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by data_acquired 5y ago
When I taught writing in grad school, I actively (pun intended) pushed students away from passive voice. Active voice is generally easier to read, and typically forces the writer to clarify more things within a sentence. There are, of cours
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by data_acquired 5y ago
That's true. Do you know of prominent cases where law-enforcement abused the ability to remotely stop a car?
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by data_acquired 5y ago
My biggest fear with these scenarios is not really the hacking but law-enforcement agencies undermining civil rights by forcing Tesla or other self-driving car-makers to redirect cars against a customer's will. I feel like an episode o
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by data_acquired 5y ago
The cases are being under-reported too. The question is whether deaths are being under-reported to a greater degree than cases. Even the test-positivity rates vary from state to state not only because of the extent of infection in different
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Agreed, but I doubt that the difference in # of AZ and Moderna/Pfizer doses administered is off by too many orders of magnitude [edit : on second thought, could be off by a factor of 10]. The central issue in my mind is the difference
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by data_acquired 5y ago
"While the AstraZeneca vaccine has been the focus, other vaccines have also been reporting adverse events. Searching the EMA EV database for Moderna vaccine reports for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism identified 29 DVTs, of
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by data_acquired 5y ago
My bad. Have fixed the link. Thanks!
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Prions are proteins, so that's not much of a risk with the mRNA vaccines. But I do get your general point. As to why J&J seems to have more side-effects, its hard to tell. More than the peer-review step (which is attacked all the t
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by data_acquired 5y ago
"Nutjobs" is still a bit harsh, no? :) I do know a fair number of people who fall into the first category (but unfortunately, know far more in the second category).
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by data_acquired 5y ago
This pre-print (edit : now published apparently!) argued that the likelihood of clots from Covid was still higher than AZ vaccines https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.19.21253980v... . Fauci agreed with
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by data_acquired 5y ago
His arguments aside, I find calling anything to be "un-American" or "un-<insert country name>" to be annoying. Its a random nativist and unhelpfully pot-stirring sentiment to throw into an important debate. Who is
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by data_acquired 5y ago
No, no large-scale pooping in rivers. Far more complicated than a single technological fix can handle. Areas which get 2000+ mm of rainfall a year aren't always the ones with the most intensive agriculture. Water shortages are partly b
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Is it the case that the nature of projects in the defence industry is such that companies are prone to consolidation into a few large contractors? In the case of pharma, given the length of time and billions needed to go from drug discovery
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Haha :) I've been on HN for 12+ years, and yes, statements on capitalism don't always go over very well (unsurprising given links to YCombinator). Although I will say that HN has a wider diversity of opinion on quite a range of to
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by data_acquired 5y ago
To quote another Bernie, there's a fair bit of socialism for the rich in the US through bailouts when big corporations lose too much money/are too big to fail.
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by data_acquired 5y ago
Agreed! Given the number of SNCF strikes the past few years, I wouldn't be surprised if this is really a victory for the SNCF unions over their Air France counterparts rather than a pro-environmental move (which is an off-shoot of the
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by data_acquired 5y ago
They're called grad students :)
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by data_acquired 6y ago
I'm about half-way through Chomsky and Herman's propaganda model laid out in "Manufacturing Consent". Corporate ownership of media houses is said to be the first censorship filter that determines which angles of a policy
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by data_acquired 6y ago
Totally! As a different commenter noted, it seems that people will consider any technological solution to warming except politically unpalatable ones. The spectre of job losses and so on are frequently raised when it comes to transitioning
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by data_acquired 6y ago
Even assuming that an experiment is done for, say, twenty years, I don't know how accurately we can forecast longer- term changes (over a scale of centuries) from this move. Heck, making these forecasts without the sun being blocked ou
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by data_acquired 6y ago
This is a more useful resource than one would think. When I switched from studying math to biology, I was surprised that most graduate biology textbooks never provided these basic numbers --- average diffusion time of a protein across a cel