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The Wikipedia War That Shows How Ugly This Election Will Be(theatlantic.com)
16 points by sndean 6y ago|7 comments
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How the Coronavirus Compares with 100 Years of Deadly Events(nytimes.com)
1 points by sndean 6y ago|0 comments
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How Fast Cars Would Be If They Advanced at the Pace of Computers(jalopnik.com)
2 points by sndean 6y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 6y ago
That specific hospital wasn't. But, again: > At the peak they needed about double the normal number of beds. If they had not been able to annex a portion of the hospital for more beds, they probably would've been overwhelmed. M
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by sndean 6y ago
I'm not sure about the articles, but my SO had worked nights in the ICU just outside of NYC for the past two months. Notes from her: - They quadrupled ICU capacity, taking over empty hospital beds from elsewhere in the hospital. At one
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British Startup May Have Solved Urban EV Charging(jalopnik.com)
3 points by sndean 6y ago|1 comments
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by sndean 6y ago
Oh yeah, no disrespect to Napoleon or France. I have Andrew Roberts' Napoleon in my reading queue for later during this quarantine. I just meant that it represents a very foreign era relative to now, though maybe I should think of it a
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by sndean 6y ago
Early on this interview [0] he says that his grandfather visited Napoleon in Elba (in 1814). It's always sort of mind-blowing how few generations, albeit long-lived ones, are required to reach to a very different era, where there exist
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After Quant Bust 2020 Comes a Reckoning for Stock Math Wizzes(bloomberg.com)
2 points by sndean 6y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 6y ago
> What conditions would it need to be a new virus rather than a variation of the original one The Carl Woese (Woesian?) [0] definition that's been taught for a while is that when a certain sequence within two organisms exhibits a si
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by sndean 6y ago
> Are they looking for antibodies that attach to specific features unique to SARS-CoV-2? They're all slightly different, but yes they're looking for antibodies against specific parts of SARS-CoV-2, like the N protein [0][1]. I
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by sndean 6y ago
> traditional scarcity of equipment This sort of thing likely led to what one of my Russian professors was pretty proud of: That Soviet microbiologists with some bacteria, a pH meter, and some basic chemicals like sodium citrate could ba
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by sndean 6y ago
That was my first reaction too, comparing it to somewhere like Doha or Dubai. But maybe religious tourism? [0] [0] https://qz.com/1684679/the-hajj-pilgrimage-to-saudi-arabias-...
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For Japanese, the Abacus Still Counts (1970)(nytimes.com)
2 points by sndean 7y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 7y ago
Yeah, the only people that I know who don't have >400000 in loans with a >5% interest rate coming out of residency have wealthy parents who paid for everything, did the military's HPSP program [1], or did a free 7-year MD&#x
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by sndean 7y ago
There were several videos that Numberphile did with Conway, including one where he talked about what problems he'd like to see before he died and his own mortality [0]. In particular he wanted to know why the Monster group [1] exists,
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U.S. Jobless Rate May Soar to 30%, Fed’s Bullard Says(bloomberg.com)
64 points by sndean 7y ago|64 comments
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by sndean 7y ago
It may just be my better understanding of bacteria, but I think it'd be significantly easier to engineer bacteria as a bioweapon where, largely, you are the one doing the spreading, via something like a crop duster. I've heard a f
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White House Mulls New 50-, 25-Year Bonds to Finance Stimulus(bloomberg.com)
1 points by sndean 7y ago|0 comments
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Wide-Band WebSDR – Shortwave Radio on the Internet(websdr.ewi.utwente.nl)
201 points by sndean 7y ago|59 comments
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The U.S. May Already Be in a Recession(bloomberg.com)
16 points by sndean 7y ago|3 comments
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by sndean 7y ago
Yeah probably reduced, but it may be more to do with them becoming contaminated. The link points to a study saying > One study found that nurses averaged 25 touches per shift to their face, eyes, or N95 respirator during extended use. Ho
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by sndean 7y ago
It looks like CDC recommends to use them for ≤ 8 hours (continuous or intermittent) [0]. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/hcwcontrols/recommendedguid...
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by sndean 7y ago
> 1. Iran has more young people. Just wondering if that's true. It does look like that's the case: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$entities$show$geo$/$...
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Can a Tesla's Bioweapon Defense Mode Protect You from the Coronavirus?(jalopnik.com)
2 points by sndean 7y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 7y ago
I believe SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of the COVID-19 disease, maybe similar to how B. anthracis causes anthrax or HIV causes AIDS. (I'm not a virologist or epidemiologist, though.)
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Patients rate hospitality as more important than survival rates(academic.oup.com)
1 points by sndean 7y ago|0 comments
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The mystery of silphium, a lost Roman herb (2017)(bbc.com)
90 points by sndean 7y ago|37 comments
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In Superbug War, Reliance on Just a Few Drugmakers Fuels Concern(bloomberg.com)
3 points by sndean 7y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 7y ago
> Principal investigators are notoriously stubborn about how they do things I've come across things a simple as "I wrote a Perl script that does that, but it uses KEGG not GO terms" for their reasoning. That, or – if they&

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