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by collyw 5y ago
The Guardian is terrible these days. You will notice that all the mistakes that they admit to are things from decades ago. There is absolutely no reflection on the current positions that they take. It's essentially more virtue signalli
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by collyw 5y ago
Even this seems pretty dishonest, when all the entries are from before the time when many of the Guardian's current staff were not alive.
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by collyw 5y ago
I bought an ubuntu phone. The phone was nice, but it lacked apps, and the apps were pretty much all web based - so the map app wouldn't even load without an internet connection - pretty useless in a foreign country. And the version tha
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by collyw 5y ago
Proponents of hydroxychloroquine have been saying that it needs to be taken with zinc to be effective.
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by collyw 5y ago
> The vaccine has to be orders of magnitude safer than the virus Given that there are vast differences in outcomes in different age groups to the virus, surely that depends on the age group you are targeting. Pushing the vaccine onto chi
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by collyw 5y ago
The spike protein alone can cause damage, in other word you don't need a coronavirus infection. The vaccines make your body generate this protein.
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by collyw 5y ago
You don't think that diesel fumes are a more likely culprit? I saw this study mentioned which showed negligible risk for passive smoking unless you are actually living with a smoker. https://www.forbes.com/sites/d
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by collyw 5y ago
I find it quite amusing that Germany seems to be very anti-nuclear as a culture, yet they are right next door to France which has plenty of Nuclear power plants.
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by collyw 5y ago
No. I had to integrate a Django based booking system with Saleforce. Django is a pleasure to use as a developer (once you understand it). Salesforce is absolutely terrible, clunky API and just a horrendous developer experience.
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by collyw 5y ago
MS Access was far more pleasant to use. I haven't used it in years and I still haven't seen anything that will give you a relational database and front end with as little effort.
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by collyw 5y ago
Worst piece of software I have ever had to use as a developer. The API is horrible and clunky.
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by collyw 5y ago
Maybe worth checking the long term effects before forcing these vaccines on other things. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33300001/
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by collyw 5y ago
> If the suppression is effective Comparing places that didn't lock down to those that did I think its fair to say that the strategy has not been effective.
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by collyw 5y ago
Alternatively just refuse to do leetcode "challenges". As a software engineer leetcode is barely related to what i actually do in my job. Anyone who thinks it is a good way of evaluating candidates is a clown.
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by collyw 5y ago
It's not been a problem in a number of European countries. https://oronu.wordpress.com/2021/01/29/mortality-statistics/
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by collyw 5y ago
When does a pandemic end in your definition, as the numbers seem back to baseline in Europe at least?
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by collyw 5y ago
It was a pandemic. It's finished in Europe. Numbers have been back to baseline for a while already. https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
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by collyw 5y ago
That's why I said they were completely unsuitable for mass testing. I said nothing about them being used where covid is suspected.
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by collyw 5y ago
It was just an example to make the theory easier to understand.
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by collyw 6y ago
It's potentially the opposite. Say you have a population of 1000. If one person infects ten others. Then its going to be 3 generations before 1000 are infected and full immunity is reached. We go for a suppression strategy instead.If 1
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by collyw 6y ago
Around Autumn it was subtly mentioned that the UK figures were going to be for flu and covid combined. Before that it was noted that flu was killing more than coronavirus in summer.
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by collyw 6y ago
Similar sized virus, respiratory and seasonal. Plenty of similarities.
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by collyw 6y ago
It's even possible that you could have both. They aren't mutually exclusive as far as I am aware.
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by collyw 6y ago
At the height of the "second wave" here, it was estimated that around 0.8% of the population was infected at the time. That means that if you were randomly tested there was a greater chance that you would have a false positive tha
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by collyw 6y ago
> On the other hand PCR test are not inaccurate at all, at least regarding false positives. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2... between 0.8% and 4% false positive rate according
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by collyw 6y ago
Its too complicated. Hardly anyone actually needs a distributed version control system. It's a tool and should stay out of my road, not require hours of Stack Overflow to roll back a couple of mistakes.
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by collyw 6y ago
"Breathe second hand vape smoke". It's water vapor and propylene glycol and some flavourings. It certainly isn't smoke.
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by collyw 6y ago
By succeeding. Adjust your definition of success to something actually meaningful and enjoy life.
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by collyw 6y ago
Meanwhile thre were videos of the full hospitals in the UK being empty at the height of the second wave, while we were being told they were overwhelmed.
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by collyw 6y ago
There are only two Asian countries where mask wearing was common. South Korea and Japan. Hardly anywhere in Asia got hit hard. One theory is that there is a lot more contact with bats, trading them which act as a reservoir, and providing so

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