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by zucker42 7y ago
The princess cruise ship study also gave an IFR (for China) of 0.5%, and an early epidemiological modeling study put the symptomatic CFR at 1.4% which would imply 0.7% IFR assuming it's 50% symptomatic. https://www.nature.co
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by zucker42 7y ago
The Facebook ad essentially said "get tested for COVID-19 here", so very plausibly infected people could be more likely to respond.
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by zucker42 7y ago
They could remove only obvious errors/lies like "drink bleach" rather than subscribe to a single authoritative source of truth. As another commenter noted, wearing a mask contradicts WHO advice.
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by zucker42 7y ago
The virus takes time (2-3 weeks) to kill people, and the prevalence was presumably measured within the last week. Therefore, we have to take out the cases that occurred in the last week or two. I would suspect that 50% is on the upper end o
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by zucker42 7y ago
That doesn't make sense to me. I would think you'd want to get to the point where you've reached the carrying capacity, so that "overshoot" of the equilibrium doesn't result.
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by zucker42 7y ago
Cool, great information, thanks!
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by zucker42 7y ago
Which model and what fatality rates did they predict?
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by zucker42 7y ago
I'm sorry, I don't know much about medicine so maybe you could clear up what those studies found. If I understand correctly, they both looked at COVID-19 patients and the first one found 83% had detectable antibodies and the secon
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by zucker42 7y ago
Is there a write-up for this study? Or anywhere with data/methodology released? Also, is this particularly good news? Using the raw numbers from the headline and the deaths from here https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh&#
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by zucker42 7y ago
Couldn't they use Azure? Of course there are other reasons to use physical servers.
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by zucker42 7y ago
> How do they find enough suitable land to practice their way of life? It's a stupid answer, but I would guess they buy it, just like anyone else. I've heard about groups of Amish moving to new areas to start communities.
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by zucker42 7y ago
Apparently, Amish communities have an 85% retention rate.
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by zucker42 7y ago
> Further, the Swedish people, reflecting normal human behavior, shut down economic activity anyways. If people are shutting down the economy and avoiding contact anyways, doesn't it mean that an imposed lockdown is unnecessary?
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by zucker42 7y ago
Do you believe this lockdown can last for a year?
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by zucker42 7y ago
Is comparing the per capita cost of healthcare to that of U.S. really fair, especially when advocating adopting certain elements of the "Amish system"? The U.S. is pretty the worst example of keeping costs down; other first worl
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by zucker42 7y ago
Assuming false positives aren't correlated even with independently manufactured tests seems like a terrible idea to me, knowing little about medicine.
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by zucker42 7y ago
I think all the serious scientific papers I've read have long put fatality estimates far below what early WHO press releases suggested.
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by zucker42 7y ago
There's not enough data to "believe" anything, and most of the pushback is because the studies are methodologically flawed. I think that fatality rate estimates between 0.5% and 1% seem to best match some of the early data on
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by zucker42 7y ago
The point is that either these numbers are not accurate, or that there are crucial differences between LA and NYC. Either conclusion is interesting.
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by zucker42 7y ago
I think that number should be 0.2% (2 / 1000) and not 0.002% (2 / 100000).
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The price of a .com domain is set to rise, and some sellers aren't happy(engadget.com)
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by zucker42 7y ago
Parking fees at my university are only in small part due to rationing. You can see this because they recently added fees for the weekend, when they is no need to ration parking spots. For some reason, some university parking authorities are
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by zucker42 7y ago
Well the fire thing actually happened.
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by zucker42 7y ago
Electric lines caused fires a few weeks after the first outage. I feel like at this point PG&E is in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation (though it might have been brought on by past mismanagement).
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by zucker42 7y ago
From the GPL section 2: > You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you with facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with the terms
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by zucker42 7y ago
> At the time when the API is created, there is creative expression as to what the API should look like. At the time a recipe is created there is creative expression as to what ingredients will be in the recipe. Creativity/originali
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by zucker42 7y ago
> This case started August 13, 2010. It's been almost a decade. Something is very wrong with how our court system functions. For civil cases between large companies, this speed doesn't seem entirely terrible. Criminal cases and
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by zucker42 7y ago
I think the phone book analogy still falls short; two phone books can be organized different and have different adverts, styles, etc., but still fulfill the same function (allowing a reader to look up the phone number associated with a pers
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by zucker42 7y ago
If you're talking about the 78 programmer amici brief, only 12 have any connection at all to Google (only 5 are employees), and each of those are affected personally, beyond association with Google. This is addressed directly in the br
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by zucker42 7y ago
They say it's AI but it seems like just a hash map to me.

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