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by eganist 5y ago
Manabe's work was predictive. It's only in recent years when we've started seeing those predictions come true. Less "politics" and more "hey his models were right."
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by eganist 5y ago
> That's a straw man. The problem is tons of research and development won't happen without the state, but the main avenue the state funds development (as opposed to research) is the military. The reason the op's comment is
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by eganist 5y ago
its closer to a PaaS offering than just a bundle of APIs, which gives it some basis to claim the Cloud marketing moniker. Notably, https://bisontrails.co/participate/ (this is linked from the above and is owned by Coin
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by eganist 5y ago
The tweet... and my breakdown. > I can go unvaccinated against polio, tetanus, hepatitis, measles and mumps, Misleading: 90.8% of infants aged 24 months are vaccinated against e.g measles, mumps, and rubella, so a mandate generally isn&
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by eganist 5y ago
I'm less interested in this as a climate change remedy (it's not) and more interested in this for its terraforming potential. What are the benefits and risks from just bleeding spare methane into the atmosphere after any refueling
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by eganist 5y ago
Surprised this wasn't submitted or treated by Google as a security defect. I don't think Google pays out for DoS typically, but considering how easily this can be weaponized, this one probably should've paid out. Especially i
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by eganist 5y ago
> increase the numbers of doctors and nurses and tort reform to manage the lawsuits to enable lower malpractice insurance costs. and a scheme to drive down med school pricing. Maybe more competition? Enabling more MD and DO schools? Ther
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by eganist 5y ago
Not sure the twitter thread is as valuable as the article itself. Suggesting a change: "Equitable Research Requires Questioning the Status Quo" https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/equitable-research-requires...
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by eganist 5y ago
> Thus, optimally elicited human polyclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 should be resilient to substantial future SARS-CoV-2 variation and may confer protection against potential future sarbecovirus pandemics. So if I'm extrapolat
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by eganist 5y ago
> OpenJDK: "Oracle’s free, GPL-licensed, production-ready OpenJDK" I don't know what could be more convincing than an explicit open license. lack of enterprise support. And also what javajosh said. Here's a(n arguably
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by eganist 5y ago
> Knowing that my antibodies have waned, and thus I'm more susceptible to infection So I guess this is the point I was making with my original comment when I mentioned a "nebulous benefit for a select few ." Here's a
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by eganist 5y ago
Yeah, but those are PCR tests, not antibody tests. There's a massive difference between the two, with the former trying to see if you're likely infected and the latter to measure an aspect of immunity. Getting constant PCR testing
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by eganist 5y ago
> They have the right, as long as they aren't being subsidized by the government (and I suspect they are). This is a sound criticism, honestly. If there are social systems designed to provide a specific benefit across an entire pop
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-9wo_apQ1s Looking for HD but this one actually has video; the others I found didn't.
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That just means they're shadowbanned, as I understand it. And that tracks with all their other comments being dead. Flagged to death will say both flagged and dead.
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"I'm sorry, but how can you form an opinion so quickly?" It doesn't really matter. They're stationary objects; there's absolutely no reason, good or bad, for the algorithm to determine that the correct trajecto
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no.
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by eganist 5y ago
> If we can get approvals rolling faster without compromising safety, it might mean being able to release variant-specific boosters earlier in their transmission cycle. This is basically it. We'd need an approval process similar to
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by eganist 5y ago
> Many sites already work around this, and reader mode only shows a blank page or the contents of the disavow human rights box. Refresh while in reader mode. The DOM with most paywalls is destroyed post-render, not before it reaches the
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by eganist 5y ago
My biggest concern now is around seeing those who hedged their willingness to get the vaccine on its approval instead find a new reason not to get it. So with that in mind, I'm much more keen on seeing how employers will decide on vacc
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by eganist 5y ago
> Keeping myself centered in the lane is tiresome (first-world problem, I know). Only because first-world nations are a bit better at enforcing lane laws. India, Iran, Indonesia, etc... the lanes might as well not exist. I recognize this
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by eganist 5y ago
Yeah, whatever it was, it seems to have resolved in the last two hours. My proof works again... with no changes by me. I wouldn't mind seeing a postmortem for this.
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by eganist 5y ago
Good to know. Odd though in that I didn't change anything. Not my profile, not my username, not my keybase account, nothing.
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by eganist 5y ago
Good thought, thanks! Still curious who's seeing this happen with their proofs.
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Hacker News [keybase] proof just broke
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by eganist 5y ago
Edit: Replies are far more informed than I am. I'm using Firefox on Android for the reasons outlined in my original comment, preserved below --- > Serious question: Why do you browse the web without an ad blocker? I can't im
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by eganist 5y ago
> I bet you also said “3 weeks to flatten the curve!” The vaccines were working perfectly in that regard until we hit a wall of people unwilling to take them, which brought us in the US to where we are today when antivax lag hampered us
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by eganist 5y ago
Not so much "preventing" anyone from hearing it as much as disparaging the bill in public discourse alongside buying off politicians. Mostly because word about bills like this tends to go around anyway thanks to all the orgs worki
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by eganist 5y ago
Entirely unrelated fun fact: my love for your service started a good number of years ago when you worked with me directly on a specific challenge (subject: "Any way to pay for shodan without Paypal?"). Glad to see the service is c
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by eganist 5y ago
> Are Skydrive documents somewhat public or are people just sharing them by mistake? I don't use it nor am I that familiar with it. Almost all of this would be by mistake, no different than misconfiguring an S3 bucket.

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