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If they ever extend this to the SAT / ACT itself (and not just the subject tests) I will have lost a lot of respect for MIT.

A goal of higher education is to give the opportunity to people who will likely make the best use of the education, and have the greatest chance of succeeding given their preparation. Spots at top colleges are a limited resource. There has to be a selection function, and an unbiased test that asks questions about math, reading comprehension, etc. is as close as you're going to get.

The SAT, regardless of your opinion of whether it exacerbates or merely reflects inequities in the system, is a very strong indicator of whether a person has the preparation to succeed at university. You cannot get around that fact.

Whether high-priced prep courses or studying out of a book from the library help you pass the test, the person doing either of those things has gotten education and skills along the way. God forbid you consider the idea that someone actually learned something even though the test was standardized. And the fact that even poor families will pay to put their kids through test prep courses suggests they see value in it. It's not like they're paying to be given instructions on how to cheat the system.

People who want to water down the admissions criteria to be a social equalizer ought not mask their motives by saying that the test is flawed. The test is perfectly fine, and it reflects people's preparation and abilities to succeed at university. If you want to change the outcome, change the inputs -- and work on getting more people qualified to pass that test.
> But we are already inundated by outrage journalism, cancel culture, and public shaming. The last thing we need is more of that.

Where does this fear mongering come from? I’m absolutely sick of people dropping this bullshit without anything to show people what they’re referring to. It’s certainly harmful to society and coordinating anything but the first attempted response.
If it is in cash, as grandparent post described, it will not have meaningful gains. "De minimis."
with more money, the CDC would not have delivered one non working test, but like 2 or 3 non working tests.
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My guess is, at this scale, it's at least one heist film (more likely a concurrent series of them), with the earmarks of a biblical tragedy providing a smoke screen; starring old white dudes who prefer not to appear on the marquee. I'd imagine the exchange "isn't that illegal?", "not yet!" appears in the script at least once.
I'm still surprised YouTube doesn't leverage that feature to build a Shazam competitor. They'd actually have the edge there as they can directly link to the song on YouTube, thus pocketing the part of the ad revenue they keep (the rest goes to the copyright holder).

They could also do that for videos (aka from a screenshot or image it would find you the video for it) as I'm suspecting they have a Content ID system for videos too (I've seen shows recorded from TV being mirrored and the picture slowly moving around, presumably to defeat such a system).
I would love to see a write-up (like the SO answer) for each of those.
I strongly disagree. Free speech is fundamental to any society that respects individuals, their freedoms/agency, and letting ideas compete. If anything, the most alarming trend is people railing against free speech without any understanding of what it's like to live in suppressed societies.
I think there's a difference between an economic depression for fundamental reasons or say overleveraged finance and due to an exogenous shock like this.

It's true that the current measures put the economy on freeze mode but really even if businesses are closed down temporarily, no assets are lost. Even if the stock market contracts sharply, after this is over the planes are still in the hangars and the restaurants still exist.

It's obviously not a good thing but I'm not really as pessimistic medium and long term. The crisis will compress prices, it'll devalue assets but the flipside is that after this is over waiters will be rehired, someone is going to pick the airlines companies up, there's no value destroyed here, just ownership shifted around. The bull run had to come to an end at some point for some reason and the aftermath may even equalise generational inequality to some degree.
They said it was slightly above the median so must be before tax.
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OTOH that also means that the doses being used aren't as much higher than the prophylaxis dose as they appear. If you take it regularly, even at low doses, it builds up.

I'm all for staying home for now, but at some point we will have to come out, and we need something to help those that are already infected.

If CQ works as prophylaxis, we could potentially have a sort of interim herd immunity by having large portions of the population that could tolerate CQ taking it prophylactically while we wait for a vaccine. This is basically the current approach in regions with a lot of Malaria, and they've been waiting for a vaccine for a very long time.

The danger of course is SARS-CoV-2 developing resistance to Chloroquine as Malaria has. We need lots of people working as fast as possible on a vaccine.
> an articulate, socially well-adjusted person who can communicate their values and opinions in an intelligent way

Yes, that's me.

> and who is comfortable making connections with others

And that will never be me.

Leadership is inherently nepotistic. You simply aren't permitted to lead if you have the wrong class background or the wrong ethnicity. (There's a reason all Senators look exactly the same.) You're literally just advocating for an old boys' club, and if that's what you want, you might as well be explicit about it.
Are people going to vote with their wallets?
It's ADSL. Cable is allegedly a bit faster in my area.
I'm more interested in applications to abstract interpretation, so number theory stuff does not interest me.
500,000 people with an average age of 79, the vast majority of whom are in poor health with existing conditions. This is what the data from Italy shows.

