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I'm a little skeptical of the claims made in that post

> If everyone in the world just did one thing differently, talking to their doctor about whether they should start fluvoxamine or ivermectin after they learned they were COVID positive, our hospitals and ICUs would be nearly empty today and there would be very few “long haulers.”

Yes, there was a preliminary communication released recently in JAMA showing some evidence that Fluvoxamine treatment has clinical promise. You can read it here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27731...

The results: "In this randomized trial that included 152 adult outpatients with confirmed COVID-19 and symptom onset within 7 days, clinical deterioration occurred in 0 patients treated with fluvoxamine vs 6 (8.3%) patients treated with placebo over 15 days, a difference that was statistically significant."

Not bad results, but seems like a big jump to suggest that all doctors change their treatment procedures based on this study. I'm interested to see larger studies, especially with longer follow-up durations.
A former EMT I know told me their policy was always to transport DOA patients and to tell the caller that the person died on the way to the hospital, even if they were already dead. I'm not sure if it's the same everywhere but the idea was that it's kinder to whoever found the person.
Private property is definitely one of the things that has benefited society the most, but the reward distribution has skewed in the wrong direction.

When one has too much power or capital, the ability for one to rewrite the laws that govern the taxation of the accrued private property (intellectual or physical) increases as well. This is why those with the most private property can essentially do as they please; the benefits they derive from their private property are disproportionately high compared to the cost that society incurs protecting their private property.

For instance, the workload that the government is tasked with to protect private property of these elites at home (e.g. the large amount of police resources that need to be available for large tech campuses or in rich areas) and abroad (e.g. by tasking the Acronym Agencies with searching for foreign and domestic threats, by using the might of the dollar and the military to basically force their will on other countries through political, physical, or financial violence (FATCA comes to mind...) [0]).

Private property needs to stay, but the incarnation we find ourselves in today needs to evolve for it to survive. Either through taxes or government stakeholdership in corporations (e.g. Yanis Varoufakis' proposal that companies must give X percentage of their shares to a common fund such that the incentives are aligned for both the companies and the government to act in the long-term interests of its citizens), this imbalance of power needs to be corrected for.

The one thing undermining this is a distrust in the US government that is rightfully earned after decades of neoliberalism (and, to a different perspective, neoconservatism) has worked hand in hand with the elites to steal and pillage the private property of the common man (e.g. how Warren Buffet's secretary pays a higher tax percentage that he does).

Unfortunately I don't see this happening. Things are getting worse in the US as public institutions are eroding or becoming more kleptocratic, all the while the elites are starting to act more like feudal lords, thinking that some libertarian wet dream of privatization of everything is the answer (private military and private firefighters come to mind for the extremely wealthy few). This technofeudalism will probably only be stopped by some major shift in global power (e.g. away from the dollar as the world's reserve currency, which I suspect would provoke the US into military action one way or another)

If anyone wants to read a great article about what happened to America's institutions, I recommend Francis Fukuyama's America in Decay [1]. His "end of history" argument seems very premature given what's happened since he wrote that, but most of his other work is spot on.

[0] I certainly don't agree that these policies are beneficial in aggregate, as they result in international hostility, the things Snowden revealed, etc. It is, however, a thing that government does provide for the monied elites.

[1] https://cf.linnbenton.edu/artcom/social_science/clarkd/uploa...
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I think you're in the wrong thread.
There’s nothing except lockdowns that will stop what is happening in LA right now. It will be quick and effective and we really don’t have any other tool. We still don’t have a prophylaxis or treatment. People are going to die that shouldn’t be dying and I’m not just talking about COVID patients. When hospitals are full, people die.

