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by hh3k0 5y ago
Yeah, I've been preferring the English Wikipedia for years. I usually check en.wikipedia.org first unless it's about something German or something particularly relevant for Germans and Germany. I don't have numbers at hand bu
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WHO advises at-risk groups to postpone travel due to Omicron variant(who.int)
2 points by hh3k0 5y ago|0 comments
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> Under normal conditions, highly virulent strains of the virus are not selected. A highly virulent strain would kill the host before the virus would have an opportunity to transmit to other potential hosts and replicate. Thus, less viru
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> It's hard to say how this will evolve but there's a lot of evolutionary pressure on viruses to become more transmissible and less deadly. I'd like to think so but I fear there's no selective pressure with regards to
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Update on Omicron(who.int)
273 points by hh3k0 5y ago|694 comments
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Your calculation needs to take loss in quality of life due to a) contracting long COVID, b) suffering a COVID-induced stroke, or c) living with brain damage post-COVID into account. Furthermore, you should consider that mutations will run r
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> Viruses don’t always become attenuated (less virulent). When they do, it’s because there is an evolutionary selection pressure driving it. No such pressure exists for SARS-CoV-2. An example of this type of selection pressure would be a
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> Will people ever get over sensationalism and learn to live it? You see, that's the crux of the matter: Not everyone can live with it. Literally. So far, it killed more than 5 million people globally. There is also the issue with p
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Strikes me as unnecessarily early to make such a claim.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> There is plenty of circumstantial evidence. Yeah. It doesn't sit right with me that Peter Daszak, who has close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was the driving force behind the February 2020 Lancet letter of scientists &q
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by hh3k0 5y ago
yar har fiddle dee dee…
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The moral case for destroying fossil fuel infrastructure(theguardian.com)
5 points by hh3k0 5y ago|3 comments
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by hh3k0 5y ago
I'd be d'accord if he said something to the effect of: > We aren’t even through the current possibly scientist-caused pandemic yet Peter Daszak should have to testify before Congress, imo.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Stopping a perceived enemy from researching what you've already successfully researched by using pre-emptive nuclear strikes is lunacy, yes.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
You could simply state that you've lived with depression your entire life and that it's not something you'd wish for your offspring to inherit... or something along those lines. Just make sure to point out early that you&#x27
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> We went in with a pretty good justification (Taliban refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden for his central role in 9/11 terrorism) That would _not_ be a good justification to wage a war, but I think the actual casus belli was Sadda
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by hh3k0 5y ago
I hope I am not oversharing but I definitely need my patterns to cope, I have ADHD so perhaps it is related to that. Maybe something along the lines of lessening the impact my poor impulse control has on my life by avoiding situations in wh
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> You don’t have to abstain from anything. I mean, you _do_ abstain from eating. But I always found it easier to abstain from something entirely rather than to do it in moderation.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> I'd never hire someone I couldn't call when I needed them And that is perfectly fine as long as you pay employees for being on call.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
That's not quite right, we significantly outnumber them.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> I’m interested in the tech/practical applications, as opposed to the hype/emotion. https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-b... (Wired paywall can be circumvented with: https:/&#
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by hh3k0 5y ago
I see, I'm prescribing you a lunchtime trip to the DMV on a Monday of your choice.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> Setting up a mining farm with hundreds of free stolen GPUs isn't easy or cheap at all. Still significantly cheaper than setting up a mining farm with hundreds of legally obtained GPUs.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> Let's make bets on how long it takes before the C&D hammer comes down hard on them. Hey, free publicity. News regarding C&D hammering tends to spread like wildfire in the open-source community. A boatload of publicity for
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> Or they are incredibly short-sighted and assume they can manage to survive the next 60 years […] I'll need you to understand that basically no young person assumes they'll manage to survive the next 30, let alone 60 years.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> It also seems to be at odds with the idea of individual responsibility […] That's a nice myth but social and economic status are related to race and the game is rigged against some. You can throw terms like "individual respon
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Yeah -- just make no profit for two decades until everyone with shallower pockets bled out, stupid. It's called competitiveness, baby, and it's easy peasy lemon squeezy!
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> The article expressly says that there are other benefits besides financial […] Yeah, one sentence or so in an entire article almost entirely about money. That's nothing but an alibi or some sort of decorative item, meant as distra
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by hh3k0 5y ago
The solution to that is underground storage (root cellar): https://www.wired.com/2016/04/store-wine-underground-inside-...

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