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by fer 5y ago
Hard to tell, but it was consistently losing to the Soviet Union by most space-dick measurement metrics. Please don't see me as defending the USSR in any way, it's a widely accepted fact that the USSR was 0.5-2 years ahead in most
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by fer 5y ago
> It also went to the moon first, as it was inventing all the technologies to enable it. USSR: first satellite, first animal in space, first animal returning from space, first human in space, first woman in space, first object orbiting t
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by fer 5y ago
> I know you're insinuating that the restrictions work. That's a very bold claim. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01009-0 And that's just the most cited, most exhaustive study on effectiven
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by fer 5y ago
The end of each wave aligns neatly with restrictions that lower the exponential. You're being disingenuous. And if we want to be technical it's a sigmoid, but we only see the exponential part of it.
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by fer 5y ago
It's kind of tiring after 2 years. The same has been said of Spain, France or Italy, though they rank among the top countries in healthcare. While no country is perfect, and many governments made mistakes, you just can't fight an
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by fer 5y ago
I think you're not looking at the numbers the way I do. 1. The closest to reality is probably the 70k figure, since the requirements for probable and confirmed are held to unusually high standards (sequencing of one or both samples). 2
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by fer 5y ago
There's no sterilising immunity. That's a gross oversimplification of the incredibly complex thing that the immune system is. Immune response isn't linear. Likewise, viral reproduction isn't linear. They're not even
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by fer 5y ago
Pfizer allocated doses for those countries (and more) at non-profit prices. Argentina pays $12 per dose[0]. The EU, who haggled a lot, and bought a lot more, is paying $15, and the US pays almost $20. If Pfizer agreed to be held liable at a
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by fer 5y ago
It's based on antivax nonsense. Now he edited and linked to a site (which is banned everywhere in social media precisely for spreading COVID-19 misinformation) that takes raw data from VAERS at face value without any adjustment for pre
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by fer 5y ago
I'm not sure what I'm looking at. > Such would be evidence of immunity that is equal to that of vaccination and the immunity should be provided the same societal status as any vaccine-induced immunity. They advocate for infecti
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by fer 5y ago
> I have talked to my Dr. Then imagined things in your head. No doctor will write what you suggest. > You are not my Dr. Nobody said I am.
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by fer 5y ago
> I had it and have Dr. letter that says so. I now have sterilizing immunity. No, you don't, nobody has, 'sterilizing immunity' doesn't exist as you seem to think it does [0]. I seriously doubt a doctor would write &#
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by fer 5y ago
They don't waive more than what was defined in the PREP Act[0], they're exempt because it's an emergency and all evidence points at the treatment being better than the disease, and its production, distribution and administrat
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by fer 5y ago
In Occam's razor news, there are not many reasons to detour 40 tons worth of military rations near a warzone where you're totally not involved.
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by fer 5y ago
Exactly, that that kind of content is literally publication bias[0] on steroids. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias
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by fer 5y ago
If using SQLAlchemy, of course the answer is Alembic[0]. But I like Alembic so much that actually, in a couple cases, I copied the model into Python/SQLAlchemy only to be able to use Alembic for migrations. Of course if you use some ot
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by fer 5y ago
Eventually. But as it appeared it was more virulent than its immediate ancestors.
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by fer 5y ago
It depends on what you call severity. If severity means the host dies quickly rather than slowly, there's obviously selection pressure and that mutation will die off relatively quickly vs the rest, since it won't have as many chan
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by fer 5y ago
Not as bold as you, but any question requiring parroting something definitely gets an eye roll from me.
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by fer 5y ago
I covered that feeling in this submission[0]. Software can evolve, but sometimes software already does all of what it is supposed to, yet the world around it changes. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29350221
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by fer 5y ago
And I was complaining about 15/1 from my DSL. Ironically I work for the company that won't lay fiber fast enough, yet asks me to work remotely.
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by fer 5y ago
Yes. I often find Play "hides" deep in the results apps that I had previously bought, even typing their exact name, in hopes I choose another (always paid or with ads) above them.
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by fer 5y ago
Video is great for many things, but step by step instructions/tutorials ain't one of them.
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by fer 5y ago
They're comparing different/dates/vaccination rates, classic Simpson's paradox. No adjusted data shows otherwise.
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by fer 5y ago
Nor I said they did.
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by fer 5y ago
That was actually my first thought. The link talks about 70% decrease of Alzheimer risk over a 6 year period of Viagra use (vs lack thereof). But early Alzheimer signs have been shown to appear up to 18 years before diagnosis. Memory and th
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by fer 5y ago
> If a project is more than 6 months to a year in duration, there is very little chance that what the customer now wants is what they wanted before. Depends largely on the customer. Just do anything defence, related to aircraft, or indus
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by fer 5y ago
Introducing: Hypertext Joking aside, it's not like automatic content suggestions are perfect, they tend to lock you into whatever you consumed lately, ultimately causing things like Elsagate[0] For music or films I rarely use recommend
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by fer 5y ago
Amazon test kits have nowhere the sensitivity to reach meaningful detection. In my country the legal limit for water is 10µg/L, and these tests start detecting at 10-20 mg/L.
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by fer 5y ago
Also, most humans have more fingers than the average.

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