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by ls15 4y ago
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/youre-waiting-herd-immunity-co... > If you’re still waiting for herd immunity for COVID-19, it's time to move on: Experts > As scientists learn more about the virus, they say he
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Fair point. Near 0%.
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But the virus sees unvaccinated and vaccinated hosts, so these scenarios are not comparable. A person with full vision can see 100% of the street, while a blind person sees 0%. We cannot even quantify the vaccine's level of protectio
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> You get that the hospitals were being overrun by people dying of covid, right? When I looked up the (official) statistics for my country, Germany, for the peak period in 2021, the percentage of covid cases in hospitals was about 5%. Th
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> But let’s not pretend it’s a move that doesn’t come with a cost. Scanning for CSAM by companies does catch a lot of child abusers and result in children being rescued from abuse, and it’s likely that Apple implementing such scanning wo
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I often hear the argument that the average user does not care about privacy, but I don't think that this is true. Instead I think the average user is just not aware of the insane amount of data that is exfiltrated and what can be done
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Half of Russia isn't muslim though.
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Who doesn't like paying 5% for getting the money that they already own?
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55% of Nigerians have access to electricity. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS?location... Seems like the government knows their priorities.
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If the restaurant offers great dishes that cost near-zero, I would find that approach acceptable as a customer. If they want far-from-zero money, I would look elsewhere.
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> And I will not be surprised Apple will cease the plan in India as soon as China steps back from the zero-covid policy, as if all the blood has not been spilled. I doubt it. The disadvantages of being dependant on a single source are we
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Or "phone"
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What does "Why Telegram" describe if not their mission?
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What does "heavily encrypted" even mean?
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There is a (real) shortage of nurses, but not necessarily of blockchain engineers.
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On telegram.org under "Why Telegram" it says: * Simple * _Private_ * Synced * Fast * Powerful * Open * Secure * Social * Expressive According to Telegram's own priorization, privacy is its second most d
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I have to say that I find him fascinating too, but there are a few things that raise my suspicion, but of course do not convict him of anything: The way he is attacking this alternative Signal client and rules out interoperability: https:&
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Or use https://github.com/mevdschee/php-crud-api and skip writing queries (for basic CRUD). > Howto: Upload "api.php" to your webserver, configure it to connect to your database, have an instant full-featu
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> vitamin D supplementation for prophylaxis From this month: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24053-4 > Among VA patients, vitamin D3 and vitamin D2 supplementation reduced the associated risk of COVID-
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> I think you are being far too uncharitable I just think that Telegram tries to position itself as some kind of subversive and secure messenger (successfully so), which it isn't and I find that dubious. I can see that many people p
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This fragmentation of the communication space is the problem that the new EU regulation for messenger interoperability tries to attack. I agree with this idea and also with the idea to make it mandatory only for platforms above a certain si
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Food is highly cultural and habitual. Changing their diet can take years for some people. Also, many people probably never have tried many truly vegetarian dishes, so there is a learning curve.
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From that comment: > One extremely frustrating aspect of plant meat is that they tried to aggressively push out traditional veggie burgers on restaurant menus. Which to me shows that restaurants/BM assume that fake meat is what vege
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> the keys are held by Telegram This is where the privacy promise falls apart. From a user's perspective on-disk encryption makes no difference, because there is no real enhancement of privacy for them. If a third party holds the ke
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Transport encryption does not make it private . Optional e2ee is as good as no e2ee. And they rolled their own crypto... For some reason my non-technical friends still would be very surprised to learn that Whatsapp is more private than Tel
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Most countries require SIM card registration nowadays. https://www.phonetravelwiz.com/phone-travel-options/sim-card... > Of the 245 countries/territories with territory-bound mobile operators, 185 countries hav
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> (western) privileged thing to say Westerners need privacy too. The reversal of Roe v. Wade is a good reason for example.
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Agreed, ideally you have both, e2ee and no linked phone number.
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I think you are underestimating exponential growth: https://news.itsfoss.com/matrix-sixty-million-users/
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"Network effects" is an euphemism for "peer pressure" .

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