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by spurgu 5y ago
> This is not peer reviewed With Covid moving so fast it's not really feasible to rely on peer-reviewed data alone. Once a paper gets reviewed things have usually changed (like new variants). Pre-prints are very necessary because of
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by spurgu 5y ago
> They might still be right; this is only a pre-print, only focused on one specific aspect of COVID and the effect size is small. There was a study of Canadian data (Ontario) recently as well which interestingly showed large differences
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by spurgu 5y ago
> Years ago when smart phones were just emerging, people made the same complaints about them too; saying you cannot walk and text at the same time I'm still annoyed by this when texting while driving and having to look at the screen
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by spurgu 5y ago
Tables are the way. For tables.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Donations to Signal.
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by spurgu 5y ago
> Make a landing page easier for regular users to login, and prioritize login over signups... This. I suppose it's become so prevalent due to A/B tests finding it more efficient to optimize for new users, but at some point in a
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by spurgu 5y ago
I'm from Europe but I've heard there's a big difference between CA and NY in terms of jaywalking. Is one of the states right and the other wrong? Who should enforce their culture on the other one?
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by spurgu 5y ago
More quotes from actual article: > “Suppose there are people who say ‘it’s an attack on my liberty to make me stop at a red light. It’s government overreach.’ They don’t want the state to have that power ‘over my private life’ … Well, su
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by spurgu 5y ago
Bullshit title. Quote from the article: "I think the right response for them is not to force them to, but rather to insist that they be isolated" Which makes sense. Which a lot of people do. I'm twice vaccinated but I'm
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by spurgu 5y ago
Don't trust this source but that might be fake: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/busted-cnn-reports-...
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by spurgu 5y ago
> Does anybody have empirical evidence on how much minify + gzip saves over just gzip? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/807119/gzip-versus-minif...
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by spurgu 5y ago
Hahaha, hilarious indeed!
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yup. The risk factor there is that humans might go extinct and then aliens visit Earth in 20k years and decide to start digging.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Ah thanks for the explanation, I wasn't aware of the difference!
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by spurgu 5y ago
So what do you do when variants are still ravaging in Africa for example? Isolate the continent?
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by spurgu 5y ago
R0 < 1 should be measured globally unless you're planning on isolating forever.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yeah lots of stuff here that should be discussed.
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by spurgu 5y ago
UI is not "pretty" but the UX is great once you get used to the new model of messaging.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yup. I'm twice vaccinated but still labeled as an anti-vaxxer because I show skepticism towards for example vaccinating young kids and I'm outright against vaccine mandates, to the point where I will refuse any boosters just out
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by spurgu 5y ago
I've been using Zulip daily for over a month now and I love it! As do my colleagues who are now very happy users. Looking forward to whenever Zulip implements /digress. That's something I realized was missing right from the s
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by spurgu 5y ago
Here's a good overview: https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/14221815441611284...
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by spurgu 5y ago
Huh, why were you flagged? I "vouched". Anyways that's interesting. I actually did a personal study during the course of 1-2 weeks a couple of years ago. I kept track of how long I felt like I could give my undivided focus to
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yeah seems to apply to all the sites I've tried so far.
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by spurgu 5y ago
I'm not into gaming so didn't make the connection. Thanks!
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by spurgu 5y ago
Why is it nonsense? He meant "lung", not "long" btw.
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by spurgu 5y ago
I was trying to scroll through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DM but couldn't find anything fitting... Am I too old or two young or too out of touch? :D
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by spurgu 5y ago
This reminds me of the 737 MAX.
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by spurgu 5y ago
I don't know, most people like to at least have the illusion of making their own choices.
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by spurgu 5y ago
A few weeks? From what I've seen staring at case/death charts I'd say it's somewhere around two.
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by spurgu 5y ago
> After a few drinks I'd expect you to say something more controversial, like it failed because it took sides in the culture war. Haha that's what would happen later on in the discussion.

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