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by nuerow 5y ago
> I hear this point raised often with no scientific evidence ever offered to back it up. Oh really? In that case I'm sorry to tell you that you are totally oblivious to how very basic princples of biology work. Here's a helpf
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> The reduction in infection and transmission risk for Delta from the vaccines is marginal at best, wanes quickly, and might well be defeated completely by future variants. In case you are unaware, reducing the spread of a virus also l
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> You can't argue with anything that comes out of the corporate press. Your comment is very disingenuous. You name-drop the WHO while making an outstanding and frankly unbelievable claim, but instead of citing the WHO you point to
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> source on "significantly increased"? Perhaps the New York Times newspiece from a couple months ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/health/coronavirus-childr...
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> It makes sense that wealthy and powerful people would invest in popular companies. It should also be noted that even in the US, the bastion of economic liberalism and extreme capitalism, only 15% of all families own stock[1]. Also, i
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> Why are people with COVID antibodies from successful recovery forced to get vaccines? "Successful recoveries" alone is not an indication that you are now immune to COVID-19 or able to handle a reinfection well. There are r
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> We don’t have a “healthcare is private” problem, we have a cost problem. Isn't the problem actually the lack of any public healthcare service compounded by the extensive reliance on private health insurances, which completely el
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> The article claims that "trans women in 2021 are among the most at-risk groups in US history". I looked into this and can find no corroboration. The claim is also very extraordinary given that the US history also includes p
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by nuerow 5y ago
For those who, like me, never heard of Poulsbo, it's a chipset for Intel's first generation of Atom processors. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/chipsets/poulsbo
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I apologize for going out on a tangent, but I jus have to draw some attention to this quote from the article: > McFadden, 44, said she was previously healthy and needed two emergency surgeries to remove massive clots in her lungs, heart
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> The only reason this "biomass" is so popular is an artificial reason. It's just a means for electricity companies to continue using coal and basically not doing anything, while selling their power as 'green'.
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> Renewable is a misnomer that goes back to the early environmentalist movement. In those days the concern was about running out of energy resources, not climate change. Today we’re drowning in energy, but have a surfeit of greenhouse g
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> All of the managed forests in Europe put together are unable to sustain these wood burning furnaces and they are happily importing wood pelets from the US/Canada/Malaysia etc. (often with tax payer subsidies). > None of
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> Biomass is not carbon neutral very short term (...) Well, mankind has been outputting industrial emissions for the last, say, two centuries. It's very safe to assume that most managed forests around have been capturing anthropog
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> I think the implication is that it's not necessarily better than coal because burning forests is only carbon neutral on a very long time scale. I find this assertion to be very hard to believe. Biomass is the epitome of a renewa
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> Would you do the work of fishing out the bit that contradicts my maths about Drax? What math? No math was presented at all, only a baseless assertion consisting of a vague claim that all forests in the UK could be wiped out within a
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> Sure, but with the new Delta Plus® (...) Nonsense. All it takes is checking temperature or self-reporting symptoms.
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> Sounds bad, but imagine the warehouse manager would've helped the guy and gotten COVID-19! Isn't Amazon testing warehouse employees for COVID-19 whenever they enter their premises? Nevertheless, unless Amazon treats their e
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> Oh fuck off with this web3 bullsit. They do need to keep that pump pumping.
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> Claim 96% savings, but nothing to show for it. This. I suppose the 96% number might be just a fancy way to claim they reuse the same ALB to power 25 applications, but cost estimates in AWS aren't straight-forward, and instead th
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> Java designers have really shot every language user in the foot by eschewing the notion of a function from the language. The only way to have a function is to create a class with a single static method. Java does support lambda expre
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> I like to think that programmers get paid the big bucks to actually think, not just do what a blog post tells us to do I feel this is a very cynical take on the reality of the software development world. How much "thinking"
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> Yes, but too many media outlets have abused the "may" thing so badly that maybe it's just better to say, "Congress considers launching criminal investigation into Bezos testimony" I don't agree at all, a
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> * At this point they're competing with CloudFront, S3, and Lambda, but it is still a a long ways away from all of AWS. * Cloudflare's offering does not compete with Lambda at all. They have completely distinct usecases. Clou
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> I can live without HDMI, but it never made sense to me to put SD on the chopping block. HDMI means external monitor. For some (most?) an external monitor is a must-have.
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> what's the general need for microSD? I use a USB pendrive formatted with a case-sensitive partition to cache data for an app I use, because it's far better to spend 20$ on a pendrive than 200$ for a SSD upgrade. Given the c
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by nuerow 5y ago
> What Cloudflare is trying to do is remarkable considering what they are up against. I repeat, Cloudflare is already the world's leading CDN provider, ahead of AWS by a long margin. This is not a David vs Golias story. At most it
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> I don’t understand your argument. A relatively small but innovative company is working to provide competition against the big 3 cloud providers … and you cringe? Cloudflare is by no means a small hosting provider. By some accounts, c
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> Those of us who have been here for a long time heard this story plenty of times before. Getting into a pyramid scheme early does not grant anyone any special insight onto how it is not a pyramid scheme. All they get is the benefits f
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> The "reserve multiplier" theory of money creation is incompatible with modern bank regulation -- it's actually a crime (...) No, not really. The only requirement for the "banks create money through loans" the

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