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by atleta 5y ago
It's not experimental and it's not 100% unknown or new. Scientists do know a lot about long term effects of vaccines in general, though of course, not about these specific COVID vaccines. The thing a lot of people overlook is that
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by atleta 5y ago
Yet again, a strawman. Or a few: 1., nobody said "we figured covid out". I said we learned a lot about it pretty quickly. (BTW, coronaviruses and SARS in particular have been researched pretty intensively since 2003, the first SAR
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by atleta 5y ago
There are, of course ways we can measure progress. E.g. by measuring the results of applying science and scientific results to practical problems. Since we talk about medical sciences here, life expectancy is a good measure. So is being abl
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by atleta 5y ago
You keep repeating yourself and don't respond to what I'm saying (even though I do address your arguments). I didn't talk about whether I thought anti-vaxxers were brain washed, so it's a strawman. And I've alread
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by atleta 5y ago
People think all the time that whatever turns out to be bad for them (or the society) has been planned from the beginning. Despite that you basically never see it happening around yourself. A lot more likely explanation is that they did set
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by atleta 5y ago
Well, I think the idea above wasn't that you shift your schedule (relative to the Sun) but that you keep it and get used to that your work day starts at what used to be 9AM but now the clock says it's 9PM. And it would be 9PM at t
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by atleta 5y ago
It's not about censoring the opinions in general. Again, it's about censoring fake news on social media . Nobody wants to censor research (I know it's more complicated, because of what gets funded and what not) or publishing
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by atleta 5y ago
Nope. It's not that it's ought to be believed. The thing, in general, is that you always make a choice with your beliefs and decisions. When you make a decision (vaccinate or not to vaccinate, wear a mask, don't wear a mask)
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by atleta 5y ago
> also well-established scientific consensus is not an ideal goal post . It indeed is. As a layperson who knows nothing about a field, not even a closely related field your best bet is to accept the scientific consensus. And by best be
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by atleta 5y ago
Yeah, the social media and the internet is full of these claims and I see how these are pretty easy to believe when told with enough confidence. Which was an interesting revelation for me. Since the average person doesn't know much abo
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by atleta 5y ago
They can't, without your consent. The problem with google & fb is not primarily that they will share their data with 3rd parties (without your consent). It's that they will use it against you. E.g. they'll show the righ
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by atleta 5y ago
> The only thing that remains, is some protection against symptomatic disease. And sever disease needing hospitalization and death. And these indeed the things we want to avoid. Both as individuals and as a society. Because if/when
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by atleta 5y ago
> A carbon tax is essentially going to hit the average person hard. Well, that's the very point. (And it was even why the carbon tax was mentioned in response to the GP comment.) Unless you make CO2 emissions (CO2 emitting behaviour
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by atleta 5y ago
The problem with working (or communicating) with people in other timezones is not simply time conversion. The problem is that they are at a different phase in their day. So even if you flip everyone to UTC, you'd still have to figure o
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by atleta 5y ago
Sure, in theory it can mean that some of them are just super nervous. But, of course I do help them if I see that they don't get anywhere. I don't think that there are too many people who will just 100% shut down without showing a
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by atleta 5y ago
In one of the first interviews I conducted (for my first ever startup), I interviewed a guy who had enough of his corporate job. He was a java architect, studying for some of those SC... whatever exams. He was also a graduate of my alma mat
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by atleta 5y ago
Depends on what you call an algorithm, of course. As GP mentioned bare minimum coding skills, I assume he uses really simple ones. This can, of course be relative, but maybe he was intentional with the analogy. Because you can't real
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by atleta 5y ago
It had been done in sentence as quoted from the post as well ("hey, I did some research on X"). GGP suggested waiting for some time purely for psychological purposes. But yeah, I don't think it matters a lot after a while eit
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by atleta 5y ago
I think it's the same in UK English as well. But in some (most?) European languages billion actually means 1 000 000 million (so a thousand times more ). And we use "milliard" for 1000 million.
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by atleta 5y ago
Climate change causes these kind of events to happen more frequently. So if you have N heat waves this decade while you had M<N heat waves 50 years ago in a decade then you can say that about N-M of these were causes by the climate chang
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by atleta 5y ago
Didn't know you can use whois on IP addresses and not just domains.
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by atleta 5y ago
I don't think people care. They don't really care about traceability/anonymity. By now basically everybody is happy to buy (almost) anything with their card. Also, you almost never need to do an offline transaction. (I'm
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by atleta 5y ago
I think that's not what he got wrong. Wallet is just the form factor. He definitely did list all the different applications and he called it a PC for a reason. What he got wrong was that he thought that it would be a computer that woul
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by atleta 5y ago
Well, I guess you could include some kind of hash/checksum too. That could prove your 'ownership' without any platform whatsoever. (It doesn't make it more meaningful, but at least decreases the dependency on whoever own
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by atleta 5y ago
This is very far from being true as a generic statement. My parents are around 80 and they are not the only ones of this age I know who can use these devices pretty efficiently. (They both have an android smart phone plus they have a Linux
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by atleta 5y ago
Actually, I wanted to say something very similar. And when you said it was for his very specific _96_ year old grandma, I went back and checked if I missed the obvious. But a quick 2nd scan (and a search on the string 96) didn't bring
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by atleta 5y ago
Maybe it works for products and services that are priced based on the costs (i.e. cost + a competitive margin). Not so much if you can do a value based pricing. Which is the case when you don't have too much competition, when you'
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by atleta 5y ago
Great, thanks for fixing it!
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by atleta 5y ago
And if you want to make bash history usable, use hstr [1]. [1] https://github.com/dvorka/hstr
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by atleta 5y ago
Well, of course I don't know about the internals, but having used Django migrations for a decade now (it used to be a standalone solution called "South" back then), I haven't really run into any inaccuracies and can&#x27

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