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by jcbrand 5y ago
There were breakthrough cases pre-omicron, but apparently less. What was very dishonest in the way this whole thing has been handled and portrayed is that Coronavirus vaccine escape-variants were completely foreseeable and therefore no surp
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It can be both. It's already known that vaccines increase rates of Myocarditis, especially amongst young males. It seems to be that the spike protein is responsible for this, which is present in both the virus and the vaccine.
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Back in university I had an experience that was really instructive. For a project we had to write a program that differentiates mathematical equations. I dove in and just started writing code. Eventually, I realized that I had made a design
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The choice is not between journalist and "some random person". There are many non-journalists, experts in their fields and who have a long history of credibility who publish information that one can read.
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Is the Guardian elite enough for you? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb... Not the whistleblower, but the journalist who investigated it. Now, before you say this is proof that
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by jcbrand 5y ago
> You have to ask yourself where is the line for critical thinking, for example flat earthers There is no line. Everything and anything can be questioned. There is nothing wrong with questioning the shape of the earth and then devising e
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by jcbrand 5y ago
> for me, influencers were journalist Journalists have been serving the interests of moneyed elites since well over a hundred years. It's good that they finally have some competition, even if it means that flat earthers also get a v
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by jcbrand 5y ago
You were right, blockchain analytics was a great startup opportunity and there are already a bunch of companies, like Glassnode, doing blockchain analytics. You also seem to be missing a lot of interesting stuff happening with cryptos if yo
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It's good to be skeptical, and yet I hope you have an open enough mind to listen to the interview.
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It's all from Peter McCullough on the Joe Rogan show and he mentions all the studies on which he bases his statements. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0aZte37vtFTkYT7b0b04Qz
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With every booster being taken, the risk of Myocarditis is increasing. The vaccine-induced spike proteins (which damage your cells and internal organs) can stay in your body for 12 months, which means that if you're regularly boosting,
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by jcbrand 5y ago
>> I remember doctors and media denying AstraZeneca Blood cloths for months > Your memory is wrong. There are "fact-checks" still online claiming that AZ doesn't cause blood clots. https://eu.usatoday.com&
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> The risks are more evenly balanced in younger persons aged up to 40 years, where we estimated the excess in myocarditis events following SARS-CoV-2 infection to be 10 per million with the excess following a second dose of mRNA-1273 vac
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There's no problem with people imposing their own restrictions on their movement and association. That's the whole point, and is what Swedish policy was predicated upon, that the people could largely be trusted with taking appropr
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I'd say about zero.
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Fixed, thanks!
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I ran into the IndexedDB slowness problem while adding support for it to Converse.js XMPP messenger[1]. I'm using localForage which lets me persist data to either sessionStorage, localStorage or IndexedDB (depending on user configurati
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by jcbrand 5y ago
In fact, while bitcoins are created in a fixed amount only when the miners have expended a large amount of work, the creation of those bitcoins costs nothing. The reward per block is defined by two lines of code in a program. By changing t
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by jcbrand 5y ago
Those are coins from 2010, not 2009 when Satoshi started mining and they're not from the same addresses.
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> You seem intent on spreading such get rich quick and utopian dreams on cryptocurrency. Please point me to where I spread get rich quick dreams in my comments.
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Bitcoin is NOT dominated by a few major players. A few years ago when some large commercial players wanted to increase the block size, they weren't able to do so because a majority of nodes on the network rejected their code. The Bitco
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Those coins have never moved in all these years. You would think that Satoshi would want to spend and enjoy some of his riches right? To me this points towards Satoshi likely being dead (e.g. him being Hal Finney). Also, AFAIK those were mi
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by jcbrand 5y ago
This article conflates NFTs with cryptocurrency, in a way that looks to me to be intentional in order to bolster his argument that crypto is for rich people to conspicuously consume and to pump and dump on the plebs. NFTs aren't money,
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So you're willing to be paid in Venezuelan Bolivars?
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Converse XMPP webchat client version 8 has been released(opkode.com)
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Concerning economies of scale, usually AFAIK the more coins you stake, the more of a say you have in how blocks are propagated. That's to me similar, if not worse than with PoW.
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You don't necessarily need the complicity of Bin Laden, or that many people. You just need your intelligence agencies to keep track of what he is doing and allow him to continue because the attack suits your purpose (e.g. finding an ex
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The bombers are useful idiots. True believers that aren't aware that they're part of an inside job.
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AFAIK most "truthers" don't subscribe to the missile theory when it comes to the towers (the Pentagon is a different story). I sometimes wonder whether the more out there conspiracy theories are simply used to discredit any c
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Cryptography is not web tech.

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