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by gindely 6y ago
Their gamble is that it will come out in the wash - in the first period they will have scary, unpleasant numbers. But as the disease progresses through every community will have the same scary, unpleasant numbers - but in Sweden the economy
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by gindely 6y ago
The argument wasn't that fewer people would die. It's that everyone who was going to die would do it sooner. The Swedish gamble is that this is an unstoppable disease that will go to completion in every country anyway.
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by gindely 6y ago
I think the argument was that Sweden doesn't have a legal avenue towards general lockdown - only quarantines of specific facilities - and since they assumed everyone was going to get it anyway, voluntary compliance would be good enough
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by gindely 6y ago
> Does any business operate this way, including the one you work at? That is, selling things to the people who need it most for the amount that "minimizes default" (ie lowest price). Yes > This article is about wealthy mortg
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by gindely 6y ago
But now you have just portrayed situations in which banks provide affordable loans to people who don't need them, and unaffordable loans to people who need them. But this is what was criticised in the first place so we know it happens.
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by gindely 6y ago
Are you trying to suggest that diversity in banks leads to a market having more industry, or that more industry leads to more diversity in banks? And what is the cause and effect?
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by gindely 6y ago
On a single display, I think I prefer HiDPI X to Windows. But the moment there's two displays with significantly different dpi, Windows runs rings around anything on Linux. Windows is surely buggy - I have serious problems with its mul
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by gindely 6y ago
Has anyone ever criticised a bank for lending to someone who needs it most at a rate they are likely to afford to minimise chance of default? I mean banks aren't charities and maybe they're not/shouldn't be obliged to do
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by gindely 6y ago
I recall using GEM on the Atari ST (the first computer I bought, for about $50 at a garage sale), and then using Owen's FreeGEM distribution at some point later on. I didn't really think it fit in with the theme of being DOS-Windo
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by gindely 7y ago
Of humans or crows?
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by gindely 7y ago
What all the western countries have done. A half arsed lockdown, not like China's, without testing-and-tracing, not like South Korea's. There's still no evidence that a half arsed lockdown is unsuccessful and good reason to b
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by gindely 7y ago
Isn't it the circumstances that are being considered, that are the problem? Germany "lost control" of the pandemic. (Germany didn't actually lose control last week, it's just the numbers stopped growing fast in the
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by gindely 7y ago
German resident here. Why do you assume the recent hard lockdowns will work out? I have discovered in my time here that the German reputation for orderliness and rule following is exaggerated. South Korea coped with the outbreak by having a
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by gindely 7y ago
Germany didn't lose control last week. A few days after they realised what happened at the Gangelt carnival, they gave up - that's when they lost control. The spread of cases took a couple weeks to be shockingly high, but this was
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by gindely 7y ago
Other people are saying that the reason there's more deaths in Italy than other countries is because in Italy, there's sharing living spaces by the elderly and the young. An old folks home (I suppose that's what is meant by &
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by gindely 7y ago
choosing what not to say isn't censorship. Censorship is when the someone with power forces you to refrain from saying something - not just in a particular forum, but in any effective way. This place tells you "if you want to spre
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by gindely 7y ago
Governments censor. I really wish I could read the "flagged" posts sometimes but the rules are the rules.
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by gindely 7y ago
We prohibited price gouging i.e. increasing the price of masks that were already produced.
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by gindely 7y ago
The US response was abysmal. Trump's China ban was effectively a racist strike to his trade war. Hardly a sufficient response to the disease. But it was a response to the disease. You describe the difference between the West and the pe
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by gindely 7y ago
The Trump administration greatly mishandled the crisis. There is a theory that Trump's mishandling of the crisis is somehow what sets the United States or the west as a whole apart from the wealthy liberal East Asian states of South Ko
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by gindely 7y ago
Sport was originally a form of discipline and training - not just of the body, but also to be a good loser and a good winner. I think we need to abandon, for the most part, spectator sport, and create a social norm where people actually phy
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by gindely 7y ago
A pandemic is a form of epidemic (according to Wikipedia's definition, which you have referred to). An epidemic is an outbreak of a disease (according to Wikipedia's definition, which you have referred to). A disease is a particul
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by gindely 7y ago
Since epidemics are indeed specifically bound to a particular population, especially a geographical population, there can be no doubt the AIDS is an epidemic if it only epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The question then is whether it is also
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by gindely 7y ago
That DW article is pretty poor, dating sars 1 to around 2009/2010 - confusing it with swine flu perhaps? A later comment, presumably from another source since the article is tagged AFP/AP/Reuters, gives a correct and more pre
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by gindely 7y ago
Malaria is not a tropical disease, although it's been eradicated in most tropical areas and not yet eradicated in most non-tropical areas. The reason malaria is not a pandemic isn't the fact that it's been eradicated in some
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by gindely 7y ago
I think the problem is that the west has people in power with living memory of a pandemic - Swine Flu - which was widely criticised as a complete overreaction, to the point that there's no such category as an official pandemic any more
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by gindely 7y ago
This isn't like the first sars. The first sars was pretty contagious but not like sars 2. The first sars was pretty deadly but not like sars 2. The article seems reasonable, but people who are much more concerned about sars 2 than we w
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by gindely 7y ago
Try looking at traffic rules. No-one likes rules against speeding. But in places where there are hidden road safety cameras and significant fines that quickly arrive in the post, people speed much less. Rules can be enforced even in western
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by gindely 7y ago
I just noticed I got an email at 1949 UTC. I guess they're still sending them out. Presumably some people will receive their emails after the revocation.
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by gindely 7y ago
No, you can get your information from Hacker News. (Do check your domain even if you didn't get an email, since they have not delivered emails to everyone who is affected.)

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