Zach_the_Lizard

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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
I've heard "square brackets" here in the US. I'd also use the term "curly braces" over just "braces" but either is acceptable.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
I think it's something along the lines of: "Hacker News is," he said, "a website." (American) vs. "Hacker News is", he said, "a website". (British) We Americans are taught to always put punctuati
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
> we will see automated railways The future is now: there are automated rail lines in a numbers of cities around the world. Some are relatively old, too. The JFK AirTrain is one such example.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
For me, as an NYC resident, my apartment is small, most of my friends have left the city, none of my usual hangouts are open, and life is utterly monotonous. My wife was laid off and was in a field annihilated by the pandemic. Every day is
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
The point is that if the disease spreads so quickly, and our best evidence from months ago is that 20% of the city was infected, it stands to reason that much more of the city was infected than 20%. How much more is up for debate. A compete
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
NYC had a 20% antibody rate back in April; the disease being under control in NYC may be due to having built up some level of immunity and (sadly) having the vulnerable population die off.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
And all kinds of other public WiFi hotspots as well, e.g. coffee shops, WiFi in parks, etc.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
50% of those could be nursing home patients. Could be more or less, depending on your region. Those are absolutely moving deaths forward by a couple months at best. I'd be willing to put money on a fair amount of the rest of the deaths
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
It's far harder to change regulations once new technology comes into the market. There is always a delay between introduction and legalization, and sometimes it doesn't happen at all. Remember,the beneficiaries of the old system w
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
Italy's GDP per capita is something like $35k vs $47k in Germany. Roughly 75% of Germany's GDP per capita. "Less developed" is a bit harsh, but there are certainly differences in income level between these two countries.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
It depends on when you joined. Sometime after 9/11 college benefits in particular were beefed up. I forget the details, but my dad retired from the service after 20 years. I think he gets ~50% of his basic pay. I want to say it's
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
Sickle cell disease is also more common in people of African origin, so that could be another reason for a higher hazard ratio.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
There is some evidence that vitamin D deficiency is associated with prostate cancer: https://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/20/9/2289.abs... There are a number of other studies on this. From what litt
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
> Maybe you're thinking of doulas? Yes, that's right -- sorry for the mix up. > If so, New York indicated doulas wouldn't be counted as visitors, but essential healthcare staff Thanks for sharing, but that's seemin
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
The longer you do #2, the less you need #3, if the goal of #2 is to keep hospitals being utilized at the highest sustainable capacity with whatever safety margins are required. As more people become immune, the spread naturally gets slower,
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
As someone with a pregnant wife, I'd also like to mention that birthing classes, breastfeeding classes, etc. are also not available at the moment. My wife has had to "visit" an OB/GYN over Zoom. I don't know how eff
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
> The only other app I noticed doing this is Caviar. DoorDash does have a percentage fee. For me it shows "free" delivery and taxes and fees. Tap on taxes and fees and there's a service fee. I have a Dashpass, so my servic
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware that there was a such distinction in British English between the two. Thanks for sharing. I would use the second sentence for both cases. If I needed to distinguish them, I'd probably add something like
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
> But that's present vs past tense, which is independent of the subjunctive mood. No, it's subjunctive vs. indicative. The British form is indicative and past tense, which is not correct grammar under either British or American
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
As an American, I've noticed that Brits tend to use the subjunctive form less often than we Americans do. "The doctor insisted that he spend the night." vs. "The doctor insisted that he spent the night." The first s
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
> If you can't, then perhaps it might be a good idea to reconsider advocating for reopening the economy. Can you prove that coronavirus didn't give me protection from some other more severe illness a la cowpox and smallpox? No?
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
>On 1), what do you consider "not that serious"? Death rates, hospitalization rates, etc. As mentioned before, 20% of NY deaths are nursing home patients. 37% are 80 or older. I'm on mobile and a bit lazy, but check out de
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
> A lot of this is like Russian Roulette -- there's a huge amount about this virus which we don't know, and it could be super-bad or not-that-bad. I think at this point we know enough to say: 1) For most of the population, the
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by Zach_the_Lizard 6y ago
It's costlier to be a public company these days in terms of regulatory burden, so fewer companies in general are going public. SOX in particular is expensive for smaller companies.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 7y ago
> The virus is just a convenient excuse; a crisis would have hit at the first sign of trouble. Sure, the market was seeming to be overheated and due for a correction. Without the virus, maybe it's 2008. With the virus, it's sta
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by Zach_the_Lizard 7y ago
Should we spend $1 trillion to save one life? I'll bet we agree we shouldn't spend that much money to save just one person's life. Ultimately, there is a trade-off to be made between how much we use to save a life vs improvin
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by Zach_the_Lizard 7y ago
> Also, not all deaths happen among the identified vulnerable groups: "they are very very unlikely to have anything bad happen" is completely false. Even assuming a 4% death rate (too high for the less vulnerable), that's
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by Zach_the_Lizard 7y ago
We can't let perfect be the enemy of good, though. If moving from gasoline to ethanol ultimately reduces pollution, it's going to be faster to achieve. We don't have to swap out everything at the consumer level, especially si
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by Zach_the_Lizard 7y ago
Production might not be disrupted, but in a quarantine situation distribution could be affected. Having the National Guard called up in a neighboring county to NYC has a some people panicking a bit and buying up nonperishable food. I use Am
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by Zach_the_Lizard 7y ago
I biked to work in a much hotter climate (DC area) and managed to survive by getting to work at 8am before the worst of the heat set in. The afternoon was quite hot, to say the least, in the summer though. With an electric bike I'd lik

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