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> I think when this all comes to an end, China will be one of the countries that dealt with the virus the best. Countries without authoritarian governments likely don't have the means to effectively quarantine major cities and shut down massive portions of their economy immediately without major problems arising.

China's authoritarian government is largely responsible for the severity of the initial outbreak. Their extreme quarantine efforts happened more than a month and a half after the first case was detected, well after it was too late to effectively contain, and only when covering up the situation proved impossible. The government sponsored a 100,000 person banquet with shared plates 3 miles from the epicenter with people who travelled to get there/would travel back while it was arresting doctors and media reporters for talking about the virus. If major sectors in freer countries weren't shut down until weeks after it spreads, it would be an improvement over China.

Here is a succinct summary of the timeline: https://youtu.be/hSIt496d82s?t=62

Last time I checked they were still barring members of the CDC from going into China to help asses the situation. Crucial information such as mortality rate and recovery rate are only being discovered now, as the numbers from China are not accurate.

This virus appears to be something any government would have difficulty containing due to the long incubation period, and some of the false statistics coming out of China are simply a result of a system that has become overwhelmed. Any system in a similar situation as the Chinese now find themselves in would have trouble dealing with this, and I think it may have reached currently levels even with a more transparent system that tried to contain it earlier, but I heavily disagree with your statement. They were extremely irresponsible about early containment during the crucial period when containment had the best chance of working.
If the ISP (or Nation) is willing to block google or cloudflare IP-ranges then you will have to be a moving target.
Using tor and similar. For normal shitty ISPs thats not an option
Yes, because it infects so many millions. Covid-19 right now looks a magnitude more deadly with significant long term health consequences for many who survive.
> Look at what has happened with misbehaving CAs.

OK. Perhaps you have some examples in mind?

> The responses have ranged between nothing and removing them 5 years later.

Certainly you've got an example of "nothing" and of "removing them 5 years later" to start with, right?

DigiNotar is the most obvious example of a "misbehaving CA" that you might be concerned about. In June 2011 their services were broken into and they decided not to tell anybody. There were no technologies in place at that time which could detect problems like this without DigiNotar's assistance. At the end of August a google.com certificate issued this way was used to attack Iranian web users, but Google's Chrome browser had pinning protection (only for Google's own services) and so at this point it detected the attack in progress.

Mozilla shipped updated Firefox versions which distrusted DigiNotar's public root in about 48 hours (not "5 years") and over subsequent days distrusted the entire DigiNotar hierarchy including those parts the Dutch national government had insisted were fine (they were not fine).

The public reactions at the time mirror your incredulity by the way, people who grep'd their newly updated Firefox and discovered DigiNotar's CA certificate (in fact blacklisted explicitly) as "proof" of a conspiracy by Mozilla to send all their traffic to some scary foreign company.

Perhaps DigiNotar just isn't recent enough for you. So let's look at rather smaller deviations from the more recent past. In 2015 WoSign (a QiHoo 360 company which operated a CA) acquired the Israeli CA StartCom in secret. No significant countries have any mechanism in place to detect this (a potentially hostile acquisition of a private company) and so the browser vendors had no idea until mid-2016.

Not telling Mozilla about this was already a violation of both agreements (for WoSign and for StartCom). But in 2016 WoSign/ StartCom (now one shared controlling mind) minted new certificates using SHA-1 signatures for several outfits, notably an Australian financial services company named Tyro. Since new SHA-1 certificates were prohibited in browsers in 2016 these certificates were back-dated to appear they'd been issued in 2015, another violation of the rules. The Tyro cert was probably actually issued in June 2016.

After conducting an investigation which included having Israeli documents assessed by a Hebrew-speaking lawyer and a bunch of digital forensics work, by September of that year Mozilla was instituting partial distrust of WoSign and StartCom, and in 2017 the browser distrusted them entirely. Other vendors followed suit (very belatedly in the case of Microsoft).
your paraphrasing of rich's thoughts seems like he is missing what type driven development is really about, and that is domain driven development. the idea behind letting types lead the way is not to just blindly rely on static types. it's old news that that is only a first approximation to writing good code. what types in sane languages (like f#'s records, discriminated unions, units of measure, classes, functions, etc.) allow is for you to model your domain in a clear way in code such that your programming becomes much more concise and clear as to what it is doing. the fact that static types try to link up everything is a side effect of that process.
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As you write, plants can do this quite efficiently via photosynthesis. So there is at least one working example where CO2 capture is resource-efficient (even solar-powered). From photosynthesis we get sugar. From sugar we can get to raw (solid) carbon for long-term storage.

