoor 6y ago
And also that he basically left his life behind with no intention of ever coming back and hiked until he literally starved to death.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Rock Dove (AKA Common Pigeon and Rock Pigeon) have been established in Australia for 150 years[0] so the ship has sailed on that one. Sounds like they're concerned about disease. [0] https://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile&
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Indeed. The level of security failure was pretty incredible. They named media serially (So, pics/1.jpg, pics/2.jpg, etc.) and did not have any validation that you were allowed to access what you were grabbing so it was literally a
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by Exmoor 6y ago
The diversity pushes since last year of focused on historically underrepresented minorities in technical fields. Specifically these would be (in the USA) black and hispanic employees. Paying these employees less generally would be a very sh
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Also throwing out the suggestion of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America . I listened to the audio book on Audible and found it pretty interesting.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Sure they can, but reducing the geographic spread would reduce the chances of those randomly occurring variants spreading quickly around the world. I would expect other countries to require testing of international flights for the same reas

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