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Pfizer Develops Covid Pill That Cuts Hospitalizations and Deaths by 89%(bloomberg.com)
10 points by pmcollins 5y ago|1 comments
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by pmcollins 5y ago
focusing on the ev space != relentlessly bashing one ev company
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by pmcollins 5y ago
yet another tesla hit piece from russ mitchell and the la times. is it just me or does the la times drag tesla at every opportunity? could it be because the owner of the la times, patrick soon shiong, has a company called nantenergy that se
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Spending on PCR tests in China soared months before Covid-19 cases revealed(smh.com.au)
10 points by pmcollins 5y ago|2 comments
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by pmcollins 5y ago
it’s orders of magnitude worse than mere profiting from inside knowledge. these people make policy for the entire country and they have conflicts of interest.
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Boeing's Fatal Flaw (full documentary) – FRONTLINE(youtube.com)
17 points by pmcollins 5y ago|1 comments
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Fix Your Tesla – Service Manuals Online(fixyourtesla.com)
2 points by pmcollins 5y ago|0 comments
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by pmcollins 5y ago
Tiny countries with very low medal counts could be considered flukes, but not New Zealand with 20 medals and a population of 4.8M. That's one olympic medal per ~240k people. (btw I'm not from NZ :)
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2020 Olympic Medals per Capita(medalspercapita.com)
5 points by pmcollins 5y ago|3 comments
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by pmcollins 5y ago
what’s cringey? what tropes? the guy is a maverick, and a very entertaining and informative one —- and he’s not even in silicon valley.
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by pmcollins 5y ago
awesome video, thank you. btw if anyone’s wondering what they’re talking about regarding end-to-end, this article explains it: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/deep-learning-self-driving...
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by pmcollins 5y ago
espionage != cyber warfare > attack crippled thousands of computers around the world
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Kaseya Failed to Address Security Before Hack, Ex-Employees Say(bloomberg.com)
8 points by pmcollins 5y ago|1 comments
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by pmcollins 5y ago
in this case, bureaucrats are bending over backwards to get in the way
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by pmcollins 5y ago
With increasing cookie warnings, email signup modals, adblock notices, nth article advisories, and other annoyances, I go directly to Safari reader view more every day. It works quite well.
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by pmcollins 5y ago
The point of the email is that the submitter is indeed trying, trying to improve their stats within their organization, at the expense of maintainers’ time, rather than working on the kernel in good faith.
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by pmcollins 5y ago
same. having read through microsoft’s horrifying open source code i thought they were doomed long term (they still might be). but either the market can stay irrational longer than you and i can stay solvent (and it will fail eventually), or
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by pmcollins 5y ago
> the likelihood of people ending up with a HLA-dissimilar partner was no different to chance. We might have a preference for certain smells, and there might be a genetic reason for that, but we don't act upon smells when choosing w
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by pmcollins 5y ago
Sounds like power output is more like 100Mw. > Each three-second launch can consume as much as 100 million watts of electricity, about as much as a small town uses in the same amount of time. “A utility does that using an acre of equipme
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by pmcollins 5y ago
737 workaround introduced new bug
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by pmcollins 5y ago
(2020)
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by pmcollins 5y ago
from wikipedia’s 747 article: > Boeing agreed to deliver the first 747 to Pan Am by the end of 1969. The delivery date left 28 months to design the aircraft, which was two-thirds of the normal time. surely they can do a ground up design
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by pmcollins 5y ago
> Shi’s goal was to turn the bat CoVs into huACE2-binding molecules, that is, to design promoters of human infection. what is the scientific use of creating viruses that are harmful to mankind?
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by pmcollins 5y ago
if the epidemic of cell phone use while (badly) driving where i live is any indication, it’s a very large share.
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by pmcollins 5y ago
why not give the suspect a choice? would you prefer your mugshot be published online, google-able for years, or would you rather not, and risk getting ‘disappeared’ by your local police dept without a trace. i know which one i’d choose.
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by pmcollins 5y ago
The Economist magazine doesn’t let you cancel your online account online. You have to call. But they closed their call centers due to covid, so there is no way to cancel your account.
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Day 2: How this third-party Amazon seller turned a knockoff product into a win(geekwire.com)
1 points by pmcollins 6y ago|0 comments
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by pmcollins 6y ago
ABIA == Austin–Bergstrom International Airport
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FCC cracks down on robocalls with record $225M fine(cnbc.com)
3 points by pmcollins 6y ago|0 comments
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by pmcollins 6y ago
stereo separation is incredibly important to me (and i’m sure to others) so the homepod was a non starter. this seems like such a obvious fck up on the part of apple. it’s like no music lovers have a say there anymore. also RIP apple airpor

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