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by Fomite 2y ago
While wide, those are not uselessly so. "A low number, but non-zero" isn't great information, but it's a start. Because understanding so-called "inconsequential infections" would have been very helpful at the
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by Fomite 2y ago
If it helps, we won't. Everyone who works in public health is already exhausted. Many of the things put in place during the last pandemic are either already dismantled when COVID money got clawed back in reconciliation a year or so bac
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by Fomite 2y ago
Not really an urban legend.
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by Fomite 2y ago
There's a variety of insecticide classes: pyrethroids (e.g., permethrin),organochlorines (e.g., DDT); carbamates (e.g., bendiocarb); and organophosphates (e.g., malathion) Pyrethroids are most often in bed nets, insecticide impregnated
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by Fomite 2y ago
This. That malaria is not prevalent in the Southern U.S. (there's a reason the CDC is in Atlanta) is as much an economic choice as an epidemiological success story.
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by Fomite 2y ago
The point is the transition from "Driving Supervisor" to "Driver" is non-trivial in terms of time.
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by Fomite 2y ago
"Driver is mostly disengaged, but then must intervene in a sudden fail state" is also one of the most dangerous types of automation due to how long it takes the driver to reach full control as well.
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by Fomite 2y ago
There’s lots of multi-valent vaccines, the HPV vaccine being a good example. There’s also potential non-M protein targets. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00609-x
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by Fomite 2y ago
Working as an infectious disease epidemiologist in global health, that’s not the take. The inappropriate use of antibiotics is too high, and simultaneously there are very real issues of access.
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by Fomite 2y ago
HN tends to love phage, but for this application, it's not a great one, because the infrastructure required to safely do phage prep greatly exceeds what you need even for complex vaccines.
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by Fomite 2y ago
Public health tends to prefer the Swiss cheese model of prevention - increased access to antibiotics, trust building in communities, and promoting access to healthcare all occur simultaneously. But vaccines are very effective.
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by Fomite 2y ago
Achieving the equivalent of "What if no one died for three days?" every year is a massive achievement on the same scale of the wildest dreams of most of the people on this site.
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by Fomite 2y ago
This. As a dog owner, my dog remains on a leash. I don't know you. I don't know your dog. More than once, I've been put in the position where my dog is getting agitated because they're on leash, their dog can't be c
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by Fomite 2y ago
This was also a time of wealthy patrons
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by Fomite 2y ago
I think the issue is "bold *or* emphasize". There's not a universal consensus on whether or not emphasis is italics or bold.
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by Fomite 2y ago
I think you underestimate the number of artsy people you can summon with "We're gonna do a weird little video..."
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by Fomite 2y ago
This is all over my hobby, miniature wargaming. "If I just get this brush, or this new line of paints, I'll be good at painting..."
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by Fomite 2y ago
The...shall we say non-uniform distribution of political beliefs in the folks moving from California has also done wild things to the politics in some of these areas.
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by Fomite 2y ago
One of the things I most admire and also loathe about Big Tech is how much they normalized nonexistent customer service.
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by Fomite 2y ago
HIV is notoriously unstable - RNA viruses don't contain any error checking during replication. Which is one reason HIV drugs, including those one, are almost always used in combination.
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by Fomite 2y ago
This. I remember playing a Sherlock Holmes CD-ROM game with tiny little clips of FMV, and feeling like this was the future.
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by Fomite 2y ago
At a SciPy meeting where someone in finance was presenting an intro on some tools, someone asked if they ever contribute code to those open source projects. Their answer was "Yes, but only after we've stopped making money with the
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by Fomite 2y ago
I've reached the point where I wouldn't trust Altman with anything more consequential than a lemonade stand.
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by Fomite 2y ago
Contextualization was hugely important for me grasping math. I think one of the most dangerous things we do is relying on people who believe math is beautiful/interesting for its own sake to teach math.
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by Fomite 2y ago
True, although in this case there's a lot of pushback - if it's not during the summer, can students get both credit and paid? How hard is it to make your lab jobs work-study positions, given they are all one-off positions? And the
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by Fomite 2y ago
One of the things it does do is separate people who treat it as a box checking exercise from the people who approach it seriously.
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by Fomite 2y ago
I'll give you an answer for how we have used them - essentially, helping set context (indeed, we have context statements as well). DEI activities often take a lot of time, and are often undervalued by many traditional academic metric
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by Fomite 2y ago
Accurate crime statistics are discouraged by every police department and Mayor's Office in this country.
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by Fomite 3y ago
There's also a number of autoimmune diseases out there...
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by Fomite 3y ago
"I'm demoting myself to Chief Do Whatever I Please Officer" hits a little different than most demotions.

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