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by klenwell 6y ago
Isn't this true of Pasteur and his initial application of vaccines? While he identified the mechanism of inoculation, my understanding is he theorized that it was due to the attenuated pathogen outcompeting the virulent one for nutrien
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by klenwell 6y ago
The makers of Lysol also had to issue an official statement: As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injec
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by klenwell 6y ago
There was a clip of Angela Merkel that circulated on Twitter this week. Worth watching: https://twitter.com/BenjAlvarez1/status/1250563198081740800 Night and day when compared with the grandstanding and gaslightin
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by klenwell 6y ago
I had the same thought. Here's the clip from Contagion where Jude Law's character, an internet crank, promotes it on national television: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZ8wx6J36Q
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by klenwell 7y ago
Good point. I'm not applying to work at a car dealership. When I'm on the other side of the table, I'm deliberately trying to avoid hiring a car salesmen. As a hiring manager, I may give a bit of a canned response to the ques
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by klenwell 7y ago
One thing that puts me off about Zoom is the way it tries to push you into downloading the desktop app when the web app should be fine and is what I prefer. It uses shitty dark patterns that require two or three clicks and at one point, if
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by klenwell 7y ago
Here's an early estimate graphed by the NY Times at the end of February (scroll down a bit): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-co... R0 estimated to be 2 - 4. Fatality rate:
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The Quest for a Pandemic Pill(newyorker.com)
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by klenwell 7y ago
This is a topic near and dear to Philip Tetlock's heart and something he pragmatically tries to address in books like Superforecasting and the Good Judgment Open project (which unfortunately seems to be becoming less open over time). I
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by klenwell 7y ago
That would be my assumption as well. I would hypothesize that once the virus is well seeded within a country, the contribution by new travelers is dwarfed by internal propagation. Using the famous Washington Post simulation as a reference:
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Why is this interesting? – The Marble Racing Edition(whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
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by klenwell 7y ago
Agree with you. Saw something like this not too long ago where it was not handled crisply. There were no long-lasting consequences as far as I know and I can't get into the details but it was just sloppy and leaked all over the place.
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by klenwell 7y ago
It sounds like your boss is making these decisions on his own without soliciting additional perspectives and feedback in advance as part of the hiring process. If so, that is a common pattern that, in my experience, leads exactly to these k
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by klenwell 7y ago
I've been thinking a lot about Camus's The Plague lately, for obvious reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague I read it years ago (in translation). I didn't especially enjoy it. But it made an
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by klenwell 7y ago
From a favorite HN comment: When there is a lot of money involved, people self-select into your company who view their jobs as basically to extract as much money as possible. This is especially true at the higher rungs. VP of marketing? No
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by klenwell 7y ago
> Disclaimer: I don't have any relevant expertise, and comment on forums because I'm bored in virus lockdown... Lol. This should be a Surgeon General warning required to be attached to every online comment. To wit: SURGEON GENE
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by klenwell 7y ago
> Then this development means the beginning of the end of the pandemic. The end of the pandemic, even with this, is still going to be a lot more complicated. Zooming out a bit: The third scenario is that the world plays a protracted gam
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by klenwell 7y ago
My favorite illustration of this principle. From an account of one of the first MMORPGs: Under the resource system, players could gather raw materials, like ore, and make them into finished goods, like armor, which, once used, would begin
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by klenwell 7y ago
One of my quixotic personal projects was reproducing this design for my Myspace profile. Ha, I found the blog I was keeping: http://myspacecivilized.blogspot.com/2006/09/css-moshi-garde... It includes a small scre
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by klenwell 7y ago
It's actually a book. I happen to be reading it right now (on recommendation of HN users): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050068-money Well written and fascinating.
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by klenwell 7y ago
I usually pay my barber in cash. If I wanted to send her a payment in lieu of my next appointment, what would be the most sensible way to do that? I could mail her a check I suppose. ACH transfer? (I assume I would have to ask her for her b
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by klenwell 7y ago
That quip was actually documented quite lucidly in The Founder (where Michael Keaton plays Ray Kroc). I really enjoyed that film.
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by klenwell 7y ago
Sure, obviously, there's much more to it than this. But consider the HR manager who's looking at the latest CDC numbers showing a few cases in state and wondering why people like me are getting so worked up and begging executives
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by klenwell 7y ago
Here's a table that showed up on Reddit a couple days that makes the correlation even clearer: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/fiun99/oc_... For the US, Italy's numbers are li
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by klenwell 7y ago
Interestingly, to my surprise, social distancing appear more effective than lockdown (in part because full lockdowns are impossible). At least according to this simulation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020&#
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by klenwell 7y ago
I work in fintech and I've been reading Matt Levine for a few months now after seeing his name pop up here on HN several times. I agree with everything you say. > He's engaging, funny, talks about interesting topics and, most i
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by klenwell 7y ago
True. The first image that pops into my head when I hear Y2K is a Simpsons joke where airplanes and satellites start falling from the sky and landing in their backyard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0bBYK-7ZiU Oh, and Di
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by klenwell 7y ago
I remember hearing a story on NPR years ago years after Y2K with someone knowledgeable on the subject that addressed this question. He gave basically the same answer you did: a lot of effort went into avoiding disaster and a lot of people t
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by klenwell 7y ago
Another thing that drives me crazy with LastPass is it won't give you a distinct URL for a note or folder (or whatever they call that particular resource) that you want to share. So I end up having to give other members of my team step
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by klenwell 7y ago
First time I encountered this in the wild was years ago when my sister, who worked as auditor, approached me with a problem she hoped I could help her solve. She would often be given a spreadsheet full of values and she would have a target

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