Coronavirus is just the last nail in the coffin - it brings forward the deaths that would have occurred over the next 1-2 years into the present. The panic is irrational.
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That's the rate the fed loans to the banks, which can't fail.

The banks aren't going to loan AirBNB at a low interest rate when it looks like they're on the edge of insolvency.
A vaccine was developed in haste for an outbreak of swine flu in 1976 (CDC feared it was a repeat of 1918 flu) and about 45 million Americans received it but 450 people developed GBS (Guillaine-Barre Syndrome) as a result.

Going on a hunch or unproven stuff is simply going to give the anti-vaxxer idiots further ammo
The only criteria for English should be abilities at least as good as the worst teaching assistant in the undergraduate college. This is the lowest possible standard of English language proficiency.

"""
WHEN Mark W. Eichin showed up for his course in differential equations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this year, he found that his instructor was a Hindustani whose spoken English was ''almost incomprehensible.'' Along with most of his classmates, the freshman stopped attending lectures. ''People just got their assignments and left,'' he recalled.
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^ Consistent with my own undergrad experience.
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Sorry! Can't fix now :( Thanks for correction! (Worst part: my cousin went to ICL)
> Meanwhile, I’ve never experienced these symptoms while living in an old, drafty brick building (repurposed office building); or while living in a Victorian-era farmhouse; or while staying in a low-rent motel; or while camping under the stars.

But what about a cabin in the woods? That's the pressing question.

> My conclusion is that “cabin fever” is a feeling you get when your living space is not well-ventilated.

That makes too much sense. An old moldy cabin in the woods (and a contaminated water supply, as in the film) would be toxic no doubt. Frequent ventilation is recommended.

> If the problem is stale air, then just “going outside” is only a temporary fix, because the air will usually be just as stuffy when you return.

But at least you will notice the difference, instead of getting used to it.

> On the other hand, you can be fine while inside indefinitely, if you open a window and then sit right beside it, where the outside air can reach you.

Unless the outside air is worse. I tried filling my place up with plants, but don't have a green thumb, and just invited pests and stale soil.

> But this will only work if there’s enough wind to push the air into the house a small bit;

fans. ACs. Temperature differences. Doing busywork around the place, cooking, especially in a crowd.

> it seemingly has no effect—possibly for purely-psychological reasons?—if the air outside is humid, as it is in e.g. Hong Kong. (But going outside in humid places still works for temporary relief. Weird.)

Walking is a first step towards sport, good for circulation and for memory work.

> And that last realization leads me to the secondary conclusion that the (or my, at least) human physiology is responding mainly to aerosolized-moisture-content in the air (in some way that’s distinct from responding to the evaporated humidity) as a proxy metric for the other, harder-to-sense air-quality measures.

Ahaha, what? OK Doc! I mean, sure, maybe, but not mainly. Very inappropriate wording. Shallow breathing might be an affect of perceivably bad air, in general.

> So, in theory, you might be able to reduce the qualitative of “cabin fever” just by buying a dehumidifier.

Do you really think it's an involuntary reaction by the autonomous nervous system? That's too huge a claim--admitting that is a better reason not to recommend buying one, unless the humidity levels are extreme. Nevermind that ionizers, dehumidifiers, and other climate controlls are a hole category of accessories.

But sure, air quality is important. I got travel sick on long car rides frequently, as a child, attributed to the locomotion. In planes, with rather dry air, it was the pressure drop. I just don't think a small wonder tree dangling from the back mirror would have helped ;)
Fully agree. That's the primary issue associated with bringing a piece of critical civic infrastructure, such as voting, into the digital domain. Who builds, maintains and secures the tech? Certainly not the government. The govt only acts as a collective entity to support and promote strong tech-driven markets (it should at least in theory). I do hope that more individuals in the crypto industry get involved politically because of their technical wherewithal.
"Is there any guide or plan how to rebuild from such a catastrophe?"

There's a ton of them. You can google "prepper community".

IMHO all of them tend to underestimate the cleverness of the remaining humans; i.e., holing up in a cabin in the mountains with a metric ton of freezedried food won't help when you've got people with a metric ton of freezedried motivation to find you.

It doesn't matter how much planning you do; such plans would not survive contact with the enemy anyhow.

I stick to the regular amounts of prep I've been advising anyhow. It helps even if such a worst-case occurs and gives you time to plan your next move, which is all you can really ask for anyhow.

