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by ericb 6y ago
The phrase "If it bleeds it leads" was coined in 1989. Seems apt.
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by ericb 6y ago
That's not the cohort I'm talking about--I'm not talking about age based cohorts. The cohort I'm talking about is the number of days since a positive test result. When you have many new cases (loaves of fresh bread) and
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by ericb 6y ago
> Hospitalizations and deaths are the bad numbers, not number of positives. Sort of, but the fact that "deaths are lower" is likely a cohort problem. Let's say I am looking at the bread in my cupboard and trying to figure
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by ericb 6y ago
The attenuation you seem to be banking on only happens if there is selective pressure toward it. The selective pressure is usually a product of "too deadly or too strong a response prevents the host from spreading" so weaker strai
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by ericb 6y ago
I'm not asking about the stakes in that sense. Your claim is only interesting to the extent you can demonstrate a logical basis to believe it to be valid. Can you provide your reasoning? edit: Ok, I see you are the one with polemic blo
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by ericb 6y ago
On what basis do you stake your claim?
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by ericb 6y ago
> Why should Governments force people into lockdown for a virus with a CFR of 0.26% Do you have a source for that--not something like "The Dental Tribune," but a link to the CDC page, or scientific study. I haven't seen an
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by ericb 6y ago
I struggled with this--then I realized the question is flawed. The question presumes the default is nothing . What if the default is everything ? In other words, there's no reason for the universe to be any one thing, including &quot
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by ericb 6y ago
I'm working on a B2B SaaS solution that lets you reuse your Postman and Selenium tests for load testing. I get stuck on the first 5 or 10, more than 100. How do you convince an enterprise to trust you when you are tiny and new?
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by ericb 6y ago
Nozzles are fairly cheap.
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by ericb 6y ago
Above I asked for a source for the 6% number. I randomly came across a second-hand source in this article that actually used that same number: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by ericb 6y ago
I'm assuming this news means a 20% gain is incoming. A zombie apocalypse would cause it to triple, because "just think of all that quantitative easing!"
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by ericb 6y ago
Do you have a source, because I provided one, and if you look, it says: "Approval rates ranged from a high of 33.4 percent in vaccines for infectious diseases to 3.4 percent for investigational cancer treatments" So by that source
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by ericb 6y ago
Right. There are around 100 vaccines in development. We have vaccines that have created binding antibodies in primates already. We have some that have been given to humans and produced antibodies as well. Even pessimistically assuming 90% f
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by ericb 6y ago
Could this channel be politically influenced, or do we think this is direct from scientists? I have no idea how to evaluate this possibility.
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by ericb 6y ago
I've built whole apps out of active_scaffold. Really powerful, but still able to be flexible. https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold
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by ericb 6y ago
> 3. The doctor gave him a placebo to get him off his back about it. my view: highly plausible. I don't think doctors are allowed to do that. On top of which, the pharmacist would have to be in on it.
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by ericb 6y ago
Sweden and Norway were "tied" a little while ago. Not so much, now.
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by ericb 6y ago
I have no disagreement with anything you've said, actually. It is kind of an interesting swindle, really.
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by ericb 6y ago
There's a couple points you're missing. Even if there's no dividends, as long as the shares represent legal control, they can be purchased by other companies or individual to gain control of the profits, direction, or assets
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by ericb 6y ago
> why should share prices fall by more than 5-10% for every year that Corona is locking down the economy? Risk adjustment. 1-Risk of death/bankruptcy for companies. 2-Risk of reduced consumer spending. This can happen because people
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by ericb 6y ago
My wife had something similar at about that time. I'm curious. Did yours turn into pneumonia within 48 hours? Did you have severe trouble breathing? She's getting the antibody test this week. She had also just been to a meeting wi
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Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide protection against Covid-19(medrxiv.org)
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by ericb 6y ago
This always seems a bit circular to me? If you participate, then you are in the market, and you become part of its efficiency. Ergo, you are correct.
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by ericb 6y ago
Any novel viral pneumonia. A garden snake and a cobra are both snakes. Belonging to the same category says nothing about the potency of their bite. We have no idea what kind of snake this is yet.
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by ericb 6y ago
I don't think necessarily aids++, but speculating about long term effects is not pointless, or unreasonable. https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2010/09/02/sars...
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by ericb 7y ago
Weren't the only working tests originally from WHO? If the US had used them, wouldn't we have had functional testing much sooner?
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by ericb 7y ago
Your interpretation is understandable, but incorrect. https://www.jruby.org/2016/05/03/jruby-9-1-0-0.html
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by ericb 7y ago
source: https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/ > TruffleRuby started as my internship project at Oracle Labs in early 2013. It is an implementation of the Ruby programming language on the JVM, using the Graal dynamic
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by ericb 7y ago
I remain skeptical of JRuby. As of about 2-3 years ago, there were many benchmarks touting it's performance, but in our large publicly deployed web app, it always underperformed and switching to MRI on Phusion more than doubled our per

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