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> How are these people getting their hands on prescription drugs?

The people in this story didn't get their hands on prescription drugs, they found an aquarium chemical with a similar name.
I'd imagine it's because it's available everywhere (even openwrt routers and those things), and it's easier to get away with not having to use sudo (depending on the task you are doing, of course). With Ansible, you almost always need python installed on the target host. Which, in 95% of cases is not a problem. It's not ideal to install a system package just because you want to do some provisioning (there are ways around that, but it gets hacky pretty quick...).

I haven't looked at this yet, but I really like the idea. Always wanted to have something like this for a few special cases. And if it's well designed, it could be a nice, lightweight and portable solution to do server provisioning, development project setups, use in Docker builds, etc.
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Water comes from the tap? It’s not the end of the world, dude; it’s just a high-anxiety staycation.
The case fatality is <1%, Italy just has a lot of people infected with SARS-CoV-2. There must be over a million cases in Italy, they just aren’t able to test everyone. The age distribution is similar in South Korea.

As bad as Italy is, India worries me the most by far.
The larger your kernel the bigger the chance that it will get hacked. This stuff should have never been in the kernel in the first place.
Can anyone point to prolog systems still in production?
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> Additionally you are responding to an article about people who took the drug to treat Covid-19.

No, they did not. They took an aquarium cleaning chemical with a similar name.
It's the phosphate salt vs. the sulphate one used in the human medicine (Plaquenil).

Both counterions get used in medicines, but it's tough to say in general if it matters: sometimes it makes a difference, other times it's just whatever's easier/cheaper to make.
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
People taking warfarin literally have serum levels measured frequently. Typically lithium and valproate too.

TCAs barely used any longer.

Acetaminophen doesn’t belong in this conversation with the other drugs.
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The pharmacist at the aquarium supply store?
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Maybe Chloroquine hasn't been tested, but Hydroxychloroquine+azithomycin was tested in a tiny 36 person trial in France, and I believe that's what Trump is basing his "hunch" on. He heard and thought he understood some small snippet of information.
He probably means this: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-expands-access-to-...

But that has nothing to do with HIV, neither do garlic and beetroot have anything to do with nitric oxide.
The man and his wife took it in the form of aquarium cleaner. I imagine it's quite hard to translate that form into an actual dose. See http://bannerhealth.mediaroom.com/chloroquinephosphate
I found answers to some of my questions on my own:

- The AppContainers thing sounds like it directly refers to the Panes in Explorer referenced, and it sounds like it is Explorer creating the sandboxes, so they wouldn't bubble out of the Pane, so it probably is correct that versions of Windows 10 doing that don't have a lot to worry about that as an exploit vector. That probably doesn't apply to other possible vectors such as evil PDFs/Word Documents, though those generally have warnings for PostScript fonts at this point. (I glossed over the Panes as the concern for the idea it might be running in the Explorer process. Their an "extension point", so Explorer moving them into sandboxes sound like exactly what it should have done, and not surprising is what it is doing.)

- DirectWrite is considered to have parts forked, but entirely independent, from ATMFD. Some CVEs have been caught that also impacted (lightly) DirectWrite, but this doesn't sound like one.
Sadly there's functionality to show previews of fonts when browsing in explorer, which means the font is potentially loaded and used in an explorer context. The appcontainer sandbox will still work in this scenario since explorer is just the unwitting accomplice responsible for loading the font.
I wish we had that in the US. We're about to begin the Great Dieoff.[1]
That chart now updates every day at the URL, and is worth following.

[1] https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
It's not medicine. Do you do null hypothesis testing after you pray? Some things just aren't objective - see psychiatry for an example of a super scientific approach to subjectivity. It still generally results in BS homeopathy that doesn't work.
Since what you wrote is true (you could have a gene where one allele increases observed phenotypic variance and another decreases it; in fact I'm pretty sure such genes exists), I suspect the people downvoted you did so because they'd rather not think clearly about these matters.
He isn't even close to the only one "endorsing" this drug. Not even close.
We can debate the originally proposed title, but failed state? Come on.
> I've never met a person with a maths degree who could write professional quality code,

That's probably fair! There was a programming module in my degree, and it was awful. People were literally rote-memorising whole scripts for the exam (the CS department at my uni didn't do exams, but of course the maths dept did for their programming module).

I actually started programming before the maths degree, and have over 10 years of experience at this point. I'm not saying my code is perfect, but I imagine I'm incorporating many of what you would consider best practices.

I guess reading books can help. I've just not actually met any developers who write high quality code who learnt it from a book. They all learnt it from 1. Practice and experience 2. Colleagues in a work environment 3. Places like HN, which is excellent at exposing you to things you might not otherwise have come across.

