pw201

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by pw201 2y ago
This technique is called "SHOUT HERE, ARGUMENT WEAK". > easily verifiable information in this thread As others have pointed out, none of the information you've posted in this thread supports the conclusion you think it doe
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by pw201 2y ago
> which is a meaningless tautology, as the entire argument is about the definition of vaccinated used by the public health agencies. The ONS mortality stats linked to by kadkadels at the start of the thread contain data related to people
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by pw201 2y ago
> The statistically invalid time-windowing games the public health agencies all played in which people who had taken vaccines were classed as unvaccinated As I have just replied to the other commenter, the ONS data he appears to object t
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by pw201 2y ago
The ONS data linked the comment you're replying to is clear that it counts "vaccinated" from the day of vaccination. What ONS data are you referring to which "used to have the obvious flaw that people dropping dead 3 day
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by pw201 3y ago
Where does this "publisher/platform" meme come from? It's completely incorrect but I keep seeing it. https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre... for more.
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by pw201 4y ago
> But even if science proposes God as the hypothesis at step 3, the next problem comes at step 4: how are you going to test it? "Um, God, could you do that again? And, um, sign it this time?" You can't run the experiment.
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by pw201 4y ago
Or consider Elijah and the priests of Baal in 1 Kings 18. Pretty good empirical demonstration there. Of course, if the priests of Baal had the equivalent of a modern Christian apologist in their ranks, things might have been a little differ
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by pw201 4y ago
Thanks. Vim links on your page appear to be broken, btw.
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by pw201 4y ago
What happens is that the nutters follow and reply to popular threads (see epidemiology Twitter during the pandemic, for example). If there are more of them, Twitter loses value. Twitter has started to let you control who can reply, but that
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by pw201 4y ago
That's not how Section 230 works: it's explicitly designed so that some editing does not open you to full liability for user provided content (but it's common to think it does the opposite). https://www.eff.org&#x2
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by pw201 4y ago
> But, it's not the same thing at all, because if you were to separate yourself from the violinist, they would die from their disease / from not being given very extraordinary aid, but if you were to separate yourself from the
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by pw201 4y ago
The Redditors on /r/cambridge routinely tell American applicants that the whole "extra-curriculars" thing is only relevant if whatever you did demonstrates enthusiasm for or ability in your subject, both of which you wil
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by pw201 5y ago
This is called "whataboutery". It's also disingenuous. In general, there's a fast statistic about COVID deaths, which is something like "deaths within N days of a positive PCR". This will catch some people who
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by pw201 5y ago
Berenson is a crank: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-...
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by pw201 5y ago
The first sentence of the article is that it's about "People who are fully vaccinated against Covid yet catch the virus ". If the vaccines don't lower P(transmission|infection) but do lower P(infection), then they lower
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by pw201 5y ago
This is incorrect: we don't know the rates, because we don't know the denominators. Published figures use estimated denominators: "because the proportion of unvaccinated people is small and the NIMS population estimates are h
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by pw201 5y ago
They can in the UK. Back in January, the QRA Typhoons chasing an unresponsive aircraft back in January went right overhead at 10000 ft at supersonic speeds. That was loud: https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/hug
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by pw201 5y ago
> Seems like the school culture can shape behavior and varies a lot. Like other universities, things are also going to differ between subjects. But OxBridge has autonomous colleges which provide undergrad accommodation and arrange the in
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by pw201 5y ago
Certainly on Twitter, hyping ivermectin as the cure is also good Bayesian evidence that the speaker also believes a bunch of unevidenced or plain wrong things about Covid19.
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by pw201 5y ago
Samsung bought what was advertised as mobile handset business after CSR failed to spot that combo BT/Wifi chips were the future and threw away their lead. Qualcomm got the rest a few years later. ("what was advertised as" bec
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by pw201 5y ago
I investigated this once (while I was sitting around doing not much during a 3 month notice period, funnily enough). It's as you say, the breach of a contract is something where the employer would have to sue you for damages, and if yo
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by pw201 6y ago
> The UK Government is arresting people who film empty hospitals: The police arrested one person who walked, mask-less, though quiet public areas of a busy hospital (and was abusive when challenged by hospital workers). The vital need to
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by pw201 6y ago
> Right now most tests are using over 40 cycles This is misleading. The number of cycles used is irrelevant. Reference: https://virologydownunder.com/the-false-positive-pcr-problem... (from someone who has actually used
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by pw201 6y ago
Comparing winter excess death peaks, where government interventions (like lockdowns) didn't occur, with COVID19 peaks doesn't tell you what would have happened without the interventions. You (I think) say the interventions caused
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by pw201 6y ago
> Excess deaths is not the same thing as "deaths caused by COVID". This conflation relies on the assumption that you can virtually empty hospitals out and have no effect on mortality at all, which is absurd. I know that excess
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by pw201 6y ago
The R is reduced while any effective measures are active. The playable sim for Scenario 1 has them active while there's blue shading over the graph, deactivating them once herd immunity is reached in that sim. In that case, compared to
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by pw201 6y ago
Quoting the site: "This reduces total cases! Even if you don't get R < 1, reducing R still saves lives, by reducing the 'overshoot' above herd immunity. Lots of folks think "Flatten The Curve" spreads out ca
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by pw201 6y ago
> If it hadn't been noticed, the English death toll would eventually have matched the case count. In about 60 years or so. >> In the UK, we were loosing 1100 people a day entirely through covid > which is not true and has n
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by pw201 6y ago
> Youre are going to have the same number of deaths sooner or later as long as the hospitals aren't overwhelmed. Even assuming there's never a vaccine or effective cure, this is not true: temporarily reducing the R number (lock
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by pw201 6y ago
Where does this "publisher/platform" meme come from? It's completely incorrect ( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello... ) but I keep seeing it. Suggest you give less

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