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by manwe150 5y ago
My dad has always tried to park 50 feet away from other cars anyways, for as long as I've known him (he's protective of his car). Since this wouldn't affect his habits, maybe I could get him one from GM on a steep discount no
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by manwe150 5y ago
Wouldn’t this ‘negative cash’ be a regular financial instrument like a stock short, reverse mortgage, credit default swap, etc., which they actually can use, precisely because nothing is created by this process? It is just less liquid than
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by manwe150 5y ago
The sum of all credits and debits is zero (by the double-entry accounting definition), so seems like this is tautologically true, though not very useful. The economic principle at work is you can have $1 in the bank and loan that to 7 peopl
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by manwe150 5y ago
I feel like the entire comment thread after yours has gotten lost in hypothetical discussions about some ethical question about interventions that haven’t been shown to work. Not quite the usual dialog I expected here. What the CDC recentl
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> The medical establishment seemed desperately against even trying alternative medical treatments (HCQ, Ivermectin) due to the vaccines emergency use authorization being tied to no treatments being available. No, they have always been ag
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In theory, that sounds like it means it wasn’t the limiting agent (for severity), but can be made a limiting factor (for infection rate). Different measures going in different directions is quite feasible for an optimization-type problem, a
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by manwe150 5y ago
I’ve heard: Higher levels of dissolved minerals, which might be harmful, and a low chance of being a breeding ground for brain-eating microbes, which will be harmful.
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This title seems misleading, unless the full video is more informative than the text. The text seems to imply they are testing a technique for fMRI imaging to detect it early, and trialing a vaccine to see if it is good at removing one part
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He is arguing about the total fatality rate, rather than the IFR. It is feasible for those to go in different relative directions with a more infectious but less deadly disease.
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I would defend that claim, though agree that the ‘bullying’ is not helpful. Vaccines are the only solution so far that has been shown to substantially reduce individual risk, or show potential to solve the pandemic. Other measures are benef
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The vaccine does not prevent “natural immunity,” it enhances it. Hence why they can optimize by getting both. Treatment is good to have available, but has not been enough to bring the death rate down on-par with vaccination. It also does no
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by manwe150 5y ago
In your question, it sounds like you only want to see this concert live once, so your choice is between seeing it now “for free,” but sick, or later for $50. That is not a sunk cost fallacy, since the current marginal cost is lower to see t
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by manwe150 5y ago
Other people said this above, but I will add my own anecdote I heard from a factory owner, that he had the ability to retool immediately back then to make medical masks, but between the uncertainty around whether people would keep buying th
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by manwe150 5y ago
Currently, I think the numbers for a person in that case are then 1% chance of getting COVID again naturally vs vaccine’s 0.001% chance of allergic reaction and a reduced chance of getting COVID again of 0.5%. (Using very round numbers) Whi
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Particularly when even just with the comments here, someone else was mentioning that targeting the nucleocapsid had led to concerns of ADE in past animal tests, which makes it even more fascinating to try to connect all those bits.
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by manwe150 5y ago
In terms of traffic flow, I notice that there is a big difference in how terrain affects manual vs powered bikes. I am an avid cyclist, so I say this just to point out that humans tend to be power-limited, while machines tend to be speed-li
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by manwe150 5y ago
Not directly in reply to your question, but an anecdote I thought might be relevant: I was recently reading more about Ignàc Semmelweis, the doctor famous for promoting hand washing. He was finding that hand washing had almost no impact on
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by manwe150 5y ago
I think it is also known that the signal is weak, since there are so many other unknown factors, and that makes it hard to discern from the noise (or perhaps easy to cherry-pick results). So it is possibly still an open question of whether
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by manwe150 5y ago
The short answer is that it is virus-like initially, in that it bypasses the cells passive defenses to enter the cell intact, but the payload can’t reproduce itself, so it dies out almost immediately afterwards, unlike a virus.
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by manwe150 5y ago
I thought (more relevantly) there were also laws about shooting without a backdrop to catch stray bullets, since this sounds like a densely populated area, also perhaps shooting towards people: bullets that go up, come down again somewhere
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FWIW, there is precedent both in 1918 (when the Supreme Court ruled it was constitutional), and during the revolutionary war (when George Washington made history by vaccinating his troops with a new experiment technique called a vaccine) Wh
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by manwe150 5y ago
If you look at past graphs, the US could have been fully vaccinated by mid-June or perhaps July. The current problems faced by the hospital system in some areas of the US were probably avoidable, so what is true for Singapore’s policies is
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I think it is presented that way by some, but in reality, the existence of the exemption and VAERS may also help with monitoring both actors more closely, by reducing the perceived stakes and costs of tracking side-effects. Thus the exempti
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There was once a concern that certain vaccines predisposed you to diabetes or autism. Those studies took years to run (need to follow through adulthood), though in the end could not find a correlation.
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What about it? To attempt to restate it: due to the emergence of the delta mutation, it is becoming less reliable to rely on the shared benefit of others being vaccinated to protect unvaccinated or immunocompromised individuals. So the ris
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by manwe150 5y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03911-8 “When the materials point at the sky, the infrared rays can pass straight through the atmosphere and into space. That effectively links the materials to an inexhaustib
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by manwe150 5y ago
You prefer death to being ill? The new data for the delta variant shows reduced protection for unvaccinated people (e.g. public benefit) from being around vaccinated people, but still shows benefit to vaccinated people.
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It is misleading though, since this definition is merely ‘flattening the curve’ for the rest of human life, and accepting the increased death rate every year. By contrast, a successful vaccination effort also ‘flattens the curve,’ but addit
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Space is cold and big. We can theoretically sink near infinite heat there (generally in the form of radiation of wavelengths not readily absorbed by anything in the atmosphere).
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by manwe150 5y ago
Wiki also lists this number as the current R0 (though without a source, as far as I can see). Found this study too in attempting to answer your question: https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/covid-19/forecasting/

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