gibba999

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by gibba999 5y ago
All I can say is that humanity, outside of Asia, has consistently had "all I can say" responses. It's a preventable slow-motion train wreck. I could be wrong, but there's no reason to believe delta and gamma are the last
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by gibba999 5y ago
My hypothesis is that COVID leads to a Gaussian distribution in reduction in general neurological function, and that we will see a bell curve distribution reduction in e.g. general IQ. Can you please propose a "randomized, longitudinal
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by gibba999 5y ago
Where did you get that definition of a vaccine? Few vaccines, historically, worked perfectly.
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by gibba999 5y ago
I'm vaccinated and think vaccines should be mandatory -- so I'm pretty extreme pro-vax -- but I do think we're mismanaging vaccines. A lot of what we're doing seems to be analogous to an incomplete course of antibiotics.
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by gibba999 5y ago
I hope so too. Extrapolating from studies I've seen, I'm not optimistic. I think it's 50/50. My impressions (and I do want to emphasize limited evidence here): - The vaccine doesn't provide sterilizing immunity -- y
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by gibba999 5y ago
A study in isolation should not be persuasive. There's a pipeline from idea to hypothesis the theory to fact, which includes many studies with many methodologies. On the other hand, a handful of studies, one correlational with large n,
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by gibba999 5y ago
I think a lot of this comes down to replication, effect size, and sample size. Yes, there are studies which show virtually everything, but in this case, we have: - >10% of mild cases reporting long COVID brain fog (without MRIs) - Visibl
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by gibba999 5y ago
That was listed under "The million dollar questions include" I'm now realizing formatting / phrasing was unclear. 1. >10% of mild / asymptomatic cases have brain damage. 2. The million dollar question is whether
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by gibba999 5y ago
This is the major one: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v... This one scared me since it was a large, relatively unbiased sample, with before-and-after imaging. It also showed brain damag
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by gibba999 5y ago
The million dollar questions include: - Long COVID post-vaccine. >10% of people have brain damage visible on MRIs, including mild cases. - Future mutations. People have been overly optimistic for 15 months now, and believed bad things co
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by gibba999 5y ago
The entire point of language like "order-of-magnitude" in an article is to convey uncertainty, and that you're sure at the level of the log of the number. Error bars are important. A different poster pointed out other languag
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by gibba999 5y ago
Running costs. I want to get point A to point B cheaply, in terms of both fuel and maintenance. Helicopters won't do that.
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by gibba999 5y ago
I don't need VToL. I need <30mph short runway take-off and landing, which is a lot easier.
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by gibba999 5y ago
This is within the price range of a flying car (or to be clear, a flying coffin; it's pretty tight in there, and I doubt the safety). I'd like a flying car!
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by gibba999 5y ago
3 million and 5 million are also an order-of-magnitude above 400,000, as are quite a few other numbers.
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by gibba999 5y ago
An order-of-magnitude means "about 10." In contexts, it's a way of expressing uncertainty. If I say "About a hundred, but I might be off by an order-of-magnitude," that means "probably between ten and a thousan
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by gibba999 5y ago
I once bought something with AJAX requests. No, it wasn't unfair to the vendor. The vendor had an issue on a web site where the sales window closed, presumably to give the vendor time to process sales and print/mail tickets, but t
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by gibba999 5y ago
I can't speak for "the world," but in Eastern Europe, everyone is expected to struggle and fail often in school. If your 11-year-old is the only one in class struggling and failing, as is typical (US aims for >90% correct)
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by gibba999 5y ago
I don't think people understand burnout. If your kid is studying 16 hours per day, bored, you're gonna get burnout. Burnout isn't about challenge -- which is good. If you have dinner table conversations about hard topics, tha
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by gibba999 5y ago
The more nuanced take is that different IP and employment laws benefit different industries. Software benefits from no patents, limited-term copyrights, no NDAs, no non-competes, due to low cost-of-entry. Innovation is cheap but hard. Pharm
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by gibba999 5y ago
Or, you take a year to: - Get a Master's degree - Travel and see the world - Do consulting - Take a job in Indonasia - Teach - Develop a new open source project - Etc. The resume gap / career stagnation is a choice. It's rare
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by gibba999 5y ago
My experience is that (1) Most threats like this aren't legally credible (2) That doesn't stop employers from filing (and losing, if not settled) lawsuits. For most employees, a lost lawsuit means you lose 2 years of your life, ge
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by gibba999 5y ago
$3/minute of video seems a bit steep. $180/hour of video.
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by gibba999 5y ago
Yes, and in most cases, no one will cite negative results. The positive results continue to be cited even long after debunked. This is an example which did get cites: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111&#
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by gibba999 5y ago
This ain't it. Obfuscated billing helps Amazon with $350/hour engineers, where an engineer figuring out where $10k is going each year isn't a top priority. Been there, done that. Obfuscated billing is definitely not there to
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by gibba999 5y ago
I'll mention I hate this style of conversation. You call up a vendor, and ask about X. They switch to talking point Y, without ever addressing the point. It's ubiquitous ("it's me, not you"), but I hate it. I'd
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by gibba999 6y ago
And ergo, I'd never use TimescaleDB. It's not less restrictive in any objective sense; it has different restrictions. It's apparently less restrictive to you, but it's much more restrictive to me. Why not toss in an AGPL
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by gibba999 6y ago
The community is impacted because there isn't an intellectual commons to build from. The OSI or FSF-approved licenses form an ecosystem. I can have a project which mixes AGPL, GPL, and BSD code. I can make that part of the next version
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by gibba999 6y ago
Another major issue is remixing and license compatibility. AGPL is part of an ecosystem. Anything MIT, BSD, current GPL, etc. will freely mix with AGPL. Most of the other licenses, I can't use in any of my projects without running into
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by gibba999 6y ago
I don't find Duo helpful in isolation for this (and many other) reasons. But I've found ~15 minutes per day to be fairly helpful in conjunction with other activities.

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