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by coldcode 6y ago
50M people died worldwide from "Spanish" Flu, in a world much different than today, yet within a couple years the world had mostly recovered. So far we are still a long way from that number. The problem is you won't know if y
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by coldcode 6y ago
I wonder what this would look like from less than Galactic distances, i.e. close enough to see but not close enough to incinerate.
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by coldcode 6y ago
It's somewhat lame but I love the idea. It can only get better.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Each Chili's if I remember correctly has about 150 people total. Pei Wei's tend to be around 50 or so. Those are the only two I vaguely recall being told by someone.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Thats WTI, Brent is still much higher.
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by coldcode 6y ago
I wonder if there is something in your immune system, maybe genetic or your viral experience, that determines how well your body will cope with this new virus. There are reports of really old people (I read a 103 and 99 year old's stor
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by coldcode 6y ago
The US will hit 40,000 deaths today.
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by coldcode 6y ago
The problem is the wealth in concentrated in the few, who do not want to give it up, and needed by the many, who do not have (or know) the leverage needed. Of course this has always been the case since cities were first invented. All civili
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by coldcode 6y ago
Art always changes, and art critics always complain when it does, and complain when it doesn't. Illustration is simply art on a shoestring. No one is able to afford a Normal Rockwell or hire David Hockney given publishing makes so litt
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by coldcode 6y ago
I built a commercial memory allocator library (for MacOS pre X/Codewarrior called HeapManager) in the 90's. I built like 20 different test apps with varying workloads that I ran after every change to ensure it worked and measure t
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by coldcode 6y ago
We are programmers we can work anywhere. The majority of working people the world over cannot. Hacker News readers are not the majority of people. It's nice to be able to work from home as an option but don't assume it's a pa
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by coldcode 6y ago
Funny, if I had gotten a PhD in Chemistry back in the 80's I would have worked for a team that was building the precursors of these sort of materials. It was a fascinating research area but I did not want to go to school for 7 more yea
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by coldcode 6y ago
How many people on a single $1200 check and unemployment will go out and buy a car, a house, a washing machine or visit a Disney park?
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by coldcode 6y ago
While I agree that it will take longer (and wind up different looking) to full recovery, having governments and business plan for the next pandemic will not happen. Short sighted people do not waste time on long term thinking.
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by coldcode 6y ago
I think that requires an antibody test
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by coldcode 6y ago
It's also about how many galaxies (and other critters) exist in the universe, that you can scan enough to find two colliding galaxies at just the right time to view the jet.
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by coldcode 6y ago
At least the Covid-19 deaths have a limit, whereas many of the others will remain constant for a much longer time. The sadness of this disease is for many countries it did not need to be so bad. I wonder if we as a country (US) will learn a
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by coldcode 7y ago
I work for a big company in the news. We are still waiting on hearing about furlough details next week. Not a clue what will happen. There is no "what happens in a pandemic" page in the employee handbook. I have a feeling every to
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by coldcode 7y ago
I have been sharing my work with my friends on FB, somehow art gives people something to smile about in the face of serious crisis. I am not David Hockney for sure, but making art (digital in my case as well) in isolation helps me as well.
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by coldcode 7y ago
Eventually everyone either (1) gets it and has none or mild symptoms, or (2) gets it and requires hospitalization if available and then either recovers or dies, until (3) there is a working vaccine available in quantity for those not yet in
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by coldcode 7y ago
I was an early supporter (and payer) for Wunderground, but now they have turned into another IBM money grab and I refuse to have anything to do with them now.
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by coldcode 7y ago
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone. It's a biographical novel about Michelangelo. It made a profound statement to me when I was young that "an artist must leave a body of work" - it's not enough to just do one thi
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by coldcode 7y ago
The first program I ever wrote as a professional in the early 80's was a Jovial (before Ada what the Air Force used) prettyprinter written in Fortran. Hard to imagine now how little I knew yet still managed to get it to work (required
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by coldcode 7y ago
the one riff is vaguely similar, but the Taurus song includes a simple descending riff that sounds like something from a guitar intro book. All music has similarities to something. Even Bach and Mozart borrowed ideas from other composers an
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by coldcode 7y ago
I am not saying this is going to happen, I am just stating I fear it more than the disease if it does become an issue. Yes I too have direct relatives who survived German collapse at the end of the war. But they lived in a small rural town
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by coldcode 7y ago
We can live with uncertainly only until there is no food available in the grocery stores (or anywhere, due to loss of production or logistics). If that happens, then what happens next is certain, people will take food with guns to feed thei
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by coldcode 7y ago
I have a house and our neighborhood has nice walking areas including a pond. Going outside and looking at nature helps a lot.
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French study finds anti-malarial/antibiotic combo could reduce Covid-19 duration(techcrunch.com)
1 points by coldcode 7y ago|2 comments
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by coldcode 7y ago
I think the main long term benefit of buying NeXT was getting Steve back. I left Apple a year or so before this happened (I remember Gil being all excited talking about Apple to the staff right before he realized what a disaster it was and
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by coldcode 7y ago
Or there is sampling bias in Florida, maybe insufficient thermometers or some other error? It' seems bizarre to me that one state has way more problems, yet the numbers are not terribly high compared to Washington of CV19. Our governor

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