Amygaz

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by Amygaz 6y ago
I am the US Northeast and the proposal is to move to join the Atlantic standard time and not have DST. Season-wise and Lifestyle-wise, a study concluded that this would be a better fit than the current condition. I’d personally love that.
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by Amygaz 6y ago
I don’t disagree that the transition part is the worst, but more people are supporting standard time because it fits better with the schedule of most people. I used to be on the DST camp, but a few years with a family and house of my own, a
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by Amygaz 6y ago
You don't do sustainable farming for the money. It can certainly pay the bills and some. Plus subsidies and incentives can help. If you want to make money you start a vertical farming AgTech, which will not be profitable, but will attr
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by Amygaz 6y ago
Lots of statistic. Especially anything to do with clustering, and how to analyze and compare gene and protein expression networks from various species, or tissues. Those are particularly important in this COVID-19 era. In term of general ne
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by Amygaz 6y ago
Leting gouging happens also produces shortages, hoarding, mis-allocation, and crime. And no one starts producing new gas. Gas companies where not the one gouging to begin with, individuals profiteering from an unfortunate and temporary even
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by Amygaz 6y ago
Any examples? The main thing we see are individuals hoarding a product, setting up a shop to profiteer from an unfortunate and temporary event. The situation is temporary and it would be a lousy business model to start developing a "ne
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by Amygaz 6y ago
I think a government should be able to provide strict guidelines on how a business can comply and get approved for staying open. Some States have that in place for companies that are on the list of exempt businesses, and those lists can be
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by Amygaz 6y ago
Wow. What an answer. All flaviviruses cause ADE. Only few attenuated vaccines worked as a strategy. And no they don't shed.
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by Amygaz 6y ago
Thanks for saying that. It is super flawed. I was planning to go through all of his replies to other posters and debunk them one-by-one.
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by Amygaz 6y ago
His assumption is based on live-attenuated vaccines. The measles vaccine being one of those. All the early vaccines where like that. The process only requires heat inactivation. So you end up with a dead or almost dead virus, which can&#x27
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by Amygaz 6y ago
What about Dengue?
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by Amygaz 6y ago
So, it that motherjones.com article you link, it's clearly BPA they are talking about, an additive to plastic, not plastic itself.
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‘Accuracy nudge’ could curtail Covid-19 misinformation online(mitsloan.mit.edu)
9 points by Amygaz 6y ago|5 comments
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by Amygaz 6y ago
This is highly opinionated, since I don't know Greg Wyler at all, but I do remember his Terracom broadband satellite effort in Rwanda, which looked noble at first, but was more a pretext to pay himself a generous salary, than doing any
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by Amygaz 6y ago
You are OverBallooning what he just said (sorry couldn't resist). There is no implication that the system is absolutely deterministic or will ever be. Imagine a normal symmetric binomial distribution, along a X-axis of events and sever
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by Amygaz 6y ago
I also find this weirdly dubious, but not impossible. I do know that to study human coronavirus in mice, we had to create a mouse line expressing the human ACE2 protein. I just did a quick protein alignment and the %sequence identity betwee
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by Amygaz 6y ago
And 1.8 billion people in stay-at-home mode, but you may not think this may have anything to do with it. Did you simply just woke up and decided to troll?
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by Amygaz 6y ago
What are you talking about? Louisiana as a over a 1100 cases and they went in shutdown mode yesterday!
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by Amygaz 6y ago
The whole thing about warmer region being less infected is still very much controversial, and not backed by any strong science. India, like other warmer regions, has not been very active in the diagnostic. This is also what explains the lo
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by Amygaz 6y ago
It's too early to say that. But if they do lift it next week like Trump is trumpeting, then it will.
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by Amygaz 6y ago
It's not a question of cost at this point. It's a question of availability of reagents and consumables, materials to make those, and time it takes to ramp up. The supply chain is like a supertanker. At first we didn't have en
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by Amygaz 6y ago
Thanks, except the discussion on this one are more relevant, to what is at stake. The other started pretty quickly on pooping the media.
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by Amygaz 6y ago
I don't know why you are being down voted. The risk is for false-negative, but you are right that people might think this is going to clear them. Even the manufacturer/supplier warns that: "Negative results do not preclude SA
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by Amygaz 7y ago
The two sentence above clearly oversell the product: "refined", "delivers", "help you fly", plus all the details for something that is already known... It's not because everybody is doing glorified marketi
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by Amygaz 7y ago
Sorry for the late reply: I don't see how it would prevent infection. It could be useful post-infection, to prevent complications and inflammation. Compared that with the standard of care right now which is simply observing the patient
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by Amygaz 7y ago
I agree in the sense that money will go further when pooled, than if you just give it UBI's style. But, this is a societal crisis, not an individual one. It is not fair to ask people to pull themselves out of a situation that they did
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by Amygaz 7y ago
It's more like it is the only move we have... The opposite extreme would be to let everybody get infected, see >15% of the 65+ population die, which I am sure some economic model might favor. I do hope, but doubt, that this crisis w
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by Amygaz 7y ago
1st, SARS-CoV2 ELISA already exists. 2nd, the CDC did compare RT-PCR vs ELISA SARS-CoV back in 2005, and ELISA performed really poorly, and that was for acute cases. So, that is why we should stick with RT.
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by Amygaz 7y ago
It should help alleviating the symptoms, but is in no way a antiviral. There's a phase 3 trial for treating pneumonia associated with coronavirus. This is based on prior work showing anti-inflammatory response in rheumatoid arthritis (
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by Amygaz 7y ago
No. That would imply 100% infection, at a base reproduction rate of 15 (close to measles), and a mortality rate of 30% (close to Ebola). If left unchecked covid-19 would infect 100-250 millions Americans. The R0 is 2.5-3. The average mortal

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