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by makomk 6y ago
I think that mostly shows the limits of their analysis. The Guardian is basically the left-wing paper in the UK; I don't think there's anything to the left of them outside of fairly fringe, niche, and very fragmented publication
902.
by makomk 6y ago
I was curious how this compared with USDC, the smaller but also more reputable tokenized US Dollar service affiliated with Coinbase. It looks like 65% of that was created in 2021.
903.
by makomk 6y ago
As far as I know, the PCIe-based Atheros 802.11n cards don't have any firmware at all - just hardware state machines controlled by the open source driver.
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by makomk 6y ago
This happens a lot with cheap clone Bluetooth dongles for some reason - they all have the same MAC address, or one of a handful of addresses with some of the newer ones.
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by makomk 6y ago
Looks like some really subtle and (as far as I can tell) undocumented aspect of Ethereum internals tripped them up.
906.
by makomk 6y ago
Remember, CPI is just the average of a particular basket of goods weighted in a particular way - it doesn't necessarily represent the real levels of inflation people will see. I know for example that here in the UK, the low figures wer
907.
by makomk 6y ago
I'm not sure to what extent the 2008 crisis and the stimulus programs even did result in net printing of money. Remember, every time a bank issues a new loan they're printing money and every time they reduce lending they're d
908.
by makomk 6y ago
There were no hard delivery requirements in any of AstraZeneca's contracts because they didn't have any way to guarantee how much they could deliver - the contract was literally to build the full-scale production lines, and they h
909.
by makomk 6y ago
The lockdowns imposed in countries that only used them to prevent the hospital system being overwhelmed were very effective on average, but that's not enough. In order to reach Covid Zero you need lockdowns to be very effective everyw
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by makomk 6y ago
The 15 million vaccines which the EU and Italy claimed were some secret shipment to the UK without any basis, and actually turned out to be part of their already publicly announced deliveries to the EU and South America (with the latter bei
911.
by makomk 6y ago
I think the NHS might have started offering it now, but that kind of got buried under all the news about the Covid pandemic.
912.
by makomk 6y ago
Yeah, and that's based on the relatively low levels of Covid in the UK recently too... I'm not sure there's anywhere in Europe whose Covid outbreak is currently as under control as the UK's.
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by makomk 6y ago
That baffled me. They got a huge amount of stick for measuring up to the pre-determined cutoff point, which as I understand it is the correct way to do a scientific study if you want your results to actually be valid...
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by makomk 6y ago
A few people seem to have confirmed this isn't actually true - at some point, it was possible to set up at least some of the affected NAS devices using btrfs via the standard GUI on the device. It's possible there were some interm
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by makomk 6y ago
How would we even know? In order to tell if coronaviruses caused cancer, we'd need to be keeping track of which people had ever been infected with one of them and how many of them ended up with cancer, and we're not. It'd jus
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by makomk 6y ago
That caveat about this only covering the first few months of the pandemic is actually important . I know that Japan for example has seen a substantial rise in suicides but it happened after the time period covered by this article (though w
917.
by makomk 6y ago
Scientific American didn't merely endorse Joe Biden for president last year, they justified it with a description of the biggest crisis currently facing humanity (the Covid-19 pandemic) that was both nakedly partisan and really obvious
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by makomk 6y ago
Unfortunately, Google and Apple have effectively made it impossible to use the paper-based details in order to contact people and tell them to self-isolate if someone who used the app to check in tests positive by blocking this.
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by makomk 6y ago
Funny you should mention that. Literally the day that the UK rolled out the new app using the Google/Apple solution, the BBC suddenly forgot about the downsides of the old app and decided that its advantages over the new one were real
920.
by makomk 6y ago
Part of the problem is that the mainstream media - including the BBC - seem to have mislead people about how well contact tracing worked in places like South Korea. For example, they ran an article a few months back about how it was so effe
921.
by makomk 6y ago
As I understand it, the problem with that argument is that he started panicking and saying he couldn't breathe well before the police officer who supposedly murdered him took the action that supposedly did so.
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by makomk 6y ago
The other bomb dropped on Japan used plutonium, as did the Trinity nuclear test. (Yes, the US had so little uranium that the bomb design using it wasn't even tested before it was used against Japan.)
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by makomk 6y ago
I do get the impression, looking in from the outside, that a lot of US media coverage of other countries is basically just propaganda for domestic consumption. Sure, there's usually a few carefully-selected actual facts slipped in when
924.
by makomk 6y ago
The whole reason a getaway driver exists is to help people conduct a bank robbery, whereas just protesting outside Congress is not only legal but constitutionally protected. By that logic, the elected Democrat officials who continued to att
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by makomk 6y ago
Cancer treatment is a really high priority for the NHS these days, I think in part because it was an area where there used to be major issues and people died as a result. There are some really aggressive treatment targets for that handed do
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by makomk 6y ago
Of course, the reason the UK no longer has closed shops is thanks to some aggressive (though probably necessary) union breaking by Thatcher. In fact, there's an argument to be made that the damage done by unions directly lead to Thatch
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by makomk 6y ago
Yeah, pretty much. I remember a Twitch streamer who'd broadcast from there even abused the DMCA to take down a video that Seattle's police department posted to try and identify the CHAZ-affiliated people who were caught on stream
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by makomk 6y ago
This is in fact the whole problem: "COVID could spread at a rate higher than 1 in schools, but if all teachers, parents and grandparents have been vaccinated (at a high uptake) then the spread in children won't spill into the olde
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by makomk 6y ago
Suppose that cases are going down almost everywhere and you compute the average and calculate R from that, getting a nice reassuring number below 1 - but there's some part of society, somewhere, where cases are still increasing exponen
930.
by makomk 6y ago
Last I heard, the UK had very aggressive mass testing amongst school-age kids regardless of whether they showed symptoms, and it didn't seem to be spreading much aside from a brief spike when schools first reopened for in-person learni

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