logjammin

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by logjammin 7y ago
Thanks for posting this. As someone in public health research, I really appreciate being able to get as close as possible to empirical findings about corona. It helps me deal both rationally and emotionally with the crisis. Obviously "
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by logjammin 7y ago
"it's well beyond containment IMHO" This depends on how you're defining containment. Grounding aircraft may not decrease the current case count, you're right, but it may help not adding to it, or adding as much, or
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by logjammin 7y ago
Really? Which supplements?
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by logjammin 7y ago
What evidence can you point to of this "hiding"? Lack of adequate testing is a factor, I Grant you, and a big one -- but clusters are discovered late because it now appears that people can shed virus when they're not symptoma
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by logjammin 7y ago
Hell yeah! Cool to be able to share that eureka moment with others who know the area. Spread the word.
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by logjammin 7y ago
I spent a lot of time in Vermont many years ago. I'd been there a little while, blissfully unaware, before someone told me "yeah, they banned billboards here in the sixties - you didn't notice?" I hadn't consciously
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by logjammin 7y ago
This makes a sort of sense, but only if you know little about the drugs in question - antipsychotic drugs, formerly known as neuroleptics - which do not target nor act on any demonstrated pathology, lesion, or abnormality. What the drugs d
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by logjammin 7y ago
Agreed. I'm much more comfortable with "this is my take on this subject, and here's how I'm a bit biased, but I'll try anyway to be as objective as I can as well" than "this is the way things are"-sty
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by logjammin 7y ago
Are holding people to (moral, ethical) account and looking at problems from a systems perspective mutually exclusive? These are systems problems, I fully agree, but they aren't only systems problems. The systems in question are peop
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by logjammin 7y ago
"Apparently the only design of the MCAS system the FAA saw was limited to a 0.6 degree deflection [of the stabilizer] at high speeds and only single deflection only. And that was changed and ... it is still unclear how that could hap
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by logjammin 7y ago
Not sure why this is greyed out, but I appreciated your comment. Is Forest School a thing beyond where you live, do you know?
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by logjammin 7y ago
As a big fan of their Nexus line of mobile phones, I concur. They weren't perfect, but they were solid, stock Android devices at a reasonable cost. Then they ditched them all of a sudden, and now we have premium-priced Pixels that fall
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by logjammin 7y ago
You're right about this, of course, but ESPN has stuff of this quality on a pretty darn slow drip given the talent they have and the even greater talent they could afford if they decided to make quality investigative / long form s
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by logjammin 7y ago
I've owned a number of OnePlus phones - 3 or 4 at this point - and am tapping this post out on a new OP7 Pro. I really like the hardware, and no device has ever felt poorly made or unfinished, nor have they broken down on me. OS update
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by logjammin 7y ago
This is a really good case for quantitative finance, and it's also really clear, so thanks for both. Consider my perspective changed for the better. There's still a bit of dissonance in this for me, but it's abstract and stra
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by logjammin 7y ago
Thanks for this. What you say about proportion of compensation makes a sort of sense, but I don't have the chops or the knowledge of the field to evaluate it. The 'easy to measure' thing is definitely insightful and useful to
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by logjammin 7y ago
This is really interesting, and what I'm about to say makes me feel more bleeding-heart than I feel I am most days, but there's something deeply melancholy about the fact that this collection of the best intelligence our species h
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by logjammin 7y ago
_Wage war. Die trying._ Yes. That's ultimately why the Cataluña thing is a paper tiger issue: Catalans are too rich and too soft to really break away. I'm not saying they're not allowed to have grievances, nor that they don&#
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by logjammin 7y ago
I know zero about engineering (or even ethics, heh) but this comment seems plausible and well-reasoned enough to not be anonymously greyed out, which seems a bit tattle-tale-y , to be honest.
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by logjammin 7y ago
Not to mention child sexual abuse scandals in these communities in the NYC area. Edit: hadn't seen an earlier poster's comment on this, my bad. Edit 2: it's worth mentioning that the fraud/welfare issue is a massive poli
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by logjammin 7y ago
It's bizarre. What's with the name? The bits don't fit together. Sounds like a low-rent acting school. If it's an an academy, can I take classes? And it's ... The Blink-182 guy?
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by logjammin 7y ago
Edit: mostly unrelated: we're all taking issue with a book review . Gopnik's forming his own opinions here, sure, and we can take issue with them, but, like, has anyone actually evaluated the claims the authors are making? I&#x
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by logjammin 7y ago
Reading through the ~60 comments in this thread, I'm surprised that such a large number of HN readers appear so eager to dispute Gopnik's assertion that spying is probably not all it's cracked up to be. (Which is only half of
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by logjammin 7y ago
Didn't SwissAir 111 crash because of faulty in-flight entertainment systems? I think there's precedent for lower-rung stuff having unexpected and outsized impact in aviation.
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by logjammin 7y ago
Example of investigators whose work has suffered for fear of being labeled a heretic?
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by logjammin 7y ago
You don't think you're mixing up "heritable" with "genetic" here? In my family, liking the Yankees is highly heritable across generations, but my grandfather would've laughed in your face if you claimed it
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by logjammin 7y ago
In the same way that a good caricature or satire exaggerates to some degree while capturing something true, I think this comment probably ascribes a bit more arrogance to the average HN comment than is actually there, but I laughed anyway b
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by logjammin 7y ago
This is terrific and I can't wait to try it. Thanks!
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by logjammin 7y ago
Point taken! Thx for input!
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by logjammin 7y ago
It's a weird fetishization, isn't it? I think that's a really good point. Dovetails with political movements that idealize(d) the working man/class, as if poor people couldn't be as flawed and human as the rest of u

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