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Bird flu in Texas: many human cases, no certainty about human to human spread?

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5 points·by leashless·2 năm trước·12 comments

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leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
I knew him a little in his capacity as a mad Hindu cultist. He was mad, Hindu, and a cultist.

https://shivashakti.com is where you can find that aspect of his work.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
https://www.westonboxes.com/ I recently discovered these. Lifechanging in two ways:

* you can put them on their ends and they don't fall over, which is ideal for storage on shelves

* translucent so you can see what's inside

Pull off the shelf, open up, rummage / sort / process (with extra space in the lid if needed) then pour everything back into the main storage from the lid and reshelve.

It's amazing how being able to shelve on their sides (rather than in a stack) changes things.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
Absolutely! He’s a Star!
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
A person I know reasonably well is currently the Lord Mayor of London.

I suspect I could get him to do an AMA here if people would like to hear more about the City and its fascinating ways.

Seriously, we could actually do this!
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
They started with 8 mice.

This seems like an inbreeding problem not a utopia is hell problem.

Has anybody replicated with a more diverse mouse population?
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
The bleakest cyberpunk future event to date.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
Oh I meant from the perspective of the one selling the insurance, not the person buying it.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
In insurance you expect to come out ahead in the average case.

In gambling you expect to come out behind in the average case.

Therefore insurance is rational and gambling is irrational.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
They look practically custom designed for this task.

The purpose of a system is what it does.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
If America had the same covid death rate as Canada, nearly 700,000 less Americans would have died of covid.

Alarm by the Epidemic Intelligence Service officers is not "alarmism." It was an accurate forecast that the system was going to fail, which it did, then killing roughly 10 times as many Americans as the Vietnam War did.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
How does a corrupt society become less corrupt?

https://web.archive.org/web/20200428230447/https://northatla...

I used to work on failed states for a living.

This is what I had to say. It absolutely applies to America today too.

If you really want to scare yourself, read this.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7748252/

We are out of the flight envelope for civilisation on a number of fronts right now.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
well said.

"A few years ago there were memes about how the problem with zombie movies is that they never showed people running out to get zombified."

I laughed far too hard at this, in the context of the upcoming bird flu pandemic.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
Campaign finance reform: Lessig's "Lesterland" springs to mind.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
Eh. The problem pandemic-wise is the number of humans in slobbering distance of the animals: pets like cats are less of a problem (toxoplasmosis) because they're in less proximity with each-other. But all the unsanitary conditions add up to a gigantically increased chance of developing new pathogens when compared to most natural settings.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
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leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
I'm too far away to know: based in London, mostly working in the legaltech domain, we're far far away from the SV cultural nexus (other than occasional trips to Burning Man for a refresher!)

I think there's a pretty good chance that as their original team is further and further from the operation that they're "reverting to the mean" but I have no evidence.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
So... where's the magic pixie in this story? If VC is not a job -- and remember most of the junior people in funds, it's like their first job in finance -- then what is it?

I mean you've gotta define terms here...
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
Yes.

I learned this the hard way. I'm glad to see people _getting it_!

Good luck!
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
Agreed. VCs are companies, start ups are companies, they've got very similar dynamics.

There's no magic anywhere in here.
leashless
·2 năm trước·discuss
Check the bio.