I guess my criticism of C++ is over all the little details that can trip you up if you don't have a comprehensive knowledge of the language (undefined behaviour, use after free, etc). Most of them aren't tooo bad on their own, but there are just so many. Most other languages simply don't have these issues.
What about the rest of the time? Is it easy to live without a phone in Taiwan? Can you buy a non-locked phone and a prepaid SIM card anonymously?
AppContainers have nothing to do with panes, see here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/appc...

It's a sandboxing method, and atmfd was moved into a sandbox to reduce the risk of people exploiting bugs in it. At this point it is clear that sandboxing it was worth the effort.
Actually there is extremely weak to none evidence for its efficacy in COVID. One terrible French clinical trial.
There's an important detail missing: the dose.

I gather that the therapeutic dose is on the order of 500 mg/day. So did they eat 10x that, 100x that, or what?
Surely that is one of the ways evolution works?
That isn't a chart. Or even a reference. :(

Where are you getting these numbers?
Apparently chloroquine phosphate is the right drug and it's a synonym for chloroquine the drug. https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-8633/chloroquine-oral/det...

Also all the wikipedia references are about chloroquine phosphate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroquine#References

Looks like they did take the right drug, but OD'd or something.
>starts promoting off-label drug use in response to a national emergency

Who did that, and when? Are you saying Trump told people to go buy fish cleaning supplies? You are being ridiculous.

Why don't you "just stop"?
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It is the standard course of treatment in Belgium and other European countries

https://epidemio.wiv-isp.be/ID/Documents/Covid19/COVID-19_In...
I think you understand my point just fine.
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Erratum:

8> [[mapf equal identity sort] "apple" "elap"]
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Should be:

... sort sort ...
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Exciting, very nice idea, I'll keep my eyes on this. It happened more than once that I had need for something like this, and I stewed over how to implement it for quite a while now. Haven't looked at it in detail yet, but from a first glance it looks well thought through.
Yes, it sounds like Explorer is the one creating/hosting the AppContainer sandboxes specifically for these third-party capable extension points (previews), as it should have always done, which is why AppContainers are mentioned as an existing solution for this exploit.
There is NOT good RCT evidence for the efficacy of chloroquine for COVID —— Medical Professional

Stop acting like there is. It’s insane at this point. It might work, but frankly it’s unlikely given the history of chloroquine’s failures as an antiviral.
That raises many more questions, like what other horrible toxic chemicals a aquarium cleaner product has. Drain cleaners are infamous known for being used in suicide, and recall it being mentioned on medical shows as one of the most nasty thing someone can put into their body.
I don't think that is what fake news means. It is what appears to be a reviewed article. Is that not the case?

Was it shown to be incorrect in findings or methods?
And yet, my bottle doesn't say "Go crazy! This stuff is really safe!"

Instead, it says: "Do not take more than your recommended dose. An Advil overdose can damage your stomach or intestines. Use only the smallest amount of medication needed to get relief from your pain, swelling, or fever."
It is also the recommended treatment in some European countries

https://epidemio.wiv-isp.be/ID/Documents/Covid19/COVID-19_In...
> With that assumed, it's someone choosing to sacrifice other people's lives for their political values.

No, not just other peoples - that includes my own life too.

The freedoms enshrined upon us by the constitution are not negotiable. "shall make no law" admits no exception.

> we have to choose priorities

I chose mine.
The paper I posted was from the international journal of infectious diseases and you give me a site with shaolin monks doing kata as a header.
Sounds like you actually do "see physical labor as hell" as I semi jokingly suggested.

Or is it maybe all employment work?

[I'm only 1/4 sarcastic and 3/4 actually curious.]
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This is insane. Garlic and beet root are not used medically for any disease at all, let alone COVID.

NO evidence is pretty weak for COVID. Even if it was true, we’d give NO or other related compounds and certainly not unregulated dietary supplements.
The FDA also makes mistakes.

For example they total stuffed it up with their handling of Oxycontin:

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/07/13/purdue-...
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Covid-19 no longer a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK
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The Kriegsmarine had quite a significant surface fleet that actually siphoned away men and resources from the much more effective U-boats. The most famous vessel would have to be the Bismarck, followed by the Tirpitz. Also notable are the Graf Spee. Most of these ships didn't do much over the course of the war, though they did tie up the Home Fleet, which was afraid of what would happen if they managed to break out into the North Sea and contest the supply convoys from the US.

