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by acqq 7y ago
Yes, the formats and players should be changed to also allow more seek points than the key frames, exactly for these "picture not changing" scenarios but with the audio content we want to seek and consume. And then additionally, t
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by acqq 7y ago
I'm surely don't believe that he is some exception, i.e. that he was the only one being stupid. As I see it, the presidents (and the prime ministers) represent the sentiment of the system, the power structures and the voters. The
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by acqq 7y ago
It is amazing work, I'm so glad you invested your attention in this direction, kudos! I haven't used the language and the compiler yet but just reading the title article I almost jumped from joy, knowing how unexpectedly painful i
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by acqq 7y ago
It's about priorities. The US spends 15 times more money for military than South Korea but is still not able to comparably protect itself from a single epidemics. Instead, the U.S. citizens get what I've cited in another message
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by acqq 7y ago
> no country has tested 1 million people Well, the country prepared for epidemics just didn't have to test one million people, but still kept it under control: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/how-south
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by acqq 7y ago
The context matters: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-statements-about-th... "Feb. 26: “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero , t
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by acqq 7y ago
> What I am trying to convey is that both numerator and denominator of the death ratio are very noisy since they depend on who and when is tested. In this case now, you don't need that: the hospitals in Italy know for years how ma
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by acqq 7y ago
At the moment, but the spread is exponential, and the U.S. in not an exception. It's just a matter of N days, where N is not a too big number. Everybody can do his own math, provided he understands the math enough. But be aware of anyb
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by acqq 7y ago
> we don't know why the situation is so much worse in Italy than in Japan. So... because we don't know why just Asian countries are better than Western in controlling the outbreak, the Western countries should just... do nothin
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by acqq 7y ago
Taleb's point is that high uncertainties which can result in catastrophic loss are worth of spending money to protect against. In our present case, the real nonsense is US allocating funds for a 1.5 trillion dollar plane, but totally a
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by acqq 7y ago
There are countries that do report: "17 March: the total number of cases was 1705, of which 314 patients had been admitted to the hospital" That was week ago, now it's 1230 people in the hospital, or 4 times more. So I expect
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by acqq 7y ago
We have the data we need. We know how fast it grows, we know how bad it is. It's at least order of magnitude (as in, surely ten times) worse than flu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Is_COVID-19_like_a_flu%3F...
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by acqq 7y ago
I've found this: https://www.covid.is/data The private company did there the randomized tests (deCode). But I don't know where the support for your claim ("half the positives no symptoms") can be found.
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by acqq 7y ago
Yes. One of the reasons could be that US for a while practically didn't have tests, after deciding to not use what the rest of the world already had: https://www.businessinsider.com/early-coronavirus-cdc-tests-... but
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by acqq 7y ago
> Is there no way to simply remove this DLL There is: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad... Microsoft documents, as a possibility, how to "Rename ATMFD.DLL" and describes the
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by acqq 7y ago
Long term, THE major problem is the expectation to profit every time , stupidly, nobody with the money cares if one of that times the whole world gets infected: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-long-
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by acqq 7y ago
"Jan. 21: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms the first coronavirus case in the United States." Which country managed to get it under control it its own house since that date?
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by acqq 7y ago
Across the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing
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by acqq 7y ago
Young people aren't automatically immune: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11226440/three-junior-doctors-... No sane medical person would connect three 30-years doctors to the breathing machines ("ventilato
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by acqq 7y ago
https://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_populati... "It's a great pleasure to be here, and to have a chance just to share with you some very simple ideas about the problems we're facing. Some
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by acqq 7y ago
I'm not a professional in that area, just based on what I've read, so in case of doubt, check better sources: If you use human donors, you need trained doctors spending time and equipment to select the donors, handle the donors, t
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by acqq 7y ago
> I think it would be really interesting to compare It is already compared. On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_I... you can easily see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
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by acqq 7y ago
If the average number of cases in some small area (e.g. a block or blocks of buildings, a part of town, a town) is e.g. two patients with symptoms X per MONTH, and the symptoms include FEVER and not being able to breath, i.e. something peop
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The cost comes from the nonscalability of both the production and the use.
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by acqq 7y ago
> people have been flying back to the states with infections spread out over the entire country while cross-border spread has been much more localized in italy I still don't see the difference? Why do you think that the cross-borde
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> The number of distinct outbreaks happening at once makes a big difference in the steepness of the curve in the beginning. How come? "Distinct outbreaks" just means the older state was underdiagnosed, not that the characterist
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by acqq 7y ago
> If it’s as contagious as they say and spreads in asymptotic people then why wouldn’t there be a significant population that has acquired and recovered from this? Because all the effects are limited by the time it takes for them to happ
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by acqq 7y ago
UK number of deaths is two weeks behind Italy's. I'm quite sure that that growth will be consistent in the next two weeks in the UK -- namely, up to now, the growth characteristic remained the same across the countries with diff
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by acqq 7y ago
If you want to have better comparable values, you should account that US have had too little testing and it just starts to increase. The US also has such health care system that it doesn't treat most potential patients the same, also p
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by acqq 7y ago
> 99% of cases in Italy have existing health problems, average age 79 Definitely no, unless you define the "cases" as "whatever my wish is to name the case to prove my own point now" and even then also fake the numbe

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