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by ridgeguy 6y ago
about 15 years, just the one account. And I'm sure my account isn't much more than a roundoff error compared with most of their business.
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by ridgeguy 6y ago
IIUC, it's still unknown if having COVID-19 confers either short- or long-term immunity.
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by ridgeguy 6y ago
Propane is easily transported and stored as a moderately pressurized liquid at ambient temperatures. Propane has a big volumetric advantage over natural gas. Natural gas is mainly methane, liquifies at -160°C, and requires active refrigerat
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by ridgeguy 6y ago
FWIW, my experiences: I filed an EIDL partway through on the SBA site Apr 6, got far enough create an account, to save my work and get an application number. Login UI was gone by April 7 when I went to finish my app. No hint of the UI I&#x2
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by ridgeguy 6y ago
My personal bank, First Republic, accepted my application even though I run my business as self-employed and they normally require a "real" business account. Got the app in on April 8, crickets since.
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
The blog post linked to has information on the new program passed today. I'm sure the info isn't complete, but it's helpful.
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
The new rules eliminate personal guarantees for loans <$200K.
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
The paper says clinical tests used both chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. In discussing the results, they don't seem to differentiate between the two, unless I missed it.
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
People pet dogs. The virus may have a nontrivial lifetime on a dog's fur. Fido could become a vector.
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
The copperclothing linked study (2014) used a bovine corona virus that is a "surrogate of human coronavirus", so the results aren't necessarily valid for the current pandemic virus. Yesterday, in a link I can't quickly f
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
This is already happening in my small neighborhood. In about 80 homes, residents range in age from 0.5 years to 86 years. Several younger householders today organized to buy and deliver items needed by older residents so they can continue s
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
Perhaps a cruise ship demographic factor was fewer pre-existing health issues than we'd see in a randomly chosen age cohort of similar size? Co-morbidity of other diseases and COVID-19 seems to correlate with higher case mortality rate
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
What you suggest seems plausible, but I can't immediately calculate, for example, DNA repair rate vs. X-ray photon flux and cross-sections. Can you point me to something that confirms incidence or severity of radiation-induced disease
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
According to [1], a chest CT scan rad dose ranges from 4 to 18 milliSieverts. Annual background dose is ~3 milliSv. [2] states that a 100 mSv dose would increase risk of cancer by 0.5% (5/1000). [1] https://www.health.harva
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
>Of course it would be ideal if your employer paid you for the time it took to search you after work, but this is a luxury. It's not a luxury for me to be paid for the only irreplaceable capital I have, which is my time. When Apple
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
I suppose you could equip a team with these and bluetooth an AND function. Every team member could pick a different target, all weapons would fire simultaneously when every weapon met 'guaranteed hit' criteria, not before. Should
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
There will be a size below which fluid turbulence determines particle motion rather than particle density. This minimum size will increase for particles with rough surfaces or high shape drag coefficients, or both. In air, this size is ~ 10
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
I think going "back to the earth" is on a continuum. I don't think we need to revert to stone knives and bearskins to give kids a perspective on how far removed (and yet still how close) we are from those times. Their having
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
I was a ham radio operator for several years. It was easy to ID my frequent contacts by their morse code transmission patterns, and they me. An operator's pattern was called their "fist".
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
De Beers also fights lab-grown diamonds by making and selling their own. [0] Their factory is in Oregon, first build is about 200 growth chambers (microwave plasma CVD). [0] https://www.debeersgroup.com/media/company-n
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
My brother worked on the F-117 and has that mug. Very good thermochromics.
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
I'd add Downlink [1] to the Wallpaper category. No connection to the developer, just a user here. [1] https://downlinkapp.com
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
>"right click > open" brings up an admin challenge/authentication if executed by a non-admin user.
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
No insights that I can support. My long-unrefreshed impression of thimerosal after looking into its toxicity as a vaccine preservative is that it was statistically insignificant. Impression not informed by data later than about 2005.
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
>Never mind that it wasn't elemental mercury and was perfectly safe to ingest… I’m sure you didn’t mean non-elemental forms of mercury are safe, but to forestall someone’s taking that meaning: “Organic” mercury compounds can be far
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
Maybe not only birds. Today, I drove home from Las Vegas to Portola Valley. I went 95->6->120 over Tioga pass, then home. I've driven this route over several decades. My recollection (corroborated by a few Kodachrome slides) is t
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
I hope so. After reading the Bloomberg article, I looked up my Losartan Rx. It's from a manufacturer's lot that was pulled by the FDA on Feb 28 of this year. The kicker is, my (major chain) pharmacy sold it to me this July...
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
Thanks for these. Got a couple of interesting evenings' reading ahead.
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
Would you give me a link or two to start? I get that Piketty's work isn't without controversy or criticism. Summers and others have criticized it, but their critiques haven't seemed very strong. One article [1] (which discuss
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by ridgeguy 7y ago
See also Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. TLDR: RoI (capital) > RoI (labor), with the expected consequences.

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