In an ideal world a vaccine would be great in terms of every characteristic. Efficacy, cost, ease of use, storage, manufacturing difficulties, the strength/promptness/duration of the immune response;… (View Post)

A tiny difference in the grand scheme of things. Mask wearing being mandated rather than advised is not going to be the difference between success and catastrophe. Three governments looked at the sam… (View Post)

It doesn't work like that at all. There is no location information used. The distance between contacts is inferred from the received signal strength of Bluetooth Low Energy advertisments that yo… (View Post)

Boris isn't even all that right-wing by contemporary standards, never mind compared to some Tories of old. There are much sounder complaints to be made about him than trying to paint him as some… (View Post)

A couple of years ago FrancisUrquhart posted a link to a podcast about disinformation — it may have been the Sam Harris podcast — where the researcher explained the scope of the issue. Now the interv… (View Post)