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Yes. Basically none. The vaccines have been given to almost a billion people. And side effects have been tracked. How can we find this number? We already have it.

If there was anything dangerous within even 3 orders of magnitude of those that have died because they didn't get the vaccine it would be front page news.

Get vaccinated

for all the talk of "vaccine passports", not a single state has done it. Biden said he wasnt going to do it months ago. Not a single country has done it in all of the earth.

if I was so worried about such a thing i might start to think maybe I was being manipulated to fear something that didnt exist.

Nobody has implemented vaccine passports. And nobody will.

But the idea of a treatment even close to effective as a vaccine is attractive to those that believe that in such magical thinking

Ivermectin might be cheap but the vaccine is literally free if you're in the US. There's zero reason to not get it, and zero reason to hang onto hope that alternatives will work. We already have an extremely effective treatment, so effective it can wipe of the virus entirely, and its totally free.

Our government under Trump bought the vaccine en masse for a few dollars a dose. Those that refuse such a miracle treatment when the rest of the world dies of COVID are a stain on America's sheen

You're indirectly admitting that I'm right. The anti vaccine crowd is desperate for a non vaccine cure, because the vaccine is so incredibly effective their beliefs fall apart otherwise

The vaccines are a miracle drug. Less than one in a million people that have gotten both doses of mRNA vaccines have died of COVID.

It's one of the biggest infectious disease success stories since the invention of penicillin

Yes. Anybody trying to rationalize not getting one of the extremely effective vaccines will be grasping at straws for any other effective treatment. It's a natural outcome.

The vaccines are as effective as the one that eliminated smallpox. To be against it, you need some serious FUD

We already have a drug that's 99% effective at keeping you out out hospital. And it's only a single/double dose. It's the COVID vaccine.

Any other treatment is basically unnecessary at this point because COVID deaths in vaccinated people are less than 1 in a million.

That's why anti-vaxxers are so vested in other treatments. It's the only way they can rationalize not getting vaccinated

Many people pushing Ivermectin have a vested interest in proving the vaccines are unnecessary.

It may work, but that's why you get recommendations for "vaccine made me magnetic" and other garbage like that whenever you search for videos.

It's the same group that was pushing hydroxychloroquine as a miracle drug

Eh true. And it's not disdain, those companies are great for what they do. The guy above just implied they sucked, which isn't the case. They're great for their target market

I've had bad experiences with counterfeit components on AliExpress. It's rare to get anything real and unused.

SparkFun and Adafruit are great, but they're for casuals. If you're building breadboard prototypes there's nothing better than Digikey and Mouser.

The atmosphere at low altitude burns off tons of energy. I don't think we'll ever achieve ballistic launch from earth surface, but that's just my opinion :)

One day, Rust needs a GC. Reference counting is a just crappy GC. Modern GC can perform better than this so Rust is actually hurting its own performance by not having one.

A good GC would make heavily concurrent apps much easier to build with Rust. And would have better performance than the typical Arc Mutex objects passed around right now

LLVM has built in hooks for GC, used by Azul's Zing JVM JIT compiler and perhaps Safari's LLVM JS JIT.

I'm not sure if the GC integration is tied to JIT support or not. I think it's mostly related to insertion of safepoints which could be useful for Rust implementation

In the future, we may have better ways of escaping earth than our brute force rockets.

If we can use our atmosphere as oxidizer, like planes do, we could get to orbit with far better mass fraction. And far less fuel. Closer to a normal plane than a tin can full of explosives.

Problems are heat related, at speeds and altitude needed regular jet engines would melt. There's ongoing research into precoolers to make the concept work with fairly normal engines.

The British are working on this, with Skylon and the Sabre engine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

Agreed. For all the problems with ERCOT, Texas does have an astoundingly high penetration of renewable sources that makes programs like this extremely useful. High renewable penetration causes grid stability issues, but not for the reasons you would think.

Electricity travels at the speed of light, so there's a huge dependency on spinning generator inertia to keep a stable supply. With renewables, this "grid inertia" is greatly reduced.

The reduction in grid inertia makes quick demand reduction important. It takes most generation sources several seconds to "spin up" and support load transients. Loads on the other hand can be cut within a few hundred milliseconds. HVAC is nearly ideal for load cuts because they use a ton of power and small variations in temperature can be absorbed by thermal inertia of buildings and product being cooled.

