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by allovernow 7y ago
Honestly surprised to see star voodoo like this on HN. There's literally always something happening to people on a planet with hundreds of millions to billions of people. The correlations are spurious because at any alignment you can s
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by allovernow 7y ago
Of course it can! You can train any bias you want into your neural net. The question is how long your engineers will buy it, and whether the socially acceptable default position, that men and women should expect identical outcomes given ide
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by allovernow 7y ago
I've been extremely pessimistic since early January when I started following this obsessively - and I still think it's going to get far worse before it gets better. But there is a silver lining here. This is probably the first tim
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by allovernow 7y ago
I'm more concerned with mass prison riots and escapees. Couple prison riots have been reported abroad. Then again, though we have one of the highest per capital prison rates in the world, most are non violent drug offenders so there ma
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by allovernow 7y ago
Excellent example! From the article linked >A 3M spokesperson told the Star Tribune that the company was "not yet under contract for the volume mentioned" by Pence, but it was preparing to respond to the government's reque
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by allovernow 7y ago
>This is a required response to the crisis, not something noteworthy. They're ordering masks because they didn't have enough and as we see now they're already running low. The president was under no obligation to order mas
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by allovernow 7y ago
Look, the bottom line is that given the obvious unpopularity of right wing leadership on most popular online outlets (most news media, especially online, Reddit, Twitter, etc) literally anything that they do is going to be criticized. Proba
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by allovernow 7y ago
You're right about that. Children are practically immune. As I understand this has to do with innate vs acquired immunity. Children are born with very strong innate immunity and as we age innate immunity decreases while acquired immuni
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by allovernow 7y ago
I hope they're right but I worry these conclusions are premature. There's evidence of community transmission in Singapore which currently has rather warm and humid weather. Honestly just look at the current world map[0] - it see
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by allovernow 7y ago
It's about containing the spread to spare risky populations and minimize hospital overload. Also the bit about being no worse than the flu is not true for any age group.
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by allovernow 7y ago
Yeah, the only major conservative cable outlet. Against CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, NPR...Not to mention almost every major web source. People know full well that Fox is part of the MSM, but regardless of which way you lean, there's n
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by allovernow 7y ago
If there is an outbreak, you want to avoid going to places like stores - not just for yourself but to minimize your chances of contracting the virus and exposing others. It's the socially responsible thing to do.
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by allovernow 7y ago
They're just picking winners that align with their own ideology at this point. The dangers of authoritarianism are latent in any power structure - whether government, corporate, or other. This is bad for society.
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by allovernow 7y ago
>The absolute and unquestionable reality for millions of workers in the USA (food industry, customer service, transportation, and many others) is that they have zero paid sick leave and are also subject to work requirements I don't
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by allovernow 7y ago
It's all over the internet at this point. Major outlets are reporting on it. Why the hell do you think the stock market tanked into recession territory? They're already calling it "Black Monday" in the news. Why would I
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by allovernow 7y ago
How about a startup, for starters? Where people spend years burning themselves out? How about when you have a big project coming up for a client and your team is depending on your contributions? I'm not advocating for this sort of pres
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by allovernow 7y ago
What proportion of our population actually works without paid sick leave? What proportion in countries with guaranteed sick leave is pressured into coming to work anyway by social stigma? Not everything needs to be legislated. Especially no
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by allovernow 7y ago
>Take THAT, coronavirus! :P It's really hard at this point not to feel like people deserve what's coming. The vast majority of regular Joes still don't care and think I'm crazy for simply telling them to be responsibl
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by allovernow 7y ago
HN is disproportionately composed of multidisciplinary generalists with backgrounds in a range of fields, including virology and molecular biology. There is no harm in having smart people reading breakthrough literature in other fields. Eve
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by allovernow 7y ago
You seriously don't think that modern news outlets don't have a consistent, left-leaning, anti-Trump agenda? Perhaps you've been drinking too much of their coolaid. "Mainstream media" was a term long before people
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by allovernow 7y ago
Honestly I'm long on BTC just in case there's another moonshot, but this pandemic has fairly conclusively demonstrated that bitcoin's days are numbered. In the past BTC tended to do well when the market did poorly, but that h
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by allovernow 7y ago
Serious question, perhaps I'm misunderstanding something: So long as bond yields are positive, they cannot depreciate in value, can they? As in if I pull out X dollars from the market and into bonds, assuming yields stay positive, I&#x
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by allovernow 7y ago
>Even in Wuhan, there were a total of some 80,000 cases (an overestimate) out of a population of 11 MILLION in the city alone, and 19 MILLION You are grossly misinformed if you think that number is anywhere near correct. For a multitud
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by allovernow 7y ago
The idea is to stay at home and only wear a mask when you have to go outside, say, for groceries.
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by allovernow 7y ago
Yeah, that's why Italy just locked down the entire country. This is the first time in recent history that the media has not been sensationalizing anything, and actually has been underreporting the danger, after ignoring the outbreak
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by allovernow 7y ago
>Reddit and the media are a bit sensationalized. But at the same time, WHO/CDC only has basic info in their reports every day. Any good sources with a more optimistic tone Listen: for the first time, the media has actually been unde
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by allovernow 7y ago
>We only collect the data needed to provide shoppers with an accurate receipt. Shoppers can think of this as similar to typical security camera footage. Well somehow I suspect that's a little misleading.
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by allovernow 7y ago
Look, until two weeks ago my 401k was tracking 14% gains. By gradually moving it over the last week and last night, I've locked in 10% gains. The alternative would have been 0% gains as of today (market is back about where it was when
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by allovernow 7y ago
>In the past, say 40+ years ago, anyone who was suspected of having a pandemic disease would be tested for free. What? Even with the modern capitalist system the vast majority of people will be better off than they would have been 40 yea
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by allovernow 7y ago
We don't have the surge capacity necessary to handle this outbreak. That's the bottom line and will be the trigger for shutting down everything else in an attempt to lessen the load on overburdened hospitals. And it's not jus

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