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Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
@BryanKrause Like I say, the burden of proof is on explaining why the stats may not indicate that omicron displaces delta, not looking for research that supports the stats.
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
@BryanKrause "If omicron doesn't prevent delta infection, " ... I did not say infection. I said reinfection. Omicron obviously prevents Delta infection, during infection. So a faster Omicron must suppress Delta.
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
Despite the citation , I dont see the need for it. The stats show the truth as self evident
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
Omicron infection does not need to prevent Delta reinfection. It merely has to be more contagious.
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
@BryanKrause Omicron infection enhances neutralizing immunity against the Delta varian t medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268439v1
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
I am beginning to see that what we have here is an echochamber. What use is a medical sciences board where the participants and moderators cherrypick facts, ignore publicly available stats, and project beliefs onto their interpretation of published research?
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
@BryanKrause All absolute Delta case numbers are dropping as Omicron spreads. It is outcompeting Delta. Delta is vanishing. As Omicron spreads, Delta cases go to zero. If you are saying that correlation is not causation, I think in this case the burden of proof is on you.
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
@BryanKrause Why? All available statistics show Delta being rapidly replaced by Omicron in absolute infection numbers and death rates dropping. What more citations do you want?
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
@BryanKrause I am astonished you would say such a thing. The evidence that Omicron displaces Delta is beyond overwhelming.
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
Further the graphs on severe cases do not apply, regarding Omicron. I don't agree that booster jabs will necessarily decrease severe cases. The very fact that people will be being asked to go to centers and congregate has an effect, and it is known that in vitro at least spike protein interferes with (and compromises) immune processes in the nucleus.
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
How is it erroneous? Omicron displaces Delta and the actual statistical results so far are that Omicron is inversely correlated to death rate. Therefore the correct approach is to allow it to spread. Your assertion that booster reduce death rate is not backed up.
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
Could you please clarify this: "Altogether, these results indicate that Omicron is poorly or not neutralized by vaccinees’ sera sampled 5 months after vaccination. The booster dose triggered a detectable cross-neutralization activity against Omicron. However, even after the booster dose the variant displayed a reduction of ED50 of 18 and 6 fold, when compared to D614G and Delta, respectively."
Frank
Jan 6, 2022 22:39
OK I accept this answer. It basically says that there is some use - namely that after a booster there is some , reduced, neutralising activity. However, given that disease severity is on a par with the common cold, and given that frequent boosting compromises immunity, I personally conclude that mass vaccination is now counterproductive.
 

 Discussion on question by LiveInAmbeR…

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Frank
Dec 25, 2021 09:00
I posted this perfectly satisfactory answer "The planets and galaxy itself rotated, allowing a more optimal trajectory, with fewer obstacles." But it was deleted by a mod with the request it be moved to a comment. What is wrong with the answer?
 

 Discussion on question by Neil Meyer:…

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Frank
Nov 18, 2021 18:05
Fruit is a common theme. At the time there was Apricot Computers and today we have Raspberry Pi. I predict that in the coming decades African tech startups will include Mango and Papaya.
 

 Discussion on question by Aqualone: W…

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Frank
Nov 7, 2021 08:25
I think the real point is, if you are out on a long trail somewhere, perhaps in a different country, perhaps far, far away from civilisation, then if you offend someone with your music playing, you could probably get shot, killed, eaten, or cooked over a campfire, and no one would ever know.
 

 Discussion on answer by jwh20: How sh…

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Frank
Oct 26, 2021 02:32
@user3067860 what makes you think this migrant who only speaks zulu and italian is native?
Frank
Oct 26, 2021 02:32
@user3067860 coz italy is full of migrants?
 

 Discussion on answer by Stephen Kitt:…

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Frank
Aug 27, 2021 20:23
Yeah seems like forever ago now. We practically wrote our own OS's. Remember on the Amiga dicking around with disk heads. Used to buzz the disk heads around at different frequencies and make them play music until the drive died lol.
 

 Discussion on question by MR.-c: Disa…

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Frank
Jul 6, 2021 17:33
Question makes no sense.
 

 Discussion on question by Robert: Cha…

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Frank
Jul 1, 2021 17:23
@Robert What about changing nearby, like a cafe, then walking the remainder?
Frank
Jul 1, 2021 17:23
Apart from the obvious stuff like getting waterproof overclothing, why can't you just get changed in the office? Are there no other cyclists? Why not just erect a screen in the office for cyclists to change in? Can't you just announce to the others "avert your eyes! the crown jewels are coming out and the spectacle is astounding!"? Also check the laws. Where I live the offices have to offer shower/changing for cyclists by law, or they get some sort of tax break, something like that.
 

 Discussion on question by A. Hersean:…

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Frank
May 30, 2021 21:46
Blurb. Marketing blurb.
 

 Discussion on question by blarg: Gran…

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Frank
May 13, 2021 13:31
This question is weird. There is nothing wrong with a relative saying good girl and i would worry more about my wife raising kids according to some crackpot quack self help textbook.
Frank
May 13, 2021 13:31
Also this is a cultural thing. When i hear American parents saying "good job" it sounds weird and wrong to me and others in other countries.
 

 Discussion on answer by anongoodnurse…

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Frank
May 13, 2021 13:29
The quoted text is irrelevant to OP question. It is about learning goals in older kids.
 

