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by nanis 5y ago
> 2.5 billion people have had at least one vaccine. Does that mean Lisa Shaw did not die? Or that we would still have known about the cause of her death if she were not well known? Or, is the number of people who are vaccinated enough of
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by nanis 5y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-58330796
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Herd Immunity Threshold(threadreaderapp.com)
2 points by nanis 5y ago|1 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
> Both studies showed reduced protection against symptomatic illness w/ 1st dose, but VE recovered after the 2nd dose. This is important because the "unvaccinated" in phrases like "epidemic of the unvaccinated"
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by nanis 5y ago
> But if every time I said I was giving you a "gift" I actually punched you in the mouth you'd soon learn the revised meaning of "gift". ... > The most important thing a developer can do isn't code. It
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by nanis 5y ago
Full text here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8369496/ From the discussion section: > In this study, we have shown differences in the specificity of polyclonal serum antibodies acquired by i
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by nanis 5y ago
Someone wants to make sure immigrant/low income communities do not engage in too many cash transactions.
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by nanis 5y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307224
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by nanis 5y ago
Full text here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8369496/ From the discussion section: > In this study, we have shown differences in the specificity of polyclonal serum antibodies acquired by i
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by nanis 5y ago
The term "Pseudo-R²" has been in use for a long time. This article is about McFadden's. See [1] for more. [1]: https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/other/mult-pkg/faq/general/faq-w...
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by nanis 5y ago
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1430864664313794560 > Of note, far preferable to get vax rather than natural infection as shown by this adverse event study of infection vs vax but if infected in past
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Safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Setting(nejm.org)
3 points by nanis 5y ago|1 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
> troops are welding shut the airport gates in response to the attacks. >> it is also their personal decision on whether they want to depart.[1] [1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings&#x2
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by nanis 5y ago
While auto-detection likely would not work in Windows, it seems to be it would be an interface improvement to allow programmatic control over whether output is enabled. That is, why should `sgr_enabled` return `false` on Windows even if `mo
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by nanis 5y ago
Nonresponse bias due to instilled fear of deviating from the reigning orthodoxy excluded as usual. The article links here[1] for details of the poll, but that seems to refer to a different one. ... Hmmm, here is the PDF for topline numbers[
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by nanis 5y ago
Both file sharing and copy & paste can be disabled. Yes, this is not as useful as people think it is. In real life, it ends up kneecapping productivity while enabling checkbox driven security. Regardless, it was also part of the contrac
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by nanis 5y ago
Sadly, it looks like Windows is ignored. At first, I thought it just didn't do anything on Windows[1], but the demo fails to compile with most recent `cl`. [1]: https://github.com/datafl4sh/sgr/blob/2d33b
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Lisa Shaw: Presenter's death due to complications of Covid vaccine(bbc.com)
1 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments
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Little-Known Federal Software Can Trigger Revocation of Citizenship(theintercept.com)
37 points by nanis 5y ago|12 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
Cute, but, as I noted elsewhere[1], these kinds of solutions require that you know that you are dealing with text that contains Turkish. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28287136
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by nanis 5y ago
True story: Some years ago, a consulting assignment involved analyzing a bunch of data saved on a slow as molasses NAS using SAS's data format. The work was CPU intensive but IO throughput was the bottleneck. The analysis was close to
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by nanis 5y ago
Cumulative charts such as "Attack rates by vaccination status" do not control for the time-dependent composition of the population by vaccination status. I am not sure what is preventing people from displaying those data per month
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by nanis 5y ago
> companies care more about you being able to pack your code in a Docker image using GitLab CI/CD pipeline and write yaml files to describe the state of your K8s cluster. I can do that and more. ... However, a lot of companies that
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by nanis 5y ago
AFAIK, Pfizer is actually mandating previously infected employees to get vaccinated. Not FUD. > "Well gee, the headline says they made $22B from the pandemic, I guess they must be filthy rich off of this!". There is a differenc
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by nanis 5y ago
Interestingly, it is not a world record. In July, I noticed that in VAERS, there are a few people with 4-5 shots. The reports made for interesting reading.
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by nanis 5y ago
When one makes profit from providing to others who are not compelled to use it a good or service they are not compelled to produce, the "profit" is pure goodness. When the market for a thing exists solely through government action
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by nanis 5y ago
> AstraZeneca are selling their vaccine at cost. There is a difference between accounting profit (receipts vs outlays) vs economic profit (benefits of doing something vs opportunity cost of doing it). It is almost tautological that there
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Arcadia (Film)(imdb.com)
1 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
"Painted as" ... It is. Sure, go ahead and downvote. Or, maybe, think about how to live life under these rules. See "Explained: New lockdown restrictions for NSW and Greater Sydney"[1] [1]: https://www.9news.c
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by nanis 5y ago
> deprived many less industrialized societies of control over their own citizens at a crucial juncture. Spoken truly like a person[1] who hasn't had much interaction with states with "control over their own citizens". Citi

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