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> the kids that would have died from vaccines are still in danger Except that we knew by May 2020 (possibly even earlier) that the data showed that the young and otherwise healthy were at extraordinarily low risk from Covid. I still re
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3mo ago
> It's a trade off but it's one that must be made At the latest by May 2020, we knew that Covid risk was extremely stratified by age and underlying health conditions. To be very clear: this does not mean the virus was harmless
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3mo ago
Hence the executives/boardmembers-all-fly-to-some-island (Jersey is the one in my mind), have board meeting in the airport, sign the papers, and all fly home? Company stays "in" Jersey, none of the humans need to live there?
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3mo ago
> The US system is built to support entrepreneurship while the EU system broadly is to support the consumer and employee I disagree: the EU system broadly is there to support _the incumbants_ "Regulatory capture" is the less ki
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3mo ago
> The 25,000 is there to make sure you can cover some liability I would suggest that this idea of a GmbH does not actually work the way you think it does. Maybe it once did, but not any more. For instance: Wirecard Technologies Gm
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3mo ago
> This is just how the web works, and there is no easy around it without losing features people care about [...] Well, apart from using a separate email address for every single "provider"? (Spoiler: there's no way I'
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3mo ago
> PS> (Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion').DisplayVersion > 24H2 I got no response to that command on my W10 box, turns out for older (eg LTSC) versions it appears to need: (Get
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4mo ago
> For example, we bought a company, and over the next year or so doubled wages in that company. Our "social responsibility" in that case was to spend shareholder money so that workers had a living wage. That doesn't seem t
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Making Claude a chemist (NMR spectroscopy)
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> Checking the output seems like a simple request, but the question becomes: Check against what? A colleague of mine circulated "minutes" from a meeting last week, there were only three of us in the meeting (one external servic
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4mo ago
> Do you guys not know what a loss lead is? We don't know which of today's companies will be successful and/or highly-valued in N years' time. Check Cisco's valuation on March 27, 2000; it was briefly the most va
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4mo ago
> Typically no because there’s an art to crafting the actual message around impact I was thinking more of needing to notify/get sign-off from management...
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4mo ago
> All these monitoring rules are of the format "when 500 errors > baseline for x minutes". Otherwise you'd have monitoring alerts every second. So it is normal for users to already see errors before github officially co
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4mo ago
The first paragraph ends with "[...] unleashing a flood of ill-informed reactions and muddled discourse. So, you know, it was just another day online." It's almost as though it's not about the Monet.
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4mo ago
I and two of my three kids have coeliac(0), so we may have to disagree on that! Can confirm that various GF alternatives really don't come close to the originals. Without the gluten things seem to be too "biscuity"... 0) Thir
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4mo ago
> let's not forget that if author cannot live of what they create I co-published two scientific papers back when I was a PhD student. Due to how broken the scientific publishing industry was (and still is), I'm not legally all
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5mo ago
You mean like the Brenner Base [Rail] Tunnel which will connect Austria and Italy? Germany seems to be stuck at the "studying" stage before they improve the relevant rail links on the Grafing–Rosenheim–Kufstein route. https:/
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5mo ago
> By reducing the noise in logs, it reduces the workload on the human or agent reviewing the logs. Q: Why would you "review the logs" by (human/agent) hand for a service exposed to the Internet? What are you actually l
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> It quiets down the logs nicely, people aren't always knocking on the door. Q: If you've still done the right things - "disable[d] password auth, disable[d] root login, and only use ssh keys for access" - why do you
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> In that video, Texson smiles in response to being told he has a sister, a brother and puppies but frowns when McAnally says that he has two dads [Apologies for being somewhat absolutist about this, but...] babies do not (typically) und
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5mo ago
"6-Week-Old" babies don't have the muscle strength to hold their heads horizontally like that (and IMHO it would be foolhardy to wave them around like that)... Pronounced social smiling (as in the video) already by six weeks
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> 6-Week-Old Baby I appreciate this story appears to be all about the rage-bate headlines, but I don't believe that either six-week old babies say "Mama" (with purpose) or that a baby that age would be capable of respondin
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5mo ago
> Yes, someone in customs at an airport can be treated as functionally “at the border” with reduced protections. But you are conflating seeking entry with being present inside the country. That’s the legal line, and the Supreme Court ha
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6mo ago
> strategy Umm, so we still have to build enough traditional (and, ideally, dispatchable) generation capacity to make sure we can cover our electricity needs during those periods in winter where it's very cloudy and it's not
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> The existence of a strategic reserve shouldn't have an effect on the supply of helium except in an emergency. Is there a widely-accepted definition of "an emergency" in the context of strategic reserves? [Thinking of the
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> it's really hard to sometimes break out of that loop and do manual fixes You're aware of the MIT Media Lab study[0] from last summer regarding LLM usage and eroding critical thinking skills...? [0] Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accu
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6mo ago
Through the DCMA lens, does a tool having the ability to download from example.com = linking to example.com?
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6mo ago
Is there a generally-agreed description of "how therapy works"?
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6mo ago
A number of citizens not liking their elected representatives has form going back many many decades, but there's more than a whiff of "51 former intelligence officials" nonsense about the whole NoKings story. Former CIA intel
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6mo ago
> So basically the gloves that kitchen staff now must wear [..] Genuine question: we used to simply wash our hands well before preparing food. At what point did the wearing of disposable gloves become "better"?
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