Forests are not the only option. Imagine large installations with tanks of algae under a white canopy. I imagine the economies of scale are huge once this is ramped up to industrial levels.

The question is who will pay for it. Nobody wants to indirectly subsidize coal plants on another contintent.
I would suggest giving lightshot a try. It does what ask for and saves you time to open paint
I heard talks that these "reinfections" are actually people not completely recovering.
Mortality of flu is over 0.1%, with coronavirus it is over 2%. And flu has shorter incubation time. That is massive difference.
Well there are lot of rich health conscious people in this country that would love to do that for your wife.
> Could you tell me in what way authoritatian countries (aka China) handles this situation better?

Singapore is a pretty authoritarian country and until recently had the most cases outside of China. Now most infected people in Singapore have recovered and other countries have more infected people.

WHO 'very impressed' with Singapore's COVID-19 response: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-ver...

Singapore has ‘near-perfect’ coronavirus detection, Harvard study says: https://www.businessinsider.sg/singapore-has-near-perfect-co...

> I think US is best positioned to handle this well.

A lot of people in the USA try to avoid visiting the doctor because they can't afford it. That single factor alone puts the USA at a massive disadvantage.
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It’s especially important to manage your sense of panic when everyone else is losing their mind.

The fact that a simple acknowledgement that hoarding is objectively worse than avoiding large crowds is voted down to -1, should tell you everything you need to know about the sense of panic that is sweeping the internet right now.
Fortunately, it works perfectly as-is and could probably do so for many years with minor security updates.
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Or mosquitoes and the malaria they spread...

Malaria was responsible 405,000 deaths globally in 2018 according to [0].

[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/world-m...
It's chloroquine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=covid+10+chloroqui...
Don't you need a spare 300m-500m to buy that office?
To be fair to Go compile times, with them using C++ and Rust, that wouldn't be a show stopper.
No thanks.
I like my domain model flexible and at run-time.
You'll be better off in the long run.

(Imagining having data for type A(v1) and type A(v2), for example)

If you do static domain modeling, your world remains static. That's not real.
Sure if you want to cherry pick explanations. Likelier alternative is this is a new virus and the test needs to be adapted for it. Also we don't know where to swab for it. Another paper came out saying presymptomatic patients have concentrations of virus in their sinuses IIRC.
If you can rent out a purchased copy (one for the courts, jurisdiction specific), then Steam/Microsoft/GOG/Humble could offer things as a subscription quite easily. If publishers are required to sell to them and not allowed to create roadblocks. Given the concurrent player counts for most games the subscription service wouldn't need to purchase many copies to allow almost-always access. The interesting games to consider are the 'always online' ones, where the software could be given away for free, because it is useless without access to the game servers. Which pretty much operates like a subscription ('lifetime' or monthly), and is expected to stop working one day.
> ” “Those are things like ‘I want a redhead who’s over 5’7”,’ or ‘I want a Jewish man who at least has a graduate degree.’” So they log in to a digital marketplace and start narrowing down their options. “They shop for a partner the way that they would shop for a camera or Bluetooth headphones,

Man, I wish parametric searching for Bluetooth headphones worked that well!
> So far there are no known cases affecting children under 2

This is not the case, there have been a couple of babies infected in Singapore.
If you have access to iPlayer then the BBC has a program on Ursula Le Guin which is worth watching:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000bh0x/the-worlds-of...
> Japan’s leaders are so out of touch with the lives of ordinary people that they seem genuinely uninterested in their plight. That, in turn, allows an entire bureaucracy to wallow in denial, even over a crisis like the coronavirus outbreak and just a few months away from the Olympics.

[] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opinion/coronavirus-japan...
Don't forget another "accomplishment" - the Mickey Mouse curve.
> WaitForFile(filename, absoluteTimeout)

The Java bindings have support for this in the form of FluentWait#until http://javadox.com/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-support/...

