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by spion 6y ago
This is already happening, just with humans networked into social networks that favor quick reshare over deep review
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by spion 6y ago
I would totally take it, but I wouldn't be very surprised if I still got a severe disease. My point is that its important for people to have an accurate picture of what is the probability of it working, to have a good "feel"
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by spion 6y ago
Its also been shown not to have an effect in at least one RCT, but the problem is social media skews against spreading that information (its kind of a downer so it won't get shared so much) https://www.medrxiv.org/conte
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by spion 6y ago
The amount recommended is insufficient for most people to get to the level where (correlation) has shown significantly reduced risk - that is >30 ng/ml (>75 nmol/l) Another thing that is tricky is that it really depends how
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by spion 6y ago
Everyone focuses so much on censorship but nobody focuses on the opposite, that is - what does social media promote by default. Well, this is what they promote: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/
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by spion 6y ago
Adding android mobility trends % increase in stay at home is more illuminating. Qute a large percentage of the people that can afford to "lock down" already do: https://imgur.com/jPctkws (thats London) but lockdow
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by spion 6y ago
We probably already have the means to develop tech to solve this, its just not in the interests of most SM platforms - and since they're proprietary you can't really make a 3rd party company to offer a filtering / "lens&
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by spion 6y ago
Its not just lies either, its honest mistakes that are novel and/or cause emotional reactions. The retweet button is a mistake amplifier https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146 People need t
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by spion 6y ago
> context also changes with time as other people edit your code And you change the code accordingly, IF it does. Typically though, its best to change the structure of the code, not to increase its local complexity. If the context gets co
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by spion 6y ago
I would omit most information that can be inferred from context so long as context locality is good. Single-letter names are OK for context smaller than 1 line (like lambdas), type information can be omitted for context up to 10 lines (list
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by spion 6y ago
> Marriages of what? Sam and Bob? George and Shirley? Second the expression itself. Again what is a bob and jane? What is a partner? Partners in crime? Also seriously: And we get to the key point you are missing. Its clear from the conte
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by spion 6y ago
My comment was already concise to begin with. Your change reduced clarity. Here I will exaggerate your example: list_of_profiles_that_we_got_from_reading_a_file_named_profiles_dot_txt = get_list_of_profiles_from_file("profiles.tx
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by spion 6y ago
They are in fact bleeding. Clear writing is about structure, not verbosity or repetition. Concise-and-clear is preferred over verbose-and-clear.
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by spion 6y ago
Some rapid tests go as high as 99.97% specificity.
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by spion 6y ago
Its not randomly unreliable but its significantly more unreliable when you have low viral load. (As it happens thats also when you're much less likely to be infectious)
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by spion 6y ago
You need both good leadership and good support. The sense of unity should extend to an actual implementation of unity as well: monetary support for people while they self-isolate would go a long way, for example. Unfortunately I'm afra
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by spion 6y ago
Yeah, it should be subsidized so its at least 10 times cheaper. $30 should be a pack of 10 rapid tests. In addition there should be mechanisms to support people who are self-isolating that are sufficient so that its equally easy to self-iso
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by spion 6y ago
Its the viral load, or the amount of virus, mainly. Most people have a large viral load when they are the most infectious, especially in the nose and throat. Testing daily would ensure that you know immediately when you're highly infec
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by spion 6y ago
There is a server-side one: https://github.com/IBM/openapi-to-graphql
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The spread of true and false news online: Lies spread faster than the truth(science.sciencemag.org)
24 points by spion 6y ago|5 comments
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by spion 6y ago
Its probably time to give C++ a rest and stop evolving it. We've probably long since passed the point where any evolution gives a net benefit to engineers, and its time to let other languages take over.
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by spion 6y ago
This is the UK. The number is rate of growth , not number of cases Its similar to Rt but its much easier to calculate. To get Rt, you need to estimate how many people are infected on average by one person at any point in time. This is usua
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by spion 6y ago
I can't resist correcting some of that, sorry! :) * WHO recommended that sick people wear (surgical) masks since February at home to reduce the chances of spreading the virus in the household - if they can't fully isolate. (You ca
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by spion 6y ago
Also, here is a counterpoint that you may have not seen because its just not as interesting to retweet (I applaud Ian for the effort with the GIFs but while that helps, its not enough to offset the novelty/interestingness factor of the
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by spion 6y ago
I don't think bans are the answer, but see my other comment about how social networks end up generating the perfect bullshit and make it hard for scientists to go back on their theory and to realize whether they're wrong or not. B
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by spion 6y ago
But more generally, there is a fundamental problem with social media: it unfortunately acts a generator of large amounts of "perfect bullshit". First, it gets thousands of people to generate various conspiracy theories and plausab
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by spion 6y ago
Indeed its my second language, but I did get the meaning of sans right. Unfortunately I got mixed up with the two youtube links instead :)
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by spion 6y ago
The reason why they are banned is because what he is saying sounds plausible but is very, very likely wrong. First of all, the number of tests isn't growing at the same rate as the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths: https:&
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by spion 6y ago
Would be really helpful if there was an autofix suggestion available so that LSP can add the return type for you.
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by spion 6y ago
So what happens if we put air purifiers with HEPA filter (1) indoors then? Has anyone measured this? (1) HEPA filters have good filtration efficiency even at particle sizes smaller than MPPS https://www.sciencedirect.com/top

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