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by acqq 6y ago
Mick West’s take: https://twitter.com/MickWest/status/1330327301985345536
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by acqq 6y ago
At the moment possibly wider error bars don’t come from just “33 infections” but more from possibly smaller number of those who received the observed treatment. The bars are to be calculated using conditional probabilities.
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by acqq 6y ago
2011: https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/committee/topics/influenz... “Even at this stage, it does not appear that narcolepsy following vaccination against pandemic influenza is a general worldwide phenomenon
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There was one vaccinated but then severe case in Pfizer trial out of 170 cases evaluated where placebo-then-ill cases are included, or 1 from total 8 vaccinated but then ill. “There were 10 severe cases of COVID-19 observed in the trial,
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AZD1222 vaccine met primary efficacy endpoint in preventing Covid-19(astrazeneca.com)
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A big part of western world was never "protestant" and wouldn't say it has that "ethic." Nevertheless, even having that "ethic" doesn't make one a believer in supernatural "messiah" properti
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by acqq 6y ago
But you wrote: "The idea being that defining it as inherently supernatural is impossible and simply a linguistic reshuffling, when it's really more like "you've simply started calling your belief system something else, b
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by acqq 6y ago
Attempting to redefine "religion" to include "all the values people have" is a poor trick in distraction. Exactly in the Western world "religion" really means the belief in a number of supernatural deities, at
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by acqq 6y ago
Behind claims of the "replication problem" are different phenomena, and some claims there are themselves more wrong than some other. Specifically, one specific person who made his name of claiming "replication problem" a
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by acqq 6y ago
Yes, as far as some schools of thought support irreligion, that I surely don't consider as nonsense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_India#C%C4%81rv%... E.g. The followers of Cārvāka school "only
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by acqq 6y ago
We do know that what all famous religions promote is a complete nonsense, as in, what's in the religious books which claim to be fundamental truth just isn't scientific, but instead matches exactly what the humans of the times i
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by acqq 6y ago
Yes, and with that attitude they and the people that write for them to match the agenda aren't different from the producer of "Ancient Aliens" who has a very specific agenda: to train the viewers to not believe the science (1
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by acqq 6y ago
Note: I've explicitly said: "NTFS on Windows" and "NTFS and the whole infrastructure connected to it". Also: "NTFS was slower than FAT" was true for years. I have no experience with BTRFS, but that doesn&
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by acqq 6y ago
Also: https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/d8x7... "So, I was copying a 8GB file to my Debian home folder using Windows Explorer, via $wsl network. The copy process made my CPU's
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by acqq 6y ago
NTFS on Windows was indeed always significantly slower when doing a lot of file operations. It was noticeable even long before WSL existed: NTFS and the whole infrastructure connected to it has by design bigger maintenance cost for every op
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by acqq 6y ago
Thanks. I knew about Flash in general, I just haven't checked yes if the 600 KB swf looked good full screen -- yes it does, with real Flash player. With Ruffle, the lines are thicker. I still don't know, how are we going to be abl
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by acqq 6y ago
The famous original "Napster Bad" (1) from 2000 was around 2 and half minutes long and only 600 KB (!) (specifically: 606,555 bytes -- just checked). http://www.fastswf.com/jDwfXOc And as it's drawn with vec
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M1-powered Macs can run Windows apps, with some help from CrossOver(engadget.com)
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Just because the killing of van Gogh predates today more known 2005 event (1) the first publishing of the caricatures which Samuel Paty discussed in his class, and also significantly predates the mere existence of ISIS, while still being
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by acqq 6y ago
No, it's provably not true that "Scintilla only provides the textarea control that can perform syntax highlighting." So what actually loads and saves the files, even if they are many megabytes? Scintilla. What is what mak
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by acqq 6y ago
Maybe more context can explain the "unexpectedness": from the New York Times article covering the event in 2004: "Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende called for calm and asked people to let investigators do their job before j
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Absolutely not wanting to diminish the success of Notepad++ among its user base, I'd still like to mention that Notepad++ is a Windows only editor, where the main functionality is actually provided by the multiplatform editor engine
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For a broader context, 16 years earlier something very similar happened in the Netherlands: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Theo_van_... “The murderer Mohammed Bouyeri, an Islamic extremist, killed v
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by acqq 6y ago
It‘s really a nice example of what can be achieved when one starts solving a specific problem and solves it by generalizing it to create something like an ad hoc language for that kind of reports. Additional bonus for designing it exactly s
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I suggest reading https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/11/03/ask-... Most importantly, he argues that Hawking's own popular explanation (often repeated across the media, about the
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by acqq 6y ago
Maybe a better link: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/941030?src=soc_tw_20111...
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by acqq 6y ago
We actually at the moment still don't know if having some people vaccinated would "prevent cases among their contacts." The published results don't show that at all. What's published is only if the vaccines prevent
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by acqq 6y ago
Already answered two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25111284 In short, we still don't know which measures would have to be kept even when a lot of people are vaccinated. It will be much better known in
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by acqq 6y ago
The study enrolled more, but slowly increased the number of vaccinated since the start (which was initially, I'd expect, 0) -- the second dose was still not received by all enrolled as of November 13: "The Phase 3 clinical trial
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by acqq 6y ago
Why shouldn‘t the assumption be that an attacker can be motivated enough to use purpose built hardware?

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