nickthemagicman

"A single data scientist amongst a department of data scientists, who did actual, illegal stuff, and is being charged for that."

"par for the course"

We have different measures of normalcy or different news sources.

This article is trying to drive an artificial wedge between wisdom and innovation when there is none.

Both are valuable to people.

(regardless of age, sex, race, status, etc)

That's an oddly false dichotomy

Yeah now that vaccines are being shown to have rapidly waning immunity and minimal resistance to new strains I wonder what the permanent lockdown states end game is.

>Until then, Senator X has zero bearing on my everyday life

Where have you been the past two years?

Florida and Texas seem to be doing just fine.

If the governments start locking down again Conservative states will see house prices rise.

30ish% fatality rate of small pox.

I think Black Plague was like 60% fatality rate and killed so many people that it's theorized it paved the way for the enlightenment by disrupting entrenched economic stratification.

Covid is essentially the flu compared to a real historical pandemic.

There were not any 'black plague' deniers.

Holy cow have been rabbit holing on all morning on this.

I've had to fight my zen garden conditioning the whole time but I have to admit this looks good.

Thanks for the link!

Isn't regular code, low code?

Like isn't a turing complete language proven to be the highest level one can go to be able to do anything required with code?

Everything past that reduces the amount of code but also reduces the number of things the code can do and at some point in the code reduction, it's just a declarative language?

Its all shades of gray between imperative/functionsl and declarative.

The problem with this logic is that even before money you had to survive and youre under the spell of 'some' activity to survive.

Money just abstracts hunting all day...to sitting in an office all day doing mental or creative work.

The real problem imo is that money allows the rich to accumulate the wealth to a massive extent while the poor have 60 to 80 hours a week.

I don't know what to think about this style of CSS.

I was taught to use classes semantically and style from there.

A navbar would be a .navbar class for example and that would be styled in the stylesheet.

Istead of a bunch of classes in the html to define the styles for the navbar.

I'm old school though and this may be the better more modern way?

If I walk into a room of people with the black plague, I'm concerned about every single person in that room giving me the disease not just the people of my age bracket.

That's the chance of infection.

This same idea is used in mask policy and is used with herd immunity calculations and all over epidemiology to be honest.

I'm really sorry that you have to do mental gymnastics to shoehorn this subject into your narrative.

Have a good day!

I think you may be wrong.

All age groups are equally INFECTIOUS once they have the disease, but are not equally able to BE INFECTED , otherwise people under 55 wouldn't have to wear masks. We wear the mask to protect others right? No matter what our age is.

So why would you reduce the population size to just an age slice?

The same assumption is made when calculating herd immunity. They use the entire populations infectiousness because chance to transmit doesn't change with age but chance to be infected does..

But you DO limit by age group on the infection side because that individuals chance of contracting it from the general population, is based on age/immune system .

chance of infection * chance of some complication

Its a very simple intuitive calculation that is used widely throughout epidemiology.

It feels like, with Covid, people try to add on unnecessary calculations or ignore important factors to shoehorn the numbers to fit a narrative.

SAME. Those sites provided me with negative value.

Yeah that's exactly the calculation were looking for.

Do you want me to run the numbers for a person under 18?

Trust me it will be drastically less chance of BP from covid than the vaccine.

We would never consider the idea... that an IV drug users chance of getting AIDS .. is the same chance as the rest of the population.

Yet for some reason people are okay with the idea that a healthy 18 year old has the same chance of negative outcomes from covid as an UNhealthy 75 year old. And that the response should be commensurate.

Very strange to me how we don't differentiate population and lifestyle adjustments to covid statistics.

VERY strange.

Unless it's a case of date rape or something.

One of Dahmer's victims got away and was so drugged that the cops returned him to Dahmer who proceeded to eat him.

The problem is that it is federal overreach. I'm fine with doing it on a state by state basis, but this has no business being in the purview of the federal govt.

19 Bells Palsy per 100 000 vaccine(from paper provided) = 0.00019

Bells Palsy from COVID in the general poulation

7 million (infected 50 year olds) * .08% (of BP from the paper) = 5600 / 350 million(us population) = 0.000016

Looks like your chances are significantly better NOT getting the vaccine. And it just gets dramatically worse the younger age groups you look at.

This is assuming the vaccine affects every age group similarly which there is conveniently no data on that I could find. But according to the news media it does affect everyone the same.

References:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarti...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254271/us-total-number-...

greater risk of getting Bell's palsy from COVID itself

Maybe if you include all age groups..but in a healthy young person?

The oddly flagged thread below has a calculation that shows the possibility that it's worse with references from Jama and Lancet.

This poor guy got bells palsy from the vaccine. And he's healthy 56 years old which is a very low-risk group to begin with. The statistics for a healthy 56 year old dying of C19 are extremely minimal.

A healthy politician in Australia appareny also came down with Bell's palsy recently after getting the vaccine. Victor Dominello.

"If they talk to me long enough, they notice, even six months later, I still have some lingering symptoms of Bell’s Palsy, which I got following my vaccination. I still have to put drops in my right eye every now and then, still have to drink oddly out of only one side of my mouth. I can’t honestly say there isn’t some minor risk, even though I do add and emphasize, “I would have still gotten vaccinated again. Having my risk of death cut down by 10 times is like, huge man. Worth a few eye drops now and then.”

The susceptibility of people to news media fear mongering influencing them to do things directly against their best interest, like injecting experimental medication or the poor voting for less taxes on the rich... will never cease to amaze me. The power of propaganda.

It takes orders of magnitude more effort to dispute bullshit than to create it

I think that may be a bit sensational.

Facebook knows that you met someone or know someone?

That's all they know for sure.

it's something but not much.

what are FB libraries?

Ok sure, but thats secondary info.

All that they can get for sure is that you know someone.

That's way more limited compared to all of your thoughts likes dislikes beliefs location family members pets, etc that people share when logged in.

My point is that we complain about Facebook stealing our data but then log in to Facebook and freely give it to them.

Instead of waiting for the govt or some big regulatory entity to slap Facebook we can do it ourselves and just delete Facebook.

Why do you think people don't just do that?

Its pretty clear: women are human beings that also lie.

Hitting a woman is always bad.

Taking all of a dudes money and his kid away in a divorce is equally bad

In life there doesn't have to be a good guy.

There's actually a clever hack to get around facebooks information gathering. Deleting Facebook.

Divorce court doesn't do in depth investigation.

If it's legit domestic abuse it goes through a criminal court first and they use that evidence in the divorce court.

Domestic abuse is its own trial entirely.

Otherwise it's just a he-said-she-said scenario and women usually engender a lot more sympathy in painting the guy as an abuser.