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ElasticSearch was GPL (AGPL). It didn’t help them because what their business model needed was not just sharing back changes to source code but to actually disincentivize competition in the space of providing cloud SaaS for the product. Hen
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> The official Catholic stance - essentially "teaching" people are no different from cattle, sexuality-wise The church is perfectly fine with promiscuity, artificial insemination, sterilization etc. among cattle or pets. The sa
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> Usually, 40%-50% of patients in severe respiratory distress die on ventilators, but in New York City the death rate for COVID-19 patients on ventilators was 88%. Continued to read through the article and just be aware that a lot of the
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That “order” contains recommendations, encouragements, and suggestions. It doesn’t seem to be legally enforceable. I think every state had its own variation but ultimately after around April 2020 everyone has been free to get in a car and d
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> Americans also estimated that the share of COVID-19 deaths for people between 18 and 24 was 8%"? The fact that we're so misinformed can't be a good thing, can it? The correct numbers have been available on the CDC websit
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> A trove of media darling Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails was recently released to the public. The emails reveal early assertions that asymptomatic transmission is rare, that post-infection immunity is highly likely, and that masks are “not
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Interesting article, I believe based on the methods section this is a computer simulation. The t-cells from flu infections clearly didn’t provide complete protection against Covid-19 as 600,000 Americans died. But perhaps the death toll wou
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Michael Yeadon is a crazy conspiracy theorist who believes in the “great reset”. It’s less about “can’t discuss” and more about his beliefs being ridiculous. He made many predictions in 2020 on the basis of his theories which turned out to
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“ ARRs tend to be ignored because they give a much less impressive effect size than RRR” This is an odd statement. Why would that be the reason to ignore it? ARR is extremely specific to a time frame and location. Without wide deployment of
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As your article notes “ Vaccine efficacy is generally reported as a relative risk reduction (RRR).” There is nothing fake about what I said. It’s simply the common sense way to think about the effectiveness of a vaccine. According to your r
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The minimum wage in 1950 was $0.75 which is equivalent to $8.21 in 2021 dollars. https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages/1950-1959 Seems to indicate a lot of commodities match up with this. For instance “ Mil
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> about bringing the nazi drs back to the US with us Pretty sure that Wernher von Braun makes an appearance in pretty much any history book that covers the Space Race, along with a mention that he and his colleagues had originally worked
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> Nope, we don’t add up prison time in Germany for repeating the same or related crimes over and over. On top, the 10/15 years are the maximum and barely reached. The USA is similar, sentences are often served concurrently meaning t
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Leaked tax returns show Bezos paid $973 million in taxes. I don’t think mcafee ever had that much to his name much less paying taxes at that level. He publicly said he hadn’t filed taxes, blatantly flouting the law. He was also a scammer in
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Only SARS was studied at BSL-4. Bat coronaviruses were studied at BSL-2 as they were not believed to be dangerous to humans. Reference: the head of the WIV covid lab. https://news.yahoo.com/chinas-bat-woman-center-pandemic-1
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Dexamethasone is an approved drug recommended by the FDA for treatment of Covid and it didn’t stop the vaccine EUA. The vaccines are 95-100% effective in trials, no other drug comes close.
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Hydroxychloroquine is a good example. Lots of doctors were trying it and thought it seemed to help. Due to the interest in the drug several RCTs of it were performed and it was shown to have no effect on patient recovery or prophylaxis of c
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Being added to the S&P 500 does not prevent price discovery in the stock market. There are still enough active funds and active traders that stock prices can go up and down for stocks within the S&P 500, and sometimes stocks fall ou
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That’s not how the vast majority of index funds work. Most s&p 500 index funds are market cap weight, not equal weight. A fund weighted by market cap only needs to sell shares when/if shareholders decide to cash out of the entire f
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Hey, that’s my post :-D I think it still holds up. The virus being “present” in the US in December isn’t the same as being spread widely. This new NIH survey still offers no reason to doubt the timeline that the virus emerged around October
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Feels like your own comment explained why “heavily politicized” had nothing to do with it. (There’s a reason almost every country in the world took action against covid-19, despite vastly differing politics and influences) People have about
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That author appears to have an axe to grind around HCQ. He mentions - writing in August 2020 - favorably the argument that an RCT shouldn’t be performed of HCQ because it is already known to be effective. ‘ RCT fundamentalists called their
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> Get naturally infected - natural infection offers broad and long lasting immunity Baffling to see this listed as a way to get covid “under control”. If people getting naturally infected is fine, what is there to control? The whole reas
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Dexamethasone is a cheap generic drug that has been proven to reduce covid-19 mortality and is being used worldwide including in the USA. The studies showing that it worked occurred before the EUA for the vaccines was issued. It is official
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Many ivermectin proponents online also advocate against the vaccine. If someone does accept the validity of the scientific studies of vaccine effectiveness, they probably aren’t so jazzed about promoting ivermectin because they’d realize va
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We already know that non-SARS coronaviruses were being studied under BSL-2 conditions that are equivalent to a dental office. Even if there’s only a 5 or 10% chance that this led to the covid-19 pandemic, it calls for action to update safet
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> people who lean Democrat don't want to investigate this further because they don't want the Republicans who questioned this at the start to look good if it did happen to come from a lab. And Biden himself called in February 2
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Citizens United was about banning an organization from publishing a political attack video on Hillary Clinton. If Citizens United had gone the other way, nothing would stop the government from banning books or social media posts as well. (D
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> The various police forces during the capital seige - in January, remember how that was this year - said they used less force because the participants were armed and knew they could shoot back I think this is mostly inaccurate? The Jan
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The ACLU going “corrupt” is arguably much better business for them since they can more effectively harvest donations from politically engaged partisans on the left - their fundraising has been supercharged since 2016. Right-wing partisans w

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