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1/13 This thread is a deep dive into Covid In Florida, but some of my comments apply nationwide. TLDR is that it’s not as bad as the media says.
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New: teachers’ extraordinary work during Covid-19 undervalued, says academic group, as it describes government’s September re-opening plans as “unrealistic”. https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/147101/teachers-extraordinary-wo
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Tech companies drive our economy. For better or worse.If we want more better and less worse then we need tech companies to effectively balance the pursuit of profit with the
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Folks, let me share some thoughts on the latest developments in Eastern Ladakh over the past few days.As always, writing this thread on the go, in the hope that it
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1/ So hey, this CDC doc! I like it more than I expected (this may say more about my expectations than the doc). But let’s start w/ what it’s not:
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Exploitable heap overflow in libgcrypt 1.9.0 (┛ಠ_ಠ)┛彡┻━┻It's the crypto library that gpg uses. Homebrew has 1.9.0 right now. https://dev.gnupg.org/T5259  It's in cipher/hash-common.c (!) and looks like it's
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So I just finished a week at the hospital here in Fredericton for a non-Covid related medical emergency. I have some thoughts.(thread) 2/ I'll preface all of this by saying
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I totally agree with this. It is a tough call and I've little to no time for those who call Caster Semenya a cheat.There is a conflict of rights.The rights
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45 year old lady. Non cardiac chest pain, body aches and tiredness. Clinically no significant findings. Ecg and echo were normal. Sent for usual blood/urine tests - CBC RFT LFT
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MEDICO LEGAL CASES at hospitals can be most amusing. Some case scenarios seen in residency:SCENARIO 1–Young male complained he got beaten up by a family member on 20 June at
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on the Toronto area SGTF (S-Gene Target Failure) study to detect B117 (UK variant). It looked at 11,485 positive tests over Dec 16 to Feb 3 and found 448 had
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One reason you don't mess with a novel virus is because you don't know the lasting effects. It's not just deaths that are the problem but potential for long lasting
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thread/Pangolin triggered a very low probability error in the network. A bug that could not be understood in these tests, as there is no way to replicate a dynamic, live
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On this week's #Urixnrk, @msfnorge and I discussed vaccine politics, global solidarity and the imperative that vaccine producers like @pfizer @moderna_tx & @AstraZeneca urgently contribute to equitable global access.
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I was an eng leader on Facebook’s NewsFeed and my team was responsible for the feed ranking platform. Every few days an engineer would get paged that a metric e.g.,
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Why are people so trusting of giant Pharma corporations, who are only looking out for their shareholders, and their enrichment? These are the same companies who have injured and killed
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