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by monopoledance 5y ago
Thanks. I figured that to some extent, but assumed some larger themes originated in the books. Like the emperor's dynasty, which I found to be an interesting take on immortality and power.
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Is the book really good, or just worth a read? I've recently seen the TV series and I liked some of its scifi ideas, but wonder if the bad parts are down to the original material or Apple's writing. Is it much influenced by the pa
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by monopoledance 5y ago
No. Yes, "freedom" ain't worth it. I don't know.
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by monopoledance 5y ago
> Crypto is not just Bitcoin, and crypto is not just Proof-Of-Work. Sure. Theoretically. Are you suggesting "crypto" isn't almost entirely proof-of-work - de facto? You think those invested care for proof-of-stake? Lol. &g
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by monopoledance 5y ago
> You also can't deny that there are ideas which threaten state control, monetary policy, nationalistic ideals, religion its self. Phew. Yeah, we all felt that. In 2010. Now while we're reminiscing the past, I know another one!
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Also selecting for survivors. In the group of vaccinated survivors there will be more folks who would have died from infection without the vaccine, because of insufficient immune response. People who survived an infection without prior vacc
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Also adaptation of antibodies evidently works, as cross-vaccination schemes improve response rates. E.g. 2 doses Moderna, then 1 dose BionTech and vice versa, is better than 3 doses of the same for either one. https://twitter.com
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by monopoledance 5y ago
> When naive B cells see that existing antibodies are already present I don't think this is how this works. They "see" antibodies sticking to a target, as successful antibodies are presented for replication and refinemen
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Yes, the CDU did CDU things. The SPD also did CDU things. I didn't expect the CDU to do anything, but stagnant and corrupt policies. The SPD, however, was merely enabling the CDU for the sake of government "participation". No
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Well, obviously. However, they can push for it within the coalition, which in total does have the majority. Obviously. My point is, both parties have a better track record for putting weight behind their "promises" than the SPD, w
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by monopoledance 5y ago
> constitutional ammendent They don't have the necessary majority to make constitutional changes without the CDU, I think. And the CDU is why we can't have nice things.
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by monopoledance 5y ago
While that's true, the Green party and FDP seem to mean it, when they pushed for these rights and progressive legislation - and combined, they have the majority within the coalition. Here is to hope.
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by monopoledance 5y ago
> The german state is known for it's contradictions regarding security and privacy 16 years of CDU. It's not been contradiction, but good intentions with reliably poor execution by the coalition partner SPD, and the usual CDU
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by monopoledance 5y ago
> Men have nipples. Just sayin', that has little to do with "remove stuff that does't hurt", but the fact that there is very little difference between men and women besides sex steroid levels. In particular, women do
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by monopoledance 5y ago
So, it's unrelated to the study at hand.
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by monopoledance 5y ago
How do you relate this to the study at hand? Oxysterol isn't mentioned once. I don't even disagree or something, but your advice seems rather automatic than based. The study used atherogenic diets as offense. So all the consensus
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Not exactly what they hint at in this study... > In wild-type (WT) C57BL/6J mice, a saturated fatty acid (SFA)-enriched diet was found to strongly stimulate biosynthesis and secretion of TRL-Aβ, concomitant with a reduction in cere
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by monopoledance 5y ago
From what I got from skipping over the study, this isn't about beta-amyloid itself, but "triglyceride-rich lipoprotein" amyloid beta complexes . The amyloid beta plaques may be not cause, but symptom of the disease. Maybe th
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Not inherently. Good counter example is the delta variant, which was worse in every aspect.
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by monopoledance 5y ago
If I understand correctly, the military doesn't really want to be cutting edge, as things go boom with yesterday's tech, without the trade-offs of untested, novel "innovations". I think there isn't much advantage in
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Maaaan, I was expecting friendly pictures and stuff. Every computer science book looks like this cheat sheet!
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by monopoledance 5y ago
I get how it may seem that way, I believed that myself for the longest time. The problem is that the CDU abstained from any infrastructure investments in the last 16 years for the sake of preventing national debt. Because of that, e.g. scho
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by monopoledance 5y ago
This is a minor section of the coalition contract, and maybe the only point the parties agreed upon right from the beginning of talks. Kinda non-news, really. You see this on HN, because people want their big cannabis stocks go up. Btw. I v
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by monopoledance 5y ago
This isn't about momentum for legalization. That was never lost on Germany. However, 21.3% of people allowed to vote are 70+ years old here. Make that 38.2% for 60+ years old. Germany wouldn't have suffered 16 years of conservativ
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Germany is not Singapore. You won't face any legal consequences in most places for minor possession, and even dealing weed won't necessarily get you prison time. In Germany everyone who wants to smoke weed, smokes weed, legal or n
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by monopoledance 5y ago
I am sure they are doing a stellar job I am thankful for. However, you see very little [deleted] around, or many down-voted comments. I think it's really the community to praise, and their practiced tone and aspirations.
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Haven't used Windows in a decade, but third party apps on Windows don't even have the framework for some sort of package management, do they? At least with snap/flatpak/AUR/PPA you got an aggregated updating interfa
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Potatoes, potatoes, or something. So far I haven't encountered a device where a fingerprint was used to unlock disk encryption, so your objection is actually implied, I think. Especially, with the increasing uptime of Apple's new
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by monopoledance 5y ago
Isn't Windows 2000 kind of a very respected operating system doing a lot of things right? You assume 'old' strictly implies outdated, or bad, which isn't true. E.g. good passwords are still undefeated. And security proto
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by monopoledance 5y ago
On a side note, I absolutely love the Reddit Rust community. It's somehow devoid of all the anger, loaded harshness of pretty much any other subreddit or HN. So fucking respectful and friendly there. (At least, every time I visited.) I

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