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by icoder 5y ago
So vaccines are bad because Americans overestimate risks due to trusting media and government too much (and those apparently misusing that trust) and therefore don't go to the hospital (and apparently surviving at home instead of needi
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by icoder 5y ago
That's interesting, such confounding is an example for how difficult such research is. It's also two articles hammering on a single piece of data and making conclusions using Occam's razor. The comments on the second article
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by icoder 5y ago
I'm not really debating that ARR for hospitalisation (or worse) may be only a few percent on average, but the article you linked to doesn't help. If I understand it correctly they say: more people got infected (!) in the control g
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by icoder 5y ago
I'm not arguing for mandating anything. And note that boosters boost, they are not for maintenance. A lot of existing vaccins have a booster without it being 'endless'. If Covid-19 mutates enough we might need different vacci
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by icoder 5y ago
Yes, that indeed is a very good point that I overlooked, I agree it weakens the case for (mandating) vaccinating minors even more. Having said that, I've also seen graphs with 4 quadrants (vaccinated or not on both axis for the two per
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by icoder 5y ago
I'm not blaming anyone. I'm not even saying we need mandates. All I'm saying is that the numbers I've seen very strongly suggest that if 'all' would be vaccinated, we'd see a lot less pressure on health ca
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by icoder 5y ago
Germany stats all COVID cases wrt vaccination? Ah, in the Netherlands most if not all stats I've seen involve hospitalisation and especially IC. Those are often misattributed the other way around, 50/50 sounds equal, until you con
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by icoder 5y ago
I find it interesting how your (assumed) US based 'feel' is different from my Netherlands based one, which could be a difference between us, our countries, or both. We've been getting - in my opinion - rather fair and unbiase
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by icoder 5y ago
Yeah for kids it is even more difficult to defend a mandate, even to defend their vaccination altogether (we don't do general vaccination for kids here in the Netherlands, yet). There still IS something to discuss, as we see kids sprea
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by icoder 5y ago
Ah, that's 3hrs of audio. I couldn't find any shownotes either. Can't help but notice Peter McCullough's Wikipedia doesn't put him in the list of most neutral, factual sources though. But sure, how do we know we can
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by icoder 5y ago
Just to prevent confusion, I think it's good to realise that this article is mainly discussing the risk of COVID-19 on myocarditis (etc), not on anything , while that doesn't seem to be it's biggest impact (which is an impor
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by icoder 5y ago
Plus, we humans are really bad at disentangling cause and effect in daily life. Everyday there's people that get sick or notice something, so if we all take a vaccin, by definition some will get sick or notice something right after the
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by icoder 5y ago
The vaccines against Covid actually work, and (probably) come with a small risk. Sure, just getting Covid does too and probably a bit better, but comes with a great risk. Now, does that warrant mandating? I'm not so sure, that's a
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by icoder 5y ago
That's quite few statements you put out there, any chance you can direct us to some sources or further reading?
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by icoder 5y ago
I agree it's still there, but to me this demo's nearing the end of the valley, way past the deepest point.
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by icoder 5y ago
Comparable here, using mostly Zigbee (Hue, IKEA, Xiaomi and others) with Deconz RaspBee, which works great, although I do see communication issues from time to time. I have Zigbee lights and door/temp/motion sensors. I added Shell
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by icoder 5y ago
A large enough uptick in strokes at some point will, yes, but I don't think coffee/tea consumption will have that effect, plus our current consumption clearly _doesn't_, while Covid clearly _does_. (At least where I live, ICU
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by icoder 5y ago
Not sure about your country, but here the main problem was (and is again) the risk of an overrun health care system.
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by icoder 5y ago
An hour sound terrible, given it is daily. That's a serious part of your workday (week, year)! Where I work it's 10-15 minutes for 10-15 people. We're with a bunch of disciplines (hardware, embedded, mobile and cloud) so it g
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by icoder 5y ago
Leap years occur every 4 years, except we skip one every 100 years, HOWEVER we skip that skip every 400 years. 2000 was the perfect example: /4 so leap year? well /100 so no leap year? well also /400 so no no = yes leap year.
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by icoder 5y ago
MBP late 2012 right there with you
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by icoder 5y ago
I've been extending the life of my MacBook Pro 2012 (13") all throughout those Dark Days (with 8GB RAM from the start an SSD added later). As a software dev using it day in day out. It's really at its end now, runs only on AC
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by icoder 5y ago
I use caps lock, apart from being safe it also gives a bit of feedback in the form of the light going on/off even before the conplete wakeup.
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by icoder 5y ago
You could extend that with examples where specific type of loop actions are even abstracted further, such as filtering, which is aided by (standard) libraries, but also by introducing specific syntax to the language (think lamda's &#x
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by icoder 5y ago
For those that don't mind paying a bit more there's of course non-DIY solutions that do the same. We went all out and bought a Quooker with our new kitchen: boiling water, cold and filtered water, and carbonated water. Of course i
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by icoder 5y ago
Call me naive but I really don't see an AI take over my (senior) software development work, there's just so much to it, including a lot of communication and creativity. I dare posing that by the time AI takes over my job, it'
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by icoder 5y ago
The mechanical bullshit part is being abstracted away time and time again and none of the issues you bring up have become problematic so far. Sure there's a point where this might change profoundly, but AI is currently nowhere near tha
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by icoder 5y ago
Do not underestimate how much you can learn from teaching / explaining something (you think you already know) to someone else.
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by icoder 5y ago
Well there's many reasons. But in addition, most on Stack Overflow is the boring stuff: getting a certain operation, task, calculation right, often in a particular language, with a particular framework. The actual development, in my op
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by icoder 5y ago
Wiod yes, but as far as I understood, well isolated, which was the point a few posts up I think.

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