Isinlor

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by Isinlor 6y ago
I know. So, just to be sure. Are you suggesting that limiting freedom because of "moral decency" is ok, but limiting freedom because you can kill people is not? And what is "moral decency" anyway, because in many Asian c
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Should you have freedom to walk naked? Nudists were advocating this kind of freedom for a long time. I personally have sympathy for this point of view. Passing COVID-19 or flu onto another person, especially elderly, may kill that person. W
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23788602
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by Isinlor 6y ago
> Any attempt to acknowledge and answer the question, even in deflecting it, was going to cause more trouble. This is certainly not true. WHO lawyer gave later lengthy explanation of WHO position on Taiwan on a press conference and nobod
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Why did he not say so? "I'm sorry, but this is a political question which I'm not able to answer.". or "You know this question puts me in a difficult position and it is not up to me." To me it seems his mind is
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by Isinlor 6y ago
I'm not sure if machine learning researchers have tools to analyze how minutia of their research e.g. proposing new activation function in ANN will impact shifts in power in the future. I personally have no slightest clue how instituti
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by Isinlor 6y ago
You need to be creative. But one example - colorizing old photos: https://twitter.com/citnaj
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Sounds interesting, but I'm not sure if I understand. From Wikipedia: It is stated that "every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system". How is that related to comprehensibility? Or going extinct? A lot of s
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Here is Dutch University of Maastricht paying 0.2 million euro ransom last year in December. Seems like business is blooming. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cybercrime-netherlands-un...
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Based on excess deaths - the difference between how many deaths from all causes would you exec and how many were reported - USA is very likely under counting deaths. Also all case mortality coincide very well with reports of COVID-19 cases.
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Why would they single out black people out of all people of color and other disadvantaged groups? A lot of minorities are running restaurants.
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Astronauts are backed by NASA - no small agency mind you. If they would find things that they do not accept they can trigger safety reviews anytime. BTW - On Soyuz they would need sticks, literal sticks, to interact with controls that are o
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by Isinlor 6y ago
You should listen to the astronauts. SpaceX is developing all of it with them and for them. They seem quite happy with UI because it allows rapid iteration on procedures. If they screw up something SpaceX can adjust interface within days. W
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Meta-analysis of published research data on Covid-19 infection-fatality rates(medium.com)
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by Isinlor 6y ago
They are sort of comparable. Indeed, 0.1% IFR for seasonal flu is more of an upper bound. For example, Swine Flu that cause 2009 pandemic had infection fatality rate of 0.03% [0]. COVID-19 infection fatality rate is probably around 0.8% (0.
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by Isinlor 6y ago
NYC has population fatality ratio of 0.17% to 0.23%. 8.4 million people and 14,753 confirmed COVID-19 deaths [0]. They have also 5,178 probable COVID-19 deaths. In other words, around 1 person per 500 overall died due COVID-19. Serology tes
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by Isinlor 6y ago
COVID-19 impacts rich, western world, tuberculosis not so much. COVID-19 kills in USA 3 times more people in a day with all mitigations in place than TB does in a year without any extraordinary effort on mitigation. Statistics for USA [0]:
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by Isinlor 6y ago
I'm part of a community whose whole purpose is to accurately predict future and calibrate based on established track record. Based on what you are saying, you may be interested in that. We normally focus on hacker news type of stuff, b
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Currently we need to learn more about this virus to make informed decisions - there is more we still don't know, than we do know for sure. Trying to slowly contain the virus like in South Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand is a strategy worth
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by Isinlor 6y ago
The economy could function, indeed, but they don't seem to [0], certainly not on the baseline level. Human psychology that allowed our ancestors to survive even more deadly plagues is at work here. And people are correct in their every
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by Isinlor 6y ago
We don't need to speculate - it is happening in Belarus. Sweden is quite close to a lock-down, but Belarus is far away from a lock-down. Lukaszenko is advising sport, especially on ice and vodka to fight off the virus. Still, Belarus m
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by Isinlor 6y ago
So, to clarify the number refers to the whole EU (without UK). Currently there are little bit more than 0.1 million reported deaths across the EU. And as I was saying, in the best case scenario, based on the current data [0] 1 million more
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by Isinlor 6y ago
It's false choice. This virus kills 0.5 to 1% of infected people across population. It can infect more than 50% of the population. Everyone would know somebody who died because of the virus. The economy can not function when people are
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Still, it would be useful to have an indicator like [paywall], so that it's easy to avoid paywalled articles.
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Shouldn't hackernews have some policy of marking paywalled articles? Something like: [paywall] Mark Zuckerberg Asserts Control of Facebook, Pushing Aside Dissenters It would be very helpful to avoid getting irritated by the paywalls. A
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by Isinlor 6y ago
> Note on interpretation of data: The number of deaths shown for the three most recent weeks should be interpreted with caution, as adjustments for delayed registrations may be imprecise. Furthermore, results of pooled analyses may vary
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Agragated forcasts related to Covid-19 – epidemiology, medicine and economy(pandemic.metaculus.com)
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If you look at deaths from Sweden and Belgium the excess mortality matches very well the deaths they attribute to COVID-19[0]. Both Sweden and Belgium count COVID-19 deaths in community outside hospitals. It would seem they over-count by so
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Never accept charts at face value - try to go to source and look at gotchas. In case of EuroMOMO data the gotcha is that European countries are not done counting yet. Compare numbers in bulletin for week 15 and 16: https://www.eu
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by Isinlor 6y ago
Take a look at EuroMOMO: https://www.euromomo.eu/bulletins/2020-16/ Compare graph for week 15 and 16. The data in NYT are for 5 of April, but we were not done counting deaths. The true numbers are substantially hi

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