Ivermectin is not a supplement. It’s an expensive anti-scabies drug. I’ve read it’s supposedly somewhat effective but I haven’t seen anyone implement it in treatment yet at least in the US. I’m familiar with the IMASK+ protocol. I believe they are using that in Peru but it doesn’t appear to have been making any changes in the death rate.
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Same here. I had some passing information from Pixar, WDAS, and ILM and they were pretty much all NFS. Lots of NFS caching (avere) and high performance NFS appliances in use.
Someone else commented this on the thread, but my understanding is that some non-zero percentage (maybe even non-trivial percentage) of people without, say, a pulse can be revived only at a hospital but not by an EMT (because of equipment or skills, I guess?). This decision forecloses that possibility completely.
Well, there's also the Human Microbiome Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Microbiome_Project

Although if you thought the genotype -> phenotype problem was hard, the microbiome -> phenotype problem is likely several orders of magnitude harder.
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This might be an unpopular opinion but this is a pretty awful headline and it makes it look way worse than what the EMS documents actually say. There’s a bold text [1] “shall not be transported if return of spontaneous circulation is not achieved in the field”. There’s a pretty big difference between abandoning patients with little chance of survival in general, and giving up after failure to achieve ROSC.

Perhaps at some point we’ll be at the place where EMS really have to give up without even attempting CPR, but we’re not there yet.

That’s not saying the situation is not bad — it’s terrifyingly bad. But a headline designed to make incorrect impression just doesn’t help.

[1] https://twitter.com/Pervaizistan/status/1346295476405084168

EDIT: link, to focus on the right tweet. typo.
I've been thru EMT training. It boils down to EMTs not having formal medical education necessary to make a call as significant as pronouncing someone deceased. It's a blanket rule, so even in extreme circumstances like if you find someone beheaded, you just log it as a severe injury and transport the body to the hospital where a doctor pronounces them dead.
Please read my initial comment again. I'm not arguing for the US, in its current state, to adopt the Taiwanese strategy. Once community spread is such high as it is now, another strategy is needed. And I'd say the current lockdown & reopen has been proven inefficient in sufficiently many places now.

Michael Mina has a much different idea: Cheap mass testing at home, regularly, for the whole family. Even with less sensitive quick tests it should be possible to suppress ~50% of new transmissions this way, which could bring case numbers down to traceable levels in 1-2 months. The key would be cost and availability of these tests - that's a problem that can be solved, as production is simple and is already currently costed at $1 a pop. From a regulatory standpoint it should be treated more like toothpaste and less like a medical good (i.e. certify the efficacy but don't go overboard).

After all else has pretty much failed, all western governments are now just betting on the vaccine. This is a dangerous proposition - all you need is a resistant mutation and we're back at square one. Plus, vaccination at current rate will take 1-2 years - I don't think that's a good place to be in both in health terms and economically. There needs to be a backup plan put in place, as well as lessons learned taken for the next pandemic.
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Wow! Another propaganda piece which repeat same falsehoods about COVID origins from China without providing meaningful substance. It's from the NYTimes too, a reputable fake news source which also slanders Trump. Could it be they are also in on the conspiracy to engineer this global reset by stealing the election from Trump using a lab engineered virus?
Way outside my expertise, but you still need to remove the corpse, and the ambulance is already there.

Plus, it is not really a good look for paramedics to be leaving a dead person.
Knowing a bit of maths, I'm having trouble understanding how this isn't just categorical logic. They say that the laws of physics should be expressible in terms of statements about which physical transformations are possible or impossible, and why. In categorical logic, laws are expressible in terms of statements about which morphisms exist or would be contradictory/absurd to exist, and include proofs. What's the difference?

I read through a couple of their preprints but didn't find much concrete material, just a lot of complaints about existing theoretical physics traditions.
In Europe, you'll never impress anyone with Europass, but you're highly unlikely not screw anything up.

It is well structured, people know what to expect, it's machine readable... Personally, I like it a lot, as opposed to some flashy website PDF that an applicant thinks it's amazing, but it takes me extra 30s to find a piece of data on it.
I just moved to LA from New York State in December, and it seems to me that the number one problem here is noncompliance. So many people are just out and about like nothing unusual is going on. People aren’t wearing masks, or they are but not covering their nose. The number of house parties I’ve seen in the past month is shocking—and no one at these events has worn a mask. Outdoor places like beaches and trails are packed with unmasked people, which by itself isn’t necessarily a hazard, but then they aren’t maintaining a safe distance.

