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by achenatx 6y ago
exactly this. Somehow a large proportion of people only want to focus on a hypothetical infectious person going out and infecting high risk people. But if the high risk people are not out they cannot get infected. In fact, everyone who is o
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by achenatx 6y ago
you can replace product with project and it would still apply. There is some distinction between being able to kick off projects with existing products and kicking off a totally new product. most people are working on kicking off updates to
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by achenatx 6y ago
One way we try to combat this is the way you get salary increases is mainly through promotions. Promotions are based on reasonably solid criteria and you can go up for promotion anytime you want (max every 3 months). Engineers senior to you
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by achenatx 6y ago
everyone has a limit to how much they want to help. "The life you can save" makes a strong moral point that if you arent spending every penny to save the life of a child that would die from an easily preventable disease (5000 chil
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by achenatx 6y ago
State schools are still a relative bargain. I attended around 30 years ago and it was about 5000/year + 4000 room and board. Tuition now is about 16Kyear and room and board is about 13K/year. If tuition is doubling every 20 years,
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by achenatx 6y ago
The issue with statistical significance is that it might have a strong effect in some people and no effect in most people and statistical significance cant detect that. For example, statistically chocolate doesnt cause acne. Yet I 100% get
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by achenatx 6y ago
I consider that there are 4 levels of scientific writing. 1) news articles/lay press - basically terrible and typically get things wrong 2) scientific lay press (scientific american, discover, science news) - get things right, but gene
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by achenatx 6y ago
SAT scoring was a lot different 20 years ago :)
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by achenatx 6y ago
There are multiple ways to get into grad school. One way is to just apply. Another way is to individually get to know the professors, express your interest, and stand out. Professors have substantial pull if there is someone they specifical
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by achenatx 6y ago
asian-american (49) here. Get over it. The world isnt fair. The world doesnt owe you anything. You may or may not be discriminated against, if you are, it is just another challenge. Be thankful you are not disabled, stupid, dirt poor, or ab
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by achenatx 6y ago
Im asian-american and there are substantial differences between asian culture (especially if your parents are immigrants) from a typical white person greek system culture (even ivy league greek culture). Keep your head down, dont make waves
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by achenatx 6y ago
the essence of the article is that agile is mainly a project management methodology. It is for decomposing tasks into chunks that allow you to deliver something valuable in the given time frame. One of the best parts is that if you run out
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by achenatx 7y ago
Most big banks completely screwed their clients. You can read reddit/r/smallbusiness 1) The SBA was approving PPP submissions in like an hour (rubberstamping). 2) Any delay was 100% your bank. Many banks just didnt get to applicat
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by achenatx 7y ago
I have a microbiology degree and an EE degree (but more like comp E). DNA truly is a blue print. (almost) Every cell in your body has the source code for your entire body. "this gene or set of genes are responsible for that outcome&quo
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by achenatx 7y ago
DNA is made out of nucleic acids. Each sequence of 3 DNA nucleotides codes for an amino acid. There are 21 amino acids. How DNA -> proteins is well understood. Protein folding though is incredibly complex to model. It is easy to know the
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by achenatx 7y ago
Interfaces to the car should have standardized use cases/requirements that are interface independent. There should be requirements like - user should be able to rapidly change stations manually without looking at the interface. For ex
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by achenatx 7y ago
viruses live a lot longer on hard surfaces than soft surfaces like fabric and tissue. Lifetime on soft surfaces that can absorb moisture from the virus is like 15 minutes.
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by achenatx 7y ago
my family used gold to escape china when the communists took over. Lots of jews used gold to escape germany. During those periods cash was not accepted. Even during the venezuela collapse gold is still good. gold is the ultimate hedge to es
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by achenatx 7y ago
you can use this calculator to look at life expectancy at any age for most countries. For italy life expectancy at 80 is 89. https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/your-life-expectancy-by-...
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by achenatx 7y ago
yes but how far do we go? Shut down all schools? all flights stopped? All businesses closed? mandatory stay at home quarantines with food drops done by the govt?
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by achenatx 7y ago
I believe it is an epidemiological/statistical reason. Health care workers have a 100% chance of coming into contact. We cannot afford for them to be sick. The vast majority of people wont be wearing masks so a few people wearing masks
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by achenatx 7y ago
the risk reduction is actually very high. But the probability of being in the presence of the virus is very low. Health care workers treating infected patients have a 100% chance of being exposed so epidemiological risk reduction is large.
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by achenatx 7y ago
there isnt much training required. I worked in a BSL 3 lab with aerosolized tuberculosis and the training was like 5 minutes. Even if you touch the mask with your hands and it is contaminated, if you wash your hands after taking the mask of
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by achenatx 7y ago
Most droplet born viruses are very contagious (e.g. efficiently infect a target). It wouldnt surprise me if the covid-19 virus is so contagious because symptoms are slow to develop. SARS was effectively stopped because fever developed quick
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by achenatx 7y ago
We have been preparing my professional services company for recession for the last year or two. Key steps 1) carry no "real" debt, build cash reserves. 2) focus on profitability over growth. Typically driving growth means hiring s
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by achenatx 7y ago
this was my experience. My endurance was unaffected by ketosis but my ability to generate instant power over and over again (mountain bike) definitely took a hit.
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by achenatx 7y ago
once you start talking about SAP and other enterprise software you are talking big $$
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by achenatx 7y ago
We have a couple of developments in austin the "domain" which is an outdoor mall integrated with tons of apartments and a ton of actual jobs. The entertainment district serves those who live there, but is probably good enough to a
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by achenatx 7y ago
plumbing and sewers increased life expectancy more than any other improvement. After that maybe the steam engine, electric generator, light bulb
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by achenatx 7y ago
assume you are mostly wrong and ignorant. Treat every conversation as an opportunity to remedy it.

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