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There was a study that showed cotton masks can actually be worse. A medical person showed me the other day, I’ll have to ask for the link


This is the only definitive study I've seen, and it recommends cotton masks: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...


Probably the MacIntyre et al. paper. It's being misinterpreted everywhere in this very misleading fashion. See this blog MacIntyre wrote to clarify this: https://iser.med.unsw.edu.au/blog/impact-ppe-shortages-healt...

People misrepresenting this study are doing tremendous harm, it has to stop.


Thank you for sharing this updated clarification. I just shared it with that medical professional who showed me the original. Hoping to spread this clarification


There is also a study that shows many studies findings cannot be reproduced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

From where I stand, the countries that have a culture of wearing masks are doing better with regards to coronavirus. At the very least, it seems like a good hypothesis.


I'm reminded of Naseem Taleb's statement that when you measure a table with a ruler, you are also measuring the ruler with the table.


> Maduro’s indictment marks the second time that the U.S. government has brought criminal charges against a sitting foreign head of state. The last time was in 1989, when federal prosecutors in Miami indicted Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega on drug-trafficking charges. and U.S. military forces seized him late that year. Noriega was convicted at trial, imprisoned in the Miami area and died in 2017.

I wonder if we'll see this part of history replay itself in 2020/2021.


They added "We are experiencing an issue with Google Cloud infrastructure components" at the top, but everything is still green.

Are they unaware of which components have issues?


They know internally from the real status dashboards & real monitoring.

I think the issue is that this status page is maintained by hand, by humans, and updating it likely requires lots of communication and sign-off approvals, and trying to get numbers to decide whether an outage is big or only impacting a tiny fraction of users. Otherwise it'd probably always be red.


> Most of what you learn in uni physics is Math. But the Math is only one (outdated) description of the nature of physical law.

Is this the lack of additional parameters for the equations? All of my physics problems (only took a couple courses) were like "what if this spherical horse rolled down a hill at 34 degree decline" but failed to include friction, atmosphere. Just gravity. It always felt fake to me. Perhaps this is what you were alluding to by the "outdated" description?


By outdated what I more mean is that I think if the greats of the ~1800 had modern computers they would probably not use mathematics in its current form to study physics. There already has been on transition of this kind. Newton used Geometry to study physics whereas today we use Math which more has its roots in symbolic logic.


If people in 1800s had modern computers we'd be sitting now on ruins of the global nuclear war of 1850 all watching TikTok.


I searched for this but it says it is coming soon: https://highlightsapp.net/

Did you mean something else?


No, that's the one---but they just updated to a subscription model, which I was unaware of. I have the 'boring' normal version of the app still.


I’ve lived this small and you get clever. I put things in storage under my bed, in my bookshelf, and in boxes in my closet. Worst case, I would just stack them in the open or on counters, behind the sink, and on window ledges


Sorry, but what is a ham? a HAM radio operator or something else?


The 'ham' in ham radio seems like it should be an acronym or something, but it's actually just short for 'ham-fisted' and doesn't need any special treatment. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio#Ham_radio


Yeah, IIUC, HAM dedicates its lower-fidelity bands to Morse.


Correct (a HAM radio operator)


> even voice can be distracting when you have to repeat variations of the same command five times and keep checking whether it actually works.

This is a silly argument, given the number of arguments that I’ve seen drivers participate in.


Triage isn’t a cure


No, but it's something every software developer understands is necessary in every system every day.


> will only be positive days after the onset of symptoms.

If you're asymptomatic, would it also be positive?


Yes since it’s an antibody test.


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