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by sleavey 5y ago
Well said. As for a good place to discuss this stuff, my view is that, to misappropriate the Churchill quote, HN is the worst place I've found for debating COVID matters except for all the other places I've found. At least most pe
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by sleavey 5y ago
> I've read far too much casual acceptance of the deaths of older people on HN, as if this ~15% of the population [in the US at least] are freely expendable. I don't think most people on HN implying such things mean to say old
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by sleavey 5y ago
> In your opinion, how important are the lives of people aged 65 and older? I think you intended that as a rhetorical question but I want to point out that in the UK the NHS has calculated the "worth" of a single quality-adjust
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by sleavey 5y ago
> "I think we should talk to them, if nothing else to make it more expensive for Yahoo." Love this. Another thing: Jeff Huber thought that having 2.5 Google engineers would be enough to outcompete YouTube at the time. Given tha
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by sleavey 5y ago
I am. But I soon want to reinstall my phone's operating system. If I reinstall WhatsApp I'm sure they will force me to accept the terms at that point.
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by sleavey 5y ago
> - Internet connection (Windows 11 Home edition) Does this signal the end of Microsoft account-less logins?
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by sleavey 5y ago
Far less fun though! I regularly spend at least as much if not more doing some project myself instead of buying an off-the-shelf solution. I do it because I enjoy it, can make it work exactly the way I want it to, and don't then suffer
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by sleavey 5y ago
The Murderer at the Door hypothetical is commonly mentioned in response to Kant, but I don't think this serves as reason to reject the overall thesis. Kant also said that there is no right for someone to obtain information from another
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by sleavey 5y ago
I don't want to be lied to in any form by my government. I believe they can always govern by telling the truth, and if they did so they would find themselves commanding more respect from the people. I suggest, if you are unfamiliar wit
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by sleavey 5y ago
I found this part interesting: > Notice that when the key is, say, 40 bytes long, it’s padded with zeros to make it 64 bytes long. So the actual entropy of that key is equivalent to the 40-byte long key. But if the key is longer than 64
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by sleavey 5y ago
Meta-reply: at time of writing your comment is grey enough to be on -2, yet nothing you say is trolling or unhelpful. In fact, your comment contains merely two questions and a supposition. I've seen this on HN particularly for COVID re
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by sleavey 5y ago
Even comparing excess deaths can be misleading, because you're comparing deaths during lockdown to deaths in previous years not in lockdown. In other words, you're not isolating a single variable (SARS-CoV-2 pandemic vs no pandemi
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A “rock” was sold for $1.3M. Here’s the catch: it's not even real(coinmarketcap.com)
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by sleavey 5y ago
Another curiosity related to this one is why <h5> and <h6> have smaller default font sizes than <p>, given that they are headers and should therefore "head" a section of text [1]. [1] https://stackover
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by sleavey 5y ago
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6609120 We were a bunch of physicists having fun. The impact of using just laptops for demand side response will be negligible but the idea is that all battery equipped, mains conne
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by sleavey 5y ago
I actually published a paper on your last point many years ago. To me it's obvious that we need to use electric car batteries as storage for the grid. The infrastructure is already there. The software in the car should allow the user t
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by sleavey 5y ago
That's a good question, I don't know the answer to that. One thing to include though is transmission loss to get the electricity to the place it's needed. And at the same time of course include the energy used to get petrol t
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by sleavey 5y ago
I enjoyed hearing electric cars called "external combustion engines" given that in most countries (at least mine) the electricity used to charge the car still mostly comes from fossil fuel. In such cases all we're doing is ad
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by sleavey 5y ago
> the unvaccinated are screwing over the rest of us who are doing the right thing. I'm curious as to what evidence you base that assertion on. Respectfully, can you explain your position there?
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by sleavey 5y ago
> He recently pointed to a 5 year old paper to suggest that vaccinations are bad because they allow more virulent strains to come about. Papers from the 1900s are still our best description of some physical phenomena. A paper's age,
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by sleavey 5y ago
This is the correct answer. Bitcoin is the hardest money ever invented, at least while SHA256 stays secure. History has shown us that people move their savings from softer to harder stores of value as they become available, eventually makin
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by sleavey 5y ago
As I alluded to in my original comment, you might not pick up on a transient error like an I/O error during testing. This is exactly the sort of thing a sensible default setting in the program should cover.
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by sleavey 5y ago
Well, apparently you won't read this but thanks nonetheless for engaging with the arguments from the supposed "other side" further than most people do. I still respectfully disagree, and hope you find time to reexamine the cl
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by sleavey 5y ago
Thanks for the links, I will take a proper look later. However, I have to repeat my point about scientific convergence because your links, in contrast to what you said earlier, demonstrates it is yet to happen. Popp et al. acknowledges the
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by sleavey 5y ago
You are very welcome :-)
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by sleavey 5y ago
That was the session opener for the conference, setting the stage. The conference itself (linked from the channel page) has presentations from scientists backing up the claims he makes there. The first lecture in the session for example is
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by sleavey 5y ago
You may be referring to Elgazzar et al. as discussed here [1]. That was not a meta-analysis, it was just a single study; the paper I linked was a meta-analysis of many such studies. The withdrawn paper was included in the paper I linked abo
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by sleavey 5y ago
It's entirely unconstructive to make comments like yours without sharing your sources. As I said above, there is this toxic attitude exhibited by many where there is an assumption that those who disagree with you are idiots and you nee
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by sleavey 5y ago
The trouble with arguments like that are that they rely entirely on faith in the person stating them. As with all science, it's not the volume of studies one way or the other, it's the quality. Consensus on a topic only comes over
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by sleavey 5y ago
Thanks, I respect your viewpoint; indeed I can relate to it having held that view for a long time too up until a few months ago when I started to ask trusted colleagues for their thoughts and started to read beyond the headlines. I now diff

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