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by bhk 5y ago
Here's a more recent study: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/234736/people-with-omicron-v... It says the risk of death with Omicron is 69% lower than with Delta. Among the unvaccinated, the risk is 80% lower
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by bhk 5y ago
Mozilla supports the "current thing"! How can any Firefox user feel safe that they won't be on the wrong side of the next current thing?
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by bhk 5y ago
The highest sun exposure group reported more alcohol consumption.
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by bhk 5y ago
If drones were used as you state, then how do you explain this? https://twitter.com/evanhill/status/1436422176425578496
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by bhk 5y ago
The exponential growth of spending on research is the main factor working to dilute quality and to corrupt the process.
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by bhk 5y ago
Hmm... looks like fake receipts. For the claim "Alcohol consumption increases the risk of CVD", they cite the following paper, which actually shows statistically significant reductions in CVD from 75 to 150 g/wk. https:&#x2F
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by bhk 5y ago
> ... old songs now represent 70% of the US music market. > ... the 200 most popular tracks now account for less than 5% of total streams. I often hear it said that "new music sucks", and suspect it to be true, but now I hav
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by bhk 5y ago
I agree. Not having flown a fighter jet, myself, it's not clear to me which I would prefer. I can easily imagine problems with the "simpler" F-35 cockpit requiring the pilot to navigate a modal UI while navigating the aircr
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by bhk 5y ago
> But the law isn't about cookies EU law very much is about cookies. > ... the ePrivacy Directive (EPD) has become known as the “cookie law” since its most notable effect was the proliferation of cookie consent pop-ups after it
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by bhk 5y ago
> On average, the Buy and Positive mention stocks went up by 0.03 and 0.05% respectively You would get eaten alive by transaction costs, the bid/ask spread, and, if trading in large quantities, the market's response to your buy
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by bhk 5y ago
What's really surprising is how many people do know that margin collapse is a thing, but haven't fully understood all of the implications, so they still get mystified by some unintended consequence. I don't think that &quot
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by bhk 5y ago
Bottom margins can still collapse with those of a parent container.
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by bhk 5y ago
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=nati...
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by bhk 5y ago
The Hoeg findings are off by 2X from the VAERS-based numbers cited by the FDA, but Hoeg examines "probable" vs. "medical chart-confirmed" cases. A factor of 2 is small in the scheme of things considering (a) the apple-t
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by bhk 5y ago
"Garbage"? > In an FDA analysis of the Optum healthcare claims database, the estimated excess risk of myocarditis/pericarditis approached 200 cases per million fully vaccinated males 16-17 years of age and 180 cases per mi
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by bhk 5y ago
They cite numbers from 2020 covering the whole country as evidence of no uptick in 2021 in LA and the Bay Area.
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by bhk 5y ago
In that study, 79% of the subjects had been hospitalized. It's clearly not a representative sample of the population.
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by bhk 5y ago
Hah! This paper describes a deep-dive into papers on database research that made quantitative claims, and about half of the investigated papers had problems with replications of some of their claims. The Repeatability Experiment of SIGMOD
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by bhk 5y ago
Typically I think of compromising the secrecy of inputs as the main RNG attack vector, but controlling the inputs is even better!
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by bhk 5y ago
Now that you've published your seeds...
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by bhk 5y ago
> Simplification is itself an act of intelligence Obfuscation is an act of counterintelligence.
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by bhk 5y ago
Maybe this is less of a satire of hiring practices than a satire of fickle tech trendiness. Like the $NOUN.js drinking game.
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by bhk 5y ago
That's not what your reference says. Briefly, "non-coding" means it doesn't code for proteins, while "junk" means it serves no function at all.
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by bhk 5y ago
FAA says "it's not us"! (Except for a few hours on Friday.) https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1447358177935245315 And it does seem to be Southwest-specific: https://flightaware.com&#x2F
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by bhk 5y ago
In my experience, a debugger is most helpful when you are unsure of the behavior of the language or libraries or machine on which you are working. It shows you what happens at various levels and validate or invalidate your assumptions or w
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by bhk 5y ago
Given the stunning financial asset price appreciation over the last decade and widespread confidence that traditional portfolio returns will continue, I'm surprised that the wave of retirement is not bigger than indicated by the number
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by bhk 5y ago
Google can simply decide to revoke your account and delete your data. I've seen a number of first-person accounts online of people who rubbed some tech giant the wrong way (or were just suspected of doing so, or were characterized as
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by bhk 5y ago
The context is a paragraph describing a mathematical concept, not specifying the protocol. Any standardese imperative (SHOULD/MUST/...) is out of place here. It should read "The result is the same."
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by bhk 5y ago
In response to the claim "YouTube it still taking down videos claiming X", you reply "This video featured someone not credible." Are you claiming that YouTube's policy is to take down all videos with non-credible sp
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by bhk 5y ago
That excerpt could be interpreted in two ways: 1) Beware of overdosing, because extrapolating from in-vitro studies will yield dosages that are unsafe. 2) We know the dosage required for Ivermectin for be effective, and it is too high. The

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