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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Personally it would've been better to take down the offending repos and at least give a warning to the author before doing this. Now all knowledge is lost. Not the code, but there were discussions, tutorials, and what not. I don't
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
I didn't ignore this at all. In fact, I raised my (little) voice against the widespread loss of civil liberties (those who live in the USA have no idea, really) that were carried out in the past three years all across the world, follow
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Personally I don't get either the Musk cheering, or the hatred. I cared little about him. And about muting, I put myself on a smallish Mastodon instance but I've had to mute, filter and block loads of people these days to prevent
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
I don't agree: there were so-called respectable (because no one saw them as loons, nor sociopaths) people spreading lies and misinformation to fuel panic and subsequent engagement, without any sanction. Not the former POTUS, nor the pe
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
To be honest, I experienced what it meant to be on the "bad side of the fence", in my little universe (20 following, a few hundred followers of which mostly I don't know who they are) well before Musk. It was pretty stressful
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Currently the only one I've found that is even remotely decent is a sub-set of Japanese content creators that sticks only to what they are doing (a little obsessively, perhaps) and little else. Everything else, a dumpster fire. Especia
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Am I the only one who thought that there were no changes in Twitter due to the acquisition and the platform was pretty bad all time around? A question that seems loaded but I've seen people lamenting the "good old times", bu
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Flu is not harmless. Not at all. It is a bad disease when symptomatic (30-40% cases may be asymptomatic). In particular for young children and the elderly. Flu for me was way worse than a SARS-CoV-2 infection (think 40C fever). SARS-CoV-2
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Because while SARS-CoV-2 used to cause a severe disease in people at risk, it was at the same time not the end of times (and didn't warrant the widespread violation of civil liberties throughout the world, mostly ineffective anyway).
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Malaria is not an infection by a coronavirus (I do know one person too, FTR, my grandfather during the Albanian campaign in WWII). And it is not age stratified like a SARS-CoV-2 infection. And there's no 95% seroprevalence like with S
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
> Vaccinated people are also less likely to collapse the local medical system in surges because their disease course is less severe But once you have primed your cell immunity with exposure (vaccine or natural), the benefit of repeated b
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
At the time there were inflated Israeli data that suggested a reduction of risk of asymptomatic infection by 94%. Except, they were extrapolations because they were done on the general population, not on regularly-tested people. UK's S
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Eric Feigl-Ding is probably the worst reference you can have: he's been spreading alarmist news, spun research in the worst possible way, and even more than that. And he's not an infectious disease epidemiologist (he's an epi
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
That's not what the paper cited by Time says. It is a study in the US veteran population, whose health condition is much poorer than the general population. Secondly, the study is set up to pick up bad outcomes. Third, the people compa
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Why? It's not a waste of resources for me (I forgot to mention I'm located in Europe and use public transport). It is miles better for my mind (and for me: everyone is different) rather than having lingering thoughts about work (a
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
I would love to have a shorter commute, of course (my old job took 35-40 mins which was optimal for me). But even 10-15 minutes would work. I would be fine even walking to be honest. But to me it is neither negative nor positive. Just a &qu
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
It depends on the person. For me the commute was the "moat" I built to detach my mind completely from work related matters until the next day. Personal experience matters a lot, too. I did WFH for two years in 2009-2011 and it was
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
It was public support. Polls, as unreliable as they were, showed that the vast majority of the people asked were in favor. Aside that we had people calling the police on "offenders", DDR style, and at the very least showering them
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Italy, 2020 and 2021.
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Oh and even afterwards protests were forbidden for a while to "avoid hurting the economic recovery". Again, most were favorable.
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Freedom of assembly and movement, for one. My country had seventy days of armed soldiers out to enforce a lockdown. That was done by completely violating the constitution and the rule of law. It was done with an administrative act, bypassin
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
To be fairly honest, the rule of law in most European countries has been greatly eroded over the past two years. Mostly with support from the people themselves, I might add.
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
> Whatever natural immunity you got nearly 3 years ago is long since useless This is factually incorrect. You don't have perhaps protection against infection , nor probably symptomatic disease , but there is working natural imm
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
We don't allow anything. The writing was on the wall in March 2020: back then it was already too late to contain it. Omicron just sped up the rate at which it is infecting people.
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
> I think an Illumina MiSeq requires 50 - 500 nanograms of DNA to work well. You can go as low as 10ng depending on the library you use (or so the vendors say), but I'm not sure it's the case for these specific applications (my
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
About ten years ago my former PI (second author in the below paper) did quite a job on this in Burkina Faso, analyzing the composition of the gut in children living outside cities, in cities, and a comparison with European children. Obligat
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by lbeltrame 4y ago
Back in the days I and others made an end of junior high school year project on military planes and we had a monitor playing clips of F-16 Falcon, F-29 Retaliator and Fighter Bomber. I did however use the F-19 Stealth Fighter game manual as
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by lbeltrame 5y ago
The outbreak was mostly in unvaccinated people, and there was no background of prior infections (they never had a first wave). Besides, studies on healthcare workers, who are tested regularly, showed a clear reduction in transmission.
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by lbeltrame 5y ago
Can you provide some evidence that this happened now, or for earlier diseases? Manaus in Brazil doesn't count, FTR. It never ever reached herd immunity: the data was a large overestimation.
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by lbeltrame 5y ago
That's likely because the immunity in Manaus was highly overestimated [1]. [1] https://twitter.com/WesPegden/status/1336801382955933697

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