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abbracadabbra | 3 months ago | on: Super-Emitter of the Most Damaging Greenhouse Gas Found in Germany

Interesting to read that there is little to no legal action that can be taken to halt operations at the plant, which means that unfortunately it may take a long time for this to be resolved.

abbracadabbra | 8 months ago | on: Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day

This is in Austin

abbracadabbra | 3 years ago | on: Trump’s Major Announcement Is $99 Digital Trading Cards

> NFT INT LLC is not owned, managed or controlled by Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization, CIC Digital LLC or any of their respective principals or affiliates. NFT INT LLC uses Donald J. Trump's name, likeness and image under paid license from CIC Digital LLC, which license may be terminated or revoked according to its terms.

abbracadabbra | 3 years ago | on: Revealed: FTX’s emergency fundraising term sheet

https://archive.ph/3QMNp

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 follow-up]

It’s interesting that in 2018 we didn’t see any anonymous posts confirming the story. This recent article suggests that knowledge was fairly well spread amongst government agencies and their suppliers. Impressive that the culture of secrecy remains so strong.

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps

Primary sources have been lacking in coverage of this story; is the Communist party that powerful in controlling first hand accounts?

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: Tell HN: YouTube fixed the dot after domain ad bypass

NextDNS

https://nextdns.io/

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign

A choice quote from the wickedlocal coverage:

> Those involved became so concerned that they developed a list of people in California they could frame if authorities tracked the harassment there, Lelling said

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: Dark Basin: Uncovering a Hack-for-Hire Operation

It would be interesting to know the middleman involved in hiring BellTroX; surely Exxon didn’t hire them directly but were working with a “public relations” company that took initiative to hire this shady firm. Knowing the middleman might help connect the loose threads

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine

Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine

Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine

Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine

Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: Widely disseminated hydroxychlroquine study retracted by authors

Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra | 5 years ago | on: Widely disseminated hydroxychlroquine study retracted by authors

Since this is being repeated multiple times, quoting benmaraschino:

One of these "studies" is a 2-page Google Doc with no real data. Another is the discredited Raoult study, which is under investigation by the journal [1]. Another study cited is also by Raoult's team. The Brazil study (ref. 29) doesn't seem to have passed peer review (yet?) and has severe methodological flaws. Like the Raoult studies, the Brazil study was not randomized, but makes no attempt to control for confounding by indication or self-selection, such as with propensity score matching or similar methods commonly used in observational studies. The last study cited isn't a study, but an article from a local news station.

abbracadabbra | 6 years ago | on: E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall

Do other newspapers publish scans of their print editions? From the article, nytimes:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/04/10/nytfrontpage/scan...

abbracadabbra | 6 years ago | on: Venezuelan naval boat rams passenger cruise liner, damages itself, sinks

Tonnage has the right of way

abbracadabbra | 6 years ago | on: Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest build despite privacy concerns

Microsoft Edge, which is built on Chromium, would fit this parallel nicely.

abbracadabbra | 6 years ago | on: Institutional investors have subscribed for 6.3B shares for Aramco IPO

Interesting how little coverage the largest IPO ever has been getting.

abbracadabbra | 6 years ago | on: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims

The documents released here describe high level directives from Xi Jingping, and some quotes on how family members should be told of detained relatives. Presumably there must be many other documents detailing design and construction of the large scale facilities that would be needed for the number people being detained; these might shed more light on the actual scale of what is happening. The documents so far could be describing programs that target 100’s of people, not the millions claimed elsewhere.

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