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by buboard 7y ago
> Letting the airlines fall apart because of a 6-month drop in sales seems like a senseless destruction of value airlines do bankrupt very often https://simpleflying.com/bankrupt-airlines-2019/ They are hardly too b
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by buboard 7y ago
Tons of small airlines in europe have failed in the past decades, but not because they couldn't be profitable. they usually exploit every cost-cutting corner, so they fail easily when oil prices or other rules change. They seem to be
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by buboard 7y ago
> Cheap flying is utterly unsustainable It obviously is, even though these companies operate at minimum margins (which is why they go out of business so often). Nothing is sustainable during a global shock like the current one.
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by buboard 7y ago
a small business, e.g. a hair salon will shut down if having to pay people without any customers for a month. Amazon can wait
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by buboard 7y ago
move more of it online. Thanks to decades of e commerce the economy can already function without brick and mortar. More of this, in a health-conscious way (e.g. special uniforms for deliverypeople, drop-off stations for products, contactles
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by buboard 7y ago
Re/ 1. I think the conclusions are false. If anything there is more open collaboration; china released sequences of the virus very early and ppl around the world are working openly. Trump’s brainfart about the vaccine aside , distrust
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by buboard 7y ago
Public service announcements are meant to be broadcast by the media
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by buboard 7y ago
We need an app that tracks any nearby (few meters) MAC address it encounters and stores it on device. When someone finds out they are infected , they post their address to a database online. People can check in every day to see if they have
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by buboard 7y ago
you d think that public service announcements would not be put behind a paywall
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by buboard 7y ago
put extraordinary effort on developing suitable antiviral and a vaccine in a fraction of the ordinary time period.
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by buboard 7y ago
Why isnt it normal to replace your face with a cartoon or a photo. If zoom cant do it, you can use a virtual camera program instead. Really, zoom meeting screens look like a grim collection of criminal mugshots. We should be able to do bett
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by buboard 7y ago
This is a very old website, no?
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by buboard 7y ago
i dont think you can live with Spo2 at 85
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by buboard 7y ago
Not to mention, the high R0 of this virus means the threshold for herd immunity is unrealistically high. Plus, countries that are trying to delay transmission will also eventually get herd immunity , most probably with the help of a vaccine
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by buboard 7y ago
the tech community (i.e. us) celebrated the mobile "revolution" and simple (i.e. dumbed down) UIs for more than a decade. You reap what you sow though, you have kids growing up not knowing what a file is. This is no testament to t
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by buboard 7y ago
it will inevitably come to this. but we also live in a world of deterrence through mutual destruction, not defense
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by buboard 7y ago
not sure how fragile it is, frankly logistics is very robust (and has been since the middle ages). Even with centralization it survives multiple trade wars at this moment. And it depends a lot on information tech which is also robust.
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by buboard 7y ago
not fast enough for africa to avoid economic disaster
529.
by buboard 7y ago
i wonder if this crisis will set up a long-term discussion about this issue from now on
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by buboard 7y ago
Maybe that's why its not crazy to consider conspiracy theories about the nature of this virus. It would be beneficial for humanity in the long term to shift e.g. from cyberwarfare defense spending to biowarfare defense. The side benefi
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by buboard 7y ago
his wife is also talking about family planning in Africa, a difficult but earth-changing subject that politicians won't touch
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by buboard 7y ago
> The UK has some of the best epidemiology schools and experience, thanks to a tradition harking back to the British Empire expanding in very dangerous lands. This is not an argument in 2020. This is the kind of exceptionalism i m talkin
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by buboard 7y ago
the best option is antivirals AFAIK, which will probably become available before the vaccine
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by buboard 7y ago
It's getting very hard to believe the UK story. I mean, i get exceptionalism, but this is going too far.
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by buboard 7y ago
OTOH it s increased international travel that causes the acuteness of these pandemics
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by buboard 7y ago
a good , fluid mechanical keyboard makes one more accurate. anything deviating from perfection will introduce errors though.
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by buboard 7y ago
opensimulator is free/open source substitute with exactly the same mechanics.
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by buboard 7y ago
gaming pc (even a used one). those things are fast and responsive which makes work faster. They are also quiet. Working on the desktop forces you NOT to take the laptop with you and lie around the house , which is a great way to separa
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by buboard 7y ago
Matt o'Dowd of PBS Spacetime on youtube. Seriously, the time of Physics and the Standard Model is passed. The few people of those generations who are still working on fundamental physics are indiscriminately bad communicators, lost in
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by buboard 7y ago
I hope it has long term effects. Tons of companies are trying remote work for the first time, hopefully some of it will stick. Commute emissions are like 8% of total

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