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underdown··on First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved
There is a cost to long distance transmission which distorts those numbers, presumably.
underdown··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
I did.

The other study is similar in design.

FTA "The new study was a companion to a randomized trial by the same researchers published last month. Those results showed the drug is not effective in preventing covid-19 in healthy people exposed to the coronavirus."

underdown··on Low-dose Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients
I have no idea if hcq is effective, but I'm not sure that study you linked was meaningful.

FTA "The first randomized clinical trial testing hydroxychloroquine as an early treatment for mild covid-19 found the drug was no better than a placebo in patients who were not hospitalized."

So, maybe hcq has no effect on outcomes on mild cases. This does not mean it couldn't have an effect on severe/hospitalized patients.

underdown··on Blender 2.83 LTS
Yes sir
underdown··on Blender 2.83 LTS
Not trying to disagree with your point, but the company I work for built a design tool on top of blender that feeds custom designs to our automated mill. The customer gets a high quality 3d render to approve before materials are cut & packaged. It seems to work well. Maybe we are an edge case.
underdown··on Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
No medical benefit ... in the treatment of covid-19.
underdown··on Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies
Anecdotally I have several friends who run small businesses that received funds. My employer did as well.
underdown··on We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)
> There are highly effective “unnatural” SEO strategies, for example you could just generate fake bounces on your competitors pages using proxies.

That's not unnatural seo it's negative seo.

underdown··on Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations
Did you type this out on an iPhone?
underdown··on Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
"People sent to the centers had been sentenced for felonies but didn’t commit violent crimes, according to the program rules. "
underdown··on Chemo Truthers Are the New Anti-Vaxxers
I feel sorry for your father. Dialysis is not fun, this is not irrational behavior, it's pain avoidance. My grandfather used to call me when he was going through dialysis - sometimes crying. It was heartbreaking.
underdown··on Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M
Warren is a small city in the Northeast part of Rhode island. This is a local news site.
underdown··on Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
Sorry to hear that. Hope things worked out.
underdown··on How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
Traffic never leaving Google's servers seems pretty concrete.
underdown··on How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
Many ads are served via iframes

https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/183282

underdown··on Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
Wouldn't one enjoy some benefits from being proven right?
underdown··on LineageOS Android Distribution
I wish I could buy another new OnePlus one. Phone lasted me three and a half years before I broke the screen and decided to upgrade. All while never having a case. Phone has a metal bezel that extends out past the edges of the glass and a sandpaper textured back that actually allows you to grip it. Eventually I dropped it one too many times flat on its face. I should have just figured out how to fix the screen. Its amazing how much longer a phone lasts when it's not entirely wrapped in glass. Sure you can buy an OtterBox, but then you're carrying around a brick in your pocket.
underdown··on Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project
So, wrongthink is what we are convicting him of? I disagree generally with his statement but reasonable people can disagree in a free society.
underdown··on Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
It's also not technically correct. Externalities are externalities because they don't effect price while subsidies inherently effect price.
underdown··on Verified by Twilio
Robocalls absolutely work off a list of numbers. Sure you could just load up a list of all numbers.
underdown··on Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? How Trade Works with Free-Floating Currency
So you're saying the yuan hasn't been pegged to the dollar all these years? This is revisionism.
underdown··on Which has more sales: a single long checkout form or a multi-step one?
Split tests are not generalizable. This "research" means almost nothing for your checkout process.
underdown··on Why Google+ Failed
After a while it starts looking like a bloodbath
underdown··on Opposition to Sidewalk Labs in Toronto
In a sense isn't that what every alleyway in the world is?
underdown··on Show HN: Songcraft – Online Songwriting Platform and Guitar Tab Builder
App seems extremely well thought out from first look, however, how do i actually play a song back?
underdown··on Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
ideal for clickjacking
underdown··on Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'
Calling a newly proposed regulation "pro free market" legislation is a little orwellian.
underdown··on Illinois Ponders Pension-Fund Moonshot: A $107B Bond Sale
the argument is between defined benefit vs defined contribution plans. The former are unsustainable as evidenced by illinois’ ballooning deficit, while the latter are somewhat variable in return.
underdown··on Newman's Own faces mammoth tax bill after lawmakers fail to spare the foundation
not all corporations have share holders. full stop?
underdown··on Beijing Sinnet says it will buy Amazon Web Services’ China business
Adding money to the supply of money causes inflation regardless of the "productive purpose" for which it is used.
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