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by zby 6y ago
I want others to push their opinion pieces on me - this is the only way to get out of my bubble and learn new stuff. But yeah - the problem is whom can I trust with such a power.
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by zby 6y ago
And why the platforms silo people? Because people want it: "the implication of the Internet is that ideas are in abundance, and people will seek out what they already agree with, as opposed to accepting what is delivered to them."
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by zby 6y ago
Well - the quote is not true. People who are blind can also understand things. Visual is only one way of understanding.
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by zby 6y ago
This is a great quote in that first paragraph! I need to save it. But the second paragraph looks like you blamed facebook for making locally optimal decisions and making the system stuck in a suboptimal Nash equilibrium :)
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by zby 6y ago
Here is a design proposal for such a system with an interesting twist: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZdtFBCtixqay5aoWF/design-tho...
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by zby 6y ago
Recycling my comment from a recent discussion: The problem is that we don't want facts - we want confirmations. "The reality is that the implication of the Internet is that ideas are in abundance, and people will seek out what the
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by zby 6y ago
The problem is that people don't want surprises - they want confirmations of what they already believe. "The reality is that the implication of the Internet is that ideas are in abundance, and people will seek out what they alread
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by zby 6y ago
In cell cultures.
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by zby 6y ago
"No study detected live virus beyond day 9 of illness, despite persistently high viral loads," - is it possible that IgA antibodies in the mucosa neutralizes the virus even before it gets spread? That could also explain the strang
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by zby 6y ago
Just a side note - I am watching Ninja Nerd on Immune System https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTF9h-T1TcJj4AOPCxGxO... and it is great! I usually prefer text - but the visuals here really improve memory.
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by zby 6y ago
Interesting - but how come it does not even mention politics? The reason organizations get bureaucratic is because people make decisions that is in their own benefit, but not necessarily in the benefit of the organization.
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by zby 6y ago
In other words: "The computer isn't yours it belongs to either the OS creator or the malware creators - choose your poison". Myself I still have some hopes and use QubesOS - I hope they find a business model for it.
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Election Day 2020: Rene Girard, Part 2(danco.substack.com)
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by zby 6y ago
I don't know - but it is kind of naive to assume that he did not know what would happen after his speech.
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by zby 6y ago
There are some caveats though - it seems that they have 1% of positive tests - but I cannot find any information if the try to confirm the positives with another test (PCR ideally). The specs on the test quotes 0.3% of false positives - thi
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by zby 6y ago
Yes - I watch it closely! I hope it will be a success - and then everybody will copy it :) The cost is really minimal. But in the meantime - black or grey market. It used to be possible to buy the tests from online pharmacies - but now I he
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by zby 6y ago
I don't know - there are also things that should work - like the isolation in hotels with food delivery etc. What I see is that they throw just everything at it and maybe they misinterpret what really worked, maybe some of it was just
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by zby 6y ago
It is funny how the West was not authoritarian enough for any top down effective action - but proved to be authoritarian enough to prevent us from buying antigen tests ( https://zby.medium.com/it-is-9-months-now-why-we-have-n
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by zby 6y ago
A more cynical view on the parallel track: https://www.spakhm.com/p/parallel-tracks
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by zby 6y ago
Hmm - I don't see much people tinkering with machine code, even compiler bugs are rare and programmers don't normally need to understand what their compilers do.
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by zby 6y ago
At the HN frontpage there is another ShowHN notetaking app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24898373 - looks like this field is heating.
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by zby 6y ago
I used to have a PersonalWiki ( https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://zby.aster.net.pl/kwiki/ *) running off my desktop in my living room, but it was too cumbersome to keep my own server especiall
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by zby 6y ago
Oh - come on - it starts with: "It's no secret that biomedical research is requiring more and more computational analyses these days, and with that has come some welcome discussion of how to make those analyses reproducible. On so
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by zby 6y ago
I imagine that in physics the experiments are more guided by theory - there are less 'random' experiments - like for example the recent testing if some random substance cures Covid19. When you have lots of random experiments - som
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by zby 6y ago
"I do not think there’s a contradiction between reproducibility and innovation. Contrary to common belief, we can improve both at once – by incentivizing failed results, and by funding “Red Teams” that would aim to refute existing dogm
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by zby 6y ago
The title suggests that you would be better with no ORM, just SQL. I have not been coding for years - but still remember why ORMs came into being - before them there was lots and lots of repetitive code with the query preparation and execut
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by zby 6y ago
Actually you need to look at both. IFR shows you how dangerous the disease is once you contract it. The yearly fatality rates shows how much risk you have from the disease in a given year. Covid is much more contagious than flu - so there i
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by zby 6y ago
Social distancing reduces the number of infections - but it does not change the course disease once a patient is infected. So out of the infected (for IFR or out of the reported case for CFR) there should be the same fraction of fatalities
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Slovakia Is Acquiring 13M Rapid Antigen Tests(thenationalherald.com)
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by zby 6y ago
The problem with the plan proposed here is the same as with the plan we have now (in most Western countries) - it requires disciplined compliance from the population. The East Asian examples show that with some discipline the conventional p

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