DuskStar

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by DuskStar 7y ago
> True: Germany doesn't do post-mortem tests on people not tested before. But at the same time, everyone who dies and has a SARS2-infection is counted as a COVID-death, whether or not they died from the infection. But how do you kno
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I'm pretty sure archive.is is safe... Yes, there's been some weirdness between them and Cloudflare, but nothing security related.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> The only thing you do is to move attention away from cryptocurrencies to (other) fiat currencies. They may have problems too. Are there any NON-fiat currencies in use today?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> This article is garbage, it is 100% trying to get clicks and isn't even remotely actual journalism. So in other words, it's Gizmodo?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
It was meant more as a "there is no real response to a contentless statement like this" comment, though I admit people don't seem to be taking it that way.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The issue is that you either need a strategic stockpile OR domestic production capabilities, and ideally both. You seem to be ignoring the latter entirely. (And it was Obama that depleted the strategic stockpile of N95 masks without repleni
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> What in tarnation is going on here? This situation feels surreal to me. Like, how is a person supposed to sort out fact from fiction in this information environment? I feel like I am unable to discern what is actually true. When Donald
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The thread's point is that the other way the US government could have prepared for this would have been to prevent the offshoring of mask production (and other national-security related items), thus keeping the necessary production c
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And here I thought that it was Common Knowledge that gang members were young and stupid. Looking at this .gov site I just found [0], it appears that 30-60% of gang members are under 18, and I imagine the remainder isn't going to be o
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> where one party has been talking about how incompetent government is. For decades. And working to ensure that it is (so parts of it can be privatized). I'd be much more likely to accept that this was causative if not for the exist
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Losing 3% of Americans, spread equally throughout the population, would be bad for the economy. Losing 20% of retirees, though... That would be fantastic for the US economy. And guess what? Covid-19 kills mostly retirees . So no, they pr
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Not the GP, but I'd rather be alive and rich than alive and poor, and I'd rather be alive and poor than dead. But say I assign utilities like this: Alive+rich = 5 Alive+poor = 1 Dead = 0 So 50% alive+rich, 50% dead has utility 2.5
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Even a president with assets in a blind trust would know that helping the economy would almost certainly help their portfolio.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
What percentage reduction would you consider to be a solution? Since AFAICT you already moved the goalposts from "methane emissions" to "resource usage".
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I'd guess the opposite, actually. Mass is extremely important for a rocket, so there would be strong incentives to make the cooling system as light as possible. But a passive system has a few major advantages - it's maintenance fr
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Evidently short enough that people can take it for years.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I believe that recent(ish) builds of Windows, webservers running in WSL can be accessed from Windows via localhost:port, just like with WSL 1. [0] Accessing servers running on the Windows side from WSL is a fair bit harder, but IMO also a l
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by DuskStar 7y ago
As always, there's an XKCD for this: https://xkcd.com/1132/ Basically, imagine that it's a decade from now, and no one in the world has COVID-19 anymore. The test still has a 1% false-positive rate, though
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Yeah, pretty much my thought. The real question is "how many bombers were arrested ahead of time due to this law", which is a bit harder to answer though.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And yet, if that's what it took to drive corporate adoption of open source software, it was almost certainly worth it... Can you imagine Linux in a world where companies like Google don't contribute kernel patches? Because I think
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The 2018 funding cuts to the CDC weren't really "cuts" as much as they were the expiry of a 5-year emergency grant to fight Ebola. If it was meant to continue forever, perhaps it shouldn't have been passed as emergency f
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Everyone understands it's insane, but the people with the power to change it have fantastic employer-provided health care, so why would they change things? In all seriousness, if tax laws were changed to eliminate the employer advantag
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by DuskStar 7y ago
"A US government agency massively dropped the ball" should always be a possibility to consider. Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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by DuskStar 7y ago
What's the functional difference between that and a clinical trial, from the perspective of the patients?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
My reading was that those were to open source projects the company didn't control.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Not limit testing? Approve the use of private testing facilities? Allow automated testing? Those would all be good steps.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
/r/Coronavirus used to have some info on it. But yeah, for the past week+ (since Reddit began linking it on the front page, maybe?) every other article has been "the US isn't testing enough", and the comments of eve
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The Nature article actually mentions the drug in question - camostat mesylate - as one of the TMPRSS2 inhibitors under investigation. (And given how often "this should work, for sure!" drug trials fail to pan out, I'm not s
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Even if it's already approved for human use, we still need to test for efficacy before prescribing it to everyone. See also: remdesivir, favipiravir, Prezcobix, chloroquine and ruxolitinib, among many others.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
If it's not in clinical trials yet, it's not worth talking about. Pretty sure there's a few dozen in the same category as this drug. EDIT: I don't mean that this isn't already approved for human use. But there'

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