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by smdz 6y ago
Well that is so true, sometimes the glitches are very consistent across a few days and they take time to acknowledge it or will not acknowledge it. Over a few years I have come to understand what is reliable and what is to be double checked
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by smdz 6y ago
For now, they are doing this in good intention. But they will not stop at that. Privacy is like a joke in India. This is just the beginning and just an app. Further they do plan to track citizen movements directly from the mobile towers, th
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by smdz 6y ago
Every year 8 million people die because of tobacco. In the US alone, the number of deaths (due to tobacco) per year is close to half a million. Similarly between 4-7 million people die due to air pollution. Ironically, that does not alarm a
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by smdz 6y ago
I believe they may have used something on the lines of genetic-programming to create this equation - not sure about the high precision constants. The search space is compute intensive. Many years back, I used that technique to generate a pr
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by smdz 6y ago
> In addition to that, people who are actually "good" at trading don't publish papers, they silently make money. Well, that is mostly true. But never discount anything. There are people like me who used to love the data an
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by smdz 6y ago
And a lot of creativity also gets lost (stifled) mostly after a week to a month of the team working in close quarters. Not that it does not occur in remote teams, but remote makes non-verbal communication much harder for the loud-mouths or
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by smdz 6y ago
In some countries like India, it is mandatory to wear masks. And you could be beaten up by the police, punished, penalized, arrested and jailed for not doing so. That goes completely against the WHO guidelines. Can they ban the country&#x27
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by smdz 6y ago
You are right, we have at least 20-30% productivity in lockdowns. But most large economies are in lockdown and China is just 15-16% of world economy. It is export oriented and only essentials have demand and functional supply chains in thes
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by smdz 6y ago
Even if we consider a global lockdown impact of 3-4 months, the fall in output should be roughly between 25-30%. The best case could be 13.4% i.e 3.3-16.7(for 2 months) Not an economist, but I don't understand how they calculate just 3
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by smdz 7y ago
"Everyone" says and knows it is going to be bad economically. But thats typical behavior when problems are coming to an end. Is it so? I don't see how we are at the end of those unrealized problems. Or may be we are looking a
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by smdz 7y ago
Chloroquine's severe side effects may look similar to acute pneumonia and ARDS. Even if it helps destroy the virus, it might be complementing to the severity You can look up the severe symptoms here: https://medlineplus.gov&
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Ask HN: What is the environmental impact of a lockdowns globally?
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by smdz 7y ago
I was in a similar situation before 2008. The reason was not cut in hours. It was a new job and there was not enough work and I was paid in full. Over an entire week I had only 6-10 hours of work, and in the prior job I was doing 12-14 hour
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by smdz 7y ago
Stop calling it the epicenter now. Covid-19 is here to stay and it will run its course. And the entire planet is already an epicenter The US seems to be preparing itself quite well to handle the scale of severe cases. And I hope they walk t
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by smdz 7y ago
Generally, the good ones are paid. For hospitalization one can take insurance where premium is paid annually. There are government hospitals and they are average. They are better avoided by people who can afford private clinics. But for epi
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by smdz 7y ago
Good question. Who will deliver? And drones or drone delivery is mostly banned in India
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by smdz 7y ago
No. 1. States have some level of independence in India, and that is quite messy to handle. It would be a bigger mess if it were nation-states. Think EU. 2. People won't accept - it may have been a possibility 20 years back. They have s
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by smdz 7y ago
There is definite community spread in India. They are not saying the truth either to stop panic or because they have not tested or because they are misinformed (less likely) I am not sure why he said "no signs", because now the da
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by smdz 7y ago
Probably not that simple. If we had a planned and publicly notified and unified worldwide lockdown and curfew for 20 or 30 days, including the stock markets - the recovery would have been sooner. People and businesses can take that hit. But
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by smdz 7y ago
"Learning from the H1N1 pandemic" "A major contributing factor to some of the criticisms of the management of the H1N1 pandemic was that its mortality impact was considerably less than had been predicted. " "The doc
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by smdz 7y ago
I heard that from one of the senior professors 18 years back, and that stuck in my mind. I was doing that even before that but then had the formal phrase "Learn to learn". What has helped? - It was definitely not books about the t
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[2011] Revisiting influenza deaths estimates–Learning from the H1N1 pandemic(academic.oup.com)
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by smdz 7y ago
From what you mentioned, your childhood tachycardia looks more like a symptom/result of some allergic reaction. > When I exercise it almost immediately goes to the very high 100s, and sometimes to 200 after strenuous exercise At age
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by smdz 7y ago
Learn to learn. And then practice learning. Our brains have very high capacity to learn, adapt and forget quite a lot - just believe that you can, and you will. All you need is focused effort. You only need to prove that belief once to your
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by smdz 7y ago
> tachycardia when I was a child You might have been misdiagnosed based on the information available at that time. Children have different statistics on various body parameters at various age groups. You could compare your reports with r
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by smdz 7y ago
> Infections elevate your resting heart rate This is not always true and I would recommend not to rely on it. I recently had a sore throat, nothing more than redness, and felt sleepy all day for 6 days in a row. My Rhr had tanked to 50 c
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by smdz 7y ago
If it your first time WFH, the anxiety due to that will pass with time. News out there exists to induce some heightened emotional response. Either a WOW factor or a FEAR factor. Apparently, news to induce the FEAR factor is usually availabl
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by smdz 7y ago
The Fed cannot fix the virus problem. It is not in their control. They are only delaying and mitigating the risks that occur as a result of the virus related slowdown. That is in their control (at least for a while) This slowdown because of
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by smdz 7y ago
Agreed. Need for ventilator is quite bad enough state for the human body. And it gets complicated further after intubation. Most patients have to be sedated to reduce the distress and anxiety caused by the endotracheal tube. Extubation is a
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by smdz 7y ago
When hikers or travelers are beginners, have you seen how much more (or not enough) they pack? With experience or guidance they tend to pack lighter. In the current case, some are concerned, some are waiting to survive a doomsday, some watc

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