Will we know if we actually saved net lives in 20 years? That's what I keep thinking. If we just let it run its course it could have been over in a few months and we would have been back to normal.
Yes, that is literally what so many libertarians on HN and elsewhere think. Who cares if people die or suffer as long as I am not inconvenienced. You see the mental contortions they go through in this thread alone. It's death by petulance as much as pestilence.
This research was conducted by people lacking way more brain cells than Joe Rogan. If you took 3rd grade science class and conducted this experiment it would have better results.
I've said this since the beginning. Instead of focusing on miracle drugs, vaccines, social distancing, governments should have just given everyone a Peloton or similar exercise bike. There would probably be zero deaths. Alas no one wants to put in work anymore, they just want a quick fix
You said that there would be no deaths if everyone got a Peloton. That's one of the most out-of-touch COVID opinion I've ever heard. I really don't get your point.
Healthy people get COVID too, and you can't cure a lot of health problems with exercise.
> I've said this since the beginning. Instead of focusing on miracle drugs, vaccines, social distancing, governments should have just given everyone a Peloton or similar exercise bike. There would probably be zero deaths.
Claim: Exercise and taking care of yourself makes you healthier, more resilient.
HN: First, prove your existence by citing sources I find agreeable. Otherwise I'm entitled to assert that this is all imaginary, without citing sources!
Sorry 84% of deaths. I'm also convinced if this virus happened in the 60's we would have way less deaths (per 100,000) even with the lack of medical advancements. People with a reasonable weight and exercised once a month were never in any danger. Sure there are outliers. Healthy people can have complications. That's with any virus though.
It's the entire problem. I also used to say things like that. But at a certain point, the population is what it is. It will refuse to exercise (otherwise it would already be doing so).
Sure if it was widely distributed that it prevents it 100% there would probably be a 5-10% spike in gym memberships or peloton ordering, but no. But even that spike would probably die off in 1 or 2 months. It will go back to it's "settled" behavior.
I'm really tired of when someone groups all white people in the same category like we all have rich parents and only where we are because they paid off someone at a college. It's really offensive because I worked hard to get where I was at and had no help. It's like assuming all African Americans like rap and fried chicken. It's just really offensive.
Feels good to be saying the same thing for a year and finally get validated. Death rates have nothing to do with countries having a better response, better lockdowns, better mask wearing. It's literally who has the fattest people. The US is one of them. Asian countries not so much.
You are comparing two different things. Lockdowns, mask wearing, and other mitigations seek to drive down the number of infections. The death rate (IFR/CFR) is the relationship between the number of infections and the number of fatalities, so no one should expect lockdowns to change the death rate (up until health care runs out of beds/staff).
Vietnam is full of skinny people therefore they were not hit hard. Although they have an obesity problem on the rise. This is a pandemic 30 years in the making. If we just addressed the obesity problem this wouldn't even be worse than the flu. I've been saying for the past year, if this hit in the 60's/70's it wouldn't have done anything.
I'm really worried that will be "locked down" indefinite even when hospitalizations go down. I'm also worried that when an actually deadly virus hits our shores we'll be more hesitate to do lockdowns. So basically governments used their once in a 50 year lockdown on this. It mainly killed people that were fat (why the US had a higher mortality) and old. Except no one every said lose weight, exercise and get fresh air. What happens when Ebola hits us.
When something with ~30-50% mortality starts doing a COVID there won't be room for anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown people. With COVID you can get sick and live. With something like ebola you get sick and die, or you go through the most traumatic event of your life. It doesn't leave a middle ground of disbelief. So I think there would be the political will for a second lockdown if our next global pandemic looks like ebola. A second COVID probably might not be scary enough though.
Ebola infected ~28,000 people in a few African nations over the course of a few years. Knowning now just how flawed testing is for COVID in developed countries it is easy to imagine this number is understated.
This just isn't true as far as I am aware. The vehicle interfaces[0] and control loop are all in Python. It doesn't help if other components are in C if your commands to the vehicle are interrupted by GC pauses.
Even if it was true, and it was all in C, it is only better because there is no GC -- there are still a myriad of potential issues that the auto industry routinely addresses in both software and hardware that Comma either cannot or does not. Not to say they are perfect, but Comma is well below any sort of bar.
This. The quality of developers has gone down in the past 10 years and it's really hard to teach maintainable Javascript to developers. They just don't understand even delegation and how to do complex UI's in plain Javascript. Either way you wouldn't really want to because it just turns to crap. The frameworks have been great for companies.
> The quality of developers has gone down in the past 10 years
Well, there we go. Why would that be? It seems a very sad state of affairs. A genuine question: what has happened here? Constructively, we need frameworks for different skills - why are we expecting designers and UI experts to deal with dependency management? Let's let them do what they are good at.
"Developers" is too wide a term, for a start. Cutting through the abstraction and thinning down the frameworks so we can achieve the same thing with less is a very different discipline to making a site look nice. Let's all work together.
History will tell.