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Re:Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavi... by walshemj on Sunday March 15, 2020 @03:56PM (#22586176)
Works for me if you can find a suitably remote cabin and a stock of food etc :-)
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Re:Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavi... by vinni2 on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:32AM (#22590283)
The Norwegian government is prohibiting anyone from staying in cabins [0] because they fear it would overwhelm the small hospitals in rural areas and becomes harder to manage medical resources.

[0] https://www.thelocal.com/20200315/norwegians-told-to-leave-c...

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Re:Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavi... by saagarjha on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:02PM (#22586233)
But what about my Hacker News habit? Surely there is Wi-Fi…
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Re:Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavi... by dmos62 on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:30PM (#22586473)
I'd end up simulating my own HN on paper.
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Re:Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavi... by avip on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:52PM (#22586651)
Maybe you can run the fakehn on-premise. At times of mass hysteria it's indistinguishable from the original.
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Re:Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavi... by grogenaut on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:34PM (#22586518)
Monte Carlo simulation or hidden Markov models?
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Re:Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavi... by danbolt on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:42PM (#22586590)
My heuristic is to take a oversimplified idea and express it in an authoritative tone on social/economic/administrative topics. Sign the username with pg and you’re good.
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