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by cjbprime 7y ago
> Every year the flu kills 640,000 people world wide. Right now we are at 3648 from coronavirus. Great. How many people will die if coronavirus infections spread as widely as flu infections?
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Going back to an onsite college for it doesn't seem like a great idea. It's already a field that doesn't really value credentials in general, especially academic ones. You could probably instead do a tour of the commercial ce
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Not the OP, but as I understand it NASA's JPL has been doing this for decades for space missions.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
It's funny how they all seem to have been found by one person (Tavis Ormandy) too. It's like the setup and PostScript standard are so baroque that only one human understands them, and that human takes a week or so every year or tw
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by cjbprime 7y ago
> school staff trend older and are at highest risk. This part doesn't sound right -- the highest risk groups are 70+ years old. Hopefully the school staff retires before then. The mortality rate for people below 60 is only around 1%
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Something like http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/data/30-year-mortgage-rates... seems convenient and isn't a specific lender.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Ample reason to believe it's more infectious than flu, I think.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
If the schools close and you have kids, you're not going to be working either way. And wait, isn't Seattle hosting a 100k attendee international ComicCon in ten days? How can you argue that's more responsible than your employ
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by cjbprime 7y ago
I think one reason companies are reluctant to start WFH is that it's unclear when you'd stop. You'd have to have a reason to stop, and it could easily be like six months from now before there's a defensible one.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
(which of course could kill still many millions of people, assuming you mean that the mortality rate is comparable to flu once you're infected, but that the transmissibility is much higher)
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Like you say, if you are over 70 and get it, your mortality rate would be more like 10%, even with these lower numbers. > This makes a lot of sense as the earliest numbers were based only on people presenting severe symptoms, and huge qu
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Around ten times more deadly, not basically as deadly. Around 2% mortality for COVID-19 vs. 0.2% mortality for influenza, with a chance that the COVID figure is underreported because many of the people who are not counted as having died are
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by cjbprime 7y ago
If it goes through, startups will need to change their employee incentives to compensate, and companies who don't will find that they're now way below market rate. For example: https://danluu.com/startup-options&#x
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by cjbprime 7y ago
For what it's worth, I was surprised to see not just that there's age skew in mortality (no children have died) but also age skew in diagnosed infection (far fewer children are reporting symptoms than you'd expect). Of course
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Hm, okay. Apologies for the misinformation.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
The story is not so remarkable: there is no harm from taking synthetic thyroid hormone, and your TSH is monitored while taking it such that I think the mistake would have been discovered later.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Yavascript!
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by cjbprime 7y ago
And: - https://pwnable.tw - https://pwnable.xyz
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by cjbprime 7y ago
> Is something like a bat sneezing near you (I have no idea if bats sneeze) with an airborne virus sufficient to transfer to a human? I think the theory for SARS went something like -- lots of live animals together in a market, bat guano
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by cjbprime 7y ago
> And just how many “microbiology labs” are there in China that handle “advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus”? > It turns out that in all of China there is only one. And this one is located in the Chinese city of Wuhan that jus
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by cjbprime 7y ago
No, wouldn't use it, sounds at least 10x slower than typing.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
But the outline of PRISM described there seems to confirm (1) and (2), no? They didn't need a subpoena for each user, had access to a search term firehose, and the legal method for (2) was the secret FISA court. The access isn't
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Here is a citation: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jged4x/envestnet-yodlee-c...
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by cjbprime 7y ago
I think OP is talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) .
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by cjbprime 7y ago
One could also use the phrase "cargo culting", perhaps -- carrying out actions that seem associated with a good outcome in a context that provides none.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
> But most of us are facing the problem of MASS SURVEILLANCE All that you're accomplishing by switching to decentralized servers is publishing the metadata that you claim to be concerned about for free. Before, someone had to serve
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by cjbprime 7y ago
If the financial institution performs trades on public markets, then it's a catastrophe because another actor can exploit their unavailability.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
> Well ok, that means the bank is protected, but what about my (sensitive) data such as transaction history? If I recall, they already sell that to other companies. (It might not have your real name attached, but any one of the companies
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by cjbprime 7y ago
HN snark is doing great recently. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300333
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by cjbprime 7y ago
I've used it! It is great but not very popular.

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