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deodorel | 9 months ago | on: AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome

He might have delivered a lot of revenue growth yea, but Google culture is basically gone. Internally we're not very far from Amazon style "performance management"

deodorel | 1 year ago | on: German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility

Just curious how is this working out if I am working for an American company in Europe and I come to us for a meeting let's say? I will be there for a few days and actually working at the local branch.

deodorel | 3 years ago | on: Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you

Probably not, and he will be shunned by his community. The Roma problem is at this moment unsolvable and it will lead to some sad situation at some point :(.

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: On Being Disappeared

Often when I look at how us works it seems to me that a lot of political action, censorship and coercion is privatised there, so it looks superficially like you have more degrees of freedom because you are limited by private actors and not the state.

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft to build energy efficient, heat-producing data centre in Finland

In my country during the communist times many cities that had some industry nearby were heated with the excess heat from those factories.

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: The Next 10 Days Will Decide This War

You guys are definitely not playing xcom and seeing 99% shots miss.

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

No that would be blind.

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia

I can't believe no-one mentioned keratological lenses. Not only gives you a glasses free experience during the day, they also slow or stop the progression of myopia. Aren't these avaliable in the US?

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

I was part of many left wings groups and I remember there was a transitional period in which there was a lot of talk about intersectionalism, that is how we need to not only take into account the class, but also race, gender, sexual orientation etc. Then slowly the class part dissappeared so only the latter were left to intersect.

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred

If some vibration on the launch pad is that serious, what will it happen during the actual launch with a lot more vibrations and g forces?

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: French health authority advises against Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for under 30s

Have you actually read after the abstract? The study you mentioned is about any spike protein, not only vaccine induced. And you will get a lot mote of that if you get infected. Also the effect is temporary and limited to the infected cells as these cells are terminated by the immune system or go into apoptosis (as per your study).

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: Norway bans gas cars in 2025 but trends point toward 100%EV sales as early April

Unfortunately there are studies that show that building the battery of an electric car pollutes as much as a ice car in 8 years of use. That's not very helpful unless you find the way to greenify the extraction and building process.

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: Ivermectin for the Treatment of Covid-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Actually there was that flu vaccine that triggered narcolepsy very rarely in young people after 12 - 24 months. But this is the only example i heard of.

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection

Valneva has an inactivated virus vaccine and they will soon apply for authorisation (phase 3 i think right now)

deodorel | 4 years ago | on: Covid deaths plunge after 75% of town's adults vaccinated

While reasonable, your statement ignore the fact that humans have issues considering the difference between a 1 in the million risk and 1 in 100000 (made up numbers). Many are afraid of flying and drive instead even if the risks are way higher driving.

deodorel | 5 years ago | on: Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator

Actually the us backed down. The crisis was triggered by the installation of us nuclear missiles in turkey, a arm length away from russia. They responded by putting missiles in Cuba. The end game was us pulling its missiles from Turkey and ussr from Cuba.

deodorel | 5 years ago | on: Robinhood: US family sue trading app over son's suicide

Yes, his position was in fact hedged/covered by another position. In the end he lost nothing.

deodorel | 5 years ago | on: We need the wolf

Artificially supporting and re-introducing wild life has its hazards too. In my country, romania, we have grown a huge bears population, totally disconnected from a natural food chain as you can get. They usually go into cities and villages for food, stopped hibernating because of the availability of food during winter, and keep reproducing. Some have actually moved in abandoned places near cities terrorising locals. The bears are not hunted, with no natural predators and unlimited food...

deodorel | 5 years ago | on: System of a Down releases new music for the first time in 15 years

Saw them in 2017 at nova Rock :)

deodorel | 5 years ago | on: Volunteers spot almost 100 cold brown dwarfs near our sun

When I was little I read a Jules vernes story about a big asteroid touching briefly earth and yanking away some water and an island. Presumably this is only perceived by the islanders as a big earthquake and it takes some time for them to realise that they are not on the earth anymore. Next year three is a close pass near earth again and they manage to return to earth in a balloon :)