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by dakrisht 6y ago
I don’t think so. Italy is counting ALL deaths as Covid deaths. Their Covid numbers are simply incorrect.
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by dakrisht 6y ago
Apples to oranges. Can not compare Italy with Germany. Germans are willingly being tested, there process, order, proactive testing. In Italy everyone is 1) quarantined for the past 2 weeks and 2) didn’t even give a crap about this prior to
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by dakrisht 6y ago
Roche’s Cobas 8800 can do roughly ~4100 tests per day and this is a massive full-room setup. Many other RT-PCR capable machines exist out there (800 is the total number in Europe cumulative) but this assumes an efficient point-of test >
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by dakrisht 6y ago
I see the data. There is a surge, obviously. However, this assumes the current surge deaths are 100% SARS-Cov2 confirmed infections. They aren’t. At least not 100% Assumption can be made “atypical, bad flu season” but safer bet is on “newly
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by dakrisht 6y ago
This is another valid point and disturbing point. Italians are most likely counting most if not all deaths as SARS-Cov2 deaths. 1) A large amount of the elderly are going to hospitals because of pre-existing conditions that might be flaring
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by dakrisht 6y ago
So 200,000+ people under mandatory lockdown went to a clinic (not a drive through test, a physical clinic), lined up and waited to get tested for Influenza which was assumed to be SARS-Cov2? Or maybe Italy tested 200,000+ samples with RT-PC
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by dakrisht 6y ago
Ok sure. Still inaccurate to assume it’s SARS-Cov2. This is not a game of assumptions. Furthermore, Italy tested over 200,000 samples in a little less than 14 days? Don’t think so. Numbers aren’t making sense. At all.
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by dakrisht 6y ago
> One or two tests can confirm cases for a whole town. What? >They simply (and safely) assume that all flu-like illnesses coming from a certain area are covid. So Influenza A, B are safely assumed to be SARS-Cov2. Yeah... no.
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Ask HN: How is actually Italy confirming SARS-Cov2 cases?
23 points by dakrisht 6y ago|33 comments
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by dakrisht 7y ago
Right. One issue we’re having globally is that we simply cannot get an accurate fatality rate. We’re only seeing the sickest, most critical patients and the most overwhelmed hospital systems in cities. I think MOST patients being tested in
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by dakrisht 7y ago
Yeah, I remember reading this as well. MedCram did a good video showing how Zinc, for example, actually impairs viral replication but Zinc cannot enter the cell... without chloroquine :) Seems chloroquine has the key to the cell, otherwise
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by dakrisht 7y ago
Source for this comment? All pneumonia’s have decreased lung function post-infection and require therapy to retain full or close to full lung function. Curious where you’re getting this info from
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by dakrisht 7y ago
Good point and totally unnoticed. The young who live with extended families are the perfect carriers as they’re asymptomatic and elderly are close by, infected surfaces, etc.
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by dakrisht 7y ago
There’s truth to this and perhaps I jumped to an invalid American based assumption, stupid given that I’m European. In Europe, the elderly are out and about, walking, sitting at parks, drinking coffee, the works. They’re actually still doin
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by dakrisht 7y ago
Probably tens of thousands of undiagnosed, asymptomatic. Aka super carriers. The virus is smart and has evolved from an evolutionary standpoint. Infect younger and asymptomatic patients with the goal of spreading and infecting as many as po
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by dakrisht 7y ago
Right. 75% suffer from 2 or more. And 99% suffer from 1. Not good for the US given the high obesity / diabetes rates here.
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by dakrisht 7y ago
Some interesting data here. - Mean age of 79.5 sheds light on Italy’s extremely high fatality rates; in essence, it’s the (very) elderly that are dying due to complications from viral pneumonia. Which begs the next question... Why are they
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DJI RoboMaster S1(dji.com)
127 points by dakrisht 7y ago|109 comments
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by dakrisht 9y ago
This. Sure. But pure speculation. The forward momentum of that airplane could have clipped a tail and taken it off while pulling up and max thrust. He was wayyyy below minimum decision height (called out and set before landing, usually a fe
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by dakrisht 10y ago
Max changed the way money is sent for better or for worse. He changed the landscape along with Thiel and Musk. PayPal ended up breeding a dozen or so entrepreneurs who have similarly changed the game. How this is not monumental is beyond me
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by dakrisht 10y ago
Startups have always glorified stress it is simply part of the modus operandi. Stress is part of life in general and a high-paced, uncertain and extremely competitive work environment compounds this. I think Max's point in discerning b
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by dakrisht 10y ago
That's because SV is so knee-deep in their own world / bubble, clarity and perspective is something many simply do not posses. It's a shame really.
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by dakrisht 10y ago
Not sure if indirect Freudian slip or typo. Corrected. In any case, Peter is a brilliant guy. No doubt about that.
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by dakrisht 11y ago
First, don't sit for 13-15 hours per day. You will regret it later and it is detrimental to your health. Either pomodoro every 30 minutes and walk around for 5-10 mins or do a combination of standing desk / sitting. Second, I can&
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by dakrisht 11y ago
This reminds me of Sneakers. "My voice is my passport. Verify me." http://youtu.be/-zVgWpVXb64
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by dakrisht 11y ago
I've hired 3 developers through HN. All A+ people.
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by dakrisht 11y ago
I feel your pain. TWC business class is the scam of the century. TWC really has colluded the market here. In our current office, we basically have no choice: TWC or Verizon DSL at 3Mbps for $100+ per month. What is this? 1997? Their service
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by dakrisht 11y ago
Unreal ASK HN question. Lol
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Ask HN: What is the point of Google Analytics
3 points by dakrisht 11y ago|3 comments
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by dakrisht 11y ago
If you want to turn on (enable) tracking protection in FF, hit the following link https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-fir... Or do this: 1. in the address bar type about:config , press retur

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