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Comment Re:Dexamethasone (Score 1) 391

True, but the previous poster was asking about a drug that has been recently been demonstrated to help Covid-19 patients and is cheap since another poster had mentioned it. I figured they were talking about dexamethasone. However as you mentioned different course of action so not interchangeable. I just wanted to point out it's not as though it's super effective or anything. Don't expect that you can go get Covid with impunity because this drug will save you. FWIW research is still out if blood thinners are a good idea on covid patients or not. (Makes some sense but we'll have to wait for the research.)

Comment Re:Arguments (Score 2) 249

Then reform your senate.

This would require a constitutional amendment, which requires 75% of state legislatures to approve it, thus voting to reduce their own influence.

Chance of this happening: 0%.

Slight problem, every state would have to agree to this because of article V. Or at least that's how I read this

provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

Comment Well one of the things that it does (Score 2) 165

Is give you massive numbers of blood clots in your body including your lungs which seems to be what kills a lot of people. I know one line of research is to see if blood thinners might result in a better outcome. (But of course those drugs come with their own risks.)

Comment Re:This is why enforced code standards are bad (Score 1) 66

I find the people who are the biggest proponents of these things are the ones who break them all the time.

Very true and also the ones that flip out the most when anyone breaks any of these rules even if there's a legitimate reason. Then of course later on complain that too many people blindly follow the rules when they shouldn't have. (If any here has never run into one of these people you are so lucky.)

Comment According to wikipedia (Score 1) 132

Dexamethasone was first made in 1957 and was approved for medical use in 1961.[5][6] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.[7] Dexamethasone is not expensive.[8] In the United States, a month of medication typically costs less than US$25.

Wow, wonder how a drug that is almost certainly not under patent managed to slip through. (Yes, I'm that jaded.)

Comment Do you know what makes this worse? (Score 1) 101

I have had a few phone screens that went no where because I don't know the latest of C++ 14 or 17. However when I look at other developers' code at multiple shops what do I see. I'm lucky if I work on code where the other developers even know what a map is. It's built into STL which we're allowed to use, they teach you that in CS102 and I've seen very few developers even know what that is, to the point of actually implementing their own version of a map and doing so very badly. I see stuff like that all the time and it makes me wonder how often do people really need the stuff in 14 or 17 when even more basic stuff is just ignored.

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