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> Weird to single out HFT's. Isn't everyone working from home right now? “That” in parent comment is being sequestered at work, so the opposite of working from home.

Slightly older (I don't think it mentions the exterior sugars) but more detailed and comprehensive Economist article about the coronavirus structure and how it motivates research i…

How does this “save big”? Isn’t supermarket ground beef about $5/lb?

Shouldn’t the title be “hoarding”?

Per the article, “increased 283-fold” means a specific variety of worm is now more common in the fish. It doesn’t mean parasites have become more common in people. It’s consistent …

> their 3 biggest increases in new cases were the last 3 days As raw numbers but not percentages. 13% each of the past 3 days is better than the 15-25% (mostly nearer 25%) of the p…

If it turns out that there’s a cheap, widely available, already-studied treatment that achieves something even close to the 100% cure rate observed in the paper, the timeline for t…

I really want this study to be legit, but there are a few more weird things: 1. the evidence-free claim of “full peer review”, 2. the fact that patients who refused or met “exclusi…

This reminds me of a pretty niche article I found a couple months ago. It was about the bones of a bunch of cave bears that a father and his young son found in Drachenloch Cave in …

Geez, I thought this might be an overblown piece about algorithms unwittingly optimizing for the wrong things, but the headline is pretty accurate. Discussing how moderators choose…

The estimates in that first article seem oddly cavalier: > “Around 40 million people died in 1918 Spanish flu outbreak," said Prof [of mathematical biology at ICL] Ferguson. "There…

The best source I know of for statistics like this is the Federal Reserve's most recent "Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households" [1]. It's a survey of about 10,000 pe…

Not any kind of doctor, but the list of adverse effects on Wikipedia [1] is...not trivial. Seizures, deafness, retinopathy, and the bald assertion that “there is not enough evidenc…

The “from orbit” part is a little misleading I think. You can also see individual cars, down to their passenger windows, from orbit in the referenced photos. The photos are pretty …

For verifying the slides’ source? Not that I can think of, unfortunately. The slides themselves are at the featured link.

> This is NOT an estimate based on mathematical model, this is the estimate based on clinical data so far and virus's exponential growth rate. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but an e…

Just to check the source, these are the same slides (same Drive doc) tweeted by the listed author on the slides [1], who is a neurobiology and bioengineering professor at Stanford.…

Confused — the article starts off with the reasonable point that we don’t know the true number of covid infections (likely only the most severe ones) so calculations of death rates…

Dumb question: does this mean normal citizens can take out loans at near-0% interest, or something close to that? I know credit card interest rates are typically tied to “the fed r…

> From the figures, it looks like 10% of young are still severe pneumonia’s [0]. Sorry, where do you see that in [0]? Table 3 has a pneumonia diagnosis but isn’t broken down by age…

I think you agree with the parent comment. “put selective pressure on the strain types that are more infective and severe” does select for milder strains (the pressure is on severe…