The Falklands War was similar in that the Argentine Navy had both a large cruiser (General Belgrano), as well as an aircraft carrier (Veinticinco de Mayo). The Belgrano was torpedoed with a large loss of life by HMS Conqueror, and after that the Argentine Navy stayed in port; though it's air wings fought well over the islands.
The experts in China, South Korea and Taiwan have proven that you can get the disease under control with testing, contract tracing and serious quarantine methods. The alternative is collapsing the healthcare system because available hospital beds are full of coronavirus patients - coronavirus isn't the flu, 20 % of patients are hospitalized for three weeks. We are observing that in Italy and New York State.

The President needs to stop talking generalities.
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I thought so too, but when someone gets involved in divisive topics online, they get what they get.
I guess I don't see it that way. Probably the hairiest things in the kernel that maybe shouldn't be there are boot-time network filesystems, but I think that's kinda the price you pay for that sort of convenience.

bpf is a sandbox, and unprivileged processes do not magically gain access to it; anything malicious that could be done with bpf could as easily be done with the coincident root privileges.

What is your example of where the Linux kernel is "eating more of user space every year"?
Your information is wrong and misleading. It’s irresponsible for you to post stuff like this.
There's two reasons to test drugs. (1) To know it's effective. (2) To know it's (reasonably) safe. Chloroquine has passed (2), which is relevant for this article.
Do you have evidence that Italy has more infected than anywhere else? Because, that is what this would take, at this point.
Could you share the analysis that led you to this conclusion?
then use that against the argument. Break it for what it is not worth, but don't attack the person itself and the right to free speech. Where would you draw the line for defining what is polluting the conversation and what is not? Can you see the danger there? This trend of checking someones credentials before hearing the argument can become elitist real fast. Careful to not become the censorship we condemn
any sort of emergency, oil refineries here have been doing it for at least a week or two
Now now, there are multiple quotations on this thread showing that not to be true.
Acetaminophen doesn’t belong in this conversation with the other drugs.

I don't see why not? It's a good example where the max therapeutic dose (4000mg/day) is within 2X of the toxic dose range (7500mg-10000mg/day). And even the max therapeutic dose can be toxic to the liver.

And it's exceptionally easy to accidentally overdose if you don't read product labels, since you could be taking multiple products that contain it.
Wait, sorry I think I misread you. Do I think every other person is reading that the president is asking people to take things without doctor's orders? Sort of, perhaps I'm being unfair. However, it seems rather directly to be the interpretation of the person who posted it, because they are replying to a request for an example of the president recommending "that the public obtain and self medicate with chloroquine".
Find it interesting that this has been up for an hour and currently has only one comment. I guess the UK lockdown just isn't that spectacular.
Not surprising, and I'm glad it's being done. I'd be more worried if the headline was something like "Power companies wait too late to sequester plant operation crews, personnel shortages mount as employees catch COVID-19" or similiar.

I got a taste of something similar to this years back when I was a NOC monkey. I worked a weekend shift. One time, the news reported that big snow storm was coming that weekend. When I showed up that Friday, the site manager gave me the info for the hotel they were putting me up in for the weekend. Yes, he knows I have a relatively short drive to work along routes that will be the first ones hit by the plows and salt trucks. Yes, he's glad I have a fresh battery and snow tires on my car. No, none of that matters, we need to guarantee personnel on site, and the hotel's closer.

Companies that provide important services usually have plans in place for events like this if they have their shit together.

Usually.
Well,if people would only be buying to consume it.Ebay has pages and pages of listing of toilet paper now. How I hope we'll beat the virus sooner than all those bastards trying to sell it.
I'm not sure how it is across all of the US, but when I was in NY, I was certainly surprised to see advertisements for prescription drugs on TV. These always embed "ask your doctor about X".

That's just completely unheard of in Australia. You cannot advertise prescription drugs to consumers, period.

Maybe Americans are just more likely to self-diagnose and self-medicate in general? Or visit the doctor with an agenda for a drug, and see the doctor's prescription as mere paperwork?
this link is correct.
What’s up with the name? I’m never going to get my boss on board with a malware-looking name like that.
she works in a lab.
I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying it's required for the health of an iPadOS only future.
UK seems to exclude it, which seems odd for the country that gave us the rspca. Appears in fact more restrictive on several dimensions.
I'm fairly libertarian so I'm going to say, that's fine. As long as the correct / max dosage is noted on the label/instruction sheet (don't know about US, but in Slovenia, pretty much every drug, even common ones like Aspirin, come with detailed instructions), I don't really see the need to excuse people from being responsible adults (with possible exception for opioids and other addiction-prone drugs).
And an anecdote of someone who takes it for lupus who is having a hard time getting their regular prescription filled:

https://twitter.com/chroniclycranky/status/12418326784727244...
No direct evidence. But any reasonable parameters for the viral reproductive number and mortality, along with clear evidence of asymptomatic carriage, lead to this inevitable conclusion.