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by rpiguy 7y ago
Logic says just to live with it like we live with the flu and go on with life. The mortality rate is comparable. CDC is projecting 60K deaths if we open up most of the economy by the end of May. In the 2018-2019 flu season flu killed 80,000
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by rpiguy 7y ago
The mortality rate is low, I suspect we will just live with it like we do with the flu until a vaccine is found.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Incredible propaganda from someone who makes their living shilling for China.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Definitely could have been worded with less derision. Apologies.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
I am the child of a “mixed marriage” from a poor family that faced a lot of real adversity. The worst thing anyone could have done for me was to encourage the idea that I was a victim of circumstances. You don’t develop coping mechanisms wi
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by rpiguy 7y ago
If you can’t read a hopeful, personal story without screaming “Survivorship Bias” and plunging headfirst into self-victimhood, good luck with the rest of your life!
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by rpiguy 7y ago
The 787 has to be rebooted every 51 days or it shows faulty data to pilots: https://www-theregister-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.the...
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by rpiguy 7y ago
This article downplays the magnitude. Loss of vertical stabilizer control is very, very bad...
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Two new potentially fatal bugs found in 737 Max software(engadget.com)
36 points by rpiguy 7y ago|11 comments
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by rpiguy 7y ago
COVID-19 is not a normal respiratory infection. It seems to prevent your RBCs from holding onto O2 and CO2 mimicking high altitude sickness. The disease acts like HAPE (high altitude pulmonary edema). The damage and inflammation is coming f
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Have you noticed that the same statisticians who claim that 80% of people don’t know they have it fail to multiply the denominator when reporting statistics like mortality rate? For example here in NJ we have about 40000 confirmed and teste
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by rpiguy 7y ago
The hospitalization rate is dependent on the denominator, how many people you test. Even NYC is doing just fine. Number of beds needed was overestimated, Cuomo himself said they have enough respirators, and the hospital ship has a handful o
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Being rational? Yes. This is not smallpox. This isn’t even MERS from a mortality perspective. It’s real, rapid-spreading, and terrifying in how it kills those few who succumb, but people need balanced perspective. All they are getting is im
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by rpiguy 7y ago
No one will respond to this because it is promising news. Sad.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Very true. It does make sense to look at those in the most dire need first. That did not occur to me.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
COVID-19 attacks hemoglobin and that is how it damages the lungs. With your hemoglobin unable to exchange oxygen with blood in the lungs, it causes terrible damage. https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_an
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Lower access to health care. Higher prevalence of underlying conditions, particularly ones correlated with Covid-19 mortality like type-2 diabetes. potentially lower ability to social distance (more reliance on public transport, only middle
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by rpiguy 7y ago
True. The US government spent 51 billion dollars so the new GM could continue to operate without disruption and continue to pay employees and retirees and took a 61% stake that they eventually sold for 39 billion. So the government lost 12
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Exactly.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Beautiful example of design driven by physics. I love it! However, like all VLIW processors, no one knows how this will work on real workloads until they are in the wild. I’m principle, it’s great just to see something different.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
His observation is wrong. In all societies in which there is a power vacuum gangs take over. Witness Africa, South America, Burma, and the middle Eastern countries in which we have removed the “dictators.” Asia after WW2 was different becau
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by rpiguy 7y ago
In this case it is not their fault. The government ordered people to stay home and shut the economy down. The government is merely compensating business for its own actions, so people may have jobs to go back to when the restrictions are li
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Normally I would agree. Shift the employment to people currently making zero. Unemployment is very generous right now the current delivery workers will be just fine. However, the optics of a mass layoff and replacement would be very damagin
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Agree. The fact that I’ve seen this several times posted in HN is very discouraging.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
And spelling
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by rpiguy 7y ago
All are treated regardless.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
China has some blame in their initial efforts to cover up the epidemic, but they are hardly a villain. I cannot fault China at all for diverting medication and supplies they would normally export for their own use - all countries act in the
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Boeing 787 autopilot issue discovered in series of recent incidents on approach(simpleflying.com)
3 points by rpiguy 7y ago|0 comments
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by rpiguy 7y ago
YES. This is one of the most monumentally stupid things I've seen in response to COVID19, stupider than hoarding toilet paper and drinking colloidal silver. I suspect the University will be taken to court and fined quite a bit for this
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by rpiguy 7y ago
My great aunt loves to play Crisis, what GPU does this have?

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