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moultano
11,023karma·1,963submissions·May 20, 2009
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If your only experience of how the media has covered climate change is through posts like the one you linked, then you'll naturally come to that conclusion, but I don't think it has any basi…
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Why would your beliefs about the "media environment" influence your view of the reports from scientific bodies? The claims of catastrophic consequences are coming straight from the literatur…
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A list of cherry picked quotes from a motivated contrarian is not evidence that they "got it so wrong."
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Sure, David Barber was off by a bit in that particular sentence, but arctic sea ice minima are now half of their historical values, and dropping. It is true, that in complex dynamic systems, predict…
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If you actually look at what those predictions have been, you'll find that they're pretty consistently on the mark. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate…
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How about you look at what they actually predicted?
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m... …
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This is really cool, but to complete these recipes successfully on schedule you'd have to account for the ambient temperature of your house and adjust accordingly. A rise overnight at 65 degrees …
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https://nyti.ms/2x2naQu Masks work. Telling the public they didn't need them in order to conserve them for doctors and nurses was a mistake.…
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Along with being young and healthy, the people going out in public to do things should wear gloves and a mask if possible. You might be relatively safe, but you still might take up a hospital bed, and…
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Having one of the most stressful events of the last 50 years happening concurrently has to confound things at least a little bit.
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Every news article on any policy change will include some characterization of what the opposition to it is saying.
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This is an account from one of the doctors in Italy. https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714289107769753... Read the whole thing, but this passage in particular is …
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What does that have to do with the lottery ticket hypothesis?
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I don't see any connection between what you've written and the lottery ticket hypothesis. Could you elaborate? (In particular, the core of the lottery ticket hypothesis is that layers make t…
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The medical community is asking us to prepare. You should be changing your behavior to reduce contact with other people, learning the necessary sanitation techniques, and preparing to be self sufficie…
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> I mean, you can't really say the author can't assess the situation because of a lack of expertise, and then immediately assess the situation with a lack of expertise. This is the assess…
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The author is not an epidemiologist, and does not appear to have any other relevant expertise to assess the situation. The people who do have that expertise consistently say that it is very serious. C…
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I would think the main trigger to stop would be once the uncertainty is resolved. If we know it's less deadly than feared, or if we know how big the outbreak is, or if we know how effectively we …
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Really frustrated that my employer isn't doing this. I convinced my immediate manager to give everyone approval to WFH, but I cannot fathom why the whole company isn't. I don't know whe…
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The WHO is now encouraging it. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1233488277363183617?s=19 …
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> so I would simply follow recommendations from experts, and so far my government hasn't emitted any specific restrictions (besides avoiding traveling to China and a few other places). You a…
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For those of you reading this from the bay area, we already have suspected community transmission 50 miles away, in a town with a lot of people who commute to the Bay. If it's easy for you to wor…
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This isn't the best article, it appears to be a student activity guide. I was just intending to link to the graphic that has appeared throughout the nytimes' coverage.
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Yes, the death rates are somewhere around 20x higher, and it is much more transmissable. The nytimes has a great graph showing the range of possible values for death rate and transmissability of the v…
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Folks, I think it's time for as many bay area workers as possible to WFH. Let's get ahead of this.
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What gives you the impression that the risk is small?