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by gdubs 6y ago
People put a lot of weight in early studies from countries that didn’t see outbreaks in schools. My problem with those studies has been: 1) Community spread in those areas was very low. 2) Kids were/are not being tested at anywhere nea
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by gdubs 6y ago
Risk and uncertainty go hand-in-hand. It’s clear what the risks are, generally, with cars. It’s unclear what the risks are with a novel pathogen.
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by gdubs 6y ago
This is a bit of an outdated view on Coronavirus though. The whole point is that “airborne” isn’t black and white (which is how the WHO has treated it) and is more of a spectrum. A large number of scientists have been lobbying the WHO to ge
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by gdubs 6y ago
I just gotta say, man I missed the moment when stories went from “I sat on my granddad’s lap listening to the radio” to “I sat on my granddad’s lap playing Microsoft Flight Simulator ”. Where did the past twenty years go...
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The strange afterlife of Einstein’s brain (2015)(bbc.com)
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by gdubs 6y ago
The point about it not mattering so much whether you’re taxing the supply side or the demand side is that higher prices ultimately lead to lower sales, effecting the producer. That’s the whole point of a carbon tax — to make carbon unafford
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by gdubs 6y ago
Couple of things: the wealthy absolutely emit more carbon then everyone else. Second, from a macroeconomics point of view, it doesn’t really matter if you tax the supplier or the consumer — in theory, it balances out the same.
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by gdubs 6y ago
Usually a difference in intensity. Love is what one feels towards their dog. Like is how they feel about their brand of dog food.
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by gdubs 6y ago
Evolution. Information == survival. There’s a good scientific overview of how our hunter-gatherer brains evolved to put a huge value on novel bits of information in the book, “The Distracted Mind”.
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by gdubs 6y ago
Paul McCartney is pretty competitive about this and likes to point out that his contemporaries have lowered there pitch, and he has stayed the same. Impressed at the Axl Rose numbers — I came looking for Robert Plant, who I’ve always though
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by gdubs 6y ago
One of the most memorable passages from Cliff Stoll’s “Silicon Snake Oil” was about the reliability of snail mail. How you could scribble a person’s name on a postcard, mess up a lot of details, and it still manages to get to them.
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by gdubs 6y ago
Great reply, thanks! The ones that definitely need to come down are the 1-200’ behemoths that are way too close to the house. I’m a tree lover, so, despite most people telling me to take them down yesterday, it hasn’t been an easy decisio
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by gdubs 6y ago
Sure, but then you’ve got tree-killing herbicide in hour hugel-mound...
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’ve been considering hugelkultur as one option for the massive amount of poplar we will soon have on our hands. It’s taking over, and a hazard to our structures, so it’s gotta come down. (We’ll replace with more appropriate trees.) My one
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The more logical explanation is that these numbers reflect a dramatic deficit in testing, rather than 1/3 of kids actually having it. We also have no idea what the long term effects are for asymptomatic patients, not a good sense of ho
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by gdubs 6y ago
Not my field, but my understanding is that a high positivity rate means you’re not testing enough. That’s been my concern with the rush to say that children don’t spread coronavirus. It seems more likely that children are asymptomatic, and
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by gdubs 6y ago
Around the point in the interactive where it shows how the virus swings sugar molecules around to distract the immune system I paused and marveled at the tiny universe inside our bodies. The first time I recall feeling similarly was when I
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by gdubs 6y ago
Haven’t read this one, adding to the list, thanks! Oaks are pretty fire resistant, and support a lot of game — so those wide open spaces were actually oak savanna. Big prairies with one or two oaks per acre. In fact, Oregon — now known for
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Karl Sims(karlsims.com)
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The fictional character “Dollar Bill” from the show Billions comes to mind.
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It’s funny because in recent years I’ve heard it pointed out many times how brain dead Candyland is, but oh my god I loved playing it with my cousins growing up . Tangentially — during the pandemic we’ve started doing family games before b
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Lessons for Covid-19 from the Early Days of Aids(scientificamerican.com)
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I posted this a little late last night, and it didn’t get a lot of attention — but this interview with Larry Brilliant is really good. In particular how quickly our knowledge of Covid is changing: “The unexpected things that it’s doing are
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Larry Brilliant on How Well We Are Fighting Covid-19(wired.com)
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The book that got me into this was Mark Shepard's 'Restoration Agriculture". [1] His "New Forest Farm" in WI has been making use of these ideas for some time now. [2] Shepard got his inspiration from Permaculture
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by gdubs 6y ago
It's definitely more subtle than that, for sure. Rembrandt is a great example. He created life-like illusions through a mastery of the medium – the way light reflects and refracts through different pigments, the role of varnishing, the
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by gdubs 6y ago
Andy Warhol made a whole career questioning this assumption. Photography and other forms of reproduction changed people’s view of art. There are a LOT of talented painters in the world, with incredible skills. But there’s only one Picasso.
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by gdubs 6y ago
So, maybe for a professional it’s easier. I feel that way about making iOS apps — better time to start than ever! But there’s almost a ‘choice paralysis’ today. People have so many options they don’t know where to start. Not sure anything c
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by gdubs 6y ago
Instacart has a really smart tactic in showing you how many hours you’ve saved shopping. Ordinarily I love grocery shopping but after having done online for several months now, I’m not sure I’ll go back. I imagine I’ll order the bulk of the
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For a while I was doing 20 minutes a day. I found that hard to maintain, I switched to 12 minutes, and did it every day for 2019. I found the shorter time easier to keep up, and so perhaps more beneficial for me over the long run. There are

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