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tchalla

32,740karma·5,338submissions·November 17, 2011
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Basically, memory B-cells remember the code for anti-bodies and they are produced "on demand". Please see the graph in the figure below. https://askabiologist.asu.edu/memory-…
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Low antibodies != low immune response
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I have seen a lot of introduction that explains the mechanics. However, I haven't seen one that explains the intuition of the hypothesis on why it works.
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Rapid antigen tests have a relatively high rate of false negatives.
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> If the vaccine doesn't significantly stop the spread of the disease Multiple studies show that vaccinated people have significantly lower transmission than unvaccinated. > In studies cond…
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Is there a way to get this on macOS Monterey / BigSur Safari?
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I don't know how long will it take to simply make a law where opt-in and opt-out effort should equivocate.
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Very interesting. The actual war crimes are brushed aside but the person who revealed those war crimes are punished. I wonder how this would have played out if China or Russia did it.
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> There is a danger in taking this too far. Already done- many, many times "Diamonds are forever", "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day", "Bacon for Breakfast&q…
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They are also available on Coursera.
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> There is a reason. Controversy which began in 1973 and spurred Congressional investigations and this very article led to the CIA to sign a 1977 directive that prohibited them from recruiting or i…
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> I have no doubt that academics have a ton of expertise, but their output in paper form is basically unusable, I'm not sure it achieves any purpose besides resume padding. If you think the en…
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You're basically saying - In a country of 100 people, concentration of wealth is great. Concentration like for every 100$, 5 people taking 95$ and the rest 95 taking the 5$ is fine. Your rational…
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> Like the parent said, all of the currently-approved intramuscular Covid-19 vaccines have proven to have a negligible effect on transmission rate. Multiple studies show that vaccinated people have…
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> they are also forcing everyone who is fully vaccinated to get booster shots every 6 months for the indefinite future. There is no obligation (or force) to get a booster shot. It is available and …
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I specifically wrote in my comment "I am not going to stand up to Elon Musk or what he said." How did you come to the conclusion that I found it acceptable?
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I have stopped exclusively using Google search for 95/100 queries. Duckduckgo does the job and sometimes I bang to Google.
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It is critical to distinguish risk from uncertainty. > "Uncertainty must be taken in a sense radically distinct from the familiar notion of Risk, from which it has never been properly separate…
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I am not going to stand up to Elon Musk or what he said. But, the response generated by Elon Musk was after the British rescue diver said this > “He can stick his submarine where it hurts,” he told…
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> Your suggestion reads like you want to stop progress on Facebook because you'd prefer amazon to be looked at first. That wasn't my suggestion, really. The parent comment said that "…
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This is not a Whataboutism. I didn't raise a counter accusation, I said Facebook + others should be looked into - not only Facebook. > but if you've got three broken companies and you fi…
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I’m not sure why we should focus only on Facebook. Amazon, Google, Apple do it as well. Laws should go beyond Facebook.
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> How about they actually combat COVID first? Like, without needing to re-take them every few months. I sense some frustration behind that comment. Two points 1) We don't see a decrease in Vac…
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> But the FDA can’t simply turn the documents over wholesale. The records must be reviewed to redact “confidential business and trade secret information of Pfizer or BioNTech and personal privacy i…
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There's a reason for those so called "shenanigans". The merchant fees for EC card are the lowest amongst all cards. Pretty much all banks issue EC cards. Earlier, merchant fees could no…
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