manfredo

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by manfredo 6y ago
He mentions this in the past tense in his 1992 testimony, when he was 19. He was kicked out of his home at 15, committed these crimes in 1990 at the age of 17. This conforms his narrative of getting involved with hate groups during his yout
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by manfredo 6y ago
Or they were aware, and they conclude that someone's behavior as a homeless 17 year old has little if any bearing on their aptitude in running a company 30 years later.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Don't cut off quotes mid sentence: > There’s huge lie (by omission) about renewables: nobody explained how to convert the world to 100% renewable energy without coal backup. Because not everywhere in the world has access to hydroele
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by manfredo 7y ago
Nuclear's inflexibility is not a barrier to countries like France generating over 70% of its electricity from it. Energy demand fluctuations throughout the day are significant but not huge - usually ~20% different from peak to trough.
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by manfredo 7y ago
This is highly dependent on the institution. At many universities Computer Science is mostly coding, save for specific algorithms or theory courses. Sure, these classes often have you coding a compiler, operating system, or software router
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by manfredo 7y ago
There are some lines that seem to be borderline hyperbole (“You would have been better off just burning fossil fuels in the first place”) but it does highlight that as far as renewable energy goes solar and wind have some major shortcomings
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by manfredo 7y ago
Google never promised that it would not use data for advertising. That was their whole business model from the beginning. It'd be more effective to point out specific instances where Google made an agreement not to use data for a certa
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by manfredo 7y ago
Modern turbine blades are mostly made out of nickel, not steel. They're cast in such a way that they form a single crystal structure [1]. This makes 3d printing a no-go. Also, turbine blades are moving to ceramic matrix composite const
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by manfredo 7y ago
This "right-wing trolley-problem exercise" is something that we do all the time. Work at a union job and in your first week they'll give you a spreadsheet telling how much your arms, your legs, and your life are worth. When p
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by manfredo 7y ago
They risk losing the entire Austrian market. But paying this tax also risks emboldening other countries to follow suit. Exiting the market has the short term loss of Austrian revenue, but signals that legislation like this will not work. Re
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by manfredo 7y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, I'll remove the above comment.
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by manfredo 7y ago
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by manfredo 7y ago
It's not a fantasy land. It's called Sweden. Estimates are placing the actual IFR at about 0.5 to 0.3%. For comparison, the seasonal flu averages 0.1%. A country in the middle of a coronavirus epidemic looks mostly like a country
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by manfredo 7y ago
The first sentence spells it out pretty explicitly: > New evidence has emerged from China indicating that the large majority of coronavirus infections do not result in symptoms. This is not far off from the figures I had preciously been
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by manfredo 7y ago
Random testing in Germany has also revealed higher than expected rates of people with antibodies. Their IFR (infected fatality rate) was 2% overall based on non-random testing. Random testing has yielded an IFR or 0.37%. This does not incre
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by manfredo 7y ago
These projections were based on fatality rates well above what is actually being observed by countries conducting random testing. We're talking about an order of magnitude off.
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by manfredo 7y ago
The diamond princess' fatality rate was less than 1% - lower than the 1-3% used to drive early projections. Not to mention the fact that the cruise liner is disproportionately older, and the whole vessel recirculates its ventilation. T
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by manfredo 7y ago
These early predictions were based inflated fatality rates. Early on, testing was only done on sick patients. People who contract the virus and don't get sick or don't get sick enough to go to the hospital aren't counted. So
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by manfredo 7y ago
Unlike a vaccine, social distancing likely won't reduce the total of people that will get infected. Social distancing also doesn't increase your chances of surviving an infection. It is useful in reducing the rate of transmission,
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by manfredo 7y ago
The "much higher" ranges are still an order of magnitude less than your 1.3 million scenario.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Again, people keep talking about millions of people dying. The current US death projection is 60,000. Let me put this in context for you: 600,000 people die each year due to cancer. ~30,000 due to car crashes. Additional mortality amounting
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by manfredo 7y ago
The death rates so far have been dropping considerably once further testing becomes available. Right now, most tests are being performed in response to patients presenting symptoms. This creates artificially high results. The majority of CO
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by manfredo 7y ago
> "It's entirely fair to conclude" does not mesh with "Time will tell whether this was the right approach". It doesn't mesh because you're omitting, "...could have led to substantially less economi
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by manfredo 7y ago
Right, but the economic impact is largely determined by the protective measures taken. It's entirely fair to conclude that less restrictive measures could have led to substantially less economic loss for relatively little in terms of
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by manfredo 7y ago
If you stopped using their services they wouldn't be able to collect your user data.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Wouldn't the delay of feedback result in more conservative changes? If we're detecting the peak with a delayed measurement, then the instantaneous measurement would be even further past the peak.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Print a known prefix every time you log. Or slap together a simple logging module that adds said prefix. Then to browse, use `tail -f log_file.txt | grep "PREFIX - "`. Console tabs makes it easy enough so that doing this with a ba
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by manfredo 7y ago
Nor are they selling targeted information. When I purchase ads targeting a specific demographic, I don't get to see who was served ads. I could correlate this with new customers following the ad campaign, but the same could be done by
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by manfredo 7y ago
Right, but now you're talking about using mercenaries to fight a civil war and vie for power over a sovereign nation. That's much higher stakes than a cobalt mine. Mercenaries in air forces have existed, but usually in the form of
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by manfredo 7y ago
Unless your cobalt mine in the Congo is generating billions in revenue, fending them off with modern combat aircraft is probably going to be a net loss. It's not uncommon to have maintenance costs of $10,000 or more per flight hour (th

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