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by samus 3y ago
SARS-CoV-1 had different transmission characteristics. It was most infectious when patients were sick. Since SARS-CoV-2 is transmissible already during the incubation period, its spread is much more difficult to control.
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by samus 3y ago
All of this has been done for a long time. There are numerous such attenuated vaccines that consist of an artificially bred non-virulent version of the illness, for example the oral vaccine against Polio. Yes, there is a risk that these att
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by samus 3y ago
That doesn't justify letting passengers sit in the dark for 3 hours . Most riders probably expect to last their trip half an hour, with the usual variance already factored in.
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by samus 3y ago
It feels natural to expect it from General relativity as the dominant force at cosmic scales is gravity. The various MOND proposals are admittedly niche, and we might eventually be able to fully explain Dark matter without such modification
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by samus 3y ago
This is a very common approach and is called an attenuated vaccine[0]. The oral Polio vaccine is such an agent. But it only works if the virus can't out-evolve the vaccine, the immunity is long-lasting, and if the risk of spontaneous m
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by samus 3y ago
Most governments expected so from the beginning, and their strategy was all along to ride out the virulent variants and to meanwhile somehow prevent their health systems and economies from collapsing. And were called out for being too cynic
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by samus 3y ago
Yes, although it's still by definition not a good idea to catch a disease. If it hits you too hard, you stay home, get quarantined, or put into a hospital. But it has to cause at least some reaction in the host, else there wouldn&#x2
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by samus 3y ago
In the best case, the threat of using them is enough to get the job done. But for the threat to be genuine, they have to work reliably. This is definitely the case for nuclear and other "strategic" weapons.
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by samus 3y ago
Oracle's LTS plans are a similar prod to encourage people to finally abandon Java 8, unless they are fine eating the support contract bill.
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by samus 3y ago
Should definitely be possible with mostly static content and Cloudflare caches in front. I bet there are many personal websites out there served from an old smartphone or from a Raspberry Pi Zero.
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by samus 3y ago
That's right. The problem is more that it doesn't say anything useful about dark energy and dark matter. Apart from allowing us to infer their existence.
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by samus 3y ago
That far is known already: entropy and time have to be kind of bolted on to quantum theories. And there is a veritable zoo is "interpretations" of quantum theory. Meanwhile, general relativity struggles with singularities, dark en
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by samus 3y ago
Finetuning is a useful workaround for cases when the context size is unsuitable for the task at hand. Anybody knows whether it was ever considered to finetune an LLM on the Linux kernel sources' history and its associated mailing lis
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by samus 3y ago
Human societies have elaborate processes to solve this issue: inheritance laws. In case no heirs can be located anymore (body can't be identified, records are missing, the line has died out, etc.) the state is the heir by default and m
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by samus 3y ago
Good example for why such rules were introduced. Although not perfectly applicable since there is no hope to locate an Egyptian mummy's heirs nowadays. Although we are quite sure that they would have disapproved.
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by samus 3y ago
Science had fared quite well so far with the assumption that the laws of physics are largely the same no matter where and when we are. There would have to be very strong evidence to throw that out. And the immediate next problem is that it
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by samus 3y ago
And I understand from personal experience* that those people don't want a train line, a garbage dumpster, or a facility with toxic fallout being put next to them. But I also think that overly sweeping restrictions can block initiatives
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by samus 3y ago
You don't need Kubernetes for over-the-air updates. Kubernetes is also not suitable for that. It scales up alright, but not down. As TA expounds, there are simply too many moving parts that require expertise to operate. And that's
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by samus 3y ago
It really depends what the impact actually is. If it's only affecting the view or the recreational value, then sorry, some demands and expectations simply don't scale. And that is also valid for small property owners - there are t
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by samus 3y ago
I love reading about papers like these. They raise hopes that novel model architectures might reduce the need for computational resources to train powerful models, which would help lower the barrier of entry.
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by samus 3y ago
Yes, I agree. Real numbers are a quite nebulous construct for which the need is a bit hard to see. Complex numbers are basically a hack to solve quadratic equations in all cases.
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by samus 3y ago
Part of the problem is that they maybe work too well. A lot of particle theory is model fitting without probiding us new insights into a possible underlying reality. Or something that would force a paradigm shift. Real evidence of somethi
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by samus 3y ago
Such systems of logic are quite useful for dealing with our own reality as well. Paraconsistent logics disallow or restrict some of the axioms of classical logics to avoid some contradictions. In turn, it loses completeness to some degree.
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by samus 3y ago
It's also perfectly possible to draw maps of places that don't exist in reality, i.e., that only exist in somebody's brain.
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by samus 3y ago
An important part of mathematics is indeed formalizing such objects. Mathematicians go further, question these assumptions, and abstract from them. For example, removing constraints on fields gives us rings, groups, semigroups, and categori
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by samus 3y ago
As you succinctly said it yourself, pure mathematics is indeed by definition unconcerned about whether their objects of study actually "exist". That's the business of physicists and certain subfields of philosophy. Pure mathe
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by samus 3y ago
Mathematicians pay a lot of attention to real numbers simply because ones runs into them everywhere . If rational numbers were enough to make analysis, calculus, and ultimately physics work out, we would certainly stick with those simpler
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by samus 3y ago
Unavoidable except if you price it up so much that people start using the car again. For the same reason why there will always be be traffic jams no matter how many streets there are and how many lanes they have.
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by samus 3y ago
This is perfectly fine and the added value of a great application if it can hide the underlying reality completely. With Git, the abstractions are paper-thin at best though. Good UIs can indeed cover up many aspects, but they only work as l
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by samus 3y ago
Protecting branches is indeed very important. I make errors all the time when screwing around. It helps enormously being restricted to just messing up one's feature branches. Many other changes can be done via the GUI with PRs and the

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