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by zamfi 7y ago
Hmm, I consider that paper to be pretty weak evidence -- as elsewhere, it shows a hypothesized connection via some intermediaries: they show Vitamin D inhibits inflammatory cytokines, but then presume that this inhibition must therefore hel
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by zamfi 7y ago
> "During active COVID-19 infection symptoms [...], please AVOID[...]" > Hence I've been avoiding adding Vitamin D Do you have active symptoms? The concern is about a studied connection between Vitamin D supplementation
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by zamfi 7y ago
> I would look at Crystal, Go, Haskell, OCaml, or Rust rather than the usual dynamic language suspects Or, you know, go full obfuscation: minify your JavaScript before your ship it! Back in the day, we used Mozilla's Rhino as a JS e
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by zamfi 7y ago
> deletion mutants have to be found in the wild I have no background in this whatsoever, so feel free to ignore my comment, but my guess is that finding them in the wild along with a large-enough (and representative-enough) infected popu
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by zamfi 7y ago
Don’t worry, friend, this particular startup doesn’t seem interested in you downloading an app — or your money, unless you run a commercial fleet. From TFA: > Amply sets up the physical charging infrastructure for commercial fleets like
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by zamfi 7y ago
Hah! I did something quite similar back in the day for text message notifications of server downtime. The problem was that sometimes Twitter's messages were delayed by hours...
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by zamfi 7y ago
> And if you aren't perpetually happy all your life, it's not not that the universe is indifferent to human suffering, it's that there's something wrong with you. How people respond to adversity and suffering matters.
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by zamfi 7y ago
They explicitly look at poverty. It doesn’t explain why these deaths happen among whites but not among non-whites, who have higher poverty rates.
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by zamfi 7y ago
> R0<1 A nit: you can’t change R0 without changing the virus — it’s the reproduction constant without intervention . We want to get R < 1!
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by zamfi 7y ago
> You've set up an argument that can never be refuted, for reasons I've explained. I'm arguing that the selection mechanisms they're choosing to use are bad compared to what they could and should be using, namely, ran
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by zamfi 7y ago
> > you can at least try to account for the ways in which your sample is likely to be different from a truly random sample. > Right, as all legitimate researchers in this area do. Yeah, obviously we agree here. So: how do you effec
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by zamfi 7y ago
> No. As far as I can tell, approximately 100% of people in New York want to be tested, for many different reasons. You're assuming something and projecting it as truth. In NY, the issue was not about wanting to be tested, it was
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by zamfi 7y ago
> arguing that anyone willing to get serological testing is substantially more likely to be infected than those who are not. Yes, which is clearly true, no? > That's little more than a fancy way of disregarding any testing result
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Are all three methods flawed in some way? Sure. They're not just all flawed in some way -- along at least one dimension they are flawed in the same way , that is, they all have a biased sample of the population that seems more
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by zamfi 7y ago
Deaths tend to be more accurate than just confirmed cases. One way to account for testing rates is to look at the test positive rate, and use that as a proxy. If the test positive rate is 50% (as it was in Spain at some point), you can be p
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by zamfi 7y ago
Santa Clara’s official lockdown, and the tech world’s “work from home” mandates were separated by about a week, which could account for some of this.
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Spain went into lockdown a week before the UK, and still did worse? Germany later than the UK, and is doing better? Not relative to number of cases : Germany locked down later than UK, but a week earlier on the exponential growth curv
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by zamfi 7y ago
Hah, yeah, an earlier version of my post said something about external/edge effects as you approach 0 mass, but I didn't think it was germane to my main point. > For example, you might find that your car is blown off the road b
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by zamfi 7y ago
Ummm... > There is clearly no evidence that stricter measures have any effect. If that was true, then there should at least be a linear correlation between strictness of measures vs. excess deaths, and that's simply not the case. Wh
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by zamfi 7y ago
> there's some evidence they're no good at passing the infection on to others May I ask: What evidence of this did you find convincing? From my own digging it seemed like this was a claim from China, which merely indicated that
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by zamfi 7y ago
Indeed F = μN, but also F = ma, so you don't need as much F to accelerate a lighter vehicle (that is, one with lower m). What you're describing about your pickup is the balance of weight, not the total weight.
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by zamfi 7y ago
> It would be 100% without the ventilators. They go on ventilators when they have to be on them This is not quite true. [0] Ventilators are one option at that stage of disease, and some doctors are moving away from them because of their
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by zamfi 7y ago
Subway doesn’t explain why Seattle more than SF. Basically only timing of shelter-in-place does.
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by zamfi 7y ago
Yes, this is a very obvious and severe underestimate for sure. But the point is that the death rate must be at least 0.12%!
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by zamfi 7y ago
That’s New York State. My numbers are for the city proper.
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by zamfi 7y ago
As of today, 10,344 confirmed deaths [0] from COVID-19, of a population of 8.4m [1] is 0.12% [2]. This is less than the original parent states, but only by 2x. [0] https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q
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by zamfi 7y ago
> I'm just saying, if you implant an RFID digital certificate, you're effectively a walking uuid beacon. We already carry beacons in our pockets all the time, and the government is already a subpoena away from getting that data
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by zamfi 7y ago
> you have to admit that you are taking for granted that his intentions are benign Huh? I made no such assumption. I simply speculated that he was doing this for one form of currency, and not another. He may well want to track everybody,
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by zamfi 7y ago
The original comment didn’t mention event 201, it was literally just about money and how Gates was doing all this to get more of it, but really — all event 201 shows is that a coronavirus-based pandemic disaster was extremely predictable, n
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Bill Gates has literally been preparing the last 20 years to make enormous amounts of money on a forced vaccination program Is this one of those conspiracy theories I’ve been hearing about? Bill Gates’ foundation has been giving away m

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