evross
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Hypothesis is one that has been interesting to use for web article annotation. It lets you save quotes and comments on articles https://web.hypothes.is/
Comment · 5 years ago
It's interesting to learn about. Other molecules are also found to inhibit replication of 3CL protease in SARS cov-2 [1].
The UK scientific advisory group SAGE published a few months ago that combination therapy might be useful to avoid 'antiviral resistant' strains of SARS cov-2 evolving. Perhaps these 3cl protease inhibitors may be used in combination.
Comment · 5 years ago
ANC headphones are great for low-frequency (bass) sounds. But with cheap headphones I find I can still hear speech. I think new housing uses mass loaded vinyl to prevent high frequency sounds from passing through walls - perhaps heavy, 1lb or 1kg headphones with ANC are the solution for experiencing real silence in e.g. a busy workspace? Does anyone have an idea if material weight or density is a big factor in sound insulation? Along with air-tight sealing.
Comment · 6 years ago
I use gitAhead as daily git Gui on linux. It's fast to run. Has a lot of git features, maybe not all though.
Comment · 6 years ago
I found it through search on Youtube, had been looking for which way to package applications on Linux. Packaging really takes a bit of time, reading documentation and figuring out how to do it. After packaging a flatpak you need to add it to a local repository on your device before you can test install it, which isn't as intuitive as clicking on a .appimage file, but brings some benefits. The documentation is quite readable: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/first-build.html.
Agreed for audio quality. It's hard to listen to with only the left channel working. It might be worth reuploading it with balanced stereo.
Comment · 6 years ago
A great talk on Flatpak sandboxing was released in March. [1]. The original post is from 2018 (Flatpak 1.0). Not sure if these issues are completely fixed yet, there are a lot of release notes up to version 1.63 (stable). [2] It seems that the maintainers and community are working on improving security continuously. My main hope is that they optimize for privacy, security and user control of the packages. Overall I'm impressed by flatpak with it's cross-distribution packaging.
Comment · 6 years ago
Just following the surveillance model pioneered by Google, Facebook etc. I'm glad tech surveillance is being covered and some awareness and opposition is visible here. Xiaomi aren't the only ones taking a mile of advantage from the inch of 'good telemetry' promoted by some companies.
Comment · 6 years ago
Russian roulette might be an unfair comparison, but it may only be one order of magnitude different to this virus IFR.
With probability a number between 0 and 1, percentage is between 0 and 100.
From the study in your source [1] the P(death|infected) = 0.005 And Russian roulette P(death | play) = 0.16
In percentages:
Covid19 - IFR = 0.5%, Russian roulette = 16%
From this calculation based on the recent New York antibody study [2] the average IFR across all age groups is 1.31%. (0 + 0.017 + 0.067 + 0.13 + 0.45 + 1.26 + 3.16 + 5.4)/8 = 1.31%
This is a much higher IFR than flu or H1N1 (IFR was 0.02% in 2009, 65 times less).
[1] https://hal-pasteur.archives-ouvertes.fr/pasteur-02548181 "We find 2.6% of infected individuals are hospitalized and 0.53% die"
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/g6pqsr/nysnyc_anti... 0-19 ~= 0%; 20-29 = 0.017%; 30-39 = 0.067%.; 40-49 = 0.13%; 50-59 = 0.45%; 60-69 = 1.26%; 70-79 = 3.16%; 80+ = 5.4%;
Comment · 6 years ago
The graphs on this page shows the situation for NY. It is clear that the risk can't be compared with 2009's H1N1. It's sobering. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/corona...
We need to give the scientists and medical professionals and industry more time to figure out how best to prevent this. There are many reports of 40-50 day illnesses in young people due to not clearing the virus. And the poorly named 'mild' case can be rough. It's (badly imo) defined as when a patient doesn't require hospital. It should be called moderate I think. [1]
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/what-coronavirus-mild-sympto...
Comment · 6 years ago
Really promising and excellent video. I hope chloroquine (or hydroxychloroquine) proves to be effective in emergency clinical trials. And that it can be readily sourced for upcoming patients if so.
All researchers, doctors should see this video & cited papers to evaluate potential.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'd recommend going to https://savedotorg.org and sharing it if possible. There will be a public call through this campaign for people interested in learning more about this sale on December 5th at 12pm pacific time.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's worth noting that the former ICANN CEO, Fadi Chehadé is highly involved in this sale. This timeline also seems to suggest that current members of ICANN are also biased towards the sale of the .org domain, ICANN may not be interested in the views of the people who currently have .org domains.
From https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/isoc-pir-.... :
"March 2019:
ICANN receives 3,300 comments uniformly opposed to the change and 6 in favor of removing price caps, and sides with the 0.2% minority.
May 2019:
PIR responded to the comments with an open letter that said,
“We are a mission-based non-profit, and would never betray the trust that you have put into .ORG and us.”
On 7 May, Chehadé registered the domain for EthosCapital.com.
On 13 May, ICANN decided to lift the price caps anyway.
On 14 May, Ethos Capital was incorporated as a new investment firm founded by Brooks. Ethos Capital has two staff: Brooks and Nora Abusitta-Ouri, a former ICANN SVP who later worked for Chehadé and was also a classmate of Chehadé."
Comment · 7 years ago
There is https://SaveDotOrg.org which people that don't support this selling out of .org should sign. It's supported by NTEN and a lot of other site owners and internet users.
Comment · 7 years ago
From https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/isoc-pir-... :
"March 2019:
ICANN receives 3,300 comments uniformly opposed to the change and 6 in favor of removing price caps, and sides with the 0.2% minority.
May 2019:
PIR responded to the comments with an open letter that said, “We are a mission-based non-profit, and would never betray the trust that you have put into .ORG and us.”
On 7 May, Chehadé registered the domain for EthosCapital.com.
On 13 May, ICANN decided to lift the price caps anyway.
On 14 May, Ethos Capital was incorporated as a new investment firm founded by Brooks. Ethos Capital has two staff: Brooks and Nora Abusitta-Ouri, a former ICANN SVP who later worked for Chehadé and was also a classmate of Chehadé."
But I agree that to really get the most out of a book, reading cover to cover is likely most immersive, impactful, maybe followed by listening to the auduibook from start to finish.