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by acqq 6y ago
> the WD Red's firmware was up to the challenge of handling a conventional RAID rebuild, which amounts to an enormous, very large block sequential write test . (...) the Red is only 16.7 percent slower than its non-SMR Ironwolf c
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by acqq 6y ago
> the number of deaths divided by the number of people estimated to be infected, by prorating an antibody test sampling to the wider population. So that doesn’t assume everyone got exposed to the virus To get the rate one can indeed cal
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by acqq 6y ago
> Both the UK and NY State had a policy of sending recovering (but potentially contagious) older covid patients back to nursing homes and it would have exacerbated the mortality rate vs regions that did a better job at protecting the el
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by acqq 6y ago
And also, the idea of "architecture astronauts", in the text written almost 20 years ago: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect... "Why the hell are people so impressed b
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by acqq 6y ago
In the very article you link to the case of New York is mentioned by Bergstrom, specifically to critique that estimate, and point that New York disproves it. I verified that claim: We know that the antibody tests in NYC gave the estimate of
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by acqq 6y ago
For those who read the comments to decide if they'd consider to read the article, this is a set of history texts with the topic: "Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management
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by acqq 6y ago
55 comments in 2014 on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024982
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by acqq 6y ago
Even when it's not majority, I agree with sgt that initially the experience was much, much better than with other apps, especially for the older people in my family. It degraded a bit, however, with the time. Adding features is not to
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by acqq 6y ago
> we 'reopened' the country and right now have more cases per day (yesterday 350) as at the beginning That's probably the bigger problem for your country than the absolute number of deaths: the "reopening" happen
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by acqq 6y ago
The errors are indeed found, eventually, like this time. It's the expectancy of anything being completely "error free" from the start is simply false. Compare with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=234124
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by acqq 6y ago
> comprehensive test suite, vs. having very careful software engineers, vs. having extremely thorough code reviews, vs. something else In practice, you need all, for various reasons. > in terms of the correctness of the final product
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by acqq 6y ago
> I've seen code that makes assumptions about how much real time must have passed based on PAUSE loops. Note: here, the PAUSE instruction is not the problem at all, but the "code that makes assumptions." Because the "
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by acqq 6y ago
> I am genuinely feeling oppressed by sans-serif!! I fully understand you, so just a few examples of the opposite of what you describe: https://www.alamy.com/old-and-new-street-signs-with-blacklet... https://w
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by acqq 6y ago
I was referring to the same claims spread in the West, e.g.: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/16/historys-greates... "Based on the theories of Dr William Campbell Douglass, many believe that
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by acqq 6y ago
It's also relevant to demonstrate now that this virus too hasn't been made in the lab. The "lab origin" is a claim that some like to spread on every outbreak, even in spite of the fact that virologists know that nature p
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by acqq 6y ago
> most infected have close to no symptoms Only most of recently infected have no symptoms, whereas most of infected do develop symptoms, but typically after they already transmitted the illness to other people. According to what it i
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by acqq 6y ago
> In other words, if the virus spread to everyone in the US this year, we'd expect to see 2 normal years worth of deaths this year. No again, as I've argued, you just can't use averages across the whole countries to estima
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by acqq 6y ago
> But on the individual level, it's about the same risk of death as you face over a normal year. It's surely not. Even the "normal" averages include people who have big problems. If you are an individual who is not
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by acqq 6y ago
It is a report dated 19th February! Also note that this estimate is based exclusively on the Chinese data(!) and that it practically confirms that the Chinese data were usable for the estimates even as there were doubts spread by the media
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by acqq 6y ago
> Apparently the antibody tests suck wrt accuracy. Here's what I have posted here exactly a month ago, referring to the article from Guardian from April 4th: -- The " false positives " are "especially significant with
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by acqq 6y ago
The relevant part of the abstract: "we derive a cosmic baryon density of Ωb=0.051" .. "This independent measurement is consistent with values derived from the cosmic microwave background and from Big Bang nucleosynthesis.&q
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by acqq 6y ago
> there are reasons [1] to be skeptical of 5G Not there. The claim is not supported by the article you cite. The article uses a lot of words about "security" but the truth is 5G has no worse security compared to 2G 3G etc. The
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by acqq 6y ago
> table salt, sand, and food-grade white pigment But it's often not in dangerous quantities, because homeopathy believes that the less of something is present somewhere it works better, and it's called "dynamization"
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by acqq 6y ago
It's actually even harder, as the starting point is much, much worse. That's the reason the modern vaccines were developed: they are much safer from the very start. We simply know much more today than at these times, so we can kno
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by acqq 6y ago
Covered by ScienceDaily in April: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200420145029.h... What I didn't find covered is how hard is to maintain the "sensing" state of the sensor for mor
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by acqq 6y ago
And in the linked article the probable cause is much more prosaic: "The attacks may have been perpetrated in order to mine cryptocurrency; investigations are ongoing."
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by acqq 6y ago
From Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, describing Britain during WWII (all emphasis mine): "The British gas masks have a squat round fitting on the front to allow exhalation, which looks exactly like the snout of a pig, and no wo
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by acqq 6y ago
Moderators, the title on HN is editorialized (i.e. wrong as per HN practice) at the moment. The actual is "The Totality of the Evidence." Also, independently of that, per Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by acqq 6y ago
And we have now the easily accessible documents that describe the context: Statement by Deputy Press Secretary Roussel on the Soviet Nuclear Test Ban Proposal, March 29, 1986 https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/research/speec
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by acqq 6y ago
I also remember having constant confusion of what were assumed associations in written bigger formulas especially involving the functions and the practice of not writing the braces, and before that, if 3 1/5 meant three times 1/5

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