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Re:Luma AI Dream Machine on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:16PM (#40674176)
That polar bear has two heads.
Yeah, somewhat ironically you were looking at the reading comprehension scores.
They only approve that which they've tested for; in this case, they've only tested using this dosage as a booster. If, later, there's more testing on people who have not had any vaccine, they may expand the authorization. It's not a conspiracy.
The report's been split into two docs. The referenced table is in the Supplemental Statistical Tables by the same authors: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv20sst.pdf
It's there (table 5); it's just formatted differently. Presumably the original poster decided not to include it, as it added the footnote "Victims of other races are not shown separately due to small numbers of sample cases", which doesn't fit his framing.
Re:Polio Detected in US on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:58PM (#32195070)
The cited article on WP ( https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/ultra-orthodox-zip-codes-have... ) notes that measles vaccination rates were around 70%, vs 99% for the rest of the state. Given the vaccine schedule, it's pretty likely that if you're a kid not vaccinated for measles, you're not vaccinated for polio either.
Re:Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:04PM (#31174705)
No, it wouldn't. The Dow is weighted for exactly this reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average#C...
Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:09PM (#31136092)
On point #1, you can probably do 10Gbps (assuming it's actually Cat5e), as long as it's under 50m or so. If it's just a run inside your house, it's likely well within range.
Re:Snowden: I'm Not Suspended on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:32PM (#30494565)
He spent a couple weeks saying that the Biden administration was predicting an invasion that wasn't going to happen as a way of distracting from other problems, e.g. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1493641714363478016
Re:iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:40PM (#30198495)
Salting doesn't matter in this case. They're not finding a list of free-floating passwords and then seeing if anyone has that password; they're finding a list of accounts and associated passwords. So they only have to check that particular combination, just as they would for a regular login.
Re:iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:36PM (#30198434)
It's computationally expensive to hash every single possible password, but given a proposed login/password combo, it's not expensive to check just the one. If Google, in crawling, finds a dump of several million accounts and their purported passwords, it's not a heavy lift to check each password.
Re:iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:43PM (#30196729)
That doesn't mean it's stored in plain text. They could be storing a nice hash, and then when the crawler finds your email and password on some site some where, it could try to hash it as if you were logging in and see if it matches.
Re: on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:23AM (#29805814)
He was not "one of the early inventors of mRNA vaccines". He admitted as much when pressed on it: https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/3aa2eefd The only reason anyone started thinking he _had_ invented the mRNA vaccine was his wife editing his Wikipedia article to claim that he had: https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/07/13/is-mrna-vaccine-i...
The population of Scotland is 5.4m, not 8.4m.

Knowing that lets us do a little math about expected death rates. In 2019, ~58,000 Scots died over the course of the year; that gives a rough chance of dying on any given day of 0.002%.

As of today, about 3m Scots are fully vaccinated vaccine, and another ~1m have either received a single dose or are still within the 2 week period after the second dose. If you add up the 28 day periods after those doses, that gives 196m days of Scots living "within 28 days of taking the 'vaccine'". You would then expect ~5,700 of them to die even if given saline, just by the underlying death rate.

So 5,500 is actually a bit lower than expected, maybe due to residual lockdown effect, or perhaps just that people who get vaccinated are generally better at risk/benefit analysis and are less likely to die from all causes.

That's not how mRNA works; the whole point is that it temporarily induces some cells to produce spike protein, but this effect does not last long as mRNA by its nature decays as it is used.

Also, that's not what autoimmune means.

Also, there were not "deaths of all animals" or even some; you can read about Pfizer's initial animal testing here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.08.280818v1.... and the results here: https://www.fda.gov/media/144416/download There's also a follow-up paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03275-y

Re:On the Loss of a Cofounder on Sunday November 22, 2020 @04:10PM (#25181138)
He later retracted that, as it wasn't true: https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/05/29/no-bay-area-ho...