There's a great document on this and how it affects the Texas grid. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/73856.pdf

People that willingly sign up for these programs then complain about it is a classic "leapords ate my face" scenario. The same thing happened to users of Griddy during the huge grid failure earlier this year. Griddy exposed users to realtime spot energy pricing which pegs at $9000/mwh when there's more demand than available generation.

A side note, ironically the same document praising ERCOT's innovative handling of renewable sources says the US national east/west grids are unlikely to face the same problems until the 2040's. Basically, if Texas grid was connected to one of the national ones, these problems they're trying to solve with innovation would just go away for at least 20 years.

I got an Aeron and I don't like it. Mesh chairs aren't as cushioned, Aeron included. You can easily feel the border between mesh and frame and it gets painful after sitting for hours.

I dont buy that ergonomic chairs are any better for your body, there doesn't seem to be any real research showing this is so. They are just less comfortable.

It's extremely durable though so I'll probably be living with this mistake for a long time :)

I miss my padded chairs but the padding always wears out

I left a bad review for one of these company's products on Amazon a while back because it caught fire when plugged in.

Somehow they got my email address and keep sending me vaguely threatening untraceable emails to "reconsider" my review in exchange for gift cards.

Super shady. Glad Amazon is finally doing something

Excursion is related to frequency. A sure way to blow most up is turn bass to the max. Some speakers have bandpass filters. Cheap ones usually don't

I may be typical but it's nuts. Send your secret police to harass your critics whenever an important date is coming up.

The tech giants are scum. They either look the other way or hire proxies to do their dirty work like the mob.

I was tangentially involved in a project for one of them that was so shady everyone "read in" to the project was under NDA. It leaked eventually, and the "partner" company took the hit. Nobody even knew the money for it came from the big guys

Sideloading is always panned under the guise of security. It's all bs.

* If the devices were secure enough, we could run untrusted code with no consequences. Like practically every website on the planet

* If side loading was so dangerous every windows and Linux machine would be filled with viruses.

* Apple and Google claim their app stores are "safe" from malicious apps. This is clearly not the case.

Lots of conjecture and inferences made from the study with no backing evidence.

Implying flu deaths are correlated with vaccination, when there's no data about overall flu numbers during that time.

Fear mongering about spike proteins. Claiming they're dangerous on their own without the rest of the virus, again with no evidence.

Oh and a bonus crackpot anti vax YouTube video at the bottom.

Lots of anti-vax articles are written under the guise of "just asking questions". A stance which allows you to post "theories" with little to no evidence. This article is no exception

In the US I frequently see this:

Guy hired as CEO

Guy gets such absurd compensation he becomes a near billionaire and major stockholder after ~5 years.

Guy is elected to the board for his amazing credentials (billionaire major stockholder)

Retires at 40 to being a "full time" board member, and chills around company the rest of his life swimming in money and free shit

Yes. I was wrong. But there's also not conspiracy which is what I was trying to rationalize. There's so much BS on the internet these days that are the modern day versions of astrology. Trying to find patterns in randomness to justify crazy beliefs. Most anti vax "information" is such

And I found it on the VAERS FAQ https://vaers.hhs.gov/faq.html

> Healthcare providers are required to report to VAERS the following adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination [under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)],

It's not on the pdf because it's either outdated or because COVID vaccines are on emergency authorization. There's not a giant conspiracy because something isn't on a random pdf, like I was saying

Where does it say that? I've never seen it. And if it's required, does it have to be on this list? I don't see why it matters if vaccine is on some random list or not. How is it a lie if they have to report adverse effects and it's not on the list? There's plenty of things they have to report that aren't on any lists

It's really not. It's like mandatory reporting for diseases like whooping cough and west Nile virus. Something only gets on the list if it has known risks.

Afraid of what data? Should we start collecting data on every time anyone gets the sniffles? To get on this list the vaccines need to have proven risks

This kind of evidence is the weakest there is in court. I doubt it would go anywhere

They used to hang people for heresy, and they still do in some countries. I think "people will be upset with me" is pretty mild viewed in a historical lens

A vaccine that cant replicate is as risky as one thats a weakened version of the live virus? Or an injection of the toxin that causes symptoms?

Not every vaccine is on this list you know. Only the ones deemed risky. They haven't deemed the new COVID vaccines risky enough to be on the list. If you don't want to believe the scientists behind that decision there's no point debating you.

"We don't know" should be "I don't know". There's been hundreds of studies on mRNA vaccines and chimeric viruses.

You're pointing towards this list as if it's some oracle for vaccine safety. Its not. It's just a way to collect incidents of adverse effects in vaccines with known dangers