Pyramus

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by Pyramus 5y ago
Yes, that is correct. I believe the difference is that most of us were exposed to the flu when we were younger, building immunity to the strains that are seasonal. This is not the case for new strains. There are reports from the 1918 influe
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> I would expect them to result in a more specific immunity which is easier for the virus to circumvent, my mutating only its spike protein. This is not clear at all - actually the opposite might be the case. Natural immunity focuses on
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by Pyramus 5y ago
A couple of comments: > [...] vaccines reduce the chance of severe (symptomatic) illness but do not necessarily prevent infection and transmission. My understanding is that at least the RNA vaccines are sterilizing when titers peak, i.e.
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> This view is incredibly harmful. What lives in the soil is important too, small animals, insects, mushrooms... I want to highlight that it's a relatively recent discovery that almost all plants live in a symbiotic relationship wit
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Yes and no. Yes, mortality is low generally, but grows exponentially with age, so pretty high for older people (1-10+ %). And you don't have to choose death as your trial end point, you can take something else that is clinically meanin
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I think you are both correct. For the frequency of such interactions here is a simple experiment (that I know to work): Follow a couple of hand picked accounts on Twitter. Over time Twitter will suggest who to follow, follow these accounts
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What do you even mean? We are almost two years into this pandemic and the coincidental benefit of different countries reacting differently is that we have a pretty good understanding what the factors are that drive the spread of SARS-Cov2 a
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Unfortunately we are past the point where the deliberate spread of misinformation can be ignored. Unfortunately social media, as facilitated by big tech, does have serious negative externalities. I wish it didn't and social media does
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Did you actually watch the video? It's from Feb 2020. That's the thing about scientific consensus: It evolves over time with the discovery of new evidence.
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It's one thing to give a drug as part of a cocktail/protocol because it "might just work as well" when the risk/benefit is kind of even. It's a whole other thing to prove HDQ is effective in a randomized contro
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by Pyramus 5y ago
Should have been more precise, I meant fatalities from Psilocybe or little brown mushrooms that look like them. Looking at statistics for a part of Germany (2006) again, there weren't actually any fatalities but 'only' cases
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True, Amanita phalloides specifically is the single most deadly mushroom at least in Germany according to (slightly dated) statistics.
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I would compare this website more to a very rough, speculative weather forecast. It might increase your chances to find psilocybe slightly, but not really. My understanding is that fatalities from psilocybe (at least in Europe) happen, but
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> Correct me if I'm wrong, you seem to be saying that free speech can't exist without democracy. No, parent is saying freedom of speech is a consequence of democracy, not that one wouldn't exist without the other or that t
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A tragedy. Xiaomi once conducted a poll on Twitter which OS users prefer - MIUI or Stock. 80 % or so voted for Stock Android hence Xiaomi deleted the poll.
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The article is suggesting both. > "And the trust said that a dotted line leading from the car park to the summit could lead walkers into danger."
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I'm a bit surprised, it's enshrined in both US written and case law? See e.g. [1] for an overview or [2] specifically for hate speech. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce... [2]
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> Also personally I find the view that “democracy prevailed before, it’ll continue to prevail somehow” deeply unsatisfying. As somebody from a Western country that has gone from democracy -> dictatorship -> democracy within the las
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I'm not sure why you and parent are being downvoted. In the grand scheme of things we do live in a time of almost uninterrupted peace in the West, and it is not at all clear that we are headed in that direction indefinitely. It is a v
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> I've always wondered if we're going to one day find out that the 8 hours sleep thing was wrong and that it's physical exercise we truly need. Two comments on that: The 8 hours sleep is a population average. It is very un
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by Pyramus 5y ago
> There are very, very few people who cannot take these vaccines due to allergies etc That is correct, allergies are very rare. I'm talking about patients whose immune system is weakened, either on purpose, e.g. transplant patients,
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That is exactly my point - it is common knowledge that there are risks. By saying "everybody is wrong but I found this one guy who is right" parent is well down the road towards conspiracy theory.
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Does that mean you are a proponent of the more traditional vaccines like AZ and J&J, or the NovaVax one?
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> 4. Some people can't get vaccinated or it wont work on them. They will catch it and die if others are not getting it / spreading it. I think that needs to be highlighted more. It's like wearing seatbelts, but for other p
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> He´s the only one so far that has made correct predictions in this pandemic. How likely do you think is it, that a vast field of virologists, immunologists, molecular biologists, medical doctors and scientists in general are all wrong
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> We don´t vaccinate young people against influenza either, because the risk is so low. We do. You might want to read up on why the seasonal influenza is a seasonal influenza and how it is different from a new, pandemic strain. There is
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by Pyramus 5y ago
I'm a bit surprised the original video (from Youtube channel Rich Rebuilds) that this article bases on, is not more prominently mentioned in the discussion. I've linked the part below [1] where Chad (ex Tesla repair technician) ex
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Absolutely - when I say cost effective I'm talking on behalf of the company of course.
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Why do you think so? My impression is that the majority of HN is super critical when you mention Apple and right to repair, and rightfully so. Thinking especially of the Macbook keyboard disaster, or discussions that involve Louis Rossmann.
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If you watch the video [1] Chad (former Tesla repair technician) clearly states it's the issue is due to cost effectiveness not whether the car is under lease. It's also not constrained the nose that was damaged here - whenever a

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