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by manwe150 5y ago
My dad likes to tell this story of building a house: First you start with the a beautiful, pristine plot of land. Then you dig a giant hole in the ground and cause a giant mess. So to fix that, you pour a big concrete foundation. But you ar
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You can potentially use your phone as a webcam. I do this with the OBS Camera app and the corresponding plugin to OBS.
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The challenge is that you don’t necessary want to be often taking lots of drugs “just in case,” since they can have their own long-term issues (just browse the other comments here for discussion). Also, adverse-drug interactions is potentia
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You are welcome to look for evidence, but OP is also wrong about the spike protein being "fully functional" in the vaccine. The spike protein sequence was modified in many ways in creating the vaccine, including to prevent it from
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Why? We can hypothesize anything, but we shouldn’t just assume everything. The manufacturers made changes to the RNA sequence to reduce the ability to leave the cell, and then tested it in animal studies to confirm.
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Though it also requires a quick lock acquire to advance the pointer afterwards, so it does not come quite as cheaply as that makes it sound.
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There was a large spike in unemployment in the US/worldwide. Combining that with drastic shifts in consumption patterns, causing a ripple effect in delayed production changes. And perhaps also shortages are just getting more attention
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The page also shows that vaccinated people are far less likely to be in the ICU, which is an even more important metric.
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I assume ‘empathize’ is meant there?
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I think they mean the reverse: since dark matter gives a possible solution to some of the unexpected observations resulting from the current theories, so if the theories later change, they are hoping the dark matter/energy terms will v
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> Irrelevance of vaccines: in Denmark the percentage of Omicron cases that are vaccinated is the same as the overall vaccination rate, i.e. there's ~no impact of vaccines. I see currently reported numbers of 75% and 81% for those ra
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Well, logically speaking, we never needed vaccines, since some percentage of the human race will survive COVID regardless. The question always was just whether you can improve your own odds of staying healthy. And so far that data seems to
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By a paper, do you mean the laws of thermodynamics? The fans also eventually also dissipate their energy as heat when they push air around. There is an alternative heater design though for the same power, which is a heat pump (the same as a
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I believe that science and religion must be compatible, or else at least one must be wrong. I believe in both. Scientific consensus says the vaccine saves lives, and religion says I must not kill people. This seems compatible to me. Who car
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The country of the Netherlands also might like to disagree with this
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Picasso paintings have possible positive cash flows via tax loopholes. So they don’t call it a Ponzi scheme because they do call it (legal) tax evasion. For example: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-do-rich-buy-art-di
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It can’t be all that bleak. The mRNA technology would let us inject omicron-specific boosters tomorrow, but then there is a lot of other safety hurdles that have to be met before it gets authorized and then distribution hurdles to convince
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I think it could be technically accurate, if you include that vaccination before getting infected gives better immunity than most other options. (It is almost like a booster shot, but worse in almost every possibly way) Also probably true w
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You mention ‘informed’, but are you aware of the delta variant and that scientists sometimes learn new things?
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Highly improbable, but not impossible, particularly for beings with finite lifespans over the long term. Herd immunity is reached at HIT=1-1/R0, at which point the infection rate will slow, and some of the remaining uninfected and unva
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That table has known problems. For example, see this recent discussion of a thorough analysis of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249686
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I recall seeing that discussion disappear since the booster was shown to restore our immune system to a similar levels of response, even for delta, so there wasn't any expected advantage to it. (for example, see how Moderna recently di
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Or that right wing is bad, or that bad content is right wing
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I don’t recognize it if so. But it does sound like how my own brain feels when approaching information overload, followed by a power nap.
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Not sure that’s the most comforting analogy to pick. GPS is maintained and controlled by the US military. They can shut it off, used to secretly make it intentionally inaccurate, have dual-band devices to protect against failures of GPS by
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It isn’t silly at all, if you consider most people don’t care about the internal state of some radio, but are opening the quick toggle menu for the purpose of connecting/disconnecting to specific networks. It is more mentally consisten
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I agree, I don’t want to pick sides either. It sounds like he did agree to the other offer though, which feels like a nuance missing from this oped which could have been mentioned without undermining his rant.
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If a mystical religious artifact magically appeared that was measured to statistically make me less likely to fall sick, I might go worship there too. That is sort of the point of science: finding whatever works best, whether that be my amu
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He isn't even that unwelcome. Here was MIT’s response for context: https://orgchart.mit.edu/node/6/letters_to_community/importa...
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That line of reasoning applies also to simply getting out of bed in the morning, or risking COVID illness without the proven safety benefits of the vaccines, both of which have known long-term side-effects. Whereas, if you are healthy, the

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