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by zby 6y ago
My hope is that after we learn the failure modes we can make better online forums. Science had a few centuries to build their model and it still fails in many ways ( https://equilibriabook.com/ ).
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by zby 6y ago
Have you totally gave up finding a good online patient community? Recently I have been thinking about this a lot: https://medium.com/@zby/rational-patient-community-6d3617dff... What is not there yet is an account on h
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by zby 6y ago
Do you have any stats for that? The stats now seem very different from what was happening in April and May. The cumulative CFR is also dropping - but obviously time cohort data must be already much lower.
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by zby 6y ago
There are other reports of this: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/facebook-covid-support-g... That said - I would expect some extremely rare outcomes in a sample of 35 million people. We live in a connected wor
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by zby 6y ago
Or we get a world government.
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by zby 6y ago
"Blockchains can prove that two parties once agreed on something, cheaply." - well actually you can do that with electronic signatures, much cheaper than with blockchains. The problem that blockchain solves is a very specific time
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by zby 6y ago
Hmm - shouldn't the title be like: "Law in the US ..."?
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by zby 6y ago
They found out that some genes related to ACE in comparison to genes related to ACE2 are more 'expressed' in Covid patients than normally and they conclude that that must have resulted in too much bradykinine. Hmm - that strikes m
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by zby 6y ago
Related and a kind of counterweight: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/
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by zby 6y ago
How can it be real-time?
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by zby 6y ago
On average programmers produce average quality of software. Libraries available online are often shitty - but most probably they are still over the average quality of all software, because there is a selection bias and more people are looki
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Rapid Tests(rapidtests.org)
1 points by zby 6y ago|0 comments
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by zby 6y ago
just found via marginalrevolution: https://www.rapidtests.org/
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by zby 6y ago
Only videos? No text?
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by zby 6y ago
There arn't many such parasites for bigger animals. Toxoplasma is probably the only exception. There are some interesting arguments about why in https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/selection/2019-delguidi
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by zby 6y ago
That depends on speed for sure.
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by zby 6y ago
Yeah - I think the ideal agreed was about 2%, but maybe that was just the monetarists who prefered it around 2%, I am not sure what other schools propose, maybe 4% is Keynesian? But the point is that what everyone tried to have inflation in
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by zby 6y ago
The question is what does it really mean to have 'your own platform'? Does it mean that you need to have your own server at your bedroom? Or is it enough to rent one at a server room, or a shared host or maybe just rent some web s
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by zby 6y ago
That is strange - because the numbers would be compatible with the Der Spiegel stats (from comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888175 ) if it was only about those who report the persistent symptoms. Also 10
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by zby 6y ago
OK - that would be compatible with the theory that the original article were about those who had long-term symptoms. Journalism is a mess. But the 10% is still scary.
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by zby 6y ago
Ah - yeah - I though the graph was about patients who report persistent symptoms not the whole population. If indeed 60% of all Covid patients have fatigue and 40% breathlessness after more than 60 days - than it is scary indeed. But we don
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by zby 6y ago
OK - but what are the stats here? Worldometer shows that there are more than 8 million Covid survivors, how many of them have the prolonged symptoms? 8 million is really many people - so I would not be surprised if there are a few strange s
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by zby 6y ago
My theory is that this is a kind of latent inflation - it is still visible only in the financial assets sector - but eventually it will show up in consumer products too.
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by zby 6y ago
Ben Thompson has a good article about what is different now: https://stratechery.com/2020/never-ending-niches/
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by zby 6y ago
That is a very interesting take! Adding to that line of thinking: obviously we need the textual representation for reading - so we need something to translate it. That situation is kind of dual to programming languages and compilers - we us
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by zby 6y ago
The question now is what are the functions of App Store. Search and purchase convenience? I guess so - but that is easy to replace and substitute. The real one is security vetting. We see more and more problems in this area (with back doors
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by zby 6y ago
This sounds like what was writtein in 2001 about Internet. I don't know - videoconferencing is still a problem, but there is progress.
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by zby 6y ago
This is the same thing people have been writing about computers since 1950s. At that level of abstraction the progress is invisible - and yet: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/10/the-obligatory-gpt-3-p...
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Figuring Out Quantitative Easing(medium.com)
1 points by zby 6y ago|0 comments
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by zby 6y ago
I don't know - there are cooperatives - it is not like you need to risk your life to work at one. Somehow they are not that popular. There are also partnerships - which are kind of close to cooperatives, when they employ only the partn

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