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by makomk 5y ago
If I remember rightly, what they actually claimed is that none of the doctors sent in were infected in the hospitals . That is, there were doctors sent to Wuhan who caught Covid, but the Chinese government blamed it on them becoming infect
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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble is that this doesn't actually work. By using R this way you're assuming a model where every person is equally likely to spread the infection to every other person in the population, which is easy to calculate but what
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by makomk 5y ago
It's looking more and more like a whole bunch of Asian countries just got lucky. Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam have all currently got uncontrolled community spread again (possibly China too), and whilst the Taiwan outbreak could maybe
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by makomk 5y ago
According to that article, the winner of the 10,000m race wore a mask to protect against his allergies for the first 4,000m, by which point it was just too uncomfortable to continue wearing: "Rupp said Salazar told him to “wear it as l
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by makomk 5y ago
With the typical masks available to and worn by ordinary people, exhalation pressure seems to cause a lot of air to bypass the mask too - except that instead of doing it via a well-designed valve that redirects the airflow somewhere sensibl
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by makomk 5y ago
Yes and no. As I understand it, there are two parts: you create plots which take up a certain amount of disk space, and then farm those plots indefinitely, and only the first plot creation part is extremely I/O intensive. So what a lot
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by makomk 5y ago
This criteria certainly seems to point in that direction: "Activists, organizers, and other influential individuals". I mean, they don't quite outright come out and say that they verify people for advocating for causes that T
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by makomk 5y ago
In theory this is meant to be a good thing because it allows for competition between train operators which sounds like it should lead to better outcomes for customers. There's also a desire for companies to be able to operate commercia
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by makomk 5y ago
Some issue with the bbc.com vs bbc.co.uk split I assume. The UK version is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57176858
820.
by makomk 5y ago
The seperation of track ownership and operation from actually running the trains is mandated by EU directives, so that part is going to be the same pretty much anywhere in the EU. I think some countries like Germany bend the rules a bit by
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by makomk 5y ago
Everyone cashing out of the stock market now is also being paid by the people cashing in now. That's not what a Ponzi scheme is. The defining feature of a Ponzi scheme is that it claims to offer interest on deposits in excess of what t
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by makomk 5y ago
From what I can tell, unlike Tether USDC haven't publicly disclosed what proportion of their reserves are backed by treasury bills and what proportion are stuff like commercial paper - just that they're backed with a mixture of bo
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by makomk 5y ago
USDC isn't backed by actual USD in a bank account somewhere either. (Largely because you can't just stick that much money in a bank account, and it wouldn't actually be close to 100% safe even if you could.)
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by makomk 5y ago
If I remember rightly, some of the things in /proc that look like symlinks don't actually behave like them - opening them opens the actual file that the process has open, even if it's been deleted and a new file created at th
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by makomk 5y ago
The existing retail brokers were also, with very few exceptions, selling trading requests on top of the fees they charged. (Also, in general this actually results in better-than-market prices because the trading firms know that retail trade
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by makomk 5y ago
The thing about singular they is that it only really became "perfectly good usage for longer than people think" within the last few years, well after the heyday of Usenet. I don't think it was even a major contender for the
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by makomk 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies seem like the least of the problems with Chinese financial institutions selling unsuitable investments to retail customers though. Sure, they might lose everything they put in, but at least it stops there. The Bank of China
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by makomk 5y ago
Hydrogen forms explosive mixtures with air at a much wider range of concentrations than typical hydrocarbons and has a nasty tendency to permeate straight through a lot of materials.
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by makomk 5y ago
In practice I think systemd-udevd probably still runs without systemd, but as I understand it that's not an officially supported solution and the systemd developers have said they reserve the right to make changes that break it at any
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by makomk 5y ago
Ripple is pretty much fully centralised last I checked - there's a list of nodes controlled by the company and a few other companies involved in setting it up which decide which version of transaction history is valid, and nodes outsid
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by makomk 5y ago
Apparently for a while AMD's graphics drivers were improving their performance on some games by replacing shaders that used table lookups to approximate trigonometric functions with actual trig instructions, presumably improving accu
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by makomk 5y ago
From what I recall, RCP 4.5 is closer to "status quo" than "optimistic" at least for a while yet.
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by makomk 5y ago
As I recall, the media applied plenty of scrutiny to any claim that Covid might be less deadly than the media coverage suggested, the breathless uncritical reporting lent almost entirely in one direction.
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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, except that because the other 999 users probably wouldn't be using Tor to access the same websites, in practice this would be pretty much guaranteed to give a highly accurate, persistent tracking identifier.
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by makomk 5y ago
Wasn't Singapore supposed to be one of the few success stories for eliminating Covid-19 without using vaccination, one of the countries that supposedly proved Western countries like the US could've avoided the need for economy-des
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by makomk 5y ago
At this kind of scale, I don't think there's such a thing as plain "cash" free of any counterparty risk - even just holding it in a bank account has risk attached (and most banks probably don't want an account with
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by makomk 5y ago
Probably this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberal... It's not just the mask wearing either. It's things with much more substantial actual harm, like keeping sc
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by makomk 5y ago
Part of the problem is that the American media spread misinformation about the effectiveness of masks for political gain. For example, I remember the New York Times pushing the idea that vaccines would be less effective than mask wearing ev
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by makomk 5y ago
There just isn't that much grip between the rails and the train, and any change to increase the amount of grip would probably sacrifice the efficiency and maximum speed advantages of rail. Remember, we're talking about steel on st
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by makomk 5y ago
As I understand it, one of the things that was only discovered recently is that the Swiss intelligence services knew about this and kept their own government in the dark.

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