I’m not saying NY was perfect; not by a long shot. But here it’s like people aren’t even trying.
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That's not how I read the article's introduction. But under that interpretation, it would be meaningless for the aliens to try to understand the game in any more detail until they understood that kind of basic information.
Everyone who can get the flu shot should be getting it. It's free in the US and takes a couple of minutes. It's not just for elderly or at-risk people, and even if you don't mind getting the flu spreading it can be dangerous.
Oh, I see, thanks. It's a location offset, not a distance offset.
Hey looks great! What stack have you used? In particularly how did you develop such clean UI?
Like the author, I built my first business on someone else's platform. It was a great niche, but eventually you hit a ceiling and run into impediments stemming from their business decisions - over which you have no control. The author seems fully aware of his situation.

I hope he at least gets some explanation, but this goes to show there's no substitute for forging a trench of independence around your business model (at least where it makes sense) and growing your own ecosystem (certainly not an easy task, of course).
You might be right -- at this point, with everything that's gone wrong at the govt level, I'm pretty willing to accept rank incompetence as an explanation.
Nixpkgs supports LibreSSL, it can be used alongside OpenSSL due to the way Nix works, and it is usually a single-line change to compile an application against LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL.
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Actions speak louder than words, don't they?
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Agree. Additionally, I think it should in general allow sections with custom titles.

For example currently there is a 'writing' section, but as a researcher you want 'publications' (which is pretty much the same, but names matters).
When have they ever run out of oxygen before?
I’m curious if covid will finally change the liberal belief that being morbidly obese is ok and shouldn’t be viewed similar to smoking.

Our food policies have failed us. Like honestly allowing a single serving of food/drink to have multiple “servings” on their labels is crazy. A single hot-bun is 1 serving not 2.5
I worked at Disney Animation on the Linux engineering team for a few years. The flexibility of Linux was a key enabler for us being able to produce movies the way we did. Artists overall seemed to love the power of the Linux desktop setup we provided.
This is how any major CMS works to this day, and anyone doing serious development does have the engineering workflows in place to replicate the database content.
A related concept I’ve read about is the “Schelling Coin,” where a crypto contract accepts community input and then pays out to everyone who submitted the most popular answer. The idea being that you label the contract with something like “temperature in Chicago” which causes the actual temperature in Chicago to be the only value everyone is likely to agree on (i.e., the real value becomes the Schelling point)—thereby allowing for decentralized embedding of real world information into the block chain.

I’m unclear if this mechanism is actually in use, though, and I’ve seen a convincing attack proposed which might explain why Schelling coins don’t seem to be in widespread use.
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The vaccine is more effective. But we have 35 million doses stuck in warehouses around the U.S. because we don’t have a credible distribution plan. No way we’d be able to mass distribute vitamins to the general population. Not to mention the reluctance due to anti-vaxx social media memes.
Indeed. I forget the term but I've read that trauma patients hearts can stop during massive blood loss. And they are saved by another person actually pumping the trauma patients heart with the responding care givers hands.
That's not broadly true. Anyone has sufficient medical training to declare a beheaded person deceased.

States have more and less sane approaches to this. Obviously, many things are not as clear-cut as beheading. But there are states that allow EMTs to make a field declaration, depending on specific guidelines, and possibly with the requirement of contacting a doctor to describe the situation and get their permission to terminate resuscitation efforts.
> Here at Breaker, we’re truly passionate about audio communication and we’re inspired by the ways Twitter is facilitating public conversations for people around the world. We’re impressed by the entrepreneurial spirit at Twitter and enthusiastic about the new experiences that the team is creating.

Translation: All your podcasts and social interactions are now belong to and linked to your Twitter account via Spaces.

