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by jseban 5y ago
> Slowing it down is obviously helpful and anything we can do to accomplish that is important. It's not that simple. It's not a matter of doing something good vs not doing it, that's what an oversimplified black and white
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by jseban 5y ago
What if the health care isn't overwhelmed? Which it isn't. With that reasoning you can never remove the restrictions, because you never know if that would overwhelm the health care system.
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by jseban 5y ago
There's also a lot of gymnastics involved in order to count all these covid deaths, and a constant withholding of actual absolute death counts. Most serious illnesses will compromise the immune system. A compromised immune system will
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by jseban 5y ago
Yep, and this is unfortunately the rule more than the exception, and somehow part of STEM culture
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by jseban 5y ago
It all depends on the delivery. Criticising someone's work is sensitive and you need to consider this. My number one problem is always that not enough positive feedback is given, you work really hard and make a great solution to a real
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by jseban 5y ago
I agree. People are not robots, this is just silly. You'd never get a good effective team by taking this extreme stance that nobody ever has any feelings about their work.
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by jseban 5y ago
Good point about also extending some grace when doing a review. In my experience insensitive and unnecessary, pedantic and overall shitty critique is a much bigger issue and I'd rather see people push back more on it actually.
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by jseban 5y ago
I agree in a way, but also disagree. Programming is probably the only job where you'd expect someone to be completely emotionally detached from your work. Everyone has feelings of pride and accomplishment for work that they have made,
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by jseban 5y ago
I like this list but I wonder when this type of gentleman behaviour is really applicable in today's world. You would probably just be stepped on in the workplace and relationships most of the time, you'd have to look really hard t
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah, and a major function of the church is to help people deal with death.
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by jseban 5y ago
I think it's wrong to describe this as saving people's lives. You have only reduced one particular kind of risk for a short period of time, while other similar risks continue to arise and affect the same people.
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by jseban 5y ago
Here's the source data I used (only Sweden): https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje... You don't even need to make any calculations really, just take a quick look at the table to se
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by jseban 5y ago
It's not my job to find out how they made their secret calculations, it's up to them to show it if they want to present credible results, otherwise it should be ignored.
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by jseban 5y ago
Why should I put any weight to statistical results that are made with some unknown "formula" and is not presented in a standard way. Instead of using the normal measures of mean, average, standard deviation and percentiles, we jus
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by jseban 5y ago
I'm not trying to minimise the pandemic, I'm pointing out obvious ways that it is exaggerated, such as lacking basic statistical scrutiny and throwing around huge scary numbers with no comparison or explanation. Another example
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah like every other article they use a formula to calculate what is "excessive" which is not explained at all, and is used as the whole basis of the article. I took a peak in the github repo and I can't really read R well e
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by jseban 5y ago
Direct covid-19 deaths are irrelevant in relation to deciding about lockdowns, that's deliberately making an issue more complex than it is, in order to obscure it. If covid deaths are simply a proportion of expected death, which are no
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by jseban 5y ago
You need at least to include the standard deviation for that to be of any importance, and at least for 10 years in the past
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by jseban 5y ago
This is exactly the problem, you're using an absolute number without reference "look big number = scary" and you are simply comparing to an average, which doesn't say anything about whether or not this is an unusual or e
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah I already looked at the public data and did the calculations, and I am sharing the results as I've said in other comments, and I challenge anyone to disprove me with another opinion that holds up to normal basic statistical scruti
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by jseban 5y ago
If you like that idea, that's fine, and sure it's "nice" from some point of view. But it's also obviously inefficient and therefor it will cost extra, and it makes sense for the country to have those incentives. If
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by jseban 5y ago
month-by-month doesn't make sense because the flu doesn't happen at the same month each year, and yes without at least also the standard deviation, it doesn't say anything. Just seeing that the temperature is below average
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah but then the whole thing is very mellow, and showing that to people is the right thing to do, and not misinterpreting to blow something out of proportion to spread panic. But I guess it doesn't get enough clicks, and it's t
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah, and in germany using the heating in your home is basically considered an unnecessary luxury, while in Sweden it's always included in the rent, and always on.
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah my heart hurt as well, and it's associated with heart inflammation especially in men and athletic people. I really really don't want to take the booster shot since it's only 100% negative for me with no benefit whatsoeve
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by jseban 5y ago
Exactly. And I'm just not willing to accept that these recommendations change overnight and now politicians are making these recommendations in place of doctors.
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by jseban 5y ago
I've learned that it's more common to get flu vaccines in the US, so I have to adjust that statement to Europe where I live. And even if you do get the flu vaccine, isn't that purely a nice to have? Did they really recommend
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah and becoming really sick from taking the vaccine is not really a positive sign in any way.
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by jseban 5y ago
From what my limited research could find, is that the more immunity you have, the worse the side effects.
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by jseban 5y ago
3%? I'd take that risk any day, even if I was in a risk group. Who want destroy society over that, only a lunatic

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