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by zosima 5y ago
This number is unfortunately fairly meaningless. Neutralizing antibody-titer is of course somewhat related to ability to resist infection, but how much is unclear. Also there is no reason to expect the antibody-titer to stay high and it wil
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by zosima 5y ago
The probable reason is that they only rarely test vaccinated people. https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency...
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by zosima 5y ago
It may have been a good or bad decision. But comments were intentionally left out of JSON to avoid obvious ways to sneak in parsing directives and thus incompatibilities between different JSON-parsers.
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by zosima 5y ago
Leibniz was born one and a half century before Babbage and nearly two and a half century before Russel and Turing. To compare them is immensely unfair to Leibniz and completely ignores how visionary and far ahead of his time he actually wa
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NIH grant report describing creation of recombinant corona-viruses(documentcloud.org)
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EcoHealth Alliance Conducted Risky Experiments on MERS Virus in China(theintercept.com)
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NIH Admits Funding corona-virus experiments leading to stronger ACE2-binding(zerohedge.com)
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by zosima 5y ago
But the vast majority of covid fatalities under 30, would be in people with comorbidities. You could easily argue for vaccinating everyone with comorbidities <30, without arguing for vaccinating everyone. Also, even in apparently benign
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by zosima 5y ago
Not quite enough info available yet, to be certain. First need to know what the risk of myocarditis is when being vaccinated and having covid, and how much lower the risk of covid-infection is when having been vaccinated. I don't think
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by zosima 5y ago
Also to be noted: these are just calls to the poison centers from worried people, who may have eaten too much or had kids eat what they shouldn't etc. It is not at all indicative of health issues, or serious health issues. Ivermectin i
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by zosima 5y ago
The main problem is the old idea, that the message is the messenger. In a way that is still true, but its not one message per messenger molecule. The message is intimately connected to what other messenger molecules are around, what are the
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by zosima 5y ago
Obviously a damn lot of cells have an evolutionary reason to receive and transmit signals. Otherwise the whole body dies, and so do the cells. Evolution on the level of multicellular organisms happens on the organism level and not on the ce
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by zosima 5y ago
Also seems obvious that poorer and less stable societies treat men (in general) quite badly. I think the economist has to work a bit harder to make a compelling argument for what makes the arrow of causality go in the non-obvious direction.
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by zosima 5y ago
The exception that proves the rule is from a legal argument by Cicero. It means that if someone bothers to write an exception in a law, say e.g. "but in case window is broken by stone smaller than 1 cm in diameter, then it's the o
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by zosima 5y ago
Murray was as far as can be determined acting in good faith. The general argument of the Bell Curve, that people from different parts of the world have wildly different distributions on many different attributes, is (or ought to be) complet
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by zosima 5y ago
From the abstract this study does not bear any resemblance to the headline and makes very little sense to me. They reevaluated tumors from a 15 year old study in rodents, to prove that the original work was correct and that there wasn'
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China’s Political Discourse June 2021: Analysis of Keywords(sinocism.com)
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by zosima 5y ago
This model completely disregards how far SARS-COV2 has already spread. It is now in virtually all countries, and probably in quite a few different mammal species there to boot. The mutation rate is the same everywhere, and somewhere it&#x27
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by zosima 5y ago
The old definition of biological species was exactly that animals of the same species are able to breed and get fertile offspring. So I suppose they made a point, by definition, by doing so.
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by zosima 5y ago
The mystery is not the modest increase of obesity from 1890 to 1975. This increase is very likely caused by reduced activity and increased caloric consumption. It is the dramatic increase in obesity from around 1980 and onward that is a mys
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by zosima 5y ago
It can be an aid in drug development, and can perhaps assist a bit in tuning small molecule drugs for more stable binding. Though I think the major impacts will be two-fold: (1) The field of structural biology is going to see a change, with
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by zosima 5y ago
News and discussions tend to eventually move their focus onto single individuals. I guess one can learn two things from that: 1. If you want an issue discussed, find a person who can symbolize it. i.e. who is the single individual spying o
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by zosima 5y ago
And then you have done validation of some of the proposition of modern science and technology. But quite a lot "science" can not verified in the same manner as some physics, math, chemistry and biology can. And to go from the fact
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by zosima 5y ago
Why not just? def ulong64_to_int(ulong64): return (int(ulong64['high']) << 32) + int(ulong64['low'])
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by zosima 5y ago
No, the effect of a linear increase of CO2 on temperature is logarithmic. Though the speculation is the there will be catastrophic exponential feedback mechanisms. I guess CO2 is increasing exponentially, so maybe CO2-dependent temperature
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by zosima 5y ago
I think some kind of error bars would have been very enlightening, yes. I find it quite hard to evaluate what is being shown, when the total change in temperature over a century is smaller than the temperature difference between different p
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by zosima 5y ago
Of course we can write code that is buffer overflow free and safe and secure in every other manner too. We just can't do it when prioritizing new features, writing to a spec defined by committee and having limited resources, with thous
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by zosima 5y ago
Except that Java Applets were an absolute security nightmares in and of themselves. They also looked very ugly and were extraordinarily slow, especially to startup. But the biggest difference between them and these frameworks are that writi
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by zosima 5y ago
No, but it's a polymer. From the context, I guess that was the word aimed at.
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by zosima 6y ago
Well, except that these serious adverse effects are often so rare to not have any way of reaching statistical significance. Especially when you consider that you're looking for associations between medication and any indication. Just b

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