I'm thinking worst case we build 3x as many hospitals as we have now, and make sure we can accommodate anyone who needs intensive care.
Not a useful short term solution but I don't see why not for the long term. It just becomes another infliction that we prepare for and handle the best we can.
Buildings can be constructed, beds and associated equipment and I did mean beds as in hospital beds with associated equipment (ICU or otherwise) - where are you going to educated and train doctors and nurses to manage 3X.
Also, a common argument would be 3X is for such black swan events. What will happen to those beds, hospitals and manpower in a normal situation, especially with costs associated with educating and training medical professionals.
Don't get me wrong, I'm onboard with the fact that something fundamentally needs to change all over the world.
>where are you going to educated and train doctors and nurses to manage 3X
I suggest introducing a medical equivalent of military reserve forces/organized militias. These would be volunteers who train several times a year with medical professionals, to be called up in emergencies. Training would be limited to the skills most important in a pandemic. To incentivize volunteering, they could be given priority for medical treatment when resources are limited.
Even so, if those volunteers who are going to be performing dangerous and invasive (but potentially life-saving) procedures (like intubating people) and making snap life-or-death decisions (that require aptitude + years of medical education + experience, to avoid inadvertently killing their patients), we're going to need to have a very different set of expectations about these emergency volunteer medics/nurses than we would have for professional medics/nurses. With respect to death rates, expertise, errors, negligence, professional standards, how they will respond psychologically to the work. They would probably be better than nothing, but I imagine that an average person would rather have professional treating them than a volunteer, so that would be something that we would have to work through as a society.
With the economy strangled, how would it be possible to build more hospitals. At some point you can't ask people that don't want to do it to work for free.
Not really. The phone companies have relevant data too for this kind of search. What's notable here isn't that Google was a single source for this data, but that they notified the user when it happened, even if it means everyone on HN now thinks they're the bad guys in the situation.
You don't know that GPS was required, nor whether or not cell records were subpoenaed as part of this investigation. All we have is what Google told the guy in the story.
And as far as Apple, I don't think that's true. Apple has a location history feature just like Google does. If that data ever reaches their machines in a non-anonymized way, then it's subject to subpoena just like anyone else's data is. Do you have a cite that explains why this is impossible?
>You don't know that GPS was required, nor whether or not cell records were subpoenaed as part of this investigation. All we have is what Google told the guy in the story.
I do know that because cell tower triangulation is on average only precise within about a square mile, which is considered far too broad for these types of searches.
>Apple has a location history feature just like Google does. If that data ever reaches their machines in a non-anonymized way, then it's subject to subpoena just like anyone else's data is. Do you have a cite that explains why this is impossible?
Location history on ios is stored locally, not logged and stored by Apple. Any data that is passed to Apple is anonymized. Per Apple:
"Where you go says a lot about you. Maps delivers a great experience without Apple knowing which stores, neighborhoods, or clinics you visit. And because Maps doesn’t include a sign-in, where you go isn’t associated with your Apple ID at all. Personalized features, like locating your parked car, are created right on your device. Data used to improve navigation, such as routes and search terms, is not associated with your identity. Instead, that information is based on random identifiers that are constantly changing."
AND
"If Location Services is on, your iPhone will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers (where supported by a device) in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for augmenting this crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations."
Rust has a few interesting things going for it versus Golang.
It's more difficult to learn, it's more intimidating to get into and keeps more devs away because of that, and it's in high demand. That can be a great combination for job security.
Golang and Python are also both perfectly fine and in demand, however they don't have the complexity / difficulty barrier to entry that Rust does. In terms of candidates in the job market, Python is pretty well flooded at this point (especially for less demanding work).
If you wanted to stand out from a pack, I'd choose Rust over Golang and Golang over Python. However you'll see a lot of lower-mid and mid-tier ability devs in Golang that have come from languages like PHP, because it's fairly easy to dive into. You don't see that nearly so often with Rust.
>>We report, however, that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage. In addition to the well-known functions of chloroquine such as elevations of endosomal pH, the drug appears to interfere with terminal glycosylation of the cellular receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2. This may negatively influence the virus-receptor binding and abrogate the infection, with further ramifications by the elevation of vesicular pH, resulting in the inhibition of infection and spread of SARS CoV at clinically admissible concentrations.
>>Chloroquine is known to block virus infection by increasing endosomal pH required for virus/cell fusion, as well as interfering with the glycosylation of cellular receptors of SARS-CoV
The WSB strategy: Buying call or puts instead of individual stocks. Calls are when you think a stock is going to go up, puts are when you think it's going to go down. Instead of having to buy an individual stock, you can simply buy a call because you think the stock price will go up. If it does go up like you project, then you will make money. If instead it goes down, you lose money. This is generally a non-standard type of trade for the common investor.
It's easy enough on the surface to understand, but much harder to actually execute, because you generally do want some deeper understanding of market trends and how stocks move. That barrier of entry hasn't slowed down most people on WSB, because the loss porn was kind of the point of the subreddit. They didn't really care if they guessed right, they cared about having the most daring bet.
A lot of the craziness is from exactly what bets they are making. The cool thing to do is to buy "Out of the Money" options (where $TSLA might cost $420/share but the options are for $450), sometimes with borrowed money. These options are dirt cheap, so you can buy a ton of them. Usually you lose your whole investment when the options expire, but if the stock jumps over the price of the option you can make a ton of money.
The rough explanation I've heard before is to satisfy conservation of momentum and energy together. But on doing some more digging this seems wrong. C12+gamma is an output, just only for 0.01% of reactions. No idea why the different byproducts have different rates though.
> Why would the carbon split? Why not stay carbon?
Don't know — I'm not knowledgeable enough in this area to do more than take WAGs about it. The sequence might be different: For example, the 1H proton might not ever fuse with the 5B11 to form 6C12; instead, the fusion reaction might be that the 5B11 fissions into two 2He4 and one tritium 1H3, after which the 1H proton fuses to the tritium to form the third 2He4.
> And wouldn't this technically be fission energy then?
It is the star on the left, not necessarily the left shoulder. It is only the left shoulder if Orion is facing away from you, which I've always assumed he isn't. Any idea if there is a convention for which direction Orion is facing?
Not a useful short term solution but I don't see why not for the long term. It just becomes another infliction that we prepare for and handle the best we can.