To close out on a happier note, it isn't even all bad news, and it may be getting better over time. Even a catastrophic collapse of civilization could still leave you with a lot more resources than you'd expect, as society gets wealthier over time. For instance, every house that has solar panels on it is just a few components away from being able to provide small, but potentially vital, amounts of power, power that will have all sorts of uses. It may not be fun but people may surprise you with what even the "shattered remnants" of civilization can do. After all, we bootstrapped once already with none of that stuff.
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As someone who is 2.5 years away from a fluoroquinolone reaction and still trying to get back they are no joke.

The mental/physical damage they can produce is not something you would expect.
People might not go in to stack shelves but they will go in to save their fellow citizens lives. 1 in 3333 20 somethings and 1 in 1250 30 somethings is still a fuck ton of people. This is basically the base of your economy.
With the big, big caveat that this has tax implications if you have any other traditional IRAs. If you don't have t.IRAs — great, do it.

If you do have t.IRAs, you should read about "pro rata" and consider rolling your former t.IRA into a 401(k) (employer or individual) before making so-called backdoor Roth IRA contributions.
Good luck hiring after this!
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IL will start theirs on Saturday.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-il...
Many people had been moving from bank deposits into short-term rentals in search of yield. Now they are also learning about value of liquidity.
You're just bragging that you hit the ceiling on those tests.

That doesn't mean tests don't work; if you wanted to, you could have found much harder ones. (That's what I did, out of necessity. They wouldn't have given my app a second look if I hadn't.)
How so? Their money still buys things, they keep living. What else matters?
You can easily save 10 to 20% when unemployed because you don't have to pay for daily transportation (tube/train/car), lunch outdoors every day and a few other things. So the difference in disposable income is about null in most cases.
Damn right and no people who watch 500k people die for nothing is going to tolerate the continued rule of such a government.
Agree. There are stories of people kinking out tenants to let on Airbnb. If these people get fucked by the loss in income, that'll be a simple on my face.

Airbnb as a whole, is a good idea- but some people are doing horrible things to the housing market and at worst AirBNB is complicit.
It's not the liability here, it's the fact that cutting corners means you now have more people walking around that your lab said was fine, that aren't, and vice versa. If someone gets a false positive then, following recovery, they'll assume they don't need to take safety precautions like social distancing seriously, which can put them in real danger. And false negatives mean you've now infected the "non-corona" wing of the hospital when your patient with non-corona pneumonia is admitted.
Not to me.

Just sending out money to everyone is simple. It can be done fast.
When you stop working, you also get a lot of time back.
It's got what plants crave!
To be fair, the SAT is pretty useless when you have enough applicants with 99 percentile scores that you can fill your class multiple times over. It was never a differentiator.
Exactly! I don't see why the obsession amongst all the people who are trying to trace it down. There are millions of songs like this that are lost in obscurity. In other news, I have a cool looking pebble that no one knows which beach it came from. Off to starting a subreddit about it so people have something to do with their time :)
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It’s quite alarming that no country (as far as I’m aware) is taking a more rational approach towards coronavirus policy.

Any attempt to make an argument of this sort in the current panic is being seen as insensitive and met with outrage (“you don’t care about me/someone’s parents/grandparents”).

If the consensus ends up being that we need to put an 18 month hold on all activity and spend trillions of dollars to extend the lives of a few hundred thousand octogenarians, this will be a mistake that resonates for generations.

Also, the current policy being pursued isn’t a simple “spend x, save y lives” trade-off. An extended period of isolation will not only have economic effects (greater poverty, on average, will reduce life expectancy for many), it’ll also result in a higher incidence of mental health issues and suicide. Children will have their educational development severely disrupted. When the calculus on this policy becomes clear, it could be possible that we end up trading many millions of years of aggregate future life to save a million people who’ve already lived very full lives.
You are already covering debt for a lot stupider reasons at least you can console yourself that the money was worth spending.
Title nitpick, "SAT Subject Tests" is in a specific case in the original title, and the lack of title-case on "Subject Tests" is making it hard to understand the true announcement.

IE. SATs are staying, SAT Subject Tests are not.
It's impossible not because its hard to give people money.

It's impossible because the corporate mega machine is already auto programmed to extract as much cash out of people, in ways most people can't even comprehend.

How else do you end up with huge inequality or with a subprime meltdown?

It's not enough to just give people cash, you have to protect them from a machine that has already proved multiple times its vastly superior to any regulatory mechanism on the planet.

If China, South Korea or Japan haven't done any such thing having been hit harder, totally feels like corporate lobbies are pulling the strings in US and UK taking full advantage of fear as they did to get the banks bailed out in 2008.
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If you consider your healthcare spending as part of your overall tax package (so as to make the comparison apples-to-applies with other countries which mandate that), the picture looks even less rosy.
He also arranged the famine relief in the Soviet Union in 1922. There was a fascinating book published recently "The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union From Ruin" that tells the story.
Saw a tweet last night saying that a question we should all ask of interviewers from now on it "how did your company respond to COVID-19?", and things like this make me think that that might really be a good idea.

