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by ascorbic 6y ago
The amount of abuse she got on Twitter after the FF Android launch was hard to believe. I don't understand how somebody thinks that disliking an update to a piece of free software justifies shouting abuse at an engineer who worked on i
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by ascorbic 6y ago
No she couldn't
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The important thing to note is that the significance of this study goes beyond the AZ vaccine. Please correct me if I've missed one, but from what I've seen there aren't any other vaccines that have completed similar trials i
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Was the model trained on a corpus of EU documents? I'd imagine that's a great source of multilingual training data, but could lead to an obsession with the EU in the translations
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by ascorbic 6y ago
If you are faced with a decision where one option gives you warm fuzzy feelings it doesn't mean that the appealing option is any more likely to be incorrect, just that you need to be more careful when deciding. Preferring the less enjo
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by ascorbic 6y ago
It is by no means opposed by all archaeologists either. It's not a great solution, but it's better than the status quo and is likely to be the best we can get. A lot of opponents are letting perfect be the enemy of good. They are
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Have you tried? There were still single-arm, paid stage 2 trials recruiting in the UK in December (I can't remember which vaccine). I would've signed-up, but I'm already on the (placebo-controlled, unpaid) J&J stage 3 tri
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Why would feeling happy reduce the correctness of the decision? Isn't happiness the only utility that matters?
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The truly rational (and ethical) way to get a vaccine early would have been to volunteer in an early-stage trial. You'd even get paid! The risk would be lower, and the likely efficacy would be higher, because even an unproven candidate
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by ascorbic 6y ago
> What's the catch? Is it significantly riskier than the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines? Is it easy to make a mistake while producing this and end up with something ineffective or harmful? Is it just not particularly effective? Yes, yes
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by ascorbic 6y ago
So...they put the prices up by 20% or whatever. By definition, the amount they'd raise would be enough to pay the staff the equivalent to the amount lost in tips. They don't need to maintain the same GP margin, as this is pure ext
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by ascorbic 6y ago
You know there's a difference between a computer and a computer program, right?
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by ascorbic 6y ago
GitHub is a brand for developers. It would make no sense for Microsoft to start using it for anything as consumer-facing as an app store. It might, perhaps, be worth doing for a dev-focussed store, but I'm not sure of the value of that
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The CPF is quite annoying as a tourist. Mostly there are workarounds, but it is ridiculous how many things assume you have one. Yes, fake ones usually work. It was a few years back when I visited, but the hoops I had to jump through to buy
825.
by ascorbic 6y ago
AWS uses Gandi for domains
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by ascorbic 6y ago
I'm in the UK, so have only owned manual cars before I switched to EVs. I hate the lack of responsiveness on automatic transmission ICEs, but EVs are great, even cheaper ones. The power is instant. A Tesla has more torque than pretty m
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by ascorbic 6y ago
I used to drive a Leaf and it was more enjoyable to drive than the Mercedes E Class that I drove when my Tesla was being repaired. EV torque is fun, and you miss it when you go back to an ICE.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting you buy an EV if you don't need a car at all. It's about replacing an ICE car. If you have one of those, you must be parking it somewhere already.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Yes, they can't compete on price with a cheap used car (though look at models like the Renault Zoe), but the inconvenience of refuelling is really overblown (almost always by people who don't drive one). If you don't live in
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by ascorbic 6y ago
All slow charging points use the same connectors, which are compatible with all EVs. It's the rapid chargers where there are different standards, but most seem to be converging on CCS, and all chargers support that (and all except Tesl
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The Nissan Leaf can https://www.nissan.co.uk/range/electric-cars/v2g.html
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by ascorbic 6y ago
I just charge my car from the same 240V outdoor socket I use for the lawnmower. Sure that's no good for somebody who can't park in front of their house, but it's false to say you need a dedicated EV charger.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
I used to just charge at work. Workplaces seem more likely to be able to persuade to install charging points.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
As with most of the forest in the UK, it was cut down for timber and then did not regrow because of deer. This has been happening for thousands of years.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The ecosystem has adapted by losing most of its forest.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
In the UK eggs are unwashed and unrefrigerated by law, but as that other StackExchange answer says, eggs sold in supermarkets are all from vaccinated chickens, so salmonella from eggs is basically non-existent. The NHS even says it's f
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by ascorbic 6y ago
If Musk started to sell off a significant chunk of stock he'd have to disclose this, and the stock price would take a hit whether it was on an exchange or for farmland.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
What value could they realistically get from aggregated Reddit browsing habits if they're not selling ads or even setting cookies? If they just want to see what's popular they can just use the Reddit API to get that data, or just
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The difference is that the pandemic preparedness was untested, while the MHRA has been working for years
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Add to that the fact that the whole world is watching, and hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake

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