> Unfortunately for Breaker users, the iOS and Android apps will be shut down on January 15. The Breaker team suggests that people who have podcasts hosted on Breaker move them to another platform, while users can transfer their podcast subscriptions to other apps through the Export OPML File option.

Translation: In the end the user (You) always loses in events like this. So much for an 'incredible journey'.

Such a waste.
Keep in mind gmail doesnt forward messages regarded as spam.
EMTs are specifically supposed to not move bodies unless there is an urgent reason to do so, but leave them on the scene for coroner etc to handle.
My prior for this is that it's unlikely that we know all the bat viruses that exist.

If you find another virus that's closer, it no longer matters that the old ones were far away
Hey! Thanks so much for taking a look at that! I don't know what to do with it, so even your little comment helps - it was a fun weekend project, and I think the technique itself (nested writing) is strong for the future.

But who wants this tool? I don't know!

As far as UI, I really don't know much in that direction either. So, I just went for simple simple.

Anyways, thank you so much again for having a look! My first post on HN and you commented on it. Very gracious of you.
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the same time.
Well, it actually broke Google Analytics Realtime, since basically the report stopped working.
Well, is there anywhere else in China other than Wuhan that could/would identify a new virus like this before it goes mega-exponential?

AIDS, for example, only got flagged because a normally extremely healthy group started appearing with diseases associated with the very old and failing immune systems. And, even then, it took quite a while to figure out that it was a virus.

In the middle of flu season, COVID probably wouldn't flag until your hospitals suddenly fill up for no reason. And even then most people would just write it off as a nasty flu. Otherwise, COVID is just a fairly invisible bump in your mortality rates for people with comorbidities and age. Do you really think China is gonna look too hard into a few extra old and/or sick people dying for some reason?

Given that a full hospital is likely to be the first point where someone will start looking for cause, that really has no relation to origin point.

And, I would argue, China is worse than that. A local party leader in China will absolutely not bump something like COVID up the chain until absolutely forced to. It is quite possible that there were other flare ups that were covered up and the Wuhan one was simply large enough to be uncontainable, close enough to a virology lab to get flagged, and occurred right before Chinese New Year which forced a government response.
I think artists change from doe eyed 20 year olds to mature and cynical 30 year olds just like all of us.
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Hiya your link is great. But it would be awesome if you could include some information about it rather than "link bombing".
Mind you, you're reading comments by people who aren't even writers
Here’s a good summary of some findings.

“ Among the 2,634 patients for whom outcomes were known, the overall death rate was 21%, but it rose to 88% for those who received mechanical ventilation, the Northwell Health COVID-19 Research Consortium reported.”

“ Ventilators are typically used only when patients are extremely ill, so experts believe that between 40% and 50% of patients die after going on ventilation, regardless of the underlying illness.”

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You might want to turn off background app refresh entirely, as otherwise you are providing your coarse tracklog (not that anyone goes anywhere these days) via GeoIP lookup to every app that does background refreshes, even when you don't have them open.

Presumably you don't want every sketchy app on your phone knowing a complete log of dates and times you switch from your home wifi to 4G (leaving home) or from 4G to your work wifi (arriving at work).

I was astounded at how many background apps are constantly phoning home on iOS when I monitored the traffic.

I recommend the app Charles Proxy for this.
So, leave the body by the curb?
At some point, “this is a free country” became “I don’t have to apply impulse control under any circumstances.”
He tried. Many people tried.
Reminds me of the first version of Redis in tcl: https://gist.github.com/antirez/6ca04dd191bdb82aad9fb241013e...
But you handed them in, in person, and had an in person interview.

If anything, a picture is a loss of historically available visual data on a hire.
> But a headline designed to make incorrect impression just doesn’t help.

Yet this is basically all we get. Because it makes people click. It’s so hard to tell what’s real and what’s exaggerated these days. And if you try to make the case that something is exaggerated, you come off as a right wing nut job.
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