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It's not reported on but most of or knowledge about th course the disease takes comes from Chinese studies. Some Italian ones may be out there.
This kind of people add nothing to the world. Can only hope they and all other patent trolls catch covid.
I feel it's unfair that people have disrespected the trifecta you achieved here.
Everyone is different, and one size does not fit all; thereby causing complications which require a trained eye to appreciate (read: carry in your head the list of people/procedures to execute in case of problems, and list of things to ignore) in order to accomodate that.

It's called the "practice of medicine" for a reason. You can do everything "right" by the book and still have things go wrong. There is no substitute for eyes on the patient. Ever.
After the power is out, and without internet access or delivery services?

As happened in parts of California last year?

How are you imagining they would do it?
Posted elsewhere on this discussion: https://gitlab.com/bettse/wne_writer
Cool to see the creator on hnews, I've used this several times (including just yesterday). It's worth noting that Spotify has tested a party-listening feature.[1] Not sure why they haven't added it officially.

[1]: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1134390000672419840
That's a... charitable interpretation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/trump-coronav...

> “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a recording of which was shared with The New York Times. “We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”

Distributing these is the sort of thing the federal government can do far more effectively than an "every man for himself" approach.
A tree is defined constructively, and here some definitions have further constraints (N children, often 2, per parent).

A DAG is a restriction on general graphs.
The goal is to make the economy to recover quickly. Fail fast, learn the lesson, make things cheap and keep unemployment low. Or do something against centuries of experience and see what happens.

Avoiding short-term pain by trading it for a much worse problem later is what made us so vulnerable to a not-so-deadly virus. Zombie too big to fail banks and corporations and a real estate market out of control. Same happened everywhere, not just US.
This is deranged. Pull yourself back from the edge.
It often costs more than the money, to set up a bureaucracy just to decide who gets it.
We have at least a 10 day backlog on an asymptomatic disease that is exponentially growing. If 4-5k are infected now, and the 10 day backlog is largely with the virus spreading unchecked, were probably in the 100k actual carriers already.
How about you provide some other ideas instead of poo pooing this?
I used to work for IBM and really there is no advantage. The few sales efforts I was involved in were shady af. Buying manger got something. Lets just leave it at that.
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Yes, I absolutely want to set that precedent: live and death situations are more important than IP rights. You can always sort that kind of stuff out after the fact ("turns out that was a valid patent, and you were licensing it for $X before this all happened, so looks like someone owes you $X and let's figure out who that is"), but you can't get back dead neighbors who were lost due to legal delays.

Weird things like software patents and ludicrously long copyrights aside, the notion of IP has worked out decently for us. There's no way it's more important than directly saving human lives though.
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The real issue with blockchain is it doesn’t work yet. It doesn’t scale, and complex trustless scalable guarantees aren’t possible yet. The technology is also really new. Bitcoin coin is only ten years old.
Remember Li Wenliang. We warned his fellow doctors about the situation, in December. The police punished him for this.

He later died of the disease.

We are all suffering because an authoritarian government suppressed the good intentions of its citizens.

The Chinese Government is squarely to blame for this situation. Could it have been prevented if they had acted responsibly? I don't know – but there is a strong chance that the answer is yes. We'll never know, however, because that is not the path they took.
Taking your hyperbolic suggestion seriously, if the Chinese government normalized family punishment by using it in this case, they would probably go on to use it on journalists, the next set of doctors they wanted to silence, and whichever officials happened to fall out of favor that year.
Amusingly enough the login flow for Safari isn't acyclic it seems.
Women's Day will be remembered in Madrid for a long time.
Not sure we can find a citation for that? Govt is notoriously criticized for inefficiency during crisis.
Even worse.. the Pale Moon guys are unskilled amateurs of the worst classification - the kind of developers which activity should be force-closed to protect others of their unintentionally spread incompetence which put tons of other people at high risks.

Not alone that, they are rude and shit into the face of a big part of the Linux community with threatening them in the worst way possible.

Then we had a server hack with compromised binary files....

People should be made aware of Pale Moon and their amateurish activity, so they can immediately uninstall this danger-ware from their systems!
And yesterday, Trump reiterated that states will be going alone in the future. He's refusing any responsibility to have a coordinated action plan.

“Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,”

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/try-getting...
Do you have proof that not having a home causes mental Illness and not the reverse?
The ads block buttons in the UI, on a pixel 3a. Is there a paid version without ads?
The budget already has a huge deficit. They'd have to cut funding to something, in order not to increase it further. Or they could add it to the deficit (which means borrowing the money), and that translates to higher inflation, pretty much, as banks create the borrowed money. Recent lowering of the interest rates by the FED also plays into this.

