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by cortic 5y ago
Not lock-downs specifically. Testing and isolating, Maybe, but it would have cost many more lives.
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by cortic 5y ago
There actually is. The evolutionary selection pressure on most coronaviruses exists throughout its infectious stage. So in order to be more infectious for longer the coronavirus would become less symptomatic and so less serious. But with
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by cortic 5y ago
Thanks. But I think you missed my point, and my second paragraph. But if you think there is an overabundance of accuracy in scientific reporting then perhaps we frequent different places.
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by cortic 5y ago
The abundance of pseudo scientific studies that; Confuse correlation with causation. Fail to control for anything to get an interesting conclusion. Or just exaggerate the results. Has left me to instinctively assume, just from the title
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by cortic 5y ago
I remember an Australian study that showed a significant increase in the likelihood of men with toxoplasmosis to be involved in car accidents. There was also something about women being more promiscuous when infected. I doubt the study had
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by cortic 5y ago
>The long-term effects of being infected with the disease are definitely known to be worse than any unknown.. Seems an indefensible statement. You can't possibly know how 'bad' the unknown is, its unknown.
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by cortic 5y ago
probability of death of an individual is under 100%, as not everyone is dead yet.
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by cortic 5y ago
The grass will always be greener where you are not standing. But don't discount how many people regret having children later in life. There are a great many disappointments, heartaches, and estranged relationships in the world. Pare
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by cortic 5y ago
Faster than my first (56k) modem, that's a lot of personal data going over untrusted hardware.
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by cortic 5y ago
1, only applies if you are right about the verdict, which we can never be sure about. In fact execution almost guarantees that the criminal will re-offend if he is watching an innocent man being put to death for his crimes. 2, Its significa
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by cortic 5y ago
I'm sorry, i actually had £20k, and just changed it to $ without converting; £20k is about what a 'Accounts Administrator' earns ( https://uk.jobted.com/salary ). So that's about $28k which is about 3.5 b
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by cortic 5y ago
126,000 people, assuming a $20,000 annual salary, would be 2.5 billion, or 12.5% of youtubes revenue in 2020. That seems more than reasonable. And when you consider only flagged videos should *need* to be watched by a human.
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by cortic 5y ago
>How did they manage without chiropractors? We've always had charlatans pretending to have solutions to our problems before chiropracty and homeopathy, we had traveling salesmen peddling fish oil as a cure-all and of course the powe
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by cortic 5y ago
>The fact that foods such as sardines - which are rich in taurine, omega 3, calcium and vitamin D - have a clear protective effect against the onset of diabetes does not mean that taking these supplements in isolation will have the same
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by cortic 5y ago
Namecheap are not very cheap, and they basically stole a domain from me last year by freezing my account randomly and requiring a cam-show on an unrecognized domain where i was to put my credit card on cam to verify i was myself.. i tried c
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by cortic 5y ago
Good service, but their stupid whois privacy guard email system means you would need to turn privacy off to transfer a domain away from them, that always put me off.
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by cortic 5y ago
>How is Bitcoin a boon to renewables? It isn't, but it could be. If we had proper taxes on carbon emissions; The cheapest power would always be from renewables, bitcoin miners would invest in renewable energy which would make it ch
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by cortic 5y ago
The ability to turn electricity into money is not the problem, or if it is, then lump all of modern endeavors in capitalism alongside of Bitcoin. The problem is we (the world) are not effectively taxing carbon emissions. Right now it sho
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by cortic 6y ago
Those number are for the first 3 days. As i said i do not live alone.
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by cortic 6y ago
48 million to one lottery odds, running everyday I'd expect to win once in the next 131,506 years (48m/356). -this is why you don't win for 'years'. I'd also expect one winner for every 48 million players in a
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by cortic 6y ago
A 23% chance of a 1 in 10,000 chance thing happening every 14,400 chances? That can't be right.
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by cortic 6y ago
Maybe its not that accurate to count it that way, but 1 in 10,000 would mean to the layman that every 10,000 times you do this you should expect 1 case of C19, and i do this at least 720 times at every delivery. With more than 20 deliveries
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by cortic 6y ago
I sanitize the items in the garage, as i fill a sanitized crate, then my hands, then lift them into the house. Its quick and easy, it also allows me to reduce contact with the driver. To be honest i massively underestimated how often i tou
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by cortic 6y ago
120 items on my average delivery, assuming a driver or stacker is infected that could mean every item is contaminated. I touch them 1-2 times to put them away, 3-4 times as i open and use the items.. So that could be 720 'touches&#x27
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by cortic 6y ago
The owners of Chernobyl (the government) didn't declare bankruptcy and piss off, they spent massive moneys containing the problem. So, socialize profits, socialize losses. Trying to stop catastrophes from happening needs regulation an
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by cortic 6y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55045639 In the UK the advice is still "Vaccination should only be considered for pregnant women when the potential benefits outweigh any potential risks." Whatever the hell th
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by cortic 6y ago
>Claims that vaccines cause sterility This is the issue with misinformation, its usually based on a legitimate concern that was suppressed instead of answered; There was an issue with a protein in placental? tissue being similar to the
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by cortic 6y ago
*My choices and everything i will do in my life is either Newtonian, and so was decided long before i was born. Or random and so not within my control. -The only issue we have with this statement is the definition of 'my' becomes
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by cortic 6y ago
We are basically an algorithm. In fact we are an 'information' algorithm on top of an instance of a genetic algorithm. AI is the same, an 'information' algorithm on top of an instance of a hardware algorithm. The selec
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by cortic 6y ago
That the vaccine is better than the disease seems a ridiculously low bar to me. I'd be much more reassured if they listed the side effects with their likelihoods (1 in ??) subdivided this with age groups if appropriate, I've seen

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