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What the heck happened to John Ioannidis?(sciencebasedmedicine.org)
2 points by sampo 6y ago|0 comments
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by sampo 6y ago
Here are some escape cases, from both West and East: https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Esc...
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by sampo 6y ago
> I never understand why operator overloading is said to make things more readable. Ocaml doesn't overload even the arithmetic operators, so you write for integers 1 + t * A and for floating point 1 +. t *. A and f
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by sampo 6y ago
> A certain amount of amount of British people were working "cash in hand" and not paying any tax This was a grey area already when UK was still an EU member. EU was based on "free movement of workers, services and capital
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by sampo 6y ago
In that figure, if you look at the median (the black line), it's quite small. There is this one very anti-nuclear Stanford professor, who has managed to publish some estimates where the carbon footprint of nuclear power is way larger t
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by sampo 6y ago
> So have there ever been vaccines that prevent you from getting getting the disease while still allowing you to spread it? In chicken, Marek’s disease works like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease
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by sampo 6y ago
Antigen test should show positive on vaccinated people.
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by sampo 6y ago
> Overselling their production capacity by a lot, for one. They grow live virus in live cell cultures. Scaling bioreactors from 50 liter test reactors to 1000 or 2000 liter production size reactors can be tricky. Even when everything goe
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by sampo 6y ago
> But China knew about the virus in 2019 and kept it quiet. I don't think it would have mattered. We had documentaries such as The Lockdown [1] in the end of February 2020, yet still most Western countries spent much of March 2020 s
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by sampo 6y ago
Methane from human activities: Methane leaks from fossil fuel systems: 30% Methane from landfills: 20% Animal agriculture, including also manure management: 30% Plant agriculture: 15% Other: 5% https://en
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by sampo 6y ago
> Covishield is similar to Az/Ox vaccine Covishield is the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, produced in India under a licence.
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by sampo 6y ago
> I've only seen reporting suggesting that every variant listed as a "variant of concern" from the CDC is present in Israel. But not present in large numbers now, so we have to wait months before we'll know if they&#x
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by sampo 6y ago
> Vaccines Are Effective Against Covid Variants This Hacker News title is inaccurate, as the study concerns only the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine.
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by sampo 6y ago
> The AstraZeneca vaccine looks not so good This study, from Scotland, looks at risk of hospitalization after first dose of either Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine. The Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines look equally good. If anything, in the
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by sampo 6y ago
> There's a reason why we have never seen a world leading tech company come out from anywhere except the US. Young people might not remember but 10+ years ago, Nokia used to be the market leader in mobile phones. https://
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Why Isn't Rent in Tokyo Out of Control? (2016)(fee.org)
7 points by sampo 6y ago|2 comments
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by sampo 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation#Infinitesimal_a...
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Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information(theguardian.com)
7 points by sampo 6y ago|0 comments
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by sampo 6y ago
> having a stockpile of 30M doses waiting in a warehouse in the US To be fair, AstraZeneca wanted to ship those to Canada and Mexico, but Biden (and earlier Trump) has forbidden exporting vaccines out of US.
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by sampo 6y ago
My understanding is, FDA requires data from trials run on US population. Trials from other countries are not sufficient alone. AstraZeneca is currently running a trial in the US.
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by sampo 6y ago
I have seen 2 similar cases of immune thrombocytopenia in the news in US, one related to the Moderna vaccine, and one related to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/health/immu
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by sampo 6y ago
> Are modern supercomputers faster than a cluster of consumer-grade GPU cards? On the top500 list, #1 does 400,000 TFlop/s, #500 does 1000 TFlop/s. How much would the kind of GPU cluster you're thinking of do? https:&#x2F
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by sampo 6y ago
Hint for commenters: Since Fortran 90, it's spelled Fortran, not FORTRAN. By using the latter you signal that your experience on the topic is from 30 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_90
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by sampo 6y ago
> Where do you propose all these new houses be built? That's your problem right there, when you write "houses". Cities need apartment buildings, which allow more homes per same area than single family houses.
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by sampo 6y ago
> SF is over 5x denser than Dallas San Francisco is also 3x less dense than Paris (Paris, France). SF could add homes for 1.5 million people and still be as livable as Paris, if it wanted to.
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by sampo 6y ago
> If this came from an institute for virology, that must be the WORST of its kind of all times. Not really. SARS escaped from laboratories (at least) 3 times. Once in Singapore, twice in Beijing. SARS doesn't have the long asymptoma
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by sampo 6y ago
> temp/humidity sensors If you're into writing your own code, https://ruuvi.com/ has bluetooth low energy sensors that transmit temperature/humidity/air pressure/3d-acceleration data with an open
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by sampo 6y ago
> LocalDate (julian day) Here, does julian day mean day number since 4713 BC or day number since the beginning of current year? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
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by sampo 6y ago
Full text: https://archive.is/myzAe
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What if nuclear power had taken off in the 1970s?(economist.com)
1 points by sampo 6y ago|1 comments

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