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by yarcob 5y ago
This just moves the risk from the vendor to the consumer. I assume that most chargebacks happen for purchases made with stolen credit cards. So the chargeback just returns the money to the rightful owner. If the consumer used bitcoin, and s
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by yarcob 5y ago
But digital chips are designed to use transistors as on/off switches, so the complicated physics don't matter for understanding a microprocessor. (It's different for analog ICs, where the characteristics of the individual tra
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by yarcob 5y ago
The doctors who track side effects are not stupid. They look for clusters of similar cases, and compare reported cases to the expected number of cases considering how many people in each age/gender cohort got the shot. It's not li
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by yarcob 5y ago
That's exactly what the article does. They don't include the windshield replacement cost under maintenance, they tally it under "repair & damages"
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by yarcob 5y ago
To the best of my knowledge, the fact that thrombosis is a (rare) side effect of Astra Zeneca and Johnson is pretty thoroughly established. It's a pretty specific type of thrombosis, and afaik it doesn't occur eg. for the Biontech
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by yarcob 5y ago
In Germany the Paul Ehrlich Institute has received 871 reports of deaths after vaccination. Most of them are from elderly people, but there are also a bunch of young people who have likely died from side effects. PEI reports 21 people under
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by yarcob 5y ago
Enough that some governments recommend Astra Zeneca only for elderly patients, because risk/reward might be too big for healthy, young patients. I just don't think anybody should force anyone to get a shot. That should be a person
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by yarcob 5y ago
Speed limits and building codes generally don't have side effects that can kill you. A bunch of otherwise healthy people have died from the vaccine. You can argue that it's a numbers game, and that getting vaccinated is still less
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by yarcob 5y ago
Look, if you care about what your neighbours house looks like, then go move to some US suburb. In most rural areas in the world if you don't like what your neighbours house looks like you can go pound sand. People generally like the fa
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by yarcob 5y ago
I don't see any need to apologise for what's clearly meant as a lighthearted joke. Just don't complain when someone comes up with a clever comeback :)
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by yarcob 5y ago
Classic archaeology is all about layers. When excavating, a lot of effort is made to determine where one layer starts and where a layer ends. You can often tell eg. by soil color or other hints. So yes, dredging up the ground destroys all c
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by yarcob 5y ago
I think the most fascinating, and also frustrating, thing about archaeology is how little we actually know. We find these tiny fragments, and they tell us something about the past, but every artefact invites a lot more questions than it pro
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by yarcob 5y ago
> The use of memory unsafe languages for parsing untrusted input is just wild. I think some of the vulnerabilities have been found in image file format or PDF parsing libraries. These are huge codebases that you can't just rewrite i
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by yarcob 5y ago
It's unfortunately surprisingly common for doctors and nurses to recommend all kinds of quack treatments in Austria. The pharmacies are not the only profiteers of these scams.
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by yarcob 5y ago
What ridiculous regulations are there with regard to ibuprofen and paracetamol? Are you talking about the fact that medicines are not allowed to be sold in supermarkets? I think it's a good thing, since it's a pretty good guarante
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by yarcob 5y ago
Somehow I'm not surprised the University of Salzburg is involved. I remember a "less than stellar" experience with them that I was tangentially involved with. It involved a research project that they stopped funding, but didn
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by yarcob 5y ago
Same at my kids school. Whenever they have a positive antibody test, they just do it again. I think that the antibody tests are sketchy in the first place, but if they don't even stick to the protocol and don't follow up positive
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by yarcob 5y ago
Not being paid enough is not an excuse for lying and making things up just so you can arrest someone who is innocent.
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by yarcob 5y ago
I read that body odor is controlled by the same gene as the one for ear wax. People with wet/creamy ear wax smell. People with dry/crumbly earwax don't smell. I'm not sure if it's true in general, but it's true
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by yarcob 5y ago
I'm not saying you shouldn't drink. It's your body, do whatever you want! Most enjoyable things have some level of risk. I'm just saying that there is a risk, and people should be aware of that fact. Someone out there is
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by yarcob 5y ago
I'm sorry to see one of the more nuanced comments downvoted. Looks like the hacker news free speech anarchist task force is busy today. Funny how they demand radical free speech, but downvote/flag anyone who disagrees, while using
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by yarcob 5y ago
That is your personal decision, not a fact. I mean, you could say the same about riding a motorcycle. Riding a motorcycle only slightly increases your risk of dying in a horrible traffic accident, but for a lot of people the risk is big eno
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by yarcob 5y ago
From the article: > What's the connection? > There are a few biological pathways that lead from alcohol consumption to a cancer diagnosis, according to the study. Ethanol, the form of alcohol present in beer, wine and liquor, bre
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by yarcob 5y ago
If you live that same life and drink a glass of grape juice instead of wine everyday, you'll live even longer. Alcohol is a poisson and there is no "safe" level. Now, it's a personal decision how much risk is acceptable
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by yarcob 5y ago
I just tried to explain why people think your argument is fallacious. You said: > I am really curious to hear what's fallacious about it. But apparently that was just a figure of speech, not an actual question.
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by yarcob 5y ago
If that's your takeaway, then I think you need to read this thread again. 1) Nobody is saying that ads aren't profitable or that marketers are throwing money out the window because they are stupid. The discussion is about whether
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by yarcob 5y ago
The fallacy is that Facebook making a profit doesn't mean that invasive ad targeting is effective. It just means that Facebook is good at selling ads, whether they are effective or not.
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by yarcob 5y ago
You are making a few assumptions: 1) People want the services more than they value their privacy. Maybe they'll just not use the service if they can't use it without tracking 2) That invasive tracking is required to sell ads. The
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by yarcob 5y ago
40h/week of work leaves very little time for household, kids, exercise, side projects, and relaxing. I think 20h/week is a more reasonable target if you want to enjoy things beside work. Of course it's okay to work 40h/w
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by yarcob 5y ago
I hope it's not completely unencrypted, but they definitely have access to iCloud backups and will provide your data to law enforcement.

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