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by halpert 5y ago
The GP wasn’t saying go out and kill yourself because you are definitely condemned. They were highlighting that you still have an extremely elevated chance of having cancer. If you got into your car and found out you had a 10% chance of bei
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I didn't say it was a bioweapon, just that it very well could have originated in a lab. From your article: > The two main hypotheses — that the virus jumped from animals to humans in a natural process, or that it escaped from a rese
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How can you be so sure. The first outbreak was literally a few feet from a lab studying this exact virus. Biden called for U.S. intelligence to figure out if the original virus came from a lab: https://www.nytimes.com/2021&#
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In a perfect world, yes. What I’ve found in practice is that network policies add a mysterious failure point that makes debugging traffic issues hard, especially when providing a service platform to teams that don’t understand the inner wor
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Asking someone to look up some numbers for you to complete your random hypothesis isn't exactly constructive either way.
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"Removing noise" is equivalent to adding detail.
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One cool project that uses eBPF is Cilium. It allows restricting network traffic to / from containers in Kubernetes. Many of the problems it solves, in my opinion, are better solved via user-space solutions, e.g. service-to-service tra
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Yes you are correct.
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Or maybe you’re missing the human side of having a child born with a serious genetic defect?
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They used the word “wrong”. Whether or not they used wrong to mean inaccurate, or wrong to mean not sensitive is up to the reader.
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It's true they are focusing on false positives, but the authors are using the ratio of false positives to true positives to paint a picture that the tests are inaccurate, when in reality the tests are accurate. What this article is loo
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As you said “if you get a positive result”. It’s true, if you ignore the 99.9% of the time the test is correct (true negative result), then you can say the test is 84% wrong.
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Their graphics say the tests are “84% wrong.” Do you really feel that’s an accurate description? That doesn’t feel like an accurate description to me, and their usage of “wrong” in this context highlights that they don’t understand the dist
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How did this article, written by someone who clearly lacks an understanding of basic statistics, make it into the Upshot? They try to make it seem like the test is wrong 85% of the time, but that's not necessarily the case. All we know
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This kind of highlights a flaw in the dealership model, however. Ford took the reservation money and made a promise that they're unable to fulfill to the reservation holder.
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I was pretty impressed with Maine's lobster catch regulations. Most notably, the license holder has to be the one to physically pull up the traps, which puts a very small upper bound on how big a single lobster catching operation can b
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This was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28979532 The linked article is about how NB went out of their way to shut out federal investigators. If it’s environmental, it’s possible the NB gove
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People like to enjoy nature in their own way. Some people like to rock climb, which is a very dangerous activity. Others like to forage mushrooms, which comes with its own danger.
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Rights of parties in a lease are also governed by property rights.
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What is your opinion on property rights?
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Failed products don’t need more features, which was my point.
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Why did you keep interacting with Brenda? It takes like 2 seconds to call up an insurance company and have them write you up a policy. If you have a mortgage, many insurers will take contact info for someone at the mortgage company to negot
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Why do people always want things to burn to the ground? Why not burn your home and things you care about to the ground? In all likelihood, they’re only serving you and a small portion of people around you. Why not do that?
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But would you have needed the minor features had more time been spent on the initial product? Said another way, had the initial product not been developed quickly using the available developer resources, would the product have lived long en
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What you say may be true, but that’s not a dichotomy we’re presented with.
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You need to pay taxes. It's conceivable that the IRS could have a system that at least made it easy and painless. Compared to alternative tax filing methods, you might recommend a really easy way to file taxes to a friend.
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You’re assuming that it’s the only rationale for the Covid situation, but whether or not that is true is exactly what we’re discussing :)
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Do you have a specific criticism of this study?
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Is that really the sole rationale? What about polio vaccination? I believe that vaccine is mandated in schools to protect children, not to keep healthcare systems from becoming overwhelmed.
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Sure, the data isn't perfect, but data rarely is. You're also assuming that, because the data isn't perfect, that the effect measured would go away with better data. I actually think the opposite would happen. There is a corr

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