Jeema101

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by Jeema101 6y ago
>We have known for months that the IFR is <0.01% I don't think that's quite correct (in the US anyway), but if you have evidence otherwise feel free to share it. * 2,046 people age 35 and under have died of Covid-19 in the U
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by Jeema101 6y ago
If you remember back to taking chemistry in school, you might recall Avogadro's Law, which states that equal volumes of gases have the same number of molecules. So if we're constantly breathing in a certain volume of gas and then
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by Jeema101 6y ago
It's hard to tell from a quick Google search if this camera ever even really existed. Seems like if it did, maybe it was only produced for the US military? I'd be interested too if anyone has any more info...
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by Jeema101 6y ago
Here is an interesting article I found a while ago on this subject by a vintage watch collector who took some measurements of his radium dial watches using a Geiger counter: https://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/luminous.php T
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by Jeema101 6y ago
The reason this hasn't happened is because of hubris: the politicians all assumed defeating the virus was a given and wouldn't take long. Everyone was already talking about the 'shape of the recovery' (U shaped or V shap
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by Jeema101 6y ago
I think I am about the same age as you and agree completely. That optimistic world of the 90s (and 80s IMO) no longer exists. The country never did recover from 9/11 and has stumbled from one crisis to the next ever since - the War on
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by Jeema101 6y ago
One niche use that I know of that lives on to this day for germanium diodes is in analog guitar effects. The reason is twofold: germanium diodes generally have a softer turn-on than silicon diodes, and they have a lower forward voltage drop
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by Jeema101 6y ago
The occupation of police officer in the US is roughly as dangerous as being a construction worker. Police aren't even in the top 10 most dangerous occupations [1]. So this type of fear is not really justified and probably contributes
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by Jeema101 6y ago
When the Sun has turned into a red giant and all life on earth is reduced to microbes... Cobol will remain. :)
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by Jeema101 6y ago
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation apparently doesn't agree with that assessment: "NERC recognizes that other studies have indicated a severe GMD event would result in the failure of a large number of EHV transfor
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by Jeema101 6y ago
You're completely ignoring the fact that corporations are comprised of people, and as such have First Amendment rights of free speech and self-expression of their own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_person
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by Jeema101 6y ago
For those who aren't aware, radium paint was used quite a bit prior to the 1970s or so as a glow in the dark material, typically used on watches and clocks to allow them to be read in the dark. You can still find many of these old item
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by Jeema101 6y ago
"At the hospital, about 10 nurses and other staffers have left since the first COVID-19 case was found on the medical staff. The list included clerical workers." I fear this is going to be an increasing problem if we continue to r
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by Jeema101 6y ago
It's possible that a less interventionist approach by the government would also have the exact opposite effect by reducing public confidence in the response, and in the safety of going outside, since nothing is being enforced. As Josep
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by Jeema101 6y ago
I don't think the problem at the current time is inflation - it's deflation. There's less money chasing the same amount of goods and services. That was the case during the Great Depression - and the Fed exacerbated things a
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by Jeema101 6y ago
I didn't vote for Trump, but I always hoped from the day after the election in 2016 that he'd put the partisan showboating aside and turn to governing. But it doesn't seem like that ever happened. And we need that now more t
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by Jeema101 6y ago
I think the view that the infection fatality rate is significantly lower than the case fatality rate has already been factored into public policy. Because even if the IFR is around 0.5% then that still works out to > 1,000,000 people dea
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by Jeema101 6y ago
That's because they intervened early with large scale testing, contact tracing, and social distancing. The problem is contact tracing only works when the number of new infections is manageable, though. That's why it's so crit
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by Jeema101 6y ago
The defeatist mindest is really baffling to me as well. I think some people must consider the economy to exist in a vacuum. But economics is based on confidence in the future. A robust, unified, can-do response would do wonders to shore up
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by Jeema101 6y ago
Also bears pointing out that that the real number of deaths in NYC is higher since some have died in their homes or before they could be tested.
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by Jeema101 6y ago
One aspect that people seem to be ignoring with the whole 'healthcare capacity' argument is the mental health of the healthcare workers. The capacity everyone talks about is IMO the acute capacity, not really the chronic sustained
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by Jeema101 6y ago
This article brings up something I was thinking about when this all first started: cross-immunity with other coronaviruses and whether or not infection with one of them could at least give partial immunity to SARS-CoV-2. As the study point
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by Jeema101 6y ago
If you know that you don't know something, then you're already one step ahead of the game, because many programmers dive in thinking that they do understand something and don't find out until it's too late that they neve
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by Jeema101 6y ago
The press release seems very strange. It announces that the plant is closing, yet in the statement by the CEO seems like he doesn't want the plant to close... but was forced to maybe? I wonder if maybe their business liability insurer
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by Jeema101 7y ago
The letters have to instruct the commander to retaliate in order for nuclear deterrance to work - or at least your adversary has to believe that that is what the letters say. Otherwise your deterrance loses it's power. Yet if commander
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by Jeema101 7y ago
One strategy I haven't heard much mention of is for the government to employ people directly in various capacities to fight the outbreak. This would both stimulate the economy and boost public confidence in the government's respo
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by Jeema101 7y ago
Not sure if maybe this is a generational thing or what but... I used paper towels, newspapers, and magazines all the time as a kid when we ran out at home and never once clogged anything as far as I can remember. There is also the option of
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by Jeema101 7y ago
AIDS was not easily avoided. The blood supply was not screened early on. Many people early in the epidemic were infected from simple transfusions. Famous American tennis player Arthur Ashe contracted it and died in this manner.
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by Jeema101 7y ago
I mean, that's kind of what HIV was up until the mid-late 90s anyway. No symptoms for years and then nearly 100% mortality. It's killed millions but still hasn't wiped out civilization.
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by Jeema101 7y ago
Ohioan here. DeWine (governor of Ohio) actually ordered the primary halted in defiance of a court order on Monday. It was only later that night that the Ohio Supreme Court sided with him, but the election was kind of already thrown into dis

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