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by arrrg 6y ago
It’s important to differentiate. If someone calls for protests to be illegal in one case and not the other then that’s a double standard and not such a great argument. (There are some subtle differences here, though: The situation a month a
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by arrrg 6y ago
In such mental health situations the social worker could be the commanding officer (essentially commanding police officers), relying on violence if deemed necessary. The important point is that the structure of decision making inside the po
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by arrrg 6y ago
The idea is that aggressive quarantining allows a comfortable return to normalcy for everyone. Maybe at most a couple 10,000 sent into home isolation (a week should be plenty here, no need for 14 days – we aren’t shooting for perfect anyway
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by arrrg 6y ago
False positives do matter. However, we are currently at about 300 new cases per day in Germany. So how much do they matter, really? If everyone of those has the app installed and has, on average, 100 registered contacts (so that’s about 98
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by arrrg 6y ago
I think you might be confusing price and cost. What NASA pays doesn’t necessarily reflect the cost since we do not know the margins. However, I do agree that it’s valuable to be skeptical of unproven claims regarding cost reduction, though
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by arrrg 6y ago
Even nonviolent protest was never intended to be peaceful. Not in they way many people would use the word “peace”, anyway. “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom
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by arrrg 6y ago
To believe that it’s even possible to not pick sides is non-sensical. “Not picking sides” often means siding with the status quo. That might be fine but it’s not the same as not picking a side.
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by arrrg 6y ago
Twitter gets to decide that. And if there’s overreach and abuse the courts get to step in. Seems quite straightforward to me. I have no problem with giving Twitter – also if they are utility-like – some ability to behave all by themselves,
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by arrrg 6y ago
It seems obvious to me that you cannot have a general rule here that covers everything. There is not bright line separation possible, if only because doing that is fucking dangerous for societies. In that context I’m totally fine with what
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by arrrg 6y ago
I think Twitter would ordinarily just straight up ban users who post blatant untruths about elections. That’s what they have done in the past and what is a direct reaction to what went down during the last US presidential election. Since th
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by arrrg 6y ago
Ordinary users would be banned for the stuff he said. No question about that. Twitter is already giving the president a lot of leeway in what he can say.
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by arrrg 6y ago
In democratic societies media is the fact checker. That’s how it’s supposed to be. Linking to related media resources makes total sense.
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by arrrg 6y ago
It’s factually irrelevant since no facts are expressed. That’s just opinion. I guess the racist part could be arguable, but that’s more opinion than fact.
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by arrrg 6y ago
I don’t think virus can replicate on cloth? They can’t replicate independent from their host, right?
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by arrrg 6y ago
Home Depot is open because you need it to be open, say for essential repairs (broken water pipe or what have you). I think something like Home Depot is actually pretty high up on the list of essential things. That people go there for non-es
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by arrrg 6y ago
The incentive for them is their reputation. I agree that if you market your news product a certain way then there is little incentive to be correct (tabloids do this). However, the NYT is not marketed that way.
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by arrrg 6y ago
You are infectious about 1-2 days before the onset of symptoms. Actually, at the onset of symptoms many are already getting less infectious. That’s why this one’s hard to catch up with. You need to be very quick when contact tracing. So, ye
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by arrrg 6y ago
I don’t think TCO is an issue with bikes. I would estimate the TCO of a bike to be somewhere between €15 and €50 a month†. That compares favourably to cars which would be somewhere up at €350 to €700 per month, so that’s an order of magnitu
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by arrrg 7y ago
The death rate of 0.5% falls right in the range of what modelers have been using, by the way. Not exactly very positive news.
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by arrrg 7y ago
The WHO never denied human-to-human transmission. This is a blatant lie.
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by arrrg 7y ago
That study is really not very good and doesn’t tell you anything. Sure, mutations happen all the time, however since the virus has error correction those are rare and very unlikely to have any effect on the phenotype.
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by arrrg 7y ago
Other more squishy factors are important, too: I don’t think Facebook posts for recruitment are a good idea. This could lead to more people taking part who have been sick or who had contact with someone who had the virus, over-representing
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by arrrg 7y ago
We don’t really know that. However, there are strong indications that PCR false negatives can happen quite a lot late during the illness. Those aren’t re-infections, that's just PCR testing at and around the detection limit. See these
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by arrrg 7y ago
Depends. If active cases can be pushed down to a mange-able level (i.e. a level where contact tracing is a realistic option and outbreaks can be, by and large, contained) a return to relative normalcy could still be possible. So that’s anot
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by arrrg 7y ago
No they don’t. Nobody has data that granular and fit for purpose. If my purpose-built wirst watch shows me veering dozens of meters of course even if I explicitly tell it to precisely track my location then that’s not fit for purpose.
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by arrrg 7y ago
False positives are ok, even a massive amount of false positives. Currently we all have to change our behaviour around everyone, all the time. Even if you are in New York that probably means there are “false positive” behaviour changes (beh
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by arrrg 7y ago
Cellphone data is not precise enough.
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by arrrg 7y ago
These studies tell me mostly that if there is an effect it’s probably not a large one.
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Simply untrue information. A researcher mentioned it as a possibility, nothing more.
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by arrrg 7y ago
Germany tested more and tested earlier. This allowed Germany to look into the future, nothing more. If you look at the increase in deaths it’s pretty obvious that Germany is now catching up fast. Testing alone obviously doesn’t do anything

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