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> Maybe people in your experience don't do that for math or code, but it's a clear bright line standard, either you do it, because the task is important to get right or you don't, because it doesn't really matter.

> I have seen where too many layers of checklists and verification just make people assume another layer will catch errors and then nobody checks thoroughly.

Yes, my experience is that few people are willing to do this. The important question then is how to find people willing to redo the work independently.

I haven't found anyone who seems interested in doing this or able to dedicate time to this.
There is a video which compares that to other causes of deaths and other "pandemics":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dDD2tHWWnU

Please stop threating the virus as if we would all die.

The things you have in the article should be the things you should do anyway:

-No touching your face, is something you should stop anyway, as the flu will also kill you if you have bad luck and it is the same problem

-Having certain things prepared in case there is a local emergency is a good idea anyway, but the recommandation at least in austria is about 10-14 days, so I hope most of the people already have that.

-Supply chains won't break down because of such a virus, just as it didn't because of the swineflu and other things.

-If supply chains break down, we have more than the coronavirus to worry about.

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Pressed submit to soon
Can't the larger number of massive pairs be explained by a third star that was torn apart and fed the pair, rather than limiting to supermassive originating stars?

The other implication of the article is that they want to consider a supernova that spawns two neutron stars, or just bigger neutron stars?
That 'might' is probably safely replace with 'are'. No country - even the richest - is prepared to deal with this many ICU cases. For instance in the UK (which has a very good healthcare system) there are about 6k ICU beds on a population of ~65 million.

And then there is the risk of having ICU personnel become infected themselves. This is not a trivial challenge.
Is hand saniziter any good, for when you touched the wrong places?
I never said that the American system is fair.

The horribleness of the German system can be completely explained with the power of defaults / inertia. Sure, there is some way to go from here to there, but on a societal level this is just destructive and corrosive. The system is not set up in a way to smash barriers or allow fair entry.
The mask is good to train to not touch the face.
Wish getting meds in advance were more accessible.
By the way, how does Credit Karma make money?
I think we should replace handshakes with bows, but that would probably never fly in America.
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AI Is the Next Workplace Disrupter–and It’s Coming for High-Skilled Jobs
Most have older family no?
No, we won't all die. But the impact will be substantial if the infections are not brought under control.

Just like not everybody dies from many other diseases such as the flu. The difference here is that it also hits hard on otherwise healthy people and that healthcare workers are very much exposed to infection. If that front line does not hold it can get worse rapidly.

Western countries with good medicine and infrastructure in place stand a chance of riding this out with just (possibly substantial) economic impact. Poor countries are in for a rough ride. Check out what is happening in Iran right now (which your linked video conveniently leaves out, possibly because it does not fit their narrative).

Mortality rates around 2-5% for a pandemic are nothing to sneeze at, infection rates in close proximity are very high making it hard to care for those that are showing symptoms and put high density population centers at serious risk.
https://www.ready.gov/pandemic

Basic things the US gov recommends in the case of a pandemic.

I personally went out and got 2 weeks of supplies last night.
Thank you for taking the time to write a detailed response! Some of what you've written has indeed been helpful in corroborating a few of my learnings, and some new- eg. Soil type requirement is plant dependant and not universal.

While I was hoping for a very general and very quick guide for people to just dip their toes and figure out the rest as one goes, my specific intention is to grow carrots, beets, tomatoes and maybe cabbage.
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This seems to have totally missed the first half of the comment to which you replied: _elegance_ certainly has a place in programming, just as it does in mathematics and many other disciplines. Things that are elegant are often difficult to conceive, but easy to understand being simpler solutions to a problem than something inelegant.
The £30 limit does not apply to mobile payments. There's no limit for those. I've successfully made 2k£ transactions with Apple Pay.
In the UK and back home in NZ I use the govt. websites.
Is there no way to resurrect the old system using the pattern described in the article?
Do you have a source for this analysis? Or for the numbers?

Generally, the CDC is quite good at their jobs. If you think they’re shrugging their shoulders right now and being lazy or complacent about something, you’ve probably misunderstood part of the story.

It’s virtually tradition for Internet comment sections to fill with overconfident armchair experts who claim to know better than the professionals as well as the general public in these cases of outbreak. The arguments usually hinge on one or two “gotcha” statistics that they think are evidence of a larger problem. IMO, it’s not helpful. Let’s focus on actionable tips like this article instead of armchair criticisms of professionals based on unsourced information.
In this case, I guess we have to just trust the people that go through the most competitive and intellectually demanding decade of school and professional training on the planet. They have the benefit of being on the front lines themselves, with the lives of themselves and their coworkers at risk.

edit: if it helps avoid distractions, let me say it is obviously not a "benefit" and medical professionals are underappreciated heroes. They deal with infections disease every day, sometimes far more dangerous than covid-19. For them, the danger and planning isn't hypothetical like it is for a vast majority of the commenters here. I trust the medical community to plan for this appropriately more that I trust any other group of professionals.
> You should check out the facebook groups

In addition, search for flat earth on a the popular crowd/fundraising sites. The lies they tell to separate the gullible from their money. It's a nice little earner.
> Curl to bash is download and run with no confirmation step in the middle.

