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by makomk 5y ago
I can't see faith in politics returning in the UK unless the successor to Johnson gets very lucky. The trouble is, right now we're facing a major cost of living and energy crisis that's the direct result of policies which had
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by makomk 5y ago
The usual way of achieving undetectable viral load is via anti-retroviral drugs and I think this works in most people, at least so long as they get early enough treatment and keep getting it. The main reason to measure viral load in the fir
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by makomk 5y ago
If I remember rightly it was even messier than that. You see the note at the top of that file about how the Version 2.0 template requires preservation of message numbers? Well, I think in the original version most of the messages were assig
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by makomk 5y ago
Thousands of dollars per patient times many different patients and drugs quickly adds up to a substantial proportion of all healthcare spending. Countries with universal healthcare have specific programs in place to move people over to gene
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by makomk 5y ago
It's being done using devices that only run software approved by Apple, and Apple already uses that power to dictate what communications are allowed. By their mandate, apps like Discord and Telegram are forced to hard-block users on iO
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by makomk 5y ago
The current vaccinations are actually reasonably good at preventing Omicron hospitalizations, enough so to be worthwhile on an individual level anyway. The problem is that they're not 100% effective and if Quebec is anything like the U
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by makomk 5y ago
The news coverage here seems to treat anything the government does as the wrong thing just because they've done it though. For example, healthcare workers in England will be required to be vaccinated soon unless the government changes
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by makomk 5y ago
Humans cannot survive on calories alone, though, and certainly aren't going to be healthy living on them. Protein has always been one of the most expensive parts of a healthy diet.
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Not by enough to stop pretty much the entire population being infected, which makes it a very questionable benefit. Mostly they just spread out the period over which everyon gets infected and that has some obvious downsides itself - the eff
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by makomk 5y ago
There's a lot of outright misinformation out there - one of the commoner misleading claims is that 50% of fathers who seek custody get it, usually used to trick people into thinking that actually both parents are treated equally and al
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by makomk 5y ago
The current Covid vaccines are reasonably effective at protecting the person being vaccinated from dying, but that makes a really poor basis for a mandate - the idea that everyone is obligated to minimise their personal risk of dying only e
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by makomk 5y ago
Capacity markets are kind of controversial these days even in countries which do have them, because by design they're subsidies for inefficient fossil fuel power plants that wouldn't be viable if they had to compete to sell power
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by makomk 5y ago
Getting really good quality gifs out of it, on the other hand, requires two passes and some arcane command line options (or used to anyway) - though it is at least possible and produces impressive results given the limitations of the format
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by makomk 5y ago
I think it's reasonably common for games to scale their text and UI elements by the overall screen or window size, in which case opting out of clever OS DPI tricks is the right choice. Using actual DPI doesn't make much sense in g
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by makomk 5y ago
Yes, and in fact Freeview started off as a primarily encrypted commercial service called ONdigital which was taken over by the BBC and turned into Freeview when it failed commercially.
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That's obviously pissing off the government right now, but honestly it's the least of the problems with their Covid-19 news coverage. They kept on pushing both false and misleading claims about the UK doing worse at stuff than oth
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by makomk 5y ago
I think you're missing the more important and immediately obvious corrolary to that argument - we're in the middle of a situation right now where more labour is required to achieve the same level of output, due to people off sick,
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by makomk 5y ago
From what I can tell, the UK and US press pushed the argument that the UK and US should've learned from Italy primarily because journalists there hated the current governments and wanted to portray them as uniquely incompetent, which m
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Not necessarily; the first few carriers don't seem to have successfully seeded outbreaks, in general it takes a few attempts to get a disease like Covid established, and almost all countries seem to have stopped it spreading directly f
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by makomk 5y ago
China has pretty propaganda-heavy testing infrastructure - they do heavily publicised one-off mass testing of entire cities which the state media points to as proof of their superiority over other countries which aren't doing that, but
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by makomk 5y ago
The problem with that thought is that having such high fatality rates is a problem for a virus that hopes to become a pandemic - it's hard for a disease to spread silently through the population if several out of every ten people infec
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by makomk 5y ago
That graph is from the UK, where most of the people spending time in hospital due to Covid are vaccinated. The thing is that as you can see from the graph, there's a huge difference in hospitalisation rates between age groups, and in t
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by makomk 5y ago
The current vaccines are leaky enough that any reductions in social restrictions below strict lockdown mean pretty much everyone is going to get Covid, generally over a very short time period. There doesn't seem to be any way around th
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Corporations like Apple have inherent economies of scale though - all the engineering cost of developing the latest iPhone is spread across all the devices sold, and the cost of developing something like Apple Silicon is spread across every
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As far as I can tell, Intel only offered ECC on a small handful of i3 parts that mainly seemed to be marketed to NAS manufacturers, likely because they were otherwise giving up that market entirely to competitors like AMD. They really don&#
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There's a whole bunch of problems with that argument, but probably the biggest is that the US did seem to pretty successfully stop Covid from sucessfully spreading there from anywhere in Asia - pretty much all the outbreaks trace back
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The article where they endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time in their history was pretty atrocious too - just based on out and out lying about what the US coronavirus response involved and how it compared to the rest of the w
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Parts of the media were pushing the idea that the government was incompetent and dragging their feet for not doing it, including I think even the BBC, and there seems to be a reasonably large chunk of parents that think not doing so was mas
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The only reason Covid vaccines for young children are seen as so important is the absurd politicisation. To be fair, they're not harmful on balance - they just don't seem to have much benefit that justifies them. The UK government
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I'm pretty sure it's not possible for companies to simply decide to pay everyone across the economy better in real terms so they can "live a meaningful life", for the simple reason that all of the things those workers wa

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