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by vannevar 5y ago
This article is junk. They take the death rate within 7 days of vaccination in people aged 65+ from VAERS data and attribute all the reported deaths (20 per million vaccinations) to the vaccination. But the annual death rate for the 65-84 a
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by vannevar 5y ago
It should also be noted that the positive effect rose to 35% for people over the age of 60, who make up the overwhelming majority of serious Covid-19 cases. The omission of this important fact from the article leads me to question the motiv
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by vannevar 5y ago
Are we so certain that no billionaire became a billionaire by advancing the public good in the first place? I am as skeptical as anyone that billionaires individually contribute value equivalent to their wealth, but that doesn't mean
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by vannevar 5y ago
Note that the studies you have unspecified qualms about are only 2 of 11 cited in that first survey reference. I meant to include the link to the other survey study I quoted above: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic
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by vannevar 5y ago
I can only tell you that there are many more studies indicating masks work than studies showing their effectiveness is inconclusive. And again, even if masks are 100% effective, there are so many people not wearing them even in jurisdiction
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by vannevar 5y ago
Even the article you cite above has a subtitle that literally says "The virus appears to spread through the air, but masks reduce the amount of infectious virus." With respect to type of mask, another metastudy looks at different
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by vannevar 5y ago
>But then why do masked populations end up with the same maximum growth rate? There is no such thing in this study as a "masked population". The authors categorized the states based on the percentage of mask-wearers, according
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by vannevar 5y ago
I should probably rephrase that as overwhelming evidence that they are effective in a clinical setting---ie, in a lab, and in medical settings. The point is, if you're sitting in a room with an infected person, there have been many stu
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by vannevar 5y ago
There are a lot of details in the paper, but the relevant conclusion is in the 'Results' section of the abstract: "Mask use predicted lower minimum but not lower maximum growth rates." The explanation that I of
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by vannevar 5y ago
Would the downvoters care to share their perspective, and/or evidence to the contrary?
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As I understand it, this study concludes that their index of mask use (based on the University of Washington's IHME data) correlates with infection minima, but not the maxima. In other words, a higher rate of mask use helps keep COVID-
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by vannevar 5y ago
Not true. The owner of a TV station gets paid, and they aren't influencing anyone. They're simply brokering advertising. I'm open to evidence that influencers actually exert personal influence on their audience, I just haven&
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by vannevar 5y ago
Maybe Joe's viewers will all start doing stand-up. :-) There was a marketing study of influencers from Rakuten Marketing that indicates that advertising through influencer channels produces positive sales results. But again, it's
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by vannevar 5y ago
It's questionable whether online 'influencers' actually influence anyone beyond getting them to watch or listen to their show. What they definitely have is an audience, and that is valuable to the advertisers and marketers wh
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by vannevar 5y ago
Here in the United States, the power to form corporations comes from the state constitutions. The applicable clauses typically require protection of the public interest, or note the power to revoke the charter based on misuse or abuse. This
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by vannevar 5y ago
"Balancing profit with people and planet" is just another way of saying "acting in the public interest." Which, in theory, all corporations are legally bound to do. The problem is that, until recently, there hasn't
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by vannevar 5y ago
"Supposed to be" according to whom? It's fine that the author wants to run a social media company like an email service, and of course he's free to do that. But none of the major social media sites share that business mo
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by vannevar 5y ago
Yes. The "invisible hand" reference in Wealth of Nations is probably the most egregiously misused term in history. It's only mentioned once in the entire work, and as you point out, the context is completely different from th
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by vannevar 5y ago
There's no evidence offered to support the click bait headline, other than the obviously self-interested opinion of the CEO of a company selling a solution to prevent fraud: "Blake Hall, CEO of ID.me, a service that tries to preve
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by vannevar 5y ago
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who wants a dumb car. Unfortunately, the idea of electric cars has become bound up with the notion of software-driven cars. I want an electric car with analog controls, no touch screens or over-the-air
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by vannevar 5y ago
I'm disappointed to see many of the big Belgian brands (other than Cote d'Or) were omitted. I'm particularly partial to Neuhaus and Galler. I was very surprised to see Lindt in the top five; I personally find it to be waxy an
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by vannevar 5y ago
Yes, I didn't see any indication from the article that they verified that the users in question were human, or that they were not paid to tweet misinformation. The effect was pretty small, it seems like even a small number of dedicated
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by vannevar 5y ago
I would argue that in the driving example, there is in fact correlation, but the data set (a single drive) is insufficient to detect it. If you analyzed the data from a thousand different drives over the same road, the correlation between
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by vannevar 5y ago
We may be about to witness the mother of all supply chain bullwhip effects. If everyone overcompensates for the shortages by placing extra orders and building additional capacity now, they may find themselves caught with a massive oversuppl
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by vannevar 5y ago
This was an old article from April 2020. With regard to Covid, there is substantial evidence that masks prevent the spread of the virus. See e.g. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7...
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by vannevar 5y ago
Yes, the article gives wildly optimistic examples. No one is going to sell you a website that reliably makes $200/mo for $3000. They would ask more like $30,000. What the article brushes over is the wealth gap that prevents most people
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by vannevar 5y ago
Note that the survey included owners who purchased between 2012 and 2018. The article doesn't specify, but it's possible that the 20% who switched were weighted towards early adopters who purchased in the first few years of the su
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by vannevar 5y ago
A better title might be, "User tracking has ruined the web, through targeted and intrusive advertising and exploitation, and by making GDPR necessary."
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by vannevar 6y ago
I'd really like to see the breakdown between investors and bona fide homebuyers. The main reasons supply is low is that a) people don't want to move in the middle of a pandemic, and b) construction was slowed. This should mean tha
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by vannevar 6y ago
"Demand" is a bit misleading right now. A friend of mine put her place up for sale in Houston and 80% of the offers she got were investors. I suspect that it's not so much about actual housing demand, but the same huge appeti

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