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#Germany 🇩🇪 is overpaying for #climateprotection by 183 bln USD or 4.5 percent of #GDP. 📉🌍 @BjornLomborg #FalseAlarm #climate #economy /1 
So not so much a #ContactTracing app as a feature-creeping Christmas tree?
One thing about tech that's successful is that it is ultimately successful because it performs the core function it (cl)aims to provide well.
#efficacious ≠ #effectiveness
One thing about tech that's successful is that it is ultimately successful because it performs the core function it (cl)aims to provide well.
#efficacious ≠ #effectiveness
In case you're wondering, "Detection rate" refers to detecting other #phones with the app installed, not the #virus:
The #FalseNegative rate is the amount of times the app incorrectly reports a contact as 'non-infectious' when in fact it is / could be...
The #FalseNegative rate is the amount of times the app incorrectly reports a contact as 'non-infectious' when in fact it is / could be...
...and the #FalsePositive rate is how often the app incorrectly reports a contact as 'infectious' when it's not, i.e. a #FalseAlarm.
Basically, what these #ErrorRates tell us is that #Bluetooth ranging is HARD!
Would you trust a #SmokeAlarm that went off wrongly nearly half...
Basically, what these #ErrorRates tell us is that #Bluetooth ranging is HARD!
Would you trust a #SmokeAlarm that went off wrongly nearly half...
#FalseAlarm, #fakenews, ignorance...2019 #AmazonFires are only 35% more (ok, so far) than the average of the last 8 years.Most are burning on agricultural land where the forest had already been cleared, a common agricultural practice #deforestation #Brazil nytimes.com/interactive/20…
#AmazonFires 🔥🔥🔥 As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of #NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the #Amazon basin this year has been close to the AVERAGE in comparison to the past 15 years. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/…
#AmazonFires 🔥🔥🔥 Dr. Jonathan Foley @GlobalEcoGuy @ProjectDrawdown
#Amazon contributes at most 5% (not 20%) of the world’s oxygen‼️
We actually used to see fires like this, and even worse, back in the 1990s and the early 2000s #climatechange #FakeNews
sciencenews.org/article/brazil…
#Amazon contributes at most 5% (not 20%) of the world’s oxygen‼️
We actually used to see fires like this, and even worse, back in the 1990s and the early 2000s #climatechange #FakeNews
sciencenews.org/article/brazil…
