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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
IIRC this was being discussed when testing first began, that for many their innate immune systems fight off the pathogen so quickly that it doesn't require the adaptive antibody production/retention.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
I don't know about "astounding" and "remains opaque". From classes I actually already (mis)assumed that rna had glycans, because almost every single thing your body produces has glycans put on it, and glycoscience i
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
> about the same range of politics as everybody else We're not talking about "rich people", that's fine and well. We're talking about classes with .5B+ levels of wealth, where it's not about subscribing to p
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Why assume that the ultra wealthy should care about the lesser citizens? What about all the rampant looting in NYC? I don't think they cared then. Maybe many of them just aren't pro American. In almost every other country the medi
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
I think a story about an ultra wealthy ruling class that stands behind the public political class is not going to get published in mainstream outlets. I mean it will if it's about Russia or China or historical periods like "the Gi
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
While of course there are startups that engineer novel and industrially relevant products, I have to agree that "startup culture" is indeed largely synonymous with "apps" (web, mobile, b2b, saas, marketplace etc.) and th
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Even in business class I had some showdown with guy behind me who's angry he doesn't have more leg room. Early morning flight, I upgraded because I needed to sleep, and the guy wakes me up mid flight by violently kicking the back
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
FYI this is an advert. Not just in resemblance to an infomercial but the youtube presenter is reaching out and quoting CTO of the company as responses to youtuber questions in comments.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Except CFCs are still on the uprise [1] [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1193-4 They sit straight in the middle of the atmospheric window, unlike CO2 which overlaps with water vapor (at around 15 microns)
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Except CFCs have been on the rise [1] because not all countries follow the ban. They are a more potent GHG that fall right in the middle of the atmospheric window. It's a big deal... https://www.nature.com/articles&#x2F
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
I don't disagree with you and strongly agree we're having the wrong conversations. But in the spirit of thinking... 2 questions for you... What is impossible about direct temperature manipulation schemes? I'm referring to pro
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
I've seen too much to underestimate the MIC, as Afghanistan's hard fall could easily become "the taliban can't run a nation, we must war", as endless wars resume.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Especially true given water vapor is a more potent ghg increasing with each upward temperature tick, in a way that's not linearly reversible from linear co2 reduction. Probably the only way that could potentially fix things is direct t
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Or, devil's advocate, if you believe it's a pretty low risk disease for most of the population, and that a novel mrna vaccine falls outside your risk tolerance. Or maybe you believe if you already have natural immunity from contra
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
> I can say that Singapore is one of the milder places to live. It never ever gets particularly hot Singapore is almost exactly on the equator. UV readings get up to 11 each day (extreme), whereas the most I ever saw in say SF was 5. You
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
That's contradictory to leading sleep scientists like Matthew Walker, Peter Attia, etc. which is clear about need for chilly environment for sleep quality, eg < 21C. Granted, sleep science isn't oriented towards the genetics of
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Yes, I sometimes feel like I'm at death's door when jogging outdoors. Myself and some Westerners I know haven't "adapted", even after years being here. The strategy is just always have ice water in hand if outdoors
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
The point is reversing the CO2 does not reverse all that proportionally much larger increase in water vapor... eg. we have no choice but to address water vapor as well as CO2 if we want to have any chance in fixing global warming.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Your link is not relevant to the point made. Just to be clear water vapor capacity increases due to temperature, for example, relative humidity measures how much water vapor is in the air for a given temperature. Any sort of increase in tem
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Well, have you seen any industry NLP product that exercises any meaningful level of language understanding? I haven't. The Turing test has never even been close to being passed at the annual Loebner Prize. The best such industry NLP pr
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
> But there is new hope that deep cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases could stabilise rising temperatures. How is this possible when you have water vapor in a positive feedback loop, which is a far more potent, prevalent ghg that incre
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Quick look at financials, they lost $25M in trailing 12 months, lost $14M in the previous year, lost $10M in the year before. How is Duolingo supposed to become profitable? How is a $6.5B valuation justified?
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Want to try ELI15?
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendations. Yes, they've been officially acquired.
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Ask HN: Legal action against former employer
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
But they aren't renting offices at multiple thousands per month. They are maybe renting cheap hot desks or doing spot booking.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Tangentially related I have no idea how WeWork isn't gone at this point. It's like the laws of physics are broken.
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Uh "good intentions"? I think you mean "ruling class lackeys"
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
Fyi they used deepfake AI to have him say various things. Apparently it's not clear in the doc where it's a fake and where it's the doc makers guessing what he might say. If ask me pretty disturbing the producers claim to kno
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by poorjohnmacafee 5y ago
I assume this photodetector also uses the photoelectric effect like PV cells. Does anyone know why they wouldn't just use the more established pv tech? Said only getting efficiency of 6%. Is there something fundamentally different abou

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