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by FuckButtons 6y ago
Just because we don’t have direct evidence, doesn’t mean we don’t know anything. We can make educated guesses and talk about what is more or less likely. For example, it’s less likely that immunity will last for 7 months, its more likely to
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by FuckButtons 6y ago
According to the literature I have read, there is no evidence that Its mutating rapidly, nor is there multiple distinct strands. The increase in strokes is real, but your risk if you are <60 years old of having one is still vanishingly
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by FuckButtons 6y ago
I feel reasonably confident about vaccine efficacy, I suspect the reason this thing is so bad is because of the binding affinity of its spike protein. If that mutates, it will become less lethal so waning vaccine efficacy becomes less of an
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by FuckButtons 6y ago
No, we don’t, but that uncertainty doesn’t mean that it’s definitely an unprecedented calamity. This is not good, but how not good is yet to be seen and anyone who claims to know how things will shake out is lying or fooling themselves.
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by FuckButtons 6y ago
We don’t know much, and we won’t know much for a long time yet. One thing we have a reasonable handle on is how many people went in to a hospital in the last week. We know less well how many people died last week. Anything beyond that is so
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
That just isn’t consistent with other countries in the region which have much more reliable data though. I may not believe a word the Chinese government says, but I do believe South Korea, and Singapore, and Taiwan.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
Or that they have significant additional effect over social distancing alone, which we won’t know for some time yet.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
Start by brushing up on your math, there’s not much you can really get into without first getting into the calculus of variations, which you probably haven’t covered. From that you can get into Hamiltonian mechanics and from there you can s
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
Yeah, it is, but that’s no more true now than it was before Coronavirus. Trumps presidency has laid bare just how enfeebled American democracy is.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
Corona viruses also have an error correction enzyme in their rna transcription so their rate of mutation is much lower than most viruses, it’s likely that both herd immunity and vaccination would be effective as a consequence.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
The icons are ugly, there are too many boxy sections on any given view, the top left pane in the calendar provides no useful information and is ugly. There is too much noise and clutter, it could be simpler and cleaner. I use it every day,
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
i Would argue we may be at the zenith of our civilization, environmental and ecological collapse seem not just possible but likely in the medium term if you look at the trends in co2 and biodiversity loss.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
intensity is proportional to the inverse square of the distance, anything exploding that far away will be but a pinpoint in the sky by the time it gets here, even if it was a cataclysm when it occurred.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
I thought the Bay Area was unnervingly devoid of birds, I guess I was right.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
Manufacturing is an awful lot more than “cobbling together” a cad file. Cruise missiles need some pretty complex components to be made with specialized tooling, none of which are going to last long with Saudi Arabia bombing the fuck out of
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
Quanta has a lot of good articles like this one, definitely worth looking at every now and then.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
I’d rather get my shit done so I can go home earlier and spend time with my family.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
No shit, Gladwell knows one thing, how to sell a hokey idea to the credulous.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
Having lived in London and San Francisco I can say that from my perspective there is a real problem with getting affordable, convenient and descent sandwiches in the US. They’re ubiquitous in England, every shop has pre packaged sandwiches
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
It won’t, it’s going to be another nuclear winter in Silicon Valley.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
The first amendment does not protect the right of foreign nations to dispense propaganda. Indeed there are in fact provisions prohibiting foreign nations involving themselves in the election process in the US constitution.
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by FuckButtons 7y ago
What was involved in their mentorship plan?