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by neaden 7y ago
"We are physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians, not epidemiologists or virologists. Therefore this should NOT be viewed as predictions on the crisis, but rather as a technical tool to test various theories and assumptions i
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by neaden 7y ago
New cases isn't a good metric because of how testing can change. Deaths is more reliable metric to be used when prevalence is high, as it is in Italy and now the US.
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by neaden 7y ago
It does indeed, or what we are seeing in New York. I'm very skeptical of this, though it would of course be great news if it was true. I can't help but have whiplash from the fact that the UK seems to have gone from an attitude of
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by neaden 7y ago
The question shouldn't be is the SAT unfairly biased towards families with money, since of course it is, but is the SAT less biased towards families with money then other criteria. Having parents with money and connections lets you get
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We know enough now to act decisively against Covid-19(statnews.com)
4 points by neaden 7y ago|0 comments
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by neaden 7y ago
I don't believe any of those companies have factories that are in areas that are under shut down orders though. And I don't think any of those companies CEOs have been publicly going on Twitter to dismiss people's fears over
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by neaden 7y ago
I'm an epidemiologist and I think excessive testing doesn't help people, so it is definitely not just doctors. False positives can do real harm, including killing people if it leads to unnecessary treatment like surgery. You need
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by neaden 7y ago
I was one of those people discouraging masks a while back here. I was wrong. With what we know now asymptomatic people should have masks if there is a supply available. At the present, that supply isn't available in the US and many oth
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by neaden 7y ago
Or to just nationalize them, many other countries have government owned airlines.
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by neaden 7y ago
I was more thinking something like the National Flood Insurance program. Corporate taxes would be similar if the airlines and other bailoutable industries had to pay a higher rate to compensate, but right now they don't.
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by neaden 7y ago
I think the problem comes in when you know you are going to get a bailout if something catastrophic happens. If the Airlines had to pay into a mandatory insurance for this sort of thing it would be different, or if they were just going to b
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by neaden 7y ago
Step 1: Make money for 10 years. Step 2: Spend 96% of that money on stock buybacks. Step 3: Encounter difficulty Step 4: Ask for $50 Billion in grants and loans so you don't go broke. Imagine if you or I tried to pull something like th
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Why Do the Airlines Need a Bailout?(slate.com)
43 points by neaden 7y ago|39 comments
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by neaden 7y ago
Ah yes, we can see this with the famously privately funded Manhattan project.
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by neaden 7y ago
I can assure you, Theranos made no meaningful innovation in anything besides fraud. All of their researchers were either being fed bullshit data, so their conclusions are worthless, or were generating bullshit data, in which case they were
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by neaden 7y ago
I don't see any reason that a firm like Theranos shouldn't have had all of it's patents struck down as void once it was obvious it was a scam. What incentive do we have as a society to allow con artists to patent things and i
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by neaden 7y ago
It's to make it easier for teenagers to sneak into schools. This product was designed from the ground up with the goal of getting teens to use it.
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by neaden 7y ago
US Tofu is by and large for animal feed or oil, not tofu.
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by neaden 7y ago
Just to be clear, while young people like this are going to have a much lower rate of severe illness or death, it's not going to be zero. Even if we are optimistic about the death rate it still would be feasible to see a dozen students
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by neaden 7y ago
People adjust the masks often. They aren't very comfortable and it's unpleasant to wear them for long, they can feel itchy which promotes face touching. The seal around your mouth probably won't be great unless you've be
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by neaden 7y ago
You should be fit-tested with an N95 as well. I had a job where it was required yearly and different brands and sizes work better for different people.
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by neaden 7y ago
It's the opposite, when you are wearing one of those masks you touch your face more often. It also is a warm damp environment for bacteria. Now if you are sick and you are travelling to the doctors or something, then yes, a mask is a
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by neaden 7y ago
My understanding is that Imperfect Produce is, or at least is accused of, taking food that would have been donated to food banks or processed. So those weird looking strawberries were going to be made into Jam, not discarded.
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DrDrunkenstein’s (Magnus Carlsen) Reign of Terror(slate.com)
32 points by neaden 7y ago|0 comments
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by neaden 7y ago
"If I have a good another wants then I may accept something I don't directly want as payment. Of goods I indirectly value, I should value more the goods that are most saleable as they provide the shortest path to goods I directly
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by neaden 7y ago
So what? It doesn't matter what makes sense to us, it matters what actually happened. Plenty of history makes no sense to me, but I would never just deny that it didn't happen for that reason.
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by neaden 7y ago
"Naturally, they begin to use the most saleable good available to their community as "money" for trade." Why do you assume this is natural? As the article talks about, there is no evidence of this happening vs things lik
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by neaden 7y ago
Nothing is literally barren though. They still have life of some kind there, even the desert does. Nature isn't just the stuff that is green and teeming with life.
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by neaden 7y ago
It's kind of sad that you consider land being left in it's natural state as a waste. We have more then enough land for crops and everything else, we can just let some of it exist.
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by neaden 7y ago
It's funny that I knew who this would be by or interviewing just from the title. I like Judea Pearl and a lot of his ideas, but at the same time I think he overstates their importance and hypes them up more then he should.

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