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You're using "efficient" to mean effectiveness against death given infection, but the vaccines aren't close to 90% effective against that. [1] says they're 54% effective against de…

> If the vaccine was 90% efficient, you would expect the vaxed death to be 40%, not 84% (84% implies a 15% vaccine efficiency). I'm not too sure how you arrived at your figures, bu…

The footnote on p33 and 34 suggests an explanation, namely that vaccination rates among the elderly (where most of the deaths are) are particularly high. E.g. if the unvaccinated e…

Considering how small it is, the XPS 13 is surprisingly heavy. Some of the ThinkPads are definitely quite a bit lighter.

I've been using an XPS 13 with Ubuntu since 2017 and would recommend it but with some reservations. The fans can get noisy when using more graphically intensive apps like video cal…

No statistically significant protective effect for the wearer, but as the study points out, it says nothing about protection of those around the wearer, which is the commonly accep…

You're right that the spaced repetition questions are different from the really interesting questions, but that's the point. They're supposed to be aids in internalising the "lower…

Also, the description of the boolean satisfiability problem isn't the boolean satisfiability problem at all, but just what we might call the boolean evaluation problem, or a versio…