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by Laforet 4y ago
Apple's current line of ARM chips lack the memory and IO features that are essential for server application. Sure they could be added in a new design but I suspect that the value proposition of in house designs would not as good with t
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by Laforet 5y ago
Just because something could be done, does not imply that it would be done. I can't speak for the decision makers, but it's clear that they have decided that it wasn't worth it. And that was probably the right call until Omic
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by Laforet 5y ago
Alum tends to result in Th2 response, which is not very useful against viral infection as the T cells required to clear infected cells are not sufficiently activated. A lot of antibodies will be made but an RNA virus could mutate very rapid
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by Laforet 5y ago
>In a country with complete control over the information ecosystem, how can it be that so many old people don't want to take the vaccine? Because nobody wanted to be held responsible for any adverse reactions to the vaccine. The sor
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by Laforet 5y ago
MoH data is a bit sparse on detail but still mentions 300K+ doses of vaccine administered daily. http://www.nhc.gov.cn/xcs/yqjzqk/list_gzbd.shtml The economist has some aged grouped vaccination data from the end o
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by Laforet 5y ago
They are already doing that and it will take some time. However no vaccine is 100% effective against mortality. Bear in mind that China had almost no covid deaths post-2020. Any covid death now is considered a failure as it would have been
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by Laforet 5y ago
>Until when does the situation need to appear under control? Barring major catastrophe, thing will continue to drift in the current direction until the Congress is "concluded in triumph" and the new government sworn in. So prob
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by Laforet 5y ago
The imcumbent cabinet and politburo are going out of term later this year and a new list of names needs to be appointed and rubber stamped by the upcoming 20th CCP National Congress. The government essentially operate in caretaker mode for
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by Laforet 5y ago
China had administered more than 2 billion doses of vaccines using alum based adjuvant. This combined with the very low level of prior infection is theoretically the perfect breeding ground for a different serotype of Covid. Time will tell
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by Laforet 5y ago
In that case you are screwed. The odds of every single validator turning against an individual is slim, however Ethereum is not above the act of rewriting history to undo certain transactions. They already did it once with the DAO hack and
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by Laforet 5y ago
Interesting, who knows the top export of Macedonia are centrifuges?
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by Laforet 5y ago
It does not have to be 16 bit. A lot of 32 bit programs I wrote in Virtual Basic 5 or 6 does not work properly in Windows 7 or later. This is not for a lack of runtime files, but the program will either exit early with cryptic error message
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by Laforet 5y ago
I teach high school students from time to time and over the years I have accumulated a large library of STEM training material. Of which there are a lot of PowerPoint slides with interactive Flash content embedded. When MS and Adobe turned
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by Laforet 5y ago
It's not like they have not tried. At few years back in time, the market was flooded with cheap x86 tablets because Intel was pretty much handing out pallets of Bay Trail SoC for free to any willing manufacturer in an attempt to kick s
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by Laforet 5y ago
Cash is already heavily monitored and most petty criminals have already moved on to Amazon gift cards. The latter is easier to track in theory but nobody bothers. At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, I think this is part of an overarchin
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by Laforet 5y ago
Why 13-15? Is siesta a thing in Germany too?
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by Laforet 5y ago
As long as all transfers are final it has achieved the intended goal - no chance getting your money back at all!
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by Laforet 5y ago
Newspapers and magazines have always formatted long text in narrow columns of 5-7 words. Admittedly I find it very irritating to read every now and then. Most paperbacks have paragraphs that are about twice as wide (10 to 12 words) and it d
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by Laforet 5y ago
His youngest son is a programmer and prominent member of the Scala community. https://www.linkedin.com/in/haoyi-li-3b3291182?originalSubdo...
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by Laforet 5y ago
Russia had double digit inflation rate in 2015 after sanctions over Ukraine came into effect. It was only kept below 5% through a combination of devaluation, austerity and high interest rates, all of which have ramifications. Americans love
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by Laforet 5y ago
I'm pretty sure only the final assembly gets done in the UK. Every other component has to come from somewhere else.
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by Laforet 5y ago
A LOT less effective, especially for filtering sub-micrometer aerosols. https://imgur.com/a/Of4rDAu Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00375
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by Laforet 5y ago
The rule was not made to protect passengers, but to protect the crew who are stunk in a tin can with hundreds of different people every day. The risks will add up over time. Also, male doctors and nurses are require to shave before donning
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by Laforet 5y ago
The traditional view has always been a combination of genetics and behavior factors, namely reading and other close up work during the age of 8-14 when the eye is still capable of axial elongation. The light intensity theory is a more recen
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by Laforet 5y ago
Focus or accommodation loss is just the beginning of myopia. Sometime after the symptoms show up, the eye would physically elongate in the axial direction and push the retina beyond the accommodation range of the lens. This change is impos
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by Laforet 5y ago
The reverse can also happen with people hoarding subreddits and refuse to hand them over to more eager people. Even when it is clear their interest have moved on, reddit admins will refuse usurpation requests because "the moderator is
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by Laforet 5y ago
It is an announcement to the world that those are the type of questions and discussions that shall not be entertained. It may seem a bit aggressive but for any public figure who manages their own Twitter account it is not a bad idea when yo
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by Laforet 5y ago
Yes it does. Like it all not we all subconsciously associate media format with a certain era or genre. A gramophone places a story back in the early 20th century and a minidisc surely brings up memories of the late 1990s. Having a period-sp
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by Laforet 5y ago
Virulence refers to the ability of a pathogen to cause disease. Omicron is not more virulent. If anything it is likely to be much less virulent as it lacks the ability to infect lung tissue. On the other hand because the infection is now co
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by Laforet 5y ago
70s and 80s scifi media frequently depict floppy disks being used well into the 22nd century and beyond, despite the fact that optical and solid state storage did exist in some form back then. Either is is done to make the scenes relatable

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