Which is fine, because almost nobody is going to thoroughly inspect the code anyways. The bash script looks pretty trivial, but it's running a privileged docker container, which means it has full root access. Are you really going to inspect every nook and cranny of the docker container for exploits?
Coronavirus updates: Italian towns locked down as almost 150 test positive
A certain political party who shall go unnamed views making taxes simple is the same as raising them. They would argue that if all you got in the mail was a postcard the government could raise taxes and you’d never notice.

Take that however you want, but that is why we don’t have easy taxes in the US.
Started using it at work, mostly to verify lock-free code. After verifying a new code for multi producer multi consumer (MPMC) lock free queue, tests were still not passing on iOS in debug... So trust in the model allowed us to start asking if compiler was broken, and ... it was, apparently in Apple's fork of llvm, as they don't really use upstream llvm as-is, 128-bit atomic compare exchange (DCAS) is broken in debug in Xcode 8.

In general it is quite useful exercise to even just model existing code line-by-line and see what possible states it can have. I'm still learning though, next step would be to try TLAPS.
Some nuances of undefined behavior in Rust
That's a very odd way to view a generic term. I don't own "my friends" but I wouldn't think twice about saying "my friends went to the bar last night". Similarly for "my co-workers", "my manager" or "my uber driver". Just because someone used an uncommon expression, does not mean they have some nefarious intent behind it. Especially when the context is completely innocuous

> I was too mesmerized working heads down with my engineers knocking out features and crunching out thousands of lines of code for a few months
Containment as Signal: Swine Flu Risk Miscommunication (2009)
You pay top dollar for the 3,800 pieces—which you can assemble in any way you want, just like any Lego pieces in existence. I really am wondering if you’ve just never played with legos before? If not, buy a set—they’re a lot of fun, and you can start with a plain box of pieces for $5 to $10, no need to jump in the $750 deep end.
Coronavirus: South Korea declares highest alert as infections surge
> I am referring to proper list comprehensions

Oh cool, I'd forgotten F# had those (or maybe it got them recently?).

> Its true that you can't literaly transpile very high order things such as GADT but the was majority of code is trivial to translate

Would still have to disagree there; OCaml code heavily relies on modules/module types/functors, while F# code relies more on classes. In practice these are not trivially translateable.

> I will dig in to see what people build around it...

The major thing is getting an async/await-like syntax for concurrent operations. Super useful for literally everyone. E.g. my project https://github.com/yawaramin/re-web/blob/eb7ce8474d34c60f9f9...
Wuhan to quarantine cured patients for 14 days after some test positive again
He demonstrably got funds for a 'rocket' of sorts....
The PiDP-8/I is a PDP-8 replica built using a Raspberry Pi and simh

https://hackaday.io/project/4434-pidp-8i

(as one example for what you can do with simh)
Intriguing sleuthing. I'd add that both accounts have very similar grammar style. Good vocabulary, but with odd grammatical errors.

All incidental of course, but still. I believe your theory. Embarrassing and slightly pathetic if true.
In Canada, we have some good free—really free—tax programs. Studio Tax is another one if you prefer to have everything on your computer instead of in the cloud.

I think the reason good free tax filing exists in Canada, but not in the US, is partly because US tax code is too complicated, and partly because there there are dozens of them: federal, 50 states, and a couple of territories, each with their own tax rules.

In Canada, you have one federal and 13 provincial and territorial tax codes; and you only have to file taxes to two agencies: CRA/ARC and Revenu Québec. It is orders of magnitude easier to make a tax software for Canada, thus giving it away for free is possible. For many years, SimpleTax/ImpôtSimple was a three-person operation. Their team has grown to 12 people now [0]. I imagine if they want to extend their services to US, they need to increase their headcount by a factor of ten or more. And at that point, not charging for use would no longer be an option.

