Balaji S. SrinivasanOvjeren akaunt

@balajis

Angel investor. Cofounder of Earn, Counsyl, Teleport, Coin Center. Previously CTO of Coinbase, GP a16z. I hear this Bitcoin thing might be kind of a big deal.

Stanford, CA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: studeni 2013.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. I cannot imagine how bad this will be if the goes viral in San Francisco. The complete failure of city government is no longer a joke.

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  2. “He also warned that the virus could be turned to vapour by the force of a toilet flushing, endangering people in the same room.” If this scientist is right, you don’t want to be entering an airport restroom anytime soon.

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  3. It does feel like the coronavirus crisis is the starting gun for this decade, in the same way the 9/11 attacks were for the 2000s or the financial crisis was for the 2010s. By the way, that original quote is from old VI Lenin himself.

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  4. There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. China is now at war with the . These are wartime headlines. And the short term losses are already too great. But in the end I think they triumph by willing the future into the present.

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  5. One clarification. Looks like mechanism of digital quarantine for Wuhanese right now is the computerized ID system (NYT): But they may lean on WeChat soon as it’s already a tool of social control (BBC):

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  6. The has now killed more mainland Chinese than SARS. This is just the confirmed death toll. The Caijing article gave evidence of significant underreporting and underdiagnosis. And disease is unfortunately not yet at its peak.

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  7. Odgovor korisniku/ci

    Chris, I greatly respect you and your work, but I think you were wrong on this one. Your deductions were reasonable given the confirmed stats but there are many reasons to believe those numbers are an underestimate (lack of test kits, self-quarantine, saturated hospitals).

  8. The coronavirus is driving wartime levels of medical innovation in China. Telemedicine, medical delivery robots, at-home diagnosis via drone — all these things existed to some extent but they will become standard of care.

  9. Odgovor korisnicima

    Here’s a longer and somewhat more detailed version:

  10. Odgovor korisniku/ci

    🙂 There may be a role for print as the vinyl of news. Somewhat relatedly, I often do math with pen and paper, because it provides more focus. But do you agree the trendline is clear?

  11. There are some promising treatments out there, like remdesivir in the NEJM and the cocktail reported by Thailand’s ministry of health. But it may be a year before we get a vaccine, and the world may not be the same after that. It will be shifted into a new state.

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  12. The internet in 2000 or 2010 couldn’t bear the load of the entire physical world. But in 2020, it kind of can. The coronavirus-catalyzed flip from physical to digital life is conceptually similar to the eventual MMT-catalyzed flip from fiat to the crypto economy.

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  13. The primary and the mirror In 1996, when the New York Times first went online, the paper was primary and the website just a partial mirror. Today that is flipped. The paper is just a partial printout of the website.

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  14. Ben Gurion once said “fight the war as if there were no White Paper, fight the White Paper as if there were no war” The tension between crypto & quarantine is obvious. Perhaps we fight for crypto as if there is no coronavirus, and fight the coronavirus as if there is no crypto.

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  15. First, Wuhan is a city in crisis. The healthcare system has crashed. You do not want that in your city, or country. This is not an illusory threat. So, a quarantine. Stop this from spreading. Free movement suddenly has externalities. But how efficient should that quarantine be?

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  16. Digital quarantine is here. It appears that folks who fled Wuhan have been digitally quarantined, likely via WeChat. Their apps don’t work outside the quarantine zone. Now that’s happened to 240 Uber users in Mexico exposed to the infected. Complex issue! A thread…🧵

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  17. Citing a movie feels trivial, but I can’t help but be reminded of the Dark Knight scene where every cellphone in the city is turned into a tracking device. It was written to explore the ticking bomb of terrorism but is even more applicable to contagion.

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  18. I hadn’t even thought yet about the degree of digital surveillance that may have kicked in. Forget traditional epidemiological contact tracing. For every infected, the Chinese government can pull up their location history and find every other cellphone that was nearby.

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  19. One caveat: the main issue will not be the RT-PCR itself, but rather careful sample handling to ensure lab techs don’t get sick. They are trained to test for things like HIV already. But you want to take special precautions here.

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