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Nurse informaticist. Full stack developer at Swell Matrix

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To me the hospitalization rate is most important.

* Overcrowded hospitals is what leads to large jumps in fatality rates.

* It only lags the date of infection by about a week.

* It also isn't subject to external factors like availability of tests. (Though availability of hospital beds is a factor later on)

Handbrewing Coffee 7 years ago

Any suggestions for a _quiet_ bean grinder that won't disrupt a small office with its noise?

This is nothing compared to the estimated $3.5 billion to redirect the tracks underground in San Diego. Coastal bluff failures are occurring within several feet of the tracks on a regular basis. I spend time at this beach and I don't know how this track will be viable in a couple years, with or without rising sea levels. Once it is deemed unsafe, San Diego will be completely cut off by rail.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sd-del-mar-bluf...

There is a major difference between Gatorade and Powerade, which is the type of sugar.

Gatorade has glucose (aka dextrose, the same sugar as an IV bag) while Powerade has high fructose corn syrup.

Glucose can be used directly by your cells while fructose is metabolized in the liver first. So for quick relief from dehydration I choose Gatorade.

* Glucose = 100% dextrose

* table sugar / sucrose = 50% dextrose

* high fructose corn syrup = ~40% dextrose

My observation is that teens are taking jobs that were previously done by undocumented immigrants who have left due to the current political climate. I expect immigration policy could be more closely correlated with young men's labor than video games.

When you get a chromebook you can redeem an offer for 100gb free for 2 years. When your 2 years is up, files aren't deleted but you can't upload anything else until you're below the 15gb. Drive is always free up to 15gb.

Part 2 is here, with plenty of food for thought:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n03/derek-parfit/why-anything-why-t...

If we find this astonishing, we are assuming that these features should be the Selectors: that reality should be as simple and unarbitrary as it could be. That assumption has, I believe, great plausibility. But, just as the simplest cosmic possibility is that nothing ever exists, the simplest explanatory possibility is that there is no Selector. So we should not expect simplicity at both the factual and explanatory levels. If there is no Selector, we should not expect that there would also be no Universe. That would be an extreme coincidence.

With large surf hitting the coast of California I thought it would be a good time to show my personal project. It is a visualization of wave buoy spectral and time series data, plus marine weather for surfers and boaters.

Comments and suggestions are appreciated!

I've been using pyCharm for the last 2 years and its code completion has helped me code and learn at a much faster pace than other editors.

It offers code suggestions for any module that has been imported in addition to everything in the current script. Sublime and vim's code completion seem very primitive in comparison.

That said, I usually use the free Community Edition because it loads faster.

Locals usually have a way to get rid of street vendors that is effective, so finding out what that is in your locality is a good idea.

In Mexico, it's Hoy no (Not today) and it works pretty well.

I like this

One feature I would like is the ability to plot multiple axes via bubble plots- categorical data could be shown with colors and quantitative data with circle size. That way I could sort out monitors by price, size and response time for example.