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brute | 6 years ago | on: FDA Approves Clinical Trials to Use Antibodies from Recovered Patients

Do you have a source that young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19? Just curious.

The best I have is the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) which did a study on all 2003 dead (back when that was the number). Only 5 have been under the age of 40 and all of them had medical preconditions.

There are young and healthy people that show heavy symptoms and even need ventilation, but they all seem to survive.

brute | 6 years ago | on: A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks

Well, it's true. Here [1] is the corresponding law, here [2] is wikipedia with some expamples what counts as passive weapons (plastic film, basecaps reinforced with plastic, gasmasks, knee pads, … ) and here [3] is a case where a paramedic was sentenced for wearing a helmet.

[1] https://dejure.org/gesetze/VersG/17a.html

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzwaffe

[3] www.labournet.de/interventionen/grundrechte/grundrechte-all/demonstrationsrecht/schutz-durch-selbstschutz-demonstrationssanitaeter-wurde-wegen-vermummung-und-passivbewaffnung-verurteilt/

brute | 6 years ago | on: The internet is an SEO landfill

then SEO would turn towards having an army of bots upvoting your product and downvoting the competitor. And if you have something in between to detect bots, users wouldn't want to use it (who would solve a captcha to help optimize search results?) and SEO would find ways around it

brute | 7 years ago | on: Fyne: Cross-Platform GUI in Go Based on Material Design

> Fyne ships with two themes by default, "light" and "dark". […] The default is dark

As someone who uses dark-themes for absolutely everything, which sometimes requires quite some hassle (I am looking at you Slack), I welcome the trend to offer a dark theme next to a light one. And having dark as default is even better. Thank you!

brute | 7 years ago | on: Sex censorship killed the internet we love

An eye-opening moment for me was when the game 'Bulletstorm' released in 2011. It was heavily criticized when it launched (and even before) but for vastly different reasons.

Germany had a HUGE problem with the violence (even the 18+ version has blood and dismemberment removed), US criticized the sexuality (two achievements were called 'topless' and 'gang bang'), and in Japan it was about the promotion of drugs (you could get drunk to perform extra skill shots) and to a lesser extent about the violence.

So every cultural region has its own ideas of what their children need to be shielded from (and what to blame social misconduct on). But they all fail to realize that the children of the others, who get exposed to the 'bad stuff', still turn out fine by some miracle.

brute | 8 years ago | on: Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists

The major factor here is Berlin's street width, which was chosen to be 22m by law in 1862 for fire safety reasons, much wider than other german cities. Consequently during WW2, Berlin proved to be a problem for allied incendiary bombs. At some point they were even building a to scale model city in the desert (Dugway Proving Ground) for testing various methods of igniting fire storms.

> Berlin, however, would “prove more difficult than most other German cities”, the leading incendiary expert Horatio Bond avowed before the national commission for armament research of the USA. “The building quality is higher, and the single blocks are better separated from each other.” As the tests at the Dugway Proving Ground showed, is “was hardly to be expected that the flames would jump unhindered from one building to the next”.[1]

[1] http://www.principality-of-sealand.ch/pdf/sealandbrief0503e....

brute | 8 years ago | on: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

> If they were stored directly as text files it would be slow to query them, it would be very hard to make it work on mobile (and even slower), and you wouldn't be able to easily create relations between notes and tags, notes and notebooks, resource links, etc.

Zim uses plain text files and folders. You can have images, tags, link to other notes, links to the filesystem...

Maybe I am not using it with enough files for it to be a problem, but I cant say that it is slow.

brute | 8 years ago | on: OpenShot 2.4.1 Released

I was really happy when I found OpenShot, because of it's clean and intuitive interface. Unfortunately it was somewhat unstable at the time (which seems to be fixed by today's patch, yeay!), so I was even more delighted when I found Shotcut, which is also free, open source and cross-platform, has an equally nice interface, but has an even bigger set of features.

brute | 8 years ago | on: Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion?

Cats that grow up in an environment without any horizontal lines are unable to see horizontal lines [1]. This indicates that it might not be as much "evolution made me recognize these shapes" as it is "I learned to recognize these shapes since I see them often", which is more inline with OP's explanation. Of course evolution plays into what you are able to learn to recognize in the first place.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-food/201404/the-c...

brute | 8 years ago | on: Last Words From Death Row (2015)

Nice to analysis but one should be hesitant to draw conclusions. Word frequency analysis lacks context. Same problem for approaches that separate words into positive and negative categories.

Example:

   I love to kill your family and the people that support my death.
   God is going to come for you and all your friends and I know that even your lord Jesus will not forgive what you have done.
   You will be sorry, you will see.
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