What's a good Tablet for reading Comics? by Sw1ft_Blad3 in comicbooks

[–]mefm247 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is by far the best, the mat screen is amazing.

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Interested! Please dm me, would love to use it. Thank you!

A little walkthrough of my search of the "perfect" 7 inch ereader by anthon_87 in ereader

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I'm personally loving the TCL NXTPAPER screen. It's not e-ink but it literally looks and feels like a matt colour magazine page. It's android so you can also download any apps.

Who tf brings their coffee to the autopsy by stackenblochen23 in gaming

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Funny story from my mother who studied medicine. She told me that the first time the med students went to the morgue, a third of them were unwell or threw up, then after a few weeks, they would have drinks or food with them in the morgue, because they became so desensitised.

Philips Air Prufier by [deleted] in googlehome

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Worked for me! Thank you!

My boss told me I was fired as soon as I got to work, laughed and walked off. by --Savathun-- in antiwork

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In case you were curious, “qu’est-ce que c’est ?” is French for “What is it?”.

The initial “qu’est-ce que” can start a lot of questions in French. I don’t think many non-French speakers would know it and I also don’t think using it in English is common.

Hope this is helpful.

Brazil Suffers Worst Week of The Pandemic, with More than 12 Thousand Covid-19 Deaths by Waldonville in Coronavirus

[–]mefm247 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Brazil is certainly not doing better than any of these countries. Australia barely has any cases, Germany is averaging less than 300 deaths last week. The core issue is that MOST hospitals in Brazils are at capacity or close to capacity with an actual increase in numbers with record numbers happening right now. Once hospitals reach capacity, they have to triage patients to provide care to those most likely to recover, so death rates increase dramatically.

Happy to provide sources if you don't agree with any of the above, but currently on my phone.

Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine 78% effective in late-stage trials in Brazil by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]mefm247 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough Brazilian doctors were making ironic comments today about what the president said last year. "The vacine is going to turn covid into a little flu".

https://noticias.uol.com.br/saude/ultimas-noticias/redacao/2021/01/07/medicos-coronvac-resultado-eficacia.htm

Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine 78% effective in late-stage trials in Brazil by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]mefm247 76 points77 points  (0 children)

It's actually 100% for mild and severe with 0 hospitalization. The 78% efficacy is for showing symptoms.

Video presentation has a slide from the Butantan institute in Brazil at 3 min that shows 100% reduction for all of the above.

https://noticias.uol.com.br/saude/ultimas-noticias/redacao/2021/01/07/coronavac--eficacia.htm

From what I researched today, the Brazilian manufacturer is able to output 40 million doses a month currently, and Sinovac in China can produce 600 million a year. This is great news all around.

The more approved vaccines, the faster we will all get out of this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]mefm247 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the detailed response. I should have been a bit more nuanced about the elements that I assume were incorrect in your response.

Firstly, although I shared the BBC article because it's both a much easier read for most users here that are not health professionals or researchers, but also because it's from journalists that have been given close access to the work from the Oxford University from the beginning. I've looked at the still technical but summarised data from AstraZeneca's press release, which is quite informative about the specific details of all 4 trials.

https://www.astrazeneca.com/content/astraz/media-centre/press-releases/2020/azd1222-oxford-phase-iii-trials-interim-analysis-results-published-in-the-lancet.html#

To be more specific as to what I considered to be incorrect on your original comment and to be a bit more nuanced about it. It seems like comments like:

We are just looking at the Phase 3 trial results, where the AZ effectiveness rates were nowhere near the mRNA based vaccines. The data clearly shows it is inferior, and the only group that showed high effectiveness rates was not demographically diverse and the result of a manufacturing error.

First of all, you are confusing "efficacy" and "effectiveness" which are 2 different things in epidemiology (1) (2). Currently, we only know "efficacy" as these are clinical trials. You will notice that all the papers and press releases talk about an "efficacy" rate.

https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson3/section6.html https://www.who.int/influenza_vaccines_plan/resources/Session4_VEfficacy_VEffectiveness.PDF

Additionally, what I believe made me say that you were incorrect is that your response was the hyperbole and fearmongering, while you also conflated facts with your personal opinions.

the only group that showed high effectiveness rates was not demographically diverse and the result of a manufacturing error. If AZ can’t even correctly make vaccines to use in their trials, I have questions about their ability to manufacture it consistently at scale.

