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by ed_balls 5y ago
Sickness from the shot is not my main concern. I'd love to see the whole risk profile for my case. I have a feeling that governments are doing "booster for everybody" for political reasons. They don't want to single out
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Meta: Let say I'm 30 years old, healthy, vaccinated with JJ over 6 months ago. Denmark, Sweden, Finland have banned Moderna for younger than 30. Some countries were recommending it to people over 50. Whole communication is a mess. Sho
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I really hard to compare UK and SA. - average age 28 SA vs 40 UK - a lot of immunocompromised people in SA (AIDS) - UK has most of it immunity from vaccination which was mainly targeting AC2 receptor. It's possible that natural immunit
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by ed_balls 5y ago
If China would discover they are developing nuclear weapon they may choose to attack. There is a rumor that Taiwan has rockets that are targeting Three Gorges Dam. In case of an invasion they may choose to destroy them which would result in
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I think that might be the biggest sin with today's school system. Big penalties for mistakes and optimisation for perfection (math and spelling tests). In reality you "want" to make mistakes, because that means you took risk.
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> Will NATO come for let’s say Latvia or Lithuania? I honestly don’t think so. Poland may, because they see Russia as a nr 1 threat. USA have to because they(NATO) will lose any credibility. If they won't Germany, Japan, Poland, Ukr
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Exactly, the main threat model is the Russian aggression via hybrid warfare (anything below the classic war, which would trigger article 5) or full fledge offence. In both cases F-35 sucks, Poland is too close to Russia. I'd be much be
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> it is borderline cruel keeping them in an apartment in some cases I don't think this is true. You can have a husky in a flat, but have to go for a run every morning. I have a German Shepard. She goes for 3 walks a day and a lot o
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Also people with weak immunity e.g. HIV positive, can stay infected for months.
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> The omicron variant could be a blessing in disguise Not really. There is a very low evolutionary pressure to become less deadly.* You start infecting people in day 3, have symptoms on day 8 and die on day 20. You can walk around for a
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I don't mind a touch screen, but let me program the buttons on the steering wheel e.g. there should be a fn button. When I press it and arrows I can change the temperature. I'd have pretty much all important functions available wi
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by ed_balls 5y ago
That is not true for Covid. It's an upper respiratory virus which infects others before causing symptoms. It's possible to develop a variant that spreads, but kills everybody (highly unlikely in practice). There is no strong evolu
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> actual racist/sexist hiring practices are what led to the imbalance in diversity in the tech field Can you name "actual racist/sexist hiring practices"? I'm not american, but my understanding is that lack of wo
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Since immunocompromised people haven't "produced" super flu variant so far, is it safe to assuming we won't have it with Covid? I may spread faster, but won't be more deadly.
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Japan is fascinating for me. Do they just not test people? https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
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it's hard to compare cases without knowing how many tests were done and how they are administered.
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It's possible that mRNA would reduce the time to the market, which would give use more time to gather data and have better predictions of dominant strains.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...
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There is also a train congestion in Kazakhstan. A few articles mentioned end of summer 2022, but I guess this was assuming no extra disruptions.
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slower sales cycles, more risk-averse.
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I used to work for a startup founded by a few Brits. We had engineers in London, but no sales people, because of the culture. I was much easier to sell to Walmart than Tesco.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Meta: Anyone owns a 10 years old model S? What is the range of battery? I wanted to buy a used electric car, but 10 years Nissan Leaf has 40km of range, which is not enough.
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licensing I presume
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It's really hard to compare these. Netherlands has 4.7 per 1 billion vehicle-km, UK 3.9. I'd guess this is because population density (more crossings) and a way more cyclist in Netherlands. Cycling is safer in Netherlands than in
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Is this number really true? I remember a study from Italy (on Dr. John Campbell's channel) that there were 0 death from Covid* in people under 40 that were healthy. *Covid was the cause of death, not sepsis and btw he tested positive f
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Ask HN: Best Keyboard for Programming in 2021?
11 points by ed_balls 5y ago|17 comments
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> Developers who can't figure something out from documentation and are too impatient (or sometimes critical) to be helped over Slack. Maybe it's a symptom they miss human contact.
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but the stigma is still there.
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> denied burial in religious cemeteries Same for Catholics and most of Christians, hence no suicide attacks.
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it's a bad idea to compare cash to a number in a computer which estimate share value (taking future cash flow into account)

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