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Stop repeating German propaganda :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M4kbPDHGR0&feature=youtu.be... turn on google auto translate

TLDR: Any comorbidities present at the time of death are reported as the main culprit. In other news https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736(20)3... Table 2: Treatments and outcomes. Sepsis 100%, Respiratory failure 98%. There you go, nobody dies from the virus alone, problem solved, 20x less deaths than comparable Spain.
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You’re right in that it is a no brainer and has been for some time: 68,000 people die each year in the US due to lack of healthcare. On top of that it will save the US about $500 billion per year. So it’s right for both moral and fiscal reasons.

But from the perspective of your average politician they just want to get re-elected, and maybe make some extra cash through grift along the way. To do that they get financed by lobbyists that include business interests which are against this. Some that are against it for direct reasons (they’re a health company) some for less direct reasons (they’re a big US business and they like the control employer based health care gives them over their workers).

So few politicians are pushing it. And they don’t have to because in our system so long as they other side doesn’t push it either, they can just give a bunch of weak excuses and it never happens.

Will this pandemic change that? Hard to say. The current Dem front runner has said quite literally that he would veto it. Even if all the hard work was done to get it through the house and senate, all he had to do was sign it into law, he would veto it. So you know where the Dem leadership stand on this, solidly with their donors and against giving people healthcare.

And so far in terms of response we have seen that instead of direct and simple solutions they are focused on creating complicated and means tested solutions that leave out significant chunks of the population including the most vulnerable. (And overall acting incredible slowly given the seriousness of the situation.) So I don’t think if it happens it’ll happen easily.

On the other hand, if Trumps opinion ratings go down and he decides he wants to be remember he may have a crazy brain fart and spurt out an order to give everyone healthcare in this pandemic. It would still be unlikely to happen because the Rep leadership would try to complicate it just as they did the plan to give everyone checks.
that is not a reasonable assumption at all - it's a dice roll regardless. admission at one good school doesn't guarantee admission at another, even if you have legacy.

(and is also highly dependent on which Ivies we're talking about - not all Ivies are HYP, which are more on par with MIT)
This is what worries me:

> Our models show that it would take at least 2 months of Wuhan-style Lockdown to achieve full containment. However, it is unclear at this time how you could manage newly introduced infections.

When will Wuhan accept travelers from Spain or Italy ? Or are we going to live with border controls & quarantines forever?
>the era of the Intel 80486 processor. All of us cared a hell of a lot about both algorithmic and data structure efficiency back then since computers were so feeble compared to today's systems;

In the ancient 1990s, A COBOL programmer writing "green screen" terminal apps to hit a database on an IBM 360 mainframe doesn't deploy to 80486 desktop pcs.

Even today, if you type "COBOL programmer" into monster.com to search for jobs, most of the results will be programming work for mainframe environments instead of targeting consumer computers like iOS/Android/Windows/macOS/etc.
Yes, I wish that the title included "(Dropbox co-founder leaving Dropbox)" or something like that.
There is in my car, but Google at least forces users to accept the "OK Google" functionality when they agree to the voice activation disclaimer. So once you enable that, the phone is always listening for "OK Google".
I see what you are talking about, but your parable has another side that no one sees - the guy learned a lot of different things in the process :) For people who enjoy learning and exploration it is the true meaning of the whole thing, not a written tune.
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There is a shortage of masks and other PPE because people think that way. There is a cost because if everyone were to wear masks, there is not enough supply for healthcare professionals who could actually benefit from them.

The percentage of effectiveness isn't really measurable if the standard isn't followed. You're assuming its 50%, but it very well could be 0% because your equipment is just as contaminated as your hands. So you have not helped yourself, AND you have decreased supply of essential equipment from someone who ACTUALLY needs it. That's a big fail.
I'd honestly be surprised if universal healthcare will ever be on the table. Between Trump and Biden, there won't be any discussions.

What could happen is that Biden gets KO'ed by the disease, leaving Sanders the default democratic candidate.
For RNA extraction: https://cen.acs.org/analytical-chemistry/diagnostics/Shortag... for an example.

For swabs - here's an example in action up in Ontario Canada: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/ontario-limits-who...

No one is out trying to actively hide this information, but its spread does seem a little uneven.

I also don't want this to be fearmongering. Capacity and supply will grow (hopefully fast enough). Alternative solutions will be validated. We will keep bumping into problems, and we'll keep solving them (cause we'll need to).
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Computer screens are incredibly distracting regardless of the make or brand. It's basically a backlit distraction generator.