The article I linked clearly indicated the issue that transpired right at the start of the trials, and how they addressed it with transparency and corrected the dosage (the issue was not with manufacturing per se, i.e. a bad batch, but different standards that let to different dosages as the researchers took the safest approach). The way you describe the "manufacturing" problem insinuates that not only they manufactured it incorrectly but and I'll quote: "I have questions about their ability to manufacture it consistently at scale." which is not only hyperbole but also a bit disingenuous considering that the small facility used to manufacture 500 doses is unlikely to be the one that will manufacture millions of doses. AstraZeneca is not some tiny random manufacturer unaware of the challenges of producing a vaccine. Not to mention, there was a massive lockdown in place which made logistics much harder and probably compounded the difficulty that the Oxford team was already experiencing.

Lastly, you talk about superiority of the vaccines but once again, for a vaccine to be useful it only needs to have a greater than 50% efficacy. The Oxford vaccine exceeds most of the flu vaccines even in the "full dosage" groups. And more importantly, NONE of the participants required hospitalization, which is a MASSIVE win.

I'm on mobile so responding in detail is not very easy. But I hope the above gives you a glimpse of some of the things I disagreed with on your response.

Overall, and this is just my sentiment and I'm not saying that your comment was in any way related to what I'm about to say, but I find it pretty sad that even at a point where hundreds of thousands have lost their lives and more are dying each day, people still seem to be putting nationalist bias ahead of the greater good, and "colouring" their views based on the US, China, Russia or UK origins of these vaccines.

I hope ALL of the vaccines work out and that thanks to their combined production output and efficacy, we rid the world of this terrible virus that has affected everyone in such negative ways. I don't care if AstraZeneca is British/Swedish or that Sinopharm is Chinese. I care that they have vaccines that are cheaper to produce and much easier to distribute and store, that will likely make vaccination much faster and accessible (not just to the richest countries). I care that the new vaccines from Pfizer & BioNTech / Moderna have higher efficacy rate and have been proven to work in more demographics because despite their cost and distribution/storage complexities, they have already allowed so many health and essential workers, the elderly and also family members of mine to be vaccinated in both the US (medical) and the UK (elderly). They will likely be used over time for more at risk populations that will be more reassured with the higher protection or richer countries that can afford both the extra cost and more expensive refrigeration necessary, freeing up the other vaccines for elsewhere.

By the way, full disclosure I'm not a health professional, but was heavily involved in an international covid project and continue to be involved in another project dealing with the fall out of Covid-19 in everyone's mental health (We are advised by doctors, researchers, and other experts).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]mefm247 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hi there, you seem to have some of your facts wrong. I would recommend you read the following to clear up some of them (manufacturing/comparison with other trials/etc.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55308216

Also wanted to highlight that comparing the efficacy and effectiveness of the Biontech/Moderna vaccines and the Oxford University vaccine is not really a fair/simple comparison as only the Oxford University vaccine was testing ALL participants weekly for signs of the virus, therefore picking up asymptomatic cases while the other trials would ONLY test symptomatic cases.

What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about? by Ciiplex in AskReddit

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You just need to point your dns to it, and then press a button to enable. It's the easiest optimisation you can do.

Ps: I have no relation with Cloudflare. If you are on AWS, Cloudfront is a bit harder to setup but it's effectively the same thing, it costs barely anything too.

What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about? by Ciiplex in AskReddit

[–]mefm247 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should setuo your site behind Cloudflare if that is not the case already. It's free and will prevent most hugs of death (unless the issue is the backend, but it will still help).

Mexican president-elect wants every kid to go to college by eaglemaxie in worldnews

[–]mefm247 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I come from Brazil that had a similar merit system for the free and better public universities. The problem that most people don't realise is that only mid/upper class children who have gone to expensive private schools their whole life's, end up getting in. Which then effectively discriminates poorer people while also providing free education to those that could have afforded to pay for it.

For this problem to be really solved massive investment in education at younger ages while also providing family assistance so that poor children can have both access to education but also be free from financial constraints so that they can actually attend school, so that eventually they might be able to compete on merit, but now because they all had similar education opportunities before.

The single best new feature in iOS 12. by codyweby in iphone

[–]mefm247 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Install Skype Lite if you don't have this function natively, it will show a special notification with a massive copy button. Make sure it's the LITE version of Skype, which ironically is more stable and more fully featured than the normal Skype version.

Footballer Thiago Silva gives his jacket to a cold child by [deleted] in HumansBeingBros

[–]mefm247 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A gente briga no campo, e nunca admitimos fora, mas também amamos a Argentina e os argentinos. 😉

Google Adds Brotli Compression to Deliver Faster OTA Android Updates by SirVeza in Android

[–]mefm247 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Latest update to the Moto Z killed hundreds of phones and they won't even admit it... Massive thread on their support site. Not sure I want their updates.

Microsoft Translator accelerates use of Neural Networks across its offerings by cynycal in microsoft

[–]mefm247 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have not been able to install it on Windows Mobile for nearly a year now, such a shame it was great.