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by gridlockd 6y ago
> If 10x more people get it, it doesn't need to be more deadly in terms of IFR to be a concern. Sure, but what sort of concern? A "shut down everything, COVID-cases are rising!" sort of concern?
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by gridlockd 6y ago
It's about as valid an argument as appealing to the pictures of "overwhelmed hospitals". Yes, we've all seen those pictures. We've also seen pictures of empty emergency care units that were created in anticipation o
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by gridlockd 6y ago
"Then, despite all precautions against the virus, a family member got sick. Then another and another and another. Now, seven months after the shutdown, seven people in Ricardo Aguirre's extended family and his father, Jesús, 67,
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by gridlockd 6y ago
In medicine, people like to talk about quality-of-life-adjusted years. Why? Because there's no point in making somebody live more years that are subjectively bad (e.g due to treatment side-effects), rather than less years that are subj
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by gridlockd 6y ago
A more reasonable interpretation of that data would be that we're getting stupider because we spend more time indoors without proper ventilation. Even if we doubled yearly increases in ppm we'd be a century away from a measurable
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Not enough evidence for what ? Quote: "The evidence is admittedly incomplete for all the steps in COVID-19 microdroplet transmission, but it is similarly incomplete for the large droplet and fomite modes of transmission. The airborne
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Please explain on what basis you are assigning a paper "expert consensus" ? The source is for the "if not majority" part of that sentence. The other part is just me making an admittedly unsubstantiated claim. https
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Please understand that airborne has a scientific meaning, and that is the terminology that scientists use. There is no actual clinical evidence of the airborne transmission of COVID.It is spread through large droplets. At this point, i
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Yes, any idiot can call 911 and have SWAT team dispatched, but that is a very low effort "attack". I'm not saying that this could never possibly happen, but it's not much of a real threat exactly because effort vs reward
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Your run-of-the-mill criminal has some sort of profit motive and this seems like a very roundabout way to attempt extortion. A terrorist on the other hand would probably be dissatisfied with the not-quite-catastophic outcome. If you want
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Those thing aren't gone , they've already been paid for and are being written off. Of course, with new contracts being negotiated, not having to pay for all these expenses will give an employer more leeway in terms of salary. How
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by gridlockd 6y ago
This is the least of all expenses. Tech workers in SF can charge more because they expenses are universally higher. Remote workers in cheaper places can (and will) charge less.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
You may not realize that the $500 chair, the ping pong table and the beer fridge effectively comes out of everyone's paycheck.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> ... have we? Much of the 20th century was spent at war, with a death total somewhere in the region of a hundred million. As were most of the previous centuries. In fact, casualties of war, as a percentage of population, have been more
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> The key innovation we require, as a society, are better feedback mechanisms to correct inaccurate beliefs. I have come to the conclusion that managing our collective delusions is more important than correcting them. Reality is unbearab
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by gridlockd 6y ago
"YouTube says it already removes content that disputes the existence or transmission of COVID-19, promotes medically unsubstantiated methods of treatment, discourages people from seeking medical care or explicitly disputes health auth
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Don't worry guys, there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Fair enough, I understand what you mean now. By namedropping Paxos and Raft you were leading me onto something quite different.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
You're right about Raoult not mentioning zinc, but Zelenko used zinc from the beginning. Also, significant reduction in mortality using HCQ alone early during the treatment has been reproduced: https://www.medrxiv.org&#x2F
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> Jaron Lanier is a frustrating thinker. I agree. Like Slavoj but without the Zizek. > He gave a rambling answer about we need to pay all the human involved in producing that model (even those that are consumed as opensource models) a
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by gridlockd 6y ago
A paper published in Nature is being criticized as "too neutral" for pointing out that the evidence is inconclusive. My comment is getting heavily downvoted, despite being properly sourced. No counter-argument or evidence is prese
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by gridlockd 6y ago
The next level is "Google for the win", in which you realize that this particular part of your problem (nearest neighbor search) is so ubiquitous that there is library for it in pretty much any language.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> ...not really representative for the scientific computing community. I disagree. Source: dude, trust me.
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by gridlockd 6y ago
It's indeed curious, also Trump at one point claimed to be taking HCQ prophylactically, I wonder how far that went. Having said that, giving somebody "experimental treatment" and "knowing what one is doing" is contr
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by gridlockd 6y ago
"As far as I’m concerned, administering it to infected patients now constitutes medical malpractice. I have no interest in goalpost-moving efforts to say that they didn’t administer zinc or azithromycin, or they picked the wrong patie
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Any discussion of HCQ that ignores zinc, a key part of the original treatment protocol, is missing the mark. Rationale: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030698772... Trial: https:/&#x2
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by gridlockd 6y ago
"Marcel has been built and tested on Linux. It seems to mostly work on Mac, except for the ps operator. Haven't tried Windows at all." That's unfortunate, because as awful as bash may be, a shell that works natively on
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by gridlockd 6y ago
Okay, but I read it as "zonsh", or maybe "Exxon Shell".
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by gridlockd 6y ago
> In your terms, Facebook might be a mere conduit of speech, but there is nothing that says it has to a perfect/unfiltered conduit. There is the provision that a common carrier must not discriminate[1]. In return, the common carrier
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by gridlockd 6y ago
I don't think it's useful to conflate anything right of center with fascism. I was thinking of parties like NPD or Golden Dawn, which aren't just "right wing", but thinly-veiled Neo-Nazi parties, attracting hundreds

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