 Discussion on question by CiurkitboyN…

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Frank
May 11, 2021 02:31
Proving something is not human does not mean proving it is an AI. The question could be written "How does an alien prove it is not human" and therefore generalised to "How does a non human thing prove it is not human" so obviously that predicates on "what is human and how do you prove human-ness"
 

 Discussion on question by phuclv: Why…

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Frank
Apr 30, 2021 17:56
Hahaha it's obvious to me what phuclv meant. I get like Raffzahn after too much wine when i feel irritable. Then every vaguary and apparent contradiction annoys the hell out of me. At times like those my wife tells me i am insufferable.
 

 Discussion on answer by Raffzahn: Why…

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Frank
Apr 30, 2021 17:54
I recall writing a video game when I was 13 yr old in BBC Basic
Frank
Apr 30, 2021 17:54
@AakashM No?? Let me look....
Frank
Apr 30, 2021 17:54
BBC BASIC!! Oh my god. The nostalgia is ripping my heart apart.
 

 Discussion on answer by Floris: How c…

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Frank
Apr 27, 2021 21:30
@Flater Doesnt matter. You could collect bumble bees and glue little bits of tissue paper onto their wings. Then release them near roads and send photos to the newspapers.
Frank
Apr 27, 2021 21:30
@Flater Counterxample: domesticated cat. No idea where 1 million years comes from.
Frank
Apr 27, 2021 21:30
@Flater You'd have to look at the maximum wingspans or something like that. Or even better, breed flies in jars and kill off the little ones and wait for a few generations until you have butterfly sized mosquitoes and then release them near roads and then send findings to Reuters
Frank
Apr 27, 2021 21:30
@Flater That's actually a myth about evolution taking so long. Still...it would be interesting to check. One of those things that if you collected lots of flies near roads and lots of flies away from roads and found a difference, you could probably publish the results and end up with a brief moment of fame as the mainstream media run with the fascinating headline of "Roads create giant insects"
Frank
Apr 27, 2021 21:30
I wonder if insects that breed near roads now have larger wings.
 

 Discussion on question by Duras: "Ace…

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Frank
Mar 26, 2021 11:28
I think the fact that any company has 8000 engineers and isn't actually building interstellar starships or fleets upon fleets of Teslas just confirms my suspicion that the company is not really an engineering company and probably has a different underlying business model, which when understood would explain the seemingly irrational behaviour of the directors.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dan: Can't re…

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Frank
Jan 26, 2021 12:52
@AsteroidsWithWings Thanks. Hope the HR chick's a hottie. Tell her I hate PC and my preferred pronouns are "Him/Hot Stuff/Mr Big"
Frank
Jan 26, 2021 12:52
@AsteroidsWithWings I accept beer as a form of currency
Frank
Jan 26, 2021 12:52
@AsteroidsWithWings Wait till you see my salary expectations.
Frank
Jan 26, 2021 12:52
@AsteroidsWithWings That sounds like something I would exactly say actually. Ok, i accept your job ;-)
Frank
Jan 26, 2021 12:52
@AsteroidsWithWings I agree with you on the whole. If I was doing an interview I'd run through the whole CV just to make sure I get my professional chronology straight, but swot up on the details of my work only the last 5 yrs or so.
Frank
Jan 26, 2021 12:52
@AsteroidsWithWings Yeah I am not talking about variable names either, but you know the sort of clown in interviews: "Tell me some of the major challenges you faced in 2002 using asp.net 1.1?" FFS
Frank
Jan 26, 2021 12:52
@AsteroidsWithWings That would be fine with me. I mean, if you think knowing the details of things before 5 or so yrs ago is important, I wouldn't want your job.
Frank
Jan 26, 2021 12:52
@AsteroidsWithWings Having said that though, with my level and length of experience, I don't think I have had to have an 'interview' at all for the last decade or so. It becomes more like talking about a life story, going through your professional career verbally. Most of the time I feel like I am establishing a partnership, a relationship, as it gets to the point where both sides know you can't avoid eventually becoming part of the exec decision making with that scope of experience. In the software sphere it's really so little to do with technical knowhow.
Frank
Jan 26, 2021 12:52
@AsteroidsWithWings Partially true. I'd swot up on the last 5 years or so, but I started coding (professionally) in 1992 and seriously if anyone started asking me technical details of anything going back beyond like 5 years I'd probably just laugh at them like they were clowning around.
Frank
Jan 26, 2021 12:52
I think it's really important to be honest in interviews and simply say "I don't remember anything about this, and didn't even bother to look it up because, quite frankly, I don't see the importance of remembering technical details apart from the major hurdles perhaps." - or something to that effect. If the employer thinks otherwise, that's fine, you are probably dodging a bullet avoiding inexperienced management.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ash: Could 19…

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Frank
Sep 21, 2020 17:50
A nitro Civic will outperform everything. Chuck Norris drives a nitro Civic. And a Lancer EVO can be similarly tuned.
 

 Discussion on answer by Jan Niklas Fi…

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Frank
Sep 10, 2020 07:44
This is a cuckoos nest situation.
Frank
Sep 10, 2020 07:43
Synopsis: spoilt brat from broken family who stamps feet at single mother to always get what she wants screams (think verukka salt) "I want to be a boy" at the age of 13. Top advice : give the child drugs to interfere with her hormones so spoilt brat has time to decide if it wants to be a girl or not. Pathetic.