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by sdkaufman 6y ago
+1 - Browsh is one of the most amazing pieces of software I've come across in the past few years. I've found that using Browsh together with mosh and tmux, you can get a surprisingly functional remote desktop experience. I've
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
> The full lockdown you are advocating for could cause significantly more devastation than it prevents. The financial hit will be very real, but there can and will be mitigations down the line. What do you think are the chances that city
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
I think as the number of cases explode with more testing availability, governments at all levels will be pressured into taking more action if only to show the population something is being done. But yes, we now know it's already too la
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the situation in Italy is 100% accurately "going to replicate in most places". It's only an example to warn us of the kind of human tragedy that could happen if we don't get o
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
If you're young and healthy, I can totally see how a lock down might feel worse than the risk of getting the coronavirus. But it's not just about you. It's about the elderly, the sick, the weak around you. Even if you end up
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
No, triage based on likelihood of survival has not been happening widely yet in France and the Netherlands (thankfully).
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
> this panic feels worse Well, for most people losing their family would feel way worse. There are many ways to mitigate the economic impact down the line. Governments at all levels, companies and organization are already helping blunt t
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
> Young People at the lowest risk from this virus are going to be much worse off than just catching a fucking bad cold. It's not a "fucking bad cold" for young people. - Over 50% of ICU patients in Netherlands from COVID-1
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
Governments at all levels, companies and non-profits can (and I don't doubt will) help mitigate the financial hit in the months and years ahead. The California state government has for example promised to keep paying teachers and schoo
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
Case A: No drastic action, your daughter gets her job in Sydney, you catch the virus in a few weeks and die. Case B: Drastic lock down, your daughter lives on your dime for a few months or a year before she gets a job. You live to see your
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
First of all, let's be clear that flattening the curve WILL save lives, even if the same number of people ultimately get exposed to the virus. Not only will we avoid overrunning hospitals, we also buy ourselves valuable time to ramp up
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
- If we can reduce / avoid overloading hospitals, people who get it after the lockdown will get better treatment and will be less likely to die than if they got it now. - Over time, we will come up with more effective treatments and pe
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
> Not sure how this is relevant to my post. Many older people cannot just stop getting medical care, and by doing so will be exposed to COVID-19. Especially because hospitals and clinics are overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. > The nur
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
Yep, 100% agree. No reason to go rob-a-hand-sanitizer-factory crazy. But as you said, everyone one of us should be worried enough to go prep and do our part to slow the spread (WFH if possible etc).
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
> I don't say these things to whip people up in a panic, I say them because we are about to get hit hard here in the US. The average person in the US rightly did not have much reason to be concerned a few weeks ago, but that's
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
> My grandparents are long long dead er...what are you trying to say? So other people's grandparents can go f* themselves? > I do find it amusing you believe only Trump supporters support liberty Nope, I mentioned Trump supporter
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
Older people cannot just wall themselves off from the rest of society. What if they live with or are cared for by other family members? How will they get health care for existing conditions? Hospitals have been shown to be a major vector fo
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
It's not just about your health or your life. This is what R0 means - even if you end up fine after getting the disease, you're going to transmit it to other people who may end up dying because of you. In other words, it'
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
> This is an inacurrate estimation. Sure, the actual number will likely be different for each country / state / city, but doesn't really matter for the sake of the argument. I was using 1% as a lowball number. Official mor
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
And there aren't severe human consequences from millions of people dying in the next few months? Easy to say when you don't seriously have to face the possibility of your parents and grandparents dying, I guess. Remember that the
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
> Why on Earth is this a good model? Because it worked. Millions of lives have been saved - 1% of 1.3B is 13M people. That's 1/5 of Italy. Are there better models? Maybe. But there are also much worse models, as I suspect we mi
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
This. The economy is going to be hit either way, it's just a choice between A) a lock down but most people staying alive and healthy or B) lots of people dying or sick and an overrun health care system. Maybe we don't know which o
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
> saying retrospectively "you should've known better" is just childish European governments were not the first to have to deal with the epidemic (China), nor among the first few (Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore e
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
This is classic normalcy bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias People will grasp at any excuse to convince themselves "it'll be fine, it won't happen to me". The fact it started in China
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
I'd rather my job ceased to exist than my parents or grandparents. Because that's the choice we're making now as a society.
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
Exactly - I'm tired of hearing people say "oh but the economy". How good do you think millions of dead people are going to be for our economy? Would you rather lose your job or your parents?
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by sdkaufman 7y ago
Forget losing jobs - without a lockdown, millions of people will lose their lives . Including many of our loved ones. We already know this from Italy and Wuhan, where entire families have died one by one in their homes. The only way to sav
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by sdkaufman 8y ago
> I'd rather they offer choice to the Chinese people on their terms than opting to not be in China at all. Very much agreed. And I'd add that by offering that choice they're making Chinese internet users strictly better of
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by sdkaufman 8y ago
This logic seems rather strange to me. If you're unhappy with Google's privacy practices, by all means boycott Google services and cheer for the EU fines. But why would you judge Google's privacy practices any differently dep
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by sdkaufman 8y ago
Exactly - Microsoft (Bing, Office 365, Hotmail, OneDrive etc) has been operating in China forever, and Bing cooperates with state censorship just as you'd expect. But the minute Google does the same thing, everyone loses their minds. I

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