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Comment · 5 years ago

Did you buy an AirGradient monitor or any brand you recommend that is not DIY?

Comment · 5 years ago

Thanks! Yeah, I definitely think immersion listening can really help and I've used it a bit (subs2srs and audio books), but sometimes it can be used as a crutch to avoid speaking. Your app looks really cool and love that you incorporated SRS. Anecdotally, the hardest thing I've seen with my SO and I is that we end up switching back to english as we aren't disciplined when practicing together (even when in the other country itself lol)

Comment · 5 years ago

I would kindly disagree and say that it's better to learn the pronunciation rules and practice producing them. There is a lot of research around learning that production and testing are better for learning (and also why is easier to understand than speak). Specifically, to train pronunciation, the anki decks from the author of the book Fluent Forever are incredible.

Source: Learned a romance language for my SO and everyone I've met in the native country tells me I have a very natural accent and clean pronunciation.

https://fluent-forever.com/product/fluent-forever-pronunciat...

Comment · 5 years ago

Out of curiosity, do you mean words that are technical or specific to a field? Or more general words such as 'didactic'?

Comment · 5 years ago

Awesome, this is very helpful! I know where i will be spending the next few hours : ) Very much appreciated!

Comment · 5 years ago

Any recommendations for where to purchase these vintage watches? I've always thought they were beautiful but never sure where to find legitimate sellers (despite googling a bit)

Comment · 5 years ago

Pre-print for that paper was published 7 months ago and the sample collection date was from April-May 2020. Obviously there have been huge spikes in cases across the world since May 2020 with majority of infections occurring after that timeframe.

> Sample collection date Apr–May 2020

Comment · 5 years ago

I think commenter is referring to Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) that specifically impacts children.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...

Comment · 5 years ago

The phase 3 trial for JnJ/Janseen had only ~44k participants whereas here we are talking on the order of ~1 per million (that are reported as of today)

Comment · 5 years ago

There have been a bunch of studies that have come out, with a range of quality in case selection methodology eg. biased sampling, so its still early days. I've seen estimates ranging from 2% - 33% for effects up to 7 months after infection for mild-moderate symptomatic cases. But generally, it seems quite a serious issue.

This is a good review on whats out there: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01283-z

Comment · 5 years ago

In the EMA statement from today they said:

> there is no evidence of a problem related to specific batches of the vaccine or to particular manufacturing sites;

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazene...

Comment · 5 years ago

I think this article is a bit more nuanced based on what they are seeing on the ground. Derek brings up good points about background rates, but papers over some things. It's a complex picture and the below article paints it well.

Also scientists in Norway claim they found the mechanism that causes it.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/it-s-very-special-pi...

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/KyGv2G/professor-says-...

Comment · 5 years ago

Lots of different problems that are complex! For example:

+ Text internationalization system

+ Payment processing

+ User auth

+ User verification

+ A/B testing system

+ User metrics collection from UI

+ offline storage of said metrics

+ data pipelines to process stored offline storage

+ iOS app

+ android app

+ Image storage and caching infra

+ fraud detection

+ search ranking and indexing

https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/airbnb-engineering-inf...

Comment · 5 years ago

How is a company that is an entirely online marketplace with no physical property not a 'tech company'?

Comment · 5 years ago

How is it a logical fallacy to check the opinions of both political parties? The parent asked:

> "Am I in a media bubble?"

Usually helps to check what both sides of the partisan isle are saying to avoid a bubble.