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by shusaku 5y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/us/merck-antiviral-pill-c... The NYTimes article sort of came off as suggesting this is a cheaper, easier to administer alternative to monoclonal antibodies. So I wonde
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by shusaku 5y ago
Part of the problem is that twitter is just awful. It’s really hard to find the relevant parts of the discussion. But it’s a fascinating research topic, so I’m quite enjoying the discussion. Thanks for laying out the links.
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by shusaku 5y ago
See the discussion of the actual paper here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603118
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Criticism engulfs paper claiming an asteroid destroyed Biblical Sodom Gomorrah(retractionwatch.com)
40 points by shusaku 5y ago|30 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
“That’s how evolution works” isn’t a good framework once rational creatures (supposedly us) are involved. If we found a species of delicious pigs in a local area and ate them all, we don’t get to rest on the “well the overall rate of extinc
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by shusaku 5y ago
That’s pretty interesting. I think there are a lot of analysis mistakes you can make looking at the covid data by assuming every point is up to date and without error. It seems like it would the too hard to model the lagging data so perhap
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by shusaku 5y ago
I’m really confused by this article. > The items were the following: > As far as you know, what percentage of unvaccinated people have been hospitalized due to the coronavirus? > As far as you know, what percentage of fully vaccina
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by shusaku 5y ago
> Yes, and there are self-taught people working at Google who do bleeding edge cryptography work And we’ve come full circle to the topic of survivorship bias
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by shusaku 5y ago
I don’t understand how it would be possible for the Clovis culture to conquer an earlier people without leaving a genetic record. I mean we even have Neanderthal DNA in each of us. Surely they would have intermingled?
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by shusaku 5y ago
The linked article has a footprint in New Mexico 23,000 years ago, whereas your link is in the top of Alaska at 24,000 years ago. It sounds like filling in the middle will be quite exciting!
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by shusaku 5y ago
I really think covid has broken hacker news. Maybe it’s instructive. It’s the most interesting tech story of the decade. I want to know everything about how the virus works, how we can fight back, what new ideas are out there, etc. for a co
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by shusaku 5y ago
I wonder if it’s just deaths or if there’s a decline in births as well. I could see a lot of families put off having kids for fear of packed hospitals or other restrictions.
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by shusaku 5y ago
Without opening up too much of a covid origin can of worms… can all covid strands jump from humans to cats or are specific mutations required? And can related coronaviruses that don’t infect humans infect cats? Or are the mutations for SARS
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by shusaku 5y ago
The above poster asked you to clarify your point in good faith and this is how you respond? Clearly he was asking for details about how vegetarianism would produce a more robust food supply.
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by shusaku 5y ago
How can you say for sure you are in the old body? After all, the new body is an indistinguishable copy of you, indeed the old body has now changed and is more different than the you at the time of cloning than the new one. “You are in the o
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Multilingual Folk Tale Database(mftd.org)
1 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
> the time of the statues’ creation, around the sixth millennium B.C.E., the Arabian Peninsula was filled with grassland and much wetter than it is now. We’re camels significantly different during this time? How much of their current fea
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Is Lisa Holst responsible for the belief that everyone eats eight spiders a year(skeptics.stackexchange.com)
1 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
People can disagree with your assessment, but it’s pretty sad that you write the only comment in this thread that actually engaged with the content of the linked article, and it’s downvoted.
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by shusaku 5y ago
I switched my blog from Jekyll to Pelican recently after getting sick of constant ruby package versioning issues. It’s pretty nice, though maybe not as good for getting your site to appear on google search
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by shusaku 5y ago
The love of contrarian views can be quite nauseating on hacker news. Post a somewhat mainstream, but interesting article, and prepare to watch it get nit-picked to death before commenters conclude it was only published due to reviewer frien
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How Glaciers Set a Table(physics.aps.org)
1 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
You’re overthinking this maybe. Every problem that is solved, is solved by an individual, not the group of established folks working on it. Hence, even if the age of the solver is evenly distributed, you’ll have hard problems being solved b
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Remarkable historical footage is locked behind paywalls(aeon.co)
7 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
> Wind power is carbon-free and about 85% of turbine components, including steel, copper wire, electronics and gearing can be recycled or reused. That’s a far cry from “no way”.
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Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World(bloomberg.com)
34 points by shusaku 5y ago|3 comments
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We’re Hitting the Limits of Hurricane Preparedness(theatlantic.com)
4 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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List of satellite map images with missing or unclear data(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by shusaku 5y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 5y ago
In the age of NFTs this makes for an interesting story. But I’m really unsympathetic to the claim that there is some kind of scandal going on here.
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by shusaku 5y ago
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one that feels this way. Recently, I decided to buy a one year gift subscription to a substack I follow and give it to myself, just to avoid that feeling.

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