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by acqq 6y ago
Using Google Translate doesn't produce anything understandable. But searching for the text of the "favorite" part it can be seen that is is from this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow-Petushki
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> I have binaries compiled on 1998 Red Hat and linked against libc and libX11 working on two decades later distros just fine. The goal was avoiding to use "1998 Red Hat" to compile today something that should work on a few year
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by acqq 6y ago
> 3-way merge diffs under windows Is there any reason for not using kdiff3?
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"By default FPC programs and libraries do not use the C library on most platforms" (1) is what makes Free Pascal potentially interesting on Linuxes: sometimes the dependencies that exist when producing the binary using C or C++ si
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> There should be no place for dogma like that in science To do science (or even do any conclusion) one needs verifiable facts. It's facts that I miss here. That you claim that somehow you “know” something that doesn’t match any oth
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I don‘t believe you. There‘s no country where the number of cases and deaths didn‘t go down after a strong lockdown. It worked even across the USA in spite of the president demotivating people to do the measures. The lockdowns work. You‘d h
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Of course the virus was not "eradicated" had it been the number of new cases would be simply zero. I see that only in Asian countries. The virus however doesn't have to be "eradicated", it's enough to reduce th
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The sentence from the article that got me the most: "Their promised benefits were not even brought to a vote until 2008, when most of the happy men I saw that day were dead." 55 years after the "promise." The title of th
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> when they were (practically all) temporarily lifted for political reasons, the world did not stop turning and neither did any systems collapse. I've checked, there's no point: It "worked"... but only for a short tim
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It's about even more than that: it's about the complexity. There's an inherent complexity in the problem being solved. And there is an "accidental complexity" in the implementation of the solution. Throwing away eve
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I don't see the same delay comparing the UK cases and deaths data -- 7 day moving averages peak around April 15 for both: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/ Neither the US graphs refle
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> Apparently since about mid-April the CDC decided that the COVID Case Count would include not just positive tests, but also “probable” cases. This is easy to compare with the past data: https://www.worldometers.info/coro
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> for people under 50 covid19 is no more dangerous than a regular flu. Ever heard about the 40-year old British pilot having to be in "two-and-a-half months in a medically induced coma" from "a regular flu"? &quo
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And: https://reactivity.ai/#about Edit: to respond to the question below, it clearly supports a "renaissance man" question by IAmGraydon above: it confirms both a "“consultant software engineer” in finance
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Thanks! The highlights: It was about the location of Britain's nuclear bomb tests, considered by those at "Aldermaston, the secretive headquarters of the UK’s nuclear weapons programme." "Incredibly, the iconic landmarks
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Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText "In July 2016 the Linux kernel project decided to transition from DocBook based documentation to reStructuredText and the Sphinx toolchain.[8]" https:/&
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> What would be the other plausible explanation though? Other plausible? However "Aliens" isn't the plausible explanation at all. The series' producer has a very specific agenda: to train the viewers to not believe
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From the "open letter" to the co-directors of the Berlin Film Festival: https://kkbbd.com/2020/02/29/an-open-letter-to-carlo-chatria... "We are obligated to reserve our judgment of the project
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by acqq 6y ago
Regarding that specific case, everything relevant for us at the moment is behind the link you give and one internet search away: It's dated "March 26, 2020" and it starts with "Italian researchers are looking at whether
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> I'd rather not get into the whole debate and wait for more published papers by people who are more knowledgeable than me in this area. I've responded because it looked to me that you believe that the paper can "back up&q
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It's an extraordinary claim but completely without evidence. I've been following that, the only thing that is known is that there were some reactions activating tests, observed with the samples from March 2019, but not the whole v
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I claim that their statement "We were able to show that patients taking HCQ have had reduced odds of SARS-CoV-2 infection" is not true. It's not jargon. It's a false statement given the data that they presented. To &quot
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> they say the data suggests that HCQ is protective. Only, I fail to see that the data does that. And their explicit claim is, which I specifically quoted directly from the paper: "We were able to show that patients taking HCQ have
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There must be a prize for this kind of work. "- 360,304 patients with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection - Of these 360,304 cases, 26,815 were confirmed by a positive PCR test. The rest had negative PCR tests. - In the set of patients with
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No. I responded to user's very clear claims, where he wrote (emphasis mine): "cytokine release syndrome is highly likely to be causing the ( extremely rare ) instances of stroke in non-elderly "; "I get incredibly anno
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The comment tried by introducing "strokes" to distract from the topic: dexamethasone which helps intubated patients. Insisting on that non-topic here just doesn't improve the discussion. Discussing "strokes" by &quo
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Thanks. It also has just 5000 members! From Wikipedia: "The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a conservative non-profit association founded in 1943. The group was reported to have about 5,000 members in 2014. Th
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From the very paper linked by the parent and the parent-parent: "This was an observational retrospective analysis that could be impacted by confounding variables"; "We also do not have data on the time at which the patients i
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This is a thread about dexamethasone , not "strokes", and we also know that from 8 patients that are intubated the treatment with dexamethasone saves one , compared to those intubated never treated with dexamethasone. We also kn
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> extremely rare Is it? From all lab confirmed cases in USA until end of May, almost every 200th in age group 20-29 was admitted to ICU. Almost every 100th in age group 30-39. (1) Admitted to ICU means "probably considered intubatio

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