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by brownbat 7y ago
Dr. Fauci's iceberg theory, that the cfr will decline as we identify more mild cases, is disputed by some in the WHO and some Chinese scientists, who argue the CFR is well supported from comprehensive testing of quarantined populations
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by brownbat 7y ago
> It's quite possible you had a terrible gym Yeah, it's just anecdotal, and I don't want to take away anything from anyone's great gym memories, but I think there's something systemic, or at least common and broa
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by brownbat 7y ago
I've had people refund entire purchases and let me keep the item after I complain about a real defect, all just to avoid a low review. The most surreal instance was when I just asked a completely innocuous question and was offered a re
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by brownbat 7y ago
Was fun zooming out and comparing stars to the cubic area. If it's a sphere, we're at about 250 cubic light years per star at both 12.5 lt yr out, and at 20. It heads to around 900 ly^3 per star when you look at everything within
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by brownbat 7y ago
Languages and gym stick out to me as the most astounding educational failures in high school. When I later actually wanted to learn about those on my own time, it became obvious that those initial classes were not only not helpful, but acti
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by brownbat 7y ago
Earth is essentially populated by bacteria,* which in turn allows a handful of temporary mutated offshoots to live for a few moments alongside it. * Looking at species count, mass, count of individuals, or species longevity, or probably eig
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Olympia's Zero Fare Transit Experiment(intercitytransit.com)
1 points by brownbat 7y ago|0 comments
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by brownbat 7y ago
Yeah, the DOT has some value to baseline effectiveness of programs: if they have $30,000 they can improve some intersection or stretch of highway and save one life a year. They can always turn extra cash into lives saved, so they use that t
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Boeing Starliner Almost Destroyed by Software Glitches(newatlas.com)
2 points by brownbat 7y ago|0 comments
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The argument is very weird. 1. Free speech leads to obsession with texts. 2. Textualism is responsible for ills like the San Francisco housing crisis. 3. As the author has personally ranked favorite cities, the best ones are in China. 4. Th
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by brownbat 7y ago
"A project board was created to manage all the different, related schemes and product management. We delivered this project in two sprints — a sprint is a chunk of time allocated for a particular phase of a project." I guess the A
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by brownbat 7y ago
If we're killing garbage in garbage out, that's going to take us some weird places.
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by brownbat 7y ago
Yeah, fairly compelling, I appreciate your points. I might still quibble in a couple places, but I think we're not actually that far apart overall. > As an immigrant to the USA from a Soviet controlled satellite state, let me say th
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by brownbat 7y ago
While I think some of the larger industrial cases are clearer, it's perfectly reasonable to wonder about this. Richard Posner wrote about the difficulties of rigorously studying or even clearly defining corruption in this essay: https
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by brownbat 7y ago
Popular economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok maybe. And people can agree or disagree with them on a variety of issues. But describing "sanitation improves health outcomes" as just somebody's "narrative" feels a
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by brownbat 7y ago
> Claims that tyre/brake particles exceed exhaust emissions are inevitably referring to particulate mass, not particulate count Huh, all the studies I've read and linked are comparing like with like within particle size categor
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by brownbat 7y ago
I know it's somewhat fashionable to say it was all really just a Russian/German war. You rightly point out the contributions of Canada and the UK relative to population. But I have one defense of the naive "but but the US mat
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by brownbat 7y ago
As posted to a sister comment, I think Nature's review -- discussed in Radiolab -- is what people are thinking of. https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/
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by brownbat 7y ago
I think people are looking for this review in Nature, where they asked a bunch of ecologists if we could eradicate mosquitoes and the consensus was basically fine with it. https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a I thin
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by brownbat 7y ago
> Compare relative volumes of materials. Brake dust is always going to be a much smaller source of particulate matter in the air than tire dust. It's not a fair comparison, because you don't wear through the entire tire materia
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by brownbat 7y ago
Weight. This is so much about vehicle weight. I think the heavier EVs hit a crossover point because of regenerative braking, but weight does set them back, that's one of the whole points of this study: https://www.sciencedir
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by brownbat 7y ago
> tyre and brake wear is a relatively minor contributor to urban air pollution Why do you say that? Would love to know more, but all the research I've read lists them as significant contributors, second only to resuspension, each no
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by brownbat 7y ago
Good catch, most sources and the link I included hold ROI as equivalent to ROA, and distinguish it from profit margin. I was trying to shift to a lay voice in that bit and in the process totally misused one of the terms of art under discuss
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by brownbat 7y ago
Alright, yeah, I pulled up basic formulas on profitability ratios to check my math: https://thismatter.com/money/stocks/valuation/profitability-... I've talked myself into: maybe 24% is technically &quot
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by brownbat 7y ago
I am sheepishly conflicted. On the one hand, I get that domains and TLDs are important aspects of branding, people care about making sure terms are tied to the most salient endpoints. On the other hand... isn't this whole system a bit
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by brownbat 7y ago
I can't figure out where that article gets its numbers from or which banks it's referring to. The industry standard measure for bank profitability is something called ROA, return on assets, and it's an extensively studied aca
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by brownbat 7y ago
So many recent ones from mosquitoes, dengue or chikungunya. More than almost any other near future technology, I hope for humanity's sake we quickly perfect a way to eradicate that demon insect.
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by brownbat 7y ago
In some ways, Howard's Hyborian Age stories featuring Conan were a response to scientific revelations of his day indicating the plausibility of a vanished age prior to recorded history. Aschulean hand axes have been dated to 1.76 milli
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by brownbat 7y ago
Sure, love the reference. I studied analytic philosophy and Russell is one of my favorite philosophers. I'm quite fond of his version: "We know that all these rather crude expectations of uniformity are liable to be misleading. Th
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by brownbat 7y ago
IMDb went through this, it was basically open and crowdsourced, then suddenly became much more commercial, which freaked out a lot of users. And it's... fine. But it was really amazing in the beginning. Much less cruft, much more usabl

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