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by zzleeper 6y ago
53% is nothing. Peru peaked at 260% excess mortality in February (2nd wave) and 230% in July (1st wave). My Facebook was (and is) a depressive mess of sad announcements. Source: https://opencovid-peru.com/reportes/sinad
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I was well aware even by March that masks were the way to go. It was a simple lie, by e.g. the Surgeon General, in order to try to save masks (while they didn't even start ramping production of them!) But of course if a government of
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Most apps require constant updates or they stop working. I had set up my iphone to only update on wifi, and was travelling for a month or so only using mobile network. When I tried to get an uber, I realized the app didn't work correct
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Does anyone know how big are the constant terms here? A few years ago I studied and partly implemented an earlier (related?) work by Peng (on graph laplacians and SDD systems: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Argentina is not small. It's the second largest country (in pop and area?) after Brazil
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Are you two sure WSB hasn't reached an eternal September event? I find that with 8MM subs, the signal-to-noise ratio will likely remain just too high. I've been looking for alternative subs, but besides e.g. theta gang I haven&#x2
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by zzleeper 6y ago
How exactly did GameStop got a bailout? They did not issue additional shares, so didn't really got anything from this besides maybe some publicity
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by zzleeper 6y ago
A lot of people swear by ggplot and other grammar of graphics tools, so I have an open question. Let's take an example from the page: ggplot(data=mpg) +\ geom_point(mapping=aes(x="displ", y="hwy", alpha="
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by zzleeper 6y ago
The volatility of the Gamestop is just insane. People think it's because of the short squeeze, but it's not just that but the fact that the stock goes from $100 to $400 to $200 within the hour, and then as OP mentioned you end up
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by zzleeper 6y ago
unfair election? what exactly do you mean?
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Worth noting that peer review is also a bit (or a lot slow) and not perfect, and that all peer-reviewed studies have in the past been not peer reviewed.
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I am op (asked the question) and even though I don't agree with throwaway, I appreciate him having the time to respond (so I upvoted.earlier to try to offset the downvotes). Im also downvoted btw, so this goes both ways.
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I wonder how all the Trump supporters on HNs (maybe 30% or so of commenters, no idea about lurkers) are reacting to this. Levadowski pardon, the spy, the swamp, etc.
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I used to be a fan of Greenwald, but after seeing his failure to condemn the Rs (and Russia), got very disillusioned. Also, he is propagating lies: https://twitter.com/evanchill/status/1349097133186707457?s=2...
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Same here. Feels like the forest fire stories. Every time the msrket throws a tantrum, central banks print money, and everyone is kept happy (for now). Oh, the wonders of what you can do in low inflation environments, at least for a few dec
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I'm just surprised at how close the US came to stop being a democracy. A bit more planning about what to do when they breach the capitol, a few more Qanon captains across the river at Ft Myer, or a few 100ks more Trump supporters here
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I find it very interesting how extremists now attempt to appear as moderate. For instance, take the submitter of the story: Says it's not worth it to fix global warming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358094 Sa
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I started reading it circa 2008, created my account in 2009. In a way, HN is still a reflection of society, although more civil due to pg (then) or dang (now) moderation, plus the fact that a lot of users knew each other back then. Nowadays
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by zzleeper 6y ago
WSJ ceased to be a serious newspaper when Murdoch bought it. But of course, almost half of the country voted for 2020 Trump, so almost half of HN probably likes him even today. So you will see this and more like this being upvoted.
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by zzleeper 6y ago
A lot of people over here are very pro-trump, and just use this as a way to defend him. It's the same reason why anything non-tech gets flagged nowadays until dang removes protects the threads: they don't want to see news attackin
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Hi John, Nothing to do with the two positions, but have you ever considered a markdown editor? My pipeline is markdown -> pandoc+filters -> latex, so nowadays I only use Overleaf when the papers (or the coauthors) really demands it.
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Get some pointers from a friend who is a native speaker. I still do this today even though I'm (IMO) well versed in the language. For instance: welcome on -> welcome to web-side -> webside? (unsure) working as front-end -> wor
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Any suggestions for an Acrobat alternative that can do simple things such as rotate a PDF or extract a page from it? I use SumatraPDF as my daily PDF reader but still have to resort to Acrobat for those things. And the latest update (that r
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Turbotax created the problem they are solving. Filing taxes in other countries is much less stressful and a lot simpler.
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I thought the desktop version allowed "save as .md?"
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Thats why you have a lot of people in the trial, and why its a double blind
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Exactly. If they don't sign, they get left out. And then what? wait until the US somehow decides to join and only then join?
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Once an app does two of those push notifs, I permanently disable that. Facebook/IG does the same crap to me, as well as a few others
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by zzleeper 6y ago
And your point is?
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Those figures look amazing! Also, its crazy how many things can be improved by a clever use of gradient descent

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