ethbro

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by ethbro 7y ago
https://www.xkcd.com/605/
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by ethbro 7y ago
Like some sort of distributed, cloud AI dictionary!
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by ethbro 7y ago
At what temperature and altitude?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Health insurance will be fine. There was a study (no citation handy) that looked at severe flu seasons, and their impact on health insurers. Barely a blip. Remember, ~80% of people have minimal symptoms after being infected with SARS-CoV-2.
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by ethbro 7y ago
The greatest loss to an online community is when an informed, thoughtful, pleasant person decides they're not going to post anymore. That should be the single endpoint that every community optimizes itself to avoid. Because typically,
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by ethbro 7y ago
Parent may be talking about remote control through a screenshare? It used to be a feature, and then they removed it.
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by ethbro 7y ago
It isn't, but it would generally be a waste of resources to overprepare for something that has a low probability of happening. In the same way it would be to fortify both coasts. Budgeting is a zero sum game. Stockpiles of essential PP
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by ethbro 7y ago
Value to whom?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Given that there's an accute shortage of hospitals serving rural areas, regulation of that nature better be accompanied by federal funding for that work. I wouldn't be surprised to see some serious DHS money redirected to hospital
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by ethbro 7y ago
I don't remember a H1N1, SARS, or MERS outbreak in the US. Borders are absolutely a defense, they're just not an absolute defense. That SARS-CoV-2 was able to spread globally as a pandemic has more to do with its transmissibility
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by ethbro 7y ago
The Doolittle Raid was military insignificant, and in no way should have altered Japan's belief that their home islands were geographically unassailable. Even in 1945, with the Imperial Japanese Navy suppressed or destroyed and their s
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Risks and Benefits of GoF Experiments w/ Pathogens of Pandemic Potential (2014)(mbio.asm.org)
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by ethbro 7y ago
The context that should be included here: Many virology labs historically or currently perform this sort of work. It's controversial (for risk reasons if not isolated), but incredibly useful. By generating chimeric or enhanced viral st
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by ethbro 7y ago
The biggest consequence will be creating two tracks of people: those who immediately lost their job, and those who could work remotely. 3+ months of earning is non-trivial, and they'll never get them back. Hopefully any stimulus will b
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by ethbro 7y ago
> change laws to allow reduced qualifications Wouldn't be the worst side effect. Nice to occasionally snap things back, then more restrictions can be put in place again if warranted.
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Also, I've never met a partner who doesn't appreciate it! And in terms of amortizing time spent learning, it's hard to beat getting better at something you do every day. Sometimes multiple times!
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by ethbro 7y ago
Not stupid. NOTE: Not my field, so speaking off basic knowledge here. Happy to be corrected. Tl;dr: because biology at scale is complicated. Longer-form, because antibodies and immunological response are somewhat complicated. Knowing what a
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by ethbro 7y ago
> I strongly get the impression that much criticism isn't based on my admittedly trite analysis but because a lot of people just don't know how to handle really bad news and are trying to blank a nasty reality. No, you just m
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by ethbro 7y ago
You mentioned accessibility, which is guaranteed. If you want to talk about insurance and affordability: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affor... That's what the entire marketplace concept w
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by ethbro 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_...
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by ethbro 7y ago
Well, there are a bit north of 1.2M Americans who die of heart disease or cancer every year. That's deaths. With a functioning, advanced health care system. Those numbers don't get better without that.
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by ethbro 7y ago
As opposed to this one, which is starting with armchair statisticians extrapolating curves without considering the nuances of the underlying data?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Perhaps requiring people to sew a red-colored letter to their clothing?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Hell is trying to deal with an API / SDK that isn't the vendor's core product. At best, they have no incentive to fix your issues / provide missing documentation. At worst, you're seen as sabotaging revenue from the
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by ethbro 7y ago
The base problem is that it's Prisoner's Dilemma. If nobody hoards, everyone is fine. If a small number of people hoard, there are stock-outs, and everyone else has no access to the thing. Ergo, the strictly dominant individual mo
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by ethbro 7y ago
While corporate farming gets trotted out as the Boogeyman anytime subsidies are discussed, and is indeed an issue, there's still a lot of non-corporate farming. And it's a hard life. You go into debt to buy machinery and raw mater
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by ethbro 7y ago
'... democracy is the worst form of Government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time...' What's your proposal for how to ban lobbying?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Are they? Meaningful quantities of all critical industrial goods would be incredibly inefficient. Sum({Some percentage of total use / year} * {Storage costs}) over {All strategic materials} And remember, all strategic materials would h
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by ethbro 7y ago
I'm going to leave Googling as an exercise for the reader. :)
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by ethbro 7y ago
Absolutely on requalification. IYHO, would that be more or less time that manufacturing fully new units?

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