@jolly said in US daily Covid deaths trend: @lufins-dad said in US daily Covid deaths trend: The weird thing? Hospitalizations fell drastically in Mid-January. From 128K on January 14th, the numbers started dropping over 1000 a day every day over 2 weeks and then by February 1st, the numbers started dropping by over 2000 per day. There were fewer than 2 million vaccinated by that point, and almost all were seniors. It really drives home how targeted this disease was for the elderly. I'd like to see some figures for population density vs. mortality. Normalized against the number of cases for each segment?

If you'll mistreat an animal, you'll mistreat a human. Some people just need killin'. Others just need a good old-fashioned whuppin'. With a trace chain.

@george-k said in The Woke Docs: @jolly in the days of open cholecystectomies, a surgical attending told the junior resident to go see Mrs. Jones on post-op day #2 and pull her drain. The resident pulled the t-tube. (Jolly and @bachophile will understand this) There was a lot of weeping there as well. I don't know the outcome, sad to say. Hahaha. Poor patient. and poor resident. Probably color blind. Can’t see the difference between green and yellow. (Bike is green, serous fluid is yellow)

I did actually briefly think about which numbers one could construct that way, but then thought that that was not was they were after. But now that they brought it up, I have a follow-up puzzle: For which class of numbers in the two intervals is the infinite sequence of signs constructible by a finite machine? For instance, for pi^2 /6, this is obviously possible: The machine just constructs an infinite stream of "+". But for most numbers that wouldn't be possible: There are uncountably many numbers in the interval but only countably many machines.

Gavin's getting a little jittery about now.

[image: sub-buzz-30871-1538429873-1.jpg?downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto]

@89th said in The "How much do you pay?" thread: Thanks all! Looks like my costs will be similar to most of you... We also pay $60 a month for a home warranty in case any appliances break down. Check the details on that home warranty and look for their outs. Like if you did not maintain every single thing in the manner they prescribe.

@klaus said in Microsoft, wtf?: It could also be that they accidentally activated a feature that was supposed to work only in some countries. Knowing how big software shops typically deploy their software across multiple cloud installations across the globe, I deem this to be the most likely explanation.

@george-k said in More on China: One of the most remarkable—and remarkably corrupt—things about our culture is that it is intensely fashionable to disparage, condemn, or slander American government, American history, and America itself. You don't say...

@lufins-dad said in CDC recommendation to vax teenagers: 200 kids out of 21,000,000 Seems like you're using the wrong denominator. No way that 21,000,000 kids got covid.

He was scary good, right from the start. There was some concern that his mother was a bit of a stage mom - literally went with him all over the world long into his career.

If by the Grace of a benevolent God, we have GOP majorities in both chambers and a GOP president, they need to do a Teddy and bust some businesses.

FB has been ridiculous. But of course, feel free to create your own competitor and put them out of business...

Go walk around your garden with it. And consider the evaluation the software has to do to sort out the light, colors, size and viewing angle on the various leaves and flowers.

@doctor-phibes said in 5 fatalities that I can recall: My great grandfather worked on the railways in Manchester. He fell, leg got trapped, train ran over it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Barton_Pine On January 16, 1995, Pine was severely injured in a train accident in the suburb of Winnetka, where she taught violin lessons.[2][43][44][45][46] As she was exiting a Metra commuter train with her violin over her shoulder, the doors closed on the strap to her case, pinning her left shoulder to the train. The doors, which were controlled remotely and had no safety sensors, failed to reopen, and she was dragged 366 feet (112 meters) by the train before being pulled underneath and run over, severing one leg and mangling the other. Pine was saved by the prompt application of tourniquets by several passengers who disembarked from the train after pulling its emergency brake handles.[43] She sued Metra and the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company for compensation for her injuries and legal and medical expenses. Metra argued that she made the choice not to extricate her arm from the strap of the violin case due to the value of the instrument, a 400-year-old Amati valued at around $500,000, and thus she carried most of the blame for her injuries. The jury ruled in Pine's favor.[44] Metra changed its conductor safety procedures following the incident and made other changes to the trains themselves. Daniel Barenboim, the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, organized a benefit concert and raised over $75,000 after she was injured.[43] After a two-year hiatus to allow for recovery from her injuries, aided by numerous surgeries and physical therapy, Pine resumed her career.[2]