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by hannob 6y ago
This lists 2 RCTs (related to Covid-19 + a few others for other infections). One is very small (16 people), the other is dubious, it seems to be the one that combines with hydroxychloroquine "standard of care". (I believe this was
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by hannob 6y ago
No. The HN headline implies causation. The study result does not. (The study authors try to imply causation as well, but that's not what the study says.)
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by hannob 6y ago
You're under the absurd illusion that a substance with some weak evidence (that may be just statistical noise and bad interpretation of data) would have a significant effect. If there's an effect of vitamin D it's likely very
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by hannob 6y ago
The headline here (HN) is not the one of the source. It's also not what the study says.
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by hannob 6y ago
Poor people have much lower car ownership to begin with. It's irrelevant for most of them. If you want to do traffic policy for the poor the best you can do is making walking safer.
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by hannob 6y ago
Observation from Germany: A couple of years ago I wouldn't bring my own cup, because I was uncomfortable with having conversations about it. This has changed, because it's now prevalent enough that I'd consider it "not u
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by hannob 6y ago
We have a new highspeed rail line between Berlin and Munich. It's old tech. It was old tech when the decision to build it was made. (Not that I'm happy with the highspeed rail network in Germany. It could and should be much better
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by hannob 6y ago
This is completely not the point. The point is: You're not getting working public transport by inventing new technology. You get it by having the political willpower to fund it. If you don't have the latter then no amount of techn
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by hannob 6y ago
My understanding was that this is really not what flatpack does. It could in theory, but in practice it does not: https://flatkill.org/ Have things changed since then?
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by hannob 6y ago
This suffers from the same flaws as most CVE statistics. You take some data that you have, assume it's a representative sample and then make some claims based on it. The problem is: It's not a representative sample. If I understan
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by hannob 6y ago
Neither of those. It means you don't get sick if you get in contact with the virus. Whether that means you're immune (i.e. not spreading the virus to others) is a different question that apparently hasn't been answered by thi
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by hannob 6y ago
But that model is flawed, and it's been more than a decade to learn that. The interesting thing is: We already have a model that works much better, and it's been around for longer. If you buy a computer with Windows it is complete
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by hannob 6y ago
It looks like the openssh main dev is positive about this change: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/194#pullreq... That sounds like it will probably be accepted after a few more minor fixes.
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by hannob 6y ago
It seems to me if it takes you many hours to migrate your project from one CI provider to another you're doing things wrong. Ultimately your .travis.yml file is a proprietary format for a service that you have no control over. You prob
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by hannob 6y ago
This is a gross misrepresentation of the situation. Look at the numbers: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c... Yeah, there is a slight increase in natural gas over the years (with large fluctu
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by hannob 6y ago
I think he means the fish, not the people.
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by hannob 6y ago
> This is how you get people to stop doing nice things like writing open software. I mean... it doesn't look like people show any sign of stopping to write open software. There's more active FOSS than ever before, in large part
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by hannob 6y ago
Browsers are very careful in introducing warnings to users that are meant to go to admins. They dislike the indirect "but users will complain to admins" route and I can't blame them - every warning a user will see and not und
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by hannob 6y ago
> Are journals even going to publish most no-result studies? (I.e. a result of no significant correlation found.) Yes they are. Not all journals of course, but some are very explicit that they will publish based on quality and not based
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by hannob 6y ago
Are you confusing carbon offsetting companies with carbon removal companies? They can overlap, but are not the same thing. And I think the gaming is a particular problem of carbon offsetting (and I don't think there's a lot of his
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by hannob 6y ago
The answer is simple: It's unclear, because the study design they did cannot answer such questions. This is one of the most basic misunderstandings in interpreting scientific studies. If you have "we saw x where we also saw y&quot
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Expression of concern about Covid-19/Vitamin D paper(retractionwatch.com)
4 points by hannob 6y ago|0 comments
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by hannob 6y ago
It's a surrogate outcome. "Prompts immune response" means "we hope it prevents infections". It doesn't necessarily mean it will. This is still good news. But it should be put in perspective, this does not autom
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by hannob 6y ago
Some may argue that having an undefined timeframe of backwards compatibility spanning more than a decade is a sign of a broken ecosystem.
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File Exfiltration via LibreOffice in BigBlueButton and JODConverter(blog.hboeck.de)
32 points by hannob 6y ago|5 comments
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by hannob 6y ago
The most obvious thing being that it describes primarily RSA-handshake and RC4 encryption. For good reasons these aren't used any more. But there's plenty of tiny details that are obsolete as well, e.g. it describes the timestamp
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by hannob 6y ago
Please note that this is from 2009 and a lot of things have changed. If you read it consider it a history lesson of how TLS was in 2009, not how it is today.
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by hannob 6y ago
The RC4 stream has biases. This means you have something like "bit X is slightly more likely to be 1 than 0". This isn't "predictability" in a sense that you know what it'll be, but it's bad enough for cer
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by hannob 6y ago
I feel somewhat put off by this headline. I mean, by all means, yes, please try that! We'll gonna need lots of clean energy. But I fear the NIMBYs will read that headline and interpret it as: "see, we're not gonna need these
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by hannob 6y ago
I guess the combination of having a lot of coal and widespread climate denialism (the current prime minister basically rejects climate science) is a bad combination.

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