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by glofish 5y ago
the point I was making is that the story, at least in my reading, is being presented primarily as scientific evidence on the effectiveness of masks in school. Especially the WaPo article. If 50% of students in a classroom get infected after
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by glofish 5y ago
I am sorry, this story just does not add up. BTW here is the same story with more details: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/28/delta-varia... We have a teacher that is positive, infectious a
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by glofish 5y ago
Excellent point, arguably NOT wearing a mask takes a lot more conviction than wearing it. if you believe wearing a mask benefits you then there is no need for "conviction", it is just a belief and the person is trying to maximize
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by glofish 5y ago
reading the module, I have also learned about the Munroe geohashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohashing and https://xkcd.com/426/ official website: https://geohashing.site/ge
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by glofish 5y ago
I am unable to find a satisfactory answer for the following: Whose money was stolen? PolyNet's? Random user? Someone "betting/buying" on a contract? What is Curve.fi and why is transferring the proceeds there advantageou
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by glofish 5y ago
> Instead, platforms are now firmly in the business of balancing societal interests. the problem here of course is that it is not so easy to define what "societal interest" are at any moment, plus what makes Twitter qualified
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by glofish 5y ago
that's not quite right. Computers currently are far worse than the good drivers out there. It is not clear if they ever could be better than a trained and cautious driver. For example you can easily avoid the situation above by not tal
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by glofish 6y ago
If you study the scientific literature for works that measure actual infections with/without masks (and not hypothetical scenarios on droplet travel distances) you'll find that the science is far from being established. Take a loo
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by glofish 6y ago
the difference of course is that it that, unlike handwashing or dumping fecal matter in the water, there is still no scientific evidence that masks actually work (for reducing infections when worn on the street by a population where most pe
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by glofish 6y ago
the way I understood it, against a living virus there are different types of responses, some more effective than others, the duration and effectiveness of the protection may depend on which response your body mounted whereas with the vaccin
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by glofish 6y ago
Notable commentary: > The findings of the authors suggest that infection and the development of an antibody response provides protection similar to or even better than currently used SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. https://www.thelancet.
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by glofish 6y ago
It makes no sense to say that active trading is zero sum but passive trading isn't. Either both are or none are. Holding an asset for N days does not magically flip it from category to the other.
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by glofish 6y ago
I am not sure I follow the logic. The new computation aligns with the experiment. Why is it more likely for it to be wrong than the calculation that shows the theory deviating from experiment.
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by glofish 6y ago
Amusingly - fittingly for our times - in the same issue of the exact same journal (Nature) another paper has been published that indicates that the prior, so much "hyped" discrepancy might be due to the theory having being applied
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by glofish 6y ago
Exactly this. The most common and pervasive misconceptions about nutrition use the extremely simplistic view of it, believing that in the end all matters is that you end up with N grams of say sugar. The effects on the body of consuming an
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by glofish 6y ago
In a related news here today: The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24932466
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by glofish 6y ago
In related submission that I see today: The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24937001
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by glofish 6y ago
I believe these arguments based on mortality rates will, eventually, be considered "racist". And I say that with some trepidation, the label is easily thrown around today. It is almost certain that some sub-populations are more se
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by glofish 6y ago
there has never been hospital saturation or even close to it. All the excess hospital beds built at the height of the hysteria went unused.
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by glofish 6y ago
The disease is 99.99% survivable with no medical care whatsoever. So much so more than half of the people don't even notice they have it.
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by glofish 6y ago
Have you checked the numbers in Europe? Most countries have twice as many cases now than at their peak in Spring and the trend is accelerating. As for most of Latin America, they are just not reporting the numbers because they are too poor
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by glofish 6y ago
not sure what you mean by anomaly, US looks a lot like Sweden, a country that looks like will be faring the best counter-intuitive as it may sound today, US might just end up the country that did really well. Most large countries are simply
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by glofish 6y ago
Initially it does have the effect you state: > prospective buyers that couldn't afford 20% but can afford 5% are now able to buy a house? hence the measures are popular and very visible. Long term however (just as with subsidies and
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by glofish 6y ago
for starters one is in the gut the other in the skin, sounds like a fundamental difference to me
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by glofish 6y ago
As the paper states the only effect of Vitamin D supplementation is that it reduces Vitamin D deficiency.
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by glofish 6y ago
Exposure to UV light is not "so harmful". What is harmful is being indoors all the time, and getting out so rarely that you get sunburned in short amount of time. Far more damage is done by being indoors too much than being outdoo
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by glofish 6y ago
There is a fundamental difference between vitamin D generated in your skin versus vitamin D placed in your gut. The mechanisms by which it acts and the effects it has on you are probably radically different. We are more than just a pile of
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by glofish 6y ago
what an absurd article. And if you are wondering and unaware of Betteridge's law, no we have not stumbled into the biggest productivity increase in a century. Working from home does not make most people more productive, eliminating com
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by glofish 6y ago
This is one of those titles that pull on the heartstrings ... "oh think of the children" then it turns out it is a complication that affects a vanishingly small segment of the population. Then we use the fear to impose rules that
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by glofish 6y ago
In this world every problem has the same solution: Facebook decides what is right and what is wrong.

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