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by hanoz 5y ago
Is there any reason to assume this timestamp represents the time the test was taken, rather than, say, the time the certificate was generated?
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by hanoz 5y ago
> sample size of 1 The only unvaccinated person you know who has had it, has had it three times?
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by hanoz 5y ago
Are the unvaccinated catching it over and over again? That seems to me a vanishingly rare occurrence, admittedly within a rapidly shrinking set of people. It would be interesting to get some figures for this, hopefully without being lynched
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by hanoz 5y ago
I think the way QR codes have been used these last two years has left a lot of people with the impression that they're some kind of magical portal through the internet to some trustworthy source.
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by hanoz 5y ago
Indeed. The lead author expresses surprise that rural children are more likely to intervene. That's exactly what I'd expect.
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by hanoz 5y ago
The scenario descibed in the article isn't children challenging a non conformist for stepping out of line, or using a non standard technique, the children are correcting, perhaps helping, someone who appears to be getting something com
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by hanoz 5y ago
> If good news happens, you don't need to do anything. There's plenty you need to stop doing.
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by hanoz 5y ago
This is what happens when you try and own a prefix, Facebook.
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by hanoz 5y ago
So now the true meaning of crypto is hidden?
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by hanoz 5y ago
The first Advent of Code since the advent of Copilot. Should be interesting.
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by hanoz 5y ago
At the end of the day, money is stored work. If your country is running a deficit, living beyond its means, then you're dependent on other people's work now, on the promise of returning the favour later. If it starts to look like
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by hanoz 5y ago
Wherever you stand on the debate I think it's hard to deny that the vaccines have turned out to be a lot less effective than we were initially led to believe.
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by hanoz 5y ago
As with perennial Hacker News favourite Aphantasia, the discussion does leave me with the distint impression that the spectrum of reported condition is more a function of our inability to convey and compare the inner experience, than of var
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by hanoz 5y ago
> They are measuring the difference in earth's gravitational field at two locations separated by a millimeter. Just in case there is anyone here who didn't read the article (surely not?), for whom this summary might not conve
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by hanoz 5y ago
Notwithstanding Hanoz's law, that all laws named after a victim of crime are bad laws, David Amess by all accounts received next to no online abuse, anonymous or otherwise, because he was the kind of politician that even people who usu
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by hanoz 5y ago
The sensor itself is in the rail with, I assume, a magnet in the seat. But no, not a Concept2, it's a Horizon Oxford IV. £600 new several years ago. Luckily I bought it second hand, but still, not the bargain I thought I was getting! I
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by hanoz 5y ago
I bought a rowing machine, not top of the line but still pretty expensive, and I was annoyed to discover the computed distanced rowed and all the rest of those stats were derived solely from the number of times the seat passed a sensor, wit
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by hanoz 5y ago
The author has a series of these by the way, including a rather wonderful one on Moon: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/02/11/moon/
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by hanoz 5y ago
> When the wind isn't blowing it will probably look rather cheap... But of course with a guaranteed and indexed linked strike price, it will be running at full pelt for its entire lifespan, regardless of how much cheaper solar and
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by hanoz 5y ago
Lego trees and Lego people. You call them all Lego.
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by hanoz 5y ago
The plural of Lego may well be Legos, but Lego is the system not the brick, so unless you've got a plurality of systems, it's gratingly wrong to call Lego bricks Legos.
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by hanoz 5y ago
No. Lego bricks. We don't have to speak about everyday things in terms of trademarks.
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by hanoz 5y ago
> "There are so many Legos!" There really aren't. There's just the one Lego. So many Lego bricks.
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by hanoz 5y ago
I also have this a bit, but when I moved from London to Sydney, my sense of it flipped, i.e. 'up' on my internal map was now South not North, from which I concluded it was not magnetic.
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New 159 fraud hotline launched to counter threat(bbc.co.uk)
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by hanoz 5y ago
Several UK domestic energy suppliers are now on the verge of bankruptcy it seems, and seeking emergency loans from the government. At this time of year almost all of their customers will be many hundreds of pounds in credit with them. That
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by hanoz 5y ago
> £92.50/MWh Index linked.
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by hanoz 5y ago
A combination of: * Post lockdown firing up of the economy * No investment in nuclear * Broken interconnect * Winter is coming * A spell of the doldrums * Reliance on imported gas * And last but not least, there's no hiding a debauched
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by hanoz 5y ago
The distinction is one of granularity.
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by hanoz 5y ago
Nevertheless the titular question deserves to be raised. We heard no end of derision for Sweden's outlier approach when they were having a rough time of it, but now things are better - radio silence. Why? What is behind this? Similarly

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