I think any kind of stimulus will almost certainly translate to higher inflation.

It's not necessarily bad. It's a bit of an equalizer. You give money to everyone, money loses value somewhat, but only the people who have the most money at the moment, will suffer from the inflation in absolute terms (money received vs value of savings lost).
"OPINION" aka someone got paid for this, Christian-right and/or Religious-right advocacy organization with a strong anti-LGBT agenda.
When China started the lockdown of Wuhan in Jan 23, they had 830 cases, and almost all concentrated in one location. Even with the hard lockdown they were at over 70k infected people in Feb 16, before the infection rate slowed.

The US already is at over 5k, every state has infected people, and there is no proper lockdown to speak of in any state, only "strong recommendations". Assuming the same growth rate, the US will be at 440k infected in 24 days, but sadly without the reduced infection rate after April 12.
I wish people like you understood economy.

Your proposal is completely unimplementable.

The only incentive for innovation on this planet is monetary. That's it. No monies, no solutions.

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If you stopped to think logically about the situation, you'd see this to be true.

If you're proposing robbing peter to pay paul, you're part of the problem. Full Stop!
The narrative in China right now is finding ways of externalizing the problem. One narrative either pushed intentionally or by fake news sources are blaming American soldiers that were in Wuhan for a military fitness competition. While it sounds crazy it's widely believed. The source works for government in Guangzhou.
Maybe if you have family, but that's a comfortable range for an individual.
> Amazon should be held responsible for all the damage that they do to their employees.

I'm confused, Amazon ships all kinds of things, and people still need to be able to buy stuff. How is this different from logistical workers in any other industry? To enable people to still buy groceries, there's all kinds of workers in that chain.
Skype is crap, it was doomed to die around that time frame anyway. If anything, Microsoft Business kept Skype going longer than it would have otherwise.

Seriously, go use products like Google Hangouts, Slack or Microsoft Teams (Microsofts's surprisingly better clone of Slack) and then tell me that Skype was ruined by integrating with Microsoft's other product base. The closest argument you might be able to make is that Skype could have developed new features or updated its UI and stayed competitive, but that wouldn't give them the competitive edge that it's competitors nearly all had in terms of being backed by major tech companies. Additionally, the major revenue source was Business tier use, which Microsoft dramatically improved by integrating it with their other cloud-based business suite applications.

Microsoft didn't kill Skype, if anything they extended its life expectancy and value in markets that actually paid to use it. It's dead/dying now because better tools have been developed and marketed to replace it. That's just standard product life cycle.
This is demonstrably not true. The constitution clearly states that federal law is supreme in the US. That means the states are not sovereign.
Drop the China bashing. If we're going to criticize any government on this issue, we need to criticize all of them.

Was there really any government without guilt or incompetence in their handling of this?

Really nobody who in any way delayed taking steps, nobody who in any way sat on information, nobody who in any way instructed a certain type of scale of coverage in an attempt to minimize panic?

Let those without sin cast the first stone.

But actually, I think the "blame game" is bullshit.

Everyone should just be like, "Holy crap, this virus doesn't care about what passport you have, we all need to just work together on this."

Good to see people contesting the blame narrative here, but better if we didn't promote this news at all. This is a highly technical site, surely there's a chance to share articles about studies, algorithms, ways data scientists/programmers/bioinformaticians can get involved, pool resources, donate cloud time, etc.
This. Very sage advice. Turning inwards while turning off devices unlocks many things.

Written non-ironically on a device ;)
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It's hard to feel bad for a country that jails doctors for telling their colleagues about a new viral contagion.
Perfectly reasonable if granted in the 1950s.
Unbelievable that people are still not only buying the numbers but downvoting too.

Decades of easy living in the US has made the average native dangerously naive.

China is most likely going through a second wave of the infection either now or soon, as people return to work out of necessity to prevent supply shortages and food insecurity. Notice how they've totally locked everything down online - the internet was awash with leaked videos and tweets from people inside of china - but the government has clamped down on these dissenters hard enough to discourage the rest, apparently.

The CCP lies to save face. Its existence is predicated upon the fear and/or respect of the people it controls. It is not a free society.
No idea about the new model. I'd hope it can still work offline, given the team's background in free software, but who knows. The tech lead sometimes posts here on HN when the rM is discussed, so Martin, if you're reading this, a comment would be great :)
>They're hoping more will buy in so they can dump at a higher price.

We're seeing, right in this moment, why the ability to increase the supply of currency is a necessity for a functioning economy, especially in times of crisis.

