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by martinpw 6y ago
What is N1?
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by martinpw 6y ago
We certainly reported it several times a couple of years ago before we switched to Unreal. Amazing and disappointing that it is still unresolved.
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by martinpw 6y ago
I lost an Apple device once (several years ago) in a public place. A couple of days later I got a customer service mail from Apple asking for feedback on a recovery service for the device. So clearly whoever found my device was able to get
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by martinpw 7y ago
We did some meetings in VR. It definitely has some upsides, eg you can stand in a virtual circle and you get to see who people are looking at which makes at least that aspect of meetings better than video. The big downside is the friction o
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by martinpw 7y ago
I believe you. I just think comparing church counts sounded like a way to downplay their significance as a potential source of spread. The other factor is that larger congregations means more opportunity for wider spread from a single infec
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by martinpw 7y ago
That is not a very useful statistic. Since megachurches by definition have much larger congregations than regular ones, you should be comparing total attendance not number of churches.
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by martinpw 7y ago
According to this site it is 215 now (March 23): https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ This is just 3 days after the publication of the Reuters article, so it seems like it may be growing at similar rates to elsew
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by martinpw 7y ago
That is interesting. I have always been told it was stricter than that - basically this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116429/ The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has imposed a ban on b
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by martinpw 7y ago
I think it was other news organizations than the ones you listed that were the primary culprits in screaming "it's just the flu"
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by martinpw 7y ago
That is no longer the case as of 2015. Place names are no longer used because of the stigmatization issues: https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d...
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by martinpw 7y ago
Exactly. Starting from the first case is not useful. Starting from a baseline of 100 offers a more consistent comparison. And for that, almost all countries are following the same path. I think this site may be paywalled unfortunately (but
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by martinpw 7y ago
Just a note that this document is from 2011. I know you did not claim otherwise, but I had assumed from your comment it was a document prepared in response to the current situation.
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by martinpw 7y ago
Do you have a reference for that?
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by martinpw 7y ago
Where is "around here"?
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> like Merkel's obscene, wildly irresponsible statement about how up to 70% of Germans could get Covid I've seen numbers in that range from multiple official places from people who are experts in the field. She didn't just
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by martinpw 7y ago
He didn't say per capita. The statement was accurate. It may not be a useful metric, but it was an accurate one.
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by martinpw 7y ago
>> Only vs. China, Iran and Italy. > What are you on about? We have fewer deaths than far more countries than that You edited out the second sentence. The full quote is: Only vs. China, Iran and Italy. We're within a factor o
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by martinpw 7y ago
> More Americans use e-commerce for shopping than Europeans. Do you have a source for that? I couldn't find a great single source but this says 9% of retail sales were ecommerce in Europe in 2018: https://ecommercenews.eu
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by martinpw 7y ago
I'm not clear why you mention insider trading here? Insiders have access to information that is not present public information, and so is not priced into the current value of the stock.
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by martinpw 7y ago
Do you have a link for that? I don't think that is what was said at all. I found this link with a video - is this what you are referring to? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/watch-msnbc-medical-... where he
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by martinpw 7y ago
More complete path (for Android 10 at least): Google Settings -> Privacy -> Advanced -> Ads -> Opt out of Ads Personalization
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by martinpw 7y ago
Seems there is not much information yet on the actual hardware. Quick search found this: https://siliconangle.com/2020/02/17/hpes-cray-tapped-build-m... Eventually reaching 145 PFlops The Met Office didn’t sh
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by martinpw 7y ago
Maybe that is a selection effect. Objects like this that are more inclined will tend to look more like regular galaxies so will not be identified as ring galaxies so easily.
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by martinpw 7y ago
I think this is an important point. I was at a company that got disrupted out of existence, and The Innovator's Dilemma was required reading for all employees. So it's not that companies are necessarily unaware of the impending pr
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by martinpw 7y ago
FYI - the "Explore Voices" link gives a 404.
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by martinpw 7y ago
I guess once wing mirrors go away and are replaced by rear looking cameras, carmakers will have another foot or so of sideways real estate to expand into...
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by martinpw 7y ago
A long time ago I was working at an observatory searching for new asteroids. For cloudy nights, they had a large library of paperbacks and I read LOTR twice through. Because of this, when I got to name a newly discovered asteroid, I wanted
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by martinpw 7y ago
One thing that helps for me is to consider the bell curve profile, and the fact that a small shift greatly increases the area under the upper tail part of the curve where the extreme weather events live, eg: https://www.climatece
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by martinpw 7y ago
Since pH is a log scale, that is a huge change - almost 40%.
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by martinpw 7y ago
Nice work! A long time ago I was doing analysis of X-ray data of Coma and Perseus to infer dark matter distribution, using the temperature and density variation of the gas to derive the shape of the gravitational well. Among other things, t

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