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by endorphone 7y ago
It's impossible to make these sorts of judgments without an understanding of what the end goal is. What the off ramp of Coronavirus town is in best and worst cases. e.g. If a vaccine is realistically a year off (which is realistic, tho
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by endorphone 7y ago
The surgeon general also said that Trump — an obese, sedentary senior — is healthier than him. He doesn’t seem terribly concerned with credibility.
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by endorphone 7y ago
Bullpen type offices get close to universal criticism. The only time I really see them praised is when people have variety to move to private offices when they want, to work off site, etc. When you only occasionally have to endure that envi
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by endorphone 7y ago
Zero companies receiving the bailout money are going to buy back stock with it. This whole charade is just a big feel good bit of nonsense for main street. What people are complaining about is that previously these companies did buy backs
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by endorphone 7y ago
There is nothing weird or tricky about buybacks, and the mechanism is pretty obvious and intuitive. A company can issue new shares and raise money when they need it. A company can buyback shares when they have extra money they can't ef
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by endorphone 7y ago
Naturally? SARS was wiped out through unprecedented containment efforts by a multitude of nations. Its annihilation was very much artificial and was extraordinarily costly.
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by endorphone 7y ago
At this point the conversation turns completely useless where we all tell ourselves that no benchmark matters. Only they do. The Bionic chips are ridiculously performant, and are bound to have a much wider range with even moderate cooling.
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by endorphone 7y ago
Operations per second is a notoriously useless measure. Which is why we have higher-level benchmarks like GeekBench that are actually incredibly broad in what they test, performing a lot of real-world type activities in a larger macro-bench
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by endorphone 7y ago
"Assuming core count was equal. Would a desktop CPU and an Apple SoC run at equivalent performance if it was running Ubuntu and running native compiled code?" Yes. Of course there are going to be edge conditions where one or the o
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by endorphone 7y ago
As happens in every single WFH discussion, it turns from someone saying "look, more people can WFH" to the strawman that this means that everyone must work from home and that WFH is being presented as an incredible panacea with al
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by endorphone 7y ago
"Definitely experienced the stigma of wearing one in public" People can be deeply illogical when it comes to personal protection. I did a summer stint during college with a factory, assembling some part of an air conditioner syste
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by endorphone 7y ago
We don't work for you. Your various snotty replies aren't useful. "Of course we know it works for them" How does this anti-logic make any sense? Do you think the masks have a sensor that turns off the "works" b
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by endorphone 7y ago
"no known protective effect" Right. No one has ever studied contagions among the community at large and the effect of masks. When you hear people say there is no evidence, this is what they are referring. "is not thought to b
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by endorphone 7y ago
I have usually skipped the flu shot for entirely selfish reasons -- that it's a hassle going to get it, needles are scary, and if I got the flu it's never that big of a deal. And I rationalized it to myself under the pretense that
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by endorphone 7y ago
If there is a silver lining out of SARS-CoV-2, hopefully it's that we become more careful in general about infectious diseases, and we don't quickly just revert to the previous behavior. There are so many axis (axes) on which we c
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by endorphone 7y ago
As an aside question: after each use is that entire cartridge assembly waste?
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by endorphone 7y ago
Posts like these are much more convincing when they simply make a case for some allowance or some functionality, or point out the downsides. The moment they go into whataboutism or grander claims of conspiracies or ill intentions they fall
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by endorphone 7y ago
Probably because it was in disparate places and it seemed unlikely that someone would, or even could, aggregate and correlate it all with enough accuracy to not be junk. There is a difference, or at least there conceptually was, between pos
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by endorphone 7y ago
`Falling back on "we just can't do stuff like that BECAUSE DEMOCRACY" is intellectually lazy and self-sabotaging' I didn't say that, but okay. In the widespread expectation of personal freedoms, however, it's
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by endorphone 7y ago
This article feels like what you get when you feel obligated to write something , drawing grand meanings out of disjointed realities. Taiwan was relatively recently an autocracy. It still can resort to its historical behavior overnight. In
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by endorphone 7y ago
They didn't say just wear masks. You're beating on a strawman. Masks protect the wearer. This is blatantly obvious and scientific reality. Messages to the contrary are absolute propaganda (for instance a common line is "there
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by endorphone 7y ago
"already manufactured in large scale" People who need it for medical conditions are finding it impossible to find. Not sure how large the production is. Any treatment that is found to actually be effective in real studies is prett
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by endorphone 7y ago
There are always vested interests and people with a financial stake, though I was talking about something much lower-level. A number of zero-medical-experience personalities have become mini-celebrities with their boosting of it. For those
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by endorphone 7y ago
The fact that this particular treatment has a booster club is odder still. People are acting like they have a personal stake in which treatment wins. I mean...it seems likely that some of the boosters who have been astroturfing it do actual
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by endorphone 7y ago
Related - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA (literally a story about how a light personnel carrier became a pseudo-MBT)
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by endorphone 7y ago
My mistake. I misinterpreted the wording as being a modifier of the range on SARS-CoV-2. The rest of my comment stands. Though 0.5% is 2 order of magnitude less than 50%. Not to mention that the plague had a mortality rate between 1 - 15%..
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by endorphone 7y ago
"while nCoV rates are still TBD we're probably looking at an upper bound closer to half a percent, or 3-4 order of magnitude lower" This is incredible. Not only do you start with an "upper bound" less than one-half
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by endorphone 7y ago
This completely specious position is useful for all arguments! Gun deaths, drunk driving, terrorism, opioid deaths, suicides -- just compare them to the natural death rate and call it a day. I mean, those ones all pale compared to COVID-19,
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by endorphone 7y ago
There is no doubt that the other conditions make people more vulnerable to this disease, and others. That correlation is incredibly real. What is the false comfort is people's belief that noting this ensures their own safety. My commen
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by endorphone 7y ago
When we talk about underlying conditions, note that a pretty significant percentage of the population qualifies. Elevated blood pressure, childhood asthma, obesity, diabetes High blood pressure alone captures 1/3rd of the public, and i

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