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721.
by phreeza 6y ago
If you are going fast enough, my understanding is that the interstellar medium is actually not that empty and such a shape might make sense again. At least that is the reason given in the Revelation Space saga.
722.
by phreeza 6y ago
What I haven't seen widely discussed regarding the new variant is whether the higher infectiousness means herd immunity will be achieved later. From my amateur understanding of the SIR model, this should be the case. So ultimately we m
723.
by phreeza 6y ago
Will a tweaked vaccine have to go through the full approval process again?
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BioNTech vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants(reuters.com)
2 points by phreeza 6y ago|0 comments
725.
by phreeza 6y ago
Well, some software used to crash a lot for unknowable reasons, and if you were lucky you got a patch 6 months after release which may or may not fix your problem.
726.
by phreeza 6y ago
Weird that it plots a planar graph in a slightly non-planar way in the northeast.
727.
by phreeza 6y ago
Beside the already mentioned Culture series and Deepness in the Sky, I can recommend the Revelation Space saga.
728.
by phreeza 6y ago
I've probably read too much sci-fi, but high-density computronium left behind by a fallen civilization might make it worthwhile?
729.
by phreeza 6y ago
Is this some kind of bot? I can't parse the response at all.
730.
by phreeza 6y ago
Presumably they also counted the numbers of cases with symptoms in control and experiment? I assume the ratio there was also not as favourable as in the mRNA vaccines?
731.
by phreeza 6y ago
Since the sequence is available, does this mean I could pool some money with some friends and buy a dna sequencer and start printing my own vaccine?
732.
by phreeza 6y ago
I'm not sure the price point changes that much for the US military. The same tactic would have been achievable for a long time by strapping drones + heat shield to a bunch of ICBMs. It just doesn't give you a sustained presence in
733.
by phreeza 6y ago
mRNA technology, I have a hunch that the current situation could give this area a boost similar to what computers got through WW2, and we could witness a cambrian explosion. CRISPR in contrast seems overhyped to me.
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Genomic characterisation of a new Covid lineage with new set of spike mutations(virological.org)
1 points by phreeza 6y ago|0 comments
735.
by phreeza 6y ago
I am not very familiar with JS but doesn't loading a framework externally kind of defeat the purpose?
736.
by phreeza 6y ago
> if it doesn't come out that they were using it off the books, either they're suckers or we are. Or it doesn't come out because they are good at keeping it secret.
737.
by phreeza 6y ago
The study controls for surgeon factors, so this is taken care of.
738.
by phreeza 6y ago
They included a surgeon control variable in their model. https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/371/bmj.m4381.full.pdf
739.
by phreeza 6y ago
They controlled for surgeon effects though, so I suspect the result would be similar. https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/371/bmj.m4381.full.pdf
740.
by phreeza 6y ago
Why on earth is there a stock photo of a "High Class Mature Man", captioned as "Author" opening the article?
741.
by phreeza 6y ago
Very interesting, thanks!
742.
by phreeza 6y ago
What percentage of the population was the reading public back then though?
743.
by phreeza 6y ago
If you have a good (and even differentiable) forward model, that should help significantly with the inverse problem.
744.
by phreeza 6y ago
The question is, what is that magical tipping point price? Unlike your solar vs grid example, isn't the alternative to capturing just doing nothing, which has essentially zero cost in our current economy?
745.
by phreeza 6y ago
This book is great, but now more than a decade old and the author is sadly deceased. It would be great to get an updated version which includes advances in renewable and battery technology. It is also focussed almost exclusively on the UK.
746.
by phreeza 6y ago
Yea, but just as an example, determining that the Rhine forms the border between Germany and France probably goes back to Roman times, and probably also involved a lot of genocide.
747.
by phreeza 6y ago
I don't think it is really about straight lines, most borders are probably where they are due to some circumstances involving lots of violence. It's just that straight lines are a modern concept, so the related violence is more pr
748.
by phreeza 6y ago
How many people are in the trial, is the fact that two of the responses on this thread are from trial participants indicative of a bias towards nerds in the selection?
749.
by phreeza 6y ago
I agree that there may be longer term consequences to a lockdown, but the way I read OPs comment was that they were implying that the current excess deaths were in fact attributable to these effects. Fwiw I can also imagine long term conseq
750.
by phreeza 6y ago
Certainly not conclusive proof, but Google Mobility data shows Swedes are using public transport -28% compared to pre-pandemic levels: https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-10-18_SE_Mobil... This is a stro

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