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by jhayward 7y ago
If you think that's frustrating, wait until you read about Antibody Dependent Enhancement [1], which is the situation where antibodies from a previous infection actually enhance the virulence of a subsequent exposure. Immunology is com
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Lets also not give machine guns to monkeys and let them loose in crowds. There is a time and place for naive, exploratory, or just plain wrong-headed exposition. Making plausible looking but wrong "scientific" prognostications in
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It's not about sneezing. Real-world experience is showing that just breathing is enough to transmit the virus. The news report about 45 people at choir practice testing positive is just one episode [1] [1] https://twitter.c
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Link to save you some searching: https://www.nongnu.org/txr/rosetta-solutions.html
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> Articles like this make the news because they're fighting the myth that the young and healthy cannot die from it. Yes, but look at the comments from when I made mine: they were all of the nature of "I bet they had some other
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I'm puzzled by the intense focus on whether someone who dies had a pre-existing condition. It's like people want to convict the person for their own death, make it look like they were irresponsible, as a denial mechanism. By blam
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> they did not want to confuse their very technically unskilled customers That's not really a good explanation for the design. AOL kept the "AOL client" paradigm because your browsing was actually done via an L2TP tunnel b
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If you have enough viral load to be infectious RT-PCR on nasal swabs will definitely find it. PCR is enormously sensitive.
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> As you say, UTC is not a sun clock. UTC is most definitely a sun clock. It is coordinated to correspond to within 1 second of mean solar time at 0º longitude.
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> we have no way to stop the spread at the moment. Sure we do, universal, rapid result testing with isolation and contact tracing of positives. It works fine and is minimally invasive, and preserves the economy. First you get the exp
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> Why spend resources on mass testing and preparing for mass-scale treatment This is a good question, I hear it a lot. So here's an inarticulate stab at an answer. [TLDR: After quarantine the population is still at risk and the
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Not only does the federal government order ventilators, it is specifically mandated to stockpile them for a public health emergency. The President also has emergency powers under the Stafford Act to (1) put government orders at the "he
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> I've actually been really surprised by how well he has handled this so far too No one who knows how national pandemic response works agrees with you. They know that trying to suppress testing, and criminal lack of executive manag
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You seem to be living in a different factual world than the rest of us, where ICU cases are in hallways and surgical suites is not "over capacity", and leaving people to die of suffocation without standard lifesaving treatment is
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> Or it has to be printed, which is inflation. No. In this case, monetizing the direct subsidy would be creating less deflation , not inflation. And deflation is something we all want very badly to avoid because of all the concomita
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> There’s no pull yourself up by your bootstraps talk right now and there shouldn’t be. Joint statement by conservatives Stephen Moore, Art Laffer, Steve Forbes: "Don’t expand welfare and other income redistribution benefits like pa
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Very interesting writeup. Did you consider using formal verification tools such as the TLA family to ensure that your sync protocol is well-specified and consistent?
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2% is historically low, and is in fact below what the Federal Reserve has been trying mightily to achieve. Inflation has been below target since the 2008 crash, more or less. There is a massive deflationary force acting on the economy. An
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Where do you see Macron saying payments are stopping? Why would we assume France would do the dumbest, most damaging thing possible rather than something easy and healthy, like monetizing a fiscal stimulus of direct payments?
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Comprehensive testing and surveillance lets you concentrate resources on the contagious and minimize undesired effects on the well, permitting the economy to function at a higher level. Evidence is developing that as much as 75% of transmis
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> it doesn't actually test for the virus. It tests for DNA / RNA presence The virus is nothing but DNA or RNA. The snippet testing establishes a statistical baseline that rules in the presence of the specific dna/rna of th
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I wonder why some people think that relationships are transactions. I also associate such thinking with lower empathy and stronger sociopathy tendencies.
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No, PCR is not an antibody test. It amplifies DNA or RNA sequences which are known to exist in the virus. If enough unique sequences are found the test is positive.
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The market seems to be responding to the removal of uncertainty about a national emergency declaration.
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The "simplest" explanation would be that they were discussing the outbreak in China and using secret intelligence gathered by classified sources or processes to do so. Even so, it would still be stupid to let those limited discuss
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Only a small number of very narrow segments of business benefit from SXSW - but they benefit a lot. The rest of Austin businesses, and Austinites, suffer degradation and losses. Ask any downtown business that's not in the lodging&#x2
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Why would you exclude people over 50, transplant patients, people with lung ailments or cardiovascular disease, people being treated for auto-immune disease, etc? This reaction that it's OK as long as it doesn't kill young healthy
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No, it would be better to postpone getting it as long as possible. The technology/industry learning curve is just beginning for this virus, so later products will be better than current ones. Barring total societal collapse, that is.
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> "Because the quantum dot colar [sic] cell can make better use of the high-energy solar energy, it can in reality generate double the efficiency of a traditional silicon solar cell,"
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> What else links Austin and the Netherlands in computing at that time? It could be related to the fact that UT Austin wrote and maintained their own OS (UT-2D) for the CDC/CYBER architecture, and maintained it well in to the late

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