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Tracking hCov-19 epidemiology through genomic data(nextstrain.org)
2 points by smt1 7y ago|0 comments
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by smt1 7y ago
The S&P futures dropped by 5% so far. Oil and other commodities also took a dump. https://m.investing.com/indices/indices-futures https://m.investing.com/commodities/
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Americans divided on party lines over risk from coronavirus: Reuters/Ipsos poll(reuters.com)
3 points by smt1 7y ago|1 comments
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A lot of individual differences in terms of cognitive decline. ruth bader ginsburg is 86 years old, and still seems sharp as a tack.
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by smt1 7y ago
I think it's 33% distrust in governmental institutions, especially the liberal elite fake news CDC, 33% the fact that it's mostly hit large cities so far, and 33% the direct actions of the administration and the right wing media m
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by smt1 7y ago
Although MERS is more deadly than SARS-CoV-2, it looks it's less transmissible between people than SARS-CoV-2. I heard an epidemiologist theorize that it might be because people infected with SARS-CoV-2 shed the virus before they show
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by smt1 7y ago
There is a poll that said that Democrats are taking it much more seriously than Republicans: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-po... Irony.
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by smt1 7y ago
Except that mining became largely mechanized, especially in the first world, reducing the labor intensity required to mine it: https://wvpolicy.org/blog-series-the-impact-and-future-of-th...
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by smt1 7y ago
Especially with how mechanized coal mining has become.
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There is. The protests especially have affected the large public international miners (BHP, Rio Tinto, Glencore, Anglo-American). One problem is is that when these companies leave thermal coal market by selling coal mines, the companies the
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by smt1 7y ago
It looks like even before this peace deal, they managed to wrest back control of much of the country, especially the rural Pashtun-majority areas. Territory control map in December 2019: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-app
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by smt1 7y ago
Agreed. At some point the Taliban and Pashtun nationalism become quite intertwined (even in areas of Pakistan). This made it so that probably not a insignificant porition of the Pashtun people sympathize with the Taliban if nothing else.
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by smt1 7y ago
For what it's worth, the Taliban had by 2001, brought relative peace and stability to a country that had two decades of civil war, including the Soviets and lawless warlords and humanitarian crises, and wonton destruction/chaos th
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by smt1 7y ago
Historically, the Pakistani intelligence forces have armed various mujahideen groups, both in Afghanistan, and in Indian Kashmir. Meanwhile, the Afghani government post-911 has been fairly close to India. This hasn't been true as much
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by smt1 7y ago
> No, no, no. The Taliban were broadly distributed throughout Southern Afghanistan, and they had a cross border sanctuary in Pakistan. I guess it depends on your definition of "remove". I don't doubt that a Taliban governm
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by smt1 7y ago
I disagree. Oliver seems to have a pretty international audience (and a personal ancedote, I have cousins in India who watch him). He covers international current events quite often and HBO content is widely distributed internationally, not
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by smt1 7y ago
Both are bad? I'd think most people who disagree with Modi's government's policies also disagree with the policies of the Trump administration. Both countries are pluralistic democracies without state religions.
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by smt1 7y ago
$40/barrel break even is still way more than most conventional oil fields. It's killed off say, tar sands and some of the more expensive off shore/arctic plays (say, like some pre-salt fields). The other thing about shale is
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Transforming Psychedelics into Medicines(statnews.com)
1 points by smt1 7y ago|0 comments
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by smt1 7y ago
I think as opposed to classical statistics, except for the important subfield of statistical learning theory, machine learning relates much more to functional analysis, differential geometry/optimization over manifolds, and measure&#x2
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by smt1 7y ago
I think a lot of the time, it is a side effect of lifestyle decisions (and/or misuse) that the drug in question can induce, not necessarily the drug itself. For example, amphetamine is prescribed to millions of Americans for ADHD (see,
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by smt1 7y ago
Or, as the original article pointed out, hyperinflation nd/or deflation happens in emerging economies where there have been the largest surges in debt, but developed countries like the US need more muted intervention by central banks b
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by smt1 7y ago
The point is not to augment cars via the proceeds of the tax, it's to change consumer or business behavior from the consumption of things that create otherwise uncaptured negative externalities like pollution or global warming - a mark
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MIT Climate Change for Computer Scientists(github.com)
1 points by smt1 7y ago|0 comments
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Ohio gas well blowout leaked more than many countries do in a year(arstechnica.com)
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Yup. Historically, because of a long tradition of practices such as jizya, historically (now it varies from country to country) there tended to be much more tolerance of "lateral" religions such as Christianity and Judaism in musl
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by smt1 7y ago
Well said. Hinduism has historically always been one of the most diverse and heterogeneous religious on the planet! And that's what made it incredible resilient in the past; it simply reflected whatever local groups worshipped/bel
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by smt1 7y ago
How about Farsi/Zoroastrians and Christians? Either you include Muslims, because all south asian muslims can also be claimed as indian ethnicity historically, or you disinclude everyone based on that argument.
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by smt1 7y ago
There has always been anti-bengali sentiment in assam, even under the British. It was one of the reasons Assam was split away from Bengal in the first place. My family is from the Siliguri Corridor, bordering Assam, and there are plenty of
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by smt1 7y ago
Sectarian conflict isn't religious persecution? Most of the other religious minorities, just like Ahmadis and some Shia groups are persecuted via the same Pakistan's blasphemy laws.

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