DougN7

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721.
by DougN7 7y ago
That is true. But not overwhelming the hospitals means we spend 20-30 years in isolation. That's not realistic. The time element for our population size is the problem I can't find a way around.
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by DougN7 7y ago
That makes sense. But how long will it take? I've not seen discussions on the length of time we'll need to hunker down to get the benefit.
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Ask HN: Isolation (from coronavirus) is only a temporary band-aid that will fail
1 points by DougN7 7y ago|13 comments
724.
by DougN7 7y ago
Let’s hope that works, and that we have enough to go around to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
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by DougN7 7y ago
To be more likely that the next person to get it is already immune requires millions and millions to be exposed. That’s exactly what herd immunity is. So how long will it take millions and millions to get this immunity.
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by DougN7 7y ago
I want to know how social distancing can work in the long run. Obviously it slows the spread, but until 60-70% of the population is exposed (200+ million in the US), we won’t have herd immunity. That means we’ll still be fighting exponent
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by DougN7 7y ago
I’d like to believe that. But the darn thing is infectious enough that just a small handful of people still having it will restart the whole thing.
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by DougN7 7y ago
My concern is how long we’ll have to work to flatten the curve (i.e. how many illnesses are there per month if we get it as flat as we hope). As someone else said, another Great Depression will also bring death. Crappy options :(
729.
by DougN7 7y ago
I seriously wonder how that will work. At 10 million per month it would take almost two years. Can we do social distancing that long?
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by DougN7 7y ago
How will we ever get herd immunity at this rate? Don’t we have to get sick at some point? At least 200 million of us in the US?
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by DougN7 7y ago
I’m not sure I agree. We are a young nation. I remember visiting some people in Switzerland and their home was older than our US history. We think 200 years is a very long time, but I don’t think Europeans and Asians have that same view.
732.
by DougN7 7y ago
It’s like nobody understands supply and demand
733.
by DougN7 7y ago
I’m the opposite. I figure the safest time to fly is when all the problems are foremost in everyone’s mind. Not worried/haven’t checked if I’m flying one today.
734.
by DougN7 7y ago
That’s my point though - so far dark matter only exists in equations (and our imagination) and isn’t real (that we’ve been able to prove). It’s got as much proof as ghosts. That will surely change but we’re not there now.
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by DougN7 7y ago
Dark matter is the ghostly realm. And boom, suddenly it hasn’t all been disproven :)
736.
by DougN7 7y ago
Agree completely. I personally know an otherwise normal healthy teenage girl that cries and can’t sleep at night from anxiety if she doesn’t have her phone. I think there are many more people like this than we realize.
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by DougN7 7y ago
I don’t think snark was intended. Work is a means to an end, not the end itself (or shouldn’t be in my opinion but other opinions surely exist too).
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by DougN7 7y ago
It's not just Reader and all the other services. It's really crappy customer service too. Reddit's got a good thread going about someone that paid up on GSUITE that got their account locked. You have to hope a tweet goes
739.
by DougN7 7y ago
I think the point is it’s not a subsidy that could instead be spent somewhere else.
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by DougN7 7y ago
I’d say our 5 basic senses that have a very limited reach would claim the earth is flat. Of course it is not flat though (just to be clear).
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by DougN7 7y ago
I think we’d be surprised what is already here. You can’t drive a stolen car through a medium town in Kansas (Lenexa) without the police chasing you down before you get out of town. Kansas!
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by DougN7 7y ago
What you’re describing is basically Iceland. It used to be richly forested. It lost its forests and then its topsoil. Essentially an ecological disaster brought on by the vikings. But life finds a way.
743.
by DougN7 7y ago
Is 3 hours per year really that bad? It’s 99.96% (three 9’s) uptime which I’d think is fine for most small to medium businesses.
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by DougN7 7y ago
There are a lot of people in the middle though that aren’t poor but can’t play the shenanigans the rich get away with.
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by DougN7 7y ago
I’ve wondered the same thing. Everyone told them not to remove the Start button. They did anyway, and Surprise! everyone hated it.
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by DougN7 7y ago
I don’t get the 2010 reference, but flying cars are something that might fall into the “just because we can doesn’t mean we should” category. I’m assuming keeping something in the air costs much more energy and pollution than using an axel
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by DougN7 7y ago
What if they have visited, a long long time ago. The lead explorer’s name happened to be “God”.
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by DougN7 7y ago
The quantity doesn’t matter as much as the medium. I suspect digital mediums are one of the most fragile and least likely to survive.
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by DougN7 7y ago
If A is getting subsidized housing they’re earning taking others’ taxes and profiting from it. I’d say they’re not entitled to the subsidy in that case.
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by DougN7 7y ago
Microsoft was also hated for their business practices. I find what a company does to be a perfectly good reason to like or hate them, not that my opinion matters. But if you have enough people feeling a certain way it changes things. For

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