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fdewrewrewf
4y ago
Free your mind! Vive la CLODO!
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fdewrewrewf
4y ago
Eh, my bad!
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4y ago
I used their "Global Average Revenue Per User (ARPU)" value, page 9 of the pdf.
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4y ago
If you're at risk of a bad time with Covid, get vaccinated. Simples. >As for the sin of being fat that you find so unforgivable Simple cause and effect. The study you linked said so - if you're obese, you're much more like
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Training - eh, maybe. I ditched my Garmin and Strava, and have never been happier with my cycling. Some people seem to like the Zwift thing though. "Ease of communication" - I now consider that a downside. I don't want to be
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>And I could link up a dozen similar studies and reports that all say the same thing: the risks from vaccination are low, the risks from Covid are an order of magnitude greater. Without absolute numbers, your "analysis" is mean
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>Snap at $10 When was that true? Snap currently makes about $3 per user. You can't be talking about US users, because there are only 330 million people in the US.
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A culture shift, yes. Back to the idea that public servants are indeed servants to the public, and their entire purpose is to spend the public's money in a way that benefits the public.
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4y ago
> VS code at Google MS have done a fantastic job of getting developers everywhere hooked on VS Code, whether they are writing for the Windows ecosystem or not.
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Some counterarguments: 1. Electronic devices have varying degrees of embodied energy and resource usage - it is incumbent on the end user to justify that usage 2. Electronic devices are designed as attention-sucking devices for selling adve
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I subscribe to the EV conspiracy theory that a major part of the planned CO2 reductions will be because getting anywhere by car will be much harder.
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4y ago
"Best practices", like mass vaccination of a group of people for whom the vaccine may have been more risky than the disease?
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That much was obvious as soon as it was determined that this new virus was a respiratory coronavirus.
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4y ago
We always were at war with eastasia.
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4y ago
If you get the vaccine, then you definitely get the vaccine.
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4y ago
What do you mean? The goalposts were always clear, and open discussion was always acceptable.
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4y ago
It's very true. The most efficient speed of a car is the point where the increasing engine + drivetrain gearing efficiency meets wind resistance, and is typically 10-15mph higher for ICE cars.
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>For an electric motor it is a flat horizontal line. That's....wrong (or at least, not necessarily true). The torque curve for an electric motor is strongly dependent on the technology used. Induction motor (as used by Tesla): http
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Sorry for you loss! I do think that NHS staff did their very best to follow protocols (one of my parents went into great detail about all of the steps they had to go through in between seeing each patient). However, the idea that disposable
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Her parents were probably just like the many "happy", middle-class families with kids I know - "it's so hard to be the only kid without a smartphone, and since the pandemic, it helps her keep in touch with her friends. A
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No, I chose my words very carefully. The NHS is still overwhelmed/falling apart, but it was not the number of Covid patients that did this. The biggest difficulty has been the Covid policies put into place, both inside and outside hosp
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"Patients in Hospital", or "Patients in Mechanical Ventilation Beds" https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare The UK has around 150k hospital beds, and 5k mechanical ventilation beds, so i
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It's not currently overloaded and overwhelmed with Covid patients. I would argue that this is the fallout of the policies put in place since March 2020 - a deadly combination of less healthcare available due to the increased resources
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>content distribution platforms serving a large audience that passively consumes the content of a small cadre of creators. Given the rise of TikTok-style endless scrolling through short video content, there is a surprisingly apt comparis
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Youtube was a jewel. Sign out, clear your cookies, and take a look at the default recommendations to a new user. It's a cheap TikTok clone. It's a shame, because I've learned so much. I have also wasted a lot of time and
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>vacation or dog photos >social platforms have a utility for most people Hard to tell if you're serious! I quit all social media and gave up my smartphone. I don't miss that brief "huh, that's nice" moment whe
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The internet and all related technology is largely funded by advertising. It would indeed be very fun to watch that all disappear.
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>"The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination." It just shows the p
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>The researchers analyzed data on at least three consecutive cycles before vaccination and at least one cycle after. >After vaccination, cycle length had increased by only .02 days for individuals who received one dose per cycle, and
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>Also why do you care if people decide to be coders? Probably due the narrative that privileged, young white men control the world with their computer programming. The reality is, ironically, that programming is how well-meaning people
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