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by PierceJoy 2y ago
I think the available evidence supports calling it very deadly to humans. As you said though, it's possible and even likely the CFR is overestimating. However I doubt you would see a 50% CFR equate to something low enough that wouldn&#
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/wpro---documen... > From 1 January 2003 to 27 September 2024, a total of 261 cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus have been reported fro
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
> Avian flu is apparently not too dangerous to humans There are multiple strains. So far the strain circulating in cows seems to be mild in humans, but the strain in birds seems to be very deadly to humans.
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
People seem to forget that any able bodied person can end their life at any time they choose. Denying MAID is only denying this right to people who want to exercise it with dignity.
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
Despite the intent to show an equal distribution visually, if you actually pay attention to the individual outlets you see a few things. Nearly all the outlets in the summit block, over 40 reliability score, are considered left or far left
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
> Because you and I both know Apple will never be price-competitive with the commodity segment. OG iPhone: $799 iPhone 3G: $199 > They are a luxury brand that relies on luxury margins, so I want to know why their business model will s
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
The author specifically says he believes people will be using the 4th or 5th iteration of the Vision Pro for this purpose. Why are you comparing prices of devices that won't exist for another 5+ years?
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
> There will always be people who disagree with the politics/opinions/alleigances of a successful person and who wish to downplay their success for selfish reasons. And conversely, there will always be people who agree with the
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
Considering Musk isn't the founder of Tesla, that's obviously not true. He is the founder of SpaceX so that's probably true that it wouldn't exist without him. Walter Isaacson doesn't have the best reputation for co
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
And funnily enough they were working on smart glasses when they were acquired by Google
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
I'm very far from a musk fan, and if you want to make the case that musk isn't responsible for Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink I think that's a legitimate argument to be made. But I don't think there's much argument to
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
> There are concerns that they paid for infrastructure in deeply democratic areas and ignored areas that were republican-leaning Concerns without evidence are nothing. Is there any evidence at all this occurred? Why aren't Republica
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
Then how did Biden win in places where Republicans controlled the election infrastructure?
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
Many many right wingers in Canada do not understand that. They truly believe the government is requiring Facebook to block all Canadian news. I know this because I live in a small town and have talked to these people. It’s also plain to see
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
He donated 400m to funding election infrastructure. How is that donating to Democrats?
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
To be clear, Facebook chooses to block it because they don’t want to compensate Canadians news outlets, not because the act requires blocking, which is common misinformation that has been spread.
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
There is a UCI sanctioned electric mountain bike enduro race.
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
You must be referring to covid. Thankfully we have vaccines to reduce our risk of short and long term side effects.
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
Do Americans complain about the GDPR? I’ve only ever seen them say they wish the US had something similar.
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
I'm not sure what videos you're watching, but the majority of the ones that pop up on my feeds are them annoying non-LE government workers and regular people trying to use government services like the post office, passport office,
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
Hereditary autoimmune diseases are not a sense, and are irrelevant to this discussion about whether hearing is an objective advantage or not. I’ll ask again, since you must have missed this question: is a deaf person, all else equal, more l
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
> Most of vertebrates (including human's ancestors) lost the 6th sense of electric fields in process of the evolution. Human ancestors are not human. Also, the ancestor you are referring to was a fish, and could only sense electric
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
It’s a disadvantage in the “built” world, but it’s also a disadvantage in the natural world. If you drop a deaf person in the middle of the forest with no one around, they will not be able hear rivers for water, they will not be able to hea
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
Isn’t that what Anduril was showing off in the recent Mark Rober video?
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
When are we going to have mass protests against the private equity takeover of everything? Besides climate change and war, I’m hard pressed to think of anything that will have as much of a negative impact on society.
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35441470/
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
I don’t think that works in practise. Social media companies need to be able to use algorithms for discovery. The firehose approach doesn’t work at large scale. Algorithmic discovery will always have some type of bias and you’re just settin
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
I’m assuming at will employment makes this very unlikely to be successful.
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
On the contrary, most weight loss doctors consider these drugs to be like statins. You take them for the rest of your life. The number of people who maintain healthy habits after stopping them is shockingly low.
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by PierceJoy 2y ago
> And Don Rogers, the editor Prince hired to run it, is living rent-free in one of his properties at the moment. > Rogers says he doesn’t believe Prince’s ownership of the paper (or his current living arrangements) poses a conflict of

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