[0] https://simpletax.ca/about
It's always more spread than expected because the symptoms of infected people take time to appear and temperature screening is almost useless. An actually effective way pandemics can be stopped for sure requires an international effort and discipline... quarantined people must stay isolated from others and prevented from entering any country until the maximum incubation time. It sucks for commerce and tourism, but that's just too bad. It's a fail of reckless, spineless officials who enable infected idiots to turn an isolated disease into a worldwide pandemic.
Let's hope this isn't a replay of the Mint acquisition. Purchased and left to stagnate for a decade.
Well shit. They’re going to give it the Mint treatment, starting with the free tax software. I can’t blame the founders for selling out but this one stings.
Men are biased because of the discrepancy in risk between men and women. Men prefer younger women because male reproductive capacity is not at stake if something goes wrong. I think the empirical situation you're noting should be inferrable from theoretical consideration of evolutionary psychology and knowing that peoples' assumptions tend to be based on male prejudices.
> As Hacker News is usually full of people that can provide good advice:

Be careful. Comment sections tend to attract overconfident armchair experts rather than professional advice. This is a forum where technology people congregate, not virologists.

You may get repeated advice about general prepper techniques, but in my experience the mainstream prepper types can be over focused on unlikely doomsday scenarios instead of more realistic extended economy-slowing scenarios.

> What should I personally do to prepare?

I suggest reading the linked article. This is exactly what the article is about.
Can you elaborate or link to a picture, please? What you're saying does sound interesting and I would love to have tomatoes too, besides beets and carrot. But I'm not sure how I would do it.

To give you an idea of what I have at my disposal- 3 balconies (except east), all small, 2ft by 20ft. All have iron railings which could come handy for the right type of veggie I guess. ..
Sure. And we should be concerned for them. But I sense that many people are scared for their own lives and those of their children, which I feel is not really warranted. Maybe I'm generalizing my personal experience of my own mental state and who I've talked to, but that is what I've been exposed to. And of course the items discussed in the rest of my comment should modulate people's fears as well.
Not without sacrificing my privacy :(
> vendoring/modules bleh

Can you expand on your objection to the new Go module design?

https://research.swtch.com/
I installed Ubuntu for my mother-in-law and she quite likes it.

I found my sister-in-law using Libre Office one day and she actually said it was nice and easy to use.

So I think people's image both of Windows and of Linux are a bit outdated.
https://www.creditkarma.com/faq/howitworks
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Wealthsimple bought Simpletax a while ago: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/wealthsimple-expands-into-tax-so...

Make sure you update your privacy settings: https://www.privasectech.com/changes-to-simpletax/
The big population centers in poor countries are the ones to watch, especially where there have been wars and where there is very little infrastructure. Iran, Iraq, Syria, most of Africa, the poorer parts of Asia and Latin America, though countries with higher temperatures seem to be so far mostly spared. But those with lower temps will be the hardest hit if this is not contained, and likely that is a passed station already, containment has failed so now we need to brace for impact.
> There is almost certainly community spreading in the US that is going undetected.

So basically you are making unsubstantiated claims so then you can be "correct" in your assertion there will be massively stupid group think actions afterwards.

There is always massively stupid group think. That's how this works.
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> Most people don't want to learn accounting tbh, not even that – they hate doing it.

How is it accounting tho? If anything it could be classified as tracking your income and expenses, but you would be doing that with a spreadsheet too.

I wrote about GnuCash a few years ago at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-gnucash-as-a-freelancer...

But there's a screenshot in there near the middle showing how I tally up costs for Netflix. It's pretty much exactly like a spreadsheet. In a way it's even easier than a spreadsheet because a lot of columns are auto-filled out for you like the dates and all of the totals get auto-calculated for you. It takes like 3 seconds to make a new entry.
I get an ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED accessing that URL. Do you have another link?
Death and rate of serious (ECMO/intubation) is much higher than the flu and this is much more contagious. Most of the reason we're seeing a bend in the numbers is also due to extraordinary measures being taken to slow it down.

It's hard to tell what's alarmist with quarantine and shutdown of schools/businessess coming down so hard on the affected areas. People aren't used to that sort of thing.

The right steps are being taken in general. If this does continue to spread, which seems likely, people will need to exercise calm and patience.

Otherwise, I think this assessment is dead on.
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That's not a benefit. And given that these people will try to do their jobs even when under=equipped and understaffed they are paid too little to begin with.
The story of how companies start is just for inspiration

It doesnt sound as sexy when you say: we want to make money, and credit agencies suck. We can suck less.
It doesn't restrict gigantic hierarchies per se, just the compiler won't help you there.
How does this deal not violate Anti-trust law? The FTC should block this deal as it is not going to be good for consumers.
Exactly. If all it takes is one person to misplace a decimal or fsck up a calculation and your entire end product is fucked... brother that ain’t you, it’s the system that is fucked.

