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We can ask everyone in the country to do a cancer screening and hospitals would get overwhelmed too. Just because you can test and count stuff doesnt mean jack if there is non trivial cures.

Thanks to social/mainstream media's business model deeply based on fear and outrage, leaders that we have these days are pandering to their fan clubs on both sides. We have created conditions where that is their only move, because there is always someone else from both parties, just around the corner pandering even harder.

Stuck in the middle are orgs and institutions whether it's the military one day, intelligence another, cdc or fed a third who will just have take the beating.

Because most of the population hasn't heard of the concept of Bounded Rationality and it's implications, and are most definitely not interested in hearing about it when people start dying.

Orgs over time have understood that and put up a show knowing they just need to outlast a couple news cycles.

There is no question of repairing these orgs without changing the underlying social media/news media reaction-counter-reaction, attention capture biz model.

That process is unfolding thanks to trump's election/Brexit/russia etc but it will take years. In the meantime every crisis is going to sound worse than it actually is.
While I agree with you, I remember my Airbnb stays for all the wrong reasons.

The pictures and description never matches what I find when I arrive and by that time, it's too late and Airbnb has rarely stepped in to help.

I know what I can expect at hotels, with Airbnb, I never fully know until I show up.
I was referring to the seed.
I really recommend this video from LGR about the Y2K crisis https://youtu.be/Xm5OiB3CPxg
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There's a visualization here: https://twitter.com/JeromeRoos/status/1236729011889418246
Not really. The proposed CDC funding cuts have been overruled by Congress. In fact the CDC gets more funding now than at any point under Obama (who BTW, also tried to cut the budget several times; e.g. 2015 CDC budget is $243M less than 2014), and this year's budget is larger than last year. It's not the lack of funds. It's total mismanagement.

$7B+/yr and we get 70 people tested per day as thousands are being infected, and hundreds are about to die.

IMO their funding should be cut to zero for this, and reallocated to people who know how to do this kind of thing. You can find such people at WHO.

https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104
> You can build useful things with it.

A vanishingly small percent of gold's value is attributable to its industrial use. Of all the gold ever mined in history, only something like 1% has been used in an industrial or construction context.

Maybe if you extend "useful things" to jewelry you might have a point. But almost assuredly jewelry is made out of gold because gold is expensive and valuable. Not the other way around.

If everyone on Earth tomorrow forgot about gold's historical role as a store of value, it might be worth $50 an ounce at most.
In the developed world a lot of people spend time indoors with air conditioning most of the summer anyway? Especially more frequently now thanks to climate change. Not sure how this changes a lot once it’s circulating already?
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Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments, and in particular not name-calling fulmination, to Hacker News. We're trying for something different than that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The fines against Manning have been commented on repeatedly and extensively in this very thread. The only thing your comment adds is rage, which we have already have a surplus of, even if it's all justified.

The wretched flamewar your comment set off was predictable and a perfect example of what this site is not supposed to be for. No more of this, please, regardless of how you feel about justice departments.

All: upvoting this kind of comment—the kind that obviously and egregiously flouts the site rules—is the kind of thing that eventually gets your votes dropped on Hacker News.
Or that some governments apply an eminent-domain like approach, and start manufacturing a generic version. This is not the time for Gilead, or any other company, to make a buck out of a world-wide emergency.
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Almost. Correction: Bitcoin is a speculative bet that “others in the future will purchase more Bitcoin”.

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Gold is resistant to government intervention because there need not be any record of transaction or ownership.
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From my searches, they are currently at zero deaths? Low, at any rate.

Feels like this supports my hypothesis. If anyone starts looking, they will find cases. Only if you have a baseline lung damage rate that is elevated will you see severe cases.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. You took what was already a wretched flamewar and squared it. Seriously not cool.

