ImaCake

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by ImaCake 6y ago
Lockdowns in South Korea and Australia have unambigously halted outbreaks. Your argument makes sense as far as the initial plan was, but it is clear in hindsight that lockdowns can effectively stop the outbreak and thus will actually lead t
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is not a substantive comment. Please defend yourself better.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Hey there is a lot of health misinformation in this thread. Please seek advice from professionals, not potentially biased people on a software start up forum. There is a reason medical professionals are trained not to give advice about your
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is madness. The lockdown is the only thing that stopped several hundred deaths from becoming several thousand (or much more). No job is worth dying for, and few jobs are worth becoming crippled for. Make no mistake that this virus crip
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>I used to roll my eyes reading how academic researchers and librarians would discourage using webpages as resources. While this is true in general, I am amused that this is not true for citing wikipedia. Wikipedia can be trusted to re
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>Wrecks havoc on my music suggestions though Netflix and spotify have definitely not solved suggestions yet. I still struggle to get either service to get me what I want.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Things look quite different in biostatistics research and adjacent fields. I personally use vscode, nano, and rstudio. But I am still mostly wetlab. People in my research group use some combination of these, maybe atom, and I am sure some o
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I am a big fan of rectangle[0] for bringing windows style windows management to macOS. Gives you a set of shortcuts you can use to put windows where you want them on the screen. It is crazy to me that this is not standard on macs. 0. https
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Yep, in broad strokes, randomisation removes any bias or confounding effects such as age, gender, behaviour, genetic disposition etc. The price you pay is in precision; randomisation and the best practice analysis (intention to treat) tend
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Thanks, that was a fun read. I think I have a better grasp of why you can't impute this now.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I guess you could statistically impute that data. But it is the long tail of unlikely readings which are generally interesting, and imputation will not find those.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I dislike twitter. But do like digital painting artworks. My solution is an RSS feed of a bunch of twitter digital artists. Means I have no contact with twitter itself, but I do get exactly the content I want.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is a good lesson to learn. Pretty much everyone you interact with is interesting in some way. They can all teach you something you don't know, or share an amazing story. This is something you notice when you try to learn another l
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Just as an alternative perspective, I fully support lockdowns. But I have noted the opposite response on here compared to your observation; lots of people are arguing against the lockdowns on HN. Maybe we see what we want to see rather than
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Third world countries have first world problems as well. They just have them on top of their third world problems. Something tells me they would rather be hungry rather than both hungry and dying. Palau having open borders wouldn't hav
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Lots of educated professionals also work jobs that cannot be done at home. I think this BBC article is ridiculous. I can't do wetlab biology at home. And my university is busy firing people, not installing copper benchtops in the kitch
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I would suspect genuine regulated competition is the correct answer here (as you spell out). This is in contrast to the monopolies and corruption seen elsewhere. The customer service is still horrible, and NBN remains a disaster.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>incomplete data set They were. The COVID deaths in the USA are about double what has been reported. Not a conspiracy, just a reality of how the deaths are coded due to testing constraints.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Yes, the comments here are insane. You might only get something like the flu, but your grandma is going to be killed by this, or at least crippled. Same with your parents! The people commenting here seem very selfish.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>The chances of dying in a car crash are 1%, but that doesn't prevent us from driving. I don't think that statistic is even close to right. I know exactly zero people who have died in a car crash. Many of them are quite old. Th
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>Mmm... Stereotype much? I see why you don’t mind the newscorp news. I don't like the newscorp news actually. But it is revealing that you would think this. One might suspect we just have different views on who should be controlling
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>conspiracy theories that too many paid commenters are among the crowd here I think HN just has a large pro-google crowd. I remember it used to be everyone loved google. So it shouldn't be a surprise that one of the remaining bastio
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by ImaCake 6y ago
They certainly imply they will either be removing services or putting them behind a paywall. Some choice quotes from the google letter: > Hurting the free services you use ... demands that would put our free services at risk.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I run on the assumption that the government has my data anyway. So it doesn't really matter whether they get it directly or via google. Since google wants to target me with ads, I preference removing google as a middle man. Bonus point
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Link to the draft law is below [0]. Quoted from that page: >The code also includes a set of ‘minimum standards’ for: >providing advance notice of changes to algorithmic ranking and presentation of news; appropriately recognising origi
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by ImaCake 6y ago
My point is that not all countries did bad. Many countries did poorly, but many others responded well to the crisis and have either kept cases down, had very few deaths, or managed to suppress their outbreaks. > China locking down 11m pe
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>Covid-19 has exposed how almost all world leaders are useless when faced with big challenges Many countries have done pretty well coordinating a useful response against this virus. The US has done terribly, but there are plenty of examp
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I think the title of this paper does a real disservice to the much more carefully written abstract. The abstract is very careful to point out the limitations of this study and flesh out why the main conclusion should be considered cautiousl
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Which, while terrible to see the loss, gives me some hope that we have less power over nature than we think. A housing suburb is undeniably a less wonderful place than the forest it replaced. But life will inevitably find a way to colonise
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Can I ask what app you use on your iPad for reading PDFs? I use Adobe reader which is pretty good on iOS, but I find Preview a better experience.

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