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by mantap 7y ago
It's blindingly obvious. We've known that people with only subclinical symptoms (such as cough) spread this since very early on. People were told to cough into their elbow. We also know that almost nobody coughs into their elbo
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by mantap 7y ago
It is allowed. It's a fundamental principle of international law that states are not subject to the laws of other states, except by treaty. There's no applicable law that would prevent China from doing this. Besides even in the co
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by mantap 7y ago
SARS was 20 years ago. France has had 20 years to prepare for this but left it to the last minute. Of course the masks are going to the highest bidder, that's entirely predictable.
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by mantap 7y ago
That doesn't make any sense.
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by mantap 7y ago
I personally wouldn't. Fabric sheds, having tiny microparticles of copper lodged in your lungs is probably not advisable.
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by mantap 7y ago
If you have cancer and you die from pneumonia then you died from COVID-19 and with cancer. Not the other way around.
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by mantap 7y ago
Sure you could have COVID-19 and then get hit by a car, but in almost all cases pneumonia from COVID-19 is the acute cause of death even if they have some other chronic health problems.
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by mantap 7y ago
macOS indeed requires additional effort. But regardless of that customers tend to get annoyed and stop giving you money if you don't ever fix their bug reports.
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by mantap 7y ago
> If it's for a piece of software I use on an ongoing basis the cost often rapidly eclipses what I'd have paid for standalone software, and it never stops rising High quality software has always required a recurring payment m
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by mantap 7y ago
People such as Bill Gates have been talking about the risk of a global pandemic for years. This is a relatively light natural pandemic, a bioweapon would be much worse. Imagine how many FFP3 respirators you can buy for the cost of one aircr
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by mantap 7y ago
What are you actually suggesting will happen? That there would be a major famine in Brazil ? That Brazilians would freeze to death in the harsh Brazilian winter? How are these people going to die exactly?
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by mantap 7y ago
Is it reasonable? In Italy and Spain they have so many bodies that they are running out of space to put them. These people are not dying of economic effects.
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by mantap 7y ago
Mask wearing is mandatory in several countries. This is not a situation where people are making shit up, this is a situation where you have several authorities saying different things. In the absence of solid evidence, applying common sen
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by mantap 7y ago
I was going to point out that some deaths may be more likely to be included in the list because they died of COVID-19, but fuck, that does not seem to be the case. Genuinely terrifying.
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by mantap 7y ago
And if the slot gets taken by a 20 year old what has been achieved? It's really down to governments to set up food delivery to affected groups. Altruism can't solve this problem.
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by mantap 7y ago
There's three classes of countries. Conscientious testers like South Korea and Germany. These countries have low death/confirmed_case rate and cases are only a small factor from reality. Disinterested testers such as UK which only
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by mantap 7y ago
I've noticed that often people who think fruit picking and other "undesirable" jobs should be done by locsl people, never express any interest in doing the aforementioned jobs themselves.
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by mantap 7y ago
When the dust settles in this crisis, the scientific and medical communities need to have a discussion on how they communicate with the public. Countless times I see statements to the media along the lines of "There's no evidence
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by mantap 7y ago
It's a good reason from Apple's perspective, they have all this "legacy" software not distributed through the App Store. A new processor means everything needs to be recompiled, meaning there's zero legacy software.
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by mantap 7y ago
No, not least because the patient is usually paralyzed so that they aren't fighting the ventilator.
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by mantap 7y ago
It's unlikely that you would catch coronavirus outdoors. The media has worked itself into quite a hysteria by assuming that the radius you would need to stay away from other people when outdoors is the same as the radius you would need
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by mantap 7y ago
Walking your dog comes under exercise. You're allowed to go out for a walk as long as you stay 2m away from people who you don't live with.
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by mantap 7y ago
Surely they know that USG would never let Intel go out of business? It's too important from defence perspective. And Samsung isn't going anywhere either.
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by mantap 7y ago
This is probably because most recipes specify more yeast than is truly required. Yeast is generally quite forgiving, you can use a lot more than required before experiencing side effects. It becomes less forgiving the longer you ferment you
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by mantap 7y ago
This is only true over the reals, not over integers. People are integers.
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by mantap 7y ago
The amount of yeast will depend on the exact brand of yeast (and for perishable yeasts, its age). So recipe are more of a guideline and not a substitute for trial and error and knowing your yeast. Yeast isn't like sugar, it's a li
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by mantap 7y ago
All yeast is different so you'll have to do some trial and error regardless. In general, too much yeast is better than not enough yeast. The most important thing is that you have a consistent way of measuring yeast amounts, whether b
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by mantap 7y ago
Yes any attempt to force people to stay indoors will lead to a huge amount of reactance and will just backfire a few weeks down the line with mass disobedience. That said, they should close the restaurants, bars, etc.
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by mantap 7y ago
This disease is overwhelming hospitals. If hospitals are overwhelmed then patients with any disease or trauma have higher mortality and morbidity. The mortality rate of COVID19 is not the problem, the problem is the hospitalisation rate.
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by mantap 7y ago
Such numbers are purely notional. Governments are not judged based on profit or loss, particularly the US government because of the special status of the dollar (in times of crisis people want USD or USD bonds). Governments are judged based

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