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by _djo_ 5y ago
Even if it was to avoid the association with Xi Jinping, so what? The entire point is to have neutral names for variants that don’t malign specific countries and regions and let’s us discuss them without political baggage. Same with skippin
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It’s disturbing how poor the civics knowledge regarding multinational organisations remains in much of the world. The relations between countries in general are dysfunctional, driven by politics and selfish interests, often corrupt, and dep
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by _djo_ 5y ago
There's always going to be some undercounting, as in any country, but in terms of being able to test enough cases and be consistent over time South Africa's numbers are reliable. During earlier waves the testing infrastructure has
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by _djo_ 5y ago
That's objectively false, seeing as though the test infrastructure has been able to detect hundreds of thousands more cases during the country's waves. If your claim was accurate, South Africa's case rate would have plateaued
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by _djo_ 5y ago
>Completely fucked up their response to covid, mostly of of a fear of Xis ego. No global agency can work if countries don't cooperate or report false information. We don't have a world government. > The world has fought fami
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by _djo_ 5y ago
That's not quite true, as the USSR was heavily involved in the planning discussions for the UN. It was from the very beginning an attempt to codify the winning alliance of WW2 into a more permanent structure to create world stability.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
>And the United Nations is an organization so useless, everyone would be better off without it. This is evidence of how badly internal US culture war politics have damaged the public’s understanding of institutions and the way the world
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Experts don't always get it right, but what differentiates those we trust from those we don't is that they're cautious, curious, and learn from new information to adjust their views and recommendations. Plenty of scientists h
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Again, note the language used. First, it’s a summary of what’s suspected at the time, but with a lot of caveats around what’s uncertain. The statement being made the quoted portion is that it’s likely to have a CFR a lot closer to flu than
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It actually is true, the US’s SARS-CoV-2 lineages were predominantly from Europe. Especially Italy.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
You’re stripping out important context there. He was comparing it to SARS and MERS with CFRs of 9-10%, so saying COVID-19 would be closer to the influenza end of the spectrum if, and only if, some of the early info on the infection fatality
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by _djo_ 5y ago
That’s not quite accurate, they’re identified in GISAID [0] and other platforms, which is where scientists upload sampled genetic sequences. It’s also out in the open and free to access. This GitHub repo is just about registering the Pango
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The poor and unbanked in a number of developing countries are still able to use crypto for remittances, in some cases done through local trusted intermediaries who do have that access. Same as hawala brokers.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Thanks for that clarification!
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by _djo_ 5y ago
I'm sceptical of most of the claimed benefits of crypto but I have to admit that it seems useful for cross-border remittances, bypassing companies like Western Union who have traditionally charged unreasonable rates. Even with processi
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The Swiss one was codified as an international standard as IEC 60906-1, which South Africa and Brazil have adopted, so it should be the de facto option for any country looking to replace their current system. The problem with replacing Brit
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It's a little out of date, South Africa has mandated IEC 60906-1 (SANS 164-2) on all new installations for some time now, replacing the huge old BS 546 (SANS 164-1) socket. Incidentally, IEC 60906-1 was designed to be a new global plug
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In quest for ‘people’s vaccine’, South African scientists try to crack the code(standard.co.uk)
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Unless you’re talking about dysfunctional developing world air forces like the Afghan Air Force I have difficulty believing that, and even then I’d question it. I can’t say I know how every single force operates, but I’ve seen a few African
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Ah yeah, the Blue Angels do the same. It’s all part of the show for them, with the aircraft parked in view of the public and a big deal made of the pilots walking to the aircraft and there being a smooth and rehearsed synchronised starting
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The pilots of Air Force One do in fact do pre-flight inspections and walks around, yes. I’ve seen them do it personally. All military pilots do their own pre-flight inspections, including checking inlets, exhausts, the undercarriage, and fl
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by _djo_ 5y ago
I don’t know who practices that, but it’s not a very professional approach. The only time I’ve known that to happen has been for quick reaction alerts, when it’s considered an acceptable risk to save time. For normal operations the pilot do
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by _djo_ 5y ago
That assumes, wrongly, that Apple only patched the vulnerabilities used by NSO since 2016 in iOS 14.8. In reality, Apple has been reacting to and fixing new exploits all the time, with NSO Group (and others) successfully finding new ones to
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Contract law isn't absolutist like that, and it can't bind both parties in a way that's unreasonable or contrary to certain basic rights-related laws. That's why you can't contract yourself into slavery. What'
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by _djo_ 5y ago
There's certainly a lot of blame that can be placed on the country's leadership over the past fifty years, but it's not as straightforward as that. For one, there's been huge economic, political, and commercial pressure
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Journalists at established media houses are accountable, including to internal and external ombuds or public editors. They also rely on reputation. Of course a lot of what's supposed to be 'journalism' isn't, like talkin
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by _djo_ 5y ago
That's what the public demands, so that's what news companies cater for in order to make a profit and stay in business. Few journalists like covering that sort of stuff, a whole bunch dreamed of being investigative journalists bre
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Studies have looked at the supposed I-MASK and MATH+ protocols, or at least similar combinations of Ivermectin and Zinc, and found no benefit there either. Anecdotally I also know a half a dozen people who were doing the I-MASK protocol bec
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by _djo_ 5y ago
‘Wrong’ information, if it’s expected, understood, and predictable, is still usable. Especially if we know it’s not going to introduce completely alien artefacts into an image like Ryan Reynold’s face. All of the standard zoom algorithms fa
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by _djo_ 5y ago
This wasn’t a new evidence exhibit being introduced. Did you actually read the transcript, or are you reacting to this story based on what you’ve read elsewhere?

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