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by angelzen 5y ago
That is a rather superficial "narrative" article that ignores the major impact of industrialization on culture. It is not Western vs. Eastern cultures, it is pre-industrial vs. industrial cultures. Obviously, within those two big
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by angelzen 5y ago
Probably the OP refers to a large scale Israeli study from late summer. https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on... https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Covid is dangerous. Media hyperbole is also dangerous. Western Europe countries are experiencing a covid wave, hopefully it will peter out in a couple of months. Though we will never hear "cases falling through the floor" in the m
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by angelzen 5y ago
"Gesamtzahl gemeldeter Intensivbetten (Betreibbare Betten und Notfallreserve" chart shows the ICU stats over time. Occupied beds are roughly a flatline around 20k, with a small 3k seasonal (covid?) variation. OTOH, the total numbe
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by angelzen 5y ago
Admittedly, this is anecdote. I grew up in a poor country, but raising my kids in the US. I can count the number of times they had to see a doctor because of fever/cough/vomiting/diarrhea using one hand (each). Had recently o
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by angelzen 5y ago
The risk of testing positive for covid is conditioned on the probability of being tested in the first place. The CDC guidance skews towards testing unvaccinated people more aggressively, hence the numbers are predictably skewed towards the
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by angelzen 5y ago
The charts offer an age breakdown. Click the "Change age group" button.
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by angelzen 5y ago
The numbers are small and the risk concentrated in the elderly ailing population such that an outbreak in nursing homes can skew the overall numbers one way or another, depending on lack of PCR tests or over-sensitive PCR tests. These numbe
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by angelzen 5y ago
We have eliminated every single chance for kids to experience adversity. They don't roam the streets, forget about the woods. We chaperone them to pre-approved activities under constant adult supervision. We pad their playgrounds in 1f
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by angelzen 5y ago
Deep sigh. WW2 was prefaced by the Spanish civil war, which gave us Guernica and George Orwell. Stumbled recently upon a fragment of an account of the era. A society fractured along familiar fault lines, each side demonizing the other at le
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by angelzen 5y ago
I forgot to mention that an in-depth resource like the OA is invaluable complement to terse cheatsheets for the 1% of the cases when the common commands are not sufficient. Thank you :)
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by angelzen 5y ago
I love nix as a concept. I have a couple concerns in practice. * I don't want to learn nix, nor do I want to learn apt, brew, pip, npm, crates etc. beyond a handful basic commands: install, remove, list all, list package (version &
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by angelzen 5y ago
For example because some got the vaccine shot and got infected too? The vaccine offers middling protection against infection.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Imagine a police officer stopping you at the side of the road. "When was the last time you drank alcohol?" "A couple of months ago at my brother's birthday party, I had a can of beer." "Step out of the car, you
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by angelzen 5y ago
In King County, for age group >65yo, vaccination rate is >95%, and the percent of vaccinated hospitalizations for this age group is 3%. In UK, for age group >60yo, with similarly high vaccination rates, the percent of vaccinated ho
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by angelzen 5y ago
It is a tough call. My hope is that in spite of failing to expand surge hospital capacity, the winter delta covid waves will recede before reaching spillover point.
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by angelzen 5y ago
This is a reasonable proposition in principle. But there are other admission criteria. For example, you might end up passing over a 30yo mother of two for a 85yo nursing home resident, just because all nursing home residents get vaccinate
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by angelzen 5y ago
I debunked this in a dupe thread, where someone has similar claims about Minnesota, the actual hospital occupancy rate was 10%. The total covid utilization of Zurich ICU units is 14.6%. 71% of 14.6% is 10.3% . Not great, but a far cry from
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by angelzen 5y ago
Liberal market based societies / economies have many failings, and would be a very interesting conversation to explore some of these. To refocus on the UC situation, and at the risk of putting words in your mouth, the general idea is t
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by angelzen 5y ago
These are all good points. Perhaps it is time to inquire why did SU run an inefficient state-run economy for 40 years after the manic dictator was gone. Without going into too many details, the justification, even the imperative, for said
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by angelzen 5y ago
Life in the '80s in the Soviet Union space was marred by widespread food shortages. Here is a fairly accurate video of how the usual grocery shop looked like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8LtQhIQ2AE When the sporad
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by angelzen 5y ago
Post-stalinist Soviet Union, while not manically murderous, eventually imploded under the weight of a myriad suboptimal policy choices. Alas, it took 40 years to do so. There is a lot of inertia, I don't think anyone is arguing that UC
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by angelzen 5y ago
"10% is taking up two-thirds of hospital space". This is incorrect, by a large margin. There is a separate resource that tracks hospital bed use by covid status. Right now indicates 1074 out of 7327 beds are occupied by covid pati
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by angelzen 5y ago
"It's hard for me to imagine every single university getting on board with this" Think for a bit how many things that were hard to imagine 10 years ago are now common place in the corporate world. Social conformity pressure i
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by angelzen 5y ago
Growing up in a communist country, the further removed from the standardized college entrance exam you are, the more connections matter. Standardized college entrance exam will get you into a good university, but connections decide your fir
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by angelzen 5y ago
Everything has flaws. Everything is game-able. The question is to find the least game-able system. Where is the line between "tests can be gamed" and "one can prepare for tests by educating themselves"?
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by angelzen 5y ago
If grade inflation was already a pernicious problem, once any semblance of an objective test is removed, the pressure on HS teachers to grade everyone at A+++++++ will increase even further. We are stunting generations of kids by not offeri
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by angelzen 5y ago
There has been a study a month ago looking into B/T cell response for the covid vaccines. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0829 Article is hypertechnical, fortunately there is a more approachabl
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Not surprisingly, the population of STEM graduate programs is vastly dominated by foreign students. "81 percent of full-time graduate students in electrical and petroleum engineering programs at U.S. universities are international stud
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by angelzen 5y ago
polio vaccines != covid vaccines * Covid risk is highly age dependent. 1000x so. An unvaccinated kid has less chance of death than their vaccinated 40yo parent. Covid mortality is concentrated in the >50yo population. Please take a look

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