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by acs5 5y ago
You're using "efficient" to mean effectiveness against death given infection, but the vaccines aren't close to 90% effective against that. [1] says they're 54% effective against death given infection, which actually
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by acs5 5y ago
> If the vaccine was 90% efficient, you would expect the vaxed death to be 40%, not 84% (84% implies a 15% vaccine efficiency). I'm not too sure how you arrived at your figures, but here's my back of the envelope calculation fo
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by acs5 5y ago
The footnote on p33 and 34 suggests an explanation, namely that vaccination rates among the elderly (where most of the deaths are) are particularly high. E.g. if the unvaccinated elderly are outnumbered by the vaccinated 1 to 20, then if th
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by acs5 5y ago
Considering how small it is, the XPS 13 is surprisingly heavy. Some of the ThinkPads are definitely quite a bit lighter.
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by acs5 5y ago
I've been using an XPS 13 with Ubuntu since 2017 and would recommend it but with some reservations. The fans can get noisy when using more graphically intensive apps like video calls (or even just heavy DEs like Gnome or KDE) with my e
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by acs5 6y ago
No statistically significant protective effect for the wearer, but as the study points out, it says nothing about protection of those around the wearer, which is the commonly accepted reason for mask wearing.
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by acs5 6y ago
You're right that the spaced repetition questions are different from the really interesting questions, but that's the point. They're supposed to be aids in internalising the "lower-level"/"boring" ter
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by acs5 10y ago
Also, the description of the boolean satisfiability problem isn't the boolean satisfiability problem at all, but just what we might call the boolean evaluation problem, or a version of the circuit value problem, which is certainly in P