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by gmarx 3y ago
I understand this intellectually but it is just exhausting
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by gmarx 3y ago
Decades ago when I was getting started there was a team that fell way behind and everyone on the team worked weekends and many days until midnight and finally delivered some buggy arguable product 6 months late. They were hailed as heroes.
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by gmarx 3y ago
Yes if you look exactly at the early pandemic then Sweden did worse than its immediate neighbors (but not worse than the rest of the OECD countries). But the real measure of success in policy has to include the rest of the pandemic and its
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by gmarx 3y ago
All valid things to check but would also need to be checked for other OECD countries. I would not assume the OECD methodology does not take account of the aging. Also I would not assume this had much of an effect. The way it might would be
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by gmarx 3y ago
I can always be wrong but I did a rigorous analysis and other people reported similar findings.
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by gmarx 3y ago
I have a medical background and when the pandemic started I did a literature to see if masks had helped with other respiratory virus epidemics (as masking had been common for years in many Asian countries ). the results were decidedly unimp
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by gmarx 3y ago
Perhaps your April 2020 number is correct but I think it's irrelevant because it is too time-boxed. I did an analysis (matching those by others) using the OECD excess deaths data and if you extend the time period through last fall, Swe
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by gmarx 4y ago
my lay opinion (subject to change based on coming real world cases) is that if you ask the question and it libels someone there is no damage. If you publish it without checking if it is true, there are possible damages and the human who pu
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by gmarx 4y ago
For a person of GenX this is a fascinating thread, most notably for the lack of moral posturing. We were raised to consider whaling an unspeakable evil. To the current generation it looks like an engineering and history discussion. I wonder
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by gmarx 4y ago
absolutely and whether you think you care about sound quality or not, one thing I have found is that it makes a huge difference for dialog clarity. I watched Dune when it came out in a brand new theater in Los Angeles and then a few months
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by gmarx 4y ago
I have wondered this too. What if dreams are a side-effect of a maintenance process, like if you were always kind and rewind your VHS but choose to watch them while doing so. Also occurred to me (thanks to chatGPT) that dreams might be prod
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by gmarx 4y ago
Wasn't there a Beatles anecdote where Lennon says to McCartney "let's write a swimming pool!" People get good at music because they love it, but just because they love it and we love them, don't assume they aren&#x2
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by gmarx 4y ago
The right to free speech does not protect your right to commit crimes or civilly damage someone merely by speaking as part of the crime or tort. So if you and your friends plan to rob a bank together, the planning, or conspiracy, can be a s
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by gmarx 4y ago
Per my other comment, you cannot hide behind "speech alone is harmless". If a reasonable person would think you were joking it might be a defense but if you took the money anyway, I doubt that defense would hold up. We could easil
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by gmarx 4y ago
The answer is that the right to free speech does not provide a trick to get around other laws. How close to violence do you have to get? That crime/tort is usually called "assault" and (IANAL) the standard is usually on the o
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by gmarx 4y ago
Poor communicators do not try to imagine the state of anyone outside their own heads. So they fail to explain things that the other person doesn't know, and over explain things they find more interesting or relevant than the answer to
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by gmarx 4y ago
This is a huge part of it. Most people just can't keep track of what people outside their own heads would know. So they end up over explaining things that don't need it and not explaining at all things the other person doesn'
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by gmarx 4y ago
This is almost always incorrect. Many (most) people objectively are bad at communication. If you cannot make your point of view clear to anyone but yourself, you are bad at communication.
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by gmarx 4y ago
Fascinating analysis and I cannot immediately see the flaws. I don't see any specific good counter-arguments in this thread. One thing I would contradict is his idea that it is suspicious that excess deaths taper just as vaccinations d
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by gmarx 4y ago
I don't know if the UK system has unique characteristics that would have made it likely to collapse (whatever that means) but I equally sure it wouldn't have happened in the US. I waited in vain for stories of people dying because
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by gmarx 4y ago
My medical terminology value set creation tool uses git (well, a java implementation of git) to store and version value sets
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by gmarx 4y ago
"Follow the science!" implies that science can determine an exactly correct public policy but this is nonsense. Public policy is all about tradeoffs,e.g. excess deaths for economics and mental health. It has to take into account
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by gmarx 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_scale_fees
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by gmarx 4y ago
I had forgotten that this was done in racing but can't imagine why you would want this for a commuter vehicle. I assumed they were just adding a line item to the bill and nitrogen made it sound more legit. But now that you mention it m
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by gmarx 4y ago
Charging customers for nitrogen filled tires that contain no more nitrogen than air (hey 78% is a lot!) reminds me of an idea I had to market regular salt as "ancient sea salt". I cracked myself up with this idea and thinking abou
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by gmarx 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_scale_fees I learned the term WRT insulin for diabetes. I think the key is that the scale you use for determining something (fees, insulin dose) changes depending on other characte
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by gmarx 4y ago
The author says each of the big 5 is on a "sliding scale". I admit this is a bit pedantic, but isn't each just on a plain old scale? Wouldn't a sliding scale imply that one score could affect how another was graded?
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by gmarx 4y ago
I didn't realize until the end that this was written by AI. The progress of the story was just silly enough that I kept reading, assuming that all the nonsense would come together in the end. It did in a very computery way. This may ex
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by gmarx 4y ago
The next question would be 'how long did the average negotiation take' followed by 'how much were the average people on each side of the negotiation paid?" (or are most of these negotiations the result of computers talki
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by gmarx 4y ago
This is from an admin module in a project I did a long time ago. In my new job I find I need to search medical terminologies such as SNOMED, ICD10, RXNORM and LOINC and available tools were frustrating. So I extracted this from the old proj

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