thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid-19
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thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency
NZ's tax policies favour the rich too. https://twitter.com/hynesalan/status/1317837979520552961
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency
I think the point is that there are unofficial routes: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-ga...
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency
Not sure if you're rich, as Gabe is. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-ga...
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Porn, Zen, and .vimrc
+1 to waiting a bit, incurring the inconvenience, and seeing whether you come across alternate solutions. Often the first thing I think of (customize, or install a new package; both of which incur maintenance costs) is just masking not understanding another aspect of Emacs.
Every few months, if I'm not 100% on the utility of a customization/package, I'll remove it and see if I survive without it.
This beats having to declare config bankruptcy.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Why can’t we talk about the Great Barrington Declaration?
https://gbdeclaration.org/ is indeed a rebranding of herd immunity.
> so you don't have to bother wearing a mask
This isn't the doc's motivation. The doc is concerned with unintended consequences of lockdown: "lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health - leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden".
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: We throw away our power as engineers working for other people
Why do so many of these "start your own business" nomads types have businesses that revolve around getting more people to start businesses? The author's business appears to be about monetising blogs.
It's circular. Where's the value?
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: An interview with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the DNS
It's simple and comparatively easy to make reliable, but a factor in its continued use is that's so prevalent in hard-to-change places: the web, libraries, old OSs, switches, other battle-hardened systems, etc.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently
Public health systems often subsidise private health care, so some of that difference will come from taxes.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
$500 is a lot to many people, and people have different tolerances to risk.
You may choose to put more in, of course.
thespoonbends | 5 years ago | on: Abusing Cloudflare with IPFS BitTorrent and WebRTC
Cloudflare is just acting as an ipfs gateway, right?
So this could be used directly (via https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companio... ) or via any ipfs gateway?
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It mentions "One might posit that people with lower cognitive ability have higher risk of catching the virus. We consider such a relationship plausible; however, it would not explain why the observed deficits varied in scale with respiratory symptom severity.".
That is, it attributes that potential causal link as raising incidence of infection (e.g. they may choose to gather in crowds indoors), not as raising the impact of infection.
Either way, as a cross-sectional study, it doesn't establish causation, but may be a smoking gun.