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by _djo_ 5y ago
Some countries even still use it for military service, such as South Africa, which has a handful of examples re-engined with turboprop engines for maritime patrol use.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Well put. Too many of those commenting here are unable to view political issues in other countries through anything other than (mostly) American political paradigms. The debate around freedom of speech, for instance, is different for those
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Source? In all our experience monitoring disinformation accounts in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria we have found Twitter to be extraordinarily slow and reluctant to remove accounts. It certainly isn't doing any proactive monitoring t
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Your characterisation assumes that all those involved are real people, when there is blatant evidence of bot activity. Not only that, but in both Kenya and South Africa various official and media investigations have uncovered paid disinform
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Greenwald's tweet in itself is disinformation. The Rolling Stone article quoted Dr McElyea as telling KFOR that multiple hospitals in rural Oklahoma were being overwhelmed with cases of Ivermectin poisoning. One of the hospitals, at wh
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by _djo_ 5y ago
> COVID deaths are inflated (got run over by a bus, but had COVID that only shows up at 40 PCR cycles? you died "with covid") This is false and an annoyingly persistent myth. A death is only included in COVID statistics if it w
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by _djo_ 5y ago
There's a difference between them perceiving it to have no impact, and it having no impact. It also may be important enough to keep funding with 0.0001% of the budget or whatever it costs, but not important enough for a higher level of
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by _djo_ 5y ago
A few African countries are using Pfizer/BioNTech's mRNA vaccine as part of their COVID-19 vaccination programmes. By that measure, they're 'available'. Pfizer/BioNTech have also signed an agreement with South
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I've seen plenty of examples of it happening to apolitical comments in just the last few days. It's not uncommon. It may be that you're predominantly clicking on and reading inherently political topics, and so getting a dispr
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Breakthrough infections with Delta remain relatively low amongst fully vaccinated people, with most cases not resulting in serious infections.
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Natural immunity is not as well understood as vaccine response and longevity for COVID-19. There's also increasing evidence that newer variants like Delta present a significant reinfection risk for those who were infected with the wild
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by _djo_ 5y ago
You would be surprised. I've lost count of the number of small businesses I've seen where employees go unpaid or are underpaid to 'save the business' while the boss makes no such sacrifices. Had to help a number of peopl
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>I think that falls under OC's argument and it seems eventually solvable. Not solvable by purely technical means and the idea that the AI or algorithms will just keep getting better, which is what the OP seemed to be saying. > St
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by _djo_ 5y ago
No, the implication is that we believe that these algorithms are non-faulty and therefore throw away all the provisions for recourse and review that exist with human-driven systems. There is no nuance, no leeway, and no way for you to rea
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by _djo_ 5y ago
A lot of countries have the technological capability to manufacture mRNA vaccines with open licensing. However those aren't the only options, and even developing countries can make vaccines like the AZ and J&J ones as evidenced by
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Sharing IP to allow other countries to manufacture their own doses would be a huge step forward.
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What suppressing? The WHO and national agencies are actively looking for treatment options, and just last week another medication was approved for in-hospital COVID-19 treatment. It's just that nothing that has been tried yet works nea
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by _djo_ 5y ago
This isn't the case for any country that I know of. Nearly every country uses the WHO standards for death certificates and related statistics, which can include multiple contributing factors toward death but only if they actually contr
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by _djo_ 5y ago
This is outdated in some ways: South Africa formally adopted IEC 60906-1 (Type N) years ago as SANS 164-2 to replace its use of Type M (SANS 164-1). It was adopted as an optional local standard in 1992, the preferred standard in 2013, and m
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by _djo_ 5y ago
That's a simplistic take and unfair to those who are cautious about it. Most opposition to climate engineering is based on the risks of introducing more instability to a complex system we already don't completely understand. For i
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Not quite. What makes this interesting is that the municipality (and other government structures) had no involvement beyond approving the permits for trenching. There's also no ongoing contract with the municipality, nor is it funded t
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Agreed. One interesting approach that took place in Johannesburg was that a suburb took matters into their own hands to get an open access fibre network installed. They formed a ratepayers association, got a critical mass of the households
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Partially through the informal economy described elsewhere, and a fairly robust welfare system that provides grants and other social support to about 18 million people.
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Possibly. That's the route Sony went with LDAC, which goes up to 990kbps.[0] It still isn't proper Hi-Res and won't be enough for Apple's Hi-Res Lossless, but it's a lot better than standard BT audio. [0] https:&#x2
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Unsurprising, as there aren't any BT codecs that could provide the necessary bandwidth. By its very nature BT audio is lossy and compressed. This seems like a bit of a non-story, though it does highlight the value there would have been
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High-res lossless audio requires a USB DAC and isn't compatible with any BT headphones according to Apple.
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It's an interesting question around sustainability. These developing world labs and researchers are far more reliant on being included in published research output and receiving research funding than their developed world counterparts.
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Why some researchers oppose unrestricted sharing of coronavirus genome data(nature.com)
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The OPs statement was that more focus needs to be on improving enforcement. I simply pointed out that improving enforcement, by reversing the budget cuts and consequent drop in audit capability within the IRS, was part of the current admini
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It’s part of a solution, not the entire solution. But even if you improved tax law you’re still going to need a well-resourced and highly skilled IRS capable of properly auditing multinationals and the very wealthy.

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