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Re:Coronavirus-afflicted global economy is almost certainly ... by kortilla on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:06AM (#22886250)
How is a CPAP machine hack an indication that there are excess ventilators? I don’t think you thought that through.

> but it's far from allocated efficiently. I think it's time we recognized that.

Who hasn’t recognized there can be inefficiency in the current system? The argument is that a central planning committee is going to do much worse.

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Re:Coronavirus-afflicted global economy is almost certainly ... by emilecantin on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:17AM (#22899143)
The gist of the article was that a CPAP machine was basically a ventilator with some features disabled in software. Given that there are many of these around, with a 3G internet connection and OTA updates, and that the manufacturer could easily turn a CPAP machine into a ventilator by "flicking a switch", yeah, I consider that an indication that they're "sitting on it". They'd rather sell you a new machine at over-inflated prices than enable existing machines to be repurposed.
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