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adriancr
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Those are interesting, although they do not help your original statement. > https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/ This in essence states that given a immune population (either vaccine or natural), virus will evo
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Numbers are usually fudged, especially in corrupt countries. It's also easy to have good numbers if you issue negative results without doing the actual tests and if you count the deaths as that of something else. Hints of the false tes
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5y ago
I don't understand your skepticism... Alas... not my business... I took the vaccine and there are no side effects. Same for all people I know. Same for countless others. If you bring up risk, I think a much bigger risk is the virus des
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5y ago
Oh boy ... You must not know anyone in India... I know people that have lost family members there. They were struggling to get them spots in hospitals, everything is mess of corruption, under reporting, overflowed hospitals. They're no
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5y ago
1. Same site: > The inactivated polio vaccines are very safe 2. Do you have to worry about polio now?, no, why? 3. We have processes in place to verify vaccines, that's why you got news about janssen or whatever throwing away millio
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> And we are not vaccinating to avoid a pandemic, we are doing it during the pandemic making the risk of it happening much higher. I bet you would like to go back in time and tell the people that vaccinated against polio that they were d
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> My point is that the myth that unvaccinated people are the part of the population creating enhanced variants is false. Incorrect. By logic, 95% (or whatever % you want) of the vaccinated population will not catch virus. As such, virus
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5y ago
You're right... I know of cancer cases where treatment was delayed for a while due to no availability unfortunately...
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> Our data show that anti-disease vaccines that do not prevent transmission can create conditions that promote the emergence of pathogen strains that cause more severe disease in unvaccinated hosts. The journal you reference studies Mare
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> there are billions of people that will never have access to the vaccines False. Pfizer alone will manufacture 2.5 billion doses this year, 3 billion next year. Considering EU/US already at 50-60% vacicnated, there are a lot of dos
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5y ago
1. you can still catch things as vaccines are not 100% (some are 50-60% effective, mRNA are 90-95% so far) 2. It can mutate in people that catch it to avoid vaccine / cause other issues. Imagine if it started causing blindness... would
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5y ago
If you are not interested in modern cars, why are you even commenting on them?, is there any value added by this comment? There weren't any fully electric cars for sale before Tesla. They've only started to appear recently as othe
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5y ago
> but on an automotive investment level. I think that ship has sailed a long time ago... especially after emissions scandal. Also, have you looked at marketing in general?, is anyone actually telling the truth anywhere? At least this wa
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5y ago
> An example is lithium, which uses solvents and chemicals that are toxic during the mining and manufacturing process Looking over environment aspects of production below, all the recent studies disprove what was assumed so far and your
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5y ago
Allows people to move away from fossil fuels. They can't keep up with demand, all their inventory is sold, so it's displacing a lot of regular car sales.
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> I think the "environment good" is also mainly marketing. An electric car is arguably much better then a diesel or gas powered car. > This could make it worse than normal cars in many ways. Care to detail how this would be
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He did manage to create an electric car segment that left other manufacturers in the dust... same manufacturers now racing to compete and not become irrelevant. As such, a lot of good was achieved for the environment. The self driving would
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And that is a problem because?, all marketing everywhere is over-promise and under-deliver. At least he delivered on most things he promised.
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I'd look on the positive side. We now have a massive electric-car company that is doing a lot of good for the environment and forcing other companies to change. We also have SpaceX with their awesome reusable rockets. Sure, self-drivin
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It means really fast docker push, VM uploads, backups, etc. It also means I can keep a ubuntu mirror, private docker repo, possibly IPFS node in the future, backup server, all at home. I also never have to worry about my work/uploads s
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> Roughly, a derivative work is a new work that incorporates some copyrightable elements from a previous work. By this logic: - someone could go and copy functions and/or entire files from GPL code bases and use them with a differen
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That is a nice connection, if you don't mind, what equipment are you using for that?, and any caveats?, just curious how expensive this would be overall for a home connection
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T-Mobile, 40Euros per month - 1gbps symmetrical fiber if you are in a supported area.
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mass market is engineered this way with fiber and its great. All households benefit if you think about video uploads, backups, etc
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If you have separate upload and download channels, why would you want to limit either? If they are capable of 1/10/... gbps each direction, why not? here i'm thinking fiber optic and not old copper links
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> Huh? Locking a machine to Windows is the manufacturer's choice, not Microsoft's. Microsoft used to tax OEMs on all pcs with x86 sold as having windows pre-installed on them (otherwise OEMs wouldn't be allowed to sell win
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sideloading also disallows stores like f-droid. The same argument could have been used by microsoft a long tjme ago to lock machines to windows and kill linux. It would not have worked then, it should not now. What apple does is basically a
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Even free software snippets have clauses like GPL or attribution. Putting GPL code in proprietary codebase would cause a company massive headaches... So I agree copilot is problematic by default, liability to lawsuits for employers and forc
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5y ago
It would be viewed as IP theft by most companies to upload private code to this for use by others
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5y ago
just wondering if its legal to sell returned products as new. I thought they were sold as refurbished/second chance with a discount.
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