pepperberg

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by pepperberg 5y ago
Here's a good summary by Cochrane from 2020: "There is uncertainty about the effects of face masks. The low‐moderate certainty of the evidence means our confidence in the effect estimate is limited, and that the true effect may be
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by pepperberg 5y ago
Source? A RCT from 2019 found "no significant difference in the incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza" between N95 and medical masks. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31479137/
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by pepperberg 5y ago
"The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to push an additional 88 million to 115 million people into extreme poverty this year [2020], with the total rising to as many as 150 million by 2021" https://www.worldbank.org/e
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Deborah Cohen, BBC: WHO recommended masks due to political lobbying (2020)(archive.vn)
9 points by pepperberg 5y ago|8 comments
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by pepperberg 5y ago
YouTube's definition of COVID-19 misinformation: "Medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO)" [1] January 2020: WHO claims that there's "no clear evide
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Nobody should trust Wikipedia, says man who invented Wikipedia(independent.co.uk)
13 points by pepperberg 5y ago|4 comments
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by pepperberg 5y ago
Could you share a few authors that offer worthwhile analyses on this subject?
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European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication(patrick-breyer.de)
938 points by pepperberg 5y ago|415 comments
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by pepperberg 5y ago
Those are really valuable resources, thank you! Although France's electricity mix is exceptionally low, I'm surprised to see that the EU average (438gCO₂eq/kWh) is even higher than in Germany ([2], page 74). In the US, it&#x2
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by pepperberg 5y ago
"The disabled community doesn’t want to drive gas-burning cars while everyone else zips around in zero-emission vehicles" I do not understand this craze for EVs. The German Fraunhofer ISI found evidence [1] that it might take up t
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by pepperberg 5y ago
Did you read my comment?
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by pepperberg 5y ago
Have a look at Google Cloud Platform's ToS: "Benchmarking. Customer may conduct benchmark tests of the Services (each a "Test"). Customer may only publicly disclose the results of such Tests if it (a) obtains Google&#x27
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by pepperberg 5y ago
The author's argument is based on the assumption that taking aspirin results "in around one death per 10,000 people". The cited study [1] does not say that. Those results are specifically for "a fifty-year-old male"
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by pepperberg 5y ago
Again, your argumentation is problematic and therefore hard to argue with. Your first point depicts a fictional anecdote that tries to prove that terminally-ill patients with a positive COVID-19 test could have lived longer. It's like
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by pepperberg 5y ago
Please have a look at your argumentation: - "I don't think this is true" - "And AFAIK most countries do actually [...]" - "In other words, this is a common myth [...]" You present your thoughts, a theoreti
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by pepperberg 5y ago
You're right, it is the same flawed assumption. Both approaches lead to problematic conclusions, both should face scrutiny. Unfortunately, we mostly see one-sided criticism. Edit: Thank you for downvoting without commenting!
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by pepperberg 5y ago
You're right, they should have written a short summary of the content and not make us research it ourselves. I wouldn't use "there's no Wikipedia on him" as an argument. Karikó's entry is only 1 year old [1]. A
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by pepperberg 5y ago
Where do you see the "crackpot claims" in this situation? He/she just stated that "inclusive discussion is being suppressed", showing a recently removed YT video. For anyone who can't take 30s to look it up: It
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by pepperberg 5y ago
Instead of looking up the original video (e.g. by using the watch id), you immediately write it off as "crackpot claims" because some unknown authority at YouTube removed it, citing broad community guidelines. Maybe we should stic
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by pepperberg 5y ago
" all the nuclear waste generated by the world since the invention of nuclear energy can fit into a single Highschool auditorium" Source?
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by pepperberg 5y ago
You’re right, they completely differ from each other (regarding their relevance) and should therefore face an adjusted amount of scrutiny. If you’re one of the top pharmaceutical companies in the world, some press releases and study protoco
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by pepperberg 5y ago
BioNTech/Pfizer published a press release regarding 94% efficacy in November 2020 (1 month before publishing any study) and it too landed on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25135984
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by pepperberg 6y ago
Thank you for your explanation!
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by pepperberg 6y ago
I have one question regarding the current Pfizer data (it would be great if anyone with experience in statistics could help out): UK healthcare professionals received this information called "REG 174 INFORMATION FOR UK HEALTHCARE PROFE
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by pepperberg 6y ago
I have one question regarding the current data (it would be great if anyone with experience in statistics could help out): The FDA document (p. 26, table 8) states that the vaccine efficacy (age group >=75) is 100.0% (95% confidence inte
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Ask HN: What should I do with my life?
1 points by pepperberg 7y ago|1 comments