Perry E. Metzger

@perrymetzger

Mad Scientist, Bon Vivant, and Raconteur.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2010.

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  1. The question of whether rhinoviruses are a public health threat or not has been discussed for quite a while.

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    Normal coronaviruses and rhinoviruses can cause serious health issues for immunocompromised patients, people with asthma, elderly people, etc. It's not a global problem as bad as (say) malaria, but it's still not great.

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    BTW, generally, I think people underestimate how dangerous coronaviruses and rhinoviruses are. Even when they're just "annoying" they cost people weeks of productivity per year, and that has a dramatic economic price. However, there's good reason to think they're not so benign.

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    My general guess: it's too late to stop the spread of 2019-nCoV, but there is significant utility in slowing the spread to buy time to study treatment options and get vaccines finished.

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    99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route!

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    I walked away from this useless section in the Sunday ⁦⁩ and saved myself precious time I would never have gotten back!

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    Extreme poverty has declined from afflicting 85% of the world's population in 1800 to less than 10% today. If that trend continues, extreme poverty will be gone by 2030.

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  8. 30. sij

    The MacOS 10.15.3 update got stuck in a loop on my machine, refusing to install but attempting to install again on restart. Currently reinstalling Catalina from scratch to get out from under this. The quality of updates of late has left something to be desired.

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  10. 26. sij

    A petition in favor of an open access policy for government funded research in the United States. You might want to sign it.

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  11. 25. sij

    The new coronavirus outbreak is a good time to remind people that going to work while sick is an exceptionally antisocial act. It doesn’t signal toughness. It signals sociopathy. If you’ve got a contagious illness, stay home.

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    , , i još njih 4
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  13. 24. sij

    Wearing face masks in public is presently illegal in Hong Kong and compulsory in Wuhan.

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  14. 23. sij

    It just occurred to me that soon, when the last antibiotics stop working, childhood ear infections will once more routinely result in permanent deafness. But meat is marginally cheaper thanks to antibiotic abuse, so deaf kids will at least get cheaper burgers.

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  15. 23. sij

    It’s been over 200 years since David Ricardo’s writings, and mercantilism still remains insanely popular. Vaccines are obviously beneficial, and millions are terrified of them. Humans are not notably good at thinking, and especially not at learning or evaluating evidence.

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    and equally dislike & dehumanize each other, but estimate that the levels of prejudice and dehumanization expressed by the outgroup party are twice the levels actually reported. They don’t hate each other as much as they think.

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  17. 22. sij

    The iron law of behavioral detection heuristics: any heuristic designed to detect bad behavior is also a perfect training oracle for a system designed to evade the heuristic. Furthermore, you can never keep the adversary from getting access to your magic badness detector forever.

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  18. 21. sij

    Reuters: ”Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained”

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  19. 20. sij

    Can anyone else figure out where the original article is? A quick scan of the latest Nature Immunology table of contents doesn’t reveal it.

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  20. 19. sij

    Original article in The Lancet (which is actually not quite as informative as the press release):

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