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by ptaipale 6y ago
If the virus has a smaller base of infected people who grow it, there will be less mutations. From that point of view, the sooner all the world is vaccinated, the better. The risk of a new, more dangerous mutation decreases.
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Even 0.5 % fatality rate is huge, in my opinion. For polio, only 0.5 % of those who contracted polio had nervous system symptoms. Of this small minority that developed muscle weakness, about 2 to 5 percent of children and 15 to 30 percent o
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Sweden's neighbours share similar demographics, climate, legislation, administration, health care system and to a large extent also cultural traits. Swedes do a bit more of greeting people by hugging and even cheek-kissing than Finns o
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Traditionally, Sweden has compared itself to other Nordic countries, which, as mentioned, share the same cultural/demographic/socio-economic factors. Now the comparison points have suddenly switched to Italy and UK, or I've s
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Regarding the "lack of information for those caring for the elderly", that sounds fairly implausible, because information about the epidemic has been abundant. The proportion of old people among the dead is not much different in S
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Belgian coronavirus test lab hit by cyberattack; ransom demanded(politico.eu)
2 points by ptaipale 6y ago|0 comments
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Correction: as pointed out, the sixth ball is picked from range 1-20, which more than halves the probability to less than one in 2 million.
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by ptaipale 6y ago
And that is, literally, quite close to one in a million.
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Which is 1 : 42,375,200. However, the probability of ending up with a sequence like this is still quite low - probability of coming up with six consecutive numbers is 40 : 42,375,200 i.e. less than one in a million.
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Nowadays it's more like: If you own the bank $10,000, you have a problem. If you own the bank $10,000,000, the bank has a problem. If you own the bank $10,000,000,000, the government has a problem.
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by ptaipale 6y ago
I'm a complete layman here, but I would expect that the "prevent spread" is not binary, it's a spwetrum [0,1]. Thus, even if it does not completely prevent spread, if just a part, or even a smallish part, is prevented, t
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by ptaipale 6y ago
I understand the American name for Vaccinium myrtillus is in fact "bilberry". The farmed blueberries one can buy in a shop here in North Europe are large, and really very different from the blueberries/bilberries one can pick
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by ptaipale 6y ago
You get downvotes, but I do think you are right: at least in health industry, this event is a perfect stickhorse to push startups out of business i Finland. The current left-wing government has had that on the agenda, and they now have lots
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Sorry, what does "reportedly" mean here? That word is used often in a weasel-like way to make various claims, but is there an actual source for this?
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Sueing companies doesn't work quite the same way in Finland as it does in the US, but I am fairly certain that this chain of clinics (which was a 10-year-old start-up with about 250 employees, sold to private equity investor a couple o
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by ptaipale 6y ago
That makes sense, but Finland is a welfare state where government pays for a large part of health care costs, and this data breach was at a start-up that has a couple hundred therapists that mostly contract for the public health care system
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by ptaipale 6y ago
I don't quite understand how private equity is to blame here. The data breach happened in a start-up, before the acquisition by a private equity company, and the CEO and other start-up stakeholders withheld this information from the eq
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by ptaipale 6y ago
However, we cannot really know if that was the case. We have no guarantee that the message board poster even is the person behind the blackmail, and moreover, even if it is, this might be just about muddying the waters to cover what actuall
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Yes. And also possibly a rather serious breach of due diligence revelation requirements in the acquisition process, which might constitute either a serious fraud, or specific securities trading crimes that carry penalties of several years i
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by ptaipale 6y ago
Not everyone is the same, but too many are. I have similar experiences of newpaper articles: whenever I happen to know the case in deeper detail, I find the newspaper reporting sloppy at best, and drama-seeking and distorting at worst.
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by ptaipale 6y ago
What? Almost every US presidential election since the early 19th century has had several candidates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden... I don't understand this baseless whataboutism to
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by ptaipale 6y ago
To reformulate the proverb attributed to Stalin: The wrongful treatment of Toussaint Louverture was a tragedy, but the crippling debt imposed by France on Haiti was just... economic statistics.
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by ptaipale 6y ago
I think it is somewhat incorrect to call this vaccination, because the proper term for what was available in Benjamin Franklin's time was variolation, or inoculation.
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Open WiFi Security (Friday Evening Rant)(twitter.com)
1 points by ptaipale 7y ago|0 comments
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I still don't think it's worse than a slow, painful death (e.g. some types of cancer). One that occasionally gives you hope, and then plunges the patient into yet another deeper chasm, until there is one from which there is no ret
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by ptaipale 7y ago
The correlation of women in STEM graduates and Global Gender Gap index is negative: the higher gender equality, the lower the proportion of women graduating from STEM subjects. Possible reasons are considered in The Atlantic: https:/&
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I am not so sure that the suggested availability of high quality childcare really helps those numbers in STEM. In Nordic countries (I live in Finland), which are quite well known for having good quality childcare available to all families a
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by ptaipale 7y ago
I can think of several reasons: - despite its belligerent actions in Iraq, Iran wanted to live up to Khamenei's tweet to Trump "1st. You can't do anything". [0] - if Iranian leadership was actually fearing American repri
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Iran plane crash: Ukrainian jet was 'unintentionally' shot down(bbc.com)
6 points by ptaipale 7y ago|2 comments
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Similarly, Helsinki (about same population) had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist and 0 children killed in traffic, but 3 people killed in motor vehicles. (The above figures are only for road traffic; several people were killed by trains, but those a

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