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by spurgu 5y ago
> You're a 48 year old male? If you're healthy the risks are way lower than the chart indicates (off the top of my head maybe 1% hospitalization, <0.1% death?). And if you're healthy and think about what kind of people
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by spurgu 5y ago
Question is, how much are you going to decrease your risk of hospitalization by force-vaccinating the rest of the unvaccinated population, given that the vaccine doesn't really do much to stop the spread with delta? If the vaccine was
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by spurgu 5y ago
Fair points and I agree. And I love Matrix as a concept, it just has been really rough around the edges in practice (been on and off since 2017 or so and regular user since 2019). As I see it Signal is superior to Matrix in the (Whatsapp|Si
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by spurgu 5y ago
+1 for Subsonic, it's nice. I haven't used it extensively, but have had it running now for 1-2 months listening casually without issues.
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by spurgu 5y ago
WHO is citing that study as well[0], seemingly drawing the same conclusion as I did: > Prior to the emergence of the delta variant, it was reported that the risk of symptomatic cases in household contacts of vaccinated cases was about 50
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by spurgu 5y ago
Ok, I think initial estimates (back in 2020) were that we'd need a vaccination rate of around 80-85% (which many countries have now). But that got thrown out of the window with force with Delta.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Potentially saves your life if you're in a risk group with co-morbidities yes... Not downplaying anything here. Reducing the symptoms is great. But interesting also to not that we don't even knows why it does that: > The reas
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yeah I'm wondering what the chances are (something like Marek's disease). To put humanity on a path forever dependent on vaccines. If one shot is enough for life then fine, but two shots per year forever? Scary thought.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Sigh. I've lived in three countries during this whole thing. Of course it's a problem somewhere . Not just as widespread as the media would have you believe. I just took Finland as an example, since I have family there and happen
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by spurgu 5y ago
> vaccinated index cases are just as likely to infect other household members > It appears to be grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission You're going to have to dumb
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by spurgu 5y ago
Huh? The point where R0 dips below 1?
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by spurgu 5y ago
> For example, in the US >20% of people are unwilling to take a covid vaccine, citing reasons ranging from fear of unknown side effects Somewhat related: I remember seeing some stats where ~25% of Americans thought there's a 10%
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by spurgu 5y ago
Hospitals have never been anywhere near collapse in most places though. Currently in Finland for example there's currently hysteria about the hospital capacity, whereas in actuality the issue is that some non-critical surgery would n
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by spurgu 5y ago
Are you serious? Most of Europe at least is at numbers that would've created herd immunity with the alpha variant (had the vaccine actually stopped transmission). I'd say that's pretty widespread.
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by spurgu 5y ago
No it actually does not really stop spread to any significant degree (which is evident just by looking around what's going on everywhere). It just makes the symptoms milder. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanin
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by spurgu 5y ago
Moxie makes some good arguments for having the server centralized, which is evidenced in Matrix moving/developing insanely slow due to it's decentralized nature.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Grandma-compatible secure IM. I don't want my private conversations leaking some time in the future and I trust Signal way more than I trust Whatsapp in this regard.
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by spurgu 5y ago
To be political, this has more implications on the censorship in general. So what if one censors/distorts more than the other One is supposed to be a news agency, the other is supposed to be an information sharing platform for private
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by spurgu 5y ago
Meh. Not if you take into account the US constitution and the right to self-defence and bear arms (which makes sense if you think about it). You can't really compare to a European country where you'd get prosecuted simply for carr
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by spurgu 5y ago
> getting fired or laid off is a source of intense shame, as well as a big logistical inconvenience I read this as that it's inconvenient both from a psychological as well as a practical perspective. You want to avoid shame/gui
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by spurgu 5y ago
You have other reasons for why people don't do stupid shit and fuck around at work (like they would with friends or family)? Sure there is also a bit of pride and sense of responsibility involved but shame and complications are strong
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yeah. I mean sure, you can have really deep thoughts, elegantly condensed into a couple of short sentences, but when you're eventually required to clarify something for one reason or another things are gonna get messy.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yeah it's one of its problems. It creates a ton of shitty posts, not citing sources, not explaining standpoints ("threads" are horrible). It encourages low quality sensational posts. Or funny jokes. That's been my experi
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by spurgu 5y ago
For perspective, how many Google employees normally sign "petitions"? The article mentions: > which has been signed by at least 600 Google employees And then goes on to state: > The manifesto is also the latest example of ho
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by spurgu 5y ago
Maybe this is a less biased source? Dr John Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bamaEMftg4
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by spurgu 5y ago
It really annoys me how people disregard what "the other side" is saying just because it's them saying it. Just adds to the polarization. And it annoys me because I used to do the same.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Sigh, what isn't biased these days? No need to poison the well, the article is clear and sound (to me at least) regardless of who wrote it and why. Do you have any arguments against it ? Or your own better analysis of the two studie
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yes but to nitpick he already mentioned bugfixes and file format support alongside security fixes (which he wouldn't/shouldn't need). :)
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by spurgu 5y ago
There's the CDC study and the Israeli one AFAIK, here's an analysis of the methodologies: https://brownstone.org/articles/a-review-and-autopsy-of-two-...
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by spurgu 5y ago
Here's an analysis going over the two: https://brownstone.org/articles/a-review-and-autopsy-of-two-...

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