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What if a deadly influenza pandemic broke out today? (2018)(bbc.com)
2 points by mgsouth 6y ago|1 comments
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by mgsouth 6y ago
Normally, citrus trees are killed by even brief freezes. The article discusses a number of methods used by the Soviet Union to grow 200,000 tonnes of citrus fruit per year, in places where winter temperatures dropped to -30 C and the ground
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Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures(lowtechmagazine.com)
2 points by mgsouth 6y ago|1 comments
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by mgsouth 6y ago
> Spain has a “hard lockdown” too. Their excess mortality has returned to a normal level according to momo That's probably inaccurate. I've been following MOMO's graphs, and the yellow-band portions (most recent weeks) g
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by mgsouth 6y ago
> gravimetric energy density of up to 1.76 MJ kg−1 Gasoline has 47 MJ/kg [0], in 2007 Lithium-ion batteries were 0.36 - 0.90 MJ/kg [1] [0] https://neutrium.net/properties/specific-energy-and-energy-d...
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by mgsouth 6y ago
In essence, the papers argue that DNA is microcode ROM, and for any particular cell the actual "user code" is contained in "the molecules that regulate the cell's DNA and other functioning systems." > For example
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by mgsouth 7y ago
There's a race condition in Done() between ctx.Value() and close(); two goroutines simultaneously calling Done() can both see Value() ok, then second one calling close() will panic. Mixing multiple concurrency coordinators (in this cas
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by mgsouth 7y ago
> It took Lindsay Devers months of training and meticulous planning to plot out her marathon-length run along the Boston riverside to spell out an inspirational message for her city. But in the end, she forgot one important thing — the l
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'Oh no, I spelled it wrong': Nurse runs solo marathon in shape of 'Boston Strog'(cbc.ca)
110 points by mgsouth 7y ago|48 comments
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by mgsouth 7y ago
Latest NYC Health Department confirmed deaths count: 8,448 [0] Population: 8.4M [1] NYC has just started counting cases presumed died from C19 but not tested; newly revised probable count is over 10,000. [2] [0] https://www1.nyc.
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by mgsouth 7y ago
Um, no, the deaths-per-capita can't decrease unless people are being resurrected. The rate of increase can slow, but the Johns Hopkins data doesn't even show that happening (looking at new deaths/wk). Although it does show
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by mgsouth 7y ago
The point being, an unusually large percentage of the people who contract CV19 die. Lower density == longer time to hit X% infected and Y% dead, but you'll still get there. (With caveats that X is a bit lower with lockdown, and Y get
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by mgsouth 7y ago
Sweden already has 1 death per 10,000 population (0.01% per capita , not per case) and rate is increasing. Spain is 1 per 2,500 (0.04%). NY state is 1 per 1,200, soon to be 1 per 1,000 (0.1% per capita ). This is with lockdown [0] [0]
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by mgsouth 7y ago
New York state has had 1 person in 1,200 [0] die from COVID-19, and is on track for 1 in 1,000. Do you know 1,000 people? If you lived in NYC, how many of your acquaintances would have died? How many people you know die from the flu every y
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by mgsouth 7y ago
I'm upvoting your comment because, while technically naive, it squarely addresses what matters to users. As others noted, SIP and RIPT have absolutely nothing to do with call quality. RIPT is intended to make if easier to write softwar
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by mgsouth 7y ago
One valuable property of plotting deaths (total) vs. deaths (last week), or cases vs. cases, is that the shape of the plot is immune to consistent distortions in reporting; if country A is consistently down-playing the death rate by x%, t
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by mgsouth 7y ago
Interesting; back to the "iron lung" used to treat Polio patients in the 40's and 50's. Wikipedia [0] says they date back to the 1830's. The "Both Respirator" was invented in 1937, was made from plywood, a
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by mgsouth 7y ago
Missing or reduced sense of smell, reduced sense of taste.
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by mgsouth 7y ago
A quick search finds some articles stating they will do this, but nothing about results. But of course politicians and CEOs would never make empty promises... Wikipedia says one Chinese manufacturer, Geely, sold 1.5 million vehicles las
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by mgsouth 7y ago
Quote from a recent Scott Manley episode seems appropriate: We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because we asked ourselves "how hard could it be?"[0] I'm pondering how long would it take GM to
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by mgsouth 7y ago
Doesn't work that way. "Market value" isn't a count of funny-looking pieces of paper, or the total weight of various commodities. It's a popular consensus of the power to command future use of resources. It's a
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by mgsouth 7y ago
I see some people are reacting negatively to what you're saying. DVs are terrible as a dialog. And I, too, agree the comment leaves kind of a bad taste, but I think because it baldly points out some unpleasant things. I only see these
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by mgsouth 7y ago
You can't post a tease like that :) Details? You got a blog?
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by mgsouth 7y ago
Zoom in. Jaw-dropping. Can't imagine what Starlink will do to this...
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by mgsouth 7y ago
"Ordered" actually means "has a wide variety", not "everything is the same." The self-attractive potential energy of a primordial gas cloud is highly directed (it has a center) and the range of distances from t
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by mgsouth 7y ago
I'm not a surveyor, but was the IT guy & supervisor for a city's two-engineer surveying team as we went GIS... Basically you fudge it. Precision losses, errors, and local ground movements swamp continental drift. As you noted,
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Domebuilder's Blues(shelterpub.com)
2 points by mgsouth 7y ago|0 comments
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by mgsouth 7y ago
Students learn design and planning lessons the hard way. Brutally honest self-assessment, lots of good lessons learned.
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KRAKsat Satellite Mission – Lessons Learned [PDF](researchgate.net)
1 points by mgsouth 7y ago|1 comments
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by mgsouth 7y ago
Railwaycat on github: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport A list of differences: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/f3402395995bf70... > Official repository:

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