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by nanis 6y ago
> give everyone the "always return positive" test, I had assumed your comment was sarcastic. Note that if you believe prevalence is 95%, there is no reason to spend any resources on dogs, tests, or even vaccines. Making all tha
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by nanis 6y ago
> I think we could just stick with positivity rates and case numbers to figure that out, like we have been doing Sticking only with positivity rates is misleading even if one ignores all the costs of lockdowns. As the WHO pointed out on
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> We haven’t seen it as “government control”, The quotation marks are misleading because I never referred to government control. Instead, I am referring to the "fantasy of control." However, now that you mentioned it, in these
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"Real" tests are also subject to false positives and false negatives. What you are suggesting is to ignore the possibility that dog sniffing may result in false negatives, and administer a "real" test to anyone who'
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by nanis 6y ago
It is the job of the journalist to at least be able to ask "what do you mean by 95% accuracy?" and to publish the answer given or the fact that no satisfactory answer is given because the reader is not in a position to be able to
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by nanis 6y ago
> the world's governments pay everybody to stock up on food and stay home for two months What's that going to do other than to cause the price of "food" to go up and cause a bunch of people to die in the worst Black F
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by nanis 6y ago
> if you tested everyone using this strategy and quarantined those who tested positive, you'd eliminate Covid in two months. You have too much confidence in that statement. If false positive, false negative, and prevalence rates are
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by nanis 6y ago
>> even think that the app store is Apple's invention > Because it actually is... It most certainly isn't. Based on personal use, Nokia's Download![1] comes to mind. Looking at an archived page[2]: >* Browse, prev
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> I highly doubt they named it after some obscure English expression. It's not that obscure if a nonnative speaker's first reaction is to think "why would anyone want to call a distro by that name"? It doesn't ma
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> We couldn't find that page, but we can work on building that back better. Back to home.
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> areas of concern (around ports/airports/etc) Indicating concern over animals conveyed by humans (wittingly or unwittingly) which is a different category than animals traveling without assistance.
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> they are perfectly willing to kill cute animals. Believe you me I didn't doubt that ... I am pointing out that there is no moral argument for why it is right to kill a little intrepid bird and the practical dividends you think it
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> ecosystem before that system again reaches equilibrium. How do you know that the system is at equilibrium ("at rest") now? Why is the current ecosystem the most right ecosystem since the birth of the universe? Why should ther
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> The same reason they kill off mosquitoes, snakes and spiders that come in on boats. Conveyed there by humans ... Or, do you have a system for tracking any mosquitos which the wind may have carried from other places?
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> This is as much about advertising the "zero tolerance" part Yup. All the pigeons of the world will now know not to migrate to Australia.
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> that shouldn't delegitimize the importance of strict biocontrol. What makes the current inhabitants of Australia the only rightful inhabitants of Australia? Why is one mix of species better than another? If no animals had been abl
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At time t0, there may not be ... but the exercise of monopoly power incentivizes others to produce substitutes and consumers to seek them. > In addition to the radio relay services, MCI soon made plans to offer voice, computer informatio
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> a monopoly will have a much easier time extracting value That's my point. In the static picture it might seem so, but in the dynamic picture the extracting of the value incentivizes competitors to enter and consumers to seek subst
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Star Trek gets a pass. Politicians and their supporters who conduct foreign policy, start or stoke civil wars, abandon former friends etc because they view the world through the Star Trek perspective do not. I may not have been clear in why
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Ah-em ... Iraq was specifically created by the British when they split the lands they had captured from the Ottoman Empire. The Republic of Turkey was created by Turks fighting, among others, the British, following the war fought over the i
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by nanis 6y ago
Except that the definition of monopoly power is that the company is facing a downward sloping demand curve and that it is operating on the elastic portion of it. In general, that provides an incentive for other firms to produce a close subs
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by nanis 6y ago
> Simple: use mocker.patch to patch out random.randrange and have it return a fixed sequence of results that would imply a known result. Thank you for this. Another way to put this is "your tests for code that uses a 3rd party API s
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I used to refer to what Bret Devereaux is criticizing as the "Star Trek view of other cultures". USS Enterprise arrives at a planet times the size of the earth to find ten billion sheep herding nomads with a single leader who live
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When I saw the title and the comments before reading the article, I thought to myself "what Joel wrote[1] and I read almost 20 years ago made a ton of sense"[^]. Then I looked at the article, and realize that it opens with a link
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by nanis 6y ago
> License: Proerietary license This right here means I will never look at this again. Not because of the misspelling, but because of the fact that I do not know what conditions there are on my use. I made the mistake of buying this book
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Do people really think the collective functioning of organs that have evolved to cohabitate in a given lump are not subject to constraints so that the lump doesn't all apart? The fact that each subsystem evolved in that environment to
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> Alpha: Statisticians use a "confidence interval" as a way to communicate how uncertain they are about a particular result. In our trial we might say "patients were 15% less likely to have the disease after taking the pil
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I think it would be helpful to forget about the "Republicans" and think about other people who might hold other opinions which may not be shared by the owners of one of the dominant platforms for announcing your views. No one is s
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by nanis 6y ago
I am always impressed when people make these kinds of absolute statements about the primacy of private property rights. Now, let's consider: * Alice should be able to choose without restriction to whom she is going to rent * Bob should

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