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by mantap 7y ago
Sells for profit to who? The "american taxpayer" isn't a person, the taxpayer is the economy. The taxpayer is every business and most individuals. Yes buybacks were dumb. It's done now. Just change the regs and make su
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by mantap 7y ago
People forget that the original hackintoshes had to work around the hardware security module. Where there's a will there's a way.
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by mantap 7y ago
No human being is unworthy of protection regardless of their job; for instance, supermarket workers also require protection. However this is a limited resource so of course those with the highest risk should get them first.
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by mantap 7y ago
Masks decrease R0. You don't need everybody to wear them. You just need enough people to wear them for R0 to fall below 1, combined with all the other measures. It's academic because there aren't enough masks but it's
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by mantap 7y ago
This is not a quality of healthcare issue. The interventions are relatively straightforward: oxygen, possibly antibiotics for secondary infection, and for a small percentage of patients, ventilation. This is a quantity of healthcare issue
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by mantap 7y ago
The other choice is to implement strict social distancing for a few months, close the border and then require a 14 day isolation for international arrivals until a vaccine is available. This is what China is doing and it's working. Thi
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by mantap 7y ago
This "herd immunity" strategy is just a sophisticated form of denial. UK announced it on Thursday and abandoned it the following Monday. It doesn't take into account the high hospitalisation rate and the fact that mortality i
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by mantap 7y ago
It's a white lie by the media. If they told the truth to the public then they fear it would deprive hospitals of masks and cause worse outcomes for society.
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by mantap 7y ago
No the risk/reward is fucked up. Buy at the start of a bull market not the midst of a bear market. In the context of the last recession buying in 2010-13 would have been ideal. Trying to find the bottom is simply gambling, investing is
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by mantap 7y ago
The problem with their thinking is that isolation shouldn't mean you can't go outdoors. The virus is very unlikely to spread outdoors except with very close personal contact. What it does mean is that food should be delivered wh
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by mantap 7y ago
And the question was about hospital admissions not ICU admissions anyway.
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by mantap 7y ago
Economically it doesn't make much difference. You can either isolate people now or later. The period of isolation will be roughly the same because you have to wait for the virus to exhaust its pool of hosts (in a household). Definitely
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by mantap 7y ago
What exactly is the risk of needing hospitalisation if you are young? Does anybody know?
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by mantap 7y ago
The important thing is that achy muscles don't spread disease (quite the reverse) but coughing does . So people with a recent bad cough should stay at home.
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by mantap 7y ago
The virus can not pass through skin. Wear a mask, even a cheap fabric one if nothing else is available, to prevent yourself touching your face. Then wash your hands when you get to a bathroom.
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by mantap 7y ago
This is stupid on two levels. The first is that obviously this guy is a crook, profiteering from a crisis. The second is that hand sanitizer isn't even necessary, soap and water is better, and people paying $7 for a bottle of hand sani
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by mantap 7y ago
There's two schools of thought to civil disobedience. The first holds that one must surrender oneself to the authorities to distinguish civil disobedience from pure criminality. But the other holds that one should not surrender or pl
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by mantap 7y ago
Part of the problem is that pretty much everybody in East Asia already owned at least one mask. In Europe pretty much nobody owned a mask prior to COVID-19. And masks have been sold out for weeks. If masks were easily available you'd s
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by mantap 7y ago
It's rational. UK epidemic is not yet out of control. If you look at the region breakdown in UK the cases are very well geographically distributed, the highest concentration as of yesterday is Hertfordshire with only 13 cases, or Londo
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by mantap 7y ago
Because this virus overloads every hospital where there is an epidemic.
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by mantap 7y ago
While they're at it they can fold UK's numbers into France and New Zealand's cases into Australia. Cyprus's numbers can be divided equally and assigned to Turkey and Greece.
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by mantap 7y ago
50MB of textures is a lot compared to shader source code size, which will be in the kilobytes for such a small project. The same with shadertoy, the storage or transmission of a shadertoy shader is never going to be significant compared t
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by mantap 7y ago
GPUs are machines for crunching data, be it graphics or NNs. I can't think of many use case where that isn't true. Also if you anticipate the GPU being used as an accelerator, that is all the more reason to use a text based format
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by mantap 7y ago
The lockdown will happen when Conservative MPs (especially ministers) start getting hospitalised. Also I'm worried about the Queen, I don't know what the COVID-19 death rate for 93 year olds is but it's surely supremely high.
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by mantap 7y ago
The transmission/storage size of shaders isn't important. Textures and 3D models dominate in any non trivial project. Kind of like dieting by trimming your toenails.
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by mantap 7y ago
Politicians have no understanding of exponential growth. They look at low numbers and think "we have a lot of time" then are surprised later when they in fact don't.
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by mantap 7y ago
It’s probably a good thing honestly. Better that people panic buy now, when the disease is still rare, than later when it isn’t. There’s only so many toilet rolls that a person needs.
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by mantap 7y ago
This is only temporary. When the coronavirus starts knocking on your door, everybody is a believer.
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by mantap 7y ago
The NHS negotiates prices directly with drug companies. Usually this situation happens if a drug company refuses to offer a reasonable price. Yes this sucks for anybody who depends on such a drug, but there is no alternative.
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by mantap 7y ago
It is expected to be more stable than influenza. So regional eradication is conceivable in the long term and it's likely to eventually become one of those diseases that is limited to poorer/harder to reach parts of the world. But

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