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by makomk 6y ago
No, this really isn't a binary state. In order for the reproduction rate to be a single, fixed figure which only depends on the level of immunity - which is what you need in order for herd immunity to be a binary thing - every person n
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by makomk 6y ago
"Paying higher prices for energy that provides guarantees that it won’t be interrupted during a cold spell" is effectively a subsidy for fossil fuel power plants and coal in particular - and a real subsidy too that actually gives
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by makomk 6y ago
Yeah, the big problem is the death of coal power. Coal power plants can stockpile enough fuel to run for a good while no matter the weather. Natural gas power plants cannot; they rely on a continuous supply of gas, and it turns out that eve
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by makomk 6y ago
The trouble is that due to COPPA and probably similar laws in other countries, there are huge legal headaches involved in offering any kind of online account to under-13s - especially one which is shared with a whole bunch of third parties
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One unintended consequence of the FTC settlement mentioned in the article is that almost no-one wants to create high quality kid-friendly content anymore, because doing so forces them to accept huge restrictions on how everyone interacts wi
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by makomk 6y ago
> If your speech is really valuable you shouldn't depend on the free services of a privately-owned ad-supported company meant for streaming games to propagate it. Remember, this announcement is about speech that occurs outside of Tw
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by makomk 6y ago
It's funny you should mention that. A few years back, the operation of the shared Twitter ban list used by the Twitter left was, ah, slightly disrupted by the fact that it was being run by a British person who thought the Data Protecti
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by makomk 6y ago
It certainly has been interesting. Last I heard, the worst country in Europe in terms of deaths per capita was the Czech Republic, which was also the country everyone pointed to earlier in the pandemic as the European success story which al
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It's used to send notifications to things like smart watches, or to other computers via apps like KDE Connect (which I think also allows people to interact with the notifications).
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by makomk 6y ago
So basically, it's a fairly typical rare earth mine. As far as I can tell pretty much all of them involve relatively low yields and result in the concentration of radioactive elements like thorium. The article you link to mentions a mi
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by makomk 6y ago
Maastricht only barely squeaked through to acceptance in France , in a referendum with an even narrower victory margin than the Brexit one. (The UK carefully avoided putting it to any kind of referendum because its government didn't h
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by makomk 6y ago
Intentionally so, because taxing B2B revenue is effectively a financial penalty for not being a huge vertically-integrated megacorp. It means that any goods which have more than one company involved in their production are taxed at a higher
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by makomk 6y ago
The comment you're replying to is "cherry-picking" the current-gen AMD processor which offers the best value for most users. You're cherry-picking an Intel processor which almost no-one has any reason to buy over other I
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by makomk 6y ago
This seems exactly backwards. The EU's involvement in vaccine and PPE procurement was at least partially a propaganda exercise to try and undo the damage done when member states with more manufacturing capacity cut off the supply to ot
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by makomk 6y ago
Yeah, the only thing that I've seen pushed as a vaccine substitute without evidence is masks, by the mainstream American press - there was this narrative for a while that mask-wearing was more effective than vaccination would be, despi
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by makomk 6y ago
The underlying AMD paper made the front page of HN a few days ago, though without much discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645903 It's an interesting vulnerability but of limited impact, since of course
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by makomk 6y ago
The real risk here is if inflation makes a reappearance, say as a result of people starting to spend all that money floating around. As I understand it the way to deal with that is to raise interest rates, which means that the cost of servi
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by makomk 6y ago
Imbaba in Cairo sounds pretty dystopian from all the coverage I can find, and the government seems to rely heavily on totalitarian policing to suppress mass uprisings there. And we're talking about an area with, apparently, something l
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by makomk 6y ago
In reality, I think a lot of art these days isn't created by the artist, at least not mostly - it's created by their technicians or students or other people they employ and then just given their blessing, maybe with a few last f
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by makomk 6y ago
Keeping heat out is of somewhat limited use unless you have air conditioning, because there are a whole bunch of sources of heat (people, appliances, solar gain through the windows, etc) that are enough to make the inside of a well-insulate
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by makomk 6y ago
Not really. The UK has been testing pretty much everyone who's admitted to hospital for COVID since the start of the outbreak regardless of why they were admitted, which means there's going to be quite a few people in the COVID
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by makomk 6y ago
ICOs were regulated - they were covered by the same regulations that applied to stock sales. The only real way to avoid the consequences of that was for US Government not to be able to track down the people involved in creating and promotin
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by makomk 6y ago
RFC4041, cited here, is clearly a joke from a very different era: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4041.txt
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by makomk 6y ago
Every country has had plenty of people who fall through the holes in whatever assistance programs they have in place, and the US media has downplayed their downsides compared to what the US did. For example, there's been a tendency in
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by makomk 6y ago
As I understand it, it turns out that none of the vaccines are 100% effective in preventing hospitalization and death, it's just really hard to measure this accurately in the kind of studies used for vaccine approval because there aren
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by makomk 6y ago
Most (possibly all?) of the headline figures for how effective Covid vaccines are at preventing disease are based on the number of symptomatic cases, including mild symptoms. So it's not purely measured based on number of positive te
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by makomk 6y ago
See, this is the problem with US politics. Your experts and your press are absolutely convinced that those US Covid-19 deaths are the fault of Trump and that if the idiot population had voted for someone they liked more those people wouldn&
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by makomk 6y ago
It really is about status, though. For example, here in the UK there was a huge amount of pressure to vaccinate policemen early but no such pressure for private security guards, even though security guards were at much higher risk of dying
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by makomk 6y ago
There are plenty of people that would support an imagined Medicare for All with the same cost that the UK's NHS has and the same level of care of the best US insurance plans, minus the bureaucracy and struggle to get treatment approved
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by makomk 6y ago
The Chinese propaganda says they're just defending their territory, but as far as I can tell it's just expansionism in disguise. That is to say, they've been taking areas that even China considered to be part of (say) India,

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