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It's unfortunate we didn't get more facts from the interviewee on how exactly it's too late. The interview felt more like a complaint about politics and less about the dire situation of humanity.

Malthusian takes like this are incorrect. I'd like to see where you were informed how "more births are decidedly unhelpful."

Most car - pedestrian crashes in the USA never end up with the driver at fault. Not sure this will change when cars are autonomous.

The reason these people are homeless a lot of the times is because they lack housing. Drug usage and crime are a side-effect of this [1].

Denser housing -> Better (frequent, reliable) public transport -> more people use it -> More people want to live in denser housing -> More denser housing is developed -> less homeless.

This is the formula for how Manhattan, brooklyn, and queens were developed by real estate companies. Builders wanted to be near public transport because they knew they could build large apartment buildings and get a bunch of money in rent because a bunch of people wanted to live near public transport so they could get places quickly and reliably.

[1]: Also if we legalized all drugs people wouldn't be forced to turn to criminal organizations. We already do this with alcohol.

Unfortunately, in the U.S. this is not true.

The ebikes aren't dangerous, the cars that hit them are. I think that's an important distinction.

Or as written by George Pólya in How To Solve It

  1. See
  2. Plan
  3. Do
  4. Check

Category Theory really helped me in building a framework for finding similarities in problems. Which, after all, is the basis for creativity in general. Can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what questions to ask in the first place.

And the same can’t be true for making percentages seem small and insignificant? What exactly are you trying to prove?

This is not a 1 in a million event. There are studies like my comment above that back this statement whole heartedly. This is a virus with proven neuroinvasive potential that affects large swaths of otherwise incredibly healthy people.

You can't compare these supposed 1 in a million events to something like doing perf testing on a 64 node raspberry pi kubernetes cluster.

Do you only care about people if an event is statistically significant?

This isn't some small percentage of people this is 3 - 8% [1] of people hospitalized! Despite not finding data for people not hospitalized many report suffering from and being hospitalized for failures of the pulmonary, endocrine, and digestive system.

Sometimes people have strokes from sneezing.

See I can make generalizing statements about bullshit too.

[1]: https://annalsofintensivecare.springeropen.com/articles/10.1...

No. People (extraordinarily healthy people) are suffering pulmonary embolisms (and thus hospitalized) weeks after they have been cleared from the virus. There is a very, very, very long tail to this disease outside of the initial 2 - 4 weeks of being sick.

I totally forgot polls existed on HN. Wow.

Edit: It’s amazing what you forget after 10 years on a website.

Raz isn't a reason why the police exist. Raz is a product of a system where the police exist too much, which if given the proper social and educational services earlier in his life, his character and personality disorder exemplified here would have been nullified.

My understanding of containment is that it is only effective when testing and tracing are radically pursued. There just are not enough resources at the state level (at this point) to do this with the effectiveness China has managed to do it. So we are left with one tool to fix this which is flatten the curve to not overwhelm the healthcare system and lead to further deaths. South Korea has been doing a lot of tracing and they are starting to see this as a great success, but mostly due to south korea's ability to track phones of people diagnosed positive.

I agree. I don't like having underlying health conditions listed as a statistic. I think it leads to people thinking "oh it only really affects people who are sick" and then those people go about their day as usual and spread the disease further. I didn't want to skip over it though out of fear of someone saying I tried to frame the stats to fit a narrative or something.

We have a well-funded state university system paid for by tax dollars which provides these labs with competent, well-educated employees. But yes, these labs are not directly funded by state dollars.

No - sorry for the confusion.

18-49 year olds represent 53% of all confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state of New York.

Nope most are private labs! But what do you think drew these labs to New York? Possibly a well-educated populace driven by a successful state university system funded by tax dollars? You better believe it!

Here is the very informative briefing Cuomo gave today [1]. Quick facts for the state of New York:

1. ~15,000 cases of confirmed COVID-19

2. 114 individuals have died from COVID-19

    a. 70% of deaths were ages 70 and over and "majority" had underlying health conditions.

    b. ~80% of those who died under the age of 70 had underlying health conditions.

3. 18-49 years old represent 53% of all confirmed COVID-19 cases.

4. hospitalization rate of 13% which is very good, flattening the curve works. Stay inside.

Cuomo has mandated the City of New York to hand over a plan in 24 hours (as of today) to outline how exactly the local governments will curtail overcrowding in parks and other public places. When asked why Cuomo can't do this himself, he stated in a fair manner that while he does have the power to do so, he would not be as apt to devise the plan as the local governments are. This is the right move.

Gov. Cuomo made a similar judgement when pressing the federal gov't to curtail fed regulations and to allow him to open over 200 labs available within the state of New York to provide faster testing than what the federal government was able to do.

This opening of state-wide labs is why NY has nearly 15x the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases when compared to the next highest, the state of Washington. NY also has a more accurate hospitalization rate because of this, which is a very important number to be tracking when figuring out how to "flatten the curve" which currently sits at 13%.

Governor Cuomo is following the playbook of South Korea as effectively as possible in this current political climate and has successfully deployed every move available to him and helped push federal barriers down to allow NY to attack this virus faster than any other state. He is showing leadership that everyone wishes to see at the Federal level.

Having all of these laboratories in the state of NY makes me grateful every time I think about how much I pay in state taxes. But I can't help to think about how all of the bloodshed is a direct result of the failure of leadership at the federal level to be proactive about the situation. There is nothing of greater importance than every individual human life. The federal government sacrificed these people and all the people who will suffer and die in the future in the name of better polling numbers, placating a fan base, and keeping stocks afloat for a mere month longer than they would have.

Edit: Moved 53% statistic into its own bullet. Don't know know why I had it as a sub-bullet of the deaths statistic.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbIVnnMT18

It helps to be advised by one of the best people in healthcare too, Dr. Howard Zucker.

Non-sensationalized title: "iPhones have a bug where 'Uninstalled apps' are using a significant amount of data"

Just a warning as, speaking from experience, it happened unbeknownst to me. Congrats on the book btw!

I will say that people get hell-banned for seemingly self-promoting on HN. Might be good to mix up your submissions with other articles you find interesting, so it doesn't appear as though you are only posting your own writings.

I think you're thinking of yik yak [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak

Different ways to determine / order Least Recently Used so I guess it could be classified as an algorithm.

The point of the article was if the person didn't lose their "perfect job" they would never have forced themselves to look for other, better, and more enjoyable opportunities.

Can we just shut down equifax already?

When you put “sensitive people make me sad” In your HN profile it debases your point of view.