Seenso

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by Seenso 7y ago
> Here's why masks are useless: You are going to take your mask off with your dirty hands. You're going to wear your mask dutifully while outside, then you're going to walk inside your house and the first thing you will do
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by Seenso 7y ago
> It is generally [infeasible] for them to manually review every submission so they are dependent on other users reporting the violations. It may be economically infeasible for them to moderate, but economics is not a "get out of
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by Seenso 7y ago
> TLDR; Don't assume everyone is healthy / carries the same risk, even if they look healthy. Also, apparently serious illness can increase the chance of miscarriage in pregnant women: https://www.cdc.gov/coronav
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Telling everyone to go out and stockpile food is just the sort of dangerous, panic inducing rhetoric we don't need right now. I don't think so. The problem is you don't want people to freak out and overdo it now, and yo
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by Seenso 7y ago
> so the result will come not so immediately. Hence being anxious has no payout and being cool does. That's assuming people are way more rational and less emotional than they really are.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I say this because halting tries to "cool down" emotion but it still "feels like" panic while making it all go slow would "feel kind of crappy yet normal" hence "buying" time to cool things down
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by Seenso 7y ago
>> Bureaucracy is rarely as expensive as aggressive profiteering. > Have you seen the DoD and other gov entity contracting? DoD contracting seems like worst of both worlds: a combination of bureaucracy, aggressive profiteering, and
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by Seenso 7y ago
I'd be fine with either, and I think it'd also help with price-gouging like Turing Pharmaceuticals engaged in with Daraprim. A public drugmaker could be obligated to have implemented processes to manufacture every approved drug.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The notion of property rights is not created by the law, but a law of nature, a concept intuitively understood by human beings. The same goes for theft. The law only adopted these concepts, but it created taxes. It is not intuitively o
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Tax-funded UBI is theft, slavery, and extortion. Our law creates both property rights and taxes. Taxes aren't theft because, by law, that money is actually the government's property. If you want individualistically overru
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by Seenso 7y ago
> N95 masks must be properly fitted to the individual.... So unless you get the proper size, you could still be exposed. I'd really like to know how often those fit tests actually result in someone needing to select a different re
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I should also point out that most people in the US face similar conditions to those in Wuhan. The extent of infection is not known, and therefore protective measures are not in place. We have been actively discouraged from "buying
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I've never understood however the need to disable Aero and switch to Windows Classic, which looks gray, boring and feels like using Windows 98 again. Gray and boring is good . IMHO, flashy computer UIs are for movies and other c
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by Seenso 7y ago
> That's probably the case, but if so then that's a real harsh judgement of Material design: that accessibility has actually decreased since 2004. We've banged it too deep into our heads that change is progress, especially
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by Seenso 7y ago
> and added some very hazardous electrical traps that will be hell to remove without my notes (which I have conveniently misplaced). I'm pretty sure laying traps like that is illegal, like felony illegal.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> With that perspective in mind, I find it hard to blame them. A wave of panicked attendees demanding refunds could well render them insolvent. Couldn't a conference like SXSW buy insurance to cover refunds? It's my understand
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Conferences are all about cross-pollination. Sometimes it's ideas, sometimes it's serious illnesses. Just like open offices.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The problem with this type of call being made by governments, which I hope will become abundantly clear in retrospect, is that governments are incentivized to lie about the severity of the situation (consider CCP response to Wuhan, Whi
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by Seenso 7y ago
Maybe, but I just looked the locations in the article, and it looks like his home is in a town in a rural area [1]. Given it's a smaller area, maybe that constrained things enough that they were able to infer that he must have gotten
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Ah, the old C level exec decision to outsource to your "India team". Usually immediately followed by said company having severe and often crippling issues immediately after doing so. Or the small onshore team they kept burnin
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The incubation period is not 25-30 days. The mean incubation period is 5-6 days, range 1-14 days. There are case reports of it being far longer than 14 days: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-incubati
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by Seenso 7y ago
[oops, misread comment.]
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by Seenso 7y ago
> This case should be quoted in every discussion about 5G mobile equipment here in Europe. Especially since the 5G situation even kinda smells the same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/na
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Arguably, 3M should have put the price up as soon as demand shot up, so that stock would not run out. No. Raising prices is the econ 101 solution, but we don't live in an econ 101 world. There are other ways to deal with shortag
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by Seenso 7y ago
> At first, the prices in the local market here were normal and people were buying hundreds of respirators and masks. One point here, which I think I established previously, is that price movement provided no useful information to the ma
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Masks, as most people wear them, don't do much. They'd need to be custom fitted to ensure no "leakage". Respirator is the correct and less-confusing term for the item you're referring to. Everyone should pr
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Profiteers buying masks, at the regular price 3M is happy to sell at, doesn't increase 3M's bottom line? Not any more than legitimate customers buying the same masks. They provided no signal that 3M wasn't already recei
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by Seenso 7y ago
> They are providing the mask manufacturers with cashflow and a strong market signal to manufacture more masks. No they're not. The profiteers are resellers that bought masks/respirators from the manufacturers at regular price
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Not true at all. There is a great benefit to "flattening the curve" to spread out the infections over time, as a high percentage of cases for older individuals will require hospitalization, and there are a limited number of b
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I'm curious how much the type of mask matters. I have two kinds of masks for construction projects: There are surgical masks, surgical respirators, and regular respirators. Surgical masks and surgical respirators meet regulatory r

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