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"lmao"quote:As of Friday morning, African Americans made up almost half of Milwaukee County’s 945 cases and 81% of its 27 deaths in a county whose population is 26% black. Milwaukee is one of the few places in the United States that is tracking the racial breakdown of people who have been infected by the novel coronavirus, offering a glimpse at the disproportionate destruction it is inflicting on black communities nationwide. https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate/
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Gio posted:has this thread talked about taiwan at all sure. theyre kicking rear end. much like singapore a rich ultracompetent asian government making everyone else look bad
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Finicums Wake posted:it's funny that china's reported numbers of infected and dead were scrutinized endlessly, and the state was blamed for the faulty information that initially was coming out. but in the US, which is too incompetent to gather the data in the first place, these statistics are either taken at face value. or, if they are criticized, it's never the government that's held responsible, or any other actor or entity really capitalism gives you a thousand different actors to spread the responsibility around Homeless Friend has issued a correction as of 02:05 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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Singapore may have gotten lax. my friend is there and it turns out the infection is starting to spread and they might lock down in a few days.
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Taiwan locked the roni down and mobilized industry to provide masks for the world https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1245399247232684034?s=21
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Salt Fish posted:It's like science but without all the pesky experiments. i read a really good philosophy of science book which argued that orthodox macroeconomics is much closer to a branch or mathematics (that mathematicians find mathematically uninteresting) than it is to an empirical science. he also argued that, until economists stop trying to derive results from these basic models of human decision-making, there's little hope that macroeconomics will advance in predictive power, which is a key standard we've held other sciences to the book is called Economics: Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminshing Returns? by alexander rosenberg
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Durf posted:whats happening in taiwan cum deaths
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My wife, who has asthma, has just started constantly coughing a dry cough. We also live below two nurses. Wooooo.
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https://twitter.com/flanaganagain_/status/1246547865532534791 cobol is a programming language used in mainframes (huge expensive servers). basically the only option for enterprise computing in the 60s 70s and 80s. as you would expect most cobol engineers are quite old. the core systems of many banks still run on cobol
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https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1246457007214931968 pictured: the liberation of New York City
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Charlz Guybon posted:It's already 1345 which is more than the 1321 yesterday. Probably going to hit 1500 today. American case and fatality reporting is meaningless. There will never be an accounting of how hard this hits the US. Health systems have no interest in accurate reporting since their insistence on understaffing and understocking has left them unprepared, and local, state, and the federal government have no interest in accurate reporting since it will cost them re-election. I really hope someone takes the time down the road to analyze the stats and figure out how many more pneumonia/ARDS deaths there are this year. It's going to be a looooooot. SchrodingersCat has issued a correction as of 02:09 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:christ i skipped like 10 pages and this dumb argument is still happening it's a Karen schism
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poty posted:https://twitter.com/flanaganagain_/status/1246547865532534791 A loooot of really important government systems also run on cobol.
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Basic Poster posted:Man there's been like 4 flamewars in here today. That's rad. shut up cop
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# ? Apr 5, 2020 02:08 |
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SchrodingersCat posted:American case and fatality reporting is meaningless. There will never be an accounting of how hard this hits the US. Health systems have no interest in accurate reporting since their insistence on understaffing and understocking has left them unprepared, and local, state, and the federal government have no interest in accurate reporting since it will cost them re-election. The official number of deaths has been doubling every 3 days for 30 days. I don't think that's meaningless.
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SchrodingersCat posted:American case and fatality reporting is meaningless. There will never be an accounting of how hard this hits the US. Health systems have no interest in accurate reporting since their insistence on understaffing and understocking has left them unprepared, and local, state, and the federal government have no interest in accurate reporting since it will cost them re-election. This is also why I repeatedly tell health care workers to keep a death log because that type of documentation is extremely important if people try to hide deaths
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Its going to be hard for them to really hide it though because that depends on the compliance of health care workers who they are currently making GBS threads reaaaaal hard on.
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Salt Fish posted:The official number of deaths has been doubling every 3 days for 30 days. I don't think that's meaningless. It's like someone telling you it's a little wet outside, and when you look out the window you find that you are in the middle of a lake. The trend might be showing but the figures are nowhere near reality.
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I am so loving gassy from all these beans. I thought I was supposed to get used to this, jesus... I'm going to be celibate by the time this is over if I keep eating beans. My wife will leave me. Also Texas isn't letting me recert my 18 months expired paramedic so I can't join the fun yet. Maybe they'll let me soon...