Using explicit waits for expected conditions (instead of static waits or implicit waits) helps with making the tests more robust. It's a bit more work though.
With the easiness that Google kills anything that isn't search, it wouldn't surprise me.
My experience from a decade of doing professional maths is that there are no shortcuts. You only learn maths by doing hundreds (thousands) of exercises, both mundane and more exctiting.

Also, the concepts "mature" in the brain. I remember sleepless nights in the first year of undergrad spent on understanding the details of the proof of the Jordan decomposition and a few years later (when studying algebraic groups) it all felt trivial.

There's no shortcut to understanding maths, just a lot of time spent in solitude trying to make sense of all these abstract concepts (and they DO make sense).
Every time COVID-19 comes up people talk about the "low" mortality rate. But that hinges on enough medical resources. This disease quickly drains medical resources due to so many becoming critically ill. Without effective containment, a country will see their medical resources exhausted, and then the mortality rate won't be 2% ~ 5%. Exactly how high that will be remains to be seen.
I also will add a note of admiration for how the people of China have handled this. Their backbreaking work and sacrifice has probably slowed the spread by weeks. You can blame the authorities for not acting sooner, but it's kind of difficult to react to a killer virus until it starts to kill people and by then the horse has left the barn.

I think slowing the spread is the best we can hope for now. The main problem is healthcare throughput. Some quick back of the envelope calculations:

I live in an area of aprox 1,000,000 people, for which probably about 75 ICU beds that can support people on respirators, maybe we can double that in an emergency, but with widespread shortages of basic consumables we are going to be lucky to maintain existing capacity. If ¾ of that population catches the virus and 5% of those need intensive care, the average stay in Wuhan is around 3 weeks, we can calculate the burden on healthcare: (((7500,000 / 100 ) x 5 = 37,500 ICU patients ) / 75 ICU beds) x 3 weeks = 1500 weeks, or nearly 29 years at current capacity to treat everyone.

Obviously there are many simplifications and assumptions in there but my main point is that given existing conditions there is not enough capacity for more than a small fraction of patients. Therefore everyone working to slow the spread of the virus will aid healthcare throughput and save the maximum amount of lives.
Hey I appreciate that but I don't have the luxury to treat it like anything but survival I used to be very laid back but as you said once again I am not willing to compromise things I value a lot in exchange for things I value less in other words 8 hours a day doing something I don't care about to gain one hour at best with people I care about sounds like a bad deal

I can't help thinking how much effort would be saved if everyone wasn't so busy being busy while trying to seem somehow aloof it's pure toxicity I don't see anything good coming out of it but you're right YMMV you've only got one life to invest in doing whatever you feel is best
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I want the legal policy to be based on where I use it from, not which language I download. As a .nl citizen I personally hate language localization, set my locale to en_US.UTF-8, and always ensure I download the international versions of my browser. I would expect at the very least the legal policy to be tailored towards where I download it from, but preferably where I use it from.
That's the bridge round while the close the actual round, as it says in the article you linked.
Or, we should just get used to live with more CO2 in the air.
I found three small previous threads. Others?

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10926253

2015 (a bit more): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10470383

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7730311
And having Ebola is a even worse outcome. But few in developed countries worry about Ebola at all. Why? Because it is not easy for them to catch Ebola at all.
> Benioff and Weiss were slated to do a whole new trilogy for Star Wars, but they suddenly realized they didn't have time.

They kind of forgot that they were busy.
”COVID-19 is unlike anything before”

It’s almost exactly like every other respiratory virus, except that the case fatality estimates for old and sick people are higher.

There’s nothing mechanistically new about the infections we’re seeing. It’s a pretty bog-standard respiratory virus, in terms of its transmission and overall virulence.

”But if COVID-19 spreads to their country, people's daily lives will be significantly disrupted.”

If so, it will be primarily due to blunt attempts to prevent transmission of the virus in order to protect the sick and the old. For most people, this virus is little more than a mild chest cold.

Once this becomes a true pandemic, we will see a rapid shift away from quarantines and travel bans, and an increased emphasis on protecting vulnerable populations directly.
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In 1940 it was "Screw you China" - Japan

In 2020, it is