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by angelzen 5y ago
See e.g. obesity crisis. Or medicalized end-of-life costs. Sadly, we pay for expensive stuff people do to their health all the time.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Sadly, the ZeroCovid ship has sailed. Vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission (1). All vaccines appear to do is to (hopefully) dull the severity of the infection once you've got it. Plus now we have animal reservoirs, and no
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by angelzen 5y ago
There are vaccines. Everyone that wants a vaccine already got it or can easily get it. People say they are extremely good at eliminate severe covid, that's what I got one myself. But at this point taking a vaccine or not is a personal
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by angelzen 5y ago
It's the vaccinated population that breeds vaccine-resistant variants. Just like it's the antibiotic half-course that breeds antibiotic resistant bacteria. As the vaccines are failing harder and harder, convenient to blame those t
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by angelzen 5y ago
None of those things change the result for covid. The real troublesome thought is that bio-experimentation is booming, at both state and private level. Assuming covid escaped from a lab, it is the largest man-made disaster in history, with
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by angelzen 5y ago
Free advice: Don't wear a mask if you have a day-long interview at a FAANG. Don't wear a mask if you participate in an athletic competition. You won't get peak performance for either intellectual or physical activities. Masks
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by angelzen 5y ago
They'll develop robust natural immunity with negligible risk, then grow up and become adults with robust natural immunity.
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by angelzen 5y ago
A 20 year track record that the virus doesn't eventually mutate to bypass the narrow protection offered by mRNA vaccines, and subsequent infections aren't worse compared with natural immunity gained after an initial infection. In
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by angelzen 5y ago
That's nice in theory. In practice I have reduced lung capacity and start suffocating after 15 mins of N95. What happens is that the whole air flow is harder to push around, and there is so long one can force breath. I presume that peo
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by angelzen 5y ago
Consider taking it up with Lynne Peeples. The very subtitle of the piece is 'surgical masks are highly protective, but cloth masks fall short', I have no idea why she thinks '11% drop in risk' is 'highly protective&
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by angelzen 5y ago
I'm sorry, please help me: where does the study say cloth masks help?
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Because they believe the best way to preserve their careers is to regurgitate official dogma. It becomes an absurd race of who's performing this ritual in the strongest possible terms. It's going to get worse, keep an eye for expl
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by angelzen 5y ago
> “surgical” masks used actually contained a blown fiber layer, like N95s, and passed the 95% filtration level when tested. > The study’s authors found that surgical masks — but not cloth masks — reduced transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in
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by angelzen 5y ago
Grrr, I misread a bit. It's 73/27 vax/unvax in the population at large vs. cases 32/68 vax/unvax. Not a big difference, still we should be precise.
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by angelzen 5y ago
All ratios are formatted as vax/unvax. More unvax people are in the hospital and dying, in spite of more people being vaxed in the population. It's bad. Get vaxed.
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by angelzen 5y ago
All the more reason to keep draconian covid measures in place in perpetuity. Covid passports, lockdowns, masks, forced vax. Sometimes I picture our anti-covid measures as piling sandbags in front of a tsunami. Might hold back the water for
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by angelzen 5y ago
From Seattle: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccinatio... https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccinatio... The county is 73/27
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by angelzen 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28462694 https://www.city-journal.org/a-radical-racial-reeducation-pr...
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by angelzen 5y ago
There are number of marginally useful anti-covid measures. A characteristic of the US public discourse is that some of these measures are ridiculous if not malevolent, while others are worth their weight in gold. The key of decoding which i
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by angelzen 5y ago
TSA doesn't go around saying 'we are here to waste your time and humiliate you'. They are also saving lives. In perpetuity.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Also true: The son of a coal miner in West Virgina is going to have a lot tougher path to success than the son of Sundar Pichai. And yet they don't teach their employees that 'America is a system of plutocrat supremacy'.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Every HN comment section has a different audience than the next. My hypothesis is that a large chunk of the audience of a given article is people that are irked by the title and join in to express their discontent. This explains the 't
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by angelzen 5y ago
k8s is just a bunch of processes working together. The downside is that if something goes wrong, it is unclear which process is faulty and how to fix it. A misconfigured DNS may take down the whole cluster, and the symptoms are that every
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by angelzen 5y ago
O Bayes, where art thou? Life is tragic. A tiny fraction of kids die of covid. A tiny fraction of kids die of flu. A tiny fraction of kids die of RSV. A tiny fraction of kids die of bacterial pneumonia. While the effects of covid can be sev
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by angelzen 5y ago
Perhaps I am indeed exhausted by the continuous barrage of rumors of doom. The last CDC snapshot (as old as 07/13!) estimates that nationally 8% of the hospital beds were occupied with covid patients. Perhaps I'm unfazed by the IC
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The energy alternative: high greenhouse gas emissions or energy poverty(ourworldindata.org)
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Early in the project the maintainer(s) are super-excited of their new baby. Later on they burn out and move on to do different things. The PR guides are written in the first stage, while PRs get ignored in the latter.
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Lung function appears to be unaffected after Covid-19 infection in young adults(ersnet.org)
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That's intriguing. My original comment was longer and included https://macropolo.org/digital-projects/the-global-ai-talent-... . A plurality of top AI researchers are Chinese. The Chinese undergrad pipeline appears
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by angelzen 5y ago
Correct. They correlate though. In practice going half speed would probably be better, giving the brain time to recognize the unusual dialect. Italian: 6.99 syllables per second Spanish: 7.82 syllables per second https://thelangu

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