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by acqq 6y ago
Exactly. The actual assassins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Assassins "The Nizari Isma'ili State, to become known as the Assassins, was founded by Hassan-i Sabbah who called his disciples Asāsiyyūn
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by acqq 6y ago
The reality is exactly the opposite of what you claim: all the studies of infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2, and even of other respiratory viruses correlate with detection of high virus load in the upper respiratory tract, and don't correla
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No. Covid-19 is the illness (symptomatic). Exactly like defined in the vaccine protocols. One can carry a virus (one can have positive PCR) without being ill (asymptomatic). We also know that their CT value (which corresponds to the amount
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by acqq 6y ago
https://thehill.com/news-by-subject/healthcare/528619-pfizer... “Pfizer chairman Albert Bourla told Dateline host Lester Holt that the pharmaceutical company was “not certain” if the vaccine prevented the coronavi
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by acqq 6y ago
Yes, the implementation of Node’s Math package functions is changing, and yes, it's not otherwise standardized. And one should not expect that the CPUs will ever standardize the results of the functions there. We are de facto left only
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by acqq 6y ago
Yes, I agree, only it's not about the percentages alone. I'll quote from my post from April (1) which was already in the context of Covid-19, where I quote the start of the presentation by Al Bartlett: https://www.albar
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by acqq 6y ago
That's why the message must be clear: even if it protects a single wearer just 20%, it can provably have huge benefit to everybody, but only if everybody does it (1) while all that doesn't mean that other measures could be avoide
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by acqq 6y ago
There are different claims -- if one is "frustrated" it's only if one doesn't even attempt to distinguish what's written where. Reading more than just the title in the link you've given: "The results could
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by acqq 6y ago
Looking at the 7 day average of daily deaths: in Lithuania since Nov 21 it oscillated between 15 and 16, and that started exactly two weeks after the introduction of the measures the growth in the number of deaths stopped. We also know that
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by acqq 6y ago
You write: “Remember, we are not talking about science here, we are talking about policy” but, sorry, no, in many messages you just kept claiming the opposite of what is scientifically known at this very moment, and I’ve pointed to that fal
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by acqq 6y ago
You have seen the scientists writing explicit contrary to your claims, and even the specific vaccine testing protocols, I’ve given you the exact links and quotes, but you doubled down. The UK authorized Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and sti
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by acqq 6y ago
I’m not against the vaccine. I’m merely against your claims which weren’t true, specifically, your false claims about the known level of the immunity they provide, believing which could put people in danger. Meanwhile, exclusive evening new
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The author's twitter account: Location: "Amsterdam & Everywhere" https://twitter.com/DANNYonPC
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by acqq 6y ago
Those interested in this thread should also consider the posts by the user "anonytrary" while commenting this article in this context.
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by acqq 6y ago
I'm not denying the known awesomeness of vaccines. I'm denying your currently provably false claims about the extent of their awesomeness, and I've linked to the proofs and specified exactly what you have claimed but what&#x2
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by acqq 6y ago
The vaccines will reduce the visible effects of pandemic, that's sure, by reducing the numbers of those who will have to be admitted to the hospital. In Covid-19 a huge percentage of people who get infected currently have to be hospita
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by acqq 6y ago
> That's a direct mechanism of protection that will help to both prevent people from getting sick That's what the reported numbers claim: up to 95% people less are getting sick. But it's unknown how much it will "knoc
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by acqq 6y ago
> I don't think everything needs a name. And you are wrong, at least historically: The article points that without the access to the computers and to achieve numerical precision having precalculated tables of such functions was of
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by acqq 6y ago
What I liked is the awareness of the inexactness which is inherent in everything but which slide rules made more obvious. The joke from these times was "ask an engineer what is 2 times 3 and he'll take out his slide rule and say b
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by acqq 6y ago
The quote you use doesn't claim sterilizing immunity but the "protection" and is misleading. The publicly reported protection of the vaccines seeking EUA is against the symptomatic disease, as it can be seen in the protocols
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by acqq 6y ago
> You can't have T-cells and antibodies covering every single potential surface area of every cell of every tissue in the body, so there can be places that are infected in the body even though you're totally subclinical That is
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by acqq 6y ago
In zig there's a concept of "comptime" -- note that fmt parameter is marked as such. It's more than just inlining. https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#comptime See an example calling firs
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Burnistoun Voice Recognition Elevator - ELEVEN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNuFcIRlwdc First aired in 2009
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> But it's reasonable to also expect ... - The milder infection makes such infections less transmissible (in terms of duration-of-infectiousness of quantity-of-sheddding) Neither reduced duration of infectiousness nor reduced quanti
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by acqq 6y ago
No, at the moment "the main purpose of a vaccine" is still not "herd immunity" at all . The Phase 3 trial protocols measured and presented the "efficacy" which is defined as the reducing the chance of the va
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by acqq 6y ago
Exactly, as explained here: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/941030?src=soc_tw_20111... The results announced up to now just showed that the vaccines reduce chance of a vaccinated person becoming sick.
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by acqq 6y ago
Meanwhile, in Europe: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252491755/EU-moves-close... “EU moves closer to encryption ban after Austria, France attacks” Edit: what I'd like is to raise the awareness that th
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by acqq 6y ago
What name would you use after seeing the implementation of the functions called? std/debug.zig: pub fn print(comptime fmt: []const u8, args: anytype) void { const held = stderr_mutex.acquire(); defer held.release(
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by acqq 6y ago
I'd like to know more about why "NSF has tried to get rid of AO for a long time now." Anybody knows something interesting and specific? What I was able to find was the Washington Post 2007 article, where it's mentioned t
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Contrary to what is often believed, regarding mutations, coronaviruses behave completely differently than flu viruses. The mutation rate among coronaviruses is so slow that it's much more probable that whenever we see some new signific

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