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by ilyagr 6y ago
> Yes, with the control group you would have a base for how many people you would have expected to be infected, so there's that, but you "could" get that from other observations. Getting this number for a distribution of p
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More than 300000 people a day get tested for coronavirus in the UK according to [1], and the testing capacity is even greater than that. This is enough to cover study participants. I would imagine that volunteers would also be willing to ge
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I'm surprised they don't seem to do frequent and regular COVID testing of participants to catch asymptomatic infections. Naively, it would seem worthwhile in order to predict how well the vaccine would slow down the spread. I gues
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by ilyagr 6y ago
Thanks for sharing, it's much better written than the article in the post.
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by ilyagr 6y ago
The 1984 NYTimes article nl shared in this thread has more details. Excerpt: When the capsule was breached it held about 400 curies of radioactive cobalt in the 6,010 pellets. Each pellet, according to Joel Lubenau, a health physicist at th
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by ilyagr 6y ago
That's not strictly true. In Russia, unlike US or Europe, you have to show your passport to leave the country, and you can be prevented from leaving by court order.
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I found the following talks by Armin Romacher very informative on these topics (C API, why python is more difficult to speed up than JS). https://youtu.be/qCGofLIzX6g https://youtu.be/IeSu_odkI5I I wish the
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by ilyagr 6y ago
Tove Jansson wrote some books for adults. I very much enjoyed "Fair play", which has a great English translation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Play_(novel) https://www.nyrb.com/product
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by ilyagr 6y ago
Simon's [entire post]( https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/282#issu... ) that the parent comment quotes from is worth a read, as an example of a high concentration of sanity.
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How loud is it?
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by ilyagr 6y ago
I found the "CANSAC-1.33km" California BlueSky forecast you linked to very helpful, thank you!
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I think the main difference is that airnow mainly relies on expensive sensors with government-approved calibration. There are only a few such sensors per county. Airnow's map shows both the government sensors and the Purple Air sensor
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by ilyagr 6y ago
I've found http://www.airnow.gov very helpful and faster to load than the Purple Air map. They also have a simple but efficient app. Airnow's map is slow to load, but shows smoke, air monitors (including the Purple Air
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by ilyagr 6y ago
Thank you, this helps. To my taste, jokes get better when they make more sense. :)
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Indeed. But the scientific approach is different -- it's all about finding patterns that do repeat and making predictions. The original comment's "theorem" is funny, but unless you are doing a homework problem, you bette
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by ilyagr 6y ago
> every equation has one solution So when you see the sun rising, cherish the moment, as it has never happened before and will never happen again.
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by ilyagr 6y ago
I find it surprising that, according to the article, attractiveness affects the severity of the sentence, but not whether someone is judged innocent or guilty. If the former is true, the latter seems too good to be true. If both are true,
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by ilyagr 6y ago
There is a much longer (and more detailed) description of the history of the transition from DOS to Windows: https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-a... (That's part 1 out of 9) It has a s
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by ilyagr 6y ago
This reminds me of an excellent video on use of cheap and less sensitive tests on "This Week in Virology". https://youtu.be/kDj4Zyq3yOA (Feel free to skip to around 6:35). Preprint: https://www.medrxiv.
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That star system is young, and the planets are therefore hot enough to produce their own infrared light. That light is what the telescope saw. So, there was no need for the planets to pass in front of the star to be detected. In fact, if yo
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by ilyagr 6y ago
It's not just those counties. There are new statewide restrictions: https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1282752861835649024 The counties you listed have additional new restrictions. https://mobi
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by ilyagr 6y ago
Thanks, this sounds pretty easy. For my and others' future reference, here's a random video of how to do this with an obd2 port, as suggested by a child comment: https://youtu.be/dDY2lMMrpLU This may or may not be
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by ilyagr 6y ago
The humane solution would be to give additional money to underpaid essential workers, at least during the pandemic, rather than to give unemployed people less. That's the point of the article.
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How do you find out if the alternator is working? I would like to know if putting my Mazda in Park at a traffic light and revving the engine to 2000 rpm charges the battery. Same question for city driving in "sport" mode (2000 rpm
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by ilyagr 6y ago
Legislating in this direction might lead to there being a quiz at the end of every privacy policy. This doesn't seem like it would be great outcome to me. Perhaps a better way would be to legislate what privacy policies can contain, so
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by ilyagr 7y ago
That's an excellent link, better than the one current story points to. > CoronaCheck was evaluated in China using 760 clinical samples. In this cohort, 286 samples were confirmed positive. Our manufacturers report a sensitivity of 9
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by ilyagr 7y ago
Apart from developing drugs, vaccines, and expanding hospitals, the time could allow us to produce enough tests to detect infected people before they are contagious. Perhaps even earlier, we could test all the contacts of people who were de
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by ilyagr 7y ago
Do you (or SFGate) have a reference for that? I read what I thought was the most official version of the California order [1], and it's frustratingly short. After reading it, I can't tell whether I can go for a bike ride. Even the
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by ilyagr 7y ago
I wonder what kind of compensation from the company and the government the laid-of employees are entitled to. It's Scandinavia after all. I don't know enough to say they'll be fine, but there's a chance it's not as
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by ilyagr 7y ago
This reminded me of Dreamlab, which is an interesting adaptation of the same idea to mobile phones. https://www.vodafone.com.au/foundation/dreamlab

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