jinpa_zangpo

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by jinpa_zangpo 1y ago
The poem is a parody of the first lines of Yeat's poem, "Sailing to Byzantium": That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees, —Those dying generations—at their song
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by jinpa_zangpo 1y ago
The time to market for a new vaccine is mostly not in the development, it is in the necessary safety testing before deploying it.
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by jinpa_zangpo 1y ago
The courts have a third party doctrine. If you willingly give your data to a third party (the airlines) it's not a violation for the government to also use it.
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by jinpa_zangpo 1y ago
Hard to believe an Alphabet company doesn't support Android.
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by jinpa_zangpo 1y ago
I wonder if a water only fast would also work.
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by jinpa_zangpo 2y ago
The problem with developing new antibiotics is that pharma wants to sell them at a high price to recover research costs. But older antibiotics are out of patent an are dirt cheap. So the new antibiotics only make sense in the limited cases
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by jinpa_zangpo 2y ago
Disappointed that Tibetan is still not available. It's not clear how the decision of what languages to add was made.
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by jinpa_zangpo 2y ago
No, in Spanish double negations are not positive statements.
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
There are two problems. The first is while testosterone reduces fertility, it does not reduce it sufficiently without another steroid like progestin. The second is that testosterone must be injected or reliable birth control and self-inject
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
Among other errors they overestimated the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine, said it stopped transmission when it didn't, didn't consider measures to mitigate the risk of myocarditis in young people, and claimed contracting Covid
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
And prescribed in homeopathy under the name Cicuta Virosa. ( https://plankhomeopathy.com/blog/cicuta-virosa/ )
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
The currency was devalued to bring the official rate in line with the black market rate. So anything imported is going to have a big jump in price. But also making Argentine products more attractive abroad. Inevitable, if Argentina is going
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
The Indian word for caste, "varna" literally means color.
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
To viruses and bacteria the human body is like a buffet table. If one virus is eliminated, another virus will evolve to take its place. Already we have acute flaccid paralysis, a disease with the symptoms of polio that is not caused by the
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
The average Venezuelan cannot survive on what they can earn because of poverty and inflation caused by the incompetent and corrupt socialist government of Venezuela.
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
Why is soy milk any more confusing than peanut butter?
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
The problem here is obvious. What if the patient has an adverse reaction to the drug? If they took a single dose, you can discontinue the drug. But you can't discontinue a multiple dose drug delivered in a single shot.
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
The sweet spot for Perl is any problem combining text processing with Unix system calls. It's a system administrator's idea of what a programming language should be. I feel the reason why Perl got a reputation as a "write onl
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
The number of applications for disability payments from Social Security has declined every year since Covid began. https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/dibStat.html
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by jinpa_zangpo 3y ago
Reminds me of the poem by Ogden Nash: A funny animal is the flea You cannot tell the he from she But he can tell and so can she
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by jinpa_zangpo 4y ago
Computers do not have agency and cannot endorse anything, any more than your word processor, camera, or tape recorder.
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by jinpa_zangpo 4y ago
Social security disabilty claims have decreased since 2020, contradicting the claim that Covid, Long Covid, or the vaccine are leaving large numbers of people too disabled to work. https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/di
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by jinpa_zangpo 4y ago
I believe the definition of this set is contradictory. The set is defined as all numbers that cannot be described with a finite number of symbols. But that set must have a member whose value is closest to zero. So you can describe at least
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by jinpa_zangpo 4y ago
I'm willing to believe the mRNA vaccines have "saved a lot of lives" but there is a study that I haven't yet seen and I'd like to see: compare the number of deaths per hundred thousand in 2022 between the vaccinated
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by jinpa_zangpo 4y ago
When your boss tells you to do something, you can always say no, but you don't treat it as a mere suggestion. There's a power imbalance that makes it something more. You can't treat government communications with Twitter as m
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by jinpa_zangpo 4y ago
I found that Duolingo is good for learning vocabulary, not so good for learning grammar. The online course I found most helpful was "Spanish with Paul," but I am sure there are other good courses.
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by jinpa_zangpo 4y ago
While the article lauds El Faro's "fearless independent reporting", if you follow politics in El Salvador, they are aligned with El Salvador's left wing socialist party, the FMLN, as discussed in this video: https:&#x2F
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by jinpa_zangpo 4y ago
If "up to 30% of Americans who get Covid-19" have long Covid, where are the professional athletes who have had to retire because of long Covid? I can't even think of one.
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by jinpa_zangpo 4y ago
Banning proof of work is one step from a free market economy towards a socialist economy, where the government decides what will and will not be produced. If you believe that government is wise enough to decide what should and should not be
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by jinpa_zangpo 4y ago
State governments already buy and sell gold. All financial assets are a gamble.

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