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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I'm curious about the efficacy here; how many "bad" drives will this find?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I see a morgue at capacity and I think about the thousands of family members who aren't able to properly grieve for, manage, and bury their deceaseds. I wouldn't jump to accusations of callousness on the part of the GP quite so fa
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
> This coronavirus hasn't even approached those levels globally in five months. Three months, and yes, that's how exponential growth works. It's pretty small at the beginning. You'd think a community of (largely) co
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
We absolutely could have... two months ago. There were a number of missteps that cost us very important time: * WHO developed its protocol based on a German solution and open-sourced it mid-Jan * The CDC decided to develop its own protocol
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
There's a difference in timeframe and scope here. You can get away with testing and individual quarantines if you start early. Now, 1 in 3 (!!) tests are coming back positive in NY. Too many people have it at this point for it to be
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
We don't have enough tests to do it. The testing backlog is getting worse — not better. The current backlog is estimated at 7-14 days in some areas.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Extensive — super extensive — testing, contact tracing, and strong quarantining of suspected and confirmed positives. From the get-go.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Seriously? We've watched this thing spread over the past three months. Every single nation and state saw exponential growth of confirmed cases once community spread started happening — often doubling every 2-4 days. The growth con
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Very true. Here's some more comprehensive numbers from Italian media: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=https:/... Since Feb 25 there have been 91 deaths with positive COVID-19 diagnose
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Cool, thanks for the data. Looks like their population is 30% over 60, whereas the US (for example) is 20%. Even if we assume _every_ death is someone over 60 (it's not), that'd adjust the percentage to 0.4% in a generic US town
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It seems like you're pushing back on the CFR, possibly driven by trying to pessimize the need for action. In the small Italian city of Nembro in Bergamo, 0.6% of their entire population has died in the last 12 days. That's 70 peo
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Regardless of the cause (if it's that "one word" or not), the behaviors are crazy-making and there's a trend of more aggressively exploiting UB for optimizations.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
To put a finer point on it — while reusing an old mask might prevent you from getting Covid19, it might also expose you to a bacteria or fungus that could _also_ lead to a pneumonia or other such lung diseases. You really don't want to
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Reusability of Facemasks During an Influenza Pandemic: Facing the Flu (2006): https://www.nap.edu/read/11637/chapter/6#59 * Finding 1 : The committee could not identify or find any simple modifications to th
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Yeah, but they've also been able to significantly slow the spread, growing at what looks to be closer to 10% day-over-day (doubling every week). Most everywhere else is seeing 25-35% (doubling every 2-3 days).
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
This paper confirms the finding (google search: droplet transmission "winter"). They're uncertain of the mechanistic cause, though. They summarize: > Cold and/or dry conditions impact the stability of influenza virus
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Here's an updated thread from the same author with more plots, more countries, and a few more thoughts. Well worth reading. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1237781162153717760.html
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. We're all on approximately the same exponential trend as Italy, just a few days behind. The US, for example, is looking to be 11 days behind. Do nothing and we'll end up where they are no
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
> Tell them that while average mortality rates may be low, it is highly dependend on age. Mortality rates are also highly dependent upon healthcare system capacity — especially so for elderly and at-risk, because they're the ones mo
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Absolutely no development. I use it as my starting point for feature branches, as well as subsequent rebases and merges on them. And I use it to build and run the current master.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
The content is awesome and the site is starting to struggle with the demand. Here's a cache/mirror/archive (ctrl-f) in case it goes down completely: https://archive.is/Du1G2
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Yup, I really miss UrbanSpoon for the same reason (now owned by zomato and totally ruined). I found it's percent-thumbs-up metric to be so much more valuable than Yelp's 5-star average. If you really want a finer-grained system,
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
What do I want? It sure seems to do exactly what I need in the case where I'm on my local `master` and it's exactly the state of `origin/master` but a day or two behind.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It is.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Chicago has been slowly replacing its yellow sodium streetlamps with efficient LEDs that project down instead of up. They've been working block-by-block in a systematic way that you can see when you fly into the city at night. It&#x2
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Cache/archive/mirror: https://archive.is/jrQ4n#selection-727.0-731.211 In short: > What is the Second Sock Syndrome? > SSS usually refers to the inability to produce complete pairs of socks. Knitting the fir
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I use Mint purely as an API to coalesce and export the transaction history. I then use a Google Sheets workbook to view my balance and expenditures (by Mint-assigned category) over time — allowing for coarse insights, prioritization, and a
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
If I were a foreign government looking to get insight into classified research, Sci-Hub plus a targeted PDF exploit on a small set of domain-specific papers would definitely be high on my list of targets. Cycling through so many different
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
This is exactly why campaigns push so much harder on GOTV than persuasion for the general election.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
While it's great that Monica was able to arrive at a satisfactory agreement, it's a damn shame for the rest of the community that it apparently included an NDA clause. That said, I could totally respect and understand a desire on

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