For any system that matters, you have to prevent a single (or multiple) failures from sinking it. Any new failure that happens should be evaluated in a blameless manner and solved by improving the system so mistakes of that class cannot happen again.
> One horrible effect of this continued “stop the pandemic” daydream masquerading as a policy goal: It is driving counter-productive and outrage-inducing measures by many countries against travelers from other countries, even their own citizens back from other countries. But possibly more horrible: The messaging is driving resources toward “stopping,” and away from the main potential benefit of containment – slowing the spread of the pandemic and thereby buying a little more time to prepare for what’s coming.

I don't get this part of the article at all. What's exactly counter-productive about not allowing civilian travellers from affected provinces? That seems like the best method to slow the spread to me. The longer we can keep it away from anybody, the better, because the more time we have to come up with a vaccine or alternative ways to combat the disease.

It's definitely possible that covid-19 will eventually reach all parts of the globe, but we should try everything possible to not let it reach those parts before we have come up with a vaccine.
And it had just gotten good too, they’d worked out all the rough edges from the first couple of years. Very disappointing.
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Schadengans bitte. :) And no, that’s not a real German word.
19 at a FANG company? That's pretty cool they let you switch.
I have:

1. n95 masks, e.g. 50 of them. technically, each mask can only last several hours

2. UVC light for cleaning up used n95 masks so they can last a few days each

3. protective eyeglasses if you need to visit hospital for any reason in the next few months

4. ethanol (not for your masks)

5. medical gloves
Keep in mind that "art" had a meaning closer to "technology" than "creative expression" ("fine arts"), as it does today. Much the same way as "science" referred to all knowledge, regardless of whether it was "scientific" (Baconian method of experimentation and observation) or not. Not all translation is literal, and "rod mechanism" rather than "rod arts" is an arguably better translation.

Though I can't help but think of Neal Stephenson's "rod logic" from Diamond Age.

Or perhaps the Curta mechanical calculator:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
In my 2 decades of making livelihood with programming full time job, I have seen CS grads feeling brain dead while a Starbucks barista writing better coding. I am probably more humble observing people over all these years to admit that anyone can be a programmer given the opportunity and the heart / zest to dig deep be thorough with the solution.

The part of recent grads getting job is more related to market conditions, back in 99 recruiter would be happy to hire anyone who have attended the programming 101 while in 2001-2002 no one even wanted to talk to 5 -8 yr experience candidates right after the market crash
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I think you are talking about two different things. He said "With intensive farming one would need around 200 - 500 m² to produce the calories required." You seem to be talking about producing some vegetables and still getting the bulk of your calories from the store.
The most remarkable thing here is that the people were tested for Covid-19 by accident because one patient claimed to have contact with someone from China (who later turned out NOT to be infected).

....otherwise this entire infection chain would have been missed.

It really makes you wonder how many infection chains exist elsewhere that are still flying entirely under the radar.

Given cases like this and broad underreporting from certain countries, my estimation is that containment is impossible at this point, and that therefore we will be in mitigation mode with numerous global outbreaks until the vaccine is available.
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what a story. he even wins the lottery (literally) along the way. I'd imagine a lot of people now are desperately trying to put distance between themselves and this guy.

the top comment from the article was spot on:

> To compare this to Madoff is catchy but wrong. Instead, try Goldman Sachs. Vrain, who provided inflated appraisals of manuscripts, which he is now buying as they are auctioned off at bargain prices, repeats the killings some on Wall Street made on the way up using friendly bond ratings conjured up by pliant rating agencies to sell them and then snapping them up after reality trumped those fanciful ratings into financial rubble.

the whole market of art and auctions is very dodgy.
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It certainly seems so.

2015 kickstarter [0] mentions nothing of FE at all. Just wants to break his previous record. Kickstarter flops, hard.

2017 gofundme [1] sells itself as $7500 of sponsorship in return for the prime advertising spot on the side of the rocket.

None of these rockets were about trying to prove or disprove anything, he was no more scientist than evel knievel was. The FE community were openly courted for cash, but cash was the only relationship between FE and the rockets.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1441636269/mission-rock...

[1] https://www.gofundme.com/f/flat-earth-community-rocket-launc...
Genuine question - what do they do? I thought they just offer credit checking and monitoring services that look scammy a little bit. Didn’t realize there is so much money in this, no wonder we see so many of these pop up.
Can you elaborate how you found them?
The biggest source of tax complexity for Americans is our multi level government. Everyone has to file a Federal and State return. Many have to file returns in multiple states and some have taxes at the city level as well.

This is mostly due to the size of the country (compared to, say, Switzerland) and doesn't have anything to do with for-profit tax software.