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by ggdG 5y ago
> That study (which was still a pre-print, not reviewed) was retracted. That study wasn't retracted. It's still here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v... Maybe you're
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by ggdG 5y ago
> Killing hosts isn't beneficial to the virus survival, quite the opposite in fact. An infection that super aggressively reproduces but due to antibodies fails to gain a foothold beyond the nasopharynx in vaccinated people doing lit
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by ggdG 5y ago
> In comparative studies of populations it has been shown to still be substantially effective at preventing infection even after antibodies wane. Source? > You are trying to make a statement about a counterfactual what if ___ country
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by ggdG 5y ago
> You can interpret this as either the vaccine not working (unlikely) or that high-income countries such as Iceland and Portugal test a larger share of their population than low-income countries such as Vietnam and South Africa (very lik
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by ggdG 5y ago
> The vaccination has been thoroughly shown to work How has this been shown? Countries with a high vaccination rate don't have a lower infection rate than other countries: https://link.springer.com/article/10.10
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by ggdG 5y ago
> The vaccine significantly slows ths spread Based on what data do you come to that conclusion? The vaccination rate of a country is not correlated with its covid infection rate: https://link.springer.com/article/10.
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by ggdG 5y ago
> The only hard requirement related to content is that racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia be not allowed. I don't know anyone who's a self-declared racist, sexist, homophobe or transphobe. But these things mean differen
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by ggdG 7y ago
Thanks for the heads-up. Yes this difference in sampling method changes everything.
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by ggdG 7y ago
> Can you properly analyze the reasons behind this without going into ethnic differences in IQ? The article mentions a Norwegian study [1] measuring an IQ decline within families. So it looks like the cause must be environmental. My pe
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by ggdG 8y ago
> [...]the whole fox news complex? There's no left wing equivalent to that. CNN and MSNBC easily fit that bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_iXfbxfwDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgBxfHdb4OU
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by ggdG 8y ago
I read nothing in that article that hints at any government violence in Hungary, so I don't get why you even bring this up. Sure, there's lots of innuendo about how the EU is trying to teach a lesson about democracy and human righ
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by ggdG 8y ago
FTA: > absolute bastards like Turkey’s Erdogan and Hungary’s Orban. I wonder what Viktor Orbán has done according to Doctorow to be put in the same ballpark as Erdogan. From https://turkeypurge.com/ : Turkey’s post-coup
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by ggdG 8y ago
https://outline.com/NghkCV
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by ggdG 8y ago
https://outline.com/dpSqKc
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by ggdG 9y ago
> For one that it clearly has an agenda [0], There's nothing wrong with that. > the other one being that I'm very skeptical of any outlet that goes through quite an effort to hide who's behind it. You and I use an anony
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by ggdG 9y ago
> At this point, some people are living pretty much in alternative realities. So true. > So please don't try to strawman me just for the sake of derailing this discussion into "Germany is actually on the brink of collapse!&q
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by ggdG 9y ago
> Surfacing news about how refugees are not raping everything in sight won't do much for a user who has a very clear anti-refugee bias, such a user won't be very likely to click such news as such they won't be surfaced to
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by ggdG 9y ago
> What "indoctrination" is present at the college level in the US? There is a disturbing trend of mob rule where student activists become increasingly obsessed with the silliest things they perceive as "opression" and
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by ggdG 9y ago
>Imagine a world where women weren't told they are naturally good/bad at things, now project that forward 50 years and redo the study. I doubt you have read James Damore's memo ( https://diversitymemo.com/
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by ggdG 9y ago
They had me because it was so similar to the - very real - combinations of "conses" in the lisp world: caaaar, cdaddr, cddddr and so on. https://franz.com/support/documentation/6.0/ansicl/dicten
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by ggdG 10y ago
I would take these "facts" about migration with a huge rock of salt. In Sweden, as in other Western European countries, public debate about immigration, islamisation and its consequences to society is being smothered under a suffo
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This Dutch master builder creates the most wonderful devices(youtube.com)
14 points by ggdG 11y ago|2 comments
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Denge sound mirrors(andrewgrantham.co.uk)
51 points by ggdG 11y ago|6 comments
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by ggdG 13y ago
Some corrections: * When I wrote "we stayed ahead of the [waves] for so long" I didn't mean that gravitational waves from the Big Bang & its immediate aftermath haven't been hitting us in the past. On the contrary: g
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by ggdG 13y ago
True. The light has been traveling for "only" 13.7 billion years, but meanwhile the space between origin & destination kept expanding. That's why I wrote about an apparent radius, but on further thought I no longer beli
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by ggdG 13y ago
IANAC [1], but here's my Wikipedia-level 2 cents: (Warning: leaky metaphors ahead!) We stayed ahead of the primordial gravitational waves [2] for so long because the expanding universe went through an "inflation" period: in a