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by yotamoron 7y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Until we get the hard data regarding what is happening in London, we can't say anything definite. Look at Italy - it was a horrible pandemic - until we got the data, which made it much more reasonable.
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by yotamoron 7y ago
When you are 80 years old - those are serious medical conditions.
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by yotamoron 7y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...
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by yotamoron 7y ago
This is an excellent point. I'm from Israel, and yesterday it was announced that the first corona victim has died. The poor guy was 88 years old, suffered from multiple background illnesses - and suffered a heart attack a few days bef
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by yotamoron 7y ago
And how many deaths would a greater-then-the-great-despresison depression will cause?
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by yotamoron 7y ago
A prolonged lockdown will cause - as a certainty - such a huge economical crisis, that all those people at risk we are trying to save today - will die tomorrow from non-existant care (along with many many others who will die and suffer). Th
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by yotamoron 7y ago
Hospitals are saturated, because people are panicking. For almost all people, just staying at home for a few days is enough.
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by yotamoron 7y ago
The percentage is from confirmed cases. For many many people, corona infection has none or very mild symptoms, and they aren't even tested. Since we don't know the actual number of sick people (which can only be estimated, with so
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by yotamoron 7y ago
Corona is killing a negligible % of the population, mostly very old and very sick people (checkout the official data from the Italian health ministary - average age of dead patiences is 79.5 years, all of them with severe background illness
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Trying to resolve a Git pull full of conflicts(m.facebook.com)
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by yotamoron 7y ago
So an IT admin of an internet security company is caught trading on insider info, and texting with his co-conspirators about it? He should go to jail on the grounds of being totally stupid and incompetent. And so are the people who hired hi
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by yotamoron 7y ago
Ivan Illichlready said it 50 years ago. Read 'Deschooling Society', its all there. We are schooled to confuse process with essence, and the bad results are apparent.
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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by yotamoron 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What music you play when tackling a difficult programming problem?
3 points by yotamoron 7y ago|6 comments
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by yotamoron 7y ago
Wow, who would guessed - stress test broke the product in an unexpected way. Isn't this why we have stress tests in the first place?
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by yotamoron 8y ago
If Zig's goal is 'replacing C', then its DOA. How can this be a valid goal for a programming language?
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The Critical Difference Between Complex and Complicated(sloanreview.mit.edu)
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by yotamoron 8y ago
Amazing scientific work.
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by yotamoron 8y ago
"Deschooling society" by Ivan Illich.
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by yotamoron 8y ago
I deleted my fb account 4 years ago. My only regret? Not doing it sooner.
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Ask HN: Scrum vs. Kanban vs. Agile vs. Waterfall – what is working for you?
2 points by yotamoron 8y ago|2 comments
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by yotamoron 8y ago
This is true by definition - no 2 things are the exact same (otherwise its the same thing), but the same priciples might apply here as well.
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by yotamoron 8y ago
I completely deleted my FB account well over 3 years ago, and never looked back. After the initial panic subsided, life become much better.
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by yotamoron 8y ago
Faacebook is hugely overvalued. Its actual value for its users is far less then perceived. You can't fool all the people all the time, and the day will come that people will realize it. I'm all for social networks (and making good
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by yotamoron 9y ago
"It takes 20 years to make an overnight success" - Eddie Cantor.
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Ask HN: What is your preferred 'between jobs' activity?
1 points by yotamoron 9y ago|0 comments
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Conjunction fallacy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by yotamoron 9y ago
C for s/w eng is like classic ballet for dancing.
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by yotamoron 9y ago
I deleted my fb account more then 2 years ago. Quality of life went up 10x. I highly recommend it, fb's value is hugely overrated.
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by yotamoron 9y ago
I saw those videos (primitive technology) many times in the past - good stuff indeed!

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