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by jp57 7y ago
That's fair, I guess, unless there are many unreported mild cases where infections don't result in pneumonia. Also, it's only been two months since christmas, not three, and many schools' winter breaks last into January,
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by jp57 7y ago
Yes. I have trouble describing how bad the cough and lung symptoms were. At one point I remember saying "my lungs itch" and wishing I could find a way to scratch them from the outside.
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by jp57 7y ago
Is it possible that the virus has been circulating in the states since Christmas or earlier? I live in the states, though not in Seattle. My wife's best friend teaches ESL at a major university. She has several Chinese students in her
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by jp57 7y ago
Opening a web browser is way faster now. In 1983 it took ten years.
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by jp57 7y ago
The study was actually titled "Not only assholes drive Mercedes. Besides disagreeable men, also conscientious people drive high‐status cars." Treehugger implied that they couldn't print the title because of the word "ass
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by jp57 7y ago
I think in computing the efficiency, the comment above may have been to the work generated in cooling the air, but not the work generated from the boiling of the liquid air. Also, I wonder if separation is necessary in the application refe
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by jp57 7y ago
It's not compressing the air, though, it's liquifying it (presumably only the nitrogen), and then using the force of the expanding gas as it boils later to drive a turbine. (I don't know why the author uses the strange phras
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by jp57 7y ago
Is there a kindle or epub link to this that works? I get "Item not available" errors from the ebook links in the page.
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by jp57 7y ago
1/11?
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by jp57 7y ago
The article says nothing about the false positive and false negative rates of the test, and proceeds as if the screening is infallible. Even given what was said in the article, one has to assume that the incidence of the infection in the ge
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by jp57 7y ago
Unpopular opinion(?): Fermat's Library makes the experience of reading papers worse. This and many other linked papers I see there seem interesting, but I'm not interested reading in the marginalia, or logging in, or signing up fo
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Inflection Point (Fiction)(medium.com)
1 points by jp57 7y ago|0 comments
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DY3x – The 140-year-old man? (Fiction)(medium.com)
1 points by jp57 7y ago|0 comments
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Is Whilst the Handlebar Mustache of Modern English? – JP Fosterson(jp-fosterson.com)
2 points by jp57 7y ago|2 comments
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by jp57 7y ago
As a parent from an educated family, whose own parents surely never complained about my or my siblings' homework, I was surprised to see how much other parents complain about homework. It is a hard subject even to discuss because it is
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How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (1993)(fudco.com)
69 points by jp57 7y ago|15 comments
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by jp57 7y ago
The best part of this thread is that the article is about why it's really hard to understand the cost differences, while the top comments all offer unsupported and anecdotal speculation explaining the cost differences in 200 words or l
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by jp57 7y ago
But specially made dog food has only existed for 100 years or so. Dogs evolved eating humans' food scraps.
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by jp57 7y ago
The image of the wolf with the deer leg in its mouth and the German shepard with the pizza slice in its mouth is basically the entire tl;dr.
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by jp57 7y ago
Crowdsourcing unpublished lyrics without permission is copyright infringement against the copyright owner of the lyrics--usually the songwriter or their publishing company. One of the rights conferred by copyright is the right to not publis
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by jp57 8y ago
I had the same thought about the passivity and sense of helplessness in the face of struggles that don't sound excessively abnormal. Given the title of the article, I have to believe that this is deliberate. Whether this is "lear
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Andy Weir: How I Paid the Bills While I Wrote the Book(medium.com)
1 points by jp57 8y ago|0 comments
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The Plunge Pool – Fiction(medium.com)
1 points by jp57 8y ago|0 comments
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by jp57 8y ago
Soon someone from HN is going to come and remove the word ‘how’ from the headline. Why? Because clickbait! Except, of course, the book really is about how he feels he should’ve taught math.
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Unboxing Rose: Not your typical unboxing. (Fiction)(medium.com)
3 points by jp57 8y ago|1 comments
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Movie Stars and Planets(medium.com)
1 points by jp57 8y ago|0 comments
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Life imitates art, sci-fi edition – Oumuamua a solar sail?(jp-fosterson.github.io)
2 points by jp57 8y ago|0 comments
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by jp57 8y ago
So who is it?
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by jp57 8y ago
tl;dr: for the vast majority of projects, tup does not outperform make.
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by jp57 8y ago
tl;dr— people eat more salads now.

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