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by yurlungur 7y ago
You know, last week when we were starting to WFH I thought of it as a blessing in disguise since I always liked staying indoors and often take a day or two to WFH per week to focus on docs etc. However, once everyone is WFH the experience t
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by yurlungur 7y ago
Yeah I'm curious myself. It seems like no specific policy can clearly explain the results. IIRC Japan is one of the later countries to restrict travel from China back when cases were high there and in general did limited testing on the
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by yurlungur 7y ago
I also thought as a relatively young person there's not much to be too worried about. However it turned out permanent and serious lung damage can occur even if the individual recovers from the disease. That certainly changed my perspec
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by yurlungur 7y ago
To me this article seems to be missing the most important stat from the original article, which is that the case fatality rate as measured is 2.9% inside Hubei (possibly under-reported) and 0.4% outside. I think this strongly suggests that,
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by yurlungur 7y ago
I think part of the reason why Li Wenliang's story stirred up such emotions is that he wasn't really an activist with a righteous indignation, he was just a normal citizen looking out for the people around him. That said, his acti
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by yurlungur 7y ago
Unimpressed with the argument. Different people play competitive games with completely different mindsets and you are also not just competing against your peers, for example, you may be playing someone with much less free time to dedicate t
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by yurlungur 7y ago
Yeah I think this is probably my main issue. I don't think it's reasonable to ask users of your code to always use 3.7+ instead of 3.6 if they are usually expected to be compatible. And it's also unnecessary to break such com
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by yurlungur 7y ago
I wonder what is the impact of this change. From my limited experience peer reviews are treated as fairly private communications between the reviewers, editor and authors. We would often use it as an important clue on what to change even if
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by yurlungur 7y ago
The market resides in the heart of the city so it could be that there was some other route of transmission through carriers without symptoms, animals etc. To claim that this came from a lab certain requires more evidence than its mere exist
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by yurlungur 8y ago
Funny that I have the same feelings for aspects of the outside internet, such as "the old 4chan." But then I think that's like celebrating an echo chamber of sorts. Bigoted and stupid people (or people that I disagree with st
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by yurlungur 8y ago
While I have a similar disillusion with the academia, I think sometimes people misinterpret the difficulty with reproducibility, especially on a field they are not familiar with. It seems to me it's imprudent and a bit disrespectful to