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by acqq 7y ago
I see your account is new. Let me explain, after many years being here, it's completely typical for HN that the posts get downvoted from those who don't share the same point of view, especially if the arguments appear to be weak (
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by acqq 7y ago
> if anyone misread my quotes as personal opinion, they're not. The way they are written, then simply ending them with yours " Been watching the studies closely though! " and pointing afterwards "mild symptoms recover
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by acqq 7y ago
I like the following two paragraphs appearing exactly in this order in the text: "If evidence is found that Covid-19 is a biological weapon, some pundits such as Fox News host Lou Dobbs have called for the US to declare war on China. N
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by acqq 7y ago
The paper about which is written there is: https://irispublishers.com/sjrr/pdf/SJRR.MS.ID.000540.pdf and, to warn anybody expecting more, ends with: "Acknowledgements We thank Big Bird from Sesame Street for
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by acqq 7y ago
I use C++ for decades, but I used it always for the projects that were supposed to last long. With that limitation, I've constantly avoided two things: 1) dependence on external C++ libraries, especially boost. 2) trying to always have
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by acqq 7y ago
50? Just initially, but in a week or two more of these developed symptoms, so more recent number was just 18% : https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-what-proportion-are-a... "Setting: Diamond Princess cruise sh
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by acqq 7y ago
More about how the antibody tests aren't doing what one would want to believe they do: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/uk-government-... " None of 3.5m home tests ordered have so
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by acqq 7y ago
The cases not being "perfectly spread" over the seven week days is observable also outside of the U.S. It's simply an artifact how most of the workers work. So the would-be-modelers should really be able to handle at least th
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by acqq 7y ago
The good side: the ships allowed us to have the data about COVID-19 that could not be otherwise easily obtained. One could hardly invent better "experiment setup" with the real people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by acqq 7y ago
"The decision leaves Disney staff reliant on state benefits — public support that could run to hundreds of millions of dollars over coming months — even as the company protects executive bonus schemes and a $1.5bn dividend payment due
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by acqq 7y ago
> there's no way to magically all of a sudden get any long term damages to anything if you don't have them to begin with Based on what exactly can you claim that ? It's surely not how every non-latent virus works. Every n
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by acqq 7y ago
> Never does he predict that 1% will be infected. But he uses exactly this in his argument, in the same paragraph: "If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total
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by acqq 7y ago
> Blockchain could replace that, and save them all some money. I don't think that can be proved to be true? I can easily imagine that any blockchain would introduce obvious weaknesses in the process for everybody, and such which can
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by acqq 7y ago
Exactly. And I have a very recent example, yesterday somebody responded to one of my replies with: "Cuomo claimed to need 40k ventilators after the lockdown was put in place. He ended up needing only a fraction of that. Obviously, with
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by acqq 7y ago
> makes the Sweden's 8th position in the list exactly the middle From all countries and entities in the world, around 200 here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries Sweden is currently 11th in d
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by acqq 7y ago
> Sweden is midway in the list (and just above US) pretty much evidencing the point Sweden is surely not "midway in the list" unless in an imaginary world where one thinks that all European countries fit on the accidental 13-
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by acqq 7y ago
And I discovered that I like to always see in the prompt the return value of the last command executed, if it is not 0. nd that I don't need the name of the machine and the user name in the prompt on my main computer.
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by acqq 7y ago
"For a reproductive number of 2.5 (ref. 2), contact tracing and isolation alone are less likely to be successful if more than 30% of transmission occurred before symptom onset, unless >90% of the contacts can be traced . This is mo
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by acqq 7y ago
> No, my claim is that the models that were used with the lockdown were wrong. Cuomo claimed to need 40k ventilators after the lockdown was put in place. He ended up needing only a fraction of that. What you state now reflects exactly ho
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by acqq 7y ago
The argument, the way I understood it, is that the models already include effects you mention (the impact of the clouds is already correctly modeled) and even the dust impact is modeled, but that the parameters of the models represent the d
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by acqq 7y ago
> the original predictions that inspired this level of lockdown have not come to pass The predictions of what would have happened had no lockdown been introduced then haven't materialized precisely because the lockdown have been exe
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by acqq 7y ago
And even that concept (of "defaultness" of a button) is IMO wrong: it introduces "modes" of operation -- you have to look to see what is the default before you can press Enter. Which also means that you can't even h
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by acqq 7y ago
> should we have also done more for ebola, zika, SARS, MERS etc in the US Obviously yes, and not only in the US. The complete lack of any preparation for this kind of events in most of the world is what makes this specific event so disas
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by acqq 7y ago
As far as I remember, the "DLL hijacking" is a serious issue when the program like Microsoft Word searches for the DLL exactly at the location of the user file to be opened and exactly after the user selects the file: if you e.g.
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by acqq 7y ago
It's far from what sciencetechniz.com article claims, and I've quoted the actual words of the person, as quoted in the article, not the interpretations.
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by acqq 7y ago
And there it sounds much less specific: "the bureau had recently seen state-backed hackers poking around."
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by acqq 7y ago
No. My points were simply: 1) it was not "an attack" at all but an experiment that confirmed the theory's validity in the limits of the Universe previously unreachable to humans. 2) The "replacement" didn't ha
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by acqq 7y ago
> we don't currently need to replace it It‘s not about “replacing”: in all the areas where it is already confirmed it doesn’t ever need to be replaced. Wherever Newton’s formulas are good enough they are still used and are going to
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by acqq 7y ago
> just withstood another attack That‘s also a wrong simplification. It wasn’t an attack at all. When science reaches new limits and an old theory is confirmed valid even there, what‘s left is even less possibilities for some new theory t
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by acqq 7y ago
But all the countries did introduce various measures to slow down the spread. Otherwise nobody could claim that the numbers remained compatable.

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