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by rubidium 6y ago
I’m an essential worker going to the grocery at 10am because there’s less people there. My hours are flexible at work and we’re set up to do staggered shifts to minimize number of people in the building.
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by rubidium 6y ago
But we already know the actual infection rate is higher in NYC than CA. The main point that the antibody tests help uncover is death rate.
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by rubidium 6y ago
“ Moreover, we don't know what fraction of the currently-infected who will die have already died. A reasonable guess might be 50%” I lost you at reasonable guess. Why not ~1%?
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by rubidium 6y ago
I question the same. Either hospital supply chains were incompetent or underfunded (or both). Perhaps sacrificed on the recent trend of “lean” in the healthcare system.
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by rubidium 6y ago
"you can be known for shipping insecure products and there will be absolutely no repercussions in the marketplace" AND you can deliver a product that surpasses all else in the market. Usability trumps security for consumer grade a
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by rubidium 6y ago
With a grocery rewards program (Kroger) I filled up 12 gallons for $1.20 the other day :o
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by rubidium 7y ago
“ Nationwide downturn in house prices” there’s nothing certain about that happening. Look at 2001. It may.. but all the free money being thrown will prop up prices some. Plus supply in the tank because people aren’t moving. https:/&#x
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by rubidium 7y ago
Sure, but my Fortune 500 employer takes 2-3 weeks to do that on average. Longer only if the new hire needs longer to unwind from prior commitments.
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by rubidium 7y ago
Most problems aren’t special. They occur because some good general guidance wasn’t formed or applied. Having a checklist does help masters. It helps make sure they don’t miss the obvious issue in front of their face. Checklist manifesto is
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by rubidium 7y ago
Here’s the real deal. I’m quite privacy conscious. Hate tracking of any type, esp. for some mega corps profit. That said, I’d gladly install a decent security verified app that tracks me for the next 3 months. I’d be happy to self isolate a
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by rubidium 7y ago
Light pollution would be annoying though
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Rapid Expert Consultation on Potential for Seasonality for the Covid-19 Pandemic(nap.edu)
2 points by rubidium 7y ago|0 comments
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by rubidium 7y ago
“ Plan S has extra technical requirements, such as that journals must be transparent about their OA pricing strategies to be deemed compliant. Inchcoombe said Springer Nature still needed clarity from Plan S on these details.” And here’s th
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by rubidium 7y ago
“ all major cities must prepare to be ground zero” is the more efficient route because they are in the best position to determine what they can do and what nuances exist for their particular place. You want a strong team of experts (epidemi
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by rubidium 7y ago
Depends on your friends. I ask my liberal arts onesz
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by rubidium 7y ago
GM, Ford, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, 3M, Eli Lilly, Cummins, ... I could keep going. Maybe not all have it to the same degree as Apple, but are sufficient to make a face shield. Lot's of companies could do this. I'm glad App
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by rubidium 7y ago
Covid won’t do much to supply chains. China’s decisions regarding intellectual property and trade secrets (IP), however, haven’t changed and are the reason my (large) employer has stopped sending anything sensitive there. We still sell to C
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by rubidium 7y ago
I agree. But one comment worth considering: does it take longer to retool an assembly line to make a new verified part, or to come up with a new design based on existing verified parts? My money is on the former and they'd be better re
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Why It’s So Freaking Hard to Make a Good Covid-19 Model(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by rubidium 7y ago|0 comments
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by rubidium 7y ago
I ate plenty well as a grad student on $120 a month. If that’s $127/person that’s plenty for just food. If that’s $127 for a family of 3 that’d be rough.
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by rubidium 7y ago
Article is here: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/14/eaay9095 Earlier work is described in the U of I press release: https://mechanical.illinois.edu/news/force-triggers-gene-exp.
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by rubidium 7y ago
And they get it from...?
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Ask HN: What physical product do you make?
53 points by rubidium 7y ago|42 comments
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by rubidium 7y ago
Agreed its not insightful but doesn’t need to be. It's not an area where insight helps. Just good, professional process. Many people are emotional at such a juncture and having some guiderails is helpful so they can check their plan.
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by rubidium 7y ago
I appreciate you sharing your experience, but if I was in the room I’d be upset that you didn’t handle it better for the sake of the remaining team AND the departing employees. The approach detailed in the above blog post is more appropriat
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by rubidium 7y ago
“ almost like suggesting Microsoft drop their desktop Office applications and just focus on Office365” Not sure if you’re experience is different, but this seems to be exactly what they’re doing. Outlook windows app is buggy and terrible. O
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by rubidium 7y ago
“ Single purchase, you also get "single development", and then it dies.” This is a lie perpetuated by the saas industry. If you compare saas companies shutting down “services” to prior product companies stopping updating versions
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by rubidium 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_ana... Will give you a starting point. But there’s a lot of experienced engineers who know more. It’s something you learn mostly by doing as it needs to be adopt
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by rubidium 7y ago
This is an interesting approach for information security. A lot better than doing nothing, but the blog post states Netflix has 2 full time engineers thinking just about risk. But they’ve kinda just recreated a simplified traditional DFMEA.
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by rubidium 7y ago
A legendary impact on the field of condensed matter science and emergence. I recommend go and read his “more is different” paper right now if you haven’t. http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anders

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