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by mft_ 6mo ago
(I don’t) I’m genuinely not aware of a DIY or grey market in vaccines . Peptides, yes, but vaccines ? In the absence of this, I suspect you’re either confused or straw-manning…
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by mft_ 6mo ago
So you are stating that there has been no change in how clinical trials are required to be run, and the associated costs, since the changes immediately following the thalidomide catastrophe?
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Why?
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Indeed, but that’s not the point: many anti-vaxxers are against all vaccines, irrespective of how they were tested. (And will argue against e.g. the FRA approvals.)
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Next up: structural engineering assessment of my office floor
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Siri (on iOS 18, at least) will call people for me without unlocking, in response to a voice command only - I just double-checked...
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by mft_ 6mo ago
I think there's more to it than that. From a philosophical perspective, I love the cantonal/direct democracy model. But it's supported by a strong culture of awareness of current affairs, and involvement in the political pro
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by mft_ 6mo ago
So one would think. And yet, living in Switzerland after the UK involved one after another discovery of how well-ordered and -run a country could be. And then moving to Germany was like stepping back even further behind my memories of the
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Interesting. Unless we have different standards for what constitutes a cooked oat, maybe we're talking about slightly different things? The full-size rolled oats (sometimes called 'robust') here in Germany are nowhere close
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by mft_ 6mo ago
I have a gentle rule, which is when discussing (geo)politics with friends, we should try not to use Switzerland as an example. It's just too good, too rational, too sensible, too well run, in myriad ways that other countries should be
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by mft_ 6mo ago
There's also a subculture of savoury oats. All sorts of recipes involving adding veg, eggs, cheese, spices...
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by mft_ 6mo ago
Quick oats are typically just rolled/cut to be smaller, so that they have a higher total surface area and so soak up liquid more easily. The downside is that this also makes them easier/faster to digest, so they have a higher gly
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Why make Claude talk like Rocky, question?(github.com)
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by mft_ 6mo ago
One can never discount lobbying and influence behind the scenes, but Schroeder finished being Chancellor in 2005, which was six years before the initial post-Fukushima vote in question, and even longer since various aspects of the plan cont
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by mft_ 6mo ago
> Germany shifted from nuclear to coal and gas Sure, but you're attributing this, deliberately or not, to the wrong cause. It wasn't that the fossil fuel industry somehow won - it was range of factors possibly including geopol
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by mft_ 7mo ago
> The problem in Ukraine is that anti-air defenses control the skies... <snip> ...US forces can fly relatively cheap bomb trucks anywhere and drop ordinance on anything. Stealth aircraft and NATO doctrine apparently work. In Ukrai
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by mft_ 7mo ago
They sell to cash-rich organisations who are a bit clueless about technology and so can't or wouldn't want to either roll their own, or go with a better but smaller provider? e.g. I was unsurprised when I spotted that Novartis (no
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by mft_ 7mo ago
Agree 100%. I've tried various code CADs before, and they're fine as long as what you're creating is simple enough to build from independent pieces, ideally that you can keep in your head. As soon as you need to refer to asp
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by mft_ 7mo ago
I think we're basically in violent agreement. MS sucks, big organisations often suck, misaligned incentives everywhere, etc.
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by mft_ 7mo ago
On the one hand, yes - and (to be reductive) enshittification is basically making decisions according to incentives that aren't aligned with your users, so it fits. On the other hand, MS have Outlook email/calendar and Teams for v
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by mft_ 7mo ago
I agree. I hate it with a passion and usually regret loading the page within about 10s of doing so. But it’s the default for recruiters, and it’s thus unavoidable to support necessary communication with them. I’ve been thinking recently it’
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by mft_ 7mo ago
I often recommend https://youtube.com/@deltahedra3d - some good tutorial videos and other excellent FreeCAD content.
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by mft_ 7mo ago
> In the US, our problems stem from a lack of "capitalism," or healthy markets, or whatever anyone wants to label it. Bottom line, it's very much a supply side problem. I'd challenge whether for complex topics like he
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by mft_ 7mo ago
I tried very hard to make something similar work for a couple of months - Mint, teams-for-linux (which is great, actually!), web-apps for everything else. The main problem is Word - for the documents I regularly work with professionally (la
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by mft_ 7mo ago
I work in an area where large heavy collaborative Word documents are very commonplace. I've tried very much to make this work on Linux with the web apps, but they're just not good enough - not feature complete, and quite slow and
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by mft_ 7mo ago
...in the US. I was mostly trying to make the point that the cost of living crisis is global, affecting many countries, and that your US-centric view doesn't scale. Healthcare costs hitting consumers directly isn't global as most
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by mft_ 7mo ago
This is great. Not to sound snarky, but now please get it to run Microsoft Office. I'd argue that this is the last barrier to many, many people being able to use Linux full-time for business purposes.
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by mft_ 7mo ago
There's been a 'cost of living crisis' discussed in many countries --not just the US-- since roughly the end of the pandemic. For obvious reasons, there are other factors responsible for this - not just Trump. Trump's r
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by mft_ 7mo ago
The ‘cost of living crisis’ that most people refer to is about food, clothing, fuel, electricity, gas. Much of this is driven by feudal corporate lords, and their gouging business choices. Some is driven by geopolitics. Issues with the affo
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by mft_ 7mo ago
> Even selecting things in the UI has sucked. I went in and increased the selection radius or whatever, that helped. But really, should I need to do this as a new user? Agree - selection isn’t broken, but it’s definitely sometimes frustr

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