I think, the main point here is not the delay, but the time you have to take out of your schedule, and you have to explain to your environment (I.e. work, taking care of family members).
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It seems now doubtful, that we can achieve herd immunity, so we still need something to treat people for which the vaccine doesn't work.
I wouldn't hold my breath on ivermectin though either.
50% are levies, fees and taxes, which partly pay for the built up of the renewable energy generation.
On Tokyo, Barcelona, and to a lesser extend LA, SF, I feel more confident to say something.
It is greatly a question what you are looking for, and the author quite apparently appreciates the variety.
And I have to give it to them, I do not think that Tokyo or Barcelona are in the same league there.
That is not to disparage the quality of the food. I hold Tokyo in high regard, and would say it is the place I would most likely feel confident to go to a blindly chosen random Japanese restaurant. In Barcelona, you already have to filter out the tourist traps. (Hint: Paella & Sangria)
But in both places, it felt to me more dicey if would like some non-local food. It always seemed to be heavily adopted to the local preferences. But maybe my experience is outdated.
My armchair theory is, that both cities "suffer" from the fact of having a great culture of own cuisine. Not sure, if their customers do not appreciate the otherness, or the cooks are preemptively trying to "fit in".
As the author writes, LA is a melting pot, and I have eaten there great food from all over the place, especially when the menu was only half-translated. But then, it may be a prejudice, I am less confident that I can pick a random place, and receive the same quality as in Tokyo.
From your short sentence, I can only guess what you mean, and it is at odds of what I get from the article, which says:
> Privacy is a key requirement of any contact tracing systems
That is why it got rebranded to climate change. Yes, it is about the global average temperature, but that is too abstract for people to understand, and exactly gets discussed when "they see a record low temperature somewhere in the world."
> Individual one-off high temperatures only gives ammunition to climate deniers when they see a record low temperature somewhere in the world.
Everything and anything gives climate change deniers ammunition. I think, it doesn't make sense to try to placate people, which are essentially inaccessible to decades of scientific reports, and more and more news like this one. No need to self-censure here.
> It does more harm than good to raise the climate change alarm for these events, and requires some statistical gymnastics to conclusively tie it to global warming
You do not have to conclusively tie individual events to global warming. The point here is, that those news come in more and more often. It is something people directly experience. And that is very much a real alarm.
Why? TLDR: Too small group and too few cases in groups (one each) to be statistical significant.
The alternative has been exemplified in Europe, you can wait longer to have more cases and deaths, and a longer lock-down to get out of the mess.
Scientific computation.
I'm not even sure, it is a trade-off between (computational) speed and accuracy.
In my experience, error-analysis was a mandatory course for physics, but not in robotics. The error analysis was manual and time-consuming.
In robotics, no one cared why it occasionally produced NaNs, etc.. people just added a small number here and there.
That's faster to program.
To put it more positively, I think, the view here is more having an application, which is robust in the face of errors / edge cases. What counts is the output (action).
While in science the correct model is part of the output. Edge cases are an important part of it.
What? Where do you get that? Then I better return all the equity I got.
> and it's extremely hard to fire people
I would say that is hyperbolic, unless you find anything but at-will employment "extremely hard". Small companies (<20?) in Germany, can fire people without reason. I do not know any country (Edit: in the EU), where restructuring is not a valid reason to fire someone (with a severance of 0.5-1.1 monthly salaries per year of employment).
(Edit: But then, I cannot claim to know all the labour laws in the EU)
Well, not to excuse the dictatorship in Cuba, but there is the small issue with embargo and trade restrictions the US places on that particular one. Theoretically, medicine is exempt, but in practice it isn't: https://medicc.org/ns/documents/The_impact_of_the_U.S._Embar...
E.g. there are wines from certain regions, but they do not have the geographic indication, as they have not been produced according to the regional standards.
And going with food it is even more important so, as it is close to impossible to reproduce the climate and terroir somewhere half around the world.
That doesn't mean, that it is worse, just that it is not the same.
Take Lambrusco as an example, they do have (or had?) a bad reputation and suffer for it. It's a good motivation for regional producers to keep each others in check.
There is browning and there is caramelisation.
Otherwise, there is a large degree of normalisation in the id documents in the EU, and you could simply hash each variation.
Name and DOB could be hashed and compared to the hash inside the QR code.
The location of the lab was not chosen arbitrarily either.
It looks to me more the latter: he "helping his son" by "speaking about engineering" is a written report in a court case.
Quite a bit of framing
I would assume that is the case here too. The threads are likely hiding the latency of the IOPS. I can't see any CPU load statistics, so it is hard to say, if it is indeed CPU bound or not.
A quick run with time shows user+sys being only slightly higher than real, so with 6 threads for my 6 cpus, it uses a single cpu. (and practically no time in user-space)
Running your DB with the default parameters.
Not running Linux kernel parameters depending on your workload. (+10Gbit NICs, lots of connections...)
There are reasons, why those knobs are there, as there are always trade-off, and having them automatically adjust is very hard.
But maybe that was what you're referring to.
They are called protocols and not algorithms for a reason.
> You can rest assured right now many MDs are prescribing off-label meds, diagnostics tests, making non-protocol judgement calls etc all around the world.
Sure, sometimes for good reasons, others for less so. Every patient is different and the doctor has incomplete knowledge, and the protocols are in the end just that: Guidelines.
I would be happy, if I get a doctor, which is critical of guidelines in the sense of being aware of their limitations and won't follow them like they are written in stone (on a case by case basis).
However, as I understand it, we are talking here about deviating from the guidelines without good evidence or without a procedure to gain knowledge from it in a structured manner, not a case-by-case basis, but on principle. Quite frankly, I would stay the hell away from such doctor, which thinks that is a good idea.
>It is special in that everything about it has been very high profile, and in this day and age of hyper-connectedness, when expert institutions mess things up it is harder to cover up and their authority is at a greater risk.
>Let's be honest that is why they are being very iron fisted about out-of-band covid treatments, not because of a proportional threat to life.
I had limited contact with the expert institutions, but do have direct contact to people who did work in an ICU with Covid-19, (and a below average mortality rate).
Whenever the topic of, as you call them "out-of-band" treatments arose, the look on their faces would silence the topic. So, if you feel adventurous, I would suggest to cross-check your opinion with someone in the field.
Clinical trials are structured experiments which follow a certain protocol, ethical review, etc...
> It's not like we have this 100+ yrs practice of dealing with SARS-CoV-2 epidemic with well established protocols
We do have 100+ years of practice in dealing with various diseases, circumstances, including pandemics, etc... In that sense SARS-CoV-2 is nothing special. Protocols have been developed to ensure that we actually gain knowledge, and not at the expense of the patients.
Should we skip on ethical review boards? Or patient confidentiality? Which part of a clinical study are you suggesting are superfluous?