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by ageitgey 6y ago
There's a big difference between what you know as an abstract fact vs. what seems normal in your society. By definition, normal people do what is normal in their society. I've lived in the southeastern US, various places in Califo
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by ageitgey 6y ago
I totally understand that CPython is too heavy to build for WebAssembly and the limitations of Transcrypt are very reasonable for what the Transcrypt project is aiming to do. It's neat that it works at all as a backdoor way to run some
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by ageitgey 6y ago
The headline is misleading in my opinion. You can't just write workers in Python now. Instead, they are providing a template for how you could call an existing Python-to-JavaScript transpiler to convert your Python code into JavaScript
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The new MacBook Air comes in gold.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
I have no particular interest in SSC or this controversy around it, so I have no search history around him. I just tried this and the search suggestion drop-down totally had his full name listed. That sucks.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
> You are not supposed to dicslose you are in such a clinical trial. They never asked that or made us sign anything to that effect. In this Phase 3 trial, they are measuring prevention of disease across ~10,000 people. They just want to
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by ageitgey 6y ago
There is no NDA in this trial. For the control, they used an unrelated approved vaccine with very similar expected side effects to prevent accidental unblinding. The one thing we agreed to do was not to get an antibody test as that would un
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Also, for any trial, they fully explain everything and you can leave at any time. Just signing up doesn't commit you to actually getting vaccinated if you change your mind later.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
You are reporting very misleading information as if it were a fact. No one knows that to be true in humans, not even the creators of the vaccine. In a very limited test of a small number of monkeys who were directly injected with high level
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by ageitgey 6y ago
The team behind the ChAdOx-1 vaccine have said that similar vaccines they worked on in the past (SARS1, MERS) triggered the immune system in a different way than getting the virus itself and it's expected that the vaccine-derived immun
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by ageitgey 6y ago
You are misunderstanding the point of this study. This is a Phase 1 study designed to show that the vaccine itself doesn't directly make people sick and to measure their antibody responses via blood tests. The on-going Phase 2/3 t
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by ageitgey 6y ago
At Home by Bill Bryson This is not a Sapiens-style retelling of the history of mankind. It's light reading - a quaint look at the history of the modern house, room-by-room, with many diversions into whatever topic that takes the author
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by ageitgey 6y ago
I've got a check and I can't tweet. It just says 'unable to send'. Twitter must have no idea where the source of the hack is.
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They are blocking tweets with that address now. I'm guessing that they still have no idea what the root cause is.
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This reads more like a sermon than a technical article.
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If you have ever written an educational book or sold educational material, the first thing you learn is that the market for actual mastery-level educational material is infinitesimal. The only way to make money (without charging astronomica
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Here's how much games of old would cost now, considering inflation: Atari 2600 (1980, ~$25) - ~$77.79 NES (1986, $29.99-$49.99) - $70.16-$116.94 SNES (1991, $49.99-$59.99) - $94.11-$112.93 N64 (1996, $49.99) - $81.69 PS2 (2000, $49.99)
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by ageitgey 6y ago
I would love for HCQ to be shown to be effective, but this pre-print study is not super convincing. First, this is not a randomized trial with a control group. It's a retrospective look at patients in Marseille where they gave HCQ+AZ b
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by ageitgey 6y ago
There are hundreds of trials in various states of completion for hydroxychloroquine [1]. At least 10 of them specifically call out using it in combination with zinc, though some completed trials that don't specifically call it out in t
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by ageitgey 6y ago
They had one partial positive test result from one random sample taken in March 2019. None of the samples taken during the following months tested positive until Jan 15, 2020. The paper is a preprint that hasn't been peer reviewed. The
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by ageitgey 6y ago
You did the math incorrectly. You can't add up the total deaths and then divide by one of them to get your chance of dying in that age group. The populations of those are ranges are different sizes. There are many fewer people alive wh
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by ageitgey 6y ago
> Absolutely not. The scientific approach is to look at the new disease and see how it compares to other similar RTIs. I think the the scientific approach is to use the best data you have at a given time and update your understanding as
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by ageitgey 6y ago
> From what I heard, about half the deaths are people under 55. The individual risk is still higher the older you are, but plenty of young people have died from this. You are incorrect. COVID is largely a disease that affects the elderly
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Yes, not zero risk. But to give you an idea of the risk, here are the numbers from England (only, not entire UK): - Total COVID deaths: 28,137 - Deaths, 0-19 years of age: 18 - Deaths, 0-19 years of age, no pre-existing condition: 3 You are
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> What I'm curious is about is the percentage of people (younger or otherwise) who either develop no symptoms or develop symptoms so mild as to not be attributed to the virus. Do such people exist? Yes, absolutely. Many countries su
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by ageitgey 6y ago
You are conflating a lot of different things. Traffic fatalities were actually down overall (total numbers), but up per mile driven . In other words, people were driving much less and dying in lower total numbers, but the people who were d
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by ageitgey 6y ago
How you label the deaths is not that big of a deal in the larger scale. If you want to know the true toll of the epidemic, just look at this year's deaths vs. an average of previous years. It's simple and transparent. Here's
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People want this thing to be over, so there's a desire to find reasons to believe that we are further along than we thought. Combined with this being a novel disease that no one fully understands, there's a lot of room for those t
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I don't think the pressure on Apple is going to let up. Smart phones are no longer a tech toy and have become a literal part of government and commercial infrastructure. Apple's arbitrary power over the platform is pissing off and
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If you read the image board thread the article links to, it's immediately obvious that this is 100% fake. The first line claims Quake III Arena (1999) is using neural networks for bot AI which is total nonsense.

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