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Yeah, who needs a peer review on a science paper eh?
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That's all well and good, but when you're testing 70 specimens a day in a country of 327 million people because you've fucked up the development of the test, and _refused to buy_ a working WHO test, that's pretty inexcusable, no matter how you try to justify it. A hotdog stand operator would do a better job: just buy WHO kits and deploy them. And you only have to buy 71 a day to beat the $7B/yr CDC.
He, being older white man, knows this best.
Hospitals worldwide have very little spare capacity and even less spare ICU capacity. A normal hospital bed isn’t going to help much. They are very likely to be overwhelmed, especially in countries that have not been able to delay initial spread due to lack of testing and containment.

This probably won’t kill millions (though it could worst case) but hospitals being overwhelmed would lead to an exponential rise in deaths, and many deaths from other causes as other treatments are abandoned. The situation is serious and will require significant measures to bring it under control, it is not yet being taken seriously enough in the US.
Please don't take HN threads further into political or nationalistic flamewars. They are predictable, tedious, and destructive of the curiosity we want here. The one you've fed in this case is particularly bad and particularly dumb, and to the extent that such crap shows up here, we might as well shut this place down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you this three times already. Not cool, so please stop.
Some of this could be you can’t spend crypto to buy food in a crisis... cash is still king.

When everything gets locked down cash is what you need
They're beating Facebook offers with non-liquid stock. Tbd if they're really beating FB offers.
1. Not every hospital bed is the same as a bed for a highly infectious disease

2. Other things still happen to people and those people need to have their hospital beds.

3. I'm not a hospital planner but I think there may be other things that determine capacity than just hospital beds. I worry that the hospital bed metric is actually a bad metric. Obviously adding hospital beds implies adding people to staff those beds, but also adding people probably also means adding all sorts of other infrastructure to support those people.

As a developer it reminds me of a project that goes way off schedule, you don't bring the project back on track just by adding developers because of the overhead more developers add to your system. Probably most hospital administrators have never actually experienced operating at capacity, so estimations of what would happen could be off and are being corrected now.
I guess you mean the total national capacity, not the local capacity in the most affected towns?

Symptomatic patients are probably not going to be transferred over long distances, right?
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. It's tedious, predictable, dumb, and destructive of what this site exists for.

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> please don't use exceptions for flow control

That's kind of the problem though. Exceptions are flow control.
Having physical interaction and time needed makes it harder to file nuisance suits, etc.
I've been watching the videos in this youtube channel today, where the last couple of videos have talked about this finding : https://youtu.be/U7F1cnWup9M and https://youtu.be/vE4_LsftNKM

Basically the goal is to allow zinc to get into a cell, it needs a helper to get inside the cell (a Zinc Ionophore). Apparently based on the 2nd video, Hydroxychloroquine is even more effective than Chloroquine. It's really important to note however that these are lab based findings, not from studies on patients.
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In a year, it might still not be over.
Sorry for the pedantry but traffic shaping (slowing down a class of traffic on purpose) is a standard qos technique
Never really had the right mood to set up Huginn, maybe because my own system is not that bad (a bunch a Telegram bots and channels, pointing to HN and some subreddits)
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Finding a route without congestion is literally impossible for trains stuck on a dedicated track. One little traffic problem shuts down the whole line, including all stations along the route. Since lines are typically connected without redundancy, a failure can partition the network into two disconnected halves.

All it takes, in one tiny little spot anywhere on the line: derailment, flood, suicide, stuck switch, malfunctioning sensor, failed motor, wrong kind of leaves on the rails, wrong kind of snow on the rails, broken signal, street-running car crash, tracks blocked off for a crime scene investigation, bomb threat...
Well, ok, but my point still stands. Even if the only reason gold has such high value is that everyone agrees it has value then it's the same as Bitcoin, but again, at the end of the day, it is physically useful and therefore less volatile.
> Most hospitals don't have all that much slack in bed capacity; especially at the tail end of flu season

Remember that there's a difference between hospital beds and ICU beds.

