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by perardi 5y ago
A Markov Chain, but for bullshit.
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by perardi 5y ago
And for a bit of a citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_card And from personal experience: Jesus wept, Presto was a truly awful rollout, not least of which was the awful UX/UI of the terminals at the sta
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by perardi 5y ago
“fame”
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by perardi 5y ago
That is savage. And disturbingly accurate, as once you strip away the admittedly really quite nice typography from Accenture documents like this, you are left with just absolute pablum. https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia&#x
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by perardi 5y ago
And in that vein, Trump was at one point taking hydroxychloroquine, which sure did not prevent him from ending up in the hospital on oxygen.
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by perardi 5y ago
Thank you for linking to the actual drug, versus the inscrutable parent comment. And from that link… “All nine patients…” …and from the parent… “it’s saved the lives of everybody who it’s been given to so far” Well, when N=9, whoop-dee-
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by perardi 5y ago
You better have an actual citation for this miracle drug. Because this sounds a bit like remdesivir, one of the earlier candidates for a savior drug that, once we had more statistical power, didn’t really pan out. https://www.nej
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by perardi 5y ago
Ahhhhh, I had to look at the byline carefully. This article is syndicated from the The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas... Which explains the British idiom in a Anglo paper in a b
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by perardi 5y ago
Care to clarify which one? They’ve got a lot in the pipeline. https://sorrentotherapeutics.com/research/covid-19/
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by perardi 6y ago
Got a citation for this? I’ve seen this said, and for the life of me, I can’t find an actual reference for it.
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by perardi 6y ago
Grid has extremely broad support. https://caniuse.com/css-grid The notable exception is IE 11…though even then, with a bit of autoprefixer magic, you may be able to use this.
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by perardi 6y ago
Regardless of this PR they put out. This spend was probably in the books, so let’s wrap it in a nice bow before Congressional hearings.
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by perardi 6y ago
I suspect they really were going to spend a significant chunk of this regardless, but they packaged it into a nice press release at a potentially fraught political moment. And…$430 billion over 5 years is a lot, but what if it influences ta
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by perardi 6y ago
Let’s run through the possible reasons Apple announced this, with various degrees of cynicism. 1. Getting some good press before Congress decides to do something in regards to the app store model. 2. Apple is reading the winds, seeing that
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by perardi 6y ago
Every news story I see if pretty much a rephrasing of this press release, so I don’t think there are much in the way of more details out there.
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by perardi 6y ago
Maybe skip the vision and simply build one reasonably priced high-speed line somewhere. LA to Vegas? …well, OK, but then you say… California has been trying to build a line for 5 decades. Now the price is beyond reasonable. So I'm
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by perardi 6y ago
Listen, I love mass transit, I love big sweeping plans…but remember when the last administration Biden was in was all about this? https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2009/04/16/a-visio... Obama’s h
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by perardi 6y ago
The crux of the vaccine technology: This new vaccine (R21) uses a circumsporozoite protein (CSP) antigen – that’s a highly conserved protein of the parasite, involved in several functions as the parasite makes the move from mosquito to hum
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by perardi 6y ago
Also in Chicago here. I, too, have seen 100% mask compliance in grocery stores. And when I was downstate for a non-COVID family medical emergency during the December peak, I saw 100% compliance…in the grocery store. The gym? Ha. Nary a mask
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by perardi 6y ago
“Fomite”: name checks out for an epidemiologist. But then seriously, my partner is a paramedic in a large North American city. He has been, to put in bluntly, lucky, because this non-American city implemented a reasonable sick plan, and he
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by perardi 6y ago
At the risk of minimizing the amazing efforts of doctors this past hell year: spare a thought or two for nurses. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/nyregion/filipino-nurses-... Been a hard year for nurse
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by perardi 6y ago
1. Ah, “web ring” links. Now there is some nostalgia. I mean, I was more about the DBZ than the DrQ, but still, memories. 2. 159.8 KB, if I’m reading the inspector in Safari correctly. Nostalgia of a different sort.
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by perardi 6y ago
Mm, yes, this is closer. You see this with other goods too, notably cars. Creating a car that meets all contemporary safety standards is hugely expensive. Is that safety a net good? Yes. Does it have societal costs? You betcha.
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by perardi 6y ago
So how are we dealing with transit? We are going to build giant housing projects (with what capital or grants) and then create mass transit to them? How’s that ended up working so far?
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by perardi 6y ago
Ugh, I hate to pull this out, by: NIMBY-ism. To a first approximation nobody wants an SRO on their back yard. Me? I am just fine with it, I have lived near SROs for years . But…oh whatever, I’ll be blunt: Karen doesn’t want a giant buildin
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by perardi 6y ago
And this is an excuse to link to this really thorough documentation of the architecture and history of Uptown, which has had a wild history. https://chicagoflaneur.com/2020/04/24/portrait-of-chicago-up...
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by perardi 6y ago
I suppose this is the last men’s hotel, as in, literally for men-only, in Chicago. But there are still single-room occupancy buildings, or SROs, around. They are largely clustered in Uptown. I would link to them, but, perhaps unsurprisingly
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by perardi 6y ago
Hey, lets introduce a group, the Quincy, that spends quite a lot of the first part of the series proclaiming they proudly use bows and not swords. And then let’s finish the series by having their king, and all his powerful vassals, very bla
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by perardi 6y ago
[cracks knuckles, adjust sunglasses] Kick reason to the curb and do the impossible! Sorry. Gurren Lagann, paired with Evangelion, remains one of my favorites. Though it’s a different production crew, it is the same studio, and it’s fascin
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by perardi 6y ago
Do we not take off our shoes inside in the US? I…guess we don’t https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition_of_removing_shoes_in... Strange. I was raised to take my shoes off, and it feels commonplace to me to take your

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