Somehow the hodlers take the exact opposite lesson from what's happening.
But no color, and no real gray scale.
> Reserve requirement were at 10%.

This is very simplistic. 10% of what? Checking account deposits? Savings account deposits? If savings and checking accounts have different reserve requirements (and afaik they do), then depositors just moving money back and forth between different kinds of accounts can change the bank's required reserves. Banks also have flexibility on how they report their accounts.

Furthermore, the reserve requirement is enforced across a 2 week period. Banks don't need to have all the required reserves all the time, just some of the time.

And what if they don't meet the requirement? Is it that they are forced to close by regulators, or do they just pay a penalty? If it's the latter, then how often in practice do banks actually meet their requirements? Because it might be cheaper to pay the penalty than to meet the requirement.

> What happens now if someone deposits $100,000, the bank lends out $100k because it can, and the someone tries to withdraw their money?

No one's doubting that banks need cash on hand to meet the demands of their depositors, and that they need assets to use for net settlement with other banks. But cash demand on any given day is probably much lower than 10% of deposits (and afaik, the reserve requirements don't expect banks to hold anywhere near 10% of deposits in cash). As for inter-bank settlement, there are a lot of ways to get sufficient liquidity, including borrowing on the repo market and the overnight market.

Holding reserves costs banks opportunity-cost (because they only earn interest-on-reserves, which for most of US history was 0). And there is no shortage of safe, liquid assets out there (US government debt). Even mortgage debt is liquid. And there are tons of reserves sloshing around there, due to QE.

So banks are definitely not reserve constrained... not even close. But banks might be capital constrained. There's a big difference between reserve requirements and capital requirements.

But in many cases, banks might be constrained by neither. They are probably constrained by a lack of demand from lenders. There are not enough people to lend to.
One analysis showing how we’re likely to far, far exceed ventilator capacity in the US

https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-dea...
Hey there!

If you go to the article and read directly below the original post, I walk through the challenges and tribulations I went through in merely trying to copy the disks. After nearly a day of experiments, I did succeed in making copies.

However my process of creating d64 files fails. I use what's called a ZoomFloppy. This device allows me to connect an ancient Commodore disk drive and see the files on a PC. Thus, I can move individual files over to the PC, or create entire disk images. Conversely, I can create new floppy disks the same way from d64 (or d71/d81) files I find online.

But due to this program's unusual track numbering, the disk image fails.

This is why it took me so long to figure out how to copy the disk, too.

In any case, I do believe there is a way, but it is a project I'll likely be attempting in the future as it's more involved.
I have a #5 proposal. I believe as the future gets simpler. We’ll be on the lookout for a “Morphing UI”. One that adjusts based on the environment. We’re kind of seeing this paradigm with conversational bots - though not perfect. Perhaps entire spaces built with something like: adaptivecards.io

It can’t replace all of our traditional UI. However, with more A.I. requiring less inputs, there may be a future where data, not UI sets apart services.
They just announced they are only shipping essentials.
It's probably just simpler to administer if it's just universal vs having layers of red tape to manage and police it.

You're never going to get 100% of it put back in the economy immediately, but I think a very large percentage of it will.
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"New York has plenty, Ohio needs a bunch" is precisely the sort of coordination that the Feds are there for.
why so many posts to hacker News about this today? Seems and feels like guerrilla marketing.
You seem to be quite sure about the type of person I am and defining me grey is quite insulting but that's beyond what is being discussed here.
You seem to have missed what I wrote a out having accounts of Spotify and 3 video streaming services.

I am also tempted to tell you that you might want to revise you usage of the words morally and ethically and that these are probably more profound than to be applied to a kid wanting to buy an album but failed to find it.
Having said this, have a good day.
To be fair, western authorities had an even longer amount of time before the virus spread to their countries, and are doing about as well or slightly worse than the Chinese authorities did even given this initial suppression.
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Yet nothing that isn't paid for, can get done at any scale. The profit motive here was absurd. But any company that makes something useful for this pandemic, must find a business model that works. Else it won't happen.
You may want to read about the polio vaccine.
I understand that people are making extreme estimates, and I'm making good money off of their panic, but it's about time for a sober and level-headed look at how the past couple of weeks have stood up to what those people were predicting a couple of weeks ago.

China had about the same number of infections 3 weeks ago as it does today, for example. And their most extreme lockdown measures are waning.

We'll see what happens in a few months, but it looks like a lack of information causing people to assume the worst.
> we can manage JUST FINE without Amazon, simply by using other retailers

I mean, okay? You know groceries and other goods at other shops also require workers to work, right?

