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by tfehring 5y ago
Two doses of Pfizer's vaccine reduce hospitalization risk from Omicron by ~70% based on data from South Africa, with similar reductions across all age cohorts from 18 to 79. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/discovery
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by tfehring 5y ago
I've used the old site exclusively since the rewrite (and for a long time before it), and https://old.reddit.com specifically is still the most unreliable large commercial website I can think of by a wide margin. It's
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I care about the effectiveness and approval of Pfizer's treatment, but I don't care to be informed about every single new piece of information that comes out about it. In this case the news was that Pfizer released additional data
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by tfehring 5y ago
On the median day, major western news sources have zero articles I care about. Here are the current headlines from https://text.npr.org : - The parents of the accused Michigan school shooter head to court again - Experts crack th
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by tfehring 5y ago
On the other hand, if you roll your own logging but import a dependency for something else (you generally can't roll your own everything ) and that dependency uses log4j, isn't that strictly worse from a security perspective than
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There's no reason an asynchronous coding assignment needs to be more time-intensive than a synchronous coding interview - that's the convention but it's not a necessary one. Lots of companies do 4 hours of technical interview
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by tfehring 5y ago
I can't think of a less bad alternative to billboards, so I don't disagree with your claim, but I'll say that I didn't realize how much billboards suck until I spent time driving in Vermont, where they're banned. (I
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by tfehring 5y ago
Yes, and that's probably the right default behavior. But with pip I think you can still work around it, e.g. by installing the sub-dependency manually and then installing with --no-deps.
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Every port on the machine, or every port on the container?
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> When the percentage increase of the currency is faster(most fiat) than the value of the assets increases over time, and opposite of what you say, it(being assets) also becomes entrenched. Productive assets don't entrench wealth b
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by tfehring 5y ago
I can't recommend using Poetry in production - I've had massive headaches with it due to https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697 Basically if you have two dependencies that depend on the
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The cited data [0] is presented in a super confusing way - the categories are "At Intersection" (18%), "Not At Intersection" (73%), and "Other" (9%). Apparently "other locations such as roadsides/shou
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Give Me Slack(gen.medium.com)
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If you haven't worked on a business team, it's hard to fully describe the utility or importance of Excel. I think the best analogy for programmers is, imagine Vim if all the commands were easily discoverable through a GUI, and if
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by tfehring 5y ago
That's a good point, but " the major contributor" seems like a stretch. That article claims 640,000 tonnes/year of fishing equipment end up in the ocean, which is ~8% of the 8 million tonnes/year of overall plastic
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Relevant: https://hwfo.substack.com/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-plastic-... TL;DR: The bulk of plastic entering the oceans comes from China, India, and Southeast Asia; it's still somewhat the US's fault since w
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by tfehring 5y ago
Pregnancy was explicitly added as a protected characteristic under the Civil Rights Act in 1978. Government has a bona fide interest in preventing conduct that could discourage people from becoming pregnant. It has no interest in encouragin
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Astronomers Observe a New Type of Binary Star(cfa.harvard.edu)
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Also not a lawyer but my understanding is that the damages you can collect even if you win a judgment are only a fraction of the damages a layperson would identify, e.g., you generally wouldn't get anything for quitting your previous j
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> does being vaccinated stop you from spreading it to your co-workers? It significantly reduces the likelihood that you spread it to your coworkers (and, perhaps more importantly, to the old and sick people that healthcare workers tend t
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If having had an abortion materially negatively impacted a healthcare worker's ability to safely provide healthcare to a sick person, then yes, that should probably be grounds for disallowing those people from working as healthcare pra
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I think I've gotten exactly one worthwhile recruiter DM on LinkedIn in my life in terms of the actual role they were reaching out about, though I generally reply to them and will occasionally schedule a phone call and I could see those
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This is a great comment, I've had exactly the same experience. For a simple, concrete example of the fragmentation issue, the canonical JSON parser seems to be JSON3.jl, but there's also JSON.jl, which is slower and has other subt
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I agree, but it's probably closer to 20 years IMO, which makes sense given that Python has been around for 21 years longer. By 2009 Python was already in widespread use at Google/YouTube and (I think) Mozilla, plus startups like R
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Does keeping as much of the codebase as possible in Python (or keeping the fast parts in C++) actually make things easier for the userbase, or do they just care about having a first-class interface in Python regardless of the implementation
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https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
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The prediction market Kalshi [0] is showing a ~50% chance that the CDC will designate a variant of high consequence [1] by March, up from a ~20% chance 36 hours ago. A biostatistician friend of mine pointed me to this relatively optimistic
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Of course the WHO and South African government oppose travel bans. That doesn't mean imposing those bans isn't in other countries' best interest. Taking a risk-averse approach in a highly risky and uncertain situation isn&#x2
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> The plain fact of the matter is that humans evolved on an almost exclusively meat-based diet At one point in our evolutionary chain (that of Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens ), sure. At other points ( Australopithecus ) we were
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The amount of feed crop acreage needed to produce a beef burger is much greater than the crop acreage needed to produce an Impossible burger, so the Impossible burger reduces the number of those habitats that are being destroyed. (I'm

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