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by mantap 7y ago
Many kids are cared for by older (60+) relatives. Losing their primary caregiver is going to negatively affect them way more than having to do school through the internet. Letting it burn through the population is exactly what we need to av
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by mantap 7y ago
The majority of cases do not have pneumonia. They have a dry cough and fever. In a minority of cases this develops into pneumonia. The part about the upper respiratory tract is wrong though, cold-like symptoms are not a normal feature of CO
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by mantap 7y ago
It's a low bar for many of the common and less deadly illnesses that we are used to. But relative to the mortality rate, it's more notable. People with SARS tended to get too sick to even go to the airport.
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by mantap 7y ago
I don't share your optimism. The virus has been able to successfully evade e.g. testing people's temperatures in airports. It doesn't really matter if there are asymtomatic carriers or not, it doesn't matter whether peop
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by mantap 7y ago
At least in the UK there is talk of closing the schools, and some schools affected have already closed.
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by mantap 7y ago
Location: London UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full stack TypeScript/JS, nodejs, Python, C++, Rust, Swift Resume/CV: On request Email: ed448@protonmail.com --- I'm a full stack developer with over a dec
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by mantap 7y ago
It's up to the manufacturers and wholesalers how many they sell to the medical industry vs others. The general public are not the Borg, they don't act with uniformity of purpose. If you tell the public "Don't buy these r
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by mantap 7y ago
The last thing you want is to architect your backend for a single hetzner server and then find out that it's not enough and have to rewrite everything. If your entire goal as a VC funded startup is to "get big or die" then op
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by mantap 7y ago
This would be clearer if the -1 was in parentheses (I can't do it because I'm on mobile). I think you are missing a plus sign on line two.
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by mantap 7y ago
Masks don't but respirators do. You can safely read "mask" as "respirator" in this thread.
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by mantap 7y ago
The specific type of coronavirus is clear from context. Language would be very tiresome if we had to give a full taxonomy for every term we use. For instances I say "I saw a fox outside my house yesterday". I don't need to sp
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by mantap 7y ago
The food is cheap but not necessarily cheaper after adjusting for income because, as you said, wages are low.
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by mantap 7y ago
The business model is strong and is hugely successful in Asia. But the fees will decrease with competitive pressure.
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by mantap 7y ago
I think they were being cynical, that the UK is the US's lapdog and so UK courts do whatever the US says. However this cynicism is misplaced. UK courts don't give a fuck about what even the UK government policy is (see today'
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by mantap 7y ago
Judges do sometimes have agendas. But that is exactly why higher courts exist. This particular case is shaping up to be appealed all the way to UK Supreme Court, these initial hearings are just practice sessions for both sides to hone their
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by mantap 7y ago
The problem is not discovering the vaccine, it is ensuring it is safe. See the recent Dengue vaccine incident of what can go wrong when new vaccines are rolled out without proper caution: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by mantap 7y ago
Are you volunteering?
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by mantap 7y ago
On the other hand, if you can't go to work, you can't earn money. If you cant earn money you probably will be spending the money you have on living essentials rather than Disney.
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by mantap 7y ago
Okay fair but they are two sides of the same coin. Blocking is active snooping. If an ISP knows what site you are visiting they can block the connection. In both cases the way to prevent it is to extinguish privacy leaks.
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by mantap 7y ago
Not sure how I feel about this. A lot of people don't know about the wayback machine. This may incentivise people to send deletion requests to internet archive.
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by mantap 7y ago
Any bank account can be locked at any time because an algorithm disagrees with you, traditional or online. That's just the reality of banking, especially in the post-HSBC scandal era. I wouldn't keep my savings in Revolut for sure
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by mantap 7y ago
No the justification is to make it harder for non-authoritarian countries to block websites. If China or North Korea want to block the IP range of AWS+Azure+Google that's up to their respective autocrats. Most democratic or even hybrid
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by mantap 7y ago
At least in the UK most people use contactless. I only use revolut with ATMs when I am travelling. And in this case 2% after 200 euros seems a normal cost of travelling, certainly less than my bank card.
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by mantap 7y ago
You could say the same about Transferwise. Revolut is setting themselves up as a bank for millenials/gen Z. It is light years ahead of traditional banks in terms of user experience. Banks are a proven way of making money.
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by mantap 7y ago
That doesn't work anymore. ISPs are not going to block AWS IP ranges or Azure IP ranges, etc. The cloud killed IP blocking. The pirate bay is supposed to be blocked in UK by court order , but because they use cloudflare it's stil
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by mantap 7y ago
Yes, a small number of cases could go unnoticed. But you were talking about large clusters. Say 100 people are infected and 15 turn up at hospital with difficulty breathing. For at least one of them, a doctor is going to take a history and
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by mantap 7y ago
The thing is, although COVID-19 has a long incubation period in some cases, in many cases it has a short one. And about 15-20% of people will end up in hospital. So it can only spread under the radar for a limited period of time before it b
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by mantap 7y ago
It's possible it may have been running on bare metal without an OS. Maybe they didn't want to verify a memory allocator and just treated the whole program as one big arena. I presume by "calculating" they meant "run
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by mantap 7y ago
The field of ML is moving too fast to be taught in schools. It's better to teach its foundations (linear algebra, etc) which are well developed and static.
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by mantap 7y ago
The purpose of universal credit was not to solve any particular problem - it was to give conservative politicians something to say when their voters demanded something must be done [about people on benefits]. The world makes a lot more se

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