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Telsa Cola posted:A loooot of really important government systems also run on cobol. apparently its for the nj unemployment system
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Big jump in cases in New Hampshire. 81 today, bringing the total from 540 to 641, and 2 more death for a total of 9.
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cobolmyballs
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VectorSigma posted:let's see how active the sun is Could also even be that global climate change causes some unforseen effects in upper atmosphere where we don't even need solar maxima anymore to gently caress our poo poo up. Just crazy to think about how delicate our existence is in this chaotic universe that we barely understand. But yeah it could be just as likely that our dumbass monkey brain pareidolia acting up again and there's no "pattern" at all. Also to all the "lol when the space invaders comin?" comments that periodically surface itt: What if corona is the aliens?
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SchrodingersCat posted:It's like someone telling you it's a little wet outside, and when you look out the window you find that you are in the middle of a lake. Sort of. They have specific utility in that even if the actual number is off by 10x you can still predict the real peak within like ~8 days. Think of it like polling. You call 500 people and then you extrapolate that out to 300,000,000 people and get pretty close.
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poty posted:apparently its for the nj unemployment system I don't remember the specific ones but I think it was also several key federal ones that deal with finance poo poo.
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Finicums Wake posted:i read a really good philosophy of science book which argued that orthodox macroeconomics is much closer to a branch or mathematics (that mathematicians find mathematically uninteresting) than it is to an empirical science. he also argued that, until economists stop trying to derive results from these basic models of human decision-making, there's little hope that macroeconomics will advance in predictive power, which is a key standard we've held other sciences to The only economists who are honest with themselves imo are the Austrian ones since they flat out admit that their theories are untethered from reality and can never be disproved by objective results.
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the US is insane, is the border between Canada and the US shut down right now? if not we (Canada) should what the gently caress are you people doing down there
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Do it ironically posted:the US is insane, is the border between Canada and the US shut down right now? if not we (Canada) should Freedom
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Durf posted:whats happening in taiwan life going on because they're doing everything pretty much the best of any country on the planet right now Salt Fish posted:Sort of. They have specific utility in that even if the actual number is off by 10x you can still predict the real peak within like ~8 days. Think of it like polling. You call 500 people and then you extrapolate that out to 300,000,000 people and get pretty close. we didn't know the more accurate death toll of swine flu until 4-5 years after it happened and it was 10x what they had initially reported
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Do it ironically posted:what the gently caress are you people doing down there nm, what's up with you?
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Shipon posted:life going on because they're doing everything pretty much the best of any country on the planet right now We might all die but at least the computer hardware industry will continue to soldier on
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can we make a sandwich
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SchrodingersCat posted:American case and fatality reporting is meaningless. There will never be an accounting of how hard this hits the US. Health systems have no interest in accurate reporting since their insistence on understaffing and understocking has left them unprepared, and local, state, and the federal government have no interest in accurate reporting since it will cost them re-election. The current 2.83% fatality is going to make enough waves given how many people are going to get it. We're talking close to three million fatalities labeled COVID if 100 million get it. And when where talking that scale, people are sure as hell going to notice if the real fatality rate is 5% or god forbid, 10%. The scale of the disaster is not going to be a secret.
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Wee dye
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Charlz Guybon posted:The current 2.83% fatality is going to make enough waves given how many people are going to get it. We're talking close to three million fatalities labeled COVID if 100 million get it. And when where talking that scale, people are sure as hell going to notice if the real fatality rate is 5% or god forbid, 10%. The scale of the disaster is not going to be a secret. If we do hit those death totals, there won't be official counts. Everyone will be so overwhelmed and there won't be enough tests anyway.
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Top Gun Reference posted:Weed, ye
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Charlz Guybon posted:The current 2.83% fatality is going to make enough waves given how many people are going to get it. We're talking close to three million fatalities labeled COVID if 100 million get it. And when where talking that scale, people are sure as hell going to notice if the real fatality rate is 5% or god forbid, 10%. The scale of the disaster is not going to be a secret. I keep wondering to myself if the real reality is that 25-30 million are going to die and we are going to look back with wild-eyed, manic joker grins at the days when we were talking about 2 million dead being the max
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poty posted:https://twitter.com/flanaganagain_/status/1246547865532534791 lmao it's been pointed out for years how insanely fragile these systems are and how old the workers are getting and how people in charge are just preferring to not think about it instead of deal with it or train new programmers/admins and along comes boomer remover this could really gently caress up the global banking system if it hits hard enough
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