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by robbiep 4y ago
I agrée and it’s a bit of a maxim of mine, but the extreme of this is absurd. There’s lots of life that is worth doing for the pleasure of just doing. Sometimes that might be learning how to do an oil change (to follow the thread!) but some
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by robbiep 4y ago
‘Ah yes. We can give your child with locked in syndrome a communications path with the rest of the world, but it can only be through the twitter API. Also his ventilator? Also needs twitter API. Yes, that’s right. His life support and all c
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by robbiep 4y ago
I think that’s potentially charitable - arguably he pumped out some pro Russia tweets to try and get the deal flagged as against national interest to blow up his financing. He wanted pretty badly for this not to happen including trying a co
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by robbiep 4y ago
Ahh thankyou for sorting me out. My apologies OP
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by robbiep 4y ago
I think your maths is off - there are 1m square metres in 1 sq kilometre, but 2000 kW in a GW, meaning approx 0.002 kW per square meter. Which kind of makes this whole thing a weird economic proposition. You’re beaming energy from space at
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by robbiep 4y ago
That’s absolute horse shit, you are grossly misinformed about the process of organ donation
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by robbiep 4y ago
Look at the study dates. Vaccination was only available for the last ~4 months of the study period so numbers of vaccinated is negligible by any means
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by robbiep 4y ago
Mine throws in random French words that look like the medical words I was aiming for. Also for a 3 month period it was auto-correcting ’thé’ to ‘teh’ - i had to train it out of it by spending around half an hour just entering and cancelling
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by robbiep 4y ago
Someone drinking really regularly fires up their MEOS which also reduces/oxidises alcohol and can significantly speed up standard drinks per hour. Like, in the realm of double. That’s why you or a drinker may have started to get the sh
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by robbiep 4y ago
That’s not really an interesting thing about astrology though, is it? That’s an interesting hypothesis about if or why or how people’s personalities may vary. Which is easily searchable - for example, results for ‘MBTI distribution by birth
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by robbiep 4y ago
The ground stations absolutely don’t need to be in the same cell. Have you seen the cells? They’re about 50km hexagons. There are 4 ground stations in australia
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by robbiep 4y ago
What sort of GPT-4 wrote this?
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by robbiep 4y ago
You have that final stat around the wrong way. The average flu is very heavily weighted towards deaths in the elderly and infirm. We even have a name for a bad flu year - it ‘clears the dead wood’. Covid has been much more significantly imp
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by robbiep 4y ago
Show me a person who is completely ‘rational’ across their entire belief system and maybe we’ll have a conversation - I haven’t seen it and I am surrounded by highly educated, highly rational people, most of whom would profess to be atheist
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by robbiep 4y ago
It’s a different service because it’s generally quite technical, and also it has a fairly large editorial team constantly reviewing and updating the content. The ‘simple English’ UpToDate is Wikipedia or the NHS website
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by robbiep 4y ago
This is a very pertinent point, and i speak from experience when I say that if less laymen (and women) tried to read scientific papers on their conditions, real or imagined, the job of a doctor would be easier
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by robbiep 4y ago
Whilst I agree unreservedly about the indications for b12 and it’s complete lack of medical benefit in any other situation, I’ve also experienced sections of the population that definitively require (… not medically, but like present to the
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by robbiep 4y ago
They also feature heavily in his mars trilogy
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by robbiep 4y ago
CRISPR as currently used is not functionally capable of cutting and pasting large swaths of the genome, it is for small specific edits
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by robbiep 4y ago
Wtf are you getting at? Yes mRNA vaccines are under development for many many other diseases. It’s a new technology. Would you expect the invention of a new technology to have a single application and then be put on a shelf somewhere, perha
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by robbiep 4y ago
I half like/admire musk and half am disappointed he’s so thin skinned. It wasn’t a gift horse, it was a toddler having a tantrum and doing something like that (saying the things he said) reflect poorly on his character.
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by robbiep 4y ago
To my understanding you’re right (ie they don’t affect human cells) but there’s absolutely a chance the human immune system picks them up, but only really if they get in the blood stream. And really this is a secondary concern if that is th
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by robbiep 4y ago
I'm sorry you're interpreting my comments as hostility, but basically you're being a the sort of commenter that it isn't really worth engaging with. You're not interested in my answers, and you've accused me of
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by robbiep 4y ago
>’SP1-77 binds the spike protein at a site that so far has not been mutated in any variant’ Is the section you are looking for that says ‘this section is highly conserved throughout all known variants’. The novel method appears to be t
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by robbiep 4y ago
I’m sorry but I can’t state this any more plainly without this turning into a lecture. It is basic evolutionary biology, in as much as gravity keeps your feet attached to the ground. It is not an appeal to authority, it is simply a statemen
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by robbiep 4y ago
How are we sure and how are we sure This is basic evolutionary theory that has been subsequently played out in both the lab and in the wild. You can't prove a negative but your requirement for reassurance will only be assuaged by fur
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by robbiep 4y ago
> If mutations at this site are possible, how would this be an evolutionary deadens in a way that the current evolutionary dynamics of the virus are not? * Surely a lack of mutations at this site, on their face, imply only that there
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by robbiep 4y ago
Evolution is climbing mount improbable. And natural selection (even in the face of in this case intelligently designed selectors) funnels organisms into potential dead ends which they can’t evolve out of - they’ve gone up the ‘north face’ a
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by robbiep 4y ago
I know people who have lost money to defi hacks, scams and counterparty risk. The total value significantly exceeds what I believe my friends have ever lost in the real world. So I’m not seeing the corrupt institution risk that is so trumpe
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by robbiep 4y ago
>Anyway, I think that "Code is law" is a bad phrase. A more appropriate (but still silly) phrase would be "Code is law enforcement". That’s an interesting approach. The popular conception from the evangelists is tha

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