As a side note, I'm not a big fan of LCD displays in cars. I prefer analog gauges/dials/knobs, with minimal illumination for night time. At night, the less light you have inside the car, the easier you can see outside. Plus your eyes will be more well adjusted.
Unfortunately a credit report can be a part of some jobs. I found this out the hard way when I tried to do what you said - ignore the calls - and there was an unpaid debt from 6 years ago on my credit report anyway when I had to get a clearance.

Many people frame this as a "say this magic phrase to get your bill reduced" and I just don't think it's that simple any more. Some of the consequences from not paying just come back down the road.
But won't you be so proud when you sign up for a health plan! You can exclaim to everyone "well I did my due diligence and I signed up for a great plan! why didn't you??"

Meanwhile people in non-US countries are thinking "I don't have to think about any of this shit, at all."
People had gigabytes of free music on their computers and wanted a place to store them that enabled easy playback, hence the iPod. iTunes removed the friction necessary in piracy and priced inventory low enough to emerge as a viable alternative.
I think Rust got it right, here.

Dealing with allocation failure gracefully is hard and requires a lot of extra code.

For most applications the best default is to panic and handle it up the stack rather than pay the programming overhead of handling allocation failure explicitly in every last nook and cranny. The Rust standard library rightly optimizes for this use case.

For the embedded or critical-safety application spaces, where you really do want to handle allocation failure gracefully, you need something other than the standard library. Letting that "something" develop slowly out in the community is a good call.
We're talking about the telecom industry-- if any group of competitors can stomach high fixed costs to reap future margins it's them. Launch new satellites, build new towers, lay new lines, whatever-- it's all the same Internet. Really, the story of Global Crossing's failure is instructive-- similar strategy of "low marginal cost, high fixed cost."
I’ll be honest. CS doesn’t teach you how to program (anybody can learn that). CS teaches you how to think critically and analyze problems.

Also CS is just very difficult, especially with all of the theoretical courses. At a certain point, it becomes a test of your resolve as a person vs your ability to program.
> well-educated software engineers are being killed by putting 100% confidence in this glorified cruise control.

If you mean the person who died when his car hit the crash attenuator on the way to work at Apple in California I think you are misrepresenting the situation.

As far as I can tell from the media reports on this case he had reported to Tesla that the autosteer misbehaved at this junction yet he still used it at that place and he was exceeding the speed limit. That's not confidence, it's foolhardiness.

In addition the crash attenuator had been hit by a conventional car a week earlier and had not been repaired.

I have a Tesla S, 2015 autopilot 1, and I use the autosteer feature pretty much every time I use the car. I am also a well educated software engineer but my degree is physics and my career has been in test equipment, embedded controllers, and design software.

I am well aware of the limitations of the feature and I pay attention to the times and circumstances in which it does not behave as well as I would like it to and adjust /my own/ behaviour accordingly. I suspect that most Tesla drivers do the same.
I do believe you're missing quite a lot. As western societies become increasingly feminized, many in these societies expect to be cared for and nurtured in much the same way they were by their mothers. Their governments then take on the role as their Other Mother.

The problem with our Other Mother providing health care is that options and competencies will become severely limited due to centralized decision making and lack of incentives for qualified individuals to become physicians, or even to continue practicing medicine.

I believe the individual should share in some of the financial and logistical burdens of their own healthcare. Do I think our Other Mother has a role in providing healthcare? Certainly, but way in the back of the process in support of extreme and extremely chronic cases like transplants, severe injury recovery, advanced diabetes and some others.
Hopefully Resident Evil 3 gets a zero day crack as well https://www.iscracked.info/is-resident-evil-3-remake-cracked
Very much agree with this. In some ways it appears intentional. To avoid “giving away the answer” professors will sometimes hand you a very fuzzy set of loose rules, perhaps 2 example test cases and you’re off to the races.

It’s funny because you can read about the same exact algorithm in Sedgewick or CLRS anyways, so I don’t know who they’re trying to fool.
That’s like saying home insurance is a tax on people whose homes don’t burn down.

Isn’t the whole point of insurance to have everyone (sick and healthy) pay for the few?
No one who cares about privacy would turn that on.
Some furnace filters claim to filter viruses(e.g. filtrete 1500 and higher from 3M) and seem to still be available in stores/amazon. These should be repurposed for higher priority users. (Preferably with a better seal than this.)
Then why are basically all Corona deaths in Germany reported as having other illnesses too? If this claim were true, none of these deaths of sick old people would have been reported as being due to Corona. Do you have any evidence this is more than speculation (at least the english translation also makes it sound like it is worded speculation, not a claim of fact), and that someone who was known to be infected and died was not reported?

