geomark

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by geomark 5y ago
Definitely agree that it's a data literacy problem. But I consider that part of STEM education. For example, people should be able to look at plots of daily infections early in the pandemic and consider that they likely are growing at
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by geomark 5y ago
TT Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/ Most kids get into it.
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by geomark 5y ago
I would say a strong counter to your argument is that Covid highlighted the need for much better STEM education, because of how painfully obvious it was that so many do not understand "the science". That's in quotes because t
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by geomark 5y ago
You're right!
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by geomark 5y ago
If the technology you allege to exists really does exist, then the MH370 probably would have been found by now. Keep in mind that the spooks are loathe to reveal their best technology so would never reveal it for something like finding th
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by geomark 5y ago
Ok. I was never a process guy, but worked with some back in the day and they told me that one of their phosphorus sources was phosgene gas.
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by geomark 5y ago
So he "only" did metal deposition to make the interconnects? I haven't read the story, but I was thinking that there's no way you would handle some of the toxic chemicals used for doping.
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by geomark 5y ago
I think because they aren't sterilizing vaccines. They don't prevent infection or transmission. They just reduce severity of the disease.
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by geomark 5y ago
Many fewer vaccinated people are getting infected than unvaccinated I think the data is showing that isn't true, that the numbers are nearly equal in places with a high percentage of the population vaccinated. The only benefit is tha
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by geomark 5y ago
Doesn't seem like a competent approach, does it?
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by geomark 5y ago
Since the vaccines have been shown to reduce severity of the disease, they will result is less load on medical services. I believe that is the only legitimate reason for mandates.
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by geomark 5y ago
Yes. I read the study when it was posted before, and I don't understand it well enough to know if it is flawed. I want to hear from some experts - we know you are here - the HN community is amazing.
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by geomark 5y ago
What happened to the comment about a learning platform called Primer? Was that removed for being too spammy?
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by geomark 5y ago
My kid's school also used TT Rockstars in school before the pandemic. Seemed to work well for kids that age for giving them fast recall of memorized times tables. Beyond that, I didn't see any other effective gamified learning too
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by geomark 5y ago
There is more research if one is willing to look. There is [1] - a study where MRI was used to measure the myelination in young children's brains, comparing high screen time and low screen time kids. It was a small study and relied o
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by geomark 5y ago
In some places the family name tips them off. Like here in Thailand a Thai woman who is married to a westerner and has his last name will have to fill out a form stating whether or not they are a US person.
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by geomark 5y ago
What's that about? I'm a native English speaker and know a few Dutch people but haven't noticed some effect like that.
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by geomark 5y ago
Even several decades when I was a technician most of the new EEs where I worked had very little practical experience. It was worse than them not being able to do basic repairs; their wonderful designs would usually not work and they were un
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by geomark 5y ago
I haven't seen that. In fact, in capitalism the winners usually win by giving the masses something they want. So everybody wins; the masses all win a little by getting a little boost in quality of life and the big winners win by gettin
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by geomark 5y ago
If the history books haven't been completely falsified, it would seem that it has raised hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty.
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by geomark 5y ago
If I was going to college I would get a degree in nuclear engineering. It has to be the future.
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by geomark 5y ago
We have all this teeth gnashing about how the rich won't pay their fair share of taxes because they want to keep it all for themselves. But among those rich are people who don't want to pay taxes because of the things the governme
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by geomark 5y ago
Is this on HN because of the news that Algeria, the last country in the world that was still using leaded gas, has now stopped? [1] [1] https://news.sky.com/story/leaded-petrol-phased-out-in-the-a...
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by geomark 5y ago
Good article and references some excellent books.
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by geomark 5y ago
No. The difference between 95% and 99-100 % is a very large difference.
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by geomark 5y ago
That's not what the referenced links says. It says the polio vaccine has 99 to 100% efficacy. The published numbers for Covid vaccines show the virus vector and mRNA vaccines are around 95% efficacy. That's a large difference.
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by geomark 5y ago
No, I'm comparing the much higher efficacy of the polio vaccine and low prevalence of the polio disease to the significantly lower efficacy of the Covid vaccines and the high prevalence of Covid at present. That means the fact that the
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by geomark 5y ago
Given that the polio vaccine has >99% efficacy [1] and the fact that US has been polio free since 1979 [2], with the only threat being the occasional traveler to a region with polio, being nonsterlizing doesn't seem to be an issue.
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by geomark 5y ago
What do you mean by "most peoples' meaning"? Do you mean most people don't understand the difference between a sterilizing and non-sterlizing vaccine?
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by geomark 5y ago
Some downsides of trades I have not seen mentioned yet are that many of them are hard on the body and/or somewhat risky. So you don't have as long a useful career as in most professions. My dad was a carpenter and I worked with hi

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