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by acqq 7y ago
Exactly, molecular self-assembly is completely obvious once one can see the equivalent with his own eyes. I hope nobody complains "but he shakes the flask" -- because that is exactly what the temperature is -- how fast the particl
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by acqq 7y ago
Related, the NPR 2005 "podcast" about the book: "To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance" by Richard J. Ellis (2005) https://www.npr.org/books/titles/138425213/to-the-
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by acqq 7y ago
> What would the options be for covid-19? The author seems to skip this train of thought, but I don't think you can reduce the death rate as much as he claims without at least considering it. Making the vaccine right . That's
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by acqq 7y ago
Like said elsewhere -- we don't know what would be the "safe enough" method, on another side, desperate times... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation Still, there is a nice bit of history behind the
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by acqq 7y ago
And I don't want dark mode as the default, as I can't read such pages.
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by acqq 7y ago
There was however a perfect environment which allowed us to have an idea of percentages: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E... And the percentage of really asymptotic cases is much lower
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by acqq 7y ago
More worrying is that a lockdown that started recently will not be reflected immediately in any statistics -- it takes time for that. If I understand correctly, the lockdown of Wuhan started as they reported only 23 deaths and was more dras
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by acqq 7y ago
> North Carolina currently has 91 patients in the hospital for COVID19. The model projected 300-1000 hospitalizations by this point The doubling time is in many places only 3 days. From my point of view the model which is off by only a w
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by acqq 7y ago
> If you are considering dropping node because you need more performance, be careful. That's what is surely not surprising to me, as I've measured the performance of V8 even before node.js existed, and already knew of enough ex
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by acqq 7y ago
The actually relevant xkcd for this case is: https://xkcd.com/2278/ "[ The graph is labeled "Things", with "Time" advancing to the right on the x-axis. The level of "Things" has been
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by acqq 7y ago
But even that doesn't follow from the link you give: the slowest C++ entry is taking 54 seconds there. But I don't see any, for example, Python code which is faster. There is node.js code which is fast, but we know that node.js de
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by acqq 7y ago
The study was made by "The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)" launched in 2007 "with the goal of providing an impartial, evidence-based picture of global health trends to inform the work of policymakers, rese
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by acqq 7y ago
> please don't generalize I don't, I specifically point exactly against the generalization: > I am aware that many decisions are up to the regional institutions there, and that's why generalizing and equalizing any stat
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by acqq 7y ago
The analysis that is claimed (1) to have affected the change in the Covid-19 policy of the British government: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s... is by Neil M Ferguson et al. 16 M
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by acqq 7y ago
> I don't think he's expressing a view that many share. "Many" is hard to estimate, but my impression is that there was, at least at some points of time, obvious political motivation to downplay the seriousness of the
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by acqq 7y ago
> I don't think that's deliberate on the media's behalf And I'm sure it is deliberate. Like I've said, not only the editors deliberately select the news, what will be covered and how it will be covered, there are
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by acqq 7y ago
> That sounds pretty wrong, and it's not what I've been hearing here in Germany. Depends on who passes you the news. My quotes are from what "Dr. Stefan Hockertz" an "immunologist" directly claimed, and ther
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by acqq 7y ago
There are many aspects of this, and what can be presently proven is always an extremely small tip of the iceberg. I've read a lot of different historical accounts and it is practically a given that all these mechanisms or even institut
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by acqq 7y ago
> I'm not sure western media is eager to portray China's doom Then you definitely don't know how the world functions. There are allocated funds exactly with this purposes. There are the whole groups of people whose main ag
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by acqq 7y ago
> notice that there are benchmarks implemented in "fast" languages that are outperformed by better optimized code written in "slow" languages. I haven't observed that, at least not where one can't write a &q
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> or where severity mix and/or mortality are strongly out of line with expectations. Yes, that was the only conclusion I was able to make based on Germany's data being so different in the proportion of known cases against repor
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by acqq 7y ago
If you want an example of how to do that good, I find this the best: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest as a simpler start, see the logarithmic chart here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/c
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by acqq 7y ago
> there just aren't enough people to sustain two months' growth It can be simply calculated: it is expected that without measures the growth to 70% of population would be continuous (very approximately, the end phase wouldn&#x
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by acqq 7y ago
> some of the major causes of the large death toll... Wrong. The major cause is that the number of people getting sick at once was much higher than the infrastructure can handle. That's what other governments saw and now try to avoi
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by acqq 7y ago
Yes, but not so soon: at the moment in most of the places it grows exponentially, the numbers doubling every three to four days. So "and will probably get there in another week or so" is probably too slow. If it's really 2000
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by acqq 7y ago
From what I understand by trying to "read the signs between the lines" (which means it can be somewhat off) one of the reasons Germany is reporting much less deaths is some attitude there that only those who didn't have other
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by acqq 7y ago
> What if I have flu and that corona virus which do not affect humans. By definition, you can't have the virus which doesn't affect humans. The virus that causes Covid-19 is called SARS-CoV-2: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by acqq 7y ago
Wow. Your answer is really a good fit to the details provided by the author of the original article. Many, many thanks for the answer! I've already done some experimenting myself and wanted to do more, so it really means a lot to me.
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by acqq 7y ago
I would also appreciate if you manage to be even more specific once more "coherency" is possible. I'm also interested what you specifically can say more about "The second option is to ensure it's loader-independent,
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by acqq 7y ago
> no other solutions that wouldn't sink the US economy After this pandemics is over I think we'll know better what "no other solutions that wouldn't sink the US economy" actually means. I suspect that behind the

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