This terrible crisis is definitely providing us with great insight into which companies care about their employees' wellbeing and that of society and which don't.
>>I bet if we took a full accounting of the taxes we all actually pay in a lump sum, it's closer to 45%.

In other countries then it may be 65% if you count gas taxes etc etc. VAT (sales tax) is 20+% in a lot of countries
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Notably this now leaves a gaping self employed person shaped hole in the otherwise impressively woven safety net.
> I bet if we took a full accounting of the taxes we all actually pay in a lump sum, it's closer to 45%.

Yep, and you don't get healthcare for that, or post high school education.
Surely the standardization matters?

Teaching to an aptitude test is clearly counterproductive (and ditto tricks for hacking the test--like just testing each multiple choice answer instead of solving an equation).

On the other hand. the AP classes I took in high school (admittedly, a long time ago) seemed pretty reasonable. Perhaps you could quibble with how the syllabus weighted various subjects, or the (mercifully few) classes on how structure exam answers. Overall though, I felt like I got a decent education in Spanish/History/Physics/etc from those courses.
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You forgot the other reason: backdoors
Huh? NY is explicitly not a "shelter in place". It is a restriction only on employers, not individuals.
They are all trash, that's all you really need to know.
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The main dangers for the general public are the acute toxicity and drug interactions. Take chloroquine, which comes in 500mg tablets, it does not take many tablets to get to toxic or even lethal dose. The drugs can prolong QT intervals, so combination with other drugs with similar side effects like some antibiotics or antidepressants could be dangerous.
Quercetin has an EC50 value of 84 uM in vitro against SARS-CoV, Chloroquine around 6 uM vs SARS-CoV-2 and it's a lot better absorbed - so to get any antiviral effect from quercetin you'd probably need at least 10 grams pr day.
But what happen to those they were out of Jobs just before the Virus, and now could not get a new job because of the Virus?
I am pretty nervous about sticking this out in the city but feel it's my least bad option right now. It sounds like Wuhan cases peaked 1-mo after draconian shelter-in-place measures were installed.[0]

There is no evidence our quarantine will be as aggressive and I fear it will be inadequate. Public transportation is still running. We're already at ~4000 cases.[1] Domestic cases are doubling every two days.[2]

Does anybody have some optimism about the situation here in NYC?

[0] https://www.ibtimes.com/italy-coronavirus-lockdown-not-enoug...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc....

[2] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1241035936911130624?s=20
>That's a very bad analogy. People can become great musicians without ever learning music theory, since being a "musician" is such a wide category

I disagree, you're equating being good at something to being a world class expert. You can become a great python developer without ever knowing how the language implements a dictionary. You can't expect to remove the black box aspect from everything you use, that's just impossible.
> Chloroquine's safety profile isn't great, but the safety profile of COVID is way worse. If you look at Chemotherapy for example, one would never take any of those drugs unless you had cancer.

The FDA's Office of new drugs is split into divisions (dermatology, oncology etc) and the different divisions have different approval criteria as you mention. From my Onco friends' PoV, cancer patients are pretty much assumed to be dying anyway so the standard of risk is quite different from, say, Derm, whose patients don't really die of anything except cancers.

Note: I have presented to the FDA and have written clinical trial requests (e.g. IND) which have been approved, but I have never done a submission to OOD. However my friends who do really talk about the approval path in a different way than I used to.

Don't self-medicate with chloroquine. It's very hepatotoxic.
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Like, a paper filter for coffee?
The biggest problem with Voatz is that it's selling silicon snake oil to people who can't evaluate claims.

It starts with the premise that somehow Blockchain does something magical. That is enables special security.

Claims like this are a load of crap.

What Bitcoin did, and what hucksters like Voatz are trying to cash in on, was to make it provably difficult to write a public record. In doing so, Bitcoin created provable digital scarcity (subject to certain well-known assumptions) for the first time in human history.

Voatz picks out the cryptographic part as if it were somehow separable from the proof of work part. The two are not separable. Voatz, and the fools who are using it, have much bigger problems than "improper use of cryptographic algorithms."
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Where are we with COVID-19, and how are mathematical models and statistics helping us develop strategies to overcome the burden of infections. Nicholas P. Jewell is Chair of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the London School of Medicine and Tropical Medicine and Professor of the Graduate School (Biostatistics and Statistics) at the University of California, Berkeley.