mmarvick

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   by mmarvick 6y ago

   What the poster means is that going from 0.79% to 0.04% means that 0.75% were prevented from getting it due to the vaccine. You go from 79 per 10000 to 4 per 10000, meaning you saved 75 per 10000. But preventing 0.75% of the population from
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   by mmarvick 6y ago

   The difference is that the FiveThirtyEight tool is taking into account the coupling between the outcomes. They project Trump's odds of winning PA at 13%, so if he does win PA it's likely he's doing better than expected in oth
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   by mmarvick 6y ago

   I am by no means an expert here, but a couple thoughts back from my limited knowledge: 1) I don't think all carbon capture necessarily requires a lot of energy input. Planting trees is a more obvious example of this - of course, the tr
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   by mmarvick 7y ago

   > Portland's mass transit is a joke (I can bike downtown end-to-end faster than MAX can crawl through it) TriMet is currently looking into moving MAX into a tunnel downtown, and with fewer stops [1]. Part of the reason it's _so