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Comment 64 GB model is a joke (Score 2) 110

I just want to point out that having 64 GB of storage on a mini-PC designed to play modern games is a bit of a joke. The even bigger joke is that Valve only stuck a UHS-I microSD port on it. You can only get up to 104 MB/sec read speeds at half-duplex, which is slower than an HDD. They couldn't even offer UHS-III support, which is up to 624 MB/sec at full-duplex, which is SATA SSD speeds. So you are basically forced to suffer read speeds slower than even a 5400 rpm HDD if you buy the base model.

Comment Re:Start cutting (Score 1) 318

The Pocket integration is basically just a fancy bookmark to a webpage. There is nothing much more to it than that. It doesn't even check if your page already exists in Pocket or not. You just click it and it transfers the URL to Pocket, letting Pocket decide what to do with it.

Comment Re:Flu - massive inoculation program (Score 1, Insightful) 595

Plus, the series of tweets this story is based on ALSO extrapolates global death tolls. He predicts up to 90 million global deaths if the whole world "does nothing", which is a much, much larger number than flyingfsck's "500,000" statistic. People just have to accept that this disease infects 2x more people than a standard flu and is 20-40x more deadly. It has a 10x infection rate every 2 weeks so it spreads very fast and hits very hard. It might not be extremely deadly to an individual person, but it has the capability to infect a LOT of people VERY quickly.

Comment Re:Just wait ... 100,000 cases already in Ohio (Score 1) 256

Honestly, getting it early is probably best for survival. At that point we haven't reached the point where our medical system has collapsed. In the Asian countries that were prepared for this and got on the ball quickly, they will have a less than 1% death rate. For everyone else, the death rate skyrockets up to 4-6% once it becomes too much for hospitals to manage. There are only so many doctors and nurses and once they get sick, manpower issues grow even worse. And we only have so many medical devices. Once all of them are in use, people will be left to die. That's what we've seen in Italy so far.

Comment Re:Corollary (Score 1) 203

Your actual death toll is influenced by many different factors. The age of your population and how well your medical infrastructure can handle the sick will sway things a lot. Many of the Asian countries were hit by SARS so they had a lot of experience preparing for something like this. By acting early and getting ahead of the epidemic, you can drastically reduce the rate of infection and avoid overburdening your health systems. This is why many of the Asian countries have around 0.5% to 1% death rates. South Korea was actually doing very well and had things contained until patient 31 infected THOUSANDS of people, so they are pretty much an outlier in that region. But even then they are still at 0.5%. They were prepared.

Italy was hit really hard because they took too long to act on the issue and their health system collapsed after becoming way too overburdened. When you reach a point where doctors have to pick and choose who gets to live and die because you don't have enough machines for the extremely sick, your mortality rates jump. It wasn't until that happened that Italy realized that the only way to defeat the exponential growth of the virus at that point was to contain it hard and lock down the whole country. Many other countries are on exponential growth cycles still (the USA included). The countries who are not prepared are looking at 3% to 5% death rates. It will grow out of control and the hospitals won't have the equipment necessary to save everyone. The USA as a whole as under 300 ECMO units, and some cases are severe enough to require their use.

My sources came from here:
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo...

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