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by rbritton 6y ago
I'd truly love to hear a good counterargument to this. I've argued much the same thing only to have the same opposing talking points restated verbatim.
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by rbritton 6y ago
And those consequences matter. You can't handwave them away and pretend they don't exist. Don't forget that you work in a fairly unique field. Many, many occupations cannot work from home.
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by rbritton 6y ago
This study suggests that the resulting rise in deaths isn't immediate. That it isn't measurable now does not mean it isn't coming. >1 %-point rise in the unemployment rate raises the risk of dying next year by 6%. https:&
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by rbritton 6y ago
At what cost? When do you factor in the additional deaths and other consequences from suicides, domestic violence, increased substance abuse, and so on? There are two sides to the equation.
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by rbritton 6y ago
You're going to get massively downvoted here because you dared question the hive mind. None of their approaches place any consideration on the damage caused by the mitigation efforts themselves. Suicides, domestic violence, overdoses,
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by rbritton 6y ago
Hiring is more difficult. It's not that you can't find applicants, but the people capable of performing without direct supervision is (mostly) a subset of those capable of performing in an office. It can be difficult to identify t
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by rbritton 6y ago
Do you have any links handy discussing the issues? I have not come across anything like that in my reading and would like to read more on the critiques.
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by rbritton 6y ago
The NY study does align fairly well with similar studies done in Santa Clara County and Los Angeles County in California, though. All three indicate a significantly lower IFR than previously expected.
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by rbritton 6y ago
Responding to the sibling comment: they don't need to make a profit, but they should at least break even. Call it a price, a tax, or whatever, but it's capable of being completely self-contained where those using the service can p
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Comprehensive Covid-19 hospitalization and death rate estimates(eurekalert.org)
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by rbritton 7y ago
Since they’re predominantly focused on when it’s about kids, I’ll add those stats since I have them handy. Causes of death, 2016, ages 0 to 14 (60,975,441 population estimate, 32,709 deaths reported): - Congenital defects: 5,598 (17.11% of
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by rbritton 7y ago
To play devil’s advocate — a not insubstantial amount of the economic damage is self-induced. We could accept some degree of risk and the associated consequences to reduce that, but we have not for various reasons that are subject to deba
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by rbritton 7y ago
That’s when the announcement of it was broadcast, which is why I used that time.
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by rbritton 7y ago
The corollary is also true: more people are not dying of Covid-19 than we know.
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by rbritton 7y ago
Washington does as of 5:00 pm PDT today.
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by rbritton 7y ago
Influenza R0 has varied historically between 0.9 and 2.8 [0], where covid-19 is typically quoted as having an R0 around 2.3-2.5. It’s not substantially different in that regard. Lethality estimates also suffer from being based on bad data.
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by rbritton 7y ago
Which one disappeared first? An audience willing to pay for quality journalism or quality journalism? I suspect quality journalism declined first, and it declined to the point where it made customers skeptical of journalism in general. That
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by rbritton 7y ago
I think there was a time that was true. Now reCAPTCHA is so prone to tagging someone as a bot if they employ any ad blocking or tracking prevention that it significantly interferes with web use. It's an overall harm to the web in my op
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by rbritton 7y ago
I've recently done quite a bit of work with SVGs, including those with animations. Some observations: * Edge doesn't support SVG animation in the older engine, only the newer Chromium-based one. * Until recently, Chrome had a mass
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by rbritton 7y ago
Another FF plugin you might like is Multi-Account Containers [0]. It lets you isolate one or more websites from others to minimize their tracking ability. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mu
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by rbritton 7y ago
It starts at the top or at the very least is looked over by the top. Every miserable work experience I’ve ever had was due to the culture passed down from the top. Likewise with every great place. Insecure, jealous, vindictive, <other ne
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by rbritton 7y ago
That's a big part of the storyline of The Expanse book series.
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by rbritton 7y ago
They did [0], and to me it's a legitimate course of action to extend device life and minimize support load a bit. However, it should be disclosed clearly and not covered up until it blows up. [0]: https://www.cnet.com/n
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by rbritton 7y ago
I do similar. I have two set up as camera monitors that can also pull up my rooftop weather station dashboard as wanted.
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by rbritton 7y ago
Reference for what the different colors mean: https://simonhearne.com/2015/find-third-party-assets/
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by rbritton 7y ago
Uber will ban you even if charges are reversed due to someone using a stolen card. It happened to someone I work with.
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by rbritton 7y ago
I think it extends to more than just walking. I snowboard as much as I can during the winter, and I can reliably pick out people I know from extreme distances just by how they ride. The posture, size of the person, and other traits all add
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by rbritton 7y ago
Ubiquiti’s offerings can all run 100% locally. I have my entire setup using PoE so each only needs a single cable.
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by rbritton 7y ago
Probably, but it would block the alerting feature they highlight in their ads. That said, I find motion detection alerting to be useless on outdoor-facing cameras due to vegetation, weather, and wildlife. The false positive rate makes it an
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by rbritton 7y ago
I've actually gone back to eBay for many types of products, including computer components. The platform itself is only the transaction layer, and you're able to select the specific company/individual on there to purchase from

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