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by jobigoud 7y ago
I wonder why more of these conferences aren't moved to VR, to AltspaceVR for example. It's a platform dedicated to events and conferences, with amphitheaters, multi spectators, moderation tools, private rooms, etc.
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by jobigoud 7y ago
For me the play/pause buttons on my TV remote work even if the app is disconnected.
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by jobigoud 7y ago
Happy -1st of February.
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by jobigoud 7y ago
I'm still not clear what "testing" entails. I'm not going anywhere near a hospital to be packed with hundreds of other potential cases if I can avoid it. On the other hand, if we had a spit-and-mail test, this could turn
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by jobigoud 7y ago
> only ~110 out of every 100,000 got infected I don't think they have done any random sampling in the testing. If you only have mild symptoms (could be it or something else) it's best to stay home rather than risk catching it a
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by jobigoud 7y ago
I think what they mean by the political divisions being arbitrary is that you could use a different division system, for example city boundaries instead of province, and have something completely different, with even more contrast in densit
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by jobigoud 7y ago
Yeah, it's even casually listed in the bar chart as a "Chinese province".
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by jobigoud 7y ago
We don't have 4-way stops, it's roundabouts everywhere. (Need to u-turn? Just drive a few hundred meters more to the next roundabout). In my experience they drive as well/bad as other drivers, just slower. Even in 50 km/
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by jobigoud 7y ago
A.k.a "pots d'yaourt".
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by jobigoud 7y ago
In France mopeds aren't allowed on bike path.
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by jobigoud 7y ago
City driving is limited to 50 km/h in the first place...
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by jobigoud 7y ago
> The actual youngest seems to be South Sudan's Ivory Bank, which was only founded in 1994. This is easily explained by the country being relatively new. South Sudan is only a country since 2011, they include establishments older th
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by jobigoud 7y ago
The US has tested a grand total of 445 persons since the beginning of the outbreak, according to this CDC page updated today, Feb 26. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html For comparison South
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by jobigoud 7y ago
Yes of course, lots of them. The most recent is probably the CRISPR babies from the Chinese team. But just in the US there is an entire Wikipedia page of unethical experiments (that we know of). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by jobigoud 7y ago
SRAS instead of SARS, Maybe?
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by jobigoud 7y ago
What about the 15% or so requiring intensive care units? If not contained this has the potential of creating a massive denial of service attack on the entire health care system.
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by jobigoud 7y ago
You realize there are other diseases right? There is a world of difference between thinking it's a big deal and "reassigning all labs equipments and experts from whatever they are doing to finding a vaccine or cure". This wou
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by jobigoud 7y ago
> Vietnam has basically gotten the outbreak under control with only 16 cases despite being right next to China Is it like almost everywhere else where they refuse to test people unless they have severe symptoms and can be traced back to
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by jobigoud 7y ago
The only way I can think this "chemicals are clinging to the walls" could happen is if during their experiments the air outside the house was colder. Then when opening the windows it would have flowed in and maybe pushed the spars
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by jobigoud 7y ago
Jaywalking is also illegal in many places.
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by jobigoud 7y ago
> very clear stats on transmission outside China Nobody knows the transmission outside China because nobody is testing anyone unless they are coming from China and show symptoms. Even people with the right symptoms aren't tested, be
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by jobigoud 7y ago
The Hubble parameter . It's not defined to be constant in time, only in space.
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by jobigoud 7y ago
In French we have a long tradition (16th century according to Wikipedia) of a specific kind of wordplay named "Contrepèterie" where two phonemes in an apparently innocuous sentence are swapped, to create a different sentence. Here
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by jobigoud 7y ago
I used to do this a long time ago but now I find that picking books like this, semi-randomly, isn't a good use of time. Reading a book takes time and there is already more interesting content than I can consume. This means if I choose
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by jobigoud 7y ago
Running naked seems the best way to infect otherwise sane people while testing... They are seeing a lot of different persons, shouldn't they wear the masks with priority?
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by jobigoud 7y ago
So it's like when you bring your car to the workshop for a simple repair and when you come back they announce that they had to do these 2 other things... The next level in this is sneakily replacing fresh parts with older, second han
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by jobigoud 7y ago
When the string of Re:Re:Re:Fwd:Re:Re: reach the line width of your email client you start a new thread.
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by jobigoud 7y ago
Amazon is also a place name.
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by jobigoud 7y ago
I've read this several times. Could someone shed some light on this? Are the reported numbers impossible because they are too close to the curve? Or because the numbers should follow another curve? Could there be a hidden mechanism in
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by jobigoud 7y ago
> I think there's no question the barcelona conference would have spread the virus The conference isn't cancelled. Just Ericson won't have their booth. But at the moment the conference itself is scheduled to proceed.

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