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by nanis 5y ago
And, now, this[1]: > Among 1497 fully vaccinated health care workers for whom RT-PCR data were available, 39 SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections were documented. Neutralizing antibody titers in case patients during the peri-infection peri
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by nanis 5y ago
> Islamic leaders are approving vaccines, Oh, that's a clear indication that you do not understand Islam. Fatwas are only binding on the person who issues them. Same for lesser opinions. Islam is different. While there are currently
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> If your "freedom" negatively affects the safety and welfare of the other participants of a community ... A whole lot of people's newfound official freedom to smoke the stinkiest pot and have the smoke travel through the
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" wildly outdated data " ... you mean only data comparing outcomes in placebo versus vaccine groups? To summarize: Placebo and treatment arms showed no difference in deaths. However, placebo arms were nixed prematurely and therefo
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> Unless you're implying some other cause for the increase? I am not particularly interested in the cause ... but, the Bayesian in me combines the fact that CDC stopped reporting number of breakthrough infections combined with the f
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by nanis 5y ago
>> > 292 (26%) of 1,141 fatal cases reported as asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19. > So you're saying 1,141 - 292 = 849 or 430% increase over 160 deaths recorded before. No, I was comparing apples to apples. If you wa
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by nanis 5y ago
Apparently, the lengths of _these_ clinical trials were arbitrary though. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27987904
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> None of these articles support the claim that "death rates are the same in fully vaccinated vs un/partially vaccinated populations". Probably because no such literature exists. The documents show that the placebo arms we
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> Around 99% of hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated "unvaccinated" includes people who have had one dose or people who had the second dose less than two weeks ago[1]: >> a vaccine breakthrough infection is defined
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by nanis 5y ago
> It is obvious from hospitalization & fatality rates of unvaccinated vs. vaccinated people that the vaccine has already saved many lives Note: >> For this surveillance, a vaccine breakthrough infection is defined as the detect
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Placebo-Controlled Trials of Covid-19 Vaccines — Why We Still Need Them[1]. Long-Term Studies Of COVID-19 Vaccines Hurt By Placebo Recipients Getting Immunized[2]: > Tens of thousands of people who volunteered to be in studies of the Pfi
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by nanis 5y ago
- I don't want to eat. - You need food. - Well, not _this_ food and not necessarily at this moment in time. Whether these particular vaccines are saving any lives is an open question. Given that 1) Given the number of deaths in the two
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by nanis 5y ago
Thank you for the examples. That shows that we are talking about different things. In all those examples, we are talking about a way to model them using rules enshrined in the _axiomatic_ foundations of probability. Things like, "given
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> Does it boil down to the quality and experience of the hackers on the team? Yes. But also requires management who can understand and value what they have in that team.
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Hmmm. DoJ opinion is not necessarily infallible. See https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/legacy/2013/...
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> And even today probability is taught with a lot of empirical examples. (At least it was in my classes, both undergraduate and graduate.) Can you mention some of these examples? FYI, I've taught a bunch of Stats/Econometrics c
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Also this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27966776 22 Hours ago (2 comments)
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> average is merely an abstraction which has meaning only within its mathematical set-up. And probability is just a normalized denumerably additive measure over a sigma algebra. We've done very well constructing theories on the bas
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https://archive.is/XK9j5 > The figures suggest vast numbers are being classed as hospitalised by Covid when they were admitted with other ailments, with the virus picked up by routine testing.
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>> Apparently CS 3110 (Spring 2021) was only offered to students enrolled at Cornell. If true, why is this website of interest to HN readers? Just asking. Note the following: > This work is based on over 20 years worth of course no
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> The government doesn't need bodycams to spy on you. While that statement is literally true, it is also bogus. It sure makes it convenient for government when always on body and vehicle cameras record everything everywhere all the
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> I am always fascinated when I hear other nerds describe the process of learning Western history as "begin with the Greeks." Why not start with the written word[1]? It seems to me for the origins of today's "Western&
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Looking at Figure one in the PDF[1], I don't think I do well on this test at all. I mean "lion is to feline as close is to distant, true/false"? Or, "Emotional Discrimination"? What is the "correct" a
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> Is this not a randomised control trial? No. I am not quite sure how one might even think the words apply here. If it were, participants would be randomly assigned to the the "control" group where they do not get Covid, but wo
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I guess I submitted too early :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27925605
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A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites with Hardcore Porn(vice.com)
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The secret language being used by anti-vaccine groups to skirt detection(nbcnews.com)
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> Who said anybody was using the niche academic economist definition of „public good“? Except that if something is not a "public good" in the economics sense, then the burden of proof is on the claimant that there is an under-p
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> determine a class of things that should be publicly funded. No. That is a misunderstanding. The concept allows the possibility that the standard competitive market price discovery mechanism is not going to lead to the optimal level of
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I really enjoy Mickens' humor. I can only criticize him for not producing more of it. :-)

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