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confeit

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    Comment #24161775

    Before the elections, when Putin thought that Trump would lose, and influence campaigns were designed to promote him as a detractor and divider, calling out the rigged elections an…

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    Comment #24159435

    I am convinced that Q, if not started, was quickly taken over and turned into a Russian psyop. I expected the Mueller report to validate this (gross online astroturfing campaigns b…

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    Comment #23970269

    > Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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    Comment #23970099

    > anything trained on internet data is kinda doomed to poison itself on the high ratio of garbage floating around here? Low-quality noise cancels out and leaves the high-quality si…

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    Comment #23969521

    You can get a glimpse by scrolling websites like: https://www.darpa.mil/opencatalog?ppl=view200&sort=title&ocF... [.mil] and looking at DARPA and Office of Naval Research sponsored…

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    Comment #23945473

    My cursory research, after sensing something was amiss or forced with the narritive, is that the situation is much the same as border detention centers. These cages were in use dur…

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    Comment #23886764

    I saw it linked from the comments on a Tweet by Karpathy and found it intellectually curious. > By posting GPT generated text we’re polluting the data for its future versions https…

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    Comment #23885928

    Giving certain people, highly visible on social media, pre-public access to the model, and letting them cherry pick their completions to post without the prompt or amount of tries,…

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    Comment #23885876

    I don't care if you followed a two month course by Joel Grus on Fizzbuzz and graduated magna cum laude. I care if you can actually code Fizzbuzz. Coursera courses on your resume, i…

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    Comment #23838468

    > You're flying! How? > Python! I learned it last night! Everything is so simple! Hello world is just: print "Hello, world!" > SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. …

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    Comment #23837933

    > Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(1, 2, 3)? Yes, Python, I meant exactly that! I've never seen this error message in error. Now you know what I mean, ple…

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    Comment #23323534

    Since at least 2011, the Dutch test wastewater of cities for traces of drugs, such as cocaine and XTC, and use this to inform public policy. Already in 2009 it was known that coron…

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    Comment #23157212

    Did you reuse the password at any other site? Check your haveibeenpawned.

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    Comment #22602670

    Vitamin C, taken orally, reduces length of cold with 8% in adults, and 12% in children. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10796569 Vitamin C deficiency makes you more susceptible…

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    Comment #22602458

    Thanks, makes sense. Iceland also did voluntary testing and then estimated 1% of their population is infected. I doubt 1% is even showing mild symptoms. Remains the significance of…

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    Comment #22602270

    > "The vast majority of people infected with Covid-19, between 50 and 75%, are completely asymptomatic but represent a formidable source of contagion". The Professor of Clinical Im…

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    Comment #22586880

    In Italy they use old laws for murder when you violate your isolation and infect others. Australia, NZ, U.S., Italy, they all see sustained local community spread. Australia is sti…

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    Comment #22586622

    During quarantines people are not shaking hands. I am not saying quarantines necessarily select for a higher death rate (a dead host can not spread), but for a more severe disease …

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    Comment #22586456

    https://www.businessinsider.com/presentation-how-hospitals-a... > estimated projections of as many as 96 million cases in the US, 4.8 million hospitalizations, and 480,000 deaths a…

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    Comment #22586379

    > Human intervention may have placed more severe selective pressure on the L type, which might be more aggressive and spread more quickly. Harder to detect I would see in a strain …

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    Comment #22586367

    > People regularly become ill with a cold due to a coronavirus and may catch the same one about 4 months later. > This is because coronavirus antibodies do not last for a long time…