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by ufo 5y ago
The in vitro studies show that ivermectin might be effective against covid, if given at a super high dose, higher than what would be safe. In the topsy turvy world of ivermectin proponents, this is seen as a argument in favor of ivermectin
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by ufo 5y ago
Here's the list of excipients in the Pfizer vaccine: 1. ALC-0312 2. ALC-0159 3. 1,2-Distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine 4. cholesterol 5. potassium dihydrogen phosphate 6. sodium chloride 7. disodium hydrogen phosphate dihydrate 8.
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by ufo 5y ago
A good Email client can do a good job of displaying the messages, and sorting them into appropriate folders. But if you are not subscribed, then all the web ui's I've seen for mailing lists are painful to use.
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by ufo 5y ago
Most of the times I've seen those ~6 months numbers being quoted, they were lower bounds. We have 6 months of data saying that immunity lasts at least this long. One reason to expect that immunity might last a long time is that people
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by ufo 5y ago
I wish. Here in Brazil it's effectively the official policy. Multiple times our president has shown that he'd rather give us chloroquine instead of vaccines.
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by ufo 5y ago
One very important limitation is that this study does not take into account problematic variants such as P.1 and B.1.617 > Lastly, it is necessary to emphasize that these findings are based on the prevailing assortment of virus variants
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by ufo 5y ago
A key limitation of the study is that it's in the USA, where some of the most concerning variants are not as widespread. For example, in Brazil there is evidence that the P.1 variant can lead to reinfections.
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by ufo 5y ago
What bugs me the most is that all the Karens I know are nice people, who don't deserve having their name thrown into the mud.
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by ufo 5y ago
Sometimes I wish that this "Karen" meme didn't exist. It ruined a perfectly good name.
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by ufo 5y ago
Next time they should compare it to a Kansas vinyl album.
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by ufo 5y ago
It's not surprising, but it's very good to see an experiment confirming that prediction.
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by ufo 5y ago
Absolutely. In the context of GCC, there is the famous example of the Objective C frontend, which NeXT/Apple tried hard to make proprietary.
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by ufo 5y ago
As with anything cryptocurrency related, it's safe to assume that the justification is contrived and the actual use case is niche, at best. My experience as a Brazilian is that I've never seen anyone using cryptocurrencies in real
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by ufo 5y ago
The problem is that the distributed consensus in a blockchain is only possible if that blockchain is also used as a currency. If you remove the currency aspect, it's no better than a Git repository, which also has a merkle tree ( but n
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by ufo 5y ago
I'm not a big fan of the algorithmic password systems. In practice you need to remember some bits of state for each separate website, because of different password rules or because you had to reset the password. This results in either
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by ufo 5y ago
Does anyone know which tools the kernel developers used to identify all the places in the kernel that use function pointer equality? Changing how all the function pointers behave is a spooky change to make so they must have had some tools t
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by ufo 5y ago
I didn't know it was possible to turn off the laptop screen while it's in use. How is that done?
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by ufo 5y ago
The CDC currently rates Vietnam's covid levels as "Low" https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-1/coronavirus-vie... It's generally seen as having as effective response against the pan
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by ufo 5y ago
One difference is that web assembly is typed and is designed to make these compilers possible. In the context of Javascript, V8 did the opposite. Originally they had a baseline compiler for Javascript but now they use an interpreter, which
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by ufo 5y ago
Isn't it also notorious for being a toxic workplace? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-culture-of-sexism-at-riot-game...
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by ufo 5y ago
The most common theory is that these super heavy elements would more stable, but nevertheless unstable in absolute terms. There are predictions that the half lifes would be on the order of minutes or days. However, all of this is obviously
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by ufo 5y ago
In the context of programming languages, constructive mathematics maps well to type systems. There are type systems that correspond to non constructive logics, but those are the weirder ones.
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by ufo 5y ago
At this point a black lotus is so expensive that I wonder how many people can still afford one, and would be comfortable shuffling it into their deck.
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by ufo 5y ago
I've heard that Pokemon TCG card prices are more related to collectability and less related to in-game strength, when compared to Magic the Gathering. Some of the most sought after cards are first edition printings, or promotional card
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by ufo 5y ago
To be more precise, dash replaced /bin/sh. Ubuntu still includes bash in the default installation, IIRC.
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by ufo 5y ago
In the USA there are real doctors with an osteopathic medicine degree. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/osteopathic-medicine-what-i... > Essentially we need to distinguish between osteopathic medicine, which is mostly e
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by ufo 5y ago
If I had to guess, putting all those shells in the same basket sounds like they're focusing on the universal functionality. Such as pipes and redirection.
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by ufo 5y ago
It's easier to launder and transfer the BTC than to do the same with real money. According to the article, the people behind Darkside were also behind a bitcoin "mixing" service that was recently shut down.
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by ufo 5y ago
Nevertheless, an unrooted tree is still a tree, in the graph sense of the word. (Not that this matters for the article though; they're talking about botanical trees)
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by ufo 5y ago
Here in Brazil there are essential services such as scheduling a doctor's appointment that effectively require Whatsapp.

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