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Comment Re:Good will investment (Score 1) 26

You never see other highly profitable industries, like Morgan Stanley or the other big banks, help out like this.

Wrong. Wall Street is trying to help NYC with vaccinations. That's in addition to various charity drives with company match https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews...

Comment Re:Warp Speed! (Score 2) 190

I listened to interview of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. They chose not to be part of Warp Speed and they did not take government money for development of the vaccine. Encouragement - it was obvious that a successful Covid-19 vaccine will sell very well all over the world, Trump's encouragement was not necessary. From https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F1... Pfizer has distanced itself from Mr. Trump and Operation Warp Speed. In an interview on Sunday, Kathrin Jansen, a senior vice president and the head of vaccine research and development at Pfizer, said, “We were never part of the Warp Speed,” adding, “we have never taken any money from the U.S. government, or from anyone.”

Comment Re:"coding can and should be for everyone." (Score 1) 108

I think if 20% of all students have the mindset then it makes a lot of sense to teach it to everyone. Without teaching it, you will not know about every child if he belongs to this 20%. And many more kids can learn something useful from it too. I am helping one girl now with her CS college coursework. She is definitely not with the right mindset but she is getting something useful and educational from that course.

Comment Re:It's what we want (Score 1) 542

You can move all you want but wear a mask. In NYC, a smaller percentage of doctors, police and transportation workers have positive antibody test results than the general population. They move, they work but they also wear masks. So put on a mask, fit it and move around all you want. But lots of people don't want to do the mask part.

Comment Re:Nah, that's where the bribe money is! (Score 1) 240

In NY and many other states, hospitals can't just expand hospital capacity without approval from the state. This has to go through Certificate of Need process. The system was created to prevent creation of overcapacity followed by overcharging https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.health.ny.gov%2Ffaci...

Comment Re:New TV show (Score 1) 257

Also, if you're in the 0.01% (1% is a misnomer - you are possibly in the 1% if you post on /. and have a nice tech job.up.

To be in the 1% bracket you need to earn $500-600K in states like CA, NY, NJ, MA or $700K in CT. This is quite a bit more than a nice tech job. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.co...

Comment Won't i quarantine pretty much everybody in cities (Score 1) 74

I do not see how this can be useful in cities. Out doorman got coronavirus so everybody in the building that was going in/out over that last week should be quarantined? This is 420 apartments. A nurse or a doctor takes subway to work and gets infected (and they do get infected). That would mark hundreds of people who were in close proximity to him/her for isolation. Most of people that still going to work in large cities will have to be quarantined if you follow this tracing. That includes essential workers like food store and transit workers, nurses, doctors. Maybe you can use something like that in rural areas but I do not see what to do with such app in cities.

Comment Re:Ventilator technicians on the critical path (Score 2) 107

Patients on a ventilator are not in coma but under sedation or general anesthesia (when sedation is not enough). This is how surgeries are done. The difference is that surgeries last hours while Covid-19 patients may be kept on a ventilator for days or even weeks. Source: anesthesiologist who does these things daily in a hospital. Agree with the rest of your comment.

Comment Re:Such mechanical ventilators are usless (Score 1) 118

People can handle them only when sedated and they have to weaned off of them for weeks, sometimes months.

Agree on the first part, disagree on the second. Source: talking quite a lot about these things with an anesthesiologist who works with ventilators and sedation daily.

Comment Re: What is the use case? (Score 1) 27

I ran applications and services in such VMs and did not have to worry about port collisions or resource starvation. I now run a bunch of different apps and services all on one physical server. We fixed port collision last Friday. A host out of memory this morning, still not sure which app caused that.

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