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>There's no reason to test if there aren't any confirmed cases.

There's no reason to test when there isn't a high confidence that the person has the virus. Especially when the test costs something north of $3,000 and even with good insurance only a fraction of it is being paid for based on numerous Reddit threads and a news article [0] puts a specific patient's bill at:

>$3,270 two weeks after his test. He will be responsible for $1,400 of that bill.

A Forbes article [1] two weeks ago even states:

>The cost of testing include the costs of test kits, labor, and sample processing. In some cases, storage and delivery costs would need to be added. It’s unclear what the costs of the test kits are, or ancillary items, as CDC and others haven’t revealed figures. For the sake of argument, let’s say that on the low end of the scale each test, including ancillary items such as labor and sample processing, costs $250, and at the high end it’s $1,500.

[0] - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronaviru...

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/02/12/testing-...
Put this in a more familiar context: say the CDC had just been rooted by a bunch of hackers. How much time would it take for Congress to cut a check versus setting up the organization structure, hiring highly-skilled in-demand people, getting them on-board and trained up with the environment, and letting them learn enough about the systems to start hardening them, etc.?

This kind of capacity takes years to develop even if you can cut it quickly.
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5x worse than a typical flu season. We have atypical flu seasons all the time.
No. We cancelled travel to China, though.
I find your post really interesting and am having trouble unpacking it. It seems to me that there are many contradictions, but perhaps I missunderstood.

You say that there are no sides, but end by railing on trump.

You say that the reason for failure doesn't matter, but provide a list of reasons.

You claim that health insurance is the cause of no testing, when the article stated that the CDC refused to conduct or approve testing.

If you sentiment is that this is not the time to focus on partisanship, I wholeheartedly agree.
If you sentiment is we should be solution minded, I wholeheartedly agree.

The focus should be on determining what we can do NOW to save the most lives. There will be plenty of time later to assign blame and discuss long term fixes.
> Banning free speech from corporations would increase the influence of billionaires, not lessen it

Billionaires own, or control, PragerU, both in funding and board seats.

So they get the best of both worlds - the ability to use corporations to speak on their behalf _and_ shield them from the consequences.
This is absolutely a thing.

I worked at a fortune small-cap where the IT department was absolutely insidious. They would undermine anyone who they didn't like, or who opposed their nonsense. I wrote a lot of backend stuff, and they would spend far more effort and money denying us servers and resources than it would have taken to simply get those things for us. They'd tell us developers we couldn't use the OS's our products targeted, and yet they'd be using them.

They undermined their own CIO time after time; most lasted about 18 months.

Then, the company hired a sociable, intelligent, woman as CIO.

Within six months, she'd (rightly) fired the ENTIRE department. They just didn't see it coming.
Imagine the outcry if he applied that logic to the military. Just shut down the DOD. We can always raise a citizens' militia if anything bad happens.
Honestly, I don't know anything about running a business. But if there's one thing I learned in engineering, it's the great if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

(I know you're joking)But even if they're costly, if they keep the service running and bring in funds, why would anyone risk damaging their business and start cutting costs ?
If it increases total biomass, then it does on average sequester that additional biomass. And even if you burn it, well, the next crop will sequester it again.
The main problem with burning fossil fuels is that we dug them up out of the ground, rather than take them from replenishing sources that draw CO2 out of the atmosphere.
PHP and vulnerable example code is an additional thing. Most people just copypaste from tutorials. For example, the first search result for "PHP mysql example" gives you the wrong example first https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_select.asp
Because government bureaucracies cease to function in their original task and become only concerned with their preservation. It’s a lesson that happens over and over and we selectively ignore it.

Remember this folks when voting for people who advocate for a greater role of bureaucratic control of our lives.
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It IS about nightly and preview. Also the first comment on the page is on this issue (normal Firefox users) and answer is clear about their transition

> At that time, other add-ons will be supported (although there’s a chance that some of the ones you currently have installed will not be supported.)

I don't know what else you can expect? That add ons will never be deprecated?
If you're up for a conversation - I would love to get your thoughts on a new product we've been working on. caleb@mealime.com
Your statement seems confused.

The food production system as a whole produces more food than humanity as a whole consumes. If you can and freeze your leftovers as an individual it does not change this.

At a system level- farms, silos, and grocery stores have no interest in storing any more stock than reasonable, and continually stuffing a growing stock into a larger warehouse/silo is wasteful.

