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by makomk 5y ago
The original SARS didn't have the qualities needed to be a world-wide pandemic, though, and one of the big obstacles to that was that it was just too deadly. Not only do people who are so sick they have to be hospitalized not go out an
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by makomk 5y ago
This. Also, the tweets complain about not having excess capacity due to the "obsession with return on investment", but that's really just an abstraction around the fact that extra capacity means using more limited real-world
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by makomk 5y ago
This isn't just a US thing. For example, even though healthcare is nominally free at the point of use here in the UK, that doesn't cover long-term care for the elderly - you will have to pay privately for that out of your wealth t
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by makomk 5y ago
Maybe. This seems like a cluster-wide limitation - the individual CPU cores can utilize enough memory bandwidth that together they should be able to saturate the bus, but there's some kind of bottleneck on the entire CPU section of the
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by makomk 5y ago
>Biden said the jab stop the spread, it was lies (I remember) Thing is, if I remember rightly Biden did spread outright misinformation that falsely claimed the vaccine was a lot more effective than it actually is using his platform as pr
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by makomk 5y ago
It's not a bug, it's a direct and intentional consequence of the FTC's efforts to strengthen COPPA which this article complains that Google didn't just go along with, and required by the settlement mentioned in the artic
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by makomk 5y ago
"Tesco, which has boasted that its sales have been boosted by its ability to keep shelves stocked, said the fruit and vegetable pictures were not linked to the recent supply chain issues and had been in use for many months."
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by makomk 5y ago
You could declare that the only way to show basic humanity is to precisely agree with the political zeitgeist in the correct left-wing circles and that the only reason to disagree with any of their political prescriptions is becaues you see
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by makomk 5y ago
That doesn't follow, at all. You're measuring the 40% increase in profits relative to the amount of profits but the 1% increase in wages relative to the amount spent on wages, and those pots are generally very different in size -
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by makomk 5y ago
Wealth is not income. In particular, the wealth of say Jeff Bezos is mostly the amount of Amazon shares he bought multiplied by the last price Amazon shares traded it. If Amazon shares trade a few percent higher that doesn't mean there
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by makomk 5y ago
The biggest, most publicly-visible problem that caused the army to have to step in - the fuel crisis - wasn't really caused by the trucker shortage itself though. It was a media-created phenomenon; breathless front-page headlines about
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by makomk 5y ago
The entire mainstream narrative and the tactics being adopted to increase vaccinations don't account for age groups either. If you look at the mainstream media, all the comparisons are based on total vaccination rate regardless of age
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by makomk 5y ago
I don't think it's true at all that everyone knows that vaccination doesn't stop you getting infected, especially in the US - there seem to be a lot of people over there that still think herd immunity though vaccination would
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by makomk 5y ago
The big risk here isn't just worse prices, but the grid failing entirely and people not being able to get electricity at any price. And even if it doesn't quite go that far, a whole bunch of businesses will fail and a large swathe
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by makomk 5y ago
No matter how cheap solar power is on paper, it's not much use in keeping British homes heated over the winter - solar panels reliably produce zero power after sunset and relatively little overall due to the shorter days in winter and
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by makomk 5y ago
The UK didn't put all their nuclear eggs in the EDF basket, it's just that the other companies offering to build new nuclear plants were even more of a disaster than EDF. At least they managed to actually complete a reactor build
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by makomk 5y ago
Yikes - the time period the BBC and ONS have chosen for those statistics is close to maximally misleading. It includes most of the 2020/2021 winter wave of cases and deaths which ended before the UK had widespread vaccination whilst al
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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble is, it's not actually a fallacy when we're talking about the benefits of forcing the remaining people to get vaccinated. The main supposed justification for forcing people to get vaccinated right now is that it'
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by makomk 5y ago
Blocking motorways is probably illegal - the trouble is, the police arrest people and then they just go ahead and do it again. (Also, I think the Supreme Court decided that the law on blocking highways didn't apply to people doing it i
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by makomk 5y ago
The reason nuclear regulation in the US is stricter these days is because companies used to do things like routing all their supposedly-redundant control and monitoring wiring through the same shared duct, stuffing it full of flammable foam
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by makomk 5y ago
The UK tried building gas cooled reactors that produced more useful and efficient steam temperatures on the output. They worked - in fact, they make up pretty much the entire UK nuclear generation capacity these days - but turned out not to
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by makomk 5y ago
Part of the problem in the UK is that the amount of wind was at something like a 40-year low earlier this year, meaning that wind farms weren't producing that much at all. As the amount of renewable power increases and fossil fuels get
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by makomk 5y ago
Interest rates are low because the Fed has signalled that if the market charges large companies too much to borrow money, they'll just print money and lend it to those companies instead in order to drive interest down to a more accepta
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by makomk 5y ago
The Longest Journey's original engine is also from an era that makes it a pain in the ass to play on modern machines - new enough there's not really emulators that can run it but old enough to do a bunch of weird stuff with early
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by makomk 5y ago
The US was no more willing to export vaccines under Biden than Trump, the media were just less interested in criticising the new president. Same with border restrictions: Biden attacked Trump's as counterproductive in his campaign, the
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by makomk 5y ago
Only 4 known coronaviruses that cause a cold, anyway. While it'd be a bit surprising if there were more, HCoV-HKU1 was only discovered surprisingly recently.
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by makomk 5y ago
Airborne transmission and the usefulness of filters still doesn't seem that clearly established - this study didn't find that much virus in the air even without the filters, and most of the real-world transmission seems to involve
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by makomk 5y ago
What everyone seems to ignore, because the discourse is all so cynically partisan, is that lockdown laws are enforced by the exact same police and courts that do things like jailing black kids who never committed a crime. (Countries like Au
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by makomk 5y ago
It's not just clickbait or fearmongering. As the article explains, the neutralizing antibody response does wane and there's some evidence that this does cause a fairly substantial reduction in protection from both disease and seve
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by makomk 5y ago
Not all countries vaccinate kids for chickenpox. The UK still doesn't for example. I'm pretty sure it's easily the least necessary of the childhood vaccinations.

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