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by aazaa 7y ago
> An important part of CDC’s role during a public health emergency is to develop a test for the pathogen and equip state and local public health labs with testing capacity. Testing for COVID-19 has been an unmitigated failure in the US.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Could a US person explain who pays for the test/on going healthcare if an uninsured person rocks up to the ER with relevant history and flu like symptoms? They don't. They keep working because there's no way to afford th
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by aazaa 7y ago
From another story on the nursing home outbreak: > "If we had the ability to test earlier, I'm sure we would have identified patients earlier," he [a Washington State health official] said. https://thehill.com&#
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by aazaa 7y ago
The article leaves more questions than it answers: > A person in Washington state infected with coronavirus has died, according to the Seattle and King County Department of Health. Was this one of the reported cases on Friday, or yet ano
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Coronavirus reappears in discharged patients, raising questions(reuters.com)
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Two things stand out: 1. This was a tour bus guide. Someone who had almost certainly come into contact with people from different countries. 2. She's not the first patient to relapse.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> That gap between admission and diagnosis raises concerns about health care workers being unknowingly exposed at Davis—a potential problem anywhere. ... Then later: > The UC Davis memo explains the delay in testing by noting that nei
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by aazaa 7y ago
Used books. Buy from Amazon. They're dirt cheap. Ideas - without knowing what the event entails: 1. First aid 2. Home medicine 3. Edible local plants 4. Hunting, especially building traps from local materials and deploying them 5. Low-
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U.S. sees first coronavirus case of unknown origin in Bay Area(sfgate.com)
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This article does a terrible job of explaining the specific threat. A few paragraphs in, buried, is this: > ... It took until last year for mattresses and furniture containing the highly toxic retardant deca-BDE to be banned, under Europ
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by aazaa 7y ago
This same tough decision-making process will play out thousands of times in the next few months. Any event that draws an international crowd poses an elevated risk. You can't know where people have been or what kind of screening proces
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Problem is, electric cars don’t require the same workforce to build. As Reuters writes, ‘electric cars provide less assembly work than combustion engine vehicles.’ This may be the most interesting factor of all, but the article doesn&#
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by aazaa 7y ago
The release of JavaScript was deeply confusing to me as a developer back then. Java applets and Macromedia Flash were already touted by their vendors as the one true way forward for interactivity. The scripting language released at about th
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by aazaa 7y ago
The article doesn't mention the single most import reason for unit testing: to enable you to refactor your code. Without a suite of unit tests, there's no way to know that your refactor hasn't introduced bugs of some kind. A
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Wuhan Institute of Virology(en.wikipedia.org)
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> ... In most countries ... ordinary citizens have not been asked to prepare. Instead, they have been led to expect that their governments will keep the virus from their doors. This will be a painful but necessary shift. Realizing ther
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by aazaa 7y ago
Coronavirus will be blamed for everything that happens from this point forward, but it will mostly be lies. The economy has been breaking down in fits and starts for the last year. The yield curve inversion several months back should have b
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by aazaa 7y ago
> On an average day during the period studied, 25% of all tweets about the climate crisis came from bots. This proportion was higher in certain topics – bots were responsible for 38% of tweets about “fake science” and 28% of all tweets a
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by aazaa 7y ago
This article does a poor job of explaining what could be controversial about the 2015 Eurogroup Meeting. Who cares? This just sounds like Euro-Politico Soap Opera. After some digging, I found this: > The Eurogroup on the 11 July 2015 dis
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by aazaa 7y ago
This effort betrays a supreme misunderstanding about what makes Bitcoin important. "Blockchain technology" is not what makes Bitcoin revolutionary. Bitcoin is censorship-resistant electronic cash. It's teleportable currency -
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by aazaa 7y ago
Fun little vacation.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> ... We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin. Scientists from multiple countries have published and analysed genomes of the causative agent, severe acute respirat
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Pg-extend-rs: Postgres extension library for Rust(github.com)
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This article would benefit from some code examples. As it is, it left me with the same thought as those who claim to never need debuggers or object-oriented features: Fine let's say you're right - how do I implement your system?
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by aazaa 7y ago
Read The Gervais Principle . https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
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by aazaa 7y ago
> It’s a moment of reckoning for Wayfair, which has been on such a hiring blitz over the past several years that its employees often wait in line for the escalators up to its offices in the Copley Place mall. The company, which expanded
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by aazaa 7y ago
> I see choosing "new" languages (or frameworks) as very risky propositions to the life of a project. These languages are less likely to be around in ten or twenty years time (newer and better Rusts and Gos are likely to form i
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Headcut(en.wikipedia.org)
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> I really don’t know what else to say at this point. I’ve been writing this blog since 2002, several years after my own experiences with Alzheimer’s drug discovery, and ever since then I have chronicled the failure of drug after drug ai
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by aazaa 7y ago
This is machine-generated, right?

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