In the UK, we maintain 80% utilisation of our ICU beds all year round[0], with very little change in the number of beds available in real number terms. We have ~4100 total ICU beds, which can be expanded to ~5000 if all operating theatres, etc are shut down and used as ICU equivalent instead.

While getting past flu season will help the total number of beds, it does nothing for the ICU.

This is the other reason why it's increasingly important to https://www.FlattenThesCurve.com and employ social distancing techniques. The rate of patients being admitted into ICUs needs to be slowed as much as possible. Once we're out of capacity, every additional patient has a much higher probability of dying than the overall fatality statistics indicate.

[0] https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sit...
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Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how provocative another comment is or you feel it is. It helps nothing, only makes this place even worse, and is what the guidelines explicitly ask you not to do.

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> The only 'tech' companies on there are Apple and Amazon.

And Samsung, Foxconn, and Alphabet. So 10% of the list.
Revenue will give an indication of the size of the business activity. Valuation is just a measure of profits, which can vary a lot.

From an economic standpoint, what matters more will be revenue, it's a better indication of how meaningful what is done impacts the world.

As for Ebay vs. Amazon - for 3rd party listings, it doesn't matter that much, it's all accounting, but when Amazon actually does buy and sell stuff, it's very material because of a) cash flows: they send off cash (or get huge credit) to buy stuff b) they have inventory, warehouses, workers c) they are the merchant of record and take on chargeback risk, returns etc.. At the scale that is meaningful.

But I don't think that this comparison really highlights the difference between 'high margin' and 'high revenue' so much as for example AirBnB vs. Toyota. Even though Toyota is not worth that much more than AirBnB, it's considerably important to the economy whereas AirBnB is almost irrelevant.
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I was the lead console operator during the midnight rollover on NYE for an aging fleet of state-owned mainframes and minicomputers which were affected by the bug. Some of the machines could not be updated with a fix, so we were almost completely uncertain as to how these machines would behave. Testing on many of those machines was a huge investment. A lot of effort went into checking and re-checking job code. It was a lot of work for everyone. As mentioned here by others, it could have been (would have been) worse were it not for the heroic efforts of programmers to bug-proof their job code in the run-up to the rollover. As the lead console op, my responsibility that night and morning was to try and ride any trains that decided to jump the tracks. The skills I developed then still serve me well today, and I will forever be grateful to those grayest of graybeards for the trust I was extended when chosen for that role. Everyone on the payroll was there for the rollover except for the next shift's operators. For my part, it was in the end a lot of preparation which thankfully was not needed. I must admit to having a drink before that shift started. But when the rollover came, all was quiet. And after a few nervous hours, we poured some champagne with the hero programmers who were there in the room watching their jobs run without any issues.
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Have the authors considered increased sunlight/UV radiation in warmer areas?
> Bitcoin let’s you store $1T USD of dollars in your head, transport it anywhere in the world, and there’s not a single thing anyone else can do about it.

That's going to be pretty hard to do when all bitcoins have a combined "worth" of 92B.

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value in that it only exists due to artificial demand, e.g. if someone invented a better digital currency, Bitcoin's demand would evaporate and all BTC's would be worthless. It's nothing like Gold which is one of the most useful precious metals with usages beyond a storage of value.
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Yes. However, there's also no travel restriction between Cambodia and Vietnam, significant cross-border traffic, and Cambodia is not "taking it nearly as seriously" as Vietnam is.

If Vietnam had the transmission going on that Italy does, the case-tracking and quarantining would be a lot harder, and I just don't buy that the other things (masks, forehead temperature checks[0], hand sanitizer that hardly anyone knows how to use properly) have much of an impact.

There has to be some much larger factor than those at play (and this study suggests what that factor could be).

