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by apatters 7y ago
Actually I would argue they are not the same when your solution will force some number of people into poverty (plus in the US cause them to lose their health care). No one wants to have to think about these numbers, but if you're r
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A 1% mortality rate is much higher than the ballpark. A recent study which was featured on Hacker News estimated the infection fatality rate at 0.66%. [1] The IFR represents how many of those who got it and ended up dead (regardless of whet
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The concept is interesting, that he thinks he can penalize spammers by A) having a popular blog and B) shaming them. In general I agree that hiring a bunch of digital marketers who go out and ask hundreds or thousands of sites to link to a
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by apatters 7y ago
They are probably going through their days in just as much of an irrational, social media induced panic as everyone else.
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You can't extrapolate trends ad infinitum, and I didn't. I extrapolated them for four weeks. All we need is four more weeks of what has happened for the last two (and most authorities are saying that the lockdowns will last at l
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If the unemployment rate continues to rise at this pace (about 7% every two weeks), it will match the peak during the Great Depression (25%) around the end of April. That's 40 million people who will have no income and likely no health
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If preventative measures aren't employed correctly, then eventually, most people are going to watch someone they know die. I reckon that experience will cause them to employ preventative measures immediately.
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You will get tarred and feathered for your comment but you are correct. Here is why you'll get tarred and feathered, because right now the media is covering the health costs of the virus extensively, but it's not covering the econ
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Yes many times. I first visited a decade ago. I remember seeing shit smeared on the walls and ceilings of outhouses. A kid taking a shit on the steps of city hall. Today, they have come a long way in some parts of the country in terms of hy
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I don't understand how we get to Newsom's claim that 25 million Californians will get infected in 8 weeks. The math doesn't check out. The best data we have at this point is from China. They have 81,000 confirmed cases to dat
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by apatters 7y ago
AA's 12 Steps use the word God four times. They also refer to "Him" three times, to a higher "Power," a "spiritual awakening," and prayer. Nearly every step has a reference to spirituality of some kind and
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by apatters 7y ago
I agree, but I was responding to this point made by my parent: > There is absolutely no way I would consider consent someone gave me while they were on it valid in any sense. Parent does not say anywhere that he/she is a therapist,
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I have no experience with MDMA but this seems like an extreme position. If you have sex with someone without their consent it's considered rape, so this line of thought would imply that everyone who's had sex with a person on MDMA
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by apatters 7y ago
It's just not a great article. Farnam Street is popping up on HN all the time these days. They had one article a while back which I liked enough to add their RSS feed to my reader (can't remember which one), but to be frank, I thi
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I didn't read the article as being about how to hack your brain for an extra 10% job performance, I read it as a model for dealing with mental illness and a prescription at the end which bears some resemblance to existing therapies. Th
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Well, while they're still dominant, all the other cultures might decide to band together and discourage, eradicate or dilute the one that keeps growing. Anyway I agree that we can't say for certain whether population will grow or
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We think it's different for us because the reversal in population growth is correlated with education and development levels. These are factors which aren't present in animal populations. If we lived in a world where every culture
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The statistics for all this are extensive and easily obtained on the Internet, as you say they are similar, at least across developed, Western nations. For the purposes of mental (and actually physical as well) health: getting married and m
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Total numbers of divorces have trended down modestly in recent years, but as a percentage of marriages they are still at historic highs. Prior to the 1970s only a low single digit percentage of marriages ended in divorce. It then rose stead
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by apatters 7y ago
Your comment (along with statements in the article) presumes that tech is the root cause of these problems but in my opinion this assumption is faulty. Concurrent to the rise in loneliness, depression, anxiety etc. we have experienced a ris
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In point of fact they are all left of center on the chart, but less far left than say MSNBC, which I would say is pretty spot on.
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Here's the secret, most "news" makes your view of the world less accurate, not more. So like with many things, the key is quality over quantity. Check out the Media Bias Chart: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/st
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The line of inquiry is not dissimilar to CBT, which instructs the practitioner to identify the negative belief that's troubling them, identify evidence for and against it, and finally consider whether alternative explanations may exist
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by apatters 7y ago
To add to the list of stuff that I consider positive/encouraging: - Out of 270 confirmed non-China cases there's still been only one death. That's a 0.3% death rate. Which raises the question, why is the death rate 2-3% in Ch
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There's always going to be someone on the Internet saying something terrible and extreme about any topic. I'm not really sure what to say about that other than it's not changing any time soon, and I'm glad I stopped kee
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Fair question, it's not that the situation is looking great, but that the media is making it look worse than it currently is. Outside of China the worst hit countries have a little more than two dozen cases and there's only been a
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I haven't really dug into them but there are criticisms that the Chinese government ignored the situation in the early stages and suppressed information about it. Which sounds like typical negatives of an authoritarian government that
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Just dropping a link here, anyone who is concerned about the coronavirus and has opinions about it should imo read the daily situation reports from the WHO: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronaviru
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by apatters 7y ago
The idea behind the existential "crisis of meaning" is not that nothing means anything to anyone. It is that meaning is a psychological construct, and should not be represented as anything more. If having a work ethic gets you thr

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