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by isolli 5y ago
"always look at the url bar" I remember reading about a scam where the URL seemed legit, and the suspicious part was pushed after so much white space that it was no longer visible in the URL bar. I don't remember the details
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by isolli 5y ago
Closing schools in March 2020 was acceptable. Closing them after summer 2020 was ridiculous, as the data made clear. Many countries chose to keep schools open (e.g. Switzerland) and demonstrated that it was safe, not to mention the right th
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by isolli 5y ago
No, you should stop spreading misinformation. Children are micro-spreaders. In countries that kept schools open, teachers have not fallen ill at a higher rate than other adults in the community.
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by isolli 5y ago
You need to look at other countries. Sweden kept their schools open, and not only did not a single child die, but the prevalence among teachers was no greater than in the general population.
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by isolli 5y ago
Florida
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by isolli 5y ago
This article is a pre-print with severe mistakes (in particular they inverted the results for the treatment and control groups in one of the studies, you can't make this up). Read the comments. It's highly unlikely the piece will
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Deleted set of SARSCoV2 sequences from early Wuhan outbreak was recovered(twitter.com)
16 points by isolli 5y ago|1 comments
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by isolli 5y ago
It reminds me of this quote from Feynman [0]: "The next question was — what makes planets go around the sun? At the time of Kepler some people answered this problem by saying that there were angels behind them beating their wings and p
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by isolli 5y ago
It reminds me of the Sears disaster [0]. "Eddie Lampert broke the company into 30 plus autonomous businesses, each with its own president, chief marketing officer, board, and separately measured profit and loss. His idea was to harness
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by isolli 5y ago
Saying that a theory is wrong is different from saying it's a conspiracy theory. In the second case, you’re smearing proponents of the theory. That’s a form of censorship. Doing it for a theory that was not in any way proven wrong (the
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by isolli 5y ago
There was censorship in the form of calling the hypothesis of a lab leak (distinct from the hypothesis of an engineered virus) a debunked conspiracy theory. The fact that the theory is considered acceptable again is what people are claiming
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by isolli 5y ago
You're misreading the context. The furor comes from the fact that the lab leak hypothesis (distinct from the engineered virus hypothesis) was dismissed by fact checkers as a debunked conspiracy theory for a year based on nothing but as
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by isolli 5y ago
You're joking, but my wife gave birth to our first-born in the US, and she had to wait several hours until she could hold her baby because... the transportation team (whose job was to roll her bed to the elevator) was unavailable due t
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by isolli 5y ago
Small nitpick: with a mortgage, you pay rent (interest) to the bank for the money you borrowed. However, the interest you pay to the bank is usually less than the equivalent rent (the principal you pay back goes into your pocket by decreasi
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The Stakes of Finding Covid-19’s Origins(currentaffairs.org)
1 points by isolli 5y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 5y ago
Key quote: "as long as no intermediate host has been identified, the scientific community cannot rule out the possibility of an accidental leak"
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by isolli 5y ago
They could alleviate a lot of pain with a proper appeals process.
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by isolli 5y ago
I have no opinion on Ivermectin, but I find it odd that the FDA keeps implicitly recommending remdesivir [0] while the WHO (together with several European countries) recommends against it [1]. I believe the FDA is compromising its credibili
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by isolli 5y ago
Only tangentially related, but a friend of mine had to interrupt his doctoral thesis in mathematics because the set he was studying turned out to be empty. This gave a lot of ammunition to our Russian colleagues, who routinely make fun of F
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Israel: Doctors urge government to hold off vaccinating children(timesofisrael.com)
4 points by isolli 6y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 6y ago
I don't think they are. What I'm saying is that overwhelmed hospitals could be a less dramatic signal (or an earlier signal) of the epidemic taking off.
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by isolli 6y ago
You are right, this is the correct counter-argument to oppose here. However, I wonder to what extent overwhelmed hospitals reflect relatively low hospital capacity, especially in crowded cities.
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by isolli 6y ago
I also wonder if the virus could be spreading fast through India's extremely dense urban areas, and would naturally slow down in rural areas. Since 2/3 of Indians live in rural areas, that would be another reason to hope for a low
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by isolli 6y ago
My favorite theory explaining the emergence of base- 12 and 60 is counting on your fingers: count up to the 12 phalanges on one hand (using your thumb), then start over and keep track of dozens with the 5 fingers on the other hand.
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by isolli 6y ago
I thought this was an interesting take [1]: << I’m a blogging dinosaur, which makes me a little sad about the rise of Substack. Back in the day, the virtue of blogging was that everyone could talk to everyone. Later, when many blogger
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by isolli 6y ago
Required viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM
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by isolli 6y ago
It's impressive what the Soviet Union achieved with "analog" technology. I did not know they had landed a rover on the moon. Imagine all the automation this requires, but without any advanced electronics. Was it all relays an
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by isolli 6y ago
This was the first human to die in a space flight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov Apparently the USSR told the story as: he kept sending back scientific data up to the last moment. PS. They definitely h
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by isolli 6y ago
I think the study itself is not so bad, judge for yourself [0]. The Reuters article, on the other hand, is a disaster: alarming headline, check, no link to the original research, check, no context provided to understand the numbers, check!
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by isolli 6y ago
Not that big, see the chart here: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-largest-date-link-cov... Compared to other respiratory diseases, the most significant increases are in the risk of ischaemic stroke (from 1.5% to

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