jfnixon

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by jfnixon 7y ago
Yeah, if only we were more like the EU, where the top scientist working on this problem (checks notes) just resigned due to all the political infighting. Why can't we be more like... oh, wait.
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Some antibacterials have antiviral properties. https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/36/3/646
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Infrastructure will begin to break down if we don't do regular maintenance. That means spare parts, which means manufacturing, which means raw materials. Food has a similar supply chain issue. Break the infrastructure enough that publi
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by jfnixon 7y ago
And if it did in this case or the next? The docs go on strike? C'mon, that would be saying "don't call my bluff."
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by jfnixon 7y ago
How would that work? Doctors go out on strike?
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by jfnixon 7y ago
It is just a bad choice to cut emergency preparedness. This is California, how many mass transit boondoggles survived the 2011 budget cuts?
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Are voters in California suppressed?
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by jfnixon 7y ago
"Corona directly kills people" I'm not so sure about that. Covid may grease the skids, but the vast majority of people dying have health complications already. Kids aren't dying. Teens aren't dying. 20s and 30s aren
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Flu kills children, covid-19 doesn't. Not sure if there is an 'expected' percentage of flu deaths in children, but if so, we might estimate the covid effect by looking at those numbers.
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by jfnixon 7y ago
I think the wrong model is the problem. Surgical masks provide small protection to you, but significant protection to others. It isn't for you, it is for everyone else. Think of a mask as portable social distancing. By catching droplet
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Singapore and HK are cities, really, and the Singapore approach, aggressive contact tracing with mandatory stay at home orders, doesn't scale. Taiwan and Japan are outliers so far, and they are monocultures, with famous compliance rate
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by jfnixon 7y ago
The cite doesn't mention it, but the NYT article reports the Washington State public health authorities shut down Dr. Chu, not the Feds. "While acknowledging the ethical questions, Dr. Chu and others argued there should be more fl
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by jfnixon 7y ago
The vast majority of infections are mild. Roughly 15% require medical intervention (beyond self-quarantine), and of that, less than 1 in 3 require ICU care. 100K infections is roughly 15K medical intervention, with 5K in the ICU.
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Cite, please. The FDA and CDC bureaucracies are the groups hewing to the Business As Usual rule following. No need for the WH to reject WHO tests, the FDA is happy to fill that role. The WH is ultimately responsible for the FDA/CDC, bu
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Laundering is used to disguise the bad original of counterfeit money as well as money obtained by unacceptable means. That is the point of the laundering analogy. I think counterfeit money is a better fit in the article’s analogy. Cargo cul
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Facts are true to disinterested, objective observers, feelings are subjective. Laundered counterfeit money is worthless in its original form, and it is disguising the original form that tricks people into ascribing value to laundered counte
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Not every emergency manifests as a textbook case. It isn't too farfetched to imagine an intermittent short running the trim motor on an intermittent basis rather than continuously. I'd still shut off the trim motor as a possible r
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by jfnixon 7y ago
It is also possible he is being a guy who knows exactly what he is talking about and has the qualifications and experience to back it up. If an aircraft starts pitching down, and it wasn't commanded by the pilot, and resetting the trim
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by jfnixon 7y ago
If Japan had hundreds of acres of solar panels back when the tsunami occurred, they would be resting out on the ocean floor, leaching heavy metals into the water. Definitely better, right?
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Annnnnd the downvotes start. What is it about nuclear energy that terrifies the ycombinator crowd?
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by jfnixon 7y ago
I/O takes seven eternities in microcode-ville. It doesn't hurt too much to wait for the speculation to be resolved before changing state visible outside the microarchitecture of the CPU.
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by jfnixon 7y ago
C'mon. The Obamas attempted to buy the property. That's the point. The people who keep telling us AGW is real and is going to flood the coasts don't act as if the global consensus is true. I don't see any exodus of wealt
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Yeah, after all mob rule > rule of law, at least nowadays.
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by jfnixon 7y ago
That's not quite correct. Hospitals can't turn away patients with life-threatening conditions until they are stable. In practice that means everyone gets triaged. A better system would run public clinics, staffed by PAs and nurse
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Proof please that only one party consistently pushes the envelope.
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by jfnixon 7y ago
The original question was how climate activists could convince people, not lobby for policy. Of course non-saints can advocate policy, but animal rights activists who wear furs and leather should not expect to be taken all that seriously. S
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Pull off and top, same as would happen if the car suffered a mechanical failure.
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Let me see if I have your argument down... one can ignore hypocrisy in personal behavior because collective actions are hard to do? Is that it? If so, it isn't a very strong argument. If not, what is your claim about personal hypocrisy
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Your crystal ball is cloudy. I am interested in the Science. I'm not interested in being hectored by some busybody who knows less about the Science than I do, espcially when their behavior is hypocritical. Are you interested in the Sci
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by jfnixon 7y ago
How to convince me there is an existential threat requiring huge changes? Stop flying. Period. Stop eating meat. Period. Move into high density housing, and forego cars and just take public transportation or bike. That'll work for tabl

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