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by stewbrew 7y ago
"It's compiled to bytecode and executed on internal VM" What does it take a byte code interpreter to be a VM?
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by stewbrew 7y ago
You must not forget that is the news aggregator for ycombinator. Thus it's rather biased at times. That said, I disagree with other commenters who describe HN as people discussing about things they know nothing about. Some people may l
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by stewbrew 7y ago
I'd be wary if a backup programm doesn't strongly distinguish between the logic (the command-line client) and the gui. I cannot tell if this one does, but since it tries to "mimic [Time Machine] as closely as possible",
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Where did you get this info? According to https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/salzburger-mediziner-tes... the drugs were Tocilizumab and Remdesivir.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
This guy is a well respected expert in oncology and head of the hospital.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
It seems to have been tested in a Chinese hospital before. So there is some experience with these two drugs.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Ok, I missed that.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
A DAG isn't a tree. It's acyclical wrt the direction of the edges. Since this basically is an outliner, the name (or title of the submission) is misleading.
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Critical Care Utilization for the Covid-19 Outbreak in Lombardy, Italy(jamanetwork.com)
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Maybe you shouldn't transfer every confirmed case into hospital since most cases will do just well ... unless they don't. (Not questioning the danger of this virus.)
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by stewbrew 7y ago
It's not just the number of cases that differ due to different testing regimes. Another difference is that Italy did some post-mortem testing to identify cases that were wrongly reported as flu etc. but were covid19. I assume they were
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Well, I currently find cough twitter quite informative. But I'd rather listen to epidemiologists and virologists. I'd also prefer a good weekly magazine, radio station or podcast because there people have more time/space to
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by stewbrew 7y ago
We just have to be careful with the information we use and the conclusions we draw from them. From all we know, the mortality correlates with age. Only few deads younger than 50 were reported and we don't know what other diseases they
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Citation needed. "The authorities ..." Which one? If it's an official statement there should be better sources available. "the director of one hospital ..." Which one?
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Are you certain this wasn't some form of NIH syndrome? I don't think the German test was any more inaccurate BTW.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Thanks. I was sleep writing.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Erm, is this actually news? I remember a small book from my childhood where the early earth was described as covered with water. My memories are vague though because I was more interested in the dinosaurs and sable tigers.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Who was healthy 1918? Aristocrats and generals maybe. There was still a World War going on when it started.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
It's down the list/text. But please keep in mind: this happened 1918.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
The same is true for a normal flu. It seems the incubation time is rather long with this virus which is why you might want to wait before visiting them again.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
People died from the Spanish flu because they were malnourished and because the general conditions were bad. The Spanish flu would be nothing like that if it happened today ... In Europe at least. Some interesting read: https://w
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by stewbrew 7y ago
How would you know the number of infected people? You know the number of infected people with symptoms that were severe enough to get tested. For the same reason: How would you know the number of people who have recovered? You know the numb
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by stewbrew 7y ago
The con arguments for dart and go are quite similar. I cannot really derive the decision about the support status based on these arguments alone. To me this sounds more like personal reasons.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Where I live they have this TV show where startups have 2 minutes to pitch their idea to some investors. I remember people who built a fully automatic pizza machine. They asked for a few thousand euros and failed. I wonder how much money th
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by stewbrew 7y ago
You have to distinguish between screening detected cancer and symptomatic cancer. 5yr srvl rates say little in the former case but they are relevant for the latter. You'd really prefer having skin cancer today than ten years ago. Your
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by stewbrew 7y ago
The problem also is that diagnosis doesn't stop progressing. Today's opponents to cancer screening often argue with data from the 1990s. On the other hand proponents often refer to data of underpowered, badly designed trials. Also
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by stewbrew 7y ago
You don't get good cancer diagnosis without funding. You don't get neoadjuvant therapies without funding.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Well, this is one side of the discussion. While I agree to some extent, the author should also answer the question whether he honestly thinks he would have been better off 90 years ago if some cancer got detected with him in, say, 2 weeks f
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by stewbrew 7y ago
They're unrelated but their stance towards simplicity seems similar to me. Listening to golang core developers makes me remember (Smart)Eiffel developers.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
IMHO Eiffel's concept of simplicity is rather similar to what golang is aiming at today. It didn't serve Eiffel well.

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