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by buboard 6y ago
HN has a rate limiter for some posters (like me) that will not allow you to post at all after a certain number of posts/day
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by buboard 6y ago
sure we can write 10 page bioethics essays, but when contact tracing is implemented it won't even be an app, governments will access data directly from carriers. and people will be ok because they re scared
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by buboard 6y ago
> test asymptomatic people for COVID-19 and then genome sequence the SARS-CoV-2 strain that has infected them with the aim of identifying a virus with mutation(s) in an essential viral gene(s) But without these essential genes the virus
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by buboard 6y ago
That works well for low infection rates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.03.024216v1.... https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20054445v...
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by buboard 6y ago
the level of clarity matches that of the human retina
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by buboard 6y ago
Yeah alcoholism/liver/kidney failure obviously. It was meant as a joke
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by buboard 6y ago
Someone did the calculations. Ppl need to drink 200 gin tonics per day
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by buboard 6y ago
In mice. Hcq has been around for a long time, you d think that if it was so lethal in humans someone would have noticed
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by buboard 7y ago
As with any model, start with “all models are wrong”
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by buboard 7y ago
There were sober voices on twitter, no neef to follow the mainstream. Thanks to @balajis, some of us were well prepared
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by buboard 7y ago
Pg should write about what seems to be the real epidemic in america: politics. When people politicize a chemical compound , you know things are dangerously wrong
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by buboard 7y ago
interesting. do they know why it's happening ?
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by buboard 7y ago
My low tech solution: https://pinplz.com
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Ask HN: What are the big tech projects for Covid-19?
2 points by buboard 7y ago|1 comments
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by buboard 7y ago
I tried all of them. I still have covid
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by buboard 7y ago
Neuromatch was a resounding success a few days ago. Yoshua bengio had a talk too. You can find the recordings on youtube
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by buboard 7y ago
You need lots of coverage for these things to work, plus you need reliable reports of all infections. Governments have access to both these datasets through mobile carriers and it s gdpr-compliant, so they can start tracing spread today
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by buboard 7y ago
by this time i think these are covert reverse-psychology marketing pieces. I mean, despite the bad press, facebook kept increasing in usage.
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by buboard 7y ago
> It's as though, in suddenly shifting from the office to work from home, we didn't so much move the conference room into our kitchens as into the middle of the public square So it's like the old good internet, where we di
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by buboard 7y ago
does it also show that authoritarianism predicts parasite prevalence?
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by buboard 7y ago
you could post this to reddit.com/r/covidprojects
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by buboard 7y ago
What can tech do to help healthcare workers monitor their patients with minimal interaction? They are disproportionately affected and can even become virus vectors for spread.
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by buboard 7y ago
this happened repeatedly and badly in a conference with 2500 people. The root of the cause was that zoom invite links, by default, contain the password, which then people share, making the password useless. otherwise it worked great
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by buboard 7y ago
competition
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by buboard 7y ago
no, but it gives the host the link to share WITH the password, so people sharing the link also share the password (encoded)
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by buboard 7y ago
Yeah , plus what else is there to do? This is a once in lifetime opportunity to risk your time
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by buboard 7y ago
That makes a case for non-centrally-manipulated assets like gold or crypto
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by buboard 7y ago
I think the question is what do you do with the wealth after you build it. Having your entire wealth constantly invested is making it a cog that works to make other ppl richer.
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by buboard 7y ago
GDPR can't stop PRISM, in fact it explicitly allows govts to use data for security purposes
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by buboard 7y ago
zoom's real problem right now is zoombombing. We re attending a quite big virtual conference and bombing has become a huge issues in parallel sessions.

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