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by mdemare 6y ago
Forrest Gump is from 1995. Apple had barely begun going up then.
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by mdemare 6y ago
I grew up typing in BASIC games from magazines. I had no way of saving the games on a permanent medium, so when I was done playing, I lost the game. Feel better now?
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by mdemare 6y ago
We can perceive the absence of consciousness in others?
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by mdemare 6y ago
Considering Scott's interest in things kabbalistic (e.g. Unsong), and his general erudition, I suspect he knows more about the origins of Moloch than you give him credit for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch#Ca
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by mdemare 6y ago
When aggressive drivers pay more than gentle drivers, that creates an incentive for aggressive drivers to drive more gently. Some of them will, and that in turn will save lives, not just money.
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by mdemare 6y ago
In the Netherlands, I don't think this was even attempted, apart from forbidding visitors.
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by mdemare 6y ago
I'm surprised at how little effect even a strict lockdown (western style - Wuhan style was much more effective) had compared with the Swedish approach. I did not expect cases to rise so slowly and even plateau with the policy that Swed
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by mdemare 6y ago
If you trust the death rate, and the number of deaths reported are both accurate, the UK is at 40k/300k = 13%. A very long way from immunity, but not 0.5%.
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by mdemare 6y ago
> I suspect you are quoting case fatality rates instead of death rates No. There were 652 confirmed deaths and 129 probably deaths in NYC in the 18-44 age group. If there are 3 million people in that age group in NYC (my estimate, look
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by mdemare 6y ago
No, the annual death rate for the age group 18-45 is not 1000, it’s around 150. That is, even in the group of adults least affected by Covid-19, it would be near the top of the list for causes of death. In the most affected group (75+), the
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by mdemare 6y ago
There we go again. In NYC, 19 out of 100,000 people aged 18-45 died. (1) There are roughly 110M people in that age group in the U.S. so that would mean 21000 deaths if the virus would spread as widely throughout the U.S. as it has in NYC (w
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by mdemare 6y ago
By March 8th, they had been 3k deaths in Wuhan. It was blatantly obvious by that time that Covid-19 was dangerous, and also that the testing situation was such that no one knew how widespread the virus was. Since the strict Spanish lockdown
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by mdemare 6y ago
It activated when I greeted my cat. My cat is called "Timmie"
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by mdemare 6y ago
I have a HomePod and we're getting increasingly good at pronouncing French and Dutch artists with the accent of someone with no conception of foreign languages in order to get Siri to play them, e.g. "Gene Ferret" for Jean Fe
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by mdemare 6y ago
What a bargain! They’re €849 ($919) in NL, tax included.
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by mdemare 6y ago
> I believe that we need to resume normal operation of society, and make strong efforts to protect the at-risk. Nearly half the population is at-risk (age, comorbidities, obesity).
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by mdemare 6y ago
I think that. Specifically, I think that first world societies can afford to give 25% of the workforce a paid sabbatical without ceasing to exist. And I find it depressing that there are people who think this is a shock that rich societies
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by mdemare 6y ago
Callous and false
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by mdemare 6y ago
There are only a handful of countries that can borrow in their own currency, and borrowing in another currency is very risky.
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by mdemare 6y ago
That article is from early March. It’s May now, no need to estimate anymore. I agree that CFR is fairly useless. But if you test everyone, as was the case on the Diamond Princess, IFR = CFR.
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by mdemare 6y ago
> An IFR of 1% seems too high. This doesn't seem to line up with data from the Diamond Princess (~1% IFR in a population biased towards elderly). The Diamond Princess has 13 deaths for 712 cases, so 1.8%.
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by mdemare 6y ago
More infectious, sure? But more lethal? Why?
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by mdemare 6y ago
Without a lockdown, most of the country will eventually be infected. NYC currently has 21000 excess deaths, so extrapolating that to the rest of the country would mean 21000*328M / 10M = 690,000 excess deaths. That's assuming that
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by mdemare 6y ago
Liberals and Christian Democrats are center-right, Social-Democrats and Greens center-left. Those are the main power blocks in quite a few European countries. And US liberals and European liberals have quite different ideas about taxes, imm
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by mdemare 7y ago
Nobody there is going to die in April from covid?
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by mdemare 7y ago
Nembro, Italy. Pop. 11000, 152 deaths. 1.38% of the population died. In March.
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by mdemare 7y ago
The vastly different homelessness rates between countries suggests otherwise.
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by mdemare 7y ago
> Give enough monkeys enough pianos and time and they'll eventually write Mozart's Piano Sonata No 16. Sure, No 16... No 19 is right out though.
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by mdemare 7y ago
I have no idea which point you think I'm making. I'm certainly not claiming that boiled chicken breast is unhealthy. Cod is healthy, and not meat. The point I'm trying to make is that it is a challenge to overeat on a diet th
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by mdemare 7y ago
I couldn't find any dell or hp workstations that go over 64GB in RAM. The Mac Pro goes up to 1.5TB. Apples and oranges.

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