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by isolli 6y ago
I keep referencing it, but I refer you to this article, which contains a lot of helpful information, including a very useful chart: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-largest-date-link-cov... PS. As you'll see
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by isolli 6y ago
And for reference, this is a much better article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-largest-date-link-cov...
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by isolli 6y ago
They actually compare it to other respiratory diseases survivors. The results are a lot milder than the headline implies. This, by contrast to the shoddy Reuters article, is a good reference, with a chart that neatly summarizes the results
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by isolli 6y ago
Yes, but it doesn't excuse the alarming and misleading headline. The one third includes 24% of patients showing mood and related disorders, compared to 21% for other respiratory diseases. Covid is bad enough as it is. It's no reas
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by isolli 6y ago
It also erodes real salaries, which is a useful way to adjust salaries in a world with sticky prices (where nominal contracts are not easily adjusted).
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Vaccine passports: private blockchains are just centralized databases(twitter.com)
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You can be pro-vaccine and still see the dangers in vaccine passports(twitter.com)
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by isolli 6y ago
> just as a number of tech-literate folks have now returned to relying on brand name out of curiosity, what are you referring to?
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by isolli 6y ago
Quick, time to buy the NFT they advertise at the bottom of their website before the excitement abates! /s
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by isolli 6y ago
It reminds me of this [0]: "Before March 2020, the country had no shortage of pandemic-preparation plans. Many stressed the importance of data-driven decision making. Yet these plans largely assumed that detailed and reliable data woul
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by isolli 6y ago
Tangentially related: cigarettes were a currency in Nazi concentration camps [0]. Obviously money was not an option there... [0] https://www.finance-watch.org/the-perfect-draw-when-cigarett...
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by isolli 6y ago
I couldn't help but think of Bitcoin network fees when I read your sentence: "you're merely expediting the work of a [miner] that was going to do the work anyway".
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by isolli 6y ago
True, it's not all about computing cycles :)
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by isolli 6y ago
It's crazy that only 120 years elapsed between these two events. It's a short time to go from flying on earth for the first time to flying on Mars for the first time.
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by isolli 6y ago
Can you expand on which features Apple is reluctant to implement in Safari?
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More Evidence Links 'Cat Scratch' Bacteria and Schizophrenia(gizmodo.com)
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by isolli 6y ago
Thanks. I don't understand your last paragraph. Can you provide a bit more context? Just a starting point for an Internet search :)
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by isolli 6y ago
Side question: if quantum computers fulfill their promise, won't they break encryption as we know it? Are we ready for that kind of upheaval?
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Long Covid isn’t as unique as we thought(vox.com)
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Twitter Stands By, Lets OANN Link to Reporter's Phone Number(gizmodo.com)
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Texas Utility Commissioner Pledged to Help Banks Keep Blackout Profits(earther.gizmodo.com)
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by isolli 6y ago
What I read (but I can't remember where) is that Mongols would use the threat of razing as a way to force cities to surrender. If the city surrendered, they were spared, if not, they were razed. Pour encourager les autres, if you will.
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by isolli 6y ago
Fair question. In a sense, the evidence for vaccines is upfront, while the evidence for lockdowns required the careful accumulation of data. I would cite for instance the paper by Ioannidis and co-authors [0]. "In summary, we fail to f
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by isolli 6y ago
To be fair, people in Germany were quite worried when covid deaths were around 1000 per day. 300 deaths per day is on par with a bad flu season. The important question, of course, is: are deaths on the way up or down?
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by isolli 6y ago
Agreed, and the same argument can be applied _against_ lockdowns (meaning measures such as mandatory stay-at-home orders that go beyond usual NPIs). I think it is slowly emerging that hard lockdowns have done more harm than good. There is n
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by isolli 6y ago
Vaccine-related deaths are highly visible, daily covid deaths not so much...
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by isolli 6y ago
1) Not everyone has a job where they can be paid in crypto. 2) Some people want to invest larger amounts into crypto. Both these cases require an onramp.
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by isolli 6y ago
They can be, for sure, but in my experience it's hit and miss. For instance, I believe the CD reissues of Living Stereo records (from the master tape) are very good. On the contrary, I once bought the integral of Hector Lavoe, remaster
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by isolli 6y ago
Speaking of creativity, the Beatles famously used a tape-based keyboard, the Mellotron [0]. For instance, in Strawberry Fields Forever, the spooky instrument heard in the introduction is a flute replayed in reverse on the Mellotron [1]. [0]
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by isolli 6y ago
Yes, by buying a vinyl record from the 70s (especially from renowned labels), you're buying a sound that is free from the digital remastering craze of the following decades.

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