war1025

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by war1025 6y ago
> We control the information flow for billions Who is "we"? The majority of people here don't work for FANG
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by war1025 6y ago
I was inclined to comment on the ridiculousness of insisting on using "salesperson" which is a real mouthful to say a hundred times over as is done in the article. But I figured that was just me being cranky and objectionable late
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by war1025 6y ago
I guess to clarify, it has been my impression that the healthcare industry are the people telling us we are not doing enough testing. We attempted to get tested and they said no, not worth the bother. That seems contradictory to me.
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by war1025 6y ago
> Then add on how many people show symptoms but its not severe enough to get tested. Earlier this week we took my son in because: 1. Our neighbors have recently recovered from Coronavirus 2. Our son had a cold / fever around the sam
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by war1025 6y ago
In Trump's video statement he said, "I was treated with Regeneron. Eli Lilly has something very similar they are working on as well. They call them therapeutics, but I view them as honestly a miracle." That is positive press.
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by war1025 6y ago
I think we're pretty far into the sunk cost fallacy on this one. The fact that we've spent the past six months like this makes it too hard for many to accept that it might not have been the right choice.
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by war1025 6y ago
> Positive in terms of increasing case numbers, yes. As the number of people I know who have caught it grows, I have to say I don't really see that as a negative thing. Most of the new cases are in the young-adult demographic. Almos
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by war1025 6y ago
The relevance is that the President got wall to wall media coverage for being sick. And his is in a demographic (old, overweight, male) that puts him at an extremely elevated risk for serious illness. Doctors will do their job and scientist
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by war1025 6y ago
Well, it might not, but the article is about Eli Lilly saying their studies say the drug is effective, and the anecdotal evidence that Trump took it and recovered very quickly seems to add credence to that claim. People love to hate on anec
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by war1025 6y ago
Trump released a statement a few hours ago that they have hundreds of thousands of doses available and he's going to push to make it free to patients. Obviously, it's still unclear how the politics of all of it play out, but seems
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by war1025 6y ago
Sounds like Trump got a similar cocktail from a different company. The speed of his recovery and the fact that him having Coronavirus isn't even part of the news cycle anymore seems like a strong indicator that the treatment is probabl
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by war1025 6y ago
> We never tire of cutesy useless explanations of monads though. I haven't seen anything about monads for going on maybe five years now. It seems that trend has come and gone.
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by war1025 6y ago
> Will this achieve the energy density of fossil fuels? I think non-fossil-derived synthetic fuels have the potential to become a major player in the overall transportation picture. Liquid fuels have significant energy density advantages
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by war1025 6y ago
> carbon nanotubes can be added to anything to give it super powers. I am fairly certain the super power nanotubes give your lungs is cancer. Which is a super power in a way. But super-powered lungs tend not to function so well.
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by war1025 6y ago
People like different things is about what it boils down to. I could give a care less about an authentic ramen shop, or really restaurants in general. Pre-pandemic, I ate out maybe once a month. Coffee shops are another matter, but coffee i
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by war1025 6y ago
You adapt to where you live. The fun things you do in the city are different from the fun things you do not in the city or in a different city. You need to live somewhere for longer than a weekend to settle in and figure out what is notewor
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by war1025 6y ago
I think part of the trouble is I read the "revised and expanded edition." From some of the reviews I remember reading at the time, the revisions did the book no favors.
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by war1025 6y ago
The article leads with a quote by Don Norman. I read his book "The design of everyday things" after hearing a lot of people speak highly of it. I found it quite underwhelming. Anyone have insight of what people think is so notewor
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by war1025 6y ago
> If Europe refers to moose as elk, what do they call elk? I believe the answer is they don't have an American Elk equivalent.
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by war1025 6y ago
Are these licenses actually enforceable? Those absolutely seem like overreach in terms of what someone would consider reasonable from a user perspective.
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by war1025 6y ago
> The webapp randomly reloads. Sometimes already typed messages are preserved, sometimes they disappear. ( I assume a reload happens when a new version is deployed with some "force reload" flag ) I have been seeing some versio
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by war1025 6y ago
My aunt posts basically daily about how hard this has been on my Grandma. Maybe a month and a half ago, they started allowing outdoor visits, but they have to maintain 6 feet distance. My aunt said if my Grandma (98) was a little more indep
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by war1025 6y ago
Something about reading this made me deeply uncomfortable as the only thing I could conclude from imagining it was that I was basically paralyzed. Weird.
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by war1025 6y ago
> to save old people. We're "saving" old people in one sense, and accelerating their decline in many others. Nursing homes are locked down and they haven't been able to see family for over six months now. It's b
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by war1025 6y ago
Has this project regained some momentum? I feel like I heard about it a number of years ago and then it never went anywhere. The copyright at the bottom says 2012-2019, which makes me think it's the same project.
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by war1025 6y ago
> It really only makes sense to recycle glass. And metals like aluminum, iron, copper, etc.
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by war1025 6y ago
Did a quick search, and this link [1] from what appears to be a reputable source says most household wells are pulling up water that is less than 10 years old. Granted that probably varies a lot by region. I've heard of a fair number o
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by war1025 6y ago
> Like maybe not EVERYBODY has their own well/septic, but maybe every 5 houses or whatever share one? Anecdotally, it seems fairly common for people to have municipal water and their own septic system in more "exurb-y" are
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by war1025 6y ago
> Wells might not work beyond a certain population density due to insufficient groundwater recharge rate. Isn't agricultural irrigation the largest source of groundwater depletion in places where it's an issue? I believe basica
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Sounds like the easiest way to handle it to me.

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