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by fsh 5y ago
None of this is true. The vaccination rate in Denmark is 77%, not 90% [1]. The number of hospital admissions and the death rate are lower than during the first and second waves [2, 3] despite a significantly larger infection rate [4]. [1]
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This is such a bizarre take. If the ICUs are filling up, the solution should be to prevent people from getting sick, not to make the ICUs bigger. There are undoubtedly many problems in the German healthcare system, but the current surge is
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The sole purpose of DOIs is that they never change. The moment Nature decides to update their CMS, the first link is going to 404.
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I have used TSM (or ADSM or Spectrum Protect or whatever IBM calls it this week) quite a bit. The basic functionality and performance are not too bad. However, it clearly shows that the software originates in the 1980s. The client is writte
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According to TFA, conventional nuclear power plants would exhaust the available uranium resources in 5.7 years if used to provide 100% of the world primary energy. The world could not possibly have followed Sweden and France even if it want
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The key fundamental weakness (the susceptibility to man-in-the-middle attacks) was addressed in the original BB84 publication [1]: The need for the public (non-quantum) channel in this scheme to be immune to active eavesdropping can be rel
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I think that the vaccine mandates were primarily a reaction to the large increase in hospitalizations and deaths at the time. This was primarily driven by unvaccinated people due to their higher risk of transmitting and contracting the dise
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I really don't understand where this idea of "annual boosters" is coming from. SARS-CoV2 is clearly on the trajectory to become one of the many viruses that are endemic in humans. This means that everyone will occasionally ge
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I think it is fairly easy to understand why it is desirable to have as much of the population vaccinated as possible. First, like anything biological, the risk of COVID is not a binary quantity. There is a very strong correlation between th
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This was discussed on hn a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952 My old surface also never stayed in suspend reliably.
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The default config of systemd on Arch suspends to RAM when the lid switch of a laptop is triggered. Unfortunately many modern laptops no longer implement the S3 sleep state in favor of Microsoft's proprietary "Connected Standby&qu
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The first study is clearly underpowered to say anything about the risk after more than around 150 days. This can be seen in figures 2 and S1, where the confidence intervals get larger than the effect size at around this point. Combining mul
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The Novavax vaccine is a recombinant protein vaccine and only contains the spike protein: https://mvec.mcri.edu.au/references/novavax-covid-19-vaccine...
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I don't get what point you are trying to make. Yes, the vaccine efficacy drops over time. This is expected since the antibody levels in the blood drop over time. The manufacturers have pointed out from the beginning that this drop and
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Ok, let's have a look what the vaccine manufacturers claimed in their phase 3 study papers about the durability of the protection: BioNTech/Pfizer [1]: "This report includes 2 months of follow-up after the second dose of vacc
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Which nuance do you think is missing for example from them FDA press release about the EUA for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine for children? https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-auth...
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Countries with very high vaccination rates such as Portugal or Singapore show quite clearly that all of these statements have been correct. At this point, antivaxers are the only reason why the pandemic is still an issue in industrialized c
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This quote doesn't say anything about whether the vaccine reduces transmission of the virus. Even large phase-3 studies like the ones done for the COVID vaccines don't have anywhere near the statistical power to determine this. No
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I would argue that 2009 is not very much out of date when it comes to geology research. The sources also agree with each other: Scientific American: "According to the NEA, identified uranium resources total 5.5 million metric tons, and
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235U may have an impressive energy density, but uranium ore contains very little natural uranium and natural uranium contains very little 235U. According to this back-of-the-envelope calculation [1], a typical energy density of uranium ore
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Do you have a source for this? To my knowledge, uranium would run out in a decade or two if one would use it to supply 100% of the world primary energy consumption [1]. Coal is obviously way more abundant. [1] https://www.scienti
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Neutron lifetime experiments are done with cold beams (tens of K). Time dilation is completely negligible.
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How industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic(theguardian.com)
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Your source directly contradicts the "460 years" figure. There they estimate a 230-year supply at today's consumption rate. Nuclear energy currently supplies 4.0% of the global primary energy production [1]. According to that
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I have a Pixel 3a whose battery is slowly starting to degrade after two years of use (~80% capacity left). Unfortunately, changing the battery requires removing the glued-in screen, which is quite fiddly and has the danger of cracking the O
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The original cable was published in the meantime [1]. I don't see any mention of "dangerous research taking place in unsafe conditions". Why don't you read it for yourself? It's only three pages. [1] https:/&#
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SARS was first discovered in a major city too. This makes a lot of sense. If there is an outbreak in a rural village, the chances of it spreading worldwide are slim. It is quite possible that small outbreaks happen occasionally without anyo
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This doesn't even work that well for the governing parties. Coalition governments are based on the parties making compromises where their positions disagree. This means that in particular the smaller partner(s) have to vote against the
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Please have a careful look at the plot again. The electricity production from coal dropped by something like 50% in the last 10 years. Of course Germany's ancient nuclear reactors could have been kept running by a bit longer, but the o
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This is just cherry-picking from noisy data in order to tell a misleading narrative. If you look at the actual development of electricity generation in Germany [1], it is very clear that nuclear power (pink) was replaced by renewables (brig

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