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Ask HN: Why does my '15 MacBook Air have the same RAM (8gb) as a '22 McBook Pro?
32 points by avancemos 4y ago|45 comments
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Why Big-Tech Censorship Will Fail(ybloom.substack.com)
3 points by avancemos 5y ago|1 comments
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by avancemos 5y ago
"Think what we please, and say what we think—how better to sum up the happiness of political freedom? And the reverse is pure tyranny." - A History of Knowledge, Charles Van Doren.
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by avancemos 5y ago
Instead of seeing the bright side of life, in which this person clearly vastly improved their situation in life, all they can see is what they don’t have. “I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I had the only fat body
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by avancemos 6y ago
Excerpt: Facebook this week appended a Wall Street Journal op-ed “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April” by Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary (Feb. 19) with the label “Missing Context. Independent fact-checkers say this information could misle
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Facebook is employing third-party vetters to limit scientific debate(wsj.com)
3 points by avancemos 6y ago|2 comments
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by avancemos 6y ago
Corporate posturing. And cynicism mixed with virtue signaling, morphing into virtue enforcement.
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Merry Christmas
13 points by avancemos 6y ago|5 comments
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by avancemos 6y ago
The question is, how did this start just now? In 2020? How is the COVID-19 vaccine the first to use mRNA? Anyone with who has taken AP Biology could conceive of and understand the idea behind making vaccines rapidly: take some mRNA, inject
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by avancemos 6y ago
VR
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by avancemos 6y ago
Lol. This was flagged within 1 hr. Talk about irony man...
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by avancemos 6y ago
They are suppressing the scientist behind the Covid ideas; ie the desired outcome is the same.
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by avancemos 6y ago
“Many hypotheses proposed by scientists as well as by nonscientists turn out to be wrong. But science is a self-correcting enterprise. To be accepted, all new ideas must survive rigorous standards of evidence. The worst aspect of the Veliko
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by avancemos 6y ago
From the abstract: "We demonstrate a range of pre-existing memory CD4+ T cells that are cross-reactive with comparable affinity to SARS-CoV-2 and the common cold coronaviruses HCoV-OC43, HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, or HCoV-HKU1." 1. Pop
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by avancemos 6y ago
Having a complete and accurate map is important for researchers who study the X-chromosome. Long sequences reads allowed them to map the highly repetitive chromosome. Most sequencing is done by high-throughput short reads. The technology ca
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by avancemos 6y ago
I don’t believe you do.
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Robust T-cell immunity in convalescent persons with asymptomatic or mild COVID19 [pdf](biorxiv.org)
10 points by avancemos 6y ago|0 comments
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by avancemos 6y ago
And yet (Correlation != causation) != (!causation)
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by avancemos 6y ago
“Teachers have been demonized for decades” Lol
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by avancemos 6y ago
non-jewish whites are the most underrepresented group at harvard. paradox.
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by avancemos 6y ago
what a disaster of a website on mobile
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by avancemos 6y ago
Also: “ Durham leaving stay-at-home order in place indefinitely” https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-sandhills/news/202... . NJ stay at home order continued indefinitely | FOX 5 New York https:/&#x
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by avancemos 6y ago
Which universe do you live in? “Los Angeles County, which has recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in California, has extended stay-at-home orders indefinitely.” https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea&#x2
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by avancemos 6y ago
Lockdowns are effective as tourniquets, but indefinite or long term use was never logical. There should have been more forward-thinking and pragmatic options pushed earlier. We will now see the natural repercussions of lockdown-centered pol
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by avancemos 6y ago
The last line is a direct quote from The Giver.
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by avancemos 6y ago
Free speech is overrated. Speech can be dangerous and therefore we need to regulate it on every level. Not just Facebook either; we need to ban speech and public commentary whenever it’s problematic. Books need to be screened too. Hopefully
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by avancemos 6y ago
It’s a solid journal to be fair (impact factor around 12, whereas Science is 40-something).
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by avancemos 6y ago
This is not a high profile paper. The accompanying domain to this post is (unintentionally) misleading: the actual journal that this paper is published in is ’Science Advances’, not ’Science’ (the prestigious one). I thought there was somet
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by avancemos 6y ago
“There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection”(see go.nature.com/3cutjqz). As of 3 days ago there is: https://science.sciencemag.org&#
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Ask HN: What would an OOP-style human language look like?
2 points by avancemos 6y ago|3 comments

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