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by vimy 5y ago
Correct. The ELISA test is as reliable as a coin toss. It was also never meant to be used for diagnosis, only for research.
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by vimy 5y ago
Cheap electricity to power desalination plants could be a solution.
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by vimy 5y ago
What would we do if an asteroid was on a collision course? Nuke it? Can ICBMs even go to into space?
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by vimy 5y ago
Why do you think they would throw away years of work to start over?
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by vimy 5y ago
The Kurds have a different culture. They are less fanatical with their religion.
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by vimy 5y ago
You can’t change the treatment of women without changing the culture. I don’t think you understand how deeply embedded those values are. Values we consider barbaric are perfectly acceptable for the locals.
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by vimy 5y ago
For now.
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by vimy 5y ago
I don’t care about the cloud. I don’t want anyone scanning my device.
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by vimy 5y ago
Maybe it’s to protect the capital until everyone is evacuated?
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by vimy 5y ago
Thanks. I love these kind of books. Library Genesis is also a good place to "borrow" books.
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by vimy 5y ago
> Afaik it was an internal skunkworks project led by a rather visionary for IBM leader that knew it would be dead if it did things the IBM way. Sounds like an interesting story. Is there a book or website like folklore.org?
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by vimy 5y ago
Since the vaccines don’t seem to stop transmission their only use is to protect the ones who take it. So there is no need anymore for vaccine passports and forcing people to take it. Unless I’m missing something?
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by vimy 5y ago
When we have VR/AR tech that will make it possible for realistic avatars of people, body language and all, to “appear” in your living room, that’s when WFH will really take off.
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by vimy 5y ago
I find mentioning dog whistles as an argument to discredit someone unconvincing. It’s a way to twist someone's words to whatever you want. Dog whistle = Someone said something but since I can read minds I know he/she meant somethi
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by vimy 5y ago
The APIs won’t change with alternative app stores. Asking permission for using gps or camera or … can still be enforced. Just like on macOS.
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by vimy 5y ago
I'm not denying that what happened in the past still affects the present. My point is that labeling it as systemic racism today doesn't seem right. There are so many variables. And you bring up an interesting point. Black owned ba
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by vimy 5y ago
Also know as the holodeck from Star Trek.
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by vimy 5y ago
See, this is exactly the fallacy I'm talking about. Black Americans are poorer on average so naturally it's because of systemic racism. It's the only explanation. When we look at Nigerian Americans we see they earn more than
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by vimy 5y ago
It used to be there were laws enforcing racial segregation, that was systemic racism. Those laws are gone yet the effects still persist. But when there is discrimination now it is caused by individual actions, there is no system behind it a
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by vimy 5y ago
Ok, so what are the disparities that aren’t caused by racism?
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by vimy 5y ago
Systemic racism is the QAnon theory of the left. Every disparity between races has one simple explanation, racism, disregarding all other possible causes. The data contradicts the narrative but data doesn’t matter as long as they believe i
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by vimy 5y ago
HN doesn’t allow such long titles.
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Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants(oilprice.com)
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by vimy 5y ago
My plan, from a European perspective, would be for the EU to build a couple hundred new nuclear plants in ten year. France built almost 60 reactors between the seventies and the eighties so I believe it’s certainly possible with more modern
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by vimy 5y ago
So the economy is mostly tourist based? Are there taxes?
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by vimy 5y ago
How do people earn money in such a small economy?
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by vimy 5y ago
Starlink seems perfect for this island.
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by vimy 5y ago
Preprints and blogs should be the default. Instead of peer review, which sometimes (often?) turns into gatekeeping or dismissing new ideas, we’ll judge research on reproducibility. The github model for science sounds better than what we hav
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by vimy 5y ago
The solution would be to keep using plastic and set up garbage collection infrastructure in the countries who spill all the garbage in the ocean.
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by vimy 5y ago
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8DYv9hWUAksPO8?format=jpg&name=... What am I reading wrong?

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