I keep asking people about this because I'd for sure would like to know if it were happening, but the only two sources I've seen sounded like speculation by Italian officials that at least as absolute as it is reported in other languages does not match the actual reporting here as far as I can tell.
It's ok if you ignore your bills as long as you have no intention of needing credit in the future.
I'm no fan of Denuvo, but cut them some slack!
Simply swapping the names of two executables - the clean version only being there accidentally - is no real "crack".
Although i understand why your source presents it as such and admittedly giggled behind my desk while reading it.
Currently there is a private tax that people and companies pay: the insurance premium. All Medicare for all proposals have funding plans that include higher taxes or new taxes that essentially pick up this premium in other areas. At least some require that this insurance premium is carried over into salaries ISTR since it’s currently a benefit and should go to your salary.
Can we keep this kind of poisonous mind game off of HN?
I'm optimistic, but can see the case for pessimism as well.
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You're misinformed. What I said is correct.
> No, this isn’t an argument against distinguishing between functions and other objects

It was not supposed to be one. Rather, it was there to show that just like other languages Haskell functions can have effects (even if discouraged).
Leavening for fewer hours gives a different kind of structure the the bread.

Shorter leavening: smaller bubbles, more soft texture.

Longer leavening: bigger bubbles, more chewy texture.

Longer leavening also gives it a more yeasty flavour. I think the shorter leavened bread goes well with jam and the longer leavened bread goes well with savoury toppings.
> In the USA, acne and pregnancy are often disqualifying conditions.

This is not true. Premiums and coverage are only allowed to vary by age and location, not preexisting conditions.
Very cool. What information is automatically imported to your list when scanning a barcode? Is it just the name of the product?
> Hoogle doesn't seem to find me a function like Rust's .get() in the standard library

In practice, you don't really need one - the safe alternative to "xs !! n" is pattern-matching on the result of "drop n xs", as that's [] if xs has ≤n elements:

https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/standard-prelude.html#$...
> You know that, for data on big corporation's servers, the NSA already gets a copy of everything

This is squarely in conspiracy theory realm. Nothing in the Snowden documents or other leaks hinted at this (except for the NSA snooping on unencrypted internal links, which is useless now that everyone encrypts everything).

> Why would this be so different for voluntary self-espionage devices (Alex, Dot etc.)?

Why would a big tech company willfully infringe on their customer's privacy? How would they even do it? They have every reason to prevent it.
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They could be under a court order to record certain keywords and we wouldn't know similiar to our telephones.

If they are not doing this now they will be.
I don't know... once you can measure the scale of an event in Holocausts, all bets might be off the table.
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> I'm not sure how the USA is going to fund universal health (one that's actually unversal and free like we have here in Europe) care without first having a discussion on taxes.

Americans are already paying for it: it's just that their premiums are going to private companies instead of a government agency. The money is coming out of your pocket either way so what difference does it make whether it is labelled as "tax" or "medical bill"? That's just a form of mental accounting.

Also: you can have universal healthcare without the government, single-payer or otherwise. Don't Germany and Switzerland both have universal coverage with private, non-profit health insurance companies?
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Indeed very country dependent. Netherlands is 50% (used to be 52) starting around € 55k. That sounds higher than Germany, but then in our case social security and an allowance for elderly is included. So in the end I guess the part of your income you pay is similar in most European countries it's just structured differently. And indeed, it's a very big part.

The US has a low income tax, but then the middle class needs to pay for their own health insurance (at $ 600 a month), disability insurance and pension etc. which means they end up not far different from Europe.

The big difference is at the extremes of the scale, the very poor and the very rich. In the US the poor don't have any health insurance, disability insurance, or pension etc because they cannot afford it. And the very rich in the US are way better off than they would be in Europe, because for them a low income tax greatly outweighs the costs of insurance etc.
No. Before I get dismissed as a cynic, it’s not hard to see that the rich and powerful have better resources to protect their interest (by design). Despite our stark realizations that our utter disregard for a collective mentality would have provided immense benefits in hindsight, our country is deeply rooted in individuals. The narrative will quickly change back to the individual level and individualism will not cede. All this will be nothing more akin to a moment of silence at a baseball game. Great moments of togetherness will be forgotten, but those homeruns will exalt players to heros.
I believe she is saying that the humanity will be better prepared to handle threats after the pandemic. That's a brighter side to things.
Trump already gave advice for calming down scared Americans. https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/03/20/trump-message...
> Covid-19 is also pretty distinctive on chest CT scans, if it's advanced enough to kill you.

