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by gizmo 6y ago
We were told we were grandfathered in, actually. We specifically asked before we started our migration process to Stripe Billing.
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by gizmo 6y ago
Does this billing price extension only apply to people who read HN, or will there be a newsletter informing all your customers of this new policy?
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The work you cite is speculative. > Available evidence from contact tracing reported by countries suggests that asymptomatically infected individuals are much less likely to transmit the virus than those who develop symptoms. A subset of
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by gizmo 6y ago
People are contagious a few days before they show symptoms, but most infections are by unambiguously symptomatic people, because they carry the highest viral load. If symptomatic people stay home you cut down infections by 2/3rd if not
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by gizmo 6y ago
Contract tracing hasn't worked at scale anywhere. It's a nice idea conceptually, but the problem is psychological. People stop caring about tracing when 98% of all trace connections are false positives. If a person is infectious f
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by gizmo 6y ago
It's marginally better because of the magnets that align the charger and the phone precisely.
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And the only person who died was a 89 year old woman on chemotherapy: > Here, we report a case of a reinfection, in an 89-year old Dutch woman, suffering from Waldenström’s acroglobulinemia, treated with B-cell-depleting therapy Of cours
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by gizmo 6y ago
Did you have a bad case of covid? Any serious lung infection can result in the symptoms you describe. No shortage of people who report similar for two years after flu induced pneumonia. But with the flu it's people who get seriously il
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by gizmo 6y ago
So many people have been infected by covid in the last 9 months that you'd expect a large enough number of infections to coincide with other health problems to make for scary headlines. If somebody has a something as mundane as burnout
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by gizmo 6y ago
This is obvious nonsense, and the statement has been retracted. Key quote: "at this time, there have been no cases of myocarditis in COVID-19 positive student-athletes at Penn State." https://twitter.com/BonaguraES
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When you're dealing with a new disease there are no best practices for treatment. This is tautologically true. That's why doctors have to use their best judgement and try different things and write down what seems to work and what
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by gizmo 6y ago
HCQ is not a new drug. It's widely available globally. It has been used as an antiviral therapeutic and to prevent malaria since the 50s or so.
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by gizmo 6y ago
Is it better if Apple is accountable to nobody, or is it better if Apple is held accountable by a few businesses that can afford excellent lawyers? Besides, the issue here isn't that Epic doesn't think the Apple rules don't a
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by gizmo 6y ago
GDPR actually forces all websites to carefully keep track of what gets logged and for how long these logfiles are retained. So yes, legislators are pushing back against the common practice of logging everything just cause.
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by gizmo 6y ago
Asana's pricing is per user per month - https://asana.com/pricing
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by gizmo 6y ago
According to the filing Asana has 1.2m paying users. Each user is worth maybe $1000. That puts Asana at 1.2bn. The median forward revenue multiple for public enterprise SaaS companies is 10x, and with 2020 revenues of 150mn that results in
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by gizmo 6y ago
My experience with Apple's subscription/payment system in the app store is pretty awful, and I'd much rather buy from a vendor directly, like I do with Spotify/Netflix/Amazon. The refund system on the app store is t
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by gizmo 6y ago
Every CSS rule is effectively in global scope. And as the complexity of web apps increases regression testing becomes a bigger and bigger challenge. Being able to insert components multiple times and not having to worry whether an innocuous
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by gizmo 6y ago
I think you are mistaken on two counts. The data is certainly not so self-evident that you can simply assert the parent is wrong. Deaths are rising in counties that hadn't had significant exposure to covid19 before, and already the tre
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by gizmo 6y ago
This just means that the R0 is higher during the winter months, immunity will still accumulate to the point where the virus will be contained to small clusters here and there.
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by gizmo 6y ago
Covid-19 hardly mutates and people who were exposed to SARS 17 years ago have immunity to covid today. So yes, it’s pretty safe to say there won’t be a second wave of any significance. This was known since Februari and I don’t understand wh
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Epidemiologists look at annual deaths cumulative from the start of the flu season, exactly because we care about total mortality and not about noisy spikes in the data. And that picture looks completely different: https://pbs.twi
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by gizmo 6y ago
Pacific Rim definition I use: https://www.yourdictionary.com/pacific-rim . I'm not talking about the Americas. Sweden did a lot better in Q1. It was the only western European country with positive growth, and it vastly
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by gizmo 6y ago
At least a million people died of the Hong Kong flu. Much more as a percentage of the world population. And Covid19 doesn't seem to take hold anywhere in the pacific rim, regardless of policy. Lockdown or not, masks or not, good or bad
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by gizmo 6y ago
Of course covid19 can spread through the air because viral droplets can be tiny. But infection-at-a-distance has not been demonstrated. The null hypothesis should continue to be that infection risk is proportional to viral exposure and ti
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Many people have made statements that didn't age well. Hopefully you haven't forgotten about the ludicrous statements made by prominent epidemiologists, virologists and organizations like the WHO. Meanwhile we could trust the news
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by gizmo 6y ago
You're talking anecdotes, not data. Chronic illness is not a common side-effect for those who recover from COVID-19. It's in line with the side-effects you would expect to see when people catch a serious RTI. Influenza also causes
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by gizmo 6y ago
We didn't lock down for the Hong Kong flu or similar pandemics, because the damage caused by a lockdown is immense. Health damage caused by delayed cancer screenings and organ transplants. Psychological damage caused by lockdown and un
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Malaria has killed millions upon millions, half of which under 5 years of age. The typical "with covid" death is over 80 and has 4 comorbidities. There is absolutely no comparison.
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by gizmo 6y ago
How do you explain the spike in cases among 20-29 in MN right after the protests[1]? You can call me stupid all you like, but the data speaks for itself. Even Fauci referred to protests as having the "perfect set-up" conditions fo

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