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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble with myocarditis caused by the mRNA vaccines is that even though the risk is low, for some of the age groups it seems to be higher than the risk of them being hospitalized due to Covid. (A risk which a lot of people seem to over
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by makomk 5y ago
Seems plausible to me. One of the streamers on Twitch had an actual wooden board on the wall he lasered subscriber names onto, and some of the regulars had fun finding lewd usernames to gift subs to. There were quite a lot of them out there
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by makomk 5y ago
The first-order disruption definitely isn't long over - important manufacturing locations like Vietnam and Malaysia were in lockdown until as recently a week or two ago, and I don't think things are back to operating normally ther
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by makomk 5y ago
That seems pretty straightforward to me - there are a huge number of teenagers who use Facebook, some of whom say that it improved their mental health and a smaller group who say it made it worse. The media reporting only talked about the t
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by makomk 5y ago
I don't think the Nightingales were used much, but that was mostly because the existing hospitals managed to free up more beds than originally anticipated and all the available staff ended up there. Naturally, the government got endles
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by makomk 5y ago
Not using just in time manufacturing might help with short-term disruptions, but we're approaching the two year point on the pandemic and the associated global disruptions and it's just not realistic to keep enough stock in for th
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by makomk 5y ago
Those articles literally do not mention fuel stations having to close as a result of the driver shortage at all, whereas here in the UK it was front-page headline news. No mention of fuel shortages means no mass panic buying and no actual f
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by makomk 5y ago
No, they really couldn't. Even actual social justice activism communities that literally see their goal as advocating for minorities and fighting racism can't seem to just get the house straight to the point they eliminate this ki
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by makomk 5y ago
To cut a long story short, the media lied. Apparently fuel stations in the US have even run out of fuel and had to close due to the ongoing shortage of truck drivers - it just didn't turn into a major crisis like in the UK because it w
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by makomk 5y ago
In this case, the bug fixing is probably the lion's share of the work though - there's a huge amount of subtle edge cases involved in rendering text, and the Microsoft employees almost certainly know this. And the example that bro
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by makomk 5y ago
Whether the font is monospace or not isn't really the problem - that causes some aesthetically ugly spacing, but that's to be expected and it's still readable. The big issue is that the code has completely failed to find a gl
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by makomk 5y ago
The fact that peer pressure is the "accountability mechanism" means that pretty much the only thing journalists are ever held accountable for is stuff that goes against the beliefs of the class of people who graduate from Princet
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by makomk 5y ago
The fact that Casey Muratori's proposed approach requires the terminal to reimplement the process of correctly mapping characters to glyphs - including stuff like fallbacks to other fonts - is a huge part of the argument for why it&#x2
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by makomk 5y ago
It's more subtle than that. What the Microsoft engineers are saying is that the console's current approach to drawing text is inherently slow in this particular case, due to the way the text drawing library it's based on us
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by makomk 5y ago
As far as I can tell, lockdowns that were this widespread and restrictive have never been used before in history ever, the closest examples to them were during the medieval era but were still more targetted and limited in scope than these o
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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble with Nord Stream 2 is that it removes the dependencies which keep Russia from invading Eastern European countries like Poland by creating a route to sell gas to the richer parts of Europe that doesn't go through them, whils
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by makomk 5y ago
It's still a mediagenic phenomenon. The driver shortage itself only caused a handful of petrol stations to run out - it was panic buying due to frenzied news headlines about petrol shortages that caused all the rest to run out of fuel.
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by makomk 5y ago
The fuel supply problems actually caused by the shortage of truckers were such a minor issue that I doubt even the people affected by it would've noticed - a handful of petrol stations ran out in the entire country, and there's al
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by makomk 5y ago
Well, if the gas doesn't exist and can't be produced in the first place then it hardly matters whether Nord Stream 2 is up and running does it? The only reason the non-operation of Nord Stream 2 would matter is if Russia had gas a
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by makomk 5y ago
As far as I can tell, Europe has storage facilities but they let Gazprom run a lot of them and for some reason Gazprom has let them run down rather than refilling them like they usually would over the summer...
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by makomk 5y ago
Probably, but maybe not now. Russia has plenty of pipeline capacity to export gas that they could be using but have decided not to, and the general consensus seems to be that they're likely doing this to put pressure on Europe to appro
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by makomk 5y ago
What it means by "a scandal narrative failed to gain traction" is that the mainstream press ignored the actual contents of the hack and focused entirely on falsely discrediting the information it contained as fake (a claim which f
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by makomk 5y ago
Very similar. Part of the story here seems to be that the US also has shortages of HGV drivers that have also caused issues like fuel stations having to close: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-02&#x2
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by makomk 5y ago
Not only that, there's not really any way Google could avoid tracking people who're using Incognito mode, because that would require telling websites that Incognito mode is in use - which itself is a privacy issue and any method o
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by makomk 5y ago
In some European countries, the gas infrastructure currently deployed is probably sufficient to support the transition to green energy. In others - generally poorer Eastern European ones that are currently dependent on coal - it really isn&
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by makomk 5y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that the mainstream media are far from unbiased when taking about the benefits and harms of their gatekept information vs sources like Facebook which they don't control. For example, I remember the BBC p
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by makomk 5y ago
While our money may not be tied to any tangible real-world thing, our ability to actually buy tangible real-world things with it absolutely and obviously is. I can't imagine most people would feel better off if they had twice the money
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by makomk 5y ago
Of course, what made Dexamethasone such a breakthrough wasn't really the drug itself; I think there's some evidence now that other steroids might actually work better. The big breakthrough was that some UK researchers managed to u
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by makomk 5y ago
Well, the big thing holding up a trade deal with China right now is that China decided to sanction several MEPs and the European Parliament's human rights subcommittee for scrutinizing their forced labour camps in Xinjiang, which the E
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by makomk 5y ago
It's reasonably plausible that what doomed efforts to keep Covid out of the UK (and the US too!) was travel from Italy, not China. Both countries had pretty decent contact tracing for cases linked to China and those people didn't

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