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by quantgenius 6y ago
It’s a percentage reduction in risk. If a random unvaccinated person has a 10% chance of infection and a vaccinated person has a 1% chance of infection, the vaccine is 90% effective.
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by quantgenius 6y ago
There are 2 reasons for JNJ’s lower top line numbers. 1) There were more of the variants going around, not more of the original strain going around when JNJ was tested and all the vaccines are less effective against the variants. PFE and MR
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by quantgenius 6y ago
If you think teams of lawyers are fleecing illiterate farmers, start a company and go buy produce from the farmers for 10% more. Nothing stops you from doing so. If you think the the private buyers won't honor MSPs, setup an NGO or fil
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by quantgenius 6y ago
The UK is showing decreasing deaths from Coronavirus while excess deaths (deaths over the baseline level of expected deaths not attributable to Covid, which are usually very steady) have gone up by more than half the supposed Covid decrease
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by quantgenius 6y ago
The UK is showing decreasing deaths from Coronavirus while excess deaths (deaths over the baseline level of expected deaths not attributable to Covid, which are usually very steady) have gone up by more than half the supposed Covid decrease
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by quantgenius 6y ago
Most deaths are in over 65s. If the confidence interval on the vaccine working on over 65s is -130% to 90%, how can you possibly claim this vaccine will do anything. Their conclusions were based on data submitted by Astra Zeneca and data As
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by quantgenius 6y ago
What about increased deaths due to people taking more risks because they think they are safe? Most deaths are in over 65s. AZ has released absolutely no data on over 65s, nada. There is independent data from Germany that shows the AZ vaccin
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by quantgenius 6y ago
This was the case with all the trials, not just the AZ one. However, there was a difference in side effects between the vaccinated and controls in all three. The difference was larger for the Moderna/Pfizer vaccines. Also, there wasn&#
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by quantgenius 6y ago
Astra Zeneca could not ensure that it dosed people correctly in their trials. This is clown school stuff. The head of the Oxford team described textbook p-hacking at a press conference and admitted they were doing it, saying essentially tha
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by quantgenius 6y ago
To explain why the ACA was needed you first need to understand some history and facts on the ground. Pre 1947, India was all of modern day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and parts of Afghanistan. When the country was partitioned, it was partit
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by quantgenius 6y ago
40% + (35% * 60%) = 57.5% > 50%. Hence a majority. It's simple math.
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by quantgenius 6y ago
Also to be clear, I’m not super pro BJP or anyone. I’m pro competence. I’m certainly not pro some of the nonsense that the various state BJP governments pull, including the past beef related hysteria. Modi himself is not pro that nonsense a
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by quantgenius 6y ago
Just to be clear I’m not a Trump supporter as you seem to imply. Gave money to and voted for Biden, both in the primary and the general.
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by quantgenius 6y ago
No, all Kashmiris are state subjects. However virtually all pandits, about 40% of the population in 1970 and about 35% of other Kashmiris have left the state and that is a majority. Kashmir, the state is a pretty big place. It’s not just th
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by quantgenius 6y ago
These articles are precisely the kind of trolling a lot of Indian media does. There is a law that authorizes the government to set an MSP. That is precisely all an actual piece of legislation should do. Governments and administrative bureau
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by quantgenius 6y ago
The BJP has won and lost elections that were run using EVMs. They literally won a national election and lost state elections in the same EVM run elections. Are you going to tell me about Biden supporters somehow having stolen the presidenti
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by quantgenius 6y ago
Consumption of dogs is banned in the US. Dogs are a delicacy in a number of places. Quite different from discriminating by gender and treating one gender in a marriage as chattel I would think.
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by quantgenius 6y ago
Also to be married under the Special Marriage Act you can really only have a civil ceremony at a magistrates office. If you have a religious ceremony, it does not apply.
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by quantgenius 6y ago
In a democratic country, if you want to change policy you need to get elected. If you are a civil servant, you can advise but if the elected decision makers decide otherwise you either execute the orders or you resign. Allowing someone who
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by quantgenius 6y ago
The bill was public. It was debated for a while, and anyone could have read it during that period if they chose to. There was none of the here is a 5000 page bill and you must pass it in 2 hours or the economy goes under like happens in the
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by quantgenius 6y ago
Multiple brokerages, most famously Merrill Lynch, had both, primary datacenters and safes containing daily backup tapes in the WTC. There were unknown dependencies and backup systems that had been presumed to be independent did not work. So
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by quantgenius 6y ago
Ever wonder why decades after the EMH was postulated it's still a Hypothesis? and not considered a Theory or something stronger? There are far too many people with far too good and consistent a trading record, who's style of tradi
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by quantgenius 6y ago
Never had a blue screen. Haven’t had the power off problem though there is a distinction between regular sleep and deep sleep. When coming out of deep sleep it boots up like normal and restores RAM from disk. Don’t have a touch screen but h
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by quantgenius 6y ago
Get a Thinkpad. I replaced a 2015 MacBook Pro with a Thinkpad P1 Gen2 and love it. The trackpad isn’t as nice. The keyboard is better. Running WSL2 you have a great Unixy development environment in Windows. Or just install Linux. As thin an
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by quantgenius 6y ago
What makes the immigration process in the US truly horrific is that it is racist. When the law was passed, the grand compromise was that it would not change the racial makeup of the country. So there are country specific (which is really ju
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by quantgenius 7y ago
I am so sorry for your loss.
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by quantgenius 7y ago
Every crisis is a little bit different than the previous crises but the world is _never_ completely different. It's not the same either but it rhymes. Excluding all pre-2008 events because "the world is completely different"
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by quantgenius 7y ago
Actually right now the DJIA might be a _better_ measure of the large cap market than the S&P 500. The problem with price weighted indices is that at the top of bubbles they wildly overweight the recent winners. The performance of the S&
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by quantgenius 7y ago
I bought my first Macbook Pro when OSX was first released, having previously been a fan of NextStep. Was a loyal Apple user until earlier this year. Bought a ThinkPad P1 Extreme. Running Windows 10 Pro with WSL for unixy stuff. Could not be
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by quantgenius 7y ago
Just switched to a Thinkpad P1 Gen 2 which is almost the same machine as a X1 Extreme Gen 2. You can get upto 64 GB of user-upgradeable RAM and 2 replaceable SSDs in a package approx the same weight but 1-2 mm thicker than a 15 inch Macbook

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