chris_va

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by chris_va 6y ago
Given that no spot in the value chain is particularly profitable (drug companies, hospitals, doctors, nurses, insurance companies), I am more inclined to believe there are structural issues rather than greed.
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by chris_va 6y ago
But, on each of this metrics (minus climate change), the US is better off today than it was 50 years ago. The world conflicts that you cite involve fewer civilian casualties, today, than before. There are obviously horrible things going on
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by chris_va 6y ago
(not defending their practices at all...) They are required to for 911 support. Obviously they are not required to keep the data, and especially not sell it. (Minus maybe a sealed NSA directive, though that is pure speculation on my part)
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by chris_va 6y ago
(disclaimer: I work in a climate group) Please do not do this :). Deserts are great for shedding heat into space (highly reflective in the visible, highly emissive in the infrared, low moisture in the atmosphere). We had a theory (not yet p
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by chris_va 6y ago
Lot's of small reasons. You don't want to transport heat a far distance (thermal loss becomes too high), so keeping the vent for the refrigerator integrated into the unit is generally better than shipping it off outside. CoP is th
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by chris_va 6y ago
Such a thing is feasible for most infectious diseases with sufficient resources. You'd be surprised by how little funding virology research gets.
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by chris_va 6y ago
If you get R<1, eventually the disease will die out (see SARS-1). Coronavirus get deletions, etc. A vaccine will likely be developed (we got lucky, at first glance, that SARS antigens are fairly stable). All these things take time. You d
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by chris_va 6y ago
Ubiquitous testing would be sufficient to stop the epidemic.
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by chris_va 6y ago
Here on the west coast the nominal strategy is the traditional one: testing and contact tracing to get R<1. In order to do that, you need enough testing capacity for anyone with similar symptoms (which we finally have), though most of th
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by chris_va 6y ago
This is not wrong, but maybe fairly obvious, and why the unwinding strategies require contract tracing to test for pre-symptomatic infection. The article asserts that additional testing capacity is required for prophylactic testing, but tha
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by chris_va 6y ago
Apparently not, though given our current congressional representatives, are you sure that is a good metric to judge rational decision making? 3% is 3%. It's nonzero, so that's unfortunate. It's not a large fraction, so it&#x2
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by chris_va 6y ago
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion amidst the pitchforks, but do we not have better things to worry about at the moment? The system is inefficient and unfair, great lets put it on the list of things to fix, but a ~3% fee is not world ending
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by chris_va 6y ago
Which state are you in? Public resources differ quite a bit by state. Privately, I would look at: https://cty.jhu.edu/
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by chris_va 7y ago
With only 30 people in the negative control group, the confidence interval on the false positive rate would easily swamp out the results of the study for 1.5% positive sample ratio, no? Seems kind of useless unless your control group is a l
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by chris_va 7y ago
funny choice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8kUJL04ELA
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by chris_va 7y ago
Technically, a stock that never issues a dividend or buyback (direct or via aquisition) has no intrinsic value to the shareholder. I'm not sure the alarmism here is justifiable. An argument that the boards of these companies are incomp
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by chris_va 7y ago
Yes, but at the wrong path length (and offset by some vector, if you had a TIR cube)
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by chris_va 7y ago
AR coatings are not perfect at the interface boundary (kind of the same problem as a perfect mirror in reverse), plus glass has attenuation.
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by chris_va 7y ago
This assumes it's easy to resell a slot, which may not be correct (eg if you have to put in your delivery address when entering the queue). Tickets are a very different commodity.
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by chris_va 7y ago
(maybe not a useful question, given the logistical difficulty) Could idled planes be re-tasked as medivac flights, to load balance hospitalization around the country and avoid locally overloaded resources?
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by chris_va 7y ago
It does beg the question, though... If you can identify (maybe iffy) the subset of the population likely to required hospitalization, might it make sense to relax the quarantine to only that subgroup (and immediate contacts)? Building up he
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by chris_va 7y ago
I mostly agree, but... Insurance is one of the oldest industries in the US, which means they have accumulated many (probably well meaning, but ultimately stupid) regulations over the years. For example, to be taxed as an insurance company (
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by chris_va 7y ago
I could see a non-rechargeable electric battery (but refillable, ala jet fuel) such as aluminum-air maybe working. The round trip efficiency would be similar to diesel (since you are re-smelting rather than recharging), but the effective en
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by chris_va 7y ago
(disclaimer: I work in a Climate&Energy research group) I just want to remind everyone that there are solutions to climate change. We know how to produce clean energy and sequester CO2. The current free market does not make those solu
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by chris_va 7y ago
> It's data you made public by publishing it to LinkedIn, where default privacy settings is "anyone who can log into linkedin can view this content." ... under specific terms of use that scraping technically violates.
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by chris_va 7y ago
Inspired by this, ~12 years ago we actually discussed encrypted reed solomon encoded Fedex UDP as a method for index updates instead of buying new fiber lines. Index update latency is a bit faster now.
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by chris_va 7y ago
The mouse could just back away, oscillating back and forth across the radial line from the cat (forcing the cat to keep changing directions) until it gets to "dash" distance.
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by chris_va 7y ago
You are right that getting every last mole of Co2 in a controlled manner is doomed, but fortunately that is not required. What you really want is for net emissions to go to zero or even negative. If you are just pulling Co2 out of flue gas,
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by chris_va 7y ago
Yeah, that sort of thing can make a climate scientist sad :/
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by chris_va 7y ago
I think you maybe (or not, couldn't tell) misunderstand the point of the tax. The point is to build a profitable market they can buy from to avoid paying the tax. With my climate hat on (not to be confused with the environmentalist h

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