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by graeme 5y ago
The Soviets didn’t defeat the Japanese though, and they benefitted substantially from American supplies. As did the British, which kept the Nazis occupied in North Africa, in the air, and elsewhere. Anglosphere people underrate the Soviet c
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by graeme 5y ago
That first quote makes the same error as your initial comment! The Omicron wave grew faster, and with faster growth, a greater proportion of your cases are too recent to have been hospitalized
903.
by graeme 5y ago
In which case….why care which order you did things in, by your logic? If the consequences are low the decision is academic. (I don’t agree: I think there is risk of chronic damage that doesn’t appear as acute symptoms)
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by graeme 5y ago
The exchanges are able to buy USDT for less than $1 and use it to trade against customers. Big advantages to them to use it, and also they don’t need banking relationships to acquire it this way. FTX and Binance among biggest customers. Lik
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by graeme 5y ago
80% of crypto trades are against USDT
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by graeme 5y ago
Hopefully. Those with prior immunity to other coronaviruses actually did worse. The superantigen in SARS-Cov-2 activates the T cells for those viruses. They don’t protect and instead attack the body.
907.
by graeme 5y ago
Name a single virus that did this. (Noting that we don’t know what happened to the Spanish flu)
908.
by graeme 5y ago
Not with immune evasion. Then you’re only protected from what you had.
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by graeme 5y ago
Your first statement is based on a misquote from a health official, and your second quote is false. If indeed there is some antibody evasion then you could catch both variants at once or sequentially.
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by graeme 5y ago
Ah thanks. That sorts out why the passengers were tested despite dutch regulations.
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by graeme 5y ago
No prob, thanks for engaging whole way through!
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by graeme 5y ago
….did you continue reading the article? It says the paragraph you quoted was proven incorrect and SARS-Cov-2 is now mutating 4x faster than seasonal flu. Your own article shows you’re wrong. “ Last month, Kistler and her colleagues at the U
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by graeme 5y ago
Your paper is from June 2020, indicating it was written with data even earlier than that. Now, late 2021, it appears we are seeing more covid mutations than flu mutations. How can this be? For one, we have massively more SARS-Cov-2 cases th
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by graeme 5y ago
Yeah, thanks for expanding on that. It’s a very valid point. On the other hand, Israel, Hong Kong and Belgium have all reported breakthroughs from recent travellers. In Hong Kong it did so between two units in an isolation hotel. So it cert
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by graeme 5y ago
This variant is moving much faster to dominance in South Africa than Delta. About 6x faster. You can make some quibbles (small case numbers etc) but this is quick. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/conte
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by graeme 5y ago
She’s the most reliably wrong expert there is. She argued India hit herd immunity right before their delta wave. And about a month ago said the pandemic was finally done. (She says this every few months)
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by graeme 5y ago
They’re an eternal optimist, and were an optimist in the face of Europe’s resurgence. Europe now on verge of new lockdowns even before Nu variant. I don’t dismiss what they have to say entirely, they have expertise and they don’t publish wr
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by graeme 5y ago
Pretty normal life most of the time. Big difference between “covid zero” and “periods of low covid” In the former life is like 2019 most of the time. (A lot of places pretend they’re like 2019 but it isn’t the same. You see the effects in h
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by graeme 5y ago
Yeah but my point is that people point to relative efficacy when it is absolute reduction which matters. Delta being 2x worse means you need a stronger relative protection. What do you mean by 4x: relative severe disease protection? That wo
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by graeme 5y ago
This relationship is pretty similar across different countries. Pick the current point, pick a point with a similar curve, you’ll see differences are at most 2-3x better, often much less so. Much less of an improvement than the quote 20-fol
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by graeme 5y ago
Just looking at the stats in Google, which are sourced from our world in data. There is indeed a good relative protection compared to the unvaccinated. However, Delta seems to be worse in the absolute by about 2x. At least for intensive c
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by graeme 5y ago
Unclear this is true. There’s no herd immunity for any other coronavirus. Antibodies wane quicker than for other diseases. We have a SARS virus that we hope is actually just a common cold. That’s the plan. Hope and see. Even highly vaccinat
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by graeme 5y ago
Oh sorry, I should have qualified that one. It indeed has weakest evidence. I included it as it’s harmless, helpful for other reasons for many people, and has plausible physical mechanisms. But yeah strike that one from the list of interven
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by graeme 5y ago
The latter subreddit is the highest quality source of covid studies I know of. Great place, high discussion quality.
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by graeme 5y ago
Not having examined the site’s model, I’d indeed put more stock into the specific interventions I listed than modelling estimates. We know certain things move the needle and can evaluate their cost. Knowing that is more useful than knowing
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by graeme 5y ago
I do the same with an apple watch. I use Autosleep, which has a morning readiness feature using hrv and waking pulse. I also track sleep total and sleeping pulse. Long run sleeping pulse is a good indicator of my general health. Insufficien
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by graeme 5y ago
Here you go: https://www.microcovid.org/ Great site. Has variables for mask type, vaccine status, etc I’d add that immunity pretty clearly wanes post infection and vaccination. Especially by six months, but starting at 3. S
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by graeme 5y ago
Apart from talking to people, I think he read a lot of bank annual reports and spent time on forums dedicated to helping people get redress from banks.
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by graeme 5y ago
> but as with many low income people you may have to work hard for money and have no physical energy left over for such feats People love to bring up edge cases but most people on that situation aren’t on Hacker News. Vast majority of au
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by graeme 5y ago
“Let’s form a patriotic march to support the govt on day X” If there are to be such marches, it is the govt which will organize them. Not bottom up action, not via any process which could generate alternate leaders, power structures, organi

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