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by kasperni 7y ago
> the real fatality rate could in fact be closer to 0.06% If you take a look at Diamond Princess. ~ 4000 on board * 712 cases * 10 deaths Gives a case fatality rate of 1.4%. The average age onboard was ~60 years (don't know if it i
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Rick Astley: How We Made Never Gonna Give You Up(theguardian.com)
18 points by kasperni 7y ago|1 comments
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by kasperni 7y ago
Because every country in the EU needs their own ventilators either now or within the next week or two.
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by kasperni 7y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22624955
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by kasperni 7y ago
There is a summary of the imperial paper on Twitter https://twitter.com/jeremycyoung/status/1239976309456916482 Not a very pleasant reading if people are hoping on a quick fix.
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99% of Those Who Died from Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says(bloomberg.com)
88 points by kasperni 7y ago|32 comments
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by kasperni 7y ago
I think it is safe to call it COVID-19 instead of "New coronavirus" by now.
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by kasperni 7y ago
Agreed. Honestly, who is going to take a trip around the world now? Even if all the borders were open. No one is going to risk getting stuck in some foreign country.
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by kasperni 7y ago
A similar article was discussed previously here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22463713
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by kasperni 7y ago
Emergency daycare facilities will be available for those that have no other options.
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by kasperni 7y ago
Bent what curve? "South Korea on Wednesday reported 242 additional coronavirus cases, almost double the number of new cases reported on Tuesday, as the emergence of a new outbreak in Seoul worries officials." from [1] [1] https:&
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by kasperni 7y ago
I'm sorry but what you are saying makes no sense. You can't compare a (localized?) natural disaster to a potential worldwide pandemic. We most likely haven't even seen the beginning of it given the exponential rise of cases i
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by kasperni 7y ago
This graph showing how many days other countries are behind Italy's infection rate is quite alarming [1]. Especially the close alignment of most of the countries. [1] https://ibb.co/gZDfgPy Edit: Sorry, I didn't
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by kasperni 7y ago
If healthcare is any indicator I wouldn't be so sure. The US is consistently ranked at the bottom of most-efficient healthcare systems. You guys pay so much more per capita then any other nation on the planet [1]. So your taxes might b
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by kasperni 7y ago
Actually, the 5 Nordic countries are identical to the top 5 countries for social mobility in the World Economic Forum's Global Social Mobility Index [1]. [1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/these-a
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by kasperni 7y ago
And did you know there are actually more billionaires-per-capita in Sweden than in the USA [1]? Norway as well. So it's actually possible to have both an amazing welfare system and loads of billionaires at the same time. [1] https:&#x
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by kasperni 7y ago
> Letting government run something _may_ result in a more egalitarian distribution of fairly shitty service (see USPS, VA Health Care, etc.) but it absolutely will not result in a more efficient system. The US pays at least 2x more per c
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Drivers of higher cost cars less likely to yield to pedestrians at crosswalks(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by kasperni 7y ago|0 comments
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by kasperni 7y ago
Yes, I didn't start until late December so I did a little loading with a bigger dose [1]. Next time I'm just going to start around October instead of running into a deficiency. [1] http://gmmmg.nhs.uk/docs/nts
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by kasperni 7y ago
4,000 IU 4-5 days a week. I did a loading phase with a bit more.
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by kasperni 7y ago
This is a personal experience. But I've been struggling with constant throat infections, tiredness and coughing every winter for years (I live in a Nordic country). Had my 25-Hydroxy-Vitamin D(D3+D2) checked in both autumn and winter 2
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by kasperni 7y ago
-------------- She did a 30-minute job interview over Google Hangouts with the London-based head of business development, Andrius Biceika, and was immediately told she had passed to the next round, which would involve a small test. “The sur
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by kasperni 7y ago
They really have a liking for Uranus... Another of their headlines were "Uranus Has Experienced A Colossal Pounding" [1]. Metro also used the headline a couple of years ago [2] [1] http://www.physics-astronomy.com/
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by kasperni 7y ago
'Enkel' translates to 'simple' in Danish (and some other Nordic languages as well).
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by kasperni 7y ago
We have a national payment card system in Denmark (Dankort). Depending on the number of transactions a business has. A business can pay down to $0.03 per transaction. Obviously, Visa and Mastercard are trying to see if they can ruin the sys
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by kasperni 7y ago
This might be a stupid question, but do you have to pay a fee for transferring money from one bank to another bank when both banks are located in the US?
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by kasperni 7y ago
> Most of the new development in Java is syntactic sugar, not JVM-level. That's not true. The javac team is what 5% of all people working on OpenJDK.
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by kasperni 7y ago
Structs in other similar languages, for example, C#
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by kasperni 7y ago
1. Records are reference types (heap allocated), structs are not. C# have structs and will also be getting records with 9.0 2. Yes, you can make records of other records. 3. Not yet, but Project Valhalla will be bringing inline types to Jav
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by kasperni 7y ago
The keywords you refer to in your link are all "classic" keywords. The last one that was added was "assert" with Java 1.4, which broke a lot of code. And made people realize that adding new "classic" keywords w

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