If wide swathes of citizens changed their behavior to habitually can and freeze more leftovers, and waste less, it would be a good thing, and farms would decrease production, I agree. But it misses the point I made.
Can we refrain from any unfounded hate on a religious group? It's not confirmed that they have some anything malicious, and even so it does nothing to help further solving the problem.
As a supporter of EFF, I wish they had found space in that piece to talk about the monopoly in online video that Alphabet enjoys. If Youtube had to stand on its own feet as a profitable service, different editorial choices would be made. So fortunate, for them, that we've allowed them the massive subsidy of Alphabet's massive online advertising business...
> Not nearly as big of a deal as writing the mountains of boilerplate to get a new GraphQL query up and running

This is the thing Hasura (and Postgraphile) is trying to make go away. From my limited experience with Hasura, it works pretty well.
Exactly... also see this report: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1232797151941611520

The situation is horrible, but look at the hospital workers rate of infection vs mortality.

Even horrible things can still be made to look more horrible.
Shenzen have you covered : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BlfAMitMf4
Lawmaking is an important part of a nation of laws, but that does not mean the body of law should have needless additions. This is why the process of selecting lawmakers is generally tied to a political process so that new laws are brokered and argued both for and against and modified.

The first test however for any new bill that would be law is, do we need this law? I think in cases where disputes are contractual or market-oriented, it is okay to rely on the resources of the State (the Courts specifically), especially if no other form of arbitration will resolve the dispute, but passing a new law should be a last resort and only after a case for it has been properly made, and a coalition around the new law formed.
You can try the brave browser on Android. Disabling and enabling js temporarily is easy. Even better, enabling js on a website in private mode does not persist. So you can disable all js by default, enable it on trusted sites via 1 click easy to use UI, and enable anywhere in private mode without worrying about forgetting to disable it later.
>But that could be said about any disease.

With diseases that have been better studied, we have large population studies to determine how many people have been infected for every 1 person reported.

>As is, it is mortality given that you have symptoms which is a pretty good measure to have

We don't know that because we have no idea how many people have mild to moderate symptoms and haven't been tested.

At best it's mortality given that you are severe enough to seek treatment.
I think there is a lot of value in just following the k8s workflow for everything rather than a different deployment solution for every random app.

Not that I disagree with your post, I really dislike Kube and would like to see something else take its place, but there are situations where I could see using it just to use the same tools and workflows across the entire org.
Because among other reasons, common carriers were given certain responsibilities to do so, among the privileges and rights they were given (legislated rights of way, exclusive access to airwaves etc.) that were deemed in the public good.

There are no such limitations on YouTube, Twitter, nor are there restrictions on competition.
It's always the dumb ones that get caught?
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That would be pretty fun. Weird, of course, since I still think of the Pi as a "small" computer in terms of resources as well as size, and I've got laptops with 4GB of RAM... of course, in a world where some phones are about to hit 16GB of RAM, maybe my kit is just obsolete;)
You can setup an SSH tunnel to your remote machine. Some DB explorers offer this tunneling out of the box (e.g. Sequel Pro for Mac).

Top hit on Google for how to setup a SSH tunnel for MySQL: https://linuxize.com/post/mysql-ssh-tunnel/
"You don't want to see panic." --Trump last night.

Yep. That's called denial.
I've been working on something like this. Super simple, like an Spreadsheet of what you read but as a SaaS. I was thinking in monetize it a là Pinboard: focused on privacy. Like, $3 per month and you have it, without Amazon or Google knowing what books you read and how you rate them.
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There's more to it than that.

Poor people, who get poor health care, have poor sanitation, and are malnurished have poor immune systems as a result, and because of that become disease reservoirs.

They need to be lifted out of poverty if we are ever going to have a more healthy society as a whole and decrease the likelihood of future epidemics.
What makes you think they don't? But they still want good UX for entering the data.
Today I tried it for the first time (the web version) on my work laptop T490 (Intel UHD 620), Ubuntu with Firefox 73. Everything is super smooth. I'm surprised it isn't for you.
It's also smooth on my home Macbook Pro (2015) w/ Fx73.
The default setup is to renew 30 days before expiry. If it fails at that point, you still have 30 days for your "fallback" to kick in.

I'm not sure it's worthwhile that your fallback is either ACME or automated. In fact, the failure isn't even one that should page anyone in the middle of the night; 30 days gives enough time to manually sort things out during regular work hours.
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The safety culture and degree of acceptable risk is somewhat different now, from when we were sure we'd get nuked by the Russians in a month. (And also still thought smoking was healthy.)
Everyone involved in the decision not to test the person should be removed from their position. End of story.

In a time of crisis we need the best people in control of important decisions not bureaucrats.
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Much as I didn't mean to insult anyone with my post, I'm sure you meant to add value by calling it petty and fallacious.

