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by spuz 6y ago
The official message from the UK government when they announced concern about this new strain was "we have no evidence to suggest that the Pfizer vaccine is not just as effective against this new strain". Somehow that gets twisted
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by spuz 6y ago
I don't know enough about epidemiology but I would imagine they have done modelling to determine the likely transmissibility or R number of this new variant to be 70% higher. The probability that this new variant has come to dominate b
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by spuz 6y ago
> It has been around since September - if vaccines were voided it would have shown up in trials. The variant didn't reach a significant proportion of infections until November. Evaluation of the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine was do
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by spuz 6y ago
Yes variants occur all the time but they don't tend to become dominant. This variant went from 30% of all infections in November to 60% three weeks later. In order for a given variant to supplant all the others and become dominant it m
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by spuz 6y ago
Ah ok - sorry I misinterpreted.
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by spuz 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I don't think that's the correct interpretation though. The government advice for tier 4 says: > You must not leave or be outside of your home except for where you have a specific purpose, or a ‘reasonabl
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by spuz 6y ago
> why is the new strain causing any problems at all if it behaves exactly like the existing strain? If it's true that the new strain is 70% more transmissible then that means more people will get sick before we can reach immunity th
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by spuz 6y ago
I thought tier restriction breaches could be punished by fixed penalties? Many have received such penalties.
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by spuz 6y ago
I don't quite understand why he could not detach the cover of the thermostat and connect the wires of the switch directly into the raspberry pi. Would it not be possible to do this in a non destructive way?
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by spuz 6y ago
Unlikely as Pi-hole is free and can't really afford to spend on marketing. it is an excellent piece of software though.
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by spuz 6y ago
Could you explain these numbers a bit more? Why is it important that they are roughly the same?
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by spuz 6y ago
What? Why? You are say "those who want others to become healthy won't want to ensure they stay healthy". That sounds illogical.
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by spuz 6y ago
If you look at the formula for determining vaccine efficacy, you'll see it's determined by comparing the risk of being infected while unvaccinated vs the risk of being infected while vaccinated. If the risk of being infected while
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by spuz 6y ago
I am not saying that simple questions deserve a downvote. However I do think that questions that are not asked in good faith should be. In this case, the person appeared to either be exaggerating their level of concern, or deliberately tryi
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by spuz 6y ago
I totally agree. If you interpreted the question as "simple" that's fine. All I did was try to explain how it might be interpreted as a question that was asked in bad faith (i.e. with some relevant information deliberately om
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by spuz 6y ago
It's being downvoted because the commenter made no effort to show what kind of research they had done in order to relieve their worry. If they genuinely were "really really concerned" about the potential side effects then the
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by spuz 6y ago
Why would they do that? If they are providing it free to those at high risk, why not provide it free to those at low risk? Why would they charge for this particular treatment when all other treatments are free? How could they ensure those w
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by spuz 6y ago
My understanding is that the results are still useful and can be include in the statistical analysis. This is what I heard form the BBC's Newscast podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08ztv8h (starts ar
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by spuz 6y ago
The article says: > the team found that the number of people whose immune system didn’t robustly respond to the vaccine ranged from less than half of one percent of white participants to nearly 10 percent of Asian participants. ... our p
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by spuz 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree. The maths says that we need about 70% of the population to take the vaccine in order for it to no longer be a threat. We also have polling that says about 53% will refuse to take the vaccine. So we're already
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by spuz 6y ago
This doesn't matter though. The results are still valid.
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by spuz 6y ago
Not many but as Matt explains in his video, you can downsample the 8K footage to 4K to get higher detailed 4K. The same is often done with 4K to 1080p footage for the same reason.
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by spuz 6y ago
Yeah actually did look into it a few days ago and couldn't find a definitive source on the current tarrifs. The best I could find was actually the article to borrowlenses that the commenter linked above which mentions that "This i
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by spuz 6y ago
The fact that the two thermal pads only partially cover the heat-spreader on the main processor is pretty damning evidence against Canon's claims that they did not deliberately cripple the camera's video functionality. It seems th
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by spuz 6y ago
That EU tariff was scrapped some time in around July 2019. The R5 was never sold with such a recording limit (4k 30fps has always been unlimited even with the overheating issues and old firmware). Some new cameras are still being sold with
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by spuz 6y ago
What is the performance like though?
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by spuz 6y ago
Nowhere in the article does it suggest that anyone lied about the books.
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by spuz 6y ago
master/slave is an analogy that is used in technology which has an obvious origin and personally has always made me slightly uncomfortable since I first heard about it with reference hard disk priorities. Similarly the terms male and f
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by spuz 6y ago
The poster says the update somehow broke their IO IC. That seems unlikely. It's more likely that the update includes new firmware for that chip which contains a bug. In theory, when Apple identify the cause they can update their softwa
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by spuz 6y ago
The 2.8x faster CPU claim is based on the following fine print: > Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip, as well as production 1.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based 1

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