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Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 in community-dwelling populations(medrxiv.org)
1 points by finite_jest 5y ago|1 comments
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Good point. I upvoted your comment, and I wish I could edit my comment to add this. It seems that I can't edit the comment anymore though. PS: The 9to5mac article has an update which indicates that the blocking is _not_ exclusive to us
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I think you should avoid T-Mobile if you can. Not just as a matter of principle, but also pragmatism. They have an extremely crude SMS censorship/anti-spam system [1] which even blocks links to lichess.org, the popular online chess web
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by finite_jest 5y ago
That was interesting. Surveys are not that reliable though, and the outcome depends on how the question is being asked. I found this 2020 survey by Pew Research which I think paints a more realistic picture [1]. It has a larger sample size
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I think that is probably a "folk quote", the attribution to Feynman is also inaccurate AFAIK. He said something similar though: > Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain eve
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Not really. It is certainly an issue which progressives put more weight on. And there is a disagreement on the solutions too: progressives are generally apprehensive about nuclear. [1] You can personally attack me with any one of the "
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by finite_jest 5y ago
> Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power systems to provide clean and resilient power in austere environments. Also, not everyone has to frame and align every single one of their actions in accordance with the "progressi
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by finite_jest 5y ago
It is possible that the meaning of the sizes changed, but that would probably go in the direction of making the shift larger. [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_sizing
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Although I agree that the US healthcare system is far from ideal, I don't think that's a logically consistent argument. In the case of vaccination, similar trade-offs exist with nationalized healthcare, and the government would ma
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Distribution of T-shirt sizes at the Linux Symposium (2008)(techcrunch.com)
7 points by finite_jest 5y ago|4 comments
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I took the liberty of changing the title. The original was the slightly clickbaity "Are Linux Programmers Getting Too Fat?".
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by finite_jest 5y ago
This one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29273132 (FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data)
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by finite_jest 5y ago
That is just banal ad hominem and guilt by association.
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by finite_jest 5y ago
As someone points out in the comments section of article, green has been the color of SMS since the first iPhone (which didn't have iMessage) [1]. It is still possible that they made the green "harsher" or something. I think
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by finite_jest 5y ago
> Also, single-purpose accounts are not allowed here generally, because they aren't compatible with the value of curiosity that's supposed to animate this place (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.h
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by finite_jest 5y ago
By what measure is Carter "probably the most effective and accomplished of our ex-presidents"? In terms of being effective, I don't think he is even comparable to FDR or LBJ. He didn't even manage to get reelected. The h
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Mastering the Lightning Network Reading Club (2021)(thunderbiscuit.github.io)
2 points by finite_jest 5y ago|0 comments
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by finite_jest 5y ago
This is utterly humorless, facile, and non-informative. "Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer" is "Unequivocally false but mostly harmless". However "Biden is a robot" is "Dangerous to yourself and others".
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Why not? We kinda already did it for the flu every year. And if it is the only alternative to lockdowns [1], I think most of us would prefer that. Side-note: The article quotes Fauci as saying "I think it's too premature to be tal
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Malone is not generally recognized as the "inventor of mRNA vaccines" (contrary to his claims). However, he is a pioneer in the field [1], and not just a random crackpot. I am unsure of how much value his comments are adding right
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by finite_jest 5y ago
TBH, I think the "go from yuppie to hippie and it all becomes rainbows" is generally a false narrative. Money does often buy happiness. That "$75,000 a year is peak happiness" thesis does not replicate, like much of the
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Not really, woke used to be a word people used to identify themselves with. [1] And Tyler Cownen recently wrote opinion piece on Bloomberg defending wokism. [2] It is not "a placeholder term for whatever you don't like", not
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I think I broadly share your distaste for bias and corporate media in general. However, one would hope there could be better alternatives than woke to bland and indefinite conservatism. > No party wins popular vote anymore (as in more th
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by finite_jest 5y ago
This is interesting, I like the minimalistic aesthetics, and the final ranking looks broadly meaningful. But it think it misses some important metrics like GDP per capita, scientific research output, social mobility, and life expectancy. I
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by finite_jest 5y ago
You are right that newspapers lean capital C Conservative [1] in Canada. It is mostly due to Postmedia. Ownership by Postmedia is quite conspicuous in the list. CBC is really woke though. You don't need to suffer them too much to notic
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Right. To be frank, it really seems you are suggesting people who disagree with you should be marginalized to a few corners of the internet suffering from "the coven of the witches" problem. And for the record, Ruqqus was shut dow
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by finite_jest 5y ago
From HN guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
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by finite_jest 5y ago
> If the people of China decided to march on Beijing tomorrow nothing in the world could stop them That is utterly untrue. Have you seen the "Tank Man" photo [1]? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
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by finite_jest 5y ago
TBH, I think that is a bit of a trite diversion/straw man. I don't think anyone is arguing this is an act by the government. However, censorship is not always something government does [1]. This certainly _is_ an act of corporate
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Right, I agree, to some extent it does. I was trying to give a better outline of the general form of @b3nji's argument, as @Ardon's objection seemed to be based on a misunderstanding. There is a "pragmatic libertarian" a

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