bronzeage

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by bronzeage 6y ago
I think the emotional pressure to latch onto optimistic / pessimistic news is too hard to make correct, objective conclusions about this virus. If it isn't backed by data, I'm afraid anecdotal evidence is too biased by the hu
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Uber / Lyft / Snap were never cash flow positive, and don't have any clear way of reaching that, while User is burning 2 billions a quarter and has only two more quarters to go bust. There are tons of VC unicorns which are bu
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Yes, correlation between suspicion of infection to volunteering to testing positive. If they wanted to know how many felt symptoms they would survey them. Wouldn't jump to conclusions.
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Debt and overleverage is stealing from the future. We got into 2020 with nearly every corporate in america deep into debt which used to finance buybacks. The last 3 years of profit and growth were stolen from the future by the CEOs and past
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by bronzeage 6y ago
This is the breakdown of capitalism as a resource-routing mechanism. On the one hand, a vital resource with much needed demand. On the other hand, someone having to throw that resource away at a cost. I'm pretty sure people starving wo
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by bronzeage 6y ago
Well he's definitely mistaken: for example, in Israel, technological contact tracing (not an app tho) by the Shabak led to more than 500 confirmed cases which might not have been detected otherwise: https://news.walla.co.il&
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by bronzeage 6y ago
This is cherry picking hopeful data. Tests have false positives, the serological tests detect all coronaviruses including common human CoV which cause common cold. The state of hospitals in Italy tell a different story. It might not be numb
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by bronzeage 6y ago
The difference is that it's the liquidation process from defaults that causes deflation, not the defaulting itself. Without the liquidation process, if you assume defaulting had no consequences, that's indeed inflation - as everyo
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by bronzeage 6y ago
the "analogous" physical structure of hearing serves many functions not replicated by cochlear implant. Focusing on one signal during noise is in fact much more difficult with an implant.
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by bronzeage 6y ago
I'm a big fan of Gerard t' Hooft's Cellular Automata Interpretation. Most of the things described by Wolfram were already there, in fact, I would argue that most of the things with strict connection to real physics were alrea
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by bronzeage 7y ago
People can't literally exit their houses right now. Much more basic freedoms are taken. If you think ditching that later will be hard, ditching it now when it's desperately needed is impossible.
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by bronzeage 7y ago
They are trying to prevent both millions of deaths and and worst economic collapse in modern age. Privacy isn't as important. Fight this thing when corona-virus is over.
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by bronzeage 7y ago
This crisis will force us to rethink patent laws and healthcare regulations. under the current circumstances, patent laws and other laws designed to give the medical industry Monopoly over their creations are preventing life saving actions.
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by bronzeage 7y ago
If a virus takes a week to develop symptoms, and doubles every 3.5 days, that's exactly what do you would expect: after a week 3/4 of the cases are new and too early to detect symptoms. asymptomatic proportion sampled at a moment
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by bronzeage 7y ago
It's interesting that preventing a cyber virus and a real world virus is mutually exclusive. Some things require connectivity, when it's virtual connectivity you're exposed to virtual viruses and when it's physical conne
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by bronzeage 7y ago
This is so narrow minded looking just at mortality rate. doctors in Italy are flooding in cases, and do but admit people older than 60. All those cases are young people. who knows if they will live, and what kind of damage will remain after
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by bronzeage 7y ago
This is all dumb. saying this is unstoppable is a misconception. China reduced cases. South Korea and Singapore and Hong Kong and Taiwan have it under control. This is a statistics game, if you manage to reduce infection rate below 1 you wi
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by bronzeage 7y ago
What people don't understand is that this can be stoppped so much faster if we just learn from china and do everything we can from the first moment. Gradual escalation of measures is useless.
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by bronzeage 7y ago
So a US judge, which seems extremely likely to be taking bribes himself, convicted a lawyer in bribing a judge according to a single bribed witness. So ironic... This judge needs to be thoroughly investigated on his connections to Chevron.
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Gmail of an old man with 0 mails blocked
69 points by bronzeage 7y ago|25 comments
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by bronzeage 7y ago
the funny part is all this publicity and media outrage actually helps NSO. their customers and potential customers don't give a damn about human rights, and being in the spot light more than competing firms only helps them.
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by bronzeage 7y ago
If you want to judge a random walk in a meaningful way, you never ask "what's the probability of reaching X started?" you ask "how long do you stay in states like X". the expected time to exit "oligarchy"
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by bronzeage 7y ago
I have to question the meaning of their result. it's a known and inituitive result that a random walk on a lattice eventually reaches every point. This has no practical meaning whatsoever. it's not an interesting result because, j
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by bronzeage 7y ago
literally mind fuck.
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by bronzeage 7y ago
It's not entirely fraud because placebo does have an effect. The important thing is to communicate to the patient that it is not a complete solution, and that they should also seek additional treatment if it exists. from a moral standp
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by bronzeage 7y ago
The irony is that the big winners of fossil fuels, which are all the arabic countries, will be the ones who get hit by the climate change the worse.
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by bronzeage 7y ago
if you're dealing with a known legal entity that's misleading and has phishing content, you're already in a much better spot than dealing with a random dude that paid for bogus dns in cash and signed with let's encrypt.
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by bronzeage 7y ago
seems like you are completely missing the use case, if you think EV certificates are for frequently visited website. I, for one, always make sure my bank has EV before I enter the password. the fact that most people don't doesn't
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by bronzeage 7y ago
real hard paywalls should block crawlers, and no one would index and find these articles, leading to even greater loss, because no one will reach these sites in the first place
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by bronzeage 7y ago
with the way the rocket equation works (fuel is always a fixed percentage of the payload), I'm very doubtful there will ever be an economic incentive to mine materials in space, or manufacture anything without a huge price / weigh

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