You could replace "Amazon" with any other grocery delivery company, works the same.
On the other hand their lockdown measures wouldn't be so successful if they weren't an authoritative regime.
Are you saying states can’t buy directly from the manufacturer like he said to the governors and announced in a national press conference, in a response to a question by reporters about states buying it themselves? That’s what the person above was asking.

Not making an opinion on its efficacy... although I guess every discussion of US needs giant political asterisks these days so it doesn’t get derailed.
Do build a bunch of these, and do create a nursing nation guard (though not under military control please!) as soon as possible.
>This is a classic flat earth argument.
‘Because people are saying so...’

No. Again you reason by false equivalence. The shape of the earth is not determined by popular opinion. The meaning of words is determined by popular usage.
The issue with immediate border closings is they create a lot of confusion. What happens to planes in the air or taking off or who does the policy actually apply to (see the initial iterations of the muslim ban where even the border agencies didn't have a consistent view of their own policy. The policy has to get out to the people at the border actually enforcing it too so it's either distributed early (meaning it will probably leak early and cause a rush then) or they only learn about it when everyone else does causing issues.
This sounds nice and sound in a textbook, but the real world with humans doesn't follow.
I don't see any reason that a firm like Theranos shouldn't have had all of it's patents struck down as void once it was obvious it was a scam. What incentive do we have as a society to allow con artists to patent things and inhibit real research?
Companies who force people to sign away any rights should be severely punished. Of course that would impact the likelihood of getting hired in practice, but it is exactly this behavior why we must force all other people to adhere to the rules without giving them the choice. Absolutely detrimental to society and it should be checked if companies behaving that way should face existential fines.
I was reading about ventilators the other night. On the principle that surely even a rudimentary ventilator is better than no ventilator, why can't we revert to basic designs? 'Manley Mark II' and 'Bird Universal Medical Respirator' are two that are cited on wikipedia. These were manufactured in the 1950s. I can't see that it's that difficult to spool up a production line for a similar model today.
>Unbelievable that people are still not only buying the numbers but downvoting too.

Much of Silicon Valley (and the coastal elite, in general) is in the pocket of the CCP. Is normal.

People will literally refer to Trump as a tyrant or "Hitler", but refuse to speak ill of Chinese leadership. It's crazy.
I just searched the version in Chinese.
This is the google translated version :

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When the severity of the virus is unknown, many companies have been commissioned by different hospitals to perform sequencing. After the National Centers for Disease Control received the report, they ordered all units without safety qualifications to destroy all virus samples. Less than two weeks later, the full virus sequencing results were made available to the world.
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I found that it's deplorable that so many white politicians and media practitioners lack professionalism and wisdom that caused so much severe spread around the world.
Look at South Korean, it should be served as manual for pandemic crisis resolutions.
https://rxsaver.retailmenot.com/drugs/chloroquine-phosphate/... has it at 60c/dose in my area.
i'm gainfully employed and I would surely spend it
People are slowly noticing the use of the WHO CFR as an actual FR is science fiction[1] at least. Well, they're not really noticing that, especially here on HN, because people are statistical imbeciles, but at least they're noticing that the denominator in the FR is a lot larger than they previously thought. That was abundantly obvious at the beginning; if you aren't widely administering a costly and rare test[2], you're enormously left censored in your estimator. You're also radically screwing up your R0 estimate.

I suppose there are arguments to be made that more hot and humid climates prevent the spread of respiratory viruses in general, which is why you don't see problems in the more humid and hot regions of China and Vietnam.[3] The real question is why some countries look like Germany, and some look like Italy. The paranoid answer is Germany will soon look like Italy (and this might be true), except the claimed origin of the disease is .... Germany[4].

If it does turn out to be overblown in some sense, it's probably a valuable exercise in autarky.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/health/coronavirus-statis...

[2] And FWIIW none of the tests are well calibrated; in fact there are numerous tests in use with radically different biases.

[3] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-... (I mean, it seems unlikely, but it's a common assertion)
> harder to retain talent, more incentive to fire

I struggle to understand how those two things can happen at the same time, to the same company, due to the same cause. I mean, if it's harder to retain talent, presumably this means some people leave the company, leaving the company more dependent on those who stay. Why would they fire them?
Yes. They should commandeer production enough to reel in vulnerable supply chains too.
Every grocery store that still has food on its shelves is doing this.
There may not be bodies to "hide" because the mortality rate is far lower than what is being reported right now.
I'm saying that's going to create bad outcomes, like when everyone individually tries to stock up on toilet paper.

You wind up with some people having two years worth, and others using the empty cardboard tube in desperation.