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by microdrum 5y ago
A science study that only shows, as this one does, that face coverings cover the face is not very useful. The public policy piece is much more complex. High masking states did NOT do better on COVID than low masking states.
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by microdrum 5y ago
I think YouTube will still remove a video if a scientist or physician talks about COVID having a 0.03% mortality rate.
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by microdrum 5y ago
Hah. With the gimmicks, tricks, and dark patterns this company has pulled with consumer, what are the chances professionals would trust them with something like this?
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by microdrum 6y ago
Fun fact: you can get an LFP battery for your house, https://enphase.com/sites/default/files/downloads/support/En...
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by microdrum 6y ago
This also means that corporations with more women on their board of directors are more likely to commit fraud.
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by microdrum 6y ago
Unfortunately this is accurate.
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Ask HN: How much money do you have?
12 points by microdrum 6y ago|43 comments
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by microdrum 6y ago
Welcome to progressive politics. Science and logic do not matter. They will use climate change to take your chosen store of value. Because your chosen store of value reduces their power over you. Pretty simple, really.
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by microdrum 6y ago
One of the exceptions: https://www.waterbit.com/ Takes advantage of current massive farm scale and extant automation, simply increasing yield by adding precision to watering.
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Bird paid $300k to destroy its own scooters(cnbc.com)
2 points by microdrum 6y ago|0 comments
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by microdrum 6y ago
"Using Rekognition, we built a face database and search tool using 25,000 publicly available arrest photos. Then we searched that database against public photos of every current member of the House and Senate. We used the default match
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by microdrum 6y ago
That was interesting. The IQ inverter is for household and small commercial scale. For example, I would happily team with a few neighbors to cache, say 85kWHr at each home.
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by microdrum 6y ago
With the new gen of software-defined inverters, this makes more and more sense. The inverter's logic knows RT efficiency, depth of charge, and chemical age of the battery. It changes how it treats each and every battery. Think of batte
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by microdrum 6y ago
They're just behind. And the ACLU "bias" study was thin and unscientific. Data sets and weights could have bias, but that bias can also be controlled. "Facial recognition" does not have bias.
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by microdrum 6y ago
No, they got rich with good web search, then became dominant, then stopped doing good web search and started doing user intent targeting via payola search results.
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by microdrum 6y ago
Why does he have the right to do this? https://www.smchealth.org/bio/scott-morrow-md
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by microdrum 6y ago
Absurd. This is illogical. Expect this now to be challenged in court.
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by microdrum 6y ago
Does anyone know of a similar guide for digital sensors, since they can do these images with very different exposure times?
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by microdrum 6y ago
So, in your ideal world, we would never do serosurveys for surveillance of low incidence diseases, right? Any Type 1 error is too much Type 1 error, right? I'm sorry that literally all of the seroprevalence data hurt your priors. But t
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by microdrum 6y ago
Guess what? We have been doing it your way for 45 days. Everyone infected is now locked in a house with others. They too are now infected. Intrafamilial and nosocomial infection is much more powerful than community -- that has been proven h
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by microdrum 6y ago
The anti-science on HN is astounding.
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by microdrum 6y ago
No they don't. Stop being scared. Start being logical.
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by microdrum 6y ago
It sure can be that low. Pretty simple reason, too: 1) Studies linked above are properly statistically randomized 2) Italy population dead = old smokers, Chinese from Wuhan working in factories The study is a random population sample. A sin
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by microdrum 6y ago
"if it saturates" That sequence of words shows you do not know the basics of epidemiology. Epidemics do not affect 100% of a population.
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by microdrum 6y ago
Yep. You've got nothing. CFR is low, and this has been knowable for a long time. You're scared. It's OK. It's illogical and anti-scientific, but it's OK. But you won't be able to hurt ordinary people any longer
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by microdrum 6y ago
This is very strong evidence that the "realists" like Alex Berensen were correct. The shutdowns probably should end, while encouraging at-risk populations (mostly retired) to stay at home.
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by microdrum 6y ago
Maybe the story isn't that many companies they invested in did not work out. Maybe the story is that they are bad investors.
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by microdrum 6y ago
Um, AdWords.
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by microdrum 6y ago
So it will be free until the competition dies, and then it will be expensive? Like... everything MSFT and GOOG have ever done? Great.
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by microdrum 7y ago
The right decision. And why would it be? Why should private actors be able to invent new criminal liabilities simply by publishing various terms of service? Spotify: "If you listen to The Jackson 5 on our streaming service from a locat

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