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by rovolo 6y ago
You're right that human contact-tracing also has false positives/negatives. I think a better question is how does the error rate compare? The worry is that automated exposure tracking will pick up many more false positives than hu
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by rovolo 6y ago
Are you taking inflation into account? A $60K starting salary in 1980 is equivalent to a $190K starting salary today.
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by rovolo 6y ago
Apologies, I misread the "Voter Cancellation Form" on the WA website [0] as the "Vote Cancellation Form". I learned of my mistake after searching for information to answer your question. They didn't allow people to
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by rovolo 6y ago
I think they mean that NULL is a part of the type system, rather than an overloaded value of the same type. You can't assign NULL to a Boolean, but you can assign NULL to a nullable Boolean. From the article: > The programming langu
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by rovolo 6y ago
You're right, I should have called it out in the text. I thought ‰ was okay because I was comparing the other cities to NYC, not to an absolute value. Also, I think it's a fun symbol, and I want more english speakers to use it.
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by rovolo 6y ago
I'm using the per-mille (‰) rather than per-cent (%) symbol. Sorry for the confusion, but it's a more convenient unit for these quantities. This is how it'd look in percentages: NYC: 0.107% New Orleans: 0.065% Detroit: 0.060%
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by rovolo 6y ago
* The employee can cancel the mail-in ballot and vote in person. * The ballots are sent to your home, not your workplace. * Employers can ask for a picture of an in-person ballot. Buying votes is illegal, which dissuades most people from bu
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by rovolo 6y ago
It's almost 100% vote by mail in WA, but each county needs an in-person voting place for accessibility reasons. (Example: How do you fill out a paper ballot if you're blind?) I assume it's similar in CO HI OR and UT. > Can
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by rovolo 6y ago
Here's the process for WA; which step do you think makes it "impossible" for the ballot to remain secret? 1) You fill out the ballot, there is no identifying information on the ballot. 2) You put the ballot into a privacy sle
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by rovolo 6y ago
Details for Washington: - The signature on on the envelope, not the ballot. You put your ballot into a privacy sleeve and then into an envelope. You seal the envelope, sign the envelope, and then mail it. -- The signature has to match (as j
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by rovolo 6y ago
For those who don't want to click through, this is the thesis of the article: > People with similar names — often a relative of the deceased voter — signed the poll book in the wrong spot, Schmidt said. In no case, he said, did the
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by rovolo 6y ago
The disease spreads exponentially. Germany's low death rate is probably due primarily to slowing the spread earlier. You don't need to treat infected people better to have fewer total deaths if there are fewer infected people. ht
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by rovolo 6y ago
Who counts as a 'Western Nation'? [0] I think most people would assume Western Europe and the Anglophones (USA, CAN, AUS, NZ). If we assume that the US counts in the "hit hard" category, then we can partition western nat
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by rovolo 6y ago
NYC certainly got hit bad, but I wouldn't say it's the only badly hit city. Here is deaths/total pop for some other cities >1mil population which I would also call "hit hard". NYC: 1.07‰ New Orleans: 0.65‰ Detroi
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by rovolo 6y ago
To add more data, Germany locked down on Mar 17 at 24 known deaths. The UK locked down on Mar 23 at 336 known deaths. Germany reached 342 known deaths on Mar 27. That's 10 days of lead time on the deaths metric. Germany's new deat
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by rovolo 6y ago
It's controversial because it sounds pseudo-scientific. Why would removing all vegetables from his diet help with an autoimmune disorder? His daughter's blog called "Don’t Eat That" had the tagline "The food pyramid
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by rovolo 6y ago
You need documentation for the insurance company to pay for visits/procedures.
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by rovolo 6y ago
Vietnam also has fewer confirmed cases per-capita (3/mil vs 100/mil) despite testing more people per-capita than Japan. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-tests-cases-scat... Japan's low per-cap
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by rovolo 6y ago
A) You'll know which communities have infections. Many places are saying: "it's not bad here, why should we isolate?" B) If you know that someone with bad symptoms has the virus, then you can go test everyone they contac
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by rovolo 6y ago
They must go through their state's unemployment office. The CARES [0] act added $600 per week to state unemployment benefits, expanded unemployment coverage to self-employed workers[1], and extended the time you can stay on unemploymen
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by rovolo 6y ago
I transcribed the clip, and I don't see where he's "dragging people down". My guess is that you're reacting to "as a white male in society I'm given a lot of privilege that I didn't earn" and &qu
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by rovolo 6y ago
Why is it a mistake to not buy oil for the strategic reserve right now? The mission statements are all talking about dealing with low supply, but the problem right now is low demand. Is the mistake that it would be cheap right now to "
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by rovolo 7y ago
Just a note on the "3% prevalence of antibodies": we need to consider the false positive rate and selection bias for general population antibody tests as well. A biologist I follow was skeptical about a study showing that 1.5% of
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by rovolo 7y ago
JFYI: Sweden is now in the "Very High" bucket for week 14. There's a disclaimer above the map: > As always, the number of deaths in the recent weeks should be interpreted with caution as adjustments for delayed registratio
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by rovolo 7y ago
Are you using some metric other than "per-capita" for tests? I could understand something like "per-positive case", but it's unclear from your comments. I ask because the data I have shows the US solidly in the midd
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by rovolo 7y ago
Where are you getting that data? The 'Our World in Data' site says reporting is inconsistent, but the data they do have shows per-capita Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Austria doing more than the US, and France, the UK, and the Neth
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by rovolo 7y ago
My 'week behind' is from comparing per-capita cumulative deaths. The number of confirmed cases doesn't track as well between countries, probably due to different testing strategies. Norway, Denmark, and Sweden all have simila
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by rovolo 7y ago
Sweden is on the same track as Switzerland, but about a week behind. They will probably show up on the map in either 1 or 2 weeks. http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
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by rovolo 7y ago
Here's how it would look in python: from functools import reduce def min2(a, b): if a < b: return a return b def min(list): return reduce(min2, list, None)
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by rovolo 7y ago
Here's a video explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKSfAkWWN0 Magnetism affects moving charges, but not stationary charges. A magnetic field in your reference frame is really just an electric field in the movin

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