Majromax

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by Majromax 6y ago
>If you have a once in a century crisis, and still are thinking about saving some millions, while being sure your crisis response will be above billions, your policy is already flawed and not much can be done to help you. By the time you
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by Majromax 6y ago
> Any such model ought to have been independently reviewed before it is ever used for real policy decisions. Policy analysis is awash in models but no one ever really checks them. Going forward, health policy makers should ask for and di
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by Majromax 6y ago
> My original comment said its not okay to steal from a company even if you don't like that company. Your original comment said it was wrong to exploit a bug, to which the parent poster retorted that this was a feature and not a bug
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by Majromax 6y ago
From 4.10.17.1 ( https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastr... ): > A control's value is its internal state. As such, it might not match the user's current input. The example goes on to des
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by Majromax 6y ago
> The death rates in these countries also peaked about two weeks into lockdown, way too soon for lockdown to have had any impact. On the contrary, that's exactly what you'd see if lockdown had maximum effect. Suppose lockdown w
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by Majromax 6y ago
> If we stopped making it a game, without points to earn and rewards for points, people wouldn’t cheat. Nonsense. There is an incentive to cheat any time there is a test, where capabilities are measured that are not routinely used. For e
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by Majromax 6y ago
> It wasn’t actually a great sacrifice. The direct personal cost was mentioned in the original public letter: >> What with big-tech salaries and share vestings, this will probably cost me over a million (pre-tax) dollars, not to me
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by Majromax 6y ago
> What's interesting is that many US states have shown virtually linear growth for more than a month, The US data is tricky to interpret because the nation's testing rate has been growing relatively slowly. Over the past week
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by Majromax 6y ago
> Disease spread tends to always show a pretty standard shape. It was that observation (Farr's law) that led to epidemiology being born as a field. It grows, it peaks, it enters immediate decline. Only without intervention. With so
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by Majromax 6y ago
> Wouldn't it be fair that tax payers also get something in return of their funding? What's the purpose of scientific funding: to progress science or to make money? If the goal is altruistic progression of science, then undoubt
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by Majromax 6y ago
> Is killing people in other countries like that not scandalous? I point out you specifically said you'd point out a corruption scandal. Your cited use of force may be scandalous or even a war crime, but it's a stretch to ca
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by Majromax 6y ago
Depends on the province. In Quebec, for example, the flu vaccine is (currently) only free for at-risk individuals ( https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/advice-and-prevention/vaccin... ). Ontario, however, has a u
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by Majromax 6y ago
> If we have a vaccine candidate that is safe, is there any reason not to give it in mass before knowing if it works? Yes. In some cases, the wrong kind of immune response can cause antibody-dependent enhancement ( https://en.
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by Majromax 7y ago
> it's still, I think, somewhat unclear whether there's any kind of enforceable contract they could claim there. What would be the consideration?
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by Majromax 7y ago
Perfect, that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Although I'm a little confused by the comment's description of the birthday attack -- it doesn't immediately seem useful to me for an attacker to find separat
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by Majromax 7y ago
> The reason is because they use "SMR", which severely hurts random-write performance. It hurts random-write performance after a threshold , when an on-disk staging area becomes exhausted. For short bursts, the drive behaves
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by Majromax 7y ago
The data's authenticated, but the authentication is accidentally broken. SYN(seq_num) and SYN(seq_num+3) can both generate the same cookie using a different (but still valid) maximum segment size. To lump this into an existing categor
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by Majromax 7y ago
> - you can somewhat negotiate window scaling when tcp timestamps are enabled. Reading the RFC, couldn't the requested window scale be jammed into the sequence number? Section 2.3 limits the window scale to <= 14 bits. This art
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by Majromax 7y ago
It's interesting to look at this from the perspective of HMAC codes: the host uses (several bits of) the sequence number as an authentication code over other aspects of the connection. The client IP and ports are elsewhere in the pack
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Just get an email client that has PGP capability built in. That step isn't as straightforward as you might think. Put yourself in the shoes of a complete novice. As of this writing, a Google search for {pgp email windows} returns
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French publishers win decisive [copyright] battle against Google(politico.com)
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Suppressing David Icke only makes this conspiracy stronger. I think this is begging the question. Why does Youtube, in particular, have an obligation to not "suppress" this person, especially when there's no element of
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by Majromax 7y ago
Remember, it's a ratio. What matters isn't the raw number of missed cases, it's the ratio of missed-to-detected cases versus uncounted-to-counted deaths. If Italy has missed half of its deaths but also half of its total case
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Various models and data sets put asymptomatic cases at between 20% and 50%. Those are fully asymptomatic - i.e. total end-to-end progression with either very mild symptoms indistinguishable from a minor cold, or no symptoms at all. Tha
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Treating any modeling we have of the impact of Covid 19 as reliable is an exercise in insanity. In detail, yes. In general, you can still make some good back-of-an-envelope calculations. Conservative estimates are that the coronavirus
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by Majromax 7y ago
> When you do widespread testing as China did in Zhejiang you can find a lot of mild cases. Indeed, Iceland, which did the same, has 1020 cases and 2 deaths. Two significant notes, however: * China reports that its outbreak has largely r
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by Majromax 7y ago
> How much time will it be over $30 before the shale producers start up again? I think that depends on how expensive it is to "start up again." If it costs $10mil to turn the taps on, then it won't be economic to do so un
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by Majromax 7y ago
Money returned to shareholders is the "one true number," even moreso than profit. Retained earnings are only valuable insofar as investors expect them to be returned in the future -- a company that pays no dividends, buys back no
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by Majromax 7y ago
> we expect that demand will tail off before supply does While I agree with your "sound economics" conclusion, I think that tapering demand was not part of the "peak oil" modeling. The underlying assumptions involve n
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by Majromax 7y ago
The article discusses this in the conclusion: > We are going to submit this work for inclusion in the main kernel source tree, but most likely not in its current form. Although the results look encouraging we have to remember that Linux

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