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user-inactivated  ·  1204 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Lab-Leak Hypothesis

here is what razib has to say

https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2021/01/05/on-covid-19-origins-and-conspiracies/

i too remember when talking about this was racist. thank god we moved on from that!

user-inactivated  ·  1230 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Grumpy Economist on Free Market Vaccines

what about all the chinese and russians who have supposedly been getting their state-sanctioned vaccines for a while? any data on the over-75 set? any data we can trust?

ah well!

what would happen if they auctioned the vaccine to the highest bidder? rich people would buy it and distribute it to poor people in some fashion. geographically, ethnically, by age, by job, who knows.

user-inactivated  ·  1237 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA: Why Is the Risk of Coronavirus Transmission so High Indoors?

it's worth noting that .3 is actually below the minimum health recommendation (by an american org, again, no comment on europe) to even spend time in a room, never mind coronavirus. so uh. yeah. no.

user-inactivated  ·  1237 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA: Why Is the Risk of Coronavirus Transmission so High Indoors?

basing it around .3 replacements per hour is hilariously misleading

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-change-rate-room-d_867.html

https://www.contractingbusiness.com/service/article/20868246/use-the-air-changes-calculation-to-determine-room-cfm

etc

no comment, of course, on the differences between germany and the usa. but over here we do have extremely aggressive air conditioning systems just as a cultural thing

user-inactivated  ·  1237 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA: Why Is the Risk of Coronavirus Transmission so High Indoors?

haha, when i modify their default settings to include ventilation, a thing that people do indeed tend to have in their, uh, houses -- suddenly the model spits out 0 infections, 3% probability

whoops!

user-inactivated  ·  1256 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 11, 2020

well, okay.

user-inactivated  ·  1258 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 11, 2020

you should reconsider your opinion on early retirement. although i'm not sure what you were trying to say there

just save money. it's a comparative advantage, because almost everyone spends an incredible amount of money all the time for no reason

user-inactivated  ·  1258 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 11, 2020

you might consider using pushup handles -- i use them to save my wrists, but for you it would transfer weight to the palm and away from the fingertip

user-inactivated  ·  1261 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A return

500 kettle swings per day sounds like a neat winter project to go along with my other winter project, (exercise) biking the length of lake superior

in the past, after about a hundred kettlebells, i would have a little lower back twinging. so i tapered off. if i bring it back 5x i'm really going to have to get the form down, i guess.

user-inactivated  ·  1264 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: San Francisco, California, Proposition L, Business Tax ("Overpaid Executive Gross Receipts Tax")

in future it should be easy to construct a graph showing the 990-1010 continuum with a sharp depression at 1000 reminiscent of what marathon times look like right around an hour mark

user-inactivated  ·  1278 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A mirror for princes written during the Carolingian Renaissance

apropros of nothing, mk, hubski's loading times are much faster than they were some years ago. nice job. also i've always loved that domains get their own landing page

user-inactivated  ·  1279 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The World's Best Employers 2020

mine does not appear, though one or two of our direct competitors do

user-inactivated  ·  1289 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mythical creature of europe
user-inactivated  ·  1290 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Did It. // (OC/Linocut Series)

haha, i thought you had illustrated your peacock's little mind getting blown by whatever it's looking at, but then i realized peacocks just have a dumb tufty thing coming out the top of their head all the time.

user-inactivated  ·  1307 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cat imitates human, in first scientific demonstration of behavior

    “We can train bears to ride motorcycles,” he says.

yo what

well now i'm watching 40 damn videos of bears. this is why i don't go on this part of the internet ooli

user-inactivated  ·  1316 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do not get arrested challenge 2020
user-inactivated  ·  1316 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Nine years

agreed

user-inactivated  ·  1316 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 16, 2020

any particular reason chrome thinks hubski is in luxembourgish and asks me to translate to english

user-inactivated  ·  1322 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 9, 2020

now for wrath, now for ruin...

user-inactivated  ·  1329 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 2, 2020

coronavirus might sneak into your gym after work hours, refugee. be respectful

user-inactivated  ·  1332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A "Beowulf" For Our Moment - The New Yorker on Maria Dahvana Headley's new Translation

glad christopher tolkien died before this trash came out

user-inactivated  ·  1332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mining the Code

i do not particularly like the way casa heiwa looks.

i have been enjoying https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/ lately -- it might inspire some jumping-off points into street view.

user-inactivated  ·  1332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Playlist for Parents

lil, i thought about your mother just the other day. i had been scanning back through old hubski posts and came across one of your stories - i think it was one where she charmed the hospital staff during a previous visit. very sorry she is back in the hospital but i am sure she will be charming the nurses and doctors again soon. keep singing!

user-inactivated  ·  1335 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: UA2692

i don't understand the service rep's response

user-inactivated  ·  1337 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: UA2692

i wonder if the planes which have been benched while flying was unpopular and are now coming back online have to meet some sort of regulatory standard because they haven't flown in several months

user-inactivated  ·  1341 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Swimming the Yugoslavian submarine tunnels

spiritual successor to

user-inactivated  ·  1343 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 19, 2020
user-inactivated  ·  1350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: iGPT

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user-inactivated  ·  1353 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 394th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

wow

everyone watch that. wow.

user-inactivated  ·  1359 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Essay on ancient Mediterranean farming

yeah acoup is as good a way to waste an hour as i know of. it's what r/askhistorians could be if it hadn't been ruined by the academic influence

part 2 for anyone who wants it: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/31/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-ii-big-farms/