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by krona 5y ago
> Visit Africa as a child and get a worm or two in you. You're not going to get river blindness from licking a door knob.
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by krona 5y ago
statistical breakdown from the British Medical Association: https://www.bma.org.uk/media/2840/the-hidden-impact-of-covid... I'm sure a qualified actuary will be able to take this data along with models of exp
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by krona 5y ago
I always thought the biggest difference was subpixel vs grayscale anti-aliasing. Prior to very high pixel density screens, I hated the Mac/android font rendering, mostly due to the migraines caused by my eyes straining to correct for t
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by krona 5y ago
the physical world does not include many affordances that the digital world provides Except it does provide many things that are necessary (e.g. food, clean water) whereas the digital world is not necessary for anything, really.
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by krona 5y ago
> he represents people that are similar to him. Catholics?
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by krona 5y ago
Aren't you simply signalling your own moral purity by projecting the accusation back onto an accuser, as though it were a league table of moral status? There was a time when one had to actually do things to be virtuous.
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by krona 5y ago
Was eradicated by vaccine. Without the vaccine many more would've died but that wasn't my point.
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by krona 5y ago
We are never going to move past this pandemic until anti-vaxxers face inconvenience. Basic epidemiology and immunology suggests otherwise. Can you think of any pandemic in the history of human existence that didn't eventually end eve
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by krona 5y ago
> But with covid, we're still not even sure what to test for! For natural immunity, reinfection incidence (e.g. two positive PCR tests more than 100 days apart) would suffice? There is robust data on this now. And yes I realise th
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by krona 5y ago
I suppose ethics don't mean anything to you or Google?
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by krona 5y ago
I'm not vaccinated. Why? Because before I had the opportunity to receive the vaccine, I had an antibody test for the virus, revealing I have a standard deviation more antibodies (after 6 months) for the virus than the average person do
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by krona 5y ago
I took the time to read the PDF you linked to and in terms of actual evidence all I found was a some hand-wavy article by a German reinsurance company. Surely there is some better evidence than this?
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by krona 5y ago
Although there is a Python frontend, Dlib is really a C++-first toolkit that can be easily integrated in to other C++ applications. The examples are thoroughly documented, and the code itself has been a great pedagogical tool for me and oth
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by krona 5y ago
The analogy doesn't hold for me; Norway is not immune to the consequences of climate change.
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by krona 5y ago
> I'm pretty sure we are eating more calories than our grandparents did, too It varies from country to country. In the UK for instance, calories per household decreased 15-30% from 1980 to 2009 ( https://ifs.org.uk/bn
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by krona 5y ago
I'm not sure how the thesis could possibly be disproven. Interviews with the apes?
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by krona 5y ago
This article does a great deal to point out the problem, but then just kicks the can down the road Isn't this the problem with cynical criticism in general? It's an intellectual dead end, by definition.
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by krona 5y ago
From your BMJ reference: The term long covid embraces a wide spectrum of organ involvement, with no clear evidence yet to help inform efficient diagnostic pathways or specific treatments or to indicate probable prognosis.
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by krona 5y ago
> The moment EU policies go against high member nation interests they are shut down. Self interested cooperation among sovereign states is the only long term peaceful means of solving cross-border issues.
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by krona 5y ago
I use the same technique when I feel the person has the experience/wherewithal to answer the question themselves without help. Basically it's like being treated like a rubber duck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by krona 5y ago
I'm not sure what argument you're making; that it was the fault of the British for not colonising Ethiopia?
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by krona 5y ago
A tunnel is under construction: https://www.reachextra.com/gibraltar-airport-tunnel/
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by krona 5y ago
> Basically, scaling is hard, and the EU is not bad at it. It's not scaling economically though, is it?
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by krona 5y ago
It's all stick, no carrot. Unsustainable.
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by krona 5y ago
UK study with access to NHS patient records: Within 1,199,812 individuals with any acute COVID-19 code, 3327 individuals also had a recorded long COVID code, constituting 0.27% of COVID-19 cases. Furthermore very few self-reports of long co
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by krona 5y ago
That's the difference between extended lockdown periods and normality in many countries.
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by krona 5y ago
Unless the code contains biometrics (even just a photo) you're not 'verifying' anything without some other way to verify it.
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by krona 5y ago
P(Complications|ChAdOx1) is definitely not zero, especially for people < 40 years of age.
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by krona 5y ago
The other ingredients in the vaccine aren't anything special. Polyethylene glycol, for one, has never been used before in an approved vaccine. It is thought to be the cause of some rare anaphylactic reactions. There are dozens of oth
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by krona 5y ago
The most common way to treat onchocerciasis (river blindness) is by using ivermectin.

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