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by viggity 7y ago
I don't think the CDC is sleepwalking. I think the american public "iT's JuSt ThE fLu" is sleepwalking.
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by viggity 7y ago
but we have to slow it down so we can spread out the demands on hospitals over a longer period of time. Drastic measures are working in china. I wish there was another way. Maybe you say it isn't worth it. Maybe you don't have any
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by viggity 7y ago
Influenza has a CFR of 0.1%, COVID has CFR of 2-3% (20-30x higher). Officially the CFR for COVID is ~3.3% but it is thought that is too high because there is thought to be many people who have it who are asymptomatic or have a mild reaction
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by viggity 7y ago
Folks, if you see someone collapse on the street and they're wearing a mask. TAKE THE MASK OFF OF THEM. They're not getting enough oxygen. It is taxing to breath through an N95 mask. Source: I passed out when I put on a surgical m
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by viggity 7y ago
Influenza has a CFR of 0.1% COVID-19 has CFR of 2-3% (20-30x higher). Officially the CFR for COVID is ~3.3% but it is thought that is too high because there is thought to be many people who have it who are asymptomatic or have a mild reacti
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by viggity 7y ago
Title sounds like it was created by an HN article generator.
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SARS-CoV-2 far more likely than Sars to bond to cells due to HIV-like mutation(scmp.com)
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by viggity 7y ago
Wells Fargo isn't really Wells Fargo. It was a massive bank in the midwest called Norwest (based in MN, but offices all over midwest). Norwest acquired WF primarily for the superior name recognition. The merger with Wachovia happened a
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by viggity 7y ago
everything is more exciting when you add "... OF DEATH" to the end of it. "This is my new keyboard... OF DEATH", "how is your girlfriend... OF DEATH". "What is your favorite git client... OF DEATH". S
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by viggity 7y ago
There are google forms that you can setup that populate a spreadsheet. People don't need access to see the spreadsheet. One problem is that you have to authenticate it is the legit precinct captain, presumably they have some pin/p
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by viggity 7y ago
or you can just use AzureSQL and essentially just pay what it costs for the box, because it is platform as a service. Its far cheaper (and easier to maintain) than what it'd cost to buy a SQL Server license and run it on a VM.
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by viggity 7y ago
1. Just shorted your dates worked from Month+Year to just Year. that'll hide gaps 2. Say you were working for yourself, consulting, etc.
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by viggity 7y ago
For point of reference, the max power allowed in the US is 50kW
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by viggity 7y ago
This is related to the topic, but not this specific article. I used to have a really, really, really tough time with death. I spent far too much time thinking about it, trying to avoid it. There was a show on showtime called "Dead Like
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by viggity 7y ago
“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historical
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by viggity 7y ago
Exactly this. I've seen cases where a prosecutor has gotten a John Doe warrant to send to cell companies that effectively asked for the IDs of all phones that were present the closest cell tower at the times of multiple robberies (eg &
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by viggity 7y ago
the UK thing blew my mind. I started at 53k/year in 2004, at lower than market rate because I loved the company and didn't negotiate harder. I'm at almost 4x that now and I live in a stupidly cheap metro with a scant half a m
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by viggity 7y ago
Is it possible that the disappearing stars are really just fictitious entries designed to catch copycats? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
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by viggity 7y ago
I like to play devil's advocate... Imagine this - a sprayer stops working for any reason. Farmer purchases a non-oem electronics replacement part, but that part used a counterfeit FTDI usb controller but it silently fails. Now, the sig
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by viggity 7y ago
You're exactly right. Look at the work of someone who does a lot of these and it's pretty damn impressive. I like Ctrl+Alt+Face on YouTube. ex - Bill Hader/Tom Cruise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrhRBb-
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by viggity 7y ago
"STEM" was this thing that was invented to drum up interest in fields that were in high demand. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of scientists, engineers, or mathematicians. The shortage is in technology.
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by viggity 7y ago
Ok, so I have an alexa in near every room in my house. My kids lose their fire tablets all the time. It would be awesome if there was an alexa skill saying "where is Johnny's Tablet" and it could tell me which alexa it was cl
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by viggity 7y ago
this is somewhat off topic... but can you imagine how much money mint's data is worth? I once read this story about a guy who worked in the fraud department for citibank(?) and he had access to all the transactions. He used that live d
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by viggity 7y ago
When he was talking about the sim-to-real problem it reminded me of a talk I went to on neural networks. The presenter's company identifies retinopathy (diabetes damages the retina). When they first were training the CNN, they only jpg
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by viggity 7y ago
this makes so much more sense. Thank you!
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by viggity 7y ago
how in the hell does CallRail work? It seems that they can map my browser fingerprint to my phone number. Is it just a gigantic amount of cross referencing and a large db? Are they doing it just based on timing. Seems crazy to me. I know it
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by viggity 7y ago
my gf's daughter (age 5) had a cyanotic spell last night (turned blue from being frightened and crying). She straight up stopped breathing. Having the CPR steps drilled in to my head put me on autopilot, which was really reassuring, ev
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by viggity 7y ago
ok, so a canopy is likely to catch the wind and possibly cause additional damage. But what about a net canopy system. Say, perhaps with 1cm sized holes. Big enough holes that the wind can't do a ton of damage, but small enough that the
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by viggity 7y ago
while glass is technically "infinitely recyclable", it almost never is recycled into glass. it requires far too much sorting and the cost the raw materials that go into glass (sand) is dirt cheap, so it is far less energy intensiv
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by viggity 7y ago
I want to know how the hell they get it to begin with. CMS releases procedures/prescription data. But it is always totals by provider and it is provided 3 years in arrears. And that is only medicare data. How are they getting private p

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