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by amalter 6y ago
I live around 10 blocks from Brooklyn Hospital Center and I assure you the entire hospital, including atriums, waiting rooms, hallways and even meeting rooms are packed with patient beds. If your hospital is empty, it’s because of the actio
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by amalter 6y ago
Additionally, COVID-19 is a new disease and we have no data about the long term effects. This is true anecdotal, but I’m following a cohort of 5 MD friends who all experienced “walking COVID” (aka reached the loss of smell symptom, but requ
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by amalter 7y ago
Just be aware this is a cultural judgement. In the U.K., many shelters will not adopt out cats to people planning on keeping them inside, as it is deemed cruel. I live in the US with 2 indoor cats, and don’t let them out for the reasons you
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by amalter 7y ago
Where is the source on Chinese ports being closed? I work in the international trade sector and since March 9th we’ve had record breaking activity on our system. Even looking at AIS you can see 1000+ dockings over the next 3 days at Shenzhe
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by amalter 7y ago
I’ve watched every one of Cuomo’s press conferences. He message is always clear - that we are trying to not overwhelm the health system. He doesn’t say “flatten the curve” because he believes words matter and tries to communicate to avoid p
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by amalter 7y ago
I believe that your position was strong during the cold war. From the end of WWII until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, American troops and bombs were a significant deterrent to Soviet imperialism in Europe. However, the world has sign
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by amalter 7y ago
I'm not sure what country you're located in, but at least in the US, there is the "Expanded Access" program - otherwise known as compassionate use. ( https://www.fda.gov/news-events/public-health-focu
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by amalter 7y ago
It’s more the other direction. What evidence do we have that this will be sorted by August? There has been no evidence that Cov-2 is anywhere as heat sensitive as influenza. This isn’t “the flu”. It doesn’t have to conform to flu patterns.
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by amalter 7y ago
I browsed Reddit for 30 minutes a day and concluded the same thing. Don't congratulate yourself too much, it was blindingly obvious. For all the things that Reddit gets wrong, early-January r/cornavirus was pretty much spot on the
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by amalter 7y ago
And if private healthcare can’t work during a crisis, then what use is it? A large public system cannot be conjured out of thin air to met each crisis. We will see the large well funded social medical systems, with their “inefficient” over
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by amalter 7y ago
This has been exactly proven out by Amazon - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcin... If Amazon can make a server class ARM chip that is competitive or better with their custom des
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by amalter 7y ago
Wow HN is especially negative today. Count me as interested in a terminal that supports “infinite” scrollback, while keeping memory usage deterministic. Apply color styling heuristically based on content is interesting. I’m assuming this on
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by amalter 7y ago
The niche JDK vendors are an order of magnitude off what Oracle needs to fund JDK development. I suppose the closest example is Azul, which is using the same "pay for performance" model of Graal EE. I have absolutely nothing again
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by amalter 7y ago
I think Graal and Graal EE on Oracle Cloud is one of the smartest product moves out of Oracle in .... idk ... forever? However, it seems like a knifes edge to walk on. If Graal CE gets uptake, are there enough compiler folks at Redhat, Azul
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by amalter 7y ago
Indeed Obama was "deporter in chief" - all presidents are. However, the rule of law was still enforced. Obama concentrated on immigrants with a criminal record and those "picked up" at the border. Family separation was r
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by amalter 7y ago
Only anecdotal, but Uber Pool is by far the most popular product among my cohort in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Usually you ride with at least one other person, and it’s not unusual to have 3-4 passengers if it’s a third row suv. I enjoy shitti
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by amalter 7y ago
Another sample point and a different concern... We just bought a new refrigerator this weekend, replacing the $3500 2011 Bosch that came with the apartment. The Bosch burned out the compressor’s ECU - a $350 part that with labor would have
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by amalter 7y ago
The symptoms are caused by the virus reproducing. At least take cough suppressant. The rest just makes you feel a little less awful. All the studies show the current OTC remedies don’t shorten illness duration (which conversely means they d
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by amalter 7y ago
Didn’t we just have an article yesterday on how difficult it is to recover from this event in a simulator, in which the pilots knew exactly what was wrong and what was going to happen. Blaming the Ethiopian pilots (One of the safest airline
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by amalter 12y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted. This was the story out of Basho last I heard. (Well, lot's of hints like "Some fruit company you may have heard of uses it like this"). Perhaps this is now out of date?
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by amalter 13y ago
Said by plenty of folks - for example, Joel Spolsky http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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by amalter 13y ago
>> Google has harvested the location, name and signal strength of many millions of wireless networks across the world > Don't forget that that dataset of wireless locations is updated continuously through crowdsourcing. Along
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by amalter 13y ago
>fact that Google was previously caught/accused of war-driving every wifi net they could see with their streetview cars I am a bit amused when folks trot this out and forget to mention that Google itself discovered this, voluntarily
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by amalter 13y ago
The first step in getting a click is gettin an impression. On the other extreme, I've actually found myself right clicking into an organic search because I feel bad for charging UPS for my laziness. (Yes I do realize how ridiculous thi
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by amalter 14y ago
This could be useful for someone wanting to whip up some Android code in Ruby, but not wanting to import the full JRuby or Ruby NDK overhead. I bet it's mostly for fun. He essentially extracted his JRuby JIT into a conventional compiler. In
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by amalter 14y ago
My opinion (and I suspect the authors) is that the market for chips where batteries or form factor are not a concern will no longer be large enough to support a company of the size of Intel. RIM makes the finest high security physical keybo
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by amalter 14y ago
This was one of the main reasons explained to me on why db based queues are a code smell. The other was that insert/select pattern of a queue hammers a db's index and data page fragmentation algorithms. Anyone know if this is still the case
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by amalter 14y ago
It seems to me that XA transactions one of those patterns that need to be rediscovered every generation. I see folks start with 0mq or Redis and hit edge cases where messages get lost. I'd love to see a somewhat simple distributed transacti
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by amalter 14y ago
Running fine on my 5 year old laptop.. Taking about 10-30% cpu. The implementation is short enough to paste in this comment. I find d3.js almost magical. About the closest actionscript toolset would be prefuse flare. D3 was designed as a di
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by amalter 14y ago
See also Scala's compiler, which detects and re-writes tail calls as stackless iterations ( http://oldfashionedsoftware.com/2008/09/27/tail-recursion-ba... )

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