[0] I encourage people to ask or look what the reading is when getting these checks. About a third of the time when I get a forehead temperature check, the reading is totally nonsensical, like 31C, but the person just waves me through since it's under the threshold. I'm skeptical of the efficacy of a test that is this inaccurate.
To believe that time travel is possible is to believe that the universe keeps all the snapshots of every moment in some backup storage. From the economic viewpoint, it is very unwise. I don't think the universe is that dumb.
Banks won't accept your Bitcoin when you get margin called. You need to sell for real money.
Sure but now there’s pressure for them to ipo because all of their employees have been stacking paper money for years. Just issuing massive grants doesn’t work forever, there are consequences once a company leaves the early stages.
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Sorry if I was unclear. I was trying to say that it seems clear to me intuitively that something other than "taking it seriously" is reducing the transmission rates in VN. It's just a "feeling" -- but this study seems to provide some (thin) evidence supporting it.
Nationalistic flamebait is not welcome on this site. Please don't post like this here.

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Yep.

Critical cases and fatal cases are way more likely to be detected for this reason -- but during the 3 weeks I was talking about, it was believed that there was no COVID in the US, except for folks evacuated from China to quarantine sites.

During that time unexplained pneumonia leading to death -- especially in an older individual -- would likely not have been thought to be COVID, and would just have gone on the books as pneumonia.
> If I buy a stock that is now 16$ but was 26$ a few days ago, will it go back to that price and i can make a small profit ?

Most people think probably, since the stock markets have always recovered after previous crises. But it might potentially take weeks, months, or years (if the impact of the pandemic and other troubles causes an ongoing weakness in the economy). There's also a risk that particular companies or industries will be so severely affected that they never fully recover; for example, individual companies could go bankrupt or could be acquired at a lower valuation than their peak value.

Here in California, which currently has a less disruptive COVID-19 outbreak (and less disruptive responses to it) than much of Europe, there have already been reports of some small businesses failing. Someone who invested in those businesses on the assumption they would later recover could have lost the whole investment. Larger businesses can fail, too, though usually on a longer time scale. For example, it's possible that some travel-related companies that are especially impacted by reduced travel will have to sell off their assets and operations to other companies, maybe at a comparatively low value.

The point of this is that, in general, stock markets as a whole, and economic sectors as a whole, have always recovered from crises and disasters -- potentially providing profit on some timescale to people who invested during a crash -- but that this may sometimes take a very long time¹ and is definitely not guaranteed for any individual company. Therefore there is never an opportunity to invest in stocks with absolutely no risk, although a financial advisor may be able to help you estimate and manage your risk.

Even if a particular community is convinced that a certain stock or the market as a whole will probably move in a certain direction, it's never a guarantee. Your gamble may have a positive expected value, but that doesn't disqualify it from being a gamble.

¹ If you get really unlucky, there could be other economic disruptions that interrupt the recovery (other disease outbreaks, natural disasters, political instability, wars, effects of climate change?) and so the economy may not recover on the timescale that you expected it would.
I didn't run into any Y2K problems - for UNIX/Linux itself this was mostly a non-issue due to times being stored in at least 32-bit time_t at that point. Individual applications may have had their own Y2K related issues of course, but I didn't run into any.

However, one issue I did run into nearly two years later was when UNIX time_t rolled over to 1 billion seconds. The company I worked with at the time was running WU-IMAP for their email server, plus additional patches for qmail-style maildir support. We came into work on September 10th 2001 and all the email on our IMAP server was sorted in the wrong order.

Turns out there was a bug in the date sorting function in this particular maildir patch (see http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/ - "10-digit unix date rollover problem"). I think we were the first to report it to the maintainer due to the timezone we were in. First time for me in identifying and submitting a patch to fix a critical issue in a piece of open source software! My co-worker and I were chuffed.

Of course, we swiftly forgot about it the next day when planes crashed into the NY World Trade Center.
Someone who knows, that determinism can be a metaphysical concept (depending on which determinism one is talking about). Not many people get that. Good to see some people actually read about it or thought about it. This is what I always try to explain to people trying to counter it with quantum mechanics, as if it was a proof against determinism.
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That isn't good.

We're trying to slow a pandemic. Until we get a vaccine, public transportation shouldn't be running.