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by fsh 4y ago
The CDC director referred to their own epidemiological data which (at the time) showed a clear reduction in transmission due to the vaccination. Clinical trials are generally unsuitable for measuring transmission, since the rate of particip
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by fsh 4y ago
Note that this statement predates the emergence of immune escape variants. The CDC director was right at the time.
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by fsh 4y ago
Attacking an electronic voting system requires changing a few integers. Surely this is much easier than stuffing ballot boxes all over the country. In functioning democracies, the polls have observers from multiple parties which makes ballo
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by fsh 4y ago
I find it extremely concerning that they mix e-government and electronic voting. The former is obviously a good idea, while the latter is an existential threat to democracy. Estonian citizens can now no longer audit the validity of their el
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by fsh 4y ago
In my opinion, the axes labels are way too small and in a weird location, the lines are too thin, and the default color cycle has many colors that are indistinguishable for people with red–green color blindness (8% of all men). I have been
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by fsh 4y ago
I agree that Mathematica is extremely powerful, but in my opinion calling it polished is quite a stretch. The notebook interface has a look and feel as if it was hacked together in two weeks in 2004. Kernel startup and function evaluations
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by fsh 4y ago
If your live USB image is from this decade, it will almost certainly come with journald for reading the logs. If it doesn't, why choose such a bad live USB image?
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by fsh 4y ago
The difference is around a factor of two between the US Southwest deserts and the German north sea coast [1]. So tracking installed peak capacity is not an ideal metric, but it is very simple and gets the order of magnitude right. [1] http
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by fsh 4y ago
The IEA is using the correct unit. They are talking about "annual solar PV capacity additions" which is measured in Watts.
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by fsh 4y ago
Connecting external screens or projectors to a PC. It never made sense to me that the devices on either end take many seconds to realize that something was plugged in.
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by fsh 4y ago
It's incredible that the only sensible comments on this thread are this far down. The HN audience really has a massive Dunning-Kruger problem when it comes to science topics (especially true for COVID conspiracy theories).
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by fsh 4y ago
Yes
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by fsh 4y ago
The energy levels of individual atoms have been compared at the level of a few parts in 1E18 in optical atomic clocks. If properties of the protons making up the nuclei of these atoms (mass, charge,...) were different at that level, it woul
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by fsh 4y ago
The Fukushima disaster cleanup cost a trillion dollars. Over a hundred thousand people were (at least temporarily) displaced. I would call this a pretty darn big failure.
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by fsh 4y ago
The Fukushima reactors and a lot of the german ones were built by the same company. They overlooked the flood risk on the japanese coast (which has huge tsunamis every few decades). What did they overlook elsewhere? After Chernobyl, politic
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by fsh 4y ago
I am not aware of any superdeterministic theory that can explain the violation of Bell's inequality. They only argue that a violation of Bell's inequality is not impossible in a superdeterministic local hidden variable theory (b
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by fsh 4y ago
From your link: The New York Times, in an article about Malone, reported: "While he was involved in some early research into the technology, his role in its creation was minimal at best, say half a dozen Covid experts and researchers,
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by fsh 4y ago
Obviously the variants make the situation much more complicated, that's why I cited the overview page of the CDC. Please don't cherry-pick the lowest figure you could find, this is highly misleading. Even for adolescents and Omicr
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by fsh 4y ago
Here are the numbers for COVID-19: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccine-effectiven... You probably received the vaccine before variants emerged. At the time, the clinical studies of the manufacturers showe
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by fsh 4y ago
Once again, this is simply not true and has never been. Here's a homework for you: Look up the efficacy figures in the information sheet of any standard vaccine. And then think about why many vaccines are given in multiple doses spread
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by fsh 4y ago
How often are you going to repeat this nonsense? Vaccines have (with rare exceptions) never been 100% effective at preventing infection. Efficacy figures are given in the information sheets for all commercial vaccines.
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by fsh 4y ago
Energy content of course. Uranium contains quite some energy, but it is also extremely rare. Without breeders, it would be exhausted in a few years.
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by fsh 4y ago
The point is that the radioactive material emitted by fossil fuels is completely negligible.
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by fsh 4y ago
According to IAEA data, there is considerably more minable coal than uranium on earth (by extractible energy). Current nuclear reactors are not scalable to global energy requirements.
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by fsh 4y ago
I once looked up the numbers. Chernobyl alone released more radioactive material (by activity) than the radioactive content of all fossil fuel that was ever burned.
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by fsh 4y ago
Her blog posts criticizing LIGO were based on a series of papers with very obvious flaws. She never addressed that it might have been a mistake to blog about it without talking to experts before.
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by fsh 4y ago
It amazes me that crypto-fanboys simply refuse to think through the failure modes of their toy projects. If you put your domains or your money on the blockchain, and you lose your keys, your domains or your money are gone with no recourse.
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by fsh 4y ago
That's just a very ineffective dehumidifier.
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by fsh 4y ago
The first two require centralized governance to function, so putting it on a blockchain is useless. Voting requires anonymity, so putting it on a blockchain is dangerous.
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by fsh 4y ago
Small IEC mopeds are hideously inefficient. They consume merely 2 or 3 times less fuel than a modern IEC car, despite being an order of magnitude lighter and much slower. Also they emit way more pollutants and are extremely noisy.

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