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by jhayward 6y ago
> I think you are arguing that iterators are "primarily" for iteration I really wonder why people put up with something named this way then. "That fool thinks iterators are for iteration !" Clarity of abstraction
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Much of the danger of vaccine development is the possibility of activating antibody response to an off-target cell that expresses the same feature the vaccine is expressing. You can't really find those reliably without human trials.
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Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf says coronavirus approach 'has failed' https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55347021
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It's an honest question to see if my priors are adequate. My priors tell me that to a close approximation, this will prevent 0 people from installing MacOS. It's just "outrage porn".
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So, you run Linux on your Mac and virtualize MacOS but won't be able to locate and download the installer as others have indicated?
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Really? Approximately how many users, would you say, will be unable to install MacOS as a result?
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> Well I don't see real practical reason for keeping it secret. Generally, you have to get a company's permission to use it's name or logo as an endorsement. That agreement has stipulations, such as being revoked if the
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Dateline today, 2020-12-13: "Sweden's neighbours offer them emergency help as its hospitals fill up with coronavirus patients" [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-offered-urgent-corona...
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The drop in economic activity in Sweden is, roughly, just as large as in Norway, Finland, and Denmark. But with 4 to 10 times the number of deaths. So, no, the lack of lockdown (which is a fallacy itself) didn't protect Sweden from e
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No. The lockdowns didn't cause the economic damage, the people's response to the risk of death and injury caused it. To recover the economy you have to suppress the virus . Period. There's no magic wand to let people part
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From the article: > The arrangement is an advance-purchase agreement, meaning that the company won’t get paid until they deliver the vaccines They didn't take funding, they signed a contingent contract. Only their own money was a
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No, they mean the administration that still hasn't provided for adequate PPE, that turned down the offer of another 100 million doses of the 95% efficacy Pfizer vaccine, which is available now, and instead bought 300 million doses of
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Public health and epidemiology professionals say otherwise. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/sunday/coronaviru...
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> * Herd immunity is going to be reached before everybody catches it, no matter what* That’s only true for a very slow-moving epidemic. For a fast mover, like this one, there is always -always- an overshoot of the steady state number ne
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Are you claiming that the Comcast modem uses a different IP address for Comcast-network side of the NAT? That the modem has two routable addresses, one for the 'house', and one for the 'open' world?
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I've always taken the Feynman quote to mean: just because you understand the rules doesn't mean you understand the implications, which are varied, vast, and counter-intuitive.
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Why is it that you think emojis 'clearly show emotion'? Do they have well-defined meaning? Where does one look up the emotional context that a specific emoji adds?
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You are probably conflating risk of infection per person with total number of persons at risk. It can be true that churches and bars are more risky for those that visit them, while more people get infected at groceries and big-box stores j
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It's a conclusion from symptoms. Complete lack of upper respiratory involvement, heavy lung involvement, very hard immune response symptoms for 5 days(CV) vs copious runny nose, sneezing, stuffy head for 3 days (RV).
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When one is standing in a herd of horses and one is kicked in the head by a hoof, one reasonably concludes that a horse, not a zebra, kicked someone.
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> IIRC the virus in the rhinoviruses family mutates more rapidly than the virus in the coronavirus family. This may be true, I don't know. I do know that my experience with coronavirus colds is that they hit much harder and have mo
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by jhayward 6y ago
2nd edit: what the heck, let's just quote justsecurity.org's summary of the Mueller report[2]: "1. Trump was receptive to a Campaign national security adviser’s (George Papadopoulos) pursuit of a back channel to Putin. 2. Kre
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You can start with Time's debunking[1], but really should read what Mueller has written and said, both the report and following articles and interviews. [1] https://time.com/5610317/mueller-report-myths-breakdown&#
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> which found no evidence that Trump conspired with Russia to influence the election This is a straight-up lie. Mueller said explicitly they found evidence, but left it to Congress to pursue prosecution.
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It would fall under behavior matching something like likely to cause serious injury or death with reckless disregard or depraved indifference to the safety of others , which in most states would be straight manslaughter or low-degree murd
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The "furniture company" analogy is specious. Uber doesn't claim to be a transportation company. It claims to be a marketplace, putting transportation consumers in touch with providers. Except it "owns" the customer
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The first map is a lie, as it was represented by Lara Trump. Thus it needs to be corrected.
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The geometry of plate movement isn't what affects the kind of apparent solar time changes that leap seconds address. We do, however, take plate movement in to account when determining positions of things on the surface. Geodesic coord
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> Also, grazing cattle outside is desirable for better land use (usually grassland isn't good for much else) and keeping the current state of ecosystems (without grazing, bushes and trees will take over) This is complete nonsense.
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Well, in this instance your knee-jerk isn't helping you. Take a look at Dr. Lemire's list of papers: https://lemire.me/en/#publications There's a lot of high-performance machine code knowledge to be gai

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