andrewseanryan

As I step into an elevator, I often think about the algorithm that's driving it. Now I know what they are! Thanks!

I’m hoping to get them to Mayo but they are currently in Istanbul. Thank you much for your insights.

Thank you much for the insights. His initial treatment for leukemia was at the kinder Clinic in Munich. They were very good. I will suggest the approach you mentioned here.

Im happy to hear that your wife survived. It is a very difficult issue.

I recently stayed in a hostel in mexico and met a bunch of very cool people who were all open to meeting people (as travelers often are). I still rented a private room but the environment of shared amenities (even bathrooms) and the fact that everyone is a traveler tends to lead to good interactions. So… try traveling and staying at a shared place (not Airbnb or hotel).

I appreciate the criticism and tend to mostly agree. I do have much more knowledge than your average Joe on the topic (MPH plus worked full time/still part time on pandemic response for an international NGO) but I’m no expert. But nonetheless, my writing on COVID for them (much different than my writing I posted here) is presented to all of their donors/other international agencies.

I’m more focused on psychology/philosophy at the moment, and intend to stay in that arena for the most part.

I suppose just throwing it up there is the way? I guess I’d like to be transparent that I am the author and looking for feedback.

Thanks. I’m on here quite a lot for the past few years. Do you think the “show HN” is appropriate for things I’ve written? It seems it is typically used for products.

Pretty sure it was Sean Parker but I could be wrong

Our brains went to the same place. I posted the same link 3 minutes later haha

I'll add to your resources one more rail project. Rail Baltica which will connect Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland with Poland and therefore the rest of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica

While flights are often cheaper than rail in Europe they are not always faster when you include travel time to/from airport/train station (airports tend to be outside of town and train stations are typically center of city) and that you have to be at the airport earlier. I lived in Munich and a number of times it was faster to take the train. Me and my GF both went to Paris; she flew and I took rail from Munich and my train was slightly faster or at least break even. Also, traveling by rail in Europe is a nicer experience in my opinion.

Fantastic point. This is my first infographic so I am learning a lot from the feedback.

Agreed. I'm going to do a second draft. The real challenge is finding risk statistics for all of these sports/activities.

It should be less blurry now. Thank you for noticing this.

I just hosted it on Imgur and imbedded it on the website. Seems quite a lot better now.

Fantastic point. This is a work in progress so I can address it. Many thanks for your thoughts.

Yes, they are additive. The blur happened when I uploaded to Wordpress and I couldn't find a way to fix it.

I would love to make an update for Delta if I could find some solid numbers on the death rate; perhaps it is out there and I haven't found it yet. Also, the monoclonal antibodies seem to be a very interesting factor. I was just helping run a vaccine center in Texas and our partner Regeneron clinic was working overtime. Supposedly 70% successful at keeping people out of the hospitals (but not enough to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed in Corpus Christi, where I was deployed). Thank you for reading.

My understanding is that “effectiveness” in these studies means that it is x% effective at preventing covid-19. So comparing these numbers is not the most important thing. Most all of the vaccines on the market are very, very effective at stopping death and hospitalization, which is the most important thing.

Ask yourself, why now? I work at a vaccine center and they are all slowing down. For those who aren’t “hesitant” but maybe haven’t received their shot for lack of urgency (convenience issues/complacency), going to a store full of people not wearing their mask may make them feel less secure and will provide urgency to get their shots. Interesting strategy but as the unvaccinated anti-maskers stop wearing their masks in public (no one is going to check their vax card), you are going to see outbreaks and death. Let’s see if it works to get more people vaccinated.

Interesting idea but I have serious doubts that those who eat in the Harvard canteen are a good representation of the general public.

Probably a dumb question, but why can’t we just blast nuclear waste out into space with a rocket? Seems like a rather small payload in the grand scheme of things.

It says it recharges in ten minutes. Let’s see.

Very useful video for this discussion. Thanks.

And yet... those who stay in the game and who try new things regularly get “lucky” while those who quit, don’t develop and learn from a process, and who try the same methods over and over don’t get lucky.

It is far too simple to say that it is only luck. Persistence and good processes often lead to “luck”.

Just watch the Zapruder film in slo mo (https://youtu.be/eqzJQE8LYrQ)

He gets shot in the neck, it appears to exit the front of his neck and enter the backside of the guy in the front seat (I think the governor).

He then gets the front of his head blown off, which definitely looks to be an exit wound as the front of his skull flies off and mist flies forward. An entry wound would not explode out like that. The thing that throws people off is that his head moves back when the front blows off. I think that would be a natural movement from the force of the bullet exiting and blowing off the front of the skull but you also have to remember that he had a terrible back with limited mobility. As a person who also has a bad back, if you get pushed forward to the fullest of your flexibility, you will recoil back with force.

I was raised to believe in multiple shooters but I don’t see it here. One shooter.

S/he must have watched Stone’s JFK...

This sounds like some dialogue from a Scorsese film...

As a simple problem solving thought experiment, I’ve been saying the same thing (purposeful infection with a cold virus). It’s not likely to be an outcome that we would want to use, but from my laymen perspective it sounds much easier than creating a vaccine (the cold virus already exists). But of course testing would have to take place and it could actually make things worse.

While the solution has not yet been identified 100%, we should be looking at everything. That is just good problem solving.

When looking at the numbers, you may want to take consideration the cultural acceptability of suicide. There are cultures where suicide is not viewed the same way, and therefore it may be elevated. Certain philosophies view it as an acceptable decision if someone has suffered greatly and doesn’t wish to anymore (off the top of my head, some stoic philosophers have spoken about it). I haven’t done my research on the topic, but isn’t it somewhat acceptable to kill yourself in Japan in certain circumstances? The taboo factor in other countries likely drives the numbers down as many people won’t entertain the idea because it is “bad”.

The point is, I’m not sure “some cultures suck” is the only part of the equation. We also need to consider how that culture educated their society about suicide.