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Re:Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013) on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:28PM (#29514363)
I loved povray when i was a kid. Very cool its still around.
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Does it not count when old people die?
Maybe stop presuming you know more than your sister? Its fine if the spike protein circulates, its a very small amount and it has been modified so it can't bind to your cells. Its fine if it kills a small number of epithelial cells, covid would do 1000x worse. Finally, how is the mrna going to cause epigenetic changes if it can't get in the nucleus?
Re:Rogue antibodies involved in almost one-fifth of Covid deaths on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @01:42PM (#28383124)
To be clear, it also reduces your risk of infection.
Yes, it's very easy to see causation when there is only correlation.
That's not really how it works, First, vaccines prevent infection in the first place so the virus never has a chance to replicate and mutate, unlike antibiotics which are given after infection and there are a massive number of bacteria and only the most resistant survive. Second, there isn't anything about vaccine acquired immunity thats different from infection acquired immunity, so any evolutionary pressure would already be there.
I haven't seen any research that says that infection acquired immunity is stronger or longer lasting than from vaccine. The opposite in fact.
Right, all you're changing is the mRNA, but that can still be really dangerous. What if you code for a protein that causes cross-reactivity with a human protein and you give millions of people an auto-immune disorder?

I'm 1000% pro mRNA vaccines and pro covid vaccines, but they still need to be tested.

I think people have higher expectations for the US. I certainly do.
Re:Kelly Criterion on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:24PM (#26838668)
Its really fun to learn something new and realize how incredibly naive you've been your whole life.
Re:Previous Covid-19 may cut risk of reinfection 84% on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:03PM (#26802137)
Why are they inaccurate? Not trying to be snarky, just understand what you mean.
Re:Want a Vaccine? Elect a Nationalist on Friday March 26, 2021 @10:33AM (#26592625)
I think there are a few high profile examples where nationalism caused some problems...
Re:I don't want to learn your query language (2018) on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:56AM (#26411830)
I agree with this so much omg.
Re:Best practices can slow your application down on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:43AM (#26386266)
So, if this article actually showed me how writing modular testable code slowed down their application, and how they fixed it, that would be really interesting.
ahh cool thanks.
I never understood why its a big deal that windows are leaves of a binary tree? Its that good? Not trying to be snarky, just curious.
Re:Tig – Text-mode interface for Git on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:21AM (#25444370)
I love tig.
I take issue with this assumption "Think about it. Out of million people only small percentage would become infected with covid and of that, only small percentage would die." The virus is very contagions eventually most people will get infected, not a small percentage. The death rate is nominally low, but a 1% chance of dying is still a lot to me. Also the chances of getting long term side effects or just having a very bad illness are much higher.
Why are you more scared of a vaccine than other new covid treatments?
Re:The Rise and Fall of Science on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:06AM (#24980853)
Actually it is a very valid criticism
Re:Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea? on Friday June 12, 2020 @11:13AM (#23500056)
Its ok to use dark mode just because you like it.