I guess you're suggesting that when people die of Covid-19, we'd know it and count it?

That's not true.

First, CT scans (and other expensive tests) are not generally performed on people who have died of pneumonia, apparently due to the flu (or other causes). Second, the radiologists reading those studies would have to train to make the distinction.

Now, going forward, we have an increasing need to know whether the virus that caused the pneumonia that killed the patient was Covid-19 or not, so maybe such testing will become routine. (I doubt it will be CT scans though, because there will be much cheaper and reliable ways to do it.)

But so far we've been undercounting Covid-19 deaths for the same reason we've been undercounting cases: lack of testing.
The "better safe than sorry" advice is fine if your goal is to avoid getting the virus at all costs. Many people feel that way right now, but complacency will set in eventually.

As a relatively young and healthy individual, I'm already not worried about avoiding the virus for my own wellbeing. If I get it, I will probably show mild symptoms and make a full recovery in a few weeks without needing any medical care. I'm not afraid of getting it, but I do want to take reasonable precautions to avoid spreading it to those at much greater risk.

Most of the public, myself included, are not going to build decontamination stations in their houses. Frankly, that's too much effort for too little personal benefit. If we understand how the virus spreads and use that knowledge to encourage more efficient precautions, then we'll ultimately do a lot more good.

That's why it's important for us to paint an accurate picture of how effectively it spreads on inanimate objects. If the message is just "better safe than sorry", most people will eventually decide to take their chances.
He mentions he’s in favor of the MIT created digital tattoo to show when people are vaccinated. I’m not thrilled with the idea of being marked like cattle.
Eh, it really depends on the kind of bread your making. I think it probably works with regular yeasted breads, but you're definitely going to get less oven spring with sourdough.[1]

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I am a Canadian and we have the exact system Sanders wants in this US. With very few explicit exceptions, private medical insurance is illegal and the government is the only insurer. It is also not possible to pay for or provide supplementary services, ie, if you have to wait 2 months for something, there are no private clinics that can do it in 2 weeks.

Universal Healthcare means everybody is covered and there's many different way to provide such coverage. Canada's is not even a very common approach.
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The USA as a whole does not have a very healthy population

Thing is, the relative health of citizens of the USA tends to vary wildly by region. For instance, people in Colorado are far more likely to be very fit, active, eat healthy, exercise daily, and engage in outdoor activities than residents of, say, Alabama.

That means that free or universal health care, if it comes to pass, will be very unevenly distributed in the USA.
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> If your eye is untrained, how do you know that the comment is realistic?

Because it ends with "As long as there won’t be a sufficient political will on both sides to halt all hostilities for normalization to be possible there isn’t going to be a resolution to this conflict."

The main problem is that both sides probably have a point - one side will say they were there first, the other they were there longer etc. And, again, they will have a point.

This is very much different from your example with the thief who has objectively zero rights to the bag.

I honestly pity such never-ending wars dragged through generations where everyone will claim they are completely right and the others are completely wrong, with some selected numbers on hand.

In Europe, where I live, there were wars for 1000 years between countries who thought that the others were illegally occupying "their" territory. Some of these lands kept switching sides (Alsace/Lorraine/Moselle, Silesia, ...) and I am glad they are more or less settled now and people can live there in peace.

> Again: you don't realise it, but this is spin. The two sides are not equal. One is illegally occupying the other's territory. The other one is not.

A Google search for "why jews can historically have their land" or similar brings plenty of sources. I opened the first few and it looks clear that the land belongs to Jews.

A Google search for "why palestinians can historically have their land" or similar brings plenty of sources. I opened the first few and it looks clear that the land belongs to the Palestinians.

See the problem? I do not have a particular interest in that conflict so I do not have an opinion. I just see that people are killing each other for land and that both sides have lots of documentation to back their positions. And various political support worldwide (some for one side, some others for the other).
It's very useful when your mobile is pay as you go and also has a much larger screen which makes referring to it while driving much safer. You can also use abetterrouteplanner to get better route planning than Tesla's own solution.

Your passenger can use it to find a place to eat while you are driving.

Not everyone, not even every Tesla owner, has an always online mobile.
This mindset and the ideological blinders it introduces is a huge problem.

When china went aggressive on the virus people looked at it as draconian measures because of the ideological lens, not looking further to see the measures were absolutely necessary by scientific fact.

When Singapore started to spring into action, the western press was musing about election posturing all the while nobody prepared.

Ideology kills. We need science. And maybe then we can feel morally superior again