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by slv77 3y ago
Most of these ranches will be running cow-calf operations. A cow-calf operation is a herd that produces calves which can be sold to a feedlot or backgrounding operators. In factory farming it’s the calf that is the factory that turn grain i
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by slv77 3y ago
Sometimes people want to be firefighters to protect the people they serve but others love how being in a crisis makes them feel alive. The later are why arson investigators first look at firefighters when doing an arson investigation. Some
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by slv77 3y ago
There is a lot of help and experience in setting up intentional communities. A good place to start is https://www.ic.org/ .
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by slv77 3y ago
If it were an arbitrary biological instinct then it wouldn’t be contextual based on cultural clues.
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by slv77 3y ago
It is difficult to create scenarios that trade-off one life for millions without implying responsibility of the person being asked to make the decision. People are grappling less with moral trade-offs in these decisions than they are with t
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by slv77 3y ago
The scenarios aren’t the same. The switch scenario implies that the individual has responsibility for the entire system. The switch and the train have a strong cultural component that implies responsibility for the system as a whole (employ
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by slv77 3y ago
Yes, civilization would have largely survived a partial and temporary collapse of the US healthcare system that was a potential outcome from covid. There were multiple countries where the medical system came close to collapse. India in 2021
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by slv77 3y ago
In this case the queue was wait time for an ICU bed and the simulation allowed them to better model how events (infection, admission, resolution) would impact ICU wait times. This allowed policymakers to better understand the tipping point
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by slv77 3y ago
N-95 masks work to keep you from catching the virus and cloth or paper masks (somewhat) prevented you from spreading the virus. Ideally everyone would have worn N-95 masks but the US had four problems: 1) The US didn’t have enough N-95 mas
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by slv77 3y ago
Deaths peaked in 2021 but hospitalizations peaked in 2022. Hospitals were at higher capacity in 2022 but treatment protocols had improved reducing mortality rates. Deaths caught the headlines so people missed the surge. https://o
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by slv77 3y ago
Discrete event simulations is used to get better utilization of a constrained resource. The fact that hospitals were using it just reinforces that ICU capacity was considered a serious constraint by policymakers. Discrete event simulation
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by slv77 3y ago
CONCLUSIONS Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of Covid-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of Covid-
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by slv77 3y ago
The hospital ship was never intended to take covid patients. The idea was the ship would take non-covid cases leaving ICU capacity in hospitals. It turns out that military hospital ships aren’t great for the general population given bulkhea
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by slv77 3y ago
My impression was that a segment of the population felt that the lockdowns and other constraints imposed by policymaker were primarily fear based. This may have been due a perceived difference between religious versus secular acceptance of
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by slv77 3y ago
ICU capacity consists of the room, the equipment and the staffing. Once oxygen saturation starts to drop the treatment options are oxygen and eventually intubation and a medically induced coma. There is no realistic scenario where untrained
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by slv77 3y ago
ICU capacity was a bottleneck that never got resolved. In the US there was never a nationwide effort to mobilize ICU resources to target hot spots other than an initial aborted attempt to gather respirators for the surge in NYC and send a m
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by slv77 3y ago
The cost-benefit calculations in terms of excess deaths are irrelevant. It was clear even during the initial outbreak that policymakers primary constraints were the due to uncertainty about the virus and limits on availability of protective
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by slv77 3y ago
It’s called manufactured spending and the idea is to be able to buy something and liquidate at the same price with no risk. The intent is to rack up points on credit cards for free travel or to manipulate credit scores.
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by slv77 3y ago
The adjustable grip hitch is great but the Blake’s hitch is almost magic and my favorite knot right now. https://www.animatedknots.com/blakes-hitch-knot
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by slv77 3y ago
A company is insolvent when liabilities exceed assets. Companies can remain insolvent indefinitely unless they miss a payment at which point a creditor can force them into bankruptcy where a court oversees liquidation. Evergrande is insolve
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by slv77 3y ago
Shareholders have no priority and the only hope for shareholders to recover anything would be through government intervention (e.g. American International Group). The value in Evergrande was entirely in its financial engineering capabiliti
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by slv77 3y ago
Short sellers can use bankruptcy as a way of closing out their positions and also in the process provide some market and liquidity. Short sellers borrowed stock and sold it based on the belief that the stock was going to drop in price and n
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by slv77 3y ago
US regulators also require banks to move non-performing loans and assets off the balance sheet. Allowing banks to hold them makes the balance sheet murky and hard to determine if the bank is solvent. In the 2008 financial crisis banks sold
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by slv77 3y ago
A long time ago I dated someone whose Dad worked with nuclear weapons before the nuclear test ban was in place and at the height of the Cold War. At the time there was a saying that it would take less than a dozen nuclear weapons to destroy
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by slv77 3y ago
I’ve had a similar experience with someone who is close and was a hoarder. Hoarding can cause distress for loved ones both from the impact of simply having too much stuff but also the impacts of living with someone who has a mental illness.
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by slv77 3y ago
Salted nuclear weapons would be a third scenario which could effectively sterilize the planet.
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by slv77 3y ago
This assumes that both parties are rational agents acting with full knowledge, no coercion and no externalities. The rational agent in economics is similar to the spherical cow in physics. Great for modeling but pretty useless to a cowboy.
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by slv77 3y ago
Comparative advantage is a thing but in some cases those comparative advantages are an ability to turn a blind eye to the environment or the ability to repress your population. Also, if there were no strategic implications there would be no
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by slv77 3y ago
The article summary seems to be that an emotionally resilient person in a supportive community may not need therapy in response to an adverse emotional event. Studies and meta-analysis show that therapy is effective but it is possible that
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by slv77 3y ago
Humming increasing nitric oxide production is well documented. Here is one journal article but there are others: https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/22/2/323 Nitric Oxide dilates the nasal passages and is als

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