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(out of a sample of 100 people) For every one person who dies: * 19 more require hospitalization. * 18 of those will have permanent heart damage for the rest of their lives.

One study published in March found that out of 416 hospitalized Covid-19 patients, 19% showed signs of heart damage.

Assuming 19 in 100 require hospitalization, according to the study: 19% of 19 will have heart damage or 3.61. Similar breakdown for other points.

Disclaimer: shutdown was the right call and the point is still valid with smaller numbers (they’re still huge). Just pointing it out.

I just spent 5 minutes typing this up only to see your post.. thank you for also noticing. The other point made from this source (about permanent lung damage) is also wrong. I don’t see sources for the other numbers.

I agree never closing the economy would’ve been a total disaster. But the math here is bad.

My first gig was a HLASM/COBOL internship at an insurance company.. so true, 10k line programs with all globals was the entire codebase. Navigating it with only a 3270 emulator gave me headaches but in a way it was fun. Coding it felt like doing a sudoku.

The 80/24 Rule 7 years ago

I feel the first is better, mainly because if the functions are named appropriately, from a glance you can glean the general idea of what the function does. And with modern ide’s, I think navigating that structure is easier than scrolling through the latter.

Of course I just got stuck writing jupyter notebooks for a month so I’m against all the scrolling crud.

Semantic Drift 7 years ago

Lay/laid as their ‘descent to barbarism’ makes me scared what they’d say about me..

Right there with you. I’m doing pretty decent, making 85k but straight out of college. At a nice start up in a big city. But 800k at Netflix? Good god.. I should mention I’m ‘straight out of college’ at 27, so that’s contributing, too.