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by ufo 5y ago
The theory is that it would be someone that is immunocompromised enough to just hang in there for a long time. It's a numbers game. The more people that get infected, the bigger the chance a rare event like this will happen. This is on
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by ufo 5y ago
The experts interviewed in the article the OP posted all agree that a persistent infection in an imunocompromised individual is one of the leading theories. Maybe even more plausible than a reverse zoonotic event. People with a compromised
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by ufo 5y ago
Vaccinated individuals have shorter infections and a lower viral load than unvaccinated people, and therefore provide less opportunities to develop new variants. More virus = more chance for new mutations. The more likely theory is someone
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by ufo 5y ago
I'd love to hear what people have to say about the vector instructions. I've always found that SIMD on x86was quite clunky and I heard risc-v vectors are very different from that. Is that true?
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by ufo 5y ago
My memory is failing me... Is the scalar cryptography extension include the one that has the bitwise manipulation (rotations, etc) or is it that a separate spec?
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by ufo 5y ago
Another thing about masks is that they're specially effective if the infected person is wearing one. Even if it's not perfect, it reduces the number of droplets and the distance the virus can travel.
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by ufo 5y ago
> did not show improvement in hospitalizations or deaths Well, it's not surprising that there would be fewer deaths in children. We'd need a much larger study and I expect that this data will become available now that the vacci
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by ufo 5y ago
The studies that got the vaccines approved in the first place had to show that they were effecitive for all adults. I'm sure that with some digging it should be possible to find the data split by age group. More recently, we've al
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by ufo 5y ago
So far we don't have enough data to say how it compares to previous variants. Even with the other variants, most cases are mild and it can take several weeks to start seeing the more severe cases getting worse.
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by ufo 5y ago
It is.
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by ufo 5y ago
This cannot be used as an argument against vaccination though. The same thing happens if the population has a high percentage of people who got sick with covid, except that in that case there is a much higher death toll.
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by ufo 5y ago
Sure, I'm just saying that staking is rent-seeking. If we try to argue that it is not, that argument would also literally apply to the rent.
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by ufo 5y ago
From one point of view, housing is a service landlords provide to the society. It's still rent though.
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by ufo 5y ago
We hear this same story every single time the topic comes up. It's not the most convincing argument. First, the real world experience is that bitcoin miners don't care about whether they are using renewable energy. Furthermore, we
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by ufo 5y ago
The saddest part of the analogy is how US-centric it is. "Vietnam" is a boondoggle to exit from, not a home that's suffering through a bloody conflict.
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by ufo 5y ago
One formal definition is the NOVA food classification system, which distinguishes between levels of food processing. These meat alternatives would be classified as "ultra processed", together with oreos and McNuggets. https:&#x2F
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by ufo 5y ago
I use KBibTeX.
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by ufo 5y ago
Does OpenBSD log what source caused the machine to reboot?
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by ufo 5y ago
I'd add another sub-category: the so-called algorithmic stablecoins. Their biggest flaws being that they can blow up catastrophically in extreme events, something which may be hidden between a veneer of convoluted logic.
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by ufo 5y ago
I'm not very familiar with these Rust institutions. What are the moderation team and core teams? What places are the moderation team tasked with moderating, and what powers do they have?
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by ufo 5y ago
I'm saying that if measles were a brand new disease, it's possible that it would cause a pandemic that's even worse than covid-19 was. Measles is nasty.
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by ufo 5y ago
Comparing death rates in the population is a misleading comparison. In a world of endemic measles most people get measles at some point; new outbreaks tend to hit mostly children, because they weren't born yet during the previous outbr
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by ufo 5y ago
The measles vaccine is not perfect either. The only reason we don't have to worry abour measles is because enough people have been vaccinated to achieve herd immunity and bring down the transmission to zero. However, if vaccination rat
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by ufo 5y ago
Being from Brazil, where table salt is universally iodized, I have a hard time understanding how in 2021 there are still rich countries out there that haven't figured out a proper iodine fortification program. And we even have some peo
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by ufo 5y ago
It wasn't long ago when most of Europe was iodine deficient. It got better recently because of a concerted push towards universal salt iodization but there are still some places that remain iodine deficient, including Germany. * Europe
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by ufo 5y ago
It's easy to overdose. A typical use of ivermectin for antiparasitic effect is a one-time dose with a single pill. But for so-called covid prevention, people have been taking higher doses for a prolonged period of time. There have been
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by ufo 5y ago
Some aditional context about the Szenta Fonseca et al paper: the study was based on the Hapvida insurance provider, which has been accused of forcing their doctors to prescribe the "covid kit" medication including chloroquine and
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by ufo 5y ago
According to Mike Brown, the infrared sighting from Rowan-Robinson is in a different location in the sky than was predicted by the aforementioned Planet Nine hypothesis. In other words, if this infrared sighting is real it would be a differ
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by ufo 5y ago
Oh shucks, wikipedia has betrayed me. I swear I googled the name first and the wikipedia article uses two 'n's...
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by ufo 5y ago
If I understand it correctly, a 4-word password like in XKCD would require about 100,000 rig-years to crack. Do you think that is too low of a safety margin? Or is the problem that most people's word list may be less than 10K words?

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