Interesting.... But am I the only one who recalls seeing multiple articles stating that they suspect type A to be the most susceptible? It's curious because due to this study's findings it would appear that while type O fairs the the best, type A has slightly better chances compared to type B and type AB. So in other words type A is the second most resistant? Am I interpreting that right?
Type A is wayyy more common than B or AB, at least in the US (and I think Europe?). Not sure about other regions. That could distort the effect, which looks to be fairly minor in the first place.
I haven't read this properly, and I'm not sure I totally understand the stuff being parsed, but here's my initial thought. Parsing a 4-digit span can be done with PEXT-sub-multiply, and range checking requires a extra few instructions.
initial: 0 0 0 0 3 4 1 2 (characters)
pext: 0 3 0 4 0 1 0 2 (characters)
sub: 0 3 0 4 0 1 0 2
multiply: 3412 412 12 2
Values below '0' will set high bits in the "sub" phase. Do another "sub" to check for values above '9', and branch.
Use of PEXT means potentially very fast handling of separators. Everything can be branchless.
Might not be as fast as SIMD but it should be better than a typical scalar approach.
Sooner or later this is bound to happen and I think the problem is that are too used to things working smoothly and not considering an interruption. Also, time and time again we seem to find it easier to recover from a crisis than to prevent it. It's really strange...
I used to worry about people not considering interruptions, but I think recent events have convinced me I was being too pessimistic. Almost everything I use, from chairs to obscure condiments to imported canned coffee, can apparently make it to store shelves or my doorstep during an interruption of everything with no precedent in living memory.
In the large scale, the current crisis is a joke. Do you want water? Your tap still works. Hungry? Put on a mask, drive to the supermarket, and wow, they still have food...
That makes me sound like a crazy prepper, but if the water shuts off and the supermarkets don't get resupplied I'll probably be dead within a week.
A responsible man would have advocated for clinical trials, the only way to know if any drug actually does what it's supposed to do. There are dozens of drugs, experimental and repurposed, that show activity against SARS - remember there was that epidemic in 2002, and since then people looked at the virus, knowing it was going to be back.
But Elon Musk is not a responsible man. He is Mr Foot-in-Mouth on Twitter many times over.
I can't understand why he's tweeting this as if the CDC and doctors and so on aren't already considering those drugs as a treatment option. Many of the responses to the tweet have a tin-foil-hat kinda feel to them. Who exactly do they think is suppressing usage of these drugs? And why?
How are these people getting their hands on prescription drugs? Someone touting X prescription drug as a potential cure for something doesn't mean we should all go out and take it. I mean, PrEP is a treatment to prevent the AIDS virus from spreading, but it's not like someone being happy about that means you should somehow illegally procure and take a prescription drug.
I am fairly sure that chloroquine is available without prescription in many African countries, so one-time visitors may have kept a stash of anti-malarials bought during a trip. It is (or used to be) available over the counter in the UK, too.
I would also suppose that aquarium grade chloroquine doesn't go through the same dosage assurance process. This is why it's dangerous to dose yourself using chemicals that are pharmacologic. Unless you're taking medication designed and verified to be used by humans at the given dose, you don't actually know if the concentration written on the box is actually what you're taking. These aquarium chemicals are likely unregulated or regulated much more loosely, so that the margin of error may easily kill a person, but not a fish.-
They may also contain non-active ingredients that are not harmful to fish but kill humans. Who knows?
In other words, don't take aquarium chemicals and think they're medication.
I'm not qualified to comment on what differences exist between chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, I'm pointing out that aquarium cleaner tablets are not medicine. Even if the names are the same, you have no idea what a tablet like that is cut with.
Bestow whatever personal praise you want on Elon Musk based on power, charisma, whatever...
As one of the most famous people in the world, with his own agendas, and no medical qualifications... it is extremely irresponsible for Musk to make any sort of public comments about anything medical in nature. No matter what he says, a significant number of people will take it to heart and ignore medical advice, science, and their own common sense.
If there will be much of America remaining. Over 600k unemployment claims and an infection graph that looks way scarier than Italy where the situation is disastrous, combined with a lack of tests and many people still going to work...
There was a short 2 weeks opportunity window for that to happen, but it didn't happen. The ruling class made sure there will be no disruption in their (healthcare) system.
That Sweden is a socialist country. Socialism is not the same as Social-Democratic which is what most countries in Europe are. Call it capitalism with a social security net.
If you look at the actual numbers, the northern European countries are actually better at implementing the promises of a democratic capitalist society: Higher median income, higher life expectancy, higher rankings in Happiness indices like the OECD Better Life Index, way higher voting turnout...
Nothing to do with that. This was Supreme Court decision and government will probably challenge it.
Even if Cryptocurrency helps in some dire situation arising out of COVID-19, facilitating cryptocurrency would be lowest of priorities for the government.
It almost certainly doesn't. COVID-19 is looking more and more tame by hour as cases resolve and fatality rates drop. There's fewer active cases today than yesterday, and fewer still than the day before. We're 34% off peak number of active cases. Cryptocurrency is as scammy as always. Not sure one would distract from the other.
> COVID-19 is looking more and more tame by hour as cases resolve and fatality rates drop. There's fewer active cases today than yesterday, and fewer still than the day before. We're 34% off peak number of active cases.
Really interesting. I saw it mentions about distorting distances in the tube. I always wondered why is important to know the distance while being in a metro. I know where I'm supposed to go and as long as it's not my first time travelling I also know how much time it will take. In my opinion the distance (in km) between stops it's irrelevant. Time is of the essence
Metro maps are optimized for finding your way from one metro station to another. But what I really want is to go from one physical location to another, and that is made more difficult because those distorted metro maps don't map very well to the physical layout of the area. It's often difficult to see how the metro stations correspond to physical locations, and therefore not straightforward to find out the best total route (i.e. including walking from starting point to metro station, metro, walk from metro to destination, possibly other transportation options).
Edit: Tom Scott has a video (somewhat theatrically titled "Lies on the London Underground") that highlights some peculiarities of the London Underground, some of which are (partly) caused by the non-geographic nature of the maps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrHRQSm6LIs
Subway maps are optimized for taking the subway. Which, yes, especially in a city core with multiple lines may mean they don't really tell you that a trip taking you through two transfers is only about a three block walk.
But, if what you really care about the physical locations, there are tons of other maps that you can use. Subway maps try to preserve some correspondence to the physical world but that's not their primary function.
Nowadays it's not as big a deal because maps are often used just to check the order of stations on a line or whatever, but if you're actually planning a journey without using an app, it's useful to know that Finchley Road and Hampstead stations are about 15 mins walk apart despite having a huge gap between them on the tube map.
Otherwise you end up going all the way in and out of town and missing the lovely views, or waiting 10 mins for an overground train when you could have basically been there by now.
You probably don't remember every segment of every line in a city metro. In metro, distance roughly equals travel time, so when you're staring at a map and picking a route, that would be very relevant information to know.
This shows financial education is needed, but more important it shows that the basic income is too low for the temptations available. In my opinion there are way too many temptations and people aren't thought how to resist them. When I say temptations I'm referring to gadgets, travelling, fashion. Everybody wants to be part of the newest trends and that's the main issue. Also, nobody wants to live in a studio or with a roommate up until 35, but I feel like a house isn't a priority anymore.
