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by fock 7y ago
Do I missunderstand something or isn't it necessary for the real bad cases to intubate the person needing the ventilator? I think the bottleneck here is a lot more complicated than "moaaar" ventilators. Also if you have 1 Mio
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by fock 7y ago
fortunately in industrial farming, the infection risk the other way round (human→animal) is such a business risk, that adequate precautions are taken!
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by fock 7y ago
that's also the thing I was wondering. All the people keep talking about asymptomatic spread, yet that should be relatively ineffective at spreading (unless it's super contagious and one cough can infect dozens). Somehow I think p
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by fock 7y ago
death rate (mortality) of the total pouplation is around 1-2%/year. Yeah, the coronavirus would have to be huge to increase that - but what is your evidence that it's not being able to get as huge?
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by fock 7y ago
so, only a fraction will be infected? What's your evidence for that assumption? Or it's burnt out in Wuhan? How can Italy have like the same fatality number for _a lot_ less people? Basically we don't know and we've been
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by fock 7y ago
people dying everywhere (which, with a hopeful 2% letality is still very likely) will also heavily disturb the peace as well as the economy. As long as we are not sure about basic things like that, I'm quite for a lockdown, because a 7
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by fock 7y ago
CFR of around 0.6‰. Spot the difference.
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by fock 7y ago
I think it's a mixture of both. Underreporting of deaths and relatively strict lockdowns in known outbreak areas (basically municipial governments can call for that in Germany - so think the S...-County in Washington going on total l
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by fock 7y ago
well, Spain is still a monarchy (and has been since the caliphate was pushed back), had a Civil war, where fascists won and then ruled for 40 years... Then the king declared that he would like democracy more than autoritarian rule (without
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by fock 7y ago
In Europe, I get: a youtuber telling you about his "battle" with some other youtuber and how he converted him "back to islam, inshallah" (on tape obviously). Both people seem to have a problem with some body parts near t
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by fock 7y ago
So, this is all fascinating and nice advertisement for this racing company which might want to compete in Formula 1... But: what problem is actually solved by this thing?
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by fock 7y ago
I think even in the US, there's a ton of defense contractors, which could produce a dozen of these in <2 weeks, iff they got told so. I don't think it's a 3d-printer problem though ;).
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by fock 7y ago
you didn't have those meds at all in 1918 either (and this was OPs point). and for the NZ case: did NZ ever have a real industry? With a 4.5 Mio. population today I somehow doubt that... As for basic industries (and meds): in western e
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by fock 7y ago
face mask: some variation of paper cloth. Go to the local cellulose factory (I doubt every city had one back then, they were and still are near cheap energy/wood), specify the quality of the paper you want and get it (you have to pay f
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by fock 7y ago
yeah, but even in 1918 not every city had a refinery or blast furnace. And even back then, a lot of the basic stuff was imported (think opium, cocain (probably the top medicines back then...), rare metals...). On top of that, in 1918, a lot
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by fock 7y ago
example? I guess if you wanted it, the 2020 city can manufacture anything it could in 1918...
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by fock 7y ago
well, the ICU units are the main problem here. I guess other countries would choose to upgrade existing rooms here. And a 1000 beds in rooms with drywall separation - we did this in Germany for the refugees and (maybe contrary to China) we
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by fock 7y ago
in Germany in January people talked about: - well, it's China, you know, they don't have nice hospitals there - the flu is killing people too and you're not vaccinated! - our democratic society will be much better at containi
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by fock 7y ago
a) I think you meant 80000 deaths (northern italy has maybe 15 Mio inhabitants), b) so according to your calculation, there should be about 140000 cases closed by now?
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by fock 7y ago
yeah, I agree that this is no problem if hospitals stop taking anyone over 40 with respiratory issues and leave them to die at home. Letality might approach 10-20% then (from all we know), but hey, we are young!
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by fock 7y ago
you get the last 10% by running a calculation for that (which itself is not necessarily accurate...). The whole situation is a little bit like Plato's cave... And also from what I've seen so far, those models either are 90% there
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by fock 7y ago
that's exactly the thing I'm seeing in my field (computational materials science). Basically a simple regression model (with very simple features) brings you 90% there, still people compete on publishing (on ONE shitty benchmark d
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by fock 7y ago
it is. And especially for SMBs, the cost was way less in the past. Imagine a small mechanical engineering company: 10 years ago they'd have 5 seats of a 5 year old AutoCAD/ProEngineer/Solidworks version, sneakily locking them
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by fock 7y ago
yeah it is open source, but half a million loc for a simple admin tool seems like the perfect path to vendor lockin ;)
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by fock 7y ago
it seems too me like kubernetes aims to replace the existing service-mesh consisting of de facto microservices (load-balancers, remote-logging, systemd, xinetd, ...) bonded by unixy conventions with.... a monolithic, proprietary system. Pro
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by fock 7y ago
well, if it "buys" the kernel source so that mainline-linux is theoretically possible I'm really fine with it.
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by fock 7y ago
How about Somalia :). I reckon you can live without to many taxes there. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sfVbXjODdRQ/T9-dLQR5yUI/AAAAAAAAM...
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by fock 7y ago
maybe move from AWS to good-old VPS/small business hosting?
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by fock 7y ago
OpenMP threaded blas-routines
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by fock 7y ago
`find /usr -name '*.so'` that's enough for you ;)

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