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by marvin 6y ago
Norway botched the contact tracing app completely, certainly politically and maybe technically. Centralized storage of GPS & bluetooth data and refusal to open-source (which is a tacit acknowledgement of insufficient confidence in secur
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by marvin 6y ago
Because self-driving is a strategically critical element of any car company that wants to survive once it becomes obvious how to do it. This means that anyone doing self-driving needs to be a manufacturer in order to avoid getting squeezed
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by marvin 6y ago
You’ll love the low weight when you get older. My 60+ parents say their peers from university, even many who were really fit but with higher weight, struggle a lot with their mobility at higher age. It looks like a curse due to current body
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by marvin 6y ago
Okay. So let's press a magic button to make every place in the whole world hit equally hard as NYC, one of the worst-hit cities in the world, with all the death and suffering that entails. Then repeat the process four times. Now we&#
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by marvin 6y ago
That's certainly an improvement, but even if health authorities and researchers quickly adapt their knowledge to reflect the retraction of this paper, the wide media circulation of "HCQ will kill you" has permanently poisoned
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by marvin 6y ago
I haven't heard the phrase "curb stomp" used in science before. That type of emotional language would seem to me to indicate a wish to defend a certain position, rather than evaluate evidence independently and accept an answe
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by marvin 6y ago
The Minnesota study shows that hydroxychloroquine does not prevent covid19 infection when taken after exposure. This is a useful result, but it's not what we've really been wondering. The question of whether HCQ, possibly in com
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Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine(thelancet.com)
296 points by marvin 6y ago|172 comments
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by marvin 6y ago
I thing sgt is alluding to the fact that if Tesla hits an internal economic crisis, its stock price could fall far enough that one of the established automakers could acquire it or merge. And that this would be in their best interest, as Te
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by marvin 6y ago
«Adopting the Swedish approach» after three months of expanding test capacity, ensuring PPE availability, instituting WFH routines where possible, adopting slightly-inconvenient disinfecting routines and having everyone know to keep distanc
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by marvin 6y ago
Norway and Denmark had the same factors you’re pointing to, with a large influx of cases from Italy and Switzerland. But they shut down immediately to stop further spread. In Norway, things were spurred on even faster because a royal testin
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by marvin 6y ago
Just got a snap from a friend of mine. First pub beer of the season yesterday. 15 days with no new cases in my hometown. City of 300,000, West Norway. Testing capacity of >1000 per week locally. No way it can sneak up on us without a lar
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by marvin 6y ago
Well, we don't know what it costs SpaceX to do these launches. We only know what NASA pays. SpaceX could have very nice margins.
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by marvin 6y ago
> The government does not even believe it is possible to achieve that. That's weird, when Tegnell has stated numerous times that Sweden may be get close to herd immunity by the end of May. I assume you're not making a semantic
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Planet of the Censoring Humans(taibbi.substack.com)
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by marvin 6y ago
My wet dream is a properly programmable LED light source that will give you great customization of its spectrum, simulating any sort of outdoor lighting conditions.
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by marvin 6y ago
Incidentally, The Massassi Temple and Jedi Knight level building/modding is what got me started with software engineering. COG programming both introduced me to programming and revealed my affinity for it :) At the time, there were n
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by marvin 6y ago
Haha, wow. I read bash.org in my youth, and this exchange (among others) have stuck with me, such that I'd remember if someone pointed it out. I'm sure the quote has idly flowed through my head at some point too, when I've be
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by marvin 6y ago
For the purposes we're discussing here, Raoult et al. are front-line clinicians working to save lives under extreme uncertainty, with every decision scrutinized with the benefit of hindsight. You shouldn't hold them to the same s
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by marvin 6y ago
Same stories I've heard. Many doctors prescribing it for prophylactic treatment to friends and family immediately after diagnosis. Some government officials (in France, notably! While at the same time shutting down public use) taking i
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by marvin 6y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, this paper refers to chloroquine , not hydroxychloroquine. They are often conflated in the media and colloquial reporting.
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by marvin 6y ago
It’s a female software engineer that doesn’t filter her thoughts, so naturally she will get punched down a few notches when she expresses herself in public. I’m a bit horrified at some of the responses in this thread, TBH. They’re probably
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by marvin 6y ago
This debate would be EASILY settled by doing real science like you suggest. Instead, we get these proud Trump debunkings that don’t answer the important question. Ok, HCQ doesn’t help critical patients. But we’ve already suspected that for
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by marvin 6y ago
Thanks. That settles my question. It was administered much later than suggested by most doctors that have tentatively used it based on experiences with malaria and SARS. So it’s sadly not very useful for drawing conclusions about that :(
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by marvin 6y ago
GP wasn’t suggesting prophylactic use on healthy people. The suggestion was to do this on diagnosed patients, maybe in risk groups, that haven’t progressed to a serious condition yet. But would be at great risk (>10%) to do so soon.
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by marvin 6y ago
Was this done in the study linked? All doctors I’ve seen promote hydroxychloroquine have been adamant that it must be administered early in the disease’s progression in order to have any effect. But most of the studies being performed that
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by marvin 6y ago
Well, Tesla currently sells a 50kWh battery that also happens to have a really nice car attached to it for $35000. That’s $700 per kWh. It stands to reason that home charging systems will soon come down in price, even if they don’t end up l
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by marvin 6y ago
As a Northern European, I wouldn't say that e.g. France's official response gives me the warm and fuzzies. With literal criminal prosecution for moving in a safe way 20 kilometers from your house in a car, or even being outside at
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by marvin 6y ago
Do you have a source on the claim that democracies have, on average, roughly the same level of these shenanigans as non-democratic nations? Certainly the United States does some morally dubious things that are comparable to some of the atro
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by marvin 6y ago
> IF it is possible, it is centuries or even further away Just out of curiosity, would you have been willing to bet that something most people will agree on being AGI will not be developed before 2221 at the earliest? Because given the h

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