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by flukus 7y ago
The WHO has been reporting ~1% of cases are asymptomatic, this has it's own caveats because it comes after China's lock down but there's little reason to believe there a huge numbers of unknown cases out there, at least in co
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by flukus 7y ago
> It might be that the L type is the more lethal type which killed so many people in Wuhan, and the S type is the more silent type that is spreading around the world with a lower mortality rate. I suspect this is the main reason we'
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by flukus 7y ago
> Survivors get damaged lungs and immune system I'm not sure this is proven, the autopsies are done of people with sever cases and may not apply to everyone else. It would be interesting to see autopsy results of people that had the
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by flukus 7y ago
> I don't know how to reconcile this Multiple strains might explain it along with other conflicting information and differing results between countries: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-chin
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by flukus 7y ago
TFA addresses this: > Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms, and most of those cases develop symptoms within 2 days. They came up with this number by testing people who didn't have symptoms but w
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by flukus 7y ago
> Another interesting tidbit in there was that very few cases (1%) appear to be totally asymptomatic I believe this was based on mass testing in China well into the lockdown period, so it's a reason to be optimistic but may not be t
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by flukus 7y ago
This is my experience too, anything non-trivial quickly becomes an absolute mess, even the trivial things often have bad defaults. A few years ago I looked into using it as a build system for .net projects but ended up tearing my hair out o
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by flukus 7y ago
People seem to think they're really clever when they point this out for some reason. But it's really obvious that a endemic globally spread virus has killed more than a brand new that has barely spread at all yet.
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by flukus 7y ago
> If 80% of people will have no symptoms I don't disagree, but it's not as skewed as you think. A lot of that 80% will be very ill and get tested, a 'mild' case is basically anyone not attached to an oxygen tank. Edit
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by flukus 7y ago
> If that's actually 1% of the 20% who show any symptoms at all, it's now 0.2%. It's much more complicated than that and anyone stating decisive numbers is full of it. On one hand you've got the number of cases in the
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by flukus 7y ago
Australia did this in 2008, part of the reason we avoided a recession. Parts of China have started doing the same for coronavirus.
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by flukus 7y ago
What works for me is having a script per project/directory a script that set all the configs (as environment variables) and various other functions for that project. If the script exists then it runs when I cd in and other scripts can
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by flukus 7y ago
You could say it's a correction to a risk they were previously ignoring, but even that feels generous.
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by flukus 7y ago
It gets even more complicated than that with things like the comments section. Does anyone know prager U's moderation policy? I have a feeling it would be quite hypocritical, they've been known to send false copyright infringement
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by flukus 7y ago
> Hence selection pressures will skew it towards “Antibody resistant, lower fatality” Those selection pressures don't appear until the exponential growth slows down. From the virus perspective right now and in the near term it'
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by flukus 7y ago
My pet peeve is electoral maps, they show some interesting trends but there overuse make us seem a lot more divided on geographic lines than we actually are.
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by flukus 7y ago
Well when you watch the movies through a modern lens, even the Brosnan era ones, he is "a bit rapey".
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by flukus 7y ago
It's not because the quote is wrong but because he was dodging a question by providing a long non-answer, he was being asked about the lack of evidence Iraq was selling WMD's to terrorist groups. Then they start a protracted war t
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by flukus 7y ago
I do when people downplay the flu and say it's just a bad cold.
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by flukus 7y ago
It's more patients vs resources than developed vs undeveloped, it's much easier to handle 91 cases at once than 900 or 9000. Italy is also a developed country and the mortality is around ~3% so far in Italy, Japan is developed and
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by flukus 7y ago
Are those numbers supposed to be comforting? > 80+ years old: 14.8%, 70-79 years old: 8.0% That makes it extremely likely that at least one friend or family member while die of this. > 30-39 years old: 0.2% To put things in perspectiv
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by flukus 7y ago
Even if vaping were 100% risk free (which I doubt) I think it's certainly better that we don't get kids addicted to nicotine (or any substance). The misinformation doesn't help things though, if kids are going to vape/sm
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by flukus 7y ago
Isn't this just survivorship bias? There are many churches, many splits and many died out along the way and your only looking at the few that survived and became dominant. There aren't a lot (if any) of roman, Greek, Norse institu
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by flukus 7y ago
> If your immune system was able to beat it once, it is primed to quickly take it out the second time (probably before you even have symptoms.) This isn't always the case, chickenpox can lie dormant for most of your life and reactiv
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by flukus 7y ago
Spreading out the venues means spreading out the transmission. You'll have 20000 people flying from country A to watch a match in country B, then they'll get on another plane together and fly to country C then some will go back ho
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by flukus 7y ago
Even in a "socialist utopia" with public healthcare and good sick leave there are a lot of open questions like that and I get the feeling that the poor will be hit hard. If they shut down non-essential places then how do the peopl
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by flukus 7y ago
A functioning bullshit detector filters most of the crazies on either side, so far I've been struggling more with working out which legitimate news sources are actually legitimate. With many of the sources being Asian and I don't
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by flukus 7y ago
AFAIK that's still to be determined due to the number of false positives/true negatives with the testing. Same with the incubation period. Edit - on the more worrying side of things this article ( https://www.straitstime
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by flukus 7y ago
I wonder how long until other international events start to be closed? I live almost trackside at a formula 1 event in a few weeks and I'm not exactly enthusiastic about people coming in from all over the world and cramming onto the pu
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by flukus 7y ago
> specially when the programming languages are a bit more expressive that pseudo-assembly. Most higher level languages (java, c#, python) handle most of those much better, albeit with a different set of trade offs. Things like adding a p

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