And an update to this. https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1070118915139923968

Now Rudy Giuliani, our country's cybersecurity adviser, says this is all a Twitter conspiracy.

This is a nice presentation that helped solidify some concepts for me: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/A-Tale-of-Three-Trees

Another item is dating based on the stars. If you want to record a date you can record the position of the stars and planets. Such dating is attempted for the mahabharata and other Indian epics, but the language is very flowery so it is difficult to ascertain exactly.

Recently congress members have written to the SEC asking for clarity on crypto: https://www.chepicap.com/en/news/4016/15-members-of-congress...

They want to draft legislation for regulatory clarity. So we can be sure ICO's will be addressed in that.

Their religion is money

Wasn't there a lot of economic instability in the soviet union? The Chinese leadership must have understood that and took on economic prosperity as the main way to preserve their government.

I didn't understand from the article about a "shampoo bottle with bubbles left in it". This diagram seems simple enough.

I can't even understand the diagram: how is exhaling into a glass of water supposed to make breathing easier?

Breathing into water, per se, doesn't help. The air blown into the system is lightly pressurized, and this pressure helps inflate lungs just like inflating a balloon.

The water bottle is there because it's difficult to control the amount of pressure. Sinus tissues and lungs are very delicate, and pressurized air also messes with blood/gas ratios, so it's important to use the minimum pressure you can get away with. The bottle of water allows the pressure to be controlled simply and precisely, by adjusting the depth of the hose.

My understanding is that having water at the terminal side of the air flow creates back-pressure, which helps prevent the lungs collapsing.

Is this sort of system used for gunshot or stabbing victims where the lung was punctured?

Increasing the pressure in the lungs, by increasing the back pressure in the exhaled air.

In USA the large companies who will lose profits from simple alternatives will make up reasons to not lose their profits.

From an article without a paywall:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40498395

Basically, they don't have access to ventilators. The current recommendation still has a mortality rate of 1:7 but the bottle method seems to be around 1:56 (if I'm reading that right).

So, the order of preference is ventilator, shampoo bottle, then low-flow oxygen. In other words, what I said. This is a case of not having access to the best method, but having something that works better than the other secondary methods.

This will not and should not replace ventilators in modern hospitals, but in places where ventilators are unavailable, this is a good solution.

What about in the EU?