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by arrrg 6y ago
But I don’t think scientists think that previous common cold exposure actually makes you immune? The hypothesis I heard is that this immune response due to previous common cold corona virus exposure could explain the high proportion of asym
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by arrrg 6y ago
Germany has below 2 percent seroprevalence.
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by arrrg 6y ago
New York was locally overwhelmed but it is true that they weren’t completely overwhelmed. Maybe a couple centimeters under water. This is obviously due to the absolutely massive measures they took. They managed to put on the breaks just on
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by arrrg 6y ago
Your perspective is a very weird American one where the response has been one giant failure, whether you think lockdowns are great or not. Others are doing much better. There are hardly any new cases in, say, Germany, with by now extremely
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by arrrg 6y ago
We don’t know whether that’s true still and what the impact exactly is. Also, healthcare systems were overwhelmed nevertheless and with measures (lockdowns) in place. So yeah, pretty awful argument.
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by arrrg 6y ago
If that‘s true that‘s nice – but not an argument against lockdown measures before we can be reasonably certain that‘s true, by the way. Given that we cannot time travel and all. Also, other countries well below 30 percent seropositivity als
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by arrrg 6y ago
Overwhelmed healthcare systems (despite massive countermeasures) are not mild. Also, people don’t suddenly become worthless once they turn 80. They can still die prematurely, even if only, say, five years early instead of fifty.
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by arrrg 6y ago
Mandatory insurance is mandatory insurance, not tax. To claim otherwise is manipulative. I already included the Soli in my calculations and church tax is strictly optional.
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by arrrg 6y ago
But you are talking about microphones which you cannot simply cover. I admit, muffling them is better than nothing – but in the case of microphones Apple doesn’t even advise you not to cover them. Either way, this is just an effect of commo
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by arrrg 6y ago
The range starts at six percent (assuming full-time employment and minimum wage, it can drop lower if you are working part-time). It’s at 15 percent for people earning the median wage (€3,300), meaning half of all Germans pay 15 percent or
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by arrrg 6y ago
How could a complicated mechanism compared to no mechanism be a step in the wrong direction?
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by arrrg 6y ago
I’m always perplexed by this. Maybe I lack the artistic talent? Paint could never cover any of my use cases. For that it was always too much about … well … painting … which is something I just don’t need on a day to day basis. The painting
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by arrrg 6y ago
Hydrogen makes sense in industrial applications (steel, chemistry, e.g. ammonia production). Electricity often isn’t even an option there (same with aviation). I think people tend to be too blinded in their focus on cars here? I don’t think
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by arrrg 6y ago
What iOS 14 does is it shows you a dot in the status bar when either the camera or microphone is used (with different colors for each). In Control Center it will also show you which App recently used those. So that’s not more fine grained c
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by arrrg 6y ago
> And there are German serological studies that suggest a COVID death rate of 0.39%, in contrast with the NYC study that claims a death rate of 1% That’s in the same ballpark. You can expect great precision with these estimations.
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by arrrg 6y ago
> Impossible. Covid reached Europe by December, and has spread like wildfire since. Can you source this claim?
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by arrrg 6y ago
New York obviously “benefits” from an intensive first wave. Every additional infection makes spread harder for the virus. As many European countries show (including Germany, where the infected population is very low, much lower than the Eur
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by arrrg 6y ago
But does this get us a lot? In Brooklyn and Queens between 0.2 and 0.25 percent of the total population (!) died. So this sort of puts a floor on the IFR and 0.2 is not that far off from the IFR determined through serological testing – mayb
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by arrrg 6y ago
Do they? I think we have pretty ok lethality estimates somewhere in the ballpark of 0.2 to 0.5 percent.
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by arrrg 6y ago
Deliberate bad actions can also be mistakes. If people don’t accept that they made I mistake then yeah, that’s an issue – and one where firing should again become an option, sure (basically that unwillingness to accept that is then the seco
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by arrrg 6y ago
I think it’s completely unreasonable to fire someone for one instance of wrong behavior (with very narrow exceptions for something like stealing or sexual abuse). I’m very happy to live in a country where you cannot fire people just like th
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by arrrg 6y ago
They had to announce this early to allow developers to get ready. If they could have gotten away with not announcing early they would have. Obviously (if all apps would automatically run natively on ARM without any developer involvement) th
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by arrrg 6y ago
This refers to the letters that are on phone keypads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_keypad#/media/File:T...
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by arrrg 6y ago
Both are problems. People who abuse that situation and useless laws on the books.
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by arrrg 6y ago
Netflix no longer offers in-app purchases. You are wrong.
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by arrrg 6y ago
I agree that the Mac trajectory wasn’t that great during the last decade with a lot of misfires. However, the most recent Mac picture is much more positive: Nearly the whole lineup is up to date, they butterly keyboard is out, many question
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by arrrg 6y ago
I conditioned the retreating on “if you do something that could be met with justified self defense” (as was here the case). So this was not a blanket policy. In general I do think there are many situations where police should not automatica
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by arrrg 6y ago
Is "not returning fire" really an impossible standard to you? How about: If you do something that could be met with justified self defense and you encounter that self defense your first instinct as police should be to retreat and
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by arrrg 6y ago
What you say is obvious is not obvious at all. I expect police not to shoot back if the situation is such that the person that is shooting back could reasonably act in self defense (as was here the case). Then I expect police to take the st
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by arrrg 6y ago
One group of protestors makes awful points, so I judge them to be engaging in pointless and risky behavior. The other side doesn’t, so I’m much more supportive of their protest, even though there might be associated risks. As long as I don’

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