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by bgentry 5y ago
> Do you have a source that natural immunity is superior to vaccine-induced? Last time I checked studies showed that at least for the mRNA vaccines two shots was superior to natural immunity, as was natural immunity + mRNA booster shot.
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3LAU Raises $16M to Tokenize Music Royalties for Artists and Fans(coindesk.com)
1 points by bgentry 5y ago|0 comments
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Royal – Invest in artists, share their success(royal.io)
2 points by bgentry 5y ago|0 comments
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by bgentry 5y ago
>Electron suited us perfectly, since we could write our UI code once and make it consistent across Linux, Windows, and Mac. This is the source of your mistake. Users don't desire to have the same UI across different OS environments,
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by bgentry 5y ago
In addition to not answering the simple question in the tweet, they linked to an article about the Linux app, which in no way clarifies whether the Mac app uses the same UI framework.
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by bgentry 5y ago
They have, the removal of a standalone option was also part of this announcement.
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by bgentry 5y ago
The most disturbing part about this is that their support team has been misleading people on Twitter all morning, not truthfully answering straightforward questions about whether the app is Electron: https://twitter.com/1Pas
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by bgentry 5y ago
FYI, "depreciate" != "deprecate" — I also used to think it was the former once upon a time :)
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by bgentry 5y ago
> Potential failures of Substack are elsewhere - no local coverage Interestingly, one of the top performing Substacks is a local publication, the Charlotte Ledger: https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/local-
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by bgentry 5y ago
I didn’t say they were comparable to the Sierra Nevada or coastal ranges, was merely trying to understand your “trapped in a flat plane of existence” line. If we want to go for some real good skiing, Utah or Colorado are short flights and w
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by bgentry 5y ago
Did you spend any time in the hill country on the south/west parts of town? They have a very different feel than the flat parts.
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by bgentry 5y ago
I moved to Austin in November after 10 years in the Bay Area and a lifetime in different parts of California. Not a chance we will move back, certainly not for decades. The most refreshing part of the change is that people are genuinely nic
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by bgentry 5y ago
There was some prior discussion on this submission from yesterday, though it fell just short of the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598222 The source paper ( https://www.biorxiv.org/content
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Recovered deleted sequencing data sheds more light on early SARS-CoV-2 epidemic(biorxiv.org)
53 points by bgentry 5y ago|25 comments
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by bgentry 5y ago
Have you tried taking a cell phone photo of a moving object far in the distance and with less than ideal lighting? You won’t get a good result if you can even capture it. Photographing something like this would probably require a DSLR type
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by bgentry 5y ago
I think there’s some nuance here. The virus could have a perfectly natural origin in bats, but not be able to infect humans in its original form. There are many ways the virus could have come to infect humans, such as by manipulating it dir
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by bgentry 5y ago
Sure thing! Most of the good stuff I’ve learned from Aaron Franklin one way or another. He’s got his PBS series, along with the extended segments available on YouTube, his Masterclass, book, etc. Really great resources :) I’ll also add that
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by bgentry 5y ago
Of course you’re not supposed to wrap for the whole cook, I never suggested anything of the sort. Generally you wrap around the time of the stall or when the meat has developed enough bark. For a brisket, this tends to be in the ~170° range
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by bgentry 5y ago
If you wrap brisket with foil, your final product will taste like metallic pot roast. The butcher paper wrap allows some transfer of moisture out and smoke flavor in, and is the best combination. Most of the “moisture” you notice in the fin
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by bgentry 6y ago
It's unfortunate that you've been downvoted as this is a worthwhile discussion to have. I think the short answer is that we simply don't know yet which one is "better", especially since there are so many dimensions
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by bgentry 6y ago
Data from the study released this week (of frontline healthcare workers vaccinated in December) showed that the mRNA shots had a high efficacy just two weeks after the first dose, likely higher than the efficacy of the J&J shot. Just a
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by bgentry 6y ago
Just this week we also saw data from Pfizer & Moderna mRNA vaccine rollouts to frontline healthcare workers in December (at a time of peak infection and emerging variants) that touted 80% effectiveness after a single dose, 90% after two
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by bgentry 6y ago
The parent was not commenting on morality and only pointed out that Reagan was correct about the strike being in violation of Federal law ("correct" is one of the many meanings of the word "right").
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by bgentry 6y ago
And yet you are right about it being legal at the time. The word has multiple meanings, one of which is as a synonym for "correct". This is how it was used in the context above as the commenter made no reference to morality.
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by bgentry 6y ago
It's not "doing a lot of heavy lifting" to use the word unambiguously in one of its many defined meanings. Clearly the parent was referring to Reagan being correct about the illegality of the strike (given that they cited t
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by bgentry 6y ago
Agreed. On my iMac Pro, both AirPods and AirPods Pro had serious reliability issues. Occasionally during calls I would end up having skipping audio issues, and my bluetooth magic trackpad would also stutter when these issues were ongoing. S
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by bgentry 6y ago
I agree that it's unfortunate that the initial attachment to phone numbers has thus far made Signal harder to use for dissidents in many countries. But I can also understand that there are legitimate constraints that led them to go thi
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by bgentry 6y ago
They've actually said publicly that they're working on making it possible to use Signal without a phone number, via usernames. Here's a recent hint at that: https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/13472
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by bgentry 6y ago
What happens when a whistleblower or dissident wants to use Signal? Should they be forced to cough up a payment with a traceable credit card or app store account in order to use it? For that reason alone I think it's important for the
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by bgentry 6y ago
Thanks for the idea, I also took the opportunity to donate a nice chunk in support of a service I use often and want to continue to exist.

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