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by lend000 7y ago
If you look at highly infectious diseases that were effectively eradicated, most either ran their course and infected hundreds of millions (Spanish flu, swine flu), or were eradicated with both quarantine and vaccination (Smallpox, rinderpe
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by lend000 7y ago
This is a good point, and I think it is reasonable to start with the immunity assumption, since it is generally the case for respiratory viruses. Still, I wonder what the math looks like. It has indeed been shown that flu outbreaks in ideal
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by lend000 7y ago
It seems like these actions taken by governments will ultimately be futile, so the question is: can a vaccine or effective antiviral be developed fast enough to be worth the ~2-4 months of "slow spread" that can be bought in excha
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Ice Stupa (Artificial Glacier)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lend000 7y ago|0 comments
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by lend000 7y ago
eBay is a somewhat unique case, because the goods are often resale items. However, the reaction of many social-economics-warrior types suggests they have failed to realize that this kind of behavior is exactly why there is such a shortage o
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UV Light for Antiviral Sanitation(webmd.com)
2 points by lend000 7y ago|0 comments
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by lend000 7y ago
I've encountered a number of small to mid sized engineering contracting groups and specialist LLC's wherein everyone makes well over $70k. Google's median compensation is over 200K company-wide with 100,000 employees, but thi
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by lend000 7y ago
There are at least 100 active viruses with similar symptoms labeled as the common cold. My understanding is that healthy people tend to have a high degree of immunity to a particular strain they have come in contact with, for at least a few
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by lend000 7y ago
"Bigness often cuts against innovation." The term the author needs is "diseconomies of scale." Economies of scale is unquestionably important for increasing value production and economic growth. However, if economies of
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by lend000 7y ago
> You mentioned restricted airspace etc, but AFAIK there's no info on the GIMBAL video apart from that it was taken somewhere on the East Coast. Correct, there is significantly less background here than on the Nimitz video, to which
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by lend000 7y ago
> There was no visual on the object in the FLIR1 video. Do you have a source for this? I've heard rumors there was an interview with the radar operator but haven't seen it myself. In any case, this is almost certainly the same
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by lend000 7y ago
You can't have your cake and eat it, too. They do indeed lie, and most of their lies have involved calling serious unexplained incidents weather balloons or shooting stars. The most interesting documents are not the public statements p
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by lend000 7y ago
West does have a convincing explanation for "Go Fast" which certainly looks like it could be a weather balloon due to parallax (ignoring the pilot testimony at least) -- but if you look at his attempt to describe the Nimitz one, i
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by lend000 7y ago
The pinnacle of UFO research quality is from Jacques Vallee [0], who seems to have always been well ahead of the field, but he doesn't really hold back, which is both a pro and a con to someone casually interested. I'm also not fa
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by lend000 7y ago
You didn't hear about Mao's peasant anti-gravity division? Jokes aside, I'm certain the OP didn't read the article and isn't well read on the subject. The OP's idea makes for an interesting story if you don&#x2
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by lend000 7y ago
Unlike you, this article has evidence and testimony from a number of places and people specifically saying this is not black project technology. Defense contractors and government IT staff aren't like the MIT grads in Google's AI
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by lend000 7y ago
There are several important new pieces of information here and significantly more detail than we had before. In particular, we learn that "Brigadier General Richard Stapp, Director of the DoD Special Access Program Central Office, test
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by lend000 7y ago
Sounds like a business waiting to be born.
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by lend000 7y ago
I, too, used to dismiss witness testimony as a useless form of data. I've formed a different opinion over time, and I think there are statistically significant anomalies when you can gather a large number of witnesses, even if there is
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by lend000 7y ago
Remember CNN sharing debate questions to Hillary before a primary debate? Edit: source for the downvoters [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Brazile#Sharing_debate_q...
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by lend000 7y ago
You might be surprised by some of the people who hold unconventional views (hint: they aren't all crazy people yelling into a megaphone, and many of them keep their views relatively quiet to avoid being ostracized). It's a spectru
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Proposed Fifth Fundamental Force(arxiv.org)
17 points by lend000 7y ago|10 comments
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by lend000 7y ago
It seems reported healthcare quality is highly correlated with physicians per capita, in developed countries. Notable exceptions are Japan and Singapore, but these countries tend to have more efficient infrastructure and populations with pr
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by lend000 7y ago
Keep in mind Australia has ~40% more doctors per capita than the US [0]. And the supply/demand curve is not linear, so physician shortage alone can account for a significant part of the price difference (note that Singapore and Japan a
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Evolution of the American Accent(sutori.com)
2 points by lend000 7y ago|0 comments
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by lend000 7y ago
This is the problem -- who determines how much these things are worth? And if you risk other people pricing you out of property you currently hold a lease for (especially because they think the value is going up because of your investments
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by lend000 7y ago
With a lifelong auction for individuals, perhaps with an agreed upon inflation agreement (which can also be bid in the auction) and a sufficiently long auction cycle for big corporate projects to be worth doing (50 years?), I could see this
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by lend000 7y ago
I like the auction aspect the parent described in another comment. However I don't like the idea that the government can revoke at will and eminent domain you out of property even if you paid the tax you won at auction. For example --
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by lend000 7y ago
Interesting -- the market aspect is crucial. My only other qualm, which may or may not be better than necessary side effects of capitalism: if someone has "owned" a house for a long time, especially in a growing area, what is thei
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by lend000 7y ago
I have tried understanding Georgism a few different times, but I struggle to understand pricing: assuming we could fairly solve the transition from a society in which people currently own land, how would land be valued? Who determines what

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