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by nanis 5y ago
Submitted this before: "Prep Act Q&A"[1,2]: Whether an employer who requires a vaccine falls in a legal immunity category depends on how you interpret the word "prescribe". [1]: https://news.ycombinator.co
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by nanis 5y ago
> Contractors maintained our bombers and our attack and transport aircraft throughout the war. By July, most of the 17,000 support contractors had left. A technical issue now meant an aircraft — a Black Hawk helicopter, a C-130 transport
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I Commanded Afghan Troops This Year. We Were Betrayed(nytimes.com)
5 points by nanis 5y ago|9 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
The link is a Google search for `blanket without dots` (without quotation marks) returning image results for blankets with dots (as far as I can tell). I do not know why the post title here is showing up as "yx", but on Google&#
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by nanis 5y ago
> The real world results, as measured, showed a 0.3% false positive rate. Try as I did, I can't find a source for this claim. The best I could find was[1] which seems to indicate a 1.1% false positive rate for people without symptom
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Taliban reject extended evacuation: The answer is no. Or there'd be consequences(warisboring.com)
6 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
Stuff like this[1] ought to have some impact on the "real world" results, right? > false positives have a linear cost. That's a strong assumption. Assuming constant testing happens in an environment of quarantining of the
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by nanis 5y ago
> convince the Taliban This is the depths to which American credibility has sunk. We have to convince them because we have left ourselves no options[1]. Except that they have no interest in being "convinced", but every interest
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by nanis 5y ago
Not to be confused with John Walker Lindh[1]. [1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-...
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by nanis 5y ago
> you should simply flag the submission I did ... However, I also tried to be helpful by explaining to the poster what information, had it been available, would have avoided my flag.
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by nanis 5y ago
The link does not contain the word "Apple". Therefore, we are left to try to figure out what does not work and how it doesn't work. Given that the title seems to reflect some editorializing on the poster's part, it would
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by nanis 5y ago
IMNSHO, as an undergrad, regardless of the field you end up choosing, you'd benefit from a solid introduction to axiomatic probability, a decent intro inferential stats class that actually uses your foundational understanding of probab
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by nanis 5y ago
> I can't see that domain, it's blocked on our corporate network, Notes: https://archive.ph/hwbSf App: https://archive.ph/ntqR3 > Lateral flow tests have a 0.3% false positive rate In the la
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by nanis 5y ago
"US left Afghan airfield at night, didn’t tell new commander"[1] comes to mind. > Before the Afghan army could take control of the airfield about an hour’s drive from the Afghan capital Kabul, it was invaded by a small army of
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by nanis 5y ago
> The APs job Minor correction: The comment references a Reuters article which seems to contradict the oft-repeated assertion: > We gave them every chance to determine their own future. What we could not provide them was the will to
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by nanis 5y ago
I appreciate the consistent application of such guidelines.
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by nanis 5y ago
<remove the note about being sarcastic> Of course, there was intense fighting during June and July. At that point, the Afghan military was deprived of U.S. support. The U.S. abandoned key positions and reduced support, signaling whoev
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by nanis 5y ago
From the discussion: > A third round of booster immunization with the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is currently under consideration. Our data suggest that repeated immunization with the wild-type spike may not be effective in controlling the newl
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by nanis 5y ago
> Orwell indeed. Wrong, that was Kafkaesque.
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by nanis 5y ago
> The fact that the IMF thinks your choice of operating system should impact your creditworthiness is something At some point in the past or maybe in another universe, a well known accommodation booking site might or might not have been
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by nanis 5y ago
Last year, I tried to put together some sane information about the statistics of testing[1] plus a simple app that allows you to play with the arithmetic[2]. It took very little time to put it together. Everything on it is factually accurat
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by nanis 5y ago
I am not referring to that argument. There was no "antivax conspiracy nonsense" ... Just people who can't read. I have made no statements regarding vaccination. However, I do consider delaying until after the approval announc
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by nanis 5y ago
> The main reason is probably that ISO-8859-9 / Windows-1254 already only had a single I and i so it would be impossible to know which Unicode character to convert them to. The alternative codepoints I proposed could coexist with th
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by nanis 5y ago
> an alt-right take No. Please do not try to label me.
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by nanis 5y ago
Presumably, this should be linked to https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/1430166260965380096 which confirms the outage. The site is back up for me.
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by nanis 5y ago
No. Too many people's status, income, and future prospects are now tied to maintaining the ongoing crisis mode.
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by nanis 5y ago
Various parts of the U.S. are already there. You know where those are if you live in them. Ask yourself: How many times have stopped yourself from asserting 2 + 2 indeed is four[1] in conversations with colleagues, neighbors, teachers, or e
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by nanis 5y ago
"Life expectancy" and all the related misunderstandings bundled into a theory.
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by nanis 5y ago
Not to be confused with https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
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by nanis 5y ago
The IMF and the World Bank serve an important purpose. They provide a great standard of living to otherwise unemployable economists and policy analysts. Therefore, regardless of how many people they kill, and, yes, they have killed people d

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