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What 50 dead means is, vastly larger numbers of mild infections being covered up or not reported. It doesn't mean it got deadly. It means they're lying how big it is.
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> BBC News, BBC Weather, BBC Sport, ...

A similar argument can be applied there. They could adopt an online subscription model like other similar companies (NYTimes, etc) did, or they could have ads or whatever. There is no reason to have every taxpayer pay for something that they do not need.

So let me correct what I said: "BBC only benefits the few who use its services".

> There are many things which I disagree with in this comment and some things that I don't think are relevant at all

Such as?
Well, you are partially right, because most of "DIN" standards already replaced by "ISO".

But there are still many "DIN" standards that now replaced by "DIN EN ISO", e.g. German (local) version of «ISO 3098» (which replace «DIN 6776») is «DIN EN ISO 3098».[0]

[0] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DIN_standards#DIN_6000_to_DIN_6999
Because that would undermine the entire point of the BBC:

to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain

https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/governance/mission

It's not a commercial broadcaster.
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> Turning off location history in Google and Apple Maps

Google dark patterns make this a no-go. I have multiple locations stored on my Google maps. With location history turned off I was fine until a few months ago when maps told me in order to access that data I need to turn location history back on. So google cripples their software unless you turn on tracking.
> What exactly worries you about mass hysteria and panic? Why would that be worse than what is likely to happen as Covid-19 spreads outside of China?

Think houses getting torched because the inhabitants are suspected of having the virus. Judging from what happened in Ukraine, we're getting closer to that kind of hysteria.

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-riots-erupt-in-ukraine-as-...
Why are scientists alarmed when the first COVID19 cases we hear of are deaths?
My favorite is not releasing MIPI DSI/CSI documentation. CSI argument being 'we use proprietary processing pipeline, Broadcom spend a lot of money tuning this particular camera sensor, cant just let it go for free to you plebs, plus users are too stupid to implement their own anyway, buy our official camera module and go away'. Once Camera module v1 started being cloned in China Foundation released v2 with DRM build in! Crypto signature of camera, full Apple mode engaged! "chip is required to make the camera work" https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=178038#p1... except of course its not, its there purely for hardware DRM https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1088506051295567872

For DSI it was 'gotta recuperate costs' by releasing one proprietary DSI screen - still $60 now while off the shelf replacement iphone/ipod DSI screens are ~$10, but cant use those since interface is behind proprietary binary blob.

Even defects follow Apple example, claiming custom programmed LDO, MxL7704-R3, is proprietary information! Why would you want to repair something we designed wrong anyway? Just buy another one and go away. You really want to repair it? ok, ill charge you $35 + VAT and postage, more than replacement unit, now go away and stop bothering me. Oh and "Don't keep shorting out your power rails" https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=238779#p1...

Btw MxL7704-R3 are available in China and cost $3.

1 repair will be more than replacement
2 you are holding it wrong
3 source parts from china

100% Apple service experience.
It's good that you enjoy the BBC's content, I'm aware that many do.

One may love BBC's programmes, or one may not hate them — that is irrelevant. If you watch any TV at all then legally you must buy a license.

The issue is whether you and I should be compelled by government, under threat of criminal prosecution, to pay for the BBC whether we consume its content or not. (As you know even watching commercial TV requires a BBC license, and it is a source of stress for the legally license free to ensure that one does not accidentally infringe when legally using a TV for other purposes.)

My comment was just practical advice for for all those who legally choose not to purchase a TV license yet remain pursued by the BBC with their threatening letters, cards through the door, inspectors etc.
> Use your distribution's package manager to install WINE (e.g. apt-get install wine), then launch NES Screen Tool from the command line as above under "Mac"

This is something that I find rather off-putting about NESdev. It's very Windows-centric. I'm not used to GNU/Linux being treated as a second-class dev citizen, so I've started a small contribution towards fixing this. I've got a NES tile viewer that I hope will soon be a tile editor, written in PyQt for cross-platform aspirations:

https://hg.sr.ht/~jordigh/Tilerswift/

Development has stalled, but I intend to get back to it.
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Don‘t forget do ascribe half a story point to each meeting.
I am somewhat baffled that there have been essentially no reports of this disease in India.
Not to mention one of the most important factors of all: luck.

But survivorship bias means we assume all successful people hold a unique skill and wisdom that, if we only did the same, we'd find similar success.
I once worked in the Commission, briefly. Technical security seemed to be non-existent as far as I could tell (in an admittedly very junior role).

Once all of the interns got invited to the U.S. embassy to meet the Ambassador (some guy who literally said he got the job because he was friends with Obama). On the way out the nice embassy staff gave us goodie-bags, complete with handy pen drives...

Basically everyone was giving away free pen drives in Brussels then. I would be surprised to find that the U.S. didn't already have access to a large number of EU institution computers.
The NY Times app has consistently had the outbreak in one of the top 2-3 spots for weeks now. Their live updates listed right now show official figures from Iran, Italy, and South Korea, as well as news about China and global markets reacting to the news. I’ve been closely watching both the NYT and the more panic-driven subreddits for a month now and I haven’t seen anything of substance that the NYT has missed. They usually lag by minutes to as much as a day, likely because they’re actually fact-checking instead of just mashing the post button like Reddit.

If you’re looking for large news organizations to freak out about every little unsubstantiated rumor or crackpot theory that circulates the web, then I don’t know what to tell you. Except that you’re willfully ignoring the 90% of the time those crackpot ideas turn out to be wrong and spreading them to billions of people would do far more harm than good, especially compared to just waiting to get the facts straight.
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While all you say is true, "on order of magnitude" mean 10x and "several orders of magnitude" mean 1000x or more.
>What is the nature of the useless and counterproductive damage caused by hysteria and panic?

Of the top of my head.

Hoarding of supplies causing shortages and harming people who actually need them right now. Progressing to health professionals lacking supplies (masks, etc.) due to shortages (and diverting of dedicated supplies). Unnecessary ER visits which stress the health system thus making it less able to react to an actual problem (as health professionals are tired and burned out). Stress and unnecessary interventions/ER visits increasing people's risk and exposure to existing diseases.

edit: That's not counting real panic which involves mobs with metaphorical pitchforks and the military in streets enforcing some semblance of order (with bullets).
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Rust is safe! https://github.com/bastion-rs/bastion/search?q=unsafe&unscop...

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Trends within China if credible (and they seem generally to be) are promising.

Trends outside of China, not so much.

The Elephant in the Room continues to be North Korea: no cases officially reported, yet proximate to and with close ties to China. South Korea reports over 800, and is far better positioned to address outbreaks.

Among the relatively few other countries with ties to PRK, Iran, also has a notable oubreak. And of course, Italy.

The scarcity of testing kits is becoming an international concern, as outbreaks and latent cases must be specifically confirmed, yet there are a shortage of resources to be able to do so. The other notable factor is that protocols -- who is or isn't quarantined, tested, or suspected as a carrier -- are becoming critical. Italy's cases came despite cancellation of air traffic with China. (And there may be more complex relationships here.) Testing which doesn't account for asymptomatic spread beyond current outbreak regions is likely to lag well behind the actual spread of the disease, by days to weeks.

China, despite a very uneven start, has responded well. The rest of the world now has to execute competently.

I'll note that this is most especially a public health issue, one whose outcome will be determined by containment, sanitation, hygiene, quarantine, and travel restrictions.

For general personal suggestions see: https://www.ready.gov/pandemic

Before a Pandemic:'

Store a two week supply of water and food.

Periodically check your regular prescription drugs to ensure a continuous supply in your home.

Have any nonprescription drugs and other health supplies on hand, including pain relievers, stomach remedies, cough and cold medicines, fluids with electrolytes, and vitamins.

Get copies and maintain electronic versions of health records from doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and other sources and store them, for personal reference. Get help accessing electronic health records.

Talk with family members and loved ones about how they would be cared for if they got sick, or what will be needed to care for them in your home.

During a Pandemic:

Limit the Spread of Germs and Prevent Infection

Avoid close contact with people who are sick.

When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too.

Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick.
Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.

Practice other good health habits. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food.
>Ignore the exercises if you want, but you almost certainly will end up knowing about the math, but not able to do it.

Isn't that literally exactly what I said?

> if you're not trying to write a dissertation or pass a qual (and you're just interested in learning and being exposed) then you don't need to do them
I’ll get into the weeds of it.

Most people take the standard deduction. For most people, the complexity of filing is relatively low.

The W2 and 1099 forms that people get contain just about 95% of the information needed to file their taxes.

The current process involves getting those forms, which the IRS gets anyway, and re-entering the information into a privately run tax website. If you do this on IRS free fillable forms, you’ll have to do a significant amount of extra effort (for example, TurboTax can automatically pull in your W2 with partial information while the IRS system requires that you enter in every value manually).

Just entering the W2 is a lot of the effort for people on the IRS Free Fillable Form system.

Let’s continue in the workflow. You’ve got your wage information entered. The main questions to answer are:

- What’s your filing status

- Did you do things that could
be deductions (tuition costs, mortgage payments, etc)

- Are you poor enough or have special circumstances to get tax credits?

For a huge percentage of people, the IRS wouldn’t even have to ask your address to get this done. They could simply verify your filing status and ask the same kinds of questions that TurboTax does to determine which forms get filled out. They would even have to ask for fewer pieces of information because, unlike TurboTax, they already have your W2 and 1099 forms and many others like bank interest and retirement/HSA distributions on file. Again, most of the effort in TurboTax is just entering in the data from the forms and answering a question or two.

Taxes are only truly complex for a very small percentage of Americans who have built up enough wealth to have complex tax situations. For everyone else, they’re using free tax services, but are unnecessarily providing data to third party private companies and being upsold on unneeded add-ons constantly. Half of the time it takes to run through TurboTax is just declining all the unrelenting offers to pay them money.

Essentially, the problem here is that the IRS could literally copy the best tax software and just use that for everyone. Instead their offering (free fillable forms) is artificially terrible and functions as literal digital representations of paper forms instead of abstracting away the complexity.

Even for paper filling, the IRS could even have an advantage over TurboTax. Here’s how the workflow would work:

- The IRS receives wage and other tax forms from employers and financial institutions as they already do now.

- The IRS then prints out a customized form (automatically generated) that asks questions related to those forms they received. This would essentially be like TurboTax on paper.

- The form is mailed to each taxpayer.

- The taxpayer answers the questions and returns it with either payment/refund information or the IRS uses those answers to send you a bill.

- Taxpayers with additional deductions above the standard deduction could either be provided with a follow-up or be asked/opt to file some additional forms.

None of this is difficult to implement, especially compared to the alternative of dozens of tax filing firms implementing all of this separately.
>Would you characterise the OP as avoiding being transparent, or playing down the dangers?

Yes, I would indeed. gzer0's original wording, which has now been edited out (without comment), was:

"Stay vigilant, stay careful, but most importantly, do not spread mass hysteria and panic"

Now the wording was changed to:

"Stay vigilant, stay careful, but most importantly, do not spread false information."

I welcome the change, because saying that the most important thing in the face of danger is to avoid panic and hysteria is wrong and characteristic of authoritarian language.
My understanding is that Ballerina has semantics for defining multiple services in the same program, and it “compiles” to a set of containers and cloud configs that allow these programs to talk to each other. So very basically it’s like putting Kubernetes or AWS into a language. But there documentation is pretty unclear as many others have noted so I really doubt my interpretation is precisely accurate.
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> But as I grew older, I realized that’s not necessarily the case. A few people I know who are intelligent and have a strong work ethic have gone on to do notable things, while many others are doing fine. Unfortunately, there are some that drift along, unsure about what to do.

Not all who wander are lost.

This post is terrible advice, it's like a sermon from the Church of the Silicon Bubble. Smart but not successful? You don't reach out enough. You don't sacrifice enough. You're too distracted. You don't take enough risks. You don't believe in yourself. You can't commit. It's all in your head!
I don't think that's warranted, SpaceX has lost several vehicles and missions to theoretically avoidable mistakes.
Morons. Ukraine has 0 confirmed cases as of today. Though there obviously may be cases there this is beyond ridiculous.
And if Signal did this you think no-one would notice?
the psychology is a huge barrier for regular people. I have a few friends who, after failing repeatedly at making proper budgets and building savings, just started buying two year bonds every time they had extra cash. or they do stuff like deliberately having their paycheck over-withheld so they get a big tax return at the end of the year.

I can at least respect that they have the self awareness to realize they can't manage a portfolio, but it's kinda sad that they have to allocate their savings this way. at best, they end up barely beating inflation.

this makes me wonder if there's a way to invest in something like a broad-market index fund but with an n-year lockup. obviously IRAs exist, but young people usually want to be able to access some of their savings a little earlier for a house. is there anything like this? it seems like "not being able to sell shares whenever I want" is actually an important feature.
This. So many of the arguments about the license fee seem to miss the point - the BBC isn't a commercial broadcaster. Impartiality and 'public service' as fundamental tenets that drive output would disappear if they had to chase subscriptions.
Does F-Droid support signed releases, and does Signal sign their APKs? In fact, aren't all APKs signed?
Sorry, maybe I have confused SourceGraph with https://searchcode.com, but last time I tried, it supports only most widely used languages such as Java, Python and so on, but not the language I use (Delphi/Object Pascal)
Sorry, maybe I have confused SourceGraph with https://searchcode.com, but last time I tried, it supports only most widely used languages such as Java, Python and so on, but not the language I use (Delphi/Object Pascal). I'm sorry if I'm wrong.
In the US, a 2 week stay in the hospital will cost you upwards of $50,000. Even if you have insurance, understand it will be a significant cost to you. If you’re uninsured like 20 million Americans or underinsured like 80 million, going to the hospital means automatic bankruptcy.

Every day our broken healthcare system will force many people to choose between all their families assets and getting care. This should not be a consideration, but often is.

If you are traveling to the US, please make sure you get as much travelers health insurance as possible.
>When we pushed the HackerOne staff for clarification on these issues, they removed points from our Reputation scores, relegating our profiles to a suspicious, spammy level. This happened even when the issue was eventually patched, although we received no bounty, credit, or even a thanks. Instead, we got our Reputation scores (which start out at 100) negatively impacted, leaving us worse off than if we’d reported nothing at all.

That seems like a good way to make sure nobody trusts your business. What say you, hackerone? How can anyone trust this business acting against what ostensibly is its core functions.
It’s not unidentifiable once you study more. Sigma “is” “roughly” the letter S, and stands for sum. Squiggly S stands for integral (roughly a sum). Intuition for why these things roughly “are” each other takes perhaps more study.
The common definition of byte nowadays is an octet.
It's not selfish to want to talk to your s.o. Sure, it's better if the CCP doesn't go around censoring reasonable communications, but given that they are, people are entitled to want whatever reasonable alternatives they can get.
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It should take up to 3 minutes. Thanks in advance!
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And linear memory, which is just an array of bytes.
I wouldn't compare dairy dates with canned good dates. There is a significant difference there.
Makes sense for cheap stuff, but I've seen fairly valuable items get rated horribly on fake spot.
> Because no health system in the world would have the capacity to put more than about one in thousand people in intensive care.

Try one in ten thousand. And that's in the most developed countries with the best healthcare.
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Not if the staff is lured by all the E2EE promises and all the lock icons to overestimate the security of the app and share more information than they would otherwise.
Spreading scary ideas that could “maybe” be true to laypeople with no ability to interpret “maybe” is highly likely to be more help than hurt
Newspaper Lobbyists and Encryption Foes Join the Chorus Against Section 230
This major shift is well received by the tech community and appears to be an industry wide movement [1]. Looks like meltdown [2] and spectre [3] have run their course.

Bravo to Cloudflare!

[1] https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/linode-case-study...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerabi...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabil...
A negative balance is a dunning notice with a demand to pay. A modest positive balance is a coffee can or cigar box stuffed with cash and hidden under the bed. A large positive balance is an enticement to play the numbers or bet on the horses. None of these things is like the other...
I really doubt that there exist many people whose traumas are invoked by “ear rape”.

I don’t doubt that there are heaps of virtue signalers who’ll pretend to be utterly shocked though, fuck those people.

It’s okay to joke about death, even if the world is full of people who have had traumatic experiences with death. It’s okay to joke about traumatic experiences, that’s just a perfectly normal coping mechanism. (Although I have a hard time reading “ear rape” as a joke about rape)
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The note for your employer does not contain any information about the reason for the sick leave in Germany, the one for your health insurance does.
Recently ran into this “bug”. Fixed it by unplugging my network cable during installation. I’m normally a Mac user, but I understand why so many people hate Windows 10. Hard to make the argument this benefits users.
Redux is very good at it's job, but it's very much not built as a public streaming platform and doesn't do a lot of real world things you'd need such a platform to do.
The other day I was using MusicBrainz Picard and it occurred to me just how absolutely pleasant it is. It uses standard desktop widgets, is fast, has some nice attention to detail and consistently accurately relates the state of things, is powerful, and stays out of your way. It—and this is #1-with-a-bullet more important than every other UX concern—behaves consistently.

I don’t think it would survive a pass from most “UX” folks in such a nice state. It 1000% wouldn’t survive a designer or hybrid designer/UX person (it wouldn’t look pretty in screenshots on their portfolio).

The main problems in software tools are lack of consistent behavior, lies, and tons of ways to use a bunch of tools that all do basically the same thing (and you’ll probably have to know more than one). The hardest part’s not using them, exactly, it’s knowing all the different, stupid reasons they break. It’s a general quality issue more than a broader UX thing, I think. That extends to libraries. And I don’t also mean tools and libs from big names—I mostly mean them.
good luck competing with 0% tax state-sponsored companies without venture capital. The same reason there is no european huawei. There are some medium sized companies, but they don't have the same advantages as those in the US or China