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by simpleguitar 5y ago
A PCR test that is sensitive is a great tool. Remember the NBA bubble? A less sensitive test would have allowed outbreaks inside the bubble, making some player sick and unable to play, as well as eroding the public's confidence on PCR
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
So forget breakthrough infections for a second. Covid has both pre-sympomatic AND asymptomatic transmission. This has been proven. In many places, a negative PCR test means you do not have/carry the disease and can participate in risky
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
Not significant percentage? https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/07/26/sel...
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
I think covid deniers do make up a significant percentage of the population, and they would take this as proof of exaggeration even though it really isn't. US has had 1M excess deaths. That's a million people more than usual
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
I think a lot of people might be willing to pay for 4 days in orbit for $2M. My version would have blackjack and hookers, obviously.
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
"29. The benefits, risks, burdens and effectiveness of a new method should be tested against those of the best current prophylactic, diagnostic, and therapeutic methods. This does not exclude the use of placebo, or no treatment, in stu
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
Zig is better C. I love zig.
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
My point is that even the "untrustable Chinese" were saying airborne transmission at the outset. And other evidence that they were right came pouring in from other countries like Korea, Hong Kong, Italy, etc right from the start.
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
One problem--ethics. Can't knowingly give humans less protection. It's not a money problem.
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
Notice the word 'eliminate'. Nobody could claim something would 'eliminate exposure or risk of contracting any disease' and not get sued immediately by someone who got sick. In Wuhan, something like 10,000 doctors were s
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
During an interview with some of the doctors sent into Wuhan in their wave, they claimed none of the 10 thousand or so doctors sent in became infected. They used strict PPE protocol, including N95 masks. Given what we know about the covid t
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
A properly fit N95 should block out all dust. If you are getting plaster in your nose, try different types of masks (folding), or a half-face respirator. One of the justification for not advising N95s to the public was the fact that most pe
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
I'm not defending what they did, but let's make the facts clear. Initially (december?) they denied there was human-human transmission, and tried to down play magnitude of the virus. And once Wuhan was locked down, they down played
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
Not sure what you're getting at. Preprint for this paper was out in Apr 2020: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32240078/
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
Absolutely. Considering how long it took CDC and WHO to even acknowledge airborne transmission, even though the Chinese were very clear about it from very early on. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion&#
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
This article is more about having a common culture than about different programming languages. If the author was in a Node.js shop, or a C# shop, or a Golang shop, it would be whatever language everyone is familiar with that would win out.
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by simpleguitar 5y ago
The recent HN article about how our brains prefer additive solutions vs the subtractive also seems to point in the direction of ever increasing complexity. Maybe the field of software can really mature only when looking for subtractive solu
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
Hahaha, didn't think of that one! DogeCoin FTW!
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
For Toyota, it wasn't the engineering, design, nor the manufacturing that was the bottleneck. It was sourcing of the batteries. Toyota sold 100k Priuses it's first year (2005), and peaked at 237k Priuses in 2012. At that time, nob
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
When I read the title, I thought of Mike J Jordan immediately. And then I clicked on the article. HAHAHA. I learned Bayesian inference models from him.
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
> I think it just ruffled my feathers to see an offhand comment putting down some great work. Adobe is a big place with many great products. No offense intended. > You will be utterly surprised how many FAANG level salary companies u
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
At least in the Bay Area, there are plenty of jobs like this, even outside banks and such. Many companies that's been around for 20 years have bazillion pieces of unexciting software they need to support and maintain. They still need f
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
Why can't GC coexist with memory pools? They both have good uses. It's pretty clear that Go designers wanted a GC, but also wanted control over memory. In go, it is trivial to create a slice of structs that's contiguous in me
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
I bet you are allocating/deallocating something in a loop. Give the Go profiler a whirl. I bet it will be pretty easy to remove, too. I have not run into a case where go can't be within 2x speed of C. And I love how zig is even cl
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
I’m glad that my backups to BB obfuscates file names and sizes in addition to being encrypted.
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
> Why photosynthesis is "almost impossible"? Genuine question https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/physicists-see-q...
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
The difference between animals and plants is that animals can "do life" with movement, whereas plants, being stuck in place, use chemistry. Take self defense for example. Animals will run or fight. An onion will make you cry with
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
Right. In the visualization it looks bad, but actual penetration testing reveal that it's not so bad.
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
> There's quite a difference between as well as and better than. I think that qualifies as editorializing, which is discouraged by HN guidelines. The "as well as" is comparing valved and un-valved N95s. The "better th
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by simpleguitar 6y ago
OP here. Your confusion comes from comparing filter media performance to simulated as-worn performance. A good surgical mask media will very much likely provide 17% penetration. Note that this is just the media. When you wear one, there are

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