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by renaudg 6y ago
> with good levels of vitamin D which is not proven to have any relevance to Covid-19, unfortunately. > I'm prepared to treat any Covid infection I do get with a protocol including ivermectin and various vitamins which has proven
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by renaudg 6y ago
> There are more than enough counterexamples around Citation needed.
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by renaudg 6y ago
> May be it's true that there is mRNA instability, but the efficacy data says the Moderna vaccine works extremely well The efficacy data was based on clinical trial batches though, and the challenge seemed to be with lower manufactu
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by renaudg 6y ago
MindCandy has a nice selection but it's getting old and to be honest, DVD quality doesn't do these demos justice. If you don't have real hardware, you're better off watching them in 60fps glory on Youtube, see this chann
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“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem”(eprint.iacr.org)
279 points by renaudg 6y ago|146 comments
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by renaudg 6y ago
https://fr.audiofanzine.com/ is a 20 years old French audio/music gear website featuring an exhaustive product database, reviews, newsletters, forum, social network, and marketplace. Most musicians / producers in
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by renaudg 6y ago
I've found UK media coverage of this row disturbingly one-sided (even amongst pro-EU journalists) You may want to read this for a more balanced view : https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/dragging
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by renaudg 6y ago
Not quite when it comes to stopping the epidemic, because transmission seems to be highly correlated to viral load and thus to severity as well.
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by renaudg 6y ago
The EU has a contract with AZ that makes ensuring vaccine supply to the EU the company's problem, even explicitly requiring the use of UK plants for this purpose if need be. The problem is that AZ had also promised the UK it would have
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by renaudg 6y ago
It's not like Great Britain is an island, after all. :)
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by renaudg 6y ago
> "It's a highly educated population that has put the brakes on the most destructive policies from the very start." Anecdote : I live near a busy high street in London and went out for my daily lockdown exercise at around
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by renaudg 6y ago
This was a compelling and inspiring read, thanks. The way the CS and genetics concepts map with each other is really fascinating and thought-provoking. How would a curious engineer go about learning more about this particular "computer
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by renaudg 6y ago
> There were regular phone numbers, you had to call these numbers with the phone (no dialer on the minitel). That's incorrect. There was a dialer on later versions of Minitel. And while you could technically set up a V23 BBS-like se
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by renaudg 6y ago
I don't have the age breakdown but serious/long Covid is about 15% of cases, which is potentially millions of people in most countries if we let the epidemic rip through. Symptoms include mental fog, loss of concentration, extreme
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by renaudg 6y ago
It's comments like this one that cause these feelings : https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-65...
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by renaudg 6y ago
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford. Several years ago I saw a Facebook ad for an online coaching program for aspiring music producers. It was exactly what I needed at the time, but I h
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by renaudg 6y ago
Based on a sample size of 1 or 2, most likely. It could be due to something as stupid as Spotlight running in the background on the MBP but not the Air.
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by renaudg 6y ago
Now that the ARM build of macOS is days away, could this Raspberry Pi be the ultimate Hackintosh ?
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by renaudg 6y ago
"if Apple was OK with displaying a 30% Apple tax on checkout" Do you know any store that adds a line showing their margin on the customer receipt ?
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by renaudg 6y ago
Location: London, UK Remote: Yes for the foreseeable future. Willing to relocate: No Summary : Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer & tech lead. Ex-Facebook, 20 years of experience. Permanent or contract (open to pa
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by renaudg 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | London, UK | REMOTE * Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer and tech lead. Ex-Facebook SRE, nearly 20 years of experience. * Systems design, scalability, performance, technical due diligence, CTO-on-demand. * AWS &#x
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by renaudg 6y ago
A general rule of software is that any bug that a US-based developer or QA tester wouldn't easily be able to trigger can remain present for a very, very long time.
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by renaudg 6y ago
Just for the context, the author of the blog you're linking to is @jpkiekens and here's the kind of things he retweets : https://twitter.com/Covid19Critical/status/12724936329359196...
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by renaudg 6y ago
While this mistake by one person may have happened, you cannot really use that to dismiss the whole trial. Be aware that FranceSoir is not a reputable source, you could liken it to the UK's Daily Mail. And Covexit also looks like a Fre
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by renaudg 6y ago
Because the Mac and iDevices revenue streams are not as independent as you imply. Driving the Mac off a cliff would alienate developers and have serious repercussions on the iOS ecosystem as well. Why do you think Apple still builds Pro app
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by renaudg 6y ago
“I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of: ‘The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people, and that’s enough.” “
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The “Silicon Exodus”: Where will tech employees relocate to?(pando.com)
1 points by renaudg 6y ago|0 comments
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by renaudg 6y ago
There's the issue of space as well : I seem to recall you'd basically need to cover the whole country in wind/solar farms to make up for the loss of a few nuclear plants.
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by renaudg 6y ago
> compare indirect deaths by coal with direct deaths by nuclear "stress of losing its home" = direct deaths by nuclear ? That may be the actual insult to intelligence :) Both are indirect deaths of course. The only difference i
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by renaudg 6y ago
That's not the only technologically plausible scenario, we can use nuclear now. It's also way more realistic from a human point of view to have populations accept this rather than a drastic and sudden lifestyle change.

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