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by jhayward 6y ago
It is a very, very bad sign when the police start making lists of people who are trying to reform abusive police departments.
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Although treatment has definitely improved outcomes, IMO, at least some of this effect has to be due to the changing demographics of testing. In the early days patients essentially had to be far along in the progress of the disease to be te
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These satellites don't have the on-board clock capability to do very high precision, high stability timing which is one foundational bedrock positional accuracy is based on. Just as important though is that they don't have the wor
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by jhayward 6y ago
> GNSS constellations do not use geostationary satellites. This is not quite accurate. The main body of GNSS constellations are usually MEO cut in to several orbital planes, but GPS and Beidou, (Global systems) as well as QZSS and IRN
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by jhayward 6y ago
Right. There aren’t really “superspreaders” as much as “superspreading events”. It takes a combination of 1) high viral presentation, 2) breath activity that generates lots of droplets, such as singing, public speaking, shouting, exercise,
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by jhayward 6y ago
Those folks tend not to be very interested in the actual problems of nutrition and obesity. In my experience, they are much more about sitting in moral judgement of people who have other-than-ideal bodyweight and fitness.
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> the detectives then put the photo of this man into a "6 pack" photo line-up, from which a store employee then identified that man This is not correct. The "6-pack" was shown to a security firm's employee, who
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by jhayward 6y ago
It's greenwashing because it's not obvious, and the wording is deliberately deceptive. An accurate description would give readers the relevant facts, not assume they can figure out the hidden catch.
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> Waste heat from co-located industrial plants is used to further boost expansion performance. Let's not greenwash this. The "waste heat" is fossil fueled.
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There are many more therapies than just oxygen that hospitalized patients receive. Lots of monitoring of e.g., blood values that indicate stress on one organ or another, or danger of crisis due to many different processes. Drug therapy an
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by jhayward 6y ago
As I said earlier, I'm not inclined to participate in the refutation of BS, which is what you are trolling out. This is a once-a-century pandemic of a virus that is not at all the influenza or any other common virus. If left to itself
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> Even in in the worst case situation where everyone eventually will get infected (including me), it didn't bother me. Like I said, the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands to millions doesn't bother you. That is repugn
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by jhayward 6y ago
You contradict yourself. Either the virus is mutating rapidly, meaning there can be no herd immunity, or it is not and a vaccine is likely. They are both based on the same underlying biological facts.
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Just wait until you see what the marketing people put in to those apps.
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I agree, although I doubt it will have anything to do with Apple. The automakers will just build in a "lawful access" feature and the hundreds of law-enforcement adjacent agencies will have remote access to that feature w/o
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One only needs to look at Italy, Spain, NYC to spot the main problem(s) with the statement. I'm being generous in attributing them to ignorance - there is a very strong likelihood in today's environment that it's willful mis
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by jhayward 6y ago
> I think its quite likely that without the media storm, we would have put it down as a really bad flu, once in a quarter century, and got on with life. Last time Sweden's death rate was this high was during their 1993 Flu pandemic
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by jhayward 6y ago
This is such a repugnant and ignorant statement that it makes me despair for our society.
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Right. What you are describing is also the essential nature of the economic effect of the epidemic - it is for the most part the public's individual reactions to the disease, not the lockdown orders, that have brought the economy so sh
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I love the happy, optimistic outcome of running free association on the title. It reminds me of some of the really good questions I used to come up with as a child the first time I heard of a fact or concept.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Just for context, let's include the complete text of that anecdote from https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-oral-histo... Nash: “Somewhere in the Midwest, I think in Minneapolis, we were at the
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by jhayward 6y ago
You have described every Dylan engagement ever played. You might not be aware that he spent an entire tour, 18 months on multiple continents, enraging audiences who felt betrayed that he strayed beyond the strait and narrow of "folk&q
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by jhayward 6y ago
PubMed looks pretty much like an official publication of the NIH to me: “Available to the public online since 1996, PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Lib
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by jhayward 6y ago
There is a lot of art that I don't 'get', and I've been sort of dismissivie-to-unaware of over the years. Christo's art is one of those. But as time has passed and I've had a chance to experience some of those
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by jhayward 6y ago
"college kids" have more disposable income than just about any other segment of society outside the top couple of %.
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by jhayward 6y ago
I don't know what method GH is using, but the standard attack on hashed passwords is the use of rainbow tables[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
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They are fairly reputable, I believe formed by a group of former GOP "never Trump" types who are trying to regain a semblance of reasonable exposition of conservative (or contrarian) views without engaging in the .. words fail me
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This is an outcome most startups pray they are lucky enough to see.
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> Quarantine is for the sick, not the healthy No, quarantine is literally for the “potentially exposed”, not the known sick. Once a person is sick, they are then isolated, not quarantined.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Yes, you object to the public health authority’s action, on what principle, moral, or ethical basis? And am I to assume that you do not assert that contrary to accepted public health science, you have a right to simply go about as you pleas

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