Pyramus

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by Pyramus 5y ago
We didn't really learn (enough) - Fukushima made that very apparent. As an example, Angela Merkel, who used to be pro nuclear, changed position after the disaster. The reason is that ever since Chernobyl there has been an active debate
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Seems like Wikipedia is incorrect as well? "The main purpose of the [Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity] Act is to partially compensate the nuclear industry against liability claims arising from nuclear incidents [...]."
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> The inherit risks are supremely low and the catastrophic failure mode for nuclear plants isn't a nuclear winter, in the absolutely worst case it's a contamination of the area where the plant was built. Well, not really. While
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by Pyramus 5y ago
That is correct and should be highlighted more. In a way the real numbers are a model (or maybe a 'language') to describe physical phenomena. They work exceptionally well at that, but they are not backed by evidence and do come wi
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by Pyramus 5y ago
In theory yes - in practice no. Legal/illegal is only a binary variable in theory. In practice it's things that are clearly white, clearly black and lots of grey in between. There are many concrete examples regarding accounting ru
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Enron is another fascinating example, there is an interview with the former CFO where he talks about what he calls "legal fraud" - practices that are highly dubious but technically not illegal [1]. [1] https://youtu.be&
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Do I understand you correctly that the occurrence of false positives is more damaging than the distribution of misinformation? It's easy to say it's all black or all white, as a matter of fact we live in a world that's differ
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by Pyramus 5y ago
The point you make is unrelated to mRNA technology or Covid vaccines - it can happen, has happened (thalidomide, pandemrix, etc.) and will happen again. I don't see why we this discussion has to be so politically charged. Life as an ad
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Came here to say that it's not necessarily in our head - you can knowingly get a placebo and still react to it. As far as I know it's a combination of head, genetics and other unknown factors. In my opinion an underappreciated and
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> Topics like this bring modern attitudes about identity to a tricky spot. Not only identity but if you follow this train of thought also criminal responsibility. If I'm not mistaken there is a well known correlation between (childh
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I agree with you - I understood 'totality' as in 'everything that can be controlled' (anything else would be contradictory). As such it's still very desirable. I also want to highlight that trying to control mind an
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Covid-19 overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in American history(statnews.com)
25 points by Pyramus 5y ago|67 comments
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Very interesting - thanks for posting! My knowledge was pre-Delta, and this study (in its current prepring form) suggests that for Delta, we have infection + mRNA vaccine > infection > mRNA vaccine. Upon quick screening the authors do
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> By that point it will have mutated into being a cold for most people. Just to clarify that it's not the virus that will become more benign in an endemic situation - it's the hosts that will adapt to it, similar to how baby&#x
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by Pyramus 5y ago
My understanding is that most virologists believe we will end up in an endemic situation so that is what is going to happen in the long run (the crux is how we get there). > natural immunity to more antigen sites than just the spike prot
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by Pyramus 5y ago
The question whether milk is beneficial for humans is far more complicated than you suggest. The only thing we know for sure is that consuming milk is not the net positive that it has been portrayed to be. It's most likely a net zero [
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Do you have a source that natural immunity is superior to vaccine-induced? Last time I checked studies showed that at least for the mRNA vaccines two shots was superior to natural immunity, as was natural immunity + mRNA booster shot. This
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Very good example re continuity! I fully agree that (high) school math is mostly calculus and very different from university/research math. I would recommend parent to start exploring what math actually is, which fields there are and w
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not. In any case, while human bodies are amazing in the way they can strive on different diets, we know that the traditional Intuit diet (~50% fat, 30% protein, 20% carbs) leads to signifi
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Yes, the dose-response is the interesting bit, and strong indication for causation. Not an expert so don't know how well we understand the mechanism of action, which is crucial.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
In Southern Germany, the vaccine against tick-borne encephalitis ("FSME") is one of the standard vaccines that is administered to almost everyone growing up, with booster shots every 10 years or so.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
PEI (German Institute for Vaccines) on 16 Mar 2021 (!) [1]: "(4) The number of these cases after vaccination with COVID-19 AstraZeneca is statistically significantly higher than the number of cerebral venous thromboses that normally oc
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> In fact the clotting issue is occurring at the same rate as in the general population - 5 per 1M people. No, blood clotting occurred at roughly 1.5-2x the rate, so ~1 per 100k. Look at the data from the UK, Germany or Norway, which rai
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I understand that both Covid/vaccines might have unknown unknowns and I also get the disproportional importance of long-term effects. I don't fully understand what you mean by "the data quality doesn't allow for that lev
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by Pyramus 5y ago
No, there is no "evolutionary pressure for all diseases", only for those where lethality precludes transmission, i.e. there is some cap at a some max. Which is not the case for SARS-Cov-2 - viral titers peak after 2-4 days and pop
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by Pyramus 5y ago
In theory yes - and that's what's happening in many countries. E.g. in Germany there is a differentiation between high risk areas and virus variant areas, with different testing and quarantine protocols etc. However on a global sc
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I think you misunderstood the technique, e.g. you can simply apply it to yourself. If there is nothing that will change one's position, it's not worth engaging because the outcome is set.
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Could you explain what you mean by that? We already know Covid can cause autoimmune issues in some patients, so are you saying the effect you describe is just a subset of these, or different?
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by Pyramus 5y ago
This is the correct answer and should be highlighted more. The virus doesn't evolve to become benign, it's the hosts that will evolve. In addition to the endemic coronaviruses that you stated, another example are endemic/seas
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by Pyramus 5y ago
As far as I know the virus H1N1 itself didn't really evolve in the sense that it got milder - all hosts either developed immunity or died off. Now our immune systems encounter one of the endemic, seasonal strains of H1N1 when we are yo

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