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Re:EU chat control law will ban open source operating systems on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:08PM (#34633053)
Here on the "Make a complaint to the European Ombudsman" page: https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/make-a-complaint
Re:Bitcoin is a disaster on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:27AM (#25602243)
They lost the private keys, and they are not brute forceable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signatu...

Re:Remote Chaos Communication Congress – Streams on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:11PM (#25562170)
Some other commenter pointed out they are using https://workadventu.re/
Re:Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:55AM (#25303700)
Coming at this late, but that is a really good price for a fully installed system, does that include some government subsidy?

Considering a similar system like that in southern Europe where installation is pretty cheap, and the prices are higher, I see A$12000 for a 10KW system of panels and a 10KW Fronius three-phase inverter.

Re:RCT of Intermittent Fasting on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:34AM (#24625335)
From the study: (TRE = time-restricted eating)

> There was a significant decrease in weight in the TRE (−0.94 kg; 95% CI, −1.68 to −0.20; P = .01)

I believe it was actually 3 people: Phil Wilson, Craig Wright and Dave Kleiman.

Phil left the project and deleted all evidence in 2011, when the FBI was getting involved. Dave died in 2013, and in 2015 Craig started to proclaim that he is Satoshi. The problem is, Craig is the least technical and least stable of the trio, so almost no one believes him.

The source for this info is actually Phil, who comes back in 2017 to tell his story at http://vu.hn/bitcoin%20origins.html#bitcoin-origins

Of course there is no hard evidence for this, so almost no one believes him as well. But I like the story, and matches some of my priors, so I'm sticking with it.

There is also the ongoing lawsuit of the Kleiman estate vs Craig, for the Tulip Trust, a large cache of bitcoins they mined together. The jury trial is scheduled for October 13, so that might also expand on the story when it's concluded: https://coingeek.com/kleiman-v-wright-trial-delayed-until-oc...

No one dies of Vitamin D overdose. Hundreds of thousands of people are dying of COVID-19. So dosing everyone with Vitamin D is extremely low risk for a very high reward...
Re:Vitamin D, part 3 – The Evidence on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:14PM (#24411102)
The only reason that p value is a bit high in that second multivariate analysis is because of the uncertainty of how much all the different risk factors like hypertension, T2DM, age >= 60 etc. affect ICU admission numbers.

But even with those variables controlled, the 95% confidence interval is 0.003-0.25, which at worst is a 4-fold reduction in ICU risk.

We should also note that the Calcifediol treatment group had 14 patients ≥ 60 years old, and the non-Calcifediol group had 5. So the study looks even better with that in mind...

Re:Vitamin D, part 3 – The Evidence on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:17PM (#24410489)
The study says the opposite:

> Randomization generated groups with comparable percentage of unfavorable risk factors as there was no significant difference in subjects with at least one risk factor, except for high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus, known risk factors for unfavorable disease progression, which were more frequent in patients not treated with calcifediol.

> However, even considering these factors, calcifediol significantly decreased the need for ICU admission in COVID-19 patients in a way not previously reported in this process until now.

Can you please link your portable ozone generator? Or at least what the name/brand is?

Is it something like this? https://www.boneview.com/collections/boneview/products/ozone

Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:35AM (#24069436)
Here is an old clinical practice guideline article (2011) from The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism talking about Vitamin D deficiency and recommendations for correcting it:

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/96/7/1911/2833671

You can see that prevalence of deficiency is very high, as this other peer-reviewed study confirms:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21310306/

In the first article, after correcting the deficiency, the maintenance dose that they give is: 600-1000 IU/d for children; 1500–2000 IU/d for adults; 3000–6000 IU/d for obese. As you can see that's much higher than the current RDA of 400 IU/d.

And to correct the deficiency in the first place, the dose needs to be 2-3 times higher still for 8 weeks.

So around half the people in the US need to be taking a very large dose for 8 weeks, and then a maintenance dose 4-15 times higher than the RDA.

This is all from established studies done long ago that no one has disputed. But their recommendations have yet to be implemented in a lot of places, which might be why some countries fare better than others.

Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:55AM (#24069243)
Would you mind telling us what the medical literature says about deaths from Vitamin D overdose? Around how many people in total have died from taking too much Vitamin D?
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:46AM (#22673659)
It actually works fine on Android browsers (checked in FF and Chrome), you just have to load the page in Desktop mode so that it stops pushing the apps to you.

Hopefully they'll reconsider their decision if they want it to get popular...

Mods please change the title to remove "buys", the article changed it's title to "Turkish ministry of education secures free access to Delphi for an estimated one million students".
Re:‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:59AM (#21812445)
It's 2019, why are using a mobile browser without a Reader View button? (Hint: Firefox)
There are no fuel emissions when you engine brake in a modern fuel injection vehicle, as fuel intake is stopped [1].

But it could be bad for your piston rings and catalytic converter [2], so there's that...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_braking#Gasoline_engine...

[2] https://ricksfreeautorepairadvice.com/engine-braking-cause-d...

Use the "Latest Tweets" mode instead of Home, you can switch from the stars icon in the top right.

Latest tweets doesn't show likes for me, ever. That, and also clicking "I don't like this" on a bunch of other algorithmic suggestion boxes, means I'm seeing just the regular old timeline of what people [re]tweeted...

Re:Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? on Sunday January 13, 2019 @05:49PM (#18899215)
Vitamin D supplements do help your immune system, reducing respiratory tract infections, and seem to help with some autoimmune diseases. There have also been some positive findings regarding clinical depression, and improved bone health.

Currently there is no evidence that they help with cancer or cardiovascular disease, but that doesn't mean that someone who is deficient should not try to solve that deficiency with supplements.

Dosing the supplements is the difficult part, ingested Vitamin D absorption is different from person to person, and it's further complicated by variable sun exposure and skin production. 4000 IU per day should be a safe dose, but it's probably not enough with zero sun exposure during winter...

Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:55PM (#18860592)
Nintendo Wii
Re:UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:12PM (#18593082)
In Firefox the zoom levels are saved per website. It has had that feature for a long time. Or do you want to zoom once and have it zoomed on all websites you visit?
Re:Satoshi Nakamoto made a post after years of silence? on Saturday December 01, 2018 @04:49AM (#18576102)
Have you read the Bitcoin Origins story by Phil "Scronty" Wilson?

http://vu.hn/bitcoin%20origins.html

In it he claims that the Satoshi handle was actually shared by him, Craig Wright and Dave Kleiman, and they created Bitcoin together.

North Macedonia is probably the only solution that can pass a referendum vote.
That looks like a very healthy diet. What happens, or would happen, if you reduce or stop your salt supplementation?
Re:Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member on Thursday November 17, 2016 @05:43AM (#12976223)
3. Are they still doing that though, I don't see any evidence? Over here (Macedonia) you can buy laptops/PCs from most brands without Windows, cheaper.

4. What really irks me, is a point you missed: they are dealing with corrupt governments everywhere to make sure all government and education computers have Windows and Office, and that is what gets taught in schools.

Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:51PM (#12912638)
They are paying much more for healthcare, while everything else is cheaper than Norway, one of the most expensive countries in the world.