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by chippy 7y ago
What if everyone around you told you that by not using it you were contributing to the deaths of hundreds of thousands? Edits - and what if your friends and family tag you and add your details instead? That way you dont need to actively sup
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by chippy 7y ago
Would you help and use Clearview if it was being used in your governments strategy against coronavirus? Would you volunteer your time to tag images with your friends and acquaintances, to help slow down the virus? To do otherwise would be i
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by chippy 7y ago
It's not optics, it logistics, science and psychology. Costs? Just imagine how you would do it if you were in the government. A mask on its own may be cheap but for a whole nation? They have to be manufactured, where from? They would
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by chippy 7y ago
You really cannot and should not compare confirmed cases / tests vs deaths when the calculation of confirmed cases or tests varies from place to place. For example, South Korea where anyone can get a test, versus the UK where only ill
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by chippy 7y ago
This comments reads like the classic "dropbox is trivial, it's just rsync" except it's more like "dropbox is trivial, it's just rsync on kubernetes with a reactJS frontend and a backend written in Haskell"
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by chippy 7y ago
Klein has gotten lost in the anti-Trump personality rhetoric, she should re-gain her focus on the critic of society / anti capitalism roots. Basically a Democrat would be doing the same things as Republicans with regards to her warni
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by chippy 7y ago
Yes, the situation on the video is accurate from when it was filmed. Just that the situation is also rapidly loosening up and variable from place to place. Also it was much more strict a couple of weeks ago. I think people want to return to
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by chippy 7y ago
This is essentially the science informing the UK Governments response.
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by chippy 7y ago
Just to update as this changes from day to day as things get relaxed (in Nanjing) > 1. Every place is taking temperature of people. Every place Not every places anymore. Most shops, supermarkets or malls no longer have dedicated temperat
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by chippy 7y ago
Difference in sampling basically as they test people who are sick in Italy versus allow anyone to test in SK. You should estimate the levels based on the sampling. For example last week the UK Govt said they estimate there was 10,000 infect
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by chippy 7y ago
just think of him as any other human you might encounter. He made his money one way that's all. Why do we listen to billionaries and think that money gives wisdom is itself worth considering.
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by chippy 7y ago
Couple of things that sprang to mind: Regulatory: One thing with working with old people and other vulnerable people (in the UK) is that any volunteers need criminal record checks. Any new organisation might need licensing. Redundancy: Ther
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by chippy 7y ago
https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/123882151552689766... appears to give a better explanation from the modellers. The aim is to flatten the curve, any herd immunity is a by-product but not the aim.
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Dealing with Coronavirus Anxiety(annamathur.com)
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Facebook releases “Daylight Map Distribution” a scrubbed OpenStreetMap dataset(openstreetmap.org)
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by chippy 7y ago
That is "panic buying" but its done not by panicking people. If you camp out in the supermarket you may notice that people appear as they always do, even if they are buying stuff because other people are buying stuff.
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by chippy 7y ago
"Whats the point of testing if you are a healthy 20 year old caring with 85 year olds" This sums up the silicon valley mindset for EVERYTHING. If you find it hard to understand what I am meaning the be worried.
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by chippy 7y ago
so if the way to make money in a gold rush is to sell shovels, what should we do during a pandemic?
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by chippy 7y ago
I really like the network graph showing relationships between clusters and patients
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by chippy 7y ago
This is really cool. Was this just something you wanted to do, to scratch an itch, for work etc?
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by chippy 7y ago
The line within China is that they made a big mistake with the figures initially, but those responsible (e.g. Wuhan officials) have been dealt with and everything is now more truthful.
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Self-Culture and the Difference Between Being Educated and Being Cultured (2015)(brainpickings.org)
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by chippy 7y ago
This was brought up right at the end in the BBC podcast. The academic said something like "you don't get to distinguish. That accusations were made means that something was done to warrant some reaction". I feel the academic
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by chippy 7y ago
The majority of people on HN are dependant on advertising for the most part too. Their employers use it, their investors use it, the platforms they use are dependant on it. Most YC companies need to advertise. It's not just running ad
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by chippy 7y ago
Just to build on this, pedestrians have priority at marked pedestrians crossings of course but also outside of marked crossings when crossing a smaller road where a car is on a main road and is wanting to turn into the smaller road. https:
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by chippy 7y ago
One main barrier is API Keys, emails, secrets etc. It wouldn't be possible for me to stream my work because of this. I was thinking of making a filter of the video stream which would blur out sensitive strings if it encountered them...
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by chippy 7y ago
are credit cards different from debit cards in this regard? Do some credit cards not sell your transactions?
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by chippy 7y ago
It might mean, out of those patients being treated (i.e. already very ill with it), rather than total infected? I was reading somewhere that the doubling in cases in China was mainly due to increasing capacity for hospitals to diagnose the
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John Gray on The roots of identitarian liberalism(unherd.com)
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The consequences of a lab escape of a potential pandemic pathogen (2014)(frontiersin.org)
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