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by lutorm 7y ago
Whether we catch it is not the issue, the vast majority of us will. It's whether when you do and have complications, you can go to the hospital or die waiting for an ambulance that never comes because the system is overwhelmed.
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by lutorm 7y ago
The fatality rate so far only applies as long as the health care system isn't overwhelmed though. Plenty of non-elderly are affected severely enough to need ICU care, and they will start showing up as fatalities once there aren't
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by lutorm 7y ago
Masks definitely helpful to stop spreading it from those who are contagious. If they help prevent contracting it depends a lot on how disciplined you are at using them. If fiddling with a mask, you're more likely to contaminate it and
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by lutorm 7y ago
Hands are absolutely an infection route, by acting as a transport vehicle to your nose and eyes. Gloves don't change that fact though, unless it reminds you to not touch your face. (It does to me: I work with gloves and epoxy resin a l
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by lutorm 7y ago
* If each infected person infects less than 1 other person on average, we'll have stopped the spread.* This isn't exactly correct. It means that, eventually, the spread would die out even if there were an infinite number of potent
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by lutorm 7y ago
It appears 5-10% of people need ventilators, and "need a ventilator" basically means that you will die without one. So the difference between that 5-10% and the actual death rate of <1% should be your answer.
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by lutorm 7y ago
SpaceX is also very vertically integrated. This is a real strength if you are iterating quickly on your designs.
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by lutorm 7y ago
Except those companies have already folded because they couldn't compete during "normal" times.
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by lutorm 7y ago
A commercialized health care system also has absolutely no incentive to keep excess capacity for emergencies. It seems to be very good at finding the optimal efficiency point, which essentially is very close to "no unused resources in
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by lutorm 7y ago
I think that's what the grandparent is referring to: "physical contact" as opposed to "in aerosols". I don't think they meant actual physical contact with infected people.
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by lutorm 7y ago
Yeah they do this to enforce noise regulations, I don't see why they can't just stop people with outrageously blinding headlights and fine them, as well.
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by lutorm 7y ago
The trouble is the existing laws require lights to be certified. Plenty of people do responsible headlight upgrades that do not increase glare, but those are also formally illegal; if they aren't certified, they're not legal even
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by lutorm 7y ago
If they're properly aligned, the only time you get flashed is when cars are cresting a hill.
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by lutorm 7y ago
There are definitely regulations for the range of heights headlights must be placed within. It's a fairly large range though.
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by lutorm 7y ago
There will be lots of cheap planes to buy if you want to start competing though.
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by lutorm 7y ago
The IPCC working group 1 summary talks about the physical effects, that's a pretty good primary source if you want a lot of detail and tons of references to trace down.
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by lutorm 7y ago
That would be fine, but it seems that fairly often, once they need those safety nets and not "those other people", those principles no longer apply.
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by lutorm 7y ago
This is a net good effect in terms of resiliency, in the long term... Well, this is the problem, right. Resiliency only pays off when there's a crisis, otherwise it's a net cost. So if you're outcompeted by the other non-re
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by lutorm 7y ago
Like the other post said, reducing the overall number of people infected is good, but spreading out the curve is absolutely essential to avoid completely overloading the health care system. Given the nature of an unmitigated exponential and
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by lutorm 7y ago
If you lived in countries like Italy, Germany and Russia, you lost everything when those stock markets were closed down in the first half of the 20th century. This may be true, but then we're talking about such large changes that inv
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by lutorm 7y ago
I'm definitely planning to put that stuff in the van (but obviously not uncontained.) Doesn't a good floor liner solve most concerns in that area?
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by lutorm 7y ago
yes!
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by lutorm 7y ago
In my experience, a midsize SUV doesn't really have any more space for child seats than a Prius does, though.
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by lutorm 7y ago
Get one that stows them into the floor. Then you can rearrange your cargo space at a moment's notice.
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by lutorm 7y ago
I'm not sure it matters much on an uninterrupted stretch of road (except you conflict with the bicycles being on the right side of the road...) But when you enter an intersection from the opposite direction the drivers are expecting y
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by lutorm 7y ago
A minivan handily beats almost all SUVs in both space for people and space for cargo, while generally being more efficient. Which are the good reasons for choosing an SUV over a minivan?
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by lutorm 7y ago
I, too, am a relatively handy homeowner and father, and we are finally upgrading our Prius to a ...minivan! The only thing I've come up with that we wouldn't be able to do with the minivan but with a truck would be fitting a refri
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by lutorm 7y ago
I love that article! The image of him holding the huge drill press to drill a little hole in the plank so perfectly describes the situation.
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by lutorm 7y ago
This is specific to the latitude of Berlin, though. I grew up in northern Sweden and in the winter there is no amount of clock adjustment that will make you avoid your morning activities being in the dark. But if you did use DST permanently
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by lutorm 7y ago
Are you saying you see this difference between the week before and the week after the DST transition? Because obviously there will be more activity outside in the evening in general when DST is observed, because that is in the summer. That

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