Picking up features in a language you already use is easier than learning the language to begin with which itself is easier than learning to program at all. If you were able to read the documentation to get to 50%, you have all the skills needed to pick up the rest and get to the difficult part of picking up a new project: understanding the problem space. If you're capable of learning the meaning of an API you've never seen before - and you will, if you're not writing your last project verbatim - then you're capable of learning what a lambda means. This is not me saying that all programmers should be able to do this, it's me saying that doing this is a predicate of engineering software.
Well, given the timing of GitHub reliability issues over the last few days, I think we can all agree it has everything to do with dates and timezones?

/s

Appreciate the work.
Agree on no sides, and it was heartening to hear Gabbard chide everyone for squabbling.

It appears that there simply aren't enough test kits available for wide-spread testing, so it's rational for CDC to try to use what they have wisely. It also appears that we'd be in that situation no matter who had won in 2016.
It’s interesting that the article lists PragerU as a conservative outlet. The stuff I’ve seen of theirs in the past gave me the opposite impression.
>As a South Korean citizen it is jarring that other countries including the US and Japan isn't really trying to test people.

It's apparently quite expensive here. Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, while one reported cost [0] for the test is:

>$3,270 two weeks after his test. He will be responsible for $1,400 of that bill.

That's almost 10% of my annual gross before insurance and I have almost 14 years at my job. For someone working a minimum wage job that's more than 11 week's gross income. I imagine they are limiting the number of tests on people that could have any number of other things and waiting for symptoms to strongly point towards the virus due to the simple fact that the tests cost so much. If a patient can't pay, whatever hospital has to carry that cost for potentially years before the patient can repay them (or not get paid at all if it pushes someone to bankruptcy).

Until the government sets aside money to subsidize the tests, I imagine the testing rates will remain low.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronaviru...
without any idea what a SAN array is was this used as a kinda hybrid ram, where you'd keep all your data on a real harddrive and then on system boot push it all to this where it would stay for years until the next system boot?
To be fair, current firefox is very slow and resource hungry, and works well only on top of the line phones.
For example, I have 2 android phones, 1 with 4GB and 1 with 8 GB of RAM. In the 8 GB one, I can use firefox with ublock origin, but it is a terrible experience on the 4GB phone (which has a slower processor too). The new firefox is much faster and runs snappily on both phones.
Obviously people want freedom from consequences of their speech. That's what freedom of speech means. What kind of "freedom of speech" would it be if you were instantly killed upon uttering any criticism of the great leader? Obviously you wouldn't have freedom of speech in that situation because the consequences would be so dire nobody would speak up.

Who, exactly, in this case is trying to suppress other people's freedom of speech, or freedom of association? Is PragerU trying to get liberal channels shut down? I don't believe they are; this is a non-sequiteur used try and cast victims of oppression as oppressors themselves.
I would think “when it makes sense” would be before transmission of unknown origin, not after.

What people are looking for is an explanation as to why other countries are testing more vigorously, and the CDC so far has not.

Why not start random sampling among flu-like cases two weeks ago? Start in areas of high risk, move the circle out slowly.
Do you consider it "sad" that Fox doesn't have 50% left leaning contributors, too?

If not, why not?
I think the philosophy behind this is that you're supposed to end up doing extensive presentation work in the DB itself through generated columns, views, access control, functions, etc.

It requires you to learn more arcane technologies (postgres functions are a bit less beginner-friendly than, say, ruby on rails) but these are also great technologies to know.

My guess is that a production hasura/graphile/prisma app would end up having a large number of custom resolvers by the time it's seen a few years of heavy production development as well, and that the built-in gql queries would serve more as scaffolding for prototypes, but I've never made it that far myself.
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It perhaps increases the amount of biomass in circulation - but then again, probably not, as it displaces other food (it's not like the western world is facing food shortages at the moment). It doesn't meaningfully affect anything, given that the problem we have is exponential emissions increase.

The best argument for extra consumable plants would be if they displaced carbon-positive farming. Then, all that carbon added to the circulation would subtract from emissions growth.
This thing desperately needs and m.2 slot. I can’t handle doing anything on an SD card. The write speeds are horrendous.
You're not wrong, I wrote off the insubstantial stuff as rhetorical and started my comment with "being generous." :P

But on the other hand, even some of these less-helpful points have an element of truth:

* A lot of people/domains/codebases do wind up avoiding exceptions, for good reason. There is even an active proposal to provide an alternative kind of exceptions to solve their problems!

* Member function pointers are quite a mess, introducing a lot of complexity by not being compatible with regular function pointers. It wasn't until long after this article that those incompatibilities were papered over with the standard library.

* std::map::operator[]'s behavior arguably does not follow the principle of least surprise- it's a giant footgun.

The author goes out of his way to point out that the changes he wants don't require GC or an interpreter, despite all the comparisons to Python. It's not an insubstantial comparison in that light.
I think you don't understand corporate governance, because you seem naive of what the board is actually responsible for.
At least your main competitor's uptime metrics are also pretty bad, so fingers crossed.
Is this satire? I think the DOD is overfunded too but there isn't much that citizens from the local shooting range can do against a drone missile.
I don't think that would merit the title - when you're talking about small niche situations it's harder to make the case that fantastic results are a result of skill versus luck + selection bias, and even if it's skill then you're not one of the best options traders, you are one of the best traders in that niche.
> The US did quarantine and test arrivals from Diamond Princess. Those who showed no symptoms have been sent home afaik and are under self-quarantine for a couple weeks.

Hmm, what we heard was that the US only tested people who had symptoms, and people who didn’t wasn’t under quarantine. Looks like people thinks that self-quarantine disqualified as quarantine; they were worried that people can spread the virus while getting to their homes. Maybe this probably isn’t that much a big problem in US compared to Korea where public transport is less used?
Yes, I completely agree in the above case. The JSON input has a well-defined format and input validation should reject it outright.

The issue is that when developers hear they should "reject bad input" in order to avoid vulnerabilities, they often interpret it as a call to reject any user input that isn't already known to be good. Since user inputs are often free text, like the name field, they wind up forbidding any input they hadn't specifically imagined, which doesn't align with any particular recipient's actual data requirement. It creates false-negative edge cases while only providing illusory help against vulnerabilities.
If they fix the frequent crashes, and even more frequent inability to render a page at all (just a white screen, even after refreshing), then I'll definitely give it a go. I'd love to switch back, but had to retreat to Brave for the time being...
There is some margin in food inventory, but food lead times are long (several months) and stocks (grain silos, grocery store inventory) are small relative to the rate at which they are consumed. Increasing production capacity also takes time in addition to the existing lead time.

These reasons dictate that it's more useful to think of food distribution as a flow than as a stock. In this sense thinking of calories produced divided by calories consumed straightens out thinking in the long term.
I'd say the vast majority of people that I know don't have such a reserve, and are seriously considering it now.

If they all go and stock up, what with the JIT-style of many supermarkets, I wouldn't be surprised to encounter shortages.

Even just to avoid the inconvenience of that, stocking up now, while the majority of the population is not too concerned, seems prudent and even beneficial to everyone else
Citation needed -- link me to something that isn't conservative.
Only 4 have died, and all 4 were in their 80s.
> However, if it makes most people better off, and makes society as a whole better off, then maybe it's worth it for the government to force their most-successful citizens away from their selfish instincts to the betterment of the nation?

So basically it's ok to sacrifice the minority, as long as it benefits the majority, huh?
The point is that giving the user a number input is a bad user experience. For example, users don't need or want up and down spin buttons to enter a phone number. That's long before it gets to a server.
It's a really fundamental tradition of french society, going back to the revolution (or even before) that you can think how you like. If you dislike this foundational principle, then you cannot say you like French society 'how it is'. You are in effect saying you would like to change probably its most fundamental rule.

I don't know if you're using this argument to convince the 'normies', and actually you don't like brown people because they frighten you, or if you actually believe it. People often believe in self-contradictory things, but then again, people with unwarranted self-regard often think they can convince other people with obvious nonsense. Perhaps a bit of both?
It was unpopular on desktop, but they had an argument as to why they couldn't keep the old extension model without crippling the browser. Firefox mobile already used the new extension type, and if there's some technical limitation that justifies killing existing extensions then I've not heard about it.
They're a husband/wife team, purely OSS, with little funds; you can donate here: https://www.patreon.com/benjie
> Would it be feasible (legally) to build a website which hosts user generated content and be considered a common carrier therefore not responsible for what users post?

This is already the case per the safe harbor.

> Illegal forms of pornography would have to be the litmus test here.

Note that being not liable is not the same as being immune to takedown. Youtube isn't legally liable for what you post, but they still have to comply with the law (and they are liable if they fail to comply).

> People get upset when content is censored which they view to be vital to the public interest.

Youtube isn't censoring material because of legal liability. Youtube censors material because their investors and advertisers don't want some materials on Youtube which they perceive to negatively affect is, such as combat footage, material seen to be preying on children and anything with nudity.
All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. So say we all.
Javascript not having proper integers strikes again! Kind of surprised they hadn't run into more issues parsing string-ids-with-numerals into numbers.