2019-nCoV

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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Once you reach Musk levels of wealth can you imagine how paralysing possessions are? Most become enamoured with distractions as their means rise. But instead of choosing colours for the kitchen renovation or which BMW defines them as a pers
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Maybe in NA. In the UK the likely solution would be to install a roundabout. You can’t ignore an upcoming obstacle, in which you’re forced to give way.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
It is the UK. If they were to do anything a roundabout would be more suitable.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Meanwhile this diatribe clocks in at an unnecessary 12MB.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
The disability-adjusted life year cost remains another huge uncertain tail risk that is rarely accounted for.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
The issue is that it is a false dichotomy. You can't just "reopen" the economy and everything goes back to normal. Sweden has effectively voluntarily shutdown with >80% reductions in hospitality spending, etc. Until a regi
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
> Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who yesterday said the virus was "currently" eliminated, told Morning Report it was not unreasonable to use the term elimination - but that meant "zero tolerance for cases". https:&#x
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Currently all that is certain is the Swedish gov has gambled with their citizens lives and in doing so they've done horribly in contrast with comparable countries. And the number of fatalities continues to grow. How is Sweden in any be
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
History won't be kind to Giesecke. Deaths are almost an order of magnitude higher in Sweden v the rest of Scandinavia: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-daily-deaths-trajec...
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
The end-goal of lockdowns vary drastically by country. New Zealand just relaxed lockdown today and have declared "elimination" of all community transmission. Most countries are seeing death rates beginning to decrease after weeks
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
That analogy breaks down as smokers had no alternative. After bars banned smoking they lost few (if any) smoking customers while relishing in troves from the non-smoking demographic. Car-centric Viennese can still avoid Begegnungszonen.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
The problem is every second developer is also passionate about building dev tools. The market is naturally over-saturated. The world does not need more dev tools. There are bountiful real-world problems out there itching to be solved with s
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Trains and telecommunications are auxiliary; you walk to the train station and you talk into your phone. For breastfeeding it would be akin to using technology to aid the process, e.g. breast pump, refrigeration. Allergies are likely an exa
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
Yes, they are. So what would the correct policy be if we have no reliable model? Well as all existential threats should be treated, with extreme risk aversion.
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
You have it backwards. If your positivity rate continues to plummet as testing ramps up it points to the inverse. See other nations with wide spread testing and low positivity rates, namely Australia, NZ, Taiwan, UAE.
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
It still exceeds average seasonal mortality rates, see https://www.euromomo.eu
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
Russia is honestly handling the crisis better than most of the western world. They've done >1.6M tests with a positivity rate of 1.7%.
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
COVID is not a black swan (unknown unknown), but a white swan (known unknown). A looming Coronavirus pandemic was a well known global catastrophic risk.
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
Docker for local dev environments. Easily 100s of hours saved from needless tinkering to get n services × packages working in harmony, all to have to do it again 3 months later after an OS update.
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
The need to dress up any idea in colourful vocabulary serves only to distract from the lack of substance and to impress other BS vendors. The linked diatribe could be distilled to a 100 word paragraph and nothing would be lost.
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare > Biological warfare [...] is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill or incapacitate
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Africans in China being targeted and evicted from apartments(qz.com)
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
It doesn't need to be a deliberate release of a bioweapon to be considered biological warfare. The simple act of knowingly obscuring the transmissibility and extent of the virus, leading to rampant international spread, is biological w
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
That explains it.
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
Many govs use astroturfing, the CCP in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. It is not Indonesia as the previous child (now deleted) alluded to — the easy tell is the distinct lack of Hijabs visible (which are ubiquitous in the largest Muslim country in the world).
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
Further, as a reverse Turing test, an author should be declared unintelligent if their writing is indistinguishable from that of what is generated.
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
You need to realise that the only thing a career academic can really teach you is how to be a career academic.
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.
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by 2019-nCoV 7y ago
It's about maintaining an R0 < 1 after social distancing is relaxed. Without contact tracing we're destined for a cycling of lockdowns until we have a vaccine.

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