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by angelzen 5y ago
They had to build a fleet of robots to study emergent behavior?! Have they heard of this amazing tool that can simulate pretty much any physical behavior for pennies on the dollars called "computer"?
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by angelzen 5y ago
Delta has been suppressed over the summer in NW Europe. Seasonality played a major role. Winter season is upon us, the dam is bursting. There is little hope to control the spread in the longterm, especially after delta. Eventually covid wil
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by angelzen 5y ago
This appears to be the (1st?) Delta wave, hitting NorthWest Europe a few months after UK. Interestingly enough Sweden is doing better, though God knows for how long. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data
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by angelzen 5y ago
"Research increasingly implies that homework is probably harmful in elementary; of dubious value in early middle school" You are citing research that apparently is stating the obvious, namely that good students are faster at compl
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by angelzen 5y ago
"Research increasingly implies..." Which research?
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by angelzen 5y ago
Given how the single largest predictor of covid death is age, a state with the 6th largest median age in the country is bound to stack high on the raw covid death rate metric. That being said, the OP is too early to proclaim victory. Covid
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by angelzen 5y ago
Helps to know who are the people that don't buy whatever it is that Google is pushing. At the very least serve them carefully selected content to change their ways.
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by angelzen 5y ago
I found a Feb 2021 piece from Derek Lowe a good 30k ft overview of how the immune system works. tl;dr it is stochastic, with a wide range of antibodies having different effects against an infection, some of them even negative (OAS). Usually
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by angelzen 5y ago
Housing sticks out like a sore thumb. 2% increase? Over what period? Case Schiller is double since the last dip (circa 2012), and a solid 45% up since the peak of the 2008 bubble. It has a sharp uptick in the past couple of years, sharper t
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by angelzen 5y ago
Whether prices or wages are the true measure of inflation is a class marker. If you are a (0.)1%er making most of your money from stocks, it's wages. If you are working for a living, it's prices. Guess which side dominates the US
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by angelzen 5y ago
We also literally printed trillions of dollars. What are the longterm trends in your opinion?
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by angelzen 5y ago
Possibly the OP does believe that. I used to live in that bubble. There is an undercurrent in US media and academia that "flyover country" is populated by inbred primitives clinging to obsolete superstition and impervious to reaso
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by angelzen 5y ago
Or motorcyles. They have wheels and get you from point A to pint B, but maybe have a different risk profile compared to cars. Not necessarily in favor of the alternative tech.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Agreed, it's not a perfect resource. The other tool I know of is https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/minnesota , but its resolution is only state level, can't dig in at county or hospital level. Between
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by angelzen 5y ago
I immigrated to the country exactly once. I do not plan to immigrate again any time soon.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Good call. Turns out I did make an error, reading just the >80 column thinking it's 'total', because it happened that that line dominated the table. There are definitely more vax deaths than unvax covid deaths in week 40-4
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by angelzen 5y ago
> we're still seeing a large influx to ICUs The summer waves clobbered various hospital systems in the US on a region by region basis. Winter is likely to be worse. For example, right now Minneapolis is under heavy load, ICUs at &gt
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by angelzen 5y ago
I'm not even sarcastic, just dark. I am at a loss at what is the space of not-criminal discourse about covid vaccines. This seems an attempt to make covid vaccines a taboo topic, in which only pre-canned proclamations are permitted, pr
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by angelzen 5y ago
https://www.leadersedge.com/brokerage-ops/the-risk-of-being-... "Every professional knows the discomfort and fallout that go along with having to deliver bad news."
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by angelzen 5y ago
The 99:1 numbers are very strange. Latest data from UK, which admittedly has a higher vaccination rate than US, gives a death ratio of 1:9 unvax:vax. Caution, Simpson's paradox is at play, older populations where the bulk of the deaths
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by angelzen 5y ago
Influenza vaccines have a rather poor efficiency record. In a good year 50-60%, in a bad one as little as 10-20%, i.e. mostly useless. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates...
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by angelzen 5y ago
In practice there is the bureaucratic state ratchet. Everything that favors their policies is taken as gospel on the whimsiest of the evidence. "My aunt's gardner third cousin works in an ER, they are seeing mountains of children
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by angelzen 5y ago
That is correct. Usually it is better to wait and see if the results are corroborated by different research teams, preferably in different countries.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Same guy in Aug 2021: "Every time that a variant appears in the world, our scientists are getting their hands around it. And they are researching to see if this variant can escape the protection of our vaccine. We haven't identifi
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by angelzen 5y ago
Not familiar with Akka of Play2, but you articulated the point of overcomplicating the task of returning a simple response to a simple request via a litany of rarely useful concepts quite clearly. OTOH, I wish popular web frameworks had a c
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by angelzen 5y ago
There are multiple studies that point to VE declining over time, to about 50% after 6 months. No further data is available. I do not understand why this vaccine behavior was not observed and documented by the original clinical trials, which
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by angelzen 5y ago
Israel has boosted 2.8 million people as of Sept 2021, a little more than half the vaccinated population. Total vax eligible population is 7 million, but some of them are not vaxed, thus can't take the 3rd booster. https://w
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by angelzen 5y ago
The press. "Israel Is Preparing for Possible Fourth Covid Vaccine Dose". https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-12/israel-pr...
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by angelzen 5y ago
The full on assault on the right to work is reminiscent of the worst abuses of the XX century. Technically Stalin didn't mass murder the kulaks, he just decided they had a bad influence on the general population and offered them jobs i
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by angelzen 5y ago
"the government" is just people, perhaps selected for even higher levels of selfishness and poor risk analysis skills.

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