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by spurgu 5y ago
> It's a motivational thing for me. I've always loved working from home (and was doing it for almost a year before the pandemic started), I'm quite self-driven, but I do recognize that it can be difficult to get back into
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yeah that's a good point.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Here's my take on it: 1. People getting rowdy on planes recently is probably due to masking requirements 2. Airplanes have very efficient ventilation 3. Omicron is harmless to most people 4. Most people are vaccinated and protected aga
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by spurgu 5y ago
Vaccine-induced immunity is against the particular spike protein of the first Covid variant. The protection offered by natural immunity is broader than that.
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by spurgu 5y ago
You could also draw parallels to programmers, in that we used to have to figure things out the hard way, by experimentation, or by reading the documentation (gasp!), whereas nowadays people just go to StackOverflow for answers. People aren&
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by spurgu 5y ago
He mentions Monero.
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by spurgu 5y ago
You must be fun at parties.
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by spurgu 5y ago
> You can't get 15% of a case of severe COVID. Getting Covid or not is binary, yes, but the severity of the disease is on a spectrum. I can surely get a 15% less severe disease thanks to a 4-5 month old vaccination. Just like the
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by spurgu 5y ago
That doesn't make any sense. If the immune response didn't wane on a personal level we wouldn't be needing any boosters.
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by spurgu 5y ago
I'm ok, tested negative today with a home test so I can finally go out and bother people again. ;)
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by spurgu 5y ago
Like 15% effective, after 2 jabs, for me personally?
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by spurgu 5y ago
Really? See https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/vaccine-effectivenes... Those "frickin" statistics? Or which ones?
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by spurgu 5y ago
Have a look here: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/vaccine-effectivenes... tl;dr Vaccine effectiveness around 15% for me at this point. So it was the natural immune response (gasp!), combined hospitalization rat
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by spurgu 5y ago
> All I want is a decent E2EE messaging app. > I’m thinking I made a huge mistake switching from Telegram. Does not compute.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yeah it's interesting how 2021 became the year where big pharma became trustworthy, has all of our best interests in mind always and never shoves shady research under the rug and never ends up settling in court for shady and/or un
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by spurgu 5y ago
> we will also pay the price for that. You won't, you'll be vaccinated and wearing a mask.
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by spurgu 5y ago
This is the same all over the world. Welcome to the new normal where authorities will try to cling on to everything they can to make the situation look scary. Latest in Finland is that they're looking into "long covid" as the
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by spurgu 5y ago
Hmm yeah I was actually also just pointing IP's for a good while[0] until my mobile ISP (4G router) decided to not allow custom DNS to be used, after which I installed the NextDNS app (with DoH or whatever is default) and got rid of th
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by spurgu 5y ago
Hmm, what do you mean? I have a number of different profiles, all with unique settings (lists). It's to the right of the NextDNS logo in the UI as a dropdown. Then in the client you choose which profile you want to connect to.
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by spurgu 5y ago
I would happily pay $20/month to remove the massive frustrations I've had with modern search engines.
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by spurgu 5y ago
+1, happy paying NextDNS customer here (for 1.5 years now) and recent Kagi user, very happy so far (likely future customer)!
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by spurgu 5y ago
+1 for anonymous payments (Monero please?). I am signed up for the beta with a non-personal email but using traditional payments will throw that semi-anonymity out of the window. What subscription models exist in the crypto world right now,
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by spurgu 5y ago
> Vaccination reduces infection severity and length. Reduced infection severity reduces coughing, which reduces spread. In practice this shouldn't make a difference, because anyone with a cough should stay home, but it's be a p
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by spurgu 5y ago
> Vaccines are essentially mandated for many parts of life Not ones requiring multiple jabs per year, seemingly forever (unless something like Omicron comes along). Also not experimental ones rushed out with an EUA. Would you accept a ma
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by spurgu 5y ago
Joint pain and being mentally "out" (not being able to hold complex structures in my mind = unable to code) are two hallmarks of common colds for me and why I always take ~2 days off work when I have one - I'd just get frustr
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by spurgu 5y ago
> Try making something like this in the traditional web. People have tried and failed. Keybase.io is a quite elegant solution and didn't "fail" due to any fault of its own (the team was acquired by Zoom).
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by spurgu 5y ago
Lots of things to be aware of when boating. The best is of course to use a structurally sound vessel. Then your main concern will simply be to keep a lookout as to not hit other boaters. With a leaky old brittle boat you need to make sure t
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by spurgu 5y ago
What are the "scary aspects" of that article? That Omicron is highly transmissible forcing people to take time off work?
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by spurgu 5y ago
I'll let you know how I feel when I get it "unvaxxed" the next time, since I decided months ago already against getting a booster. It also sounds like you're not aware of a) the vaning efficacy of the vaccine or b) how l
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by spurgu 5y ago
You're describing a sanity of focused protection which should've been in place since day one, but for some reason policymakers instead lost their minds. :| At least now with Omicron they will slowly realize that lockdowns make no

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