It was tried recently and worked as intended: https://youtu.be/opRMrEfAIiI?t...

Wrong. Wall Street is trying to help NYC with vaccinations. That's in addition to various charity drives with company match https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

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://www.nytimes.com/2020/1... 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.”

Pfizer does not participate in Warp Speed and they did not take money from the US government to develop this vaccine

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.

That's right. In economics, option pricing models are PDEs. Scholes and Merton received Nobel price for that work. Black died by the time it was awarded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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.

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.health.ny.gov/faci...

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://www.businessinsider.co...

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.

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.

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.

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.

that was 1TB, not 1GB

It's for corporate datacenters. Get a big box for ~1GB RAM and run tens or hundreds of VMS on it with 4-32 GB.