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Pandemics of this scale of infection rate, hospitalizations, and deaths?

I have no idea if remdesivir works or not, but that is the problem with drugs in a shortage scenario like we're currently seeing. If there aren't enough of them, you're going to save them for the most critical patients. But those patients are the most likely to die anyway. That's why randomized controlled trials are so important. Data from a hospital that's not randomizing distribution of the drug is not really helpful.

That's because the National Guard isn't law enforcement.

I agree that kids might have a hard time deciding what they want to learn, but it sounds like this approach is less "learn whatever is interesting to you" and more "let's pick some topics together and go from there."

And I disagree that "cafeteria services" is ludicrous. Think of how many things go into planning and preparing meals in the cafeteria. There's the cooking, serving, staffing, ordering, combining, purchasing, and planning. Math goes into estimating how much of each thing to buy, food safety and biological processes can be taught in the context of how long food can be kept safely. Communication goes into creating the menu, and also in the ordering processes. A persuasive essay on cafeteria food selection could be part of the work.

In my mind, it's the word Americans use for Americans living in other countries. I doubt the locals in whatever country they're in consider them "expats." Just Americans.

This is great. I think it'll fit better with the way I want to control my impulse browsing than others I've tried (StayFocused and manually editing /etc/hosts are the other mains ways I've tried). Thank you!

Still includes some shirts with stripes, since the search is now just for shirts that don't explicitly mention stripes.

Not really something to encourage at this time.

It's grown significantly over the past year or two. It got a big foothold at universities and has been gaining steam. It came at a time when Skype was pretty terrible to use, and the only other major player was Cisco WebEx, which was also pretty bad. Now all these universities are doing classes online, and they're using Zoom because that's what they have.

My biggest complaint is that, for new users, it seems to choose either the wrong speakers or the wrong microphone about 80% of the time. Once that's fixed, it mostly works well. The interface is a bit clunky, but I can usually get it to do what I want without too much trouble.

Source: I've been a mostly happy user of Zoom at a university for two years.

3 inches probably isn't enough to notice disproportion.

Seems to me that DE is probably too powdery for this.

Can you give some examples of the controversial findings of meta-analysis?

They are implying that the outcome for the girl hitchhiking around Mexico could have been worse had one of the criminals or other bad actors been the one to pick her up. I believe the purpose of the story here is to warn against survivorship bias. Just because something bad doesn't happen to you when you do something risky, it does not mean that the bad thing does not or cannot happen. Someone hitchhiking solo around Mexico (or anywhere) is taking a risk of being picked up by nefarious persons and having bad things happen, such as sexual assault, kidnapping, torture, or murder. The fact that one girl did it for a month with no issue does not necessarily mean that there is no risk in doing it.

The purpose of the Oakland story is to warn that just because something bad doesn't happen, even for a long time, it does not mean that the bad thing does not happen.

My graduate program (computer-y, not MBA) has seen a huge drop in international applications. That was the large majority of our graduate program, and after 2016 those applications have dropped about 75%.

Brave is an ad blocker

You've pretty much got it, but a paper receiving either of the "accept" outcomes in the first round is extremely rare. I know of zero. Your third, "rejected pending resubmission after modifications" is the normal path for papers that go on to be accepted. Often this is called a "revise and resubmit" or R&R.

Spacemacs makes emacs commands both less arcane and more discoverable. Give it a shot.

I'd love to know how you're running Django and React together. I've been trying to figure out how to make that combo work in a mono-repo, and I'm definitely missing something. Any advice?

From the article:

'A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a federal government database that compiles people deemed to be “known or suspected terrorists” violates the rights of American citizens who are on the watchlist'

I think early on with a new baby, both parents wake up more due to novelty than instinct. When you're used to not having a crying child in the middle of the night, suddenly having one takes some adjustment.

Since my wife nursed the kids, our arrangement was that she would be up with babies at night almost every time, and I would be up with them in the morning when they decided that 5am was time to be up for the day. Over time, I stopped waking up to baby cries at night, but I am now hyper-attuned to child noises from 5-7am.

Django is a pretty big omission from your list.

Right. Under this classification, my choice to make my own bread rather than buy it at the store, or my choice not to eat bread at all, is interstate commerce.

The goofiness, narrative, and precision are all there in noon-AAA games. Lots of games have plenty of each.

No cheat detection code is perfect. Banning cheaters encourages the creation of new cheats (or just new accounts, since it doesn't cost anything to start playing Apex). Allowing cheaters to continue playing is a win for two reasons:

1. They don't know they've been quarantined, so cheat makers will get less feedback about which cheats have been detected. 2. Cheaters are more likely to try new cheats, so it gives a sandbox of users that can be used to find other cheats as they arise.

Some people's "hobby" is couponing. I doubt they consider the act of digging through papers to find and cut out coupons to be fun, but the act as a whole is. But I guess if you define a hobby strictly as something you do not for pay, you're correct. If you define it more broadly as something you do during non-work time, then it fits.

> Much more so than the traditional study group of students-who-need-to-pay-rent.

Why do you say that? I imagine the MTurk demographic is much more diverse than "college freshman at X university"

I'm currently paying MTurkers $2 for a study that takes 10-15 minutes. That works out to $8-$12 per hour. I would never be able to recruit people to participate locally for just $2, but I can on MTurk because mine is one of many tasks they can complete in an hour.

The "fun" may be to earn a little extra money doing menial tasks. Just the other day there was a discussion here about EVE online and how much menial management is needed in the game to set up for a small amount of fun PvP combat time. What's the difference between that and doing some mindless menial tasks for a couple extra bucks to go out on the weekend?

Also, Divinity Original Sin 2, Towerfall Ascension, Giana Sisters, XCOM, Sniper Elite (enjoyed single player, and it has a coop mode that I've never tried).

Lovers in a dangerous spacetime, Magicka, Rampage Knights, Borderlands, Monaco. Those are a few I have enjoyed.