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microdrum··on YouTube Sponsored Freedom of Expression Award Goes to YouTube CEO [video]
I think YouTube will still remove a video if a scientist or physician talks about COVID having a 0.03% mortality rate.
microdrum··on 1Password Secrets Automation
Hah. With the gimmicks, tricks, and dark patterns this company has pulled with consumer, what are the chances professionals would trust them with something like this?
microdrum··on Tesla is shifting from nickel to iron cathode on standard range car's batteries
Fun fact: you can get an LFP battery for your house, https://enphase.com/sites/default/files/downloads/support/En...
microdrum··on Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud: study
This also means that corporations with more women on their board of directors are more likely to commit fraud.
microdrum··on Assessing Mandatory Lockdowns and Business Closure Effects on Spread of Covid-19
Unfortunately this is accurate.
microdrum··on Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C: study from 2018
Welcome to progressive politics. Science and logic do not matter. They will use climate change to take your chosen store of value. Because your chosen store of value reduces their power over you. Pretty simple, really.
microdrum··on What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture
One of the exceptions:

https://www.waterbit.com/

Takes advantage of current massive farm scale and extant automation, simply increasing yield by adding precision to watering.

microdrum··on A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
"Using Rekognition, we built a face database and search tool using 25,000 publicly available arrest photos. Then we searched that database against public photos of every current member of the House and Senate. We used the default match settings that Amazon sets for Rekognition."

Do you understand what a badly designed experiment this is?

microdrum··on Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow's Solar Farms
That was interesting.

The IQ inverter is for household and small commercial scale. For example, I would happily team with a few neighbors to cache, say 85kWHr at each home.

microdrum··on Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow's Solar Farms
With the new gen of software-defined inverters, this makes more and more sense. The inverter's logic knows RT efficiency, depth of charge, and chemical age of the battery. It changes how it treats each and every battery.

Think of batteries like hard drives in a hyperscale datacenter.

microdrum··on IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition or analysis software
They're just behind. And the ACLU "bias" study was thin and unscientific. Data sets and weights could have bias, but that bias can also be controlled. "Facial recognition" does not have bias.
microdrum··on DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens
No, they got rich with good web search, then became dominant, then stopped doing good web search and started doing user intent targeting via payola search results.
microdrum··on The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May
Why does he have the right to do this?

https://www.smchealth.org/bio/scott-morrow-md

microdrum··on The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May
Absurd. This is illogical. Expect this now to be challenged in court.
microdrum··on How I photograph the Milky Way with medium format film
Does anyone know of a similar guide for digital sensors, since they can do these images with very different exposure times?
microdrum··on Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study
So, in your ideal world, we would never do serosurveys for surveillance of low incidence diseases, right? Any Type 1 error is too much Type 1 error, right?

I'm sorry that literally all of the seroprevalence data hurt your priors. But the virus is widespread, not very deadly, and people are going to go back to work soon. You can stay home. You will be safe at home.

microdrum··on Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California
Guess what? We have been doing it your way for 45 days. Everyone infected is now locked in a house with others. They too are now infected. Intrafamilial and nosocomial infection is much more powerful than community -- that has been proven here and in earlier epidemics.

And yet anti-science morons in SF clutch their scarf over their mouths when you jog past them.

microdrum··on Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California
The anti-science on HN is astounding.
microdrum··on Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California
No they don't. Stop being scared. Start being logical.
microdrum··on Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California
It sure can be that low. Pretty simple reason, too:

1) Studies linked above are properly statistically randomized 2) Italy population dead = old smokers, Chinese from Wuhan working in factories

The study is a random population sample. A single tiny town Italy has a highly characterized population. If you disagree, you've never been to Italy.

Stop being scared. Start being logical.

microdrum··on Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California
"if it saturates"

That sequence of words shows you do not know the basics of epidemiology. Epidemics do not affect 100% of a population.

microdrum··on Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California
Yep. You've got nothing. CFR is low, and this has been knowable for a long time. You're scared. It's OK. It's illogical and anti-scientific, but it's OK. But you won't be able to hurt ordinary people any longer.

Here's Germany's imputed CFR: https://spectator.us/covid-antibody-test-german-town-shows-1...

Here's Denmark: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/doedelighed-skal-formentli...

Here's Iceland: https://reason.com/2020/04/03/what-we-should-have-learned-fr...

More studies coming next week from LA.

microdrum··on Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California
This is very strong evidence that the "realists" like Alex Berensen were correct. The shutdowns probably should end, while encouraging at-risk populations (mostly retired) to stay at home.
microdrum··on SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb
Maybe the story isn't that many companies they invested in did not work out. Maybe the story is that they are bad investors.
microdrum··on GitHub is now free for teams
Um, AdWords.
microdrum··on GitHub is now free for teams
So it will be free until the competition dies, and then it will be expensive?

Like... everything MSFT and GOOG have ever done?

Great.

microdrum··on Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking
The right decision.

And why would it be? Why should private actors be able to invent new criminal liabilities simply by publishing various terms of service?

Spotify: "If you listen to The Jackson 5 on our streaming service from a location in Ohio on a Tuesday, that is a violation of our Terms of Service."

Federal judge: "You heard the man. Off to jail!"

microdrum··on Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS
Awesome, reminds me of https://www.screenomex.com/record-recall.
microdrum··on The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
According to [checks notes] the internet, you can't make this observation. If you do, you want people to die!!
microdrum··on I got my file from Clearview AI
Maybe because no one actually thinks that there is a privacy interest in public photos of his/her face that he/she posts on the public internet?
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