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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, I think the more conventional way to integrate heat-to-electricty into heating applications is the reverse of that: feed the high-grade heat from fuel combustion into the converter, and use the rejected waste heat from it for heating.
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by makomk 5y ago
It's been... interesting watching Tesla migrate from their more oddball technical decisions to using the same tech as the rest of the industry. LFP is a really conventional tech for stationary storage as well as vehicle applications wi
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by makomk 5y ago
As I understand it, rolling back even ten years means substantially more people - including black people - being killed by the police, because this has gone down over time in the US and a substantial amount of work went into achieving this.
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by makomk 5y ago
That summary seems to show infections plateauing in every age group except school kids. (And of course, with schools breaking up since then they're probably both less likely to get infected and less likely to get tested.)
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by makomk 5y ago
The UK is one of the few countries in the world that does have proper randomized studies of Covid-19 prevalence, and has done since close to the start of the pandemic. Unfortunately the results lag behind the actual number of new infections
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by makomk 5y ago
The UK government definitely seems to consider the British public's willingness to get vaccinated to be one of the key parts of the success story, from what I've seen. I will also say that their handling of issues like the AstraZe
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by makomk 5y ago
Yes. As I understand it, knives are just inherently unsuitable for use as a defensive weapon - they don't stop someone from stabbing you, they're not even usable as a threat to get the other person to de-escalate because if you&#x
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by makomk 5y ago
Of course NSW has lockdowns. Sydney in particular - which is where most of the cases are - has been in increasingly strict lockdown since June, and I think they've spent more time under lockdown than not since the start of the pandemic
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by makomk 5y ago
I'm pretty sure journalists have actually, non-hypothetically caused mistrials in criminal cases through their reporting in the UK and not been jailed for it. In fact as far as I can tell none of the journalists who did this in the UK
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by makomk 5y ago
The Byline Times is indeed very much an activist publication for a particular faction of the British left, and not the most accurate one generally; if I remember rightly they were one of the main publications pushing the unfounded and bogus
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by makomk 5y ago
Honestly, anyone who's genuinely at risk enough that they can't risk being exposed despite being vaccinated - as opposed to the people who were convinced they are because of stupid media culture war bullshit - probably shouldn&#x2
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by makomk 5y ago
As I understand it, pretty much the only people who aren't eligible for vaccination in the US are those who've had an allergic reaction to a previous dose of the vaccine or one of its ingredients specifically and under-12s, though
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by makomk 5y ago
Historically speaking, countries have refrained from forcing even medical workers and people caring for the elderly to get flu vaccines, even though this argument - that there are some people for whom the vaccine will not be effective - is
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by makomk 5y ago
Oh yes. I've seen absolutely exasperating articles in the New York Times and I think possibly other places complaining about people who refused to get vaccinated despite having caught Covid, as though that was somehow supposed to mak
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by makomk 5y ago
The mechanism of action of the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines is DNA, which is effectively like mRNA but with a couple of extra steps with their own risk attached. I think there's some suspicion that the blood clotting
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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble is that there's this unfortunate tendency to try and deal with this by having different standards for what gets counted as a covid case depending on whether the person's vaccinated - either by testing vaccinated people
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by makomk 5y ago
Well, yeah, but we knew that already. The UK has been monitoring the actual number of people infected with Covid via random sampling of the population for well over a year and it's always been rather higher than the detected cases, des
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by makomk 5y ago
No, more than that. The problem the media has is that it wasn't enough to merely be sceptical of Trump or to oppose him based on what he actually did; in order to be sufficiently anti-Trump you needed to believe an endless cavalcade of
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by makomk 5y ago
There's no reason why it would be caused merely by paving over of lawns and gardens in the last year - there's a lot of year-to-year variation in weather like this, and without sufficient advance planning and restrictions to enfor
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by makomk 5y ago
Honestly, if they were actually a government mouthpiece it'd probably improve the quality of the BBC's Covid reporting at this point. They seem to be pushing this idea that everything the government is doing is wrong and incompete
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by makomk 5y ago
The numbers coming out of the US are not representative of what other countries have been seeing. Apparently it's more like 60% of people who're hospitalized that are unvaccinated in the UK, for example, and that's pretty in
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by makomk 5y ago
So far, the "reservoir of selfish unvaccinated individuals" that the virus has mutated in is people who literally could not get vaccinated because there weren't enough vaccines available . The most important variants so far
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by makomk 5y ago
It's looking extremely iffy right now as to whether it's even possible to achieve herd immunity against the current variants through vaccination, which will set up basically the perfect environment to select for vaccine escape glo
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by makomk 5y ago
Hang on a moment. Donald Trump has been telling people to get vaccinated both before and after he left office. Hell, endless column inches were spilled by respected publications about how early approval of the vaccines would be an evil cons
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by makomk 5y ago
The US media reporting on vaccination has been pretty garbage to be honest. For example, I notice the New York Times was complaining the other day about people refusing to get a vaccine even though they'd caught Covid - rationally spea
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by makomk 5y ago
Honestly, I'm not sure how you'd even be able to measure that. India doesn't seem to be doing so great at recording the cause of death, given that only a tenth of these were counted as Covid deaths and it's unlikely to b
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by makomk 5y ago
Especially in India, it's likely that a good chunk of those deaths are the result of attempts to aggressively stop the virus without thinking about the costs of doing so. They're really not in a good place to attempt any kind of l
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by makomk 5y ago
Part of the reason it took so long to roll out these lateral flow tests is that it was hard to find ones with an acceptably low false positive rate - it needed to be well below 1% for exactly the reason you outline. (Apparently PHE estimate
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by makomk 5y ago
Nah, the most comicbook supervillain event was the fricking New York Times publicly hinting that if the vaccine was approved before the election because enough evidence was found that not doing so would definitely do more harm, they'
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by makomk 5y ago
More like a biological necessity. There seems to be no shortage of fairly nasty chemicals produced by common biochemical processes that our bodies just had to evolve ways to seal with.

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