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New comment by bxrxdx in "Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013)"

bxrxdx — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:28:33 +0000

I loved povray when i was a kid. Very cool its still around.

New comment by bxrxdx in "YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content"

bxrxdx — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:29:34 +0000

good

New comment by bxrxdx in "Covid-19 overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in American history"

bxrxdx — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:05:42 +0000

Does it not count when old people die?

New comment by bxrxdx in "Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest"

bxrxdx — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:43:49 +0000

Maybe stop presuming you know more than your sister? Its fine if the spike protein circulates, its a very small amount and it has been modified so it can't bind to your cells. Its fine if it kills a small number of epithelial cells, covid would do 1000x worse. Finally, how is the mrna going to cause epigenetic changes if it can't get in the nucleus?

New comment by bxrxdx in "Rogue antibodies involved in almost one-fifth of Covid deaths"

bxrxdx — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:42:04 +0000

To be clear, it also reduces your risk of infection.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate"

bxrxdx — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:59:02 +0000

Yes, it's very easy to see causation when there is only correlation.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate"

bxrxdx — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:56:46 +0000

That's not really how it works, First, vaccines prevent infection in the first place so the virus never has a chance to replicate and mutate, unlike antibiotics which are given after infection and there are a massive number of bacteria and only the most resistant survive. Second, there isn't anything about vaccine acquired immunity thats different from infection acquired immunity, so any evolutionary pressure would already be there.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate"

bxrxdx — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:50:55 +0000

I haven't seen any research that says that infection acquired immunity is stronger or longer lasting than from vaccine. The opposite in fact.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate"

bxrxdx — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:48:40 +0000

Right, all you're changing is the mRNA, but that can still be really dangerous. What if you code for a protein that causes cross-reactivity with a human protein and you give millions of people an auto-immune disorder?

I'm 1000% pro mRNA vaccines and pro covid vaccines, but they still need to be tested.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is a Sweeping Indictment of the CDC"

bxrxdx — Mon, 03 May 2021 21:29:49 +0000

I think people have higher expectations for the US. I certainly do.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Kelly Criterion"

bxrxdx — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:24:26 +0000

Its really fun to learn something new and realize how incredibly naive you've been your whole life.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Previous Covid-19 may cut risk of reinfection 84%"

bxrxdx — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 02:03:04 +0000

Why are they inaccurate? Not trying to be snarky, just understand what you mean.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Want a Vaccine? Elect a Nationalist"

bxrxdx — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:33:47 +0000

I think there are a few high profile examples where nationalism caused some problems...

New comment by bxrxdx in "I don't want to learn your query language (2018)"

bxrxdx — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:56:44 +0000

I agree with this so much omg.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Best practices can slow your application down"

bxrxdx — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:43:47 +0000

So, if this article actually showed me how writing modular testable code slowed down their application, and how they fixed it, that would be really interesting.

New comment by bxrxdx in "bspwm: tiling window manager that represents windows as leaves of a binary tree"

bxrxdx — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:42:52 +0000

ahh cool thanks.

New comment by bxrxdx in "bspwm: tiling window manager that represents windows as leaves of a binary tree"

bxrxdx — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:28:53 +0000

I never understood why its a big deal that windows are leaves of a binary tree? Its that good? Not trying to be snarky, just curious.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Tig – Text-mode interface for Git"

bxrxdx — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:21:37 +0000

I love tig.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December"

bxrxdx — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:49:49 +0000

I take issue with this assumption "Think about it. Out of million people only small percentage would become infected with covid and of that, only small percentage would die." The virus is very contagions eventually most people will get infected, not a small percentage. The death rate is nominally low, but a 1% chance of dying is still a lot to me. Also the chances of getting long term side effects or just having a very bad illness are much higher.

New comment by bxrxdx in "Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show"

bxrxdx — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:35:01 +0000

Why are you more scared of a vaccine than other new covid treatments?