majos

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by majos 6y ago
> Weird to single out HFT's. Isn't everyone working from home right now? “That” in parent comment is being sequestered at work, so the opposite of working from home.
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by majos 6y ago
Slightly older (I don't think it mentions the exterior sugars) but more detailed and comprehensive Economist article about the coronavirus structure and how it motivates research into different solutions (e.g., why do we hope remdesivi
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by majos 6y ago
How does this “save big”? Isn’t supermarket ground beef about $5/lb?
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by majos 6y ago
Shouldn’t the title be “hoarding”?
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by majos 6y ago
Per the article, “increased 283-fold” means a specific variety of worm is now more common in the fish. It doesn’t mean parasites have become more common in people. It’s consistent with these results for sushi freezing to still kill the worm
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by majos 7y ago
> their 3 biggest increases in new cases were the last 3 days As raw numbers but not percentages. 13% each of the past 3 days is better than the 15-25% (mostly nearer 25%) of the past few weeks.
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by majos 7y ago
If it turns out that there’s a cheap, widely available, already-studied treatment that achieves something even close to the 100% cure rate observed in the paper, the timeline for total shutdown looks much shorter, no?
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by majos 7y ago
I really want this study to be legit, but there are a few more weird things: 1. the evidence-free claim of “full peer review”, 2. the fact that patients who refused or met “exclusion criteria” for the drug served as a portion of the control
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by majos 7y ago
This reminds me of a pretty niche article I found a couple months ago. It was about the bones of a bunch of cave bears that a father and his young son found in Drachenloch Cave in Switzerland in the early 1900s. They called in naturalist Em
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by majos 7y ago
The estimates in that first article seem oddly cavalier: > “Around 40 million people died in 1918 Spanish flu outbreak," said Prof [of mathematical biology at ICL] Ferguson. "There are six times more people on the planet now so
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by majos 7y ago
The best source I know of for statistics like this is the Federal Reserve's most recent "Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households" [1]. It's a survey of about 10,000 people and, as far as I can tell, is the s
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by majos 7y ago
Not any kind of doctor, but the list of adverse effects on Wikipedia [1] is...not trivial. Seizures, deafness, retinopathy, and the bald assertion that “there is not enough evidence to determine whether chloroquine is safe to be given to pe
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by majos 7y ago
The “from orbit” part is a little misleading I think. You can also see individual cars, down to their passenger windows, from orbit in the referenced photos. The photos are pretty detailed.
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by majos 7y ago
For verifying the slides’ source? Not that I can think of, unfortunately. The slides themselves are at the featured link.
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by majos 7y ago
> This is NOT an estimate based on mathematical model, this is the estimate based on clinical data so far and virus's exponential growth rate. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but an exponential growth rate is a mathematical model. We’r
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by majos 7y ago
Just to check the source, these are the same slides (same Drive doc) tweeted by the listed author on the slides [1], who is a neurobiology and bioengineering professor at Stanford. If you want an understandable, relatively short but info-de
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by majos 7y ago
Confused — the article starts off with the reasonable point that we don’t know the true number of covid infections (likely only the most severe ones) so calculations of death rates are flawed. But then they address this by instead computing
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by majos 7y ago
Dumb question: does this mean normal citizens can take out loans at near-0% interest, or something close to that? I know credit card interest rates are typically tied to “the fed rate” but a but higher?
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by majos 7y ago
> From the figures, it looks like 10% of young are still severe pneumonia’s [0]. Sorry, where do you see that in [0]? Table 3 has a pneumonia diagnosis but isn’t broken down by age, Table 1 is broken down (somewhat) by age but only diffe
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by majos 7y ago
I think you agree with the parent comment. “put selective pressure on the strain types that are more infective and severe” does select for milder strains (the pressure is on severe strains to change).
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by majos 7y ago
That figure may be “% of population >= 85 years old”, where Italy does lead the EU. See p21 in this report [1] from Eurostat for a breakdown by country. About 3.45% of Italy is at least 85, compared to about 2.75 for Germany. That’s abou
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by majos 7y ago
A decline in cases to treat would be informative, no?
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by majos 7y ago
That makes sense. It’s challenging to think of a “problem to work on”. If it was programming or math, I’d find a project to try out whatever technique I’d picked up. There doesn’t seem to be a ready analogue for that here.
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by majos 7y ago
> Whatever domain you're in, whatever interests you have- having something of a model of the financial machinery that basically underlies all human activity, both in the small and in the large, I would argue is super valuable. What’
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by majos 7y ago
Somewhat meta comment, when I read all the conflicting recommendations here (seriously, for almost all recommendations there’s an anti-recommendation somewhere in this thread), it makes me question the value to me in really trying to unders
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by majos 7y ago
The relics business is way more organized than I thought. There are technically three classes of relics, first (actual remnant of a saint), second (remnant of object belonging to saint) or third (touched a first class relic or a saint’s tom
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by majos 7y ago
Did they win?
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by majos 7y ago
> It’s not our first pandemic. It won’t be the last. As far as I can tell, for almost all Americans, this is our first pandemic. The closest analogue might be polio in the 1950s, but maybe 10% of the population remembers that. Going do
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by majos 7y ago
> But Tsang said the long-term effect on recovered patients, such as whether they would develop pulmonary fibrosis, a condition where lung tissue hardened and the organ could not function properly, had yet to be ascertained. It sounds li
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by majos 7y ago
Re: students, a nontrivial fraction of students get meals from the schools they attend, so if schools close this would help cover that demographic.

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