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by phreeza 6y ago
Excess deaths went down, not up, during very strict lockdowns in European countries as measured by EuroMomo data. Excess deaths also correlate quite well with reported corona deaths in this and the US dataset. Both these facts point towards
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by phreeza 6y ago
The pressure should be extremely low, so I don't think that should be a problem.
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Low-cost precursor of an interstellar mission(aanda.org)
25 points by phreeza 6y ago|3 comments
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Talking on the moon: NASA and Nokia to install 4G on lunar surface(theguardian.com)
2 points by phreeza 6y ago|0 comments
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by phreeza 6y ago
Is Dropbox dead?
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by phreeza 6y ago
Not sure I follow, why would comparing CFRs make more sense? A lot depends on testing in that case.
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by phreeza 6y ago
I agree, but controlling for reported incidence as suggested by OP does not help with this.
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by phreeza 6y ago
Treatments are already much better than they were in the early phase of the pandemic, and they are unlikely to get worse over time. Also mortality is likely to rise with hospital load. So it follows that stretching your infections over a lo
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by phreeza 6y ago
Why would you want to do that? At the end of the day, successful pandemic response is a question of how well you prevent deaths overall, not how likely infected people are to die.
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by phreeza 6y ago
This is kind of mentioned in the interview I posted in the sibling reply, but I could imagine that this mainly drives down the density, but not so much the rate of growth. The reason is that grown individuals can actually usually feed thems
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by phreeza 6y ago
I think I read it in a Jared Diamond book, but here it is in an interview with him: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2009/P8054... (page 5)
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by phreeza 6y ago
Reminds me of the birth interval in hunter-gatherers vs. farming people in prehistory. Hunter-gatherers were supposedly constrained in their birth spacing by the need to carry their infants when roaming around, while farmers had no such con
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by phreeza 6y ago
Good to know, I disabled loading images now.
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by phreeza 6y ago
I always thought gmail requests the images whether you open the email or not since they moved to the image proxy in 2015 or so.
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by phreeza 6y ago
If I read this [1] correctly, the fund covers only technical decommissioning work, "liability resulting from spent-fuel management (e.g., costs for on-site interim storage) and all costs related to final nuclear waste disposal is not c
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by phreeza 6y ago
It's fascinating that beside instructions on the conceptual level of how to operate the machine from a programming perspective, it also contains arts&crafts instructions on how to manually glue pieces of the command tapes together:
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by phreeza 6y ago
What is the experience like with the fully disconnected sides, do you not struggle to keep them at the correct position relative to each other?
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by phreeza 6y ago
This would be great if it were true, but sadly the cost of waste disposal and plant decomissioning was not priced in during running times, at least in Germany.
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by phreeza 6y ago
Reading about the 4 humours reminded me a bit of an embedding space. I wonder how far one could get with a 4d embedding for patients to describe their ailments and appropriate treatments, and to what degree the axes would align with the tra
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by phreeza 6y ago
Is it even possible in today's evidence based framework to consider a treatment that only works for a single patient? I think you'd need at least an entire class of such treatments applying to a group of patients to do any kind of
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by phreeza 6y ago
Interesting that this mentions the short story The Veldt, which is also dramatized as one of the radio plays in X Minus one that was on the front page yesterday.
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by phreeza 6y ago
Love these, used to listen to them a lot. The Veldt is probably my favorite.
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On the Biomass Required to Produce Phosphine Detected in the Clouds of Venus(arxiv.org)
2 points by phreeza 6y ago|0 comments
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by phreeza 6y ago
Beware that while it looks random, this is actually not a great rng. For example, it does not satisfy the central limit theorem.
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by phreeza 6y ago
They we would not have access to petroleum, so no plastic.
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by phreeza 6y ago
If you take a materialist view of consciousness, it is really no different from falling asleep and waking up. There is also no continuity of consciousness between the states in that case.
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by phreeza 6y ago
Of course there are link farms etc, but that doesn't mean the "Google search is controlled by large (Chinese) botnets". That's like saying email is controlled by spammers. There are countermeasures.
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by phreeza 6y ago
Citation needed.
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by phreeza 6y ago
At faang size companies?
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by phreeza 6y ago
People who have large parts of their gut removed surgically don't lose their mind.

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