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Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies(npr.org)
126 points by erentz 7y ago|153 comments
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by erentz 7y ago
That’s really disappointing to learn. It was the inter-satellite linking part that make it really interesting (to me) and which promised to provide big latency improvements over fiber (over longer distances). I wonder if it proved too hard
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by erentz 7y ago
And two presumptive cases in Washington (Snohomish and King counties) just announced at an 8pm press briefing. One a high schooler with unknown origin. The other a person returning from Korea on Tuesday. https://www.oregonlive.co
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by erentz 7y ago
> I think most people are blowing it out of proportion. It's just a bad flu It isn’t just conveying information, its downplaying the severity of the situation.
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by erentz 7y ago
Patient was transferred to UC Davis last Wednesday. Apparently UC Davis asked the CDC to test for COVID-19 but CDC refuses because the patient did not fit their strict requirements. Four days later CDC does test and patient is found positiv
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by erentz 7y ago
I think your post is intended to be reassuring to the presumable majority younger demographic on HN. But it strikes me as very insensitive. Ignoring the validity of the source of those numbers, even if they hold up. We all know people over
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by erentz 7y ago
They're still going to get paid a hell of a lot of money if this drug works. It's not just going to be taken from them without any kind of compensation at all from the US Government and others.
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by erentz 7y ago
My last sentence is referring to exactly what you're saying, your statement is dangerous and irresponsible because it is designed to make people think SARS-CoV-2 is less dangerous than regular seasonal flu. Comparing annual deaths from
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by erentz 7y ago
This is practically ancient news at this point. RCTs are already underway in China and now starting up in the US. The question that hasn't been well answered anywhere is, assuming it does prove to work, can we make enough of this stuff
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Air New Zealand reveals details of Economy Skynest lie flat beds(nzherald.co.nz)
2 points by erentz 7y ago|0 comments
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by erentz 7y ago
It's been a little bit frustrating watching the evolution of this. Even today a lot of people are very unaware of whats coming and the preparations, at least from what we can see on the outside, are woefully inadequate in the US and ot
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‘Parasite’ Has a Hidden Backstory of Middle-Class Failure and Chicken Joints(foreignpolicy.com)
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George Hotz: Fully Self-Driving Cars Are a 'Scam' [video](m.youtube.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
I see the Amazon fake products problem as related to the social network fake news problem. In both cases you have a company that wants to both have it's platform cake and eat it's publisher cake at the same time. (Sorry for the ba
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by erentz 7y ago
This would just be a fine on poor people. In many US states there are active efforts to disenfranchise and suppress voting such as moving voting places, not providing enough booths so there are big queues and delays, automatically removing
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'I brainwashed myself with the internet'(nbcnews.com)
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And that this “junk” abandoned space had become overgrown with vegetation, supporting wildlife already, which inspired the whole idea IIRC.
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San Diego lab discovers COVID-19 vaccine in 3 hours(cbs8.com)
9 points by erentz 7y ago|2 comments
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by erentz 7y ago
> The flu, in Catalonia, this week has reached figures of 360 cases / 100,000 inhabitants: more than 120 times higher than the incidence of COVID-19 infection in China.[1] We need to stop comparing this to the flu. The flu is an est
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by erentz 7y ago
Now I feel like an idiot for not noticing this! Thanks :-)
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by erentz 7y ago
I much prefer subtitles to dubbing. Which is annoying because a very large percentage of Netflix content now is foreign language with bad dubbing instead of subtitles. There are some shows that look interesting and I’d watch but I just can’
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by erentz 7y ago
> A growing body of research suggests that this nightmare scenario is fairly common for Americans. This is just about every interaction with the medical system for me. It’s not just surgery. At the moment the current one I’m dealing with
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Bill Gates’ TerraPower and GE Hitachi proposal to build a new nuclear reactor(geekwire.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
How does one go about measuring their methylation?
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The Hinkley Point C case: is nuclear energy expensive?(medium.com)
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The 'asbestos of the airline industry' killing flyers – 60 Minutes [video](m.youtube.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
Reminds me of this, apparently engine oils get burnt and sucked into the bleed air that feeds cabins and is neurotoxic: The 'asbestos of the airline industry' killing flyers | 60 Minutes Australia https://m.youtube.com&
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by erentz 7y ago
It’s hard to imagine what the response is going to be. I don’t think a lot of people realize who this guy was or what this represents. (A lot of people are probably confused about what an Iranian general is doing in Iraq in the first place.
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by erentz 7y ago
Going from history there’s going to be a lot of democrats hand wringing about “process” but the Democrats and the media will still fall in behind an escalation to war. They’re already doing it. Media are already unquestionably repeating cla
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by erentz 7y ago
NZ has very high inequality already and has been on the same course as the rest of the English speaking world. If there is real unrest in the US it is going to spread to other western countries. Why they think NZ’ers wouldn’t come for them

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