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by djsumdog 6y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. HIV does generate antibodies. Your body does fight HIV and remove it from your system. (The rapid test for HIV tests for those antibodies. If you test positive, you still need a viral load test).
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Why is that the case with the Oxford vaccine? Can you elaborate?
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by djsumdog 6y ago
It seems like they tested for antibodies, but this article makes no mention of challenges to the real virus. It's important to remember that vaccines for previous coronaviruses (SARS/MERS) had reports of generating anitbodies, but
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Google removes Alaska State Troopers ad in 'misunderstanding'(adn.com)
1 points by djsumdog 6y ago|0 comments
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Weird, it works for me (US)
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by djsumdog 6y ago
A friend of mine did a blog post on deleting favs recently: https://tom.eastman.nz/2020/06/what-it-took-to-delete-my-lik...
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by djsumdog 6y ago
That's what killed off Falcon Pro. The author released a version of the APP with a secret way of putting in your own API keys and I used that for a bit. Then he released a new version, but couldn't just grant the old people access
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by djsumdog 6y ago
It's not trolling, because that's EXACTLY what the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) did. They destroyed countless empty buildings. Is eco-terrorism justified if no one dies? What about all the people who loose their jobs? What about a
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I've started smoking cigarettes due to the stress of this lockdown. I very rarely smoked tobacco before.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> If somebody incurs damage to government property There has been so much argument on the lines of "It's just property." I guess "They're just laws," as if they don't mean anything; as if laws were not
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Sam Harris recently did a podcast about the dangers of nuclear weapons that I found really interesting: https://samharris.org/podcasts/210-logic-doomsday/ and there was one back in February that was really interes
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> A video of five or 10 or 30 seconds does not tell the whole story, of course. It does not depict what happened before the camera started rolling. It is unclear from the videos, for instance, what the officers’ intentions were or why pr
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The idea that making code open-source won't cost a company anything(mrlacey.com)
2 points by djsumdog 6y ago|0 comments
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I don't know much about him as a person, but I do think he makes a good argument in this video, and argument I agree with in many ways. ML King beat women and Gandhi slept naked with his nieces to see if he could resist lust. They also
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I believed this for years, and in spite of all the stuff going on now, I think it still holds true. And the trouble is, saying that "It's about class, not race" is considered problematic in recent books like White Fragility.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
And two people can see the exact same event and read it two different ways. We're no longer in Plato's cave. We're literally watching the same movie, but seeing two different screens.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I often go back to Brendon O'Neil's video about the right and duty to offend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWrljX9HRA He talks about how it was once offensive to translate the Bible into English, or suggest Go
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> beyond a reasonable doubt This might be true for things like the conventional laws of physics. But there are many things scientists do not agree or argue over. Quantum physics and string theory are two examples. The 1994 book The Bell
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by djsumdog 6y ago
James Corbett did some great videos years ago on the weaponization of science. It is very true. Science should be debate and argument and reproducibility problems, working back and fourth until we get the methodology right and every student
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by djsumdog 6y ago
People want a political home. In countries without any type of per-capita representative voting system (where parties are split amount % of opinions like in MMP), they feel like they need to vote 'tactically.' At least in America,
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I think you're falling into the fallacy described in Graham's article. You've also made a false dichotomy.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
In the case of Karol Sikora, he is an expert who even spent 2 years working as a director at the WHO. Yet whenever anyone posts anything about him, it's met with immediately criticism, either ignoring his WHO work, stating he's &#
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Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out(businessinsider.com)
311 points by djsumdog 6y ago|91 comments
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> an N95 mask isn't too bad to wear if you can get one You realize these don't filter outgoing air right? If you have CoV2, you're literally spraying everyone around you with it if you wear these masks.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
So we can trust some experts, but not others? We're getting into a dangerous situation where some experts are blessed and others are not: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/#minist... We are
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> Also we know how to deal with 20% unemployment We absolutely do not. Many states have been backloged with unemployment requests[0]. Tens of thousands of people are going back to work now, but were unable to get unemployment for 3~4 mon
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> the long-term/permanent damage being caused (lung damage, senses, brain damage) Do you have any actual evidence for this? I keep hearing people bringing up 'permanent damage' but it's impossible to say something in
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> Liquor stores are still open One of the massive secondary effects is the huge rise in alcoholism. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) cannot meat in many States during lockdowns. Something like substance abuse accountability cannot be done effec
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by djsumdog 6y ago
My undergrad would just throttle/packetshape torrents/p2p/IRC-dcc/etc so it would move at 1~2kbps. My grad school would ban your MAC address if you had any torrents running (I found that out the hard way when I got banne
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by djsumdog 6y ago
This was what a seedbox is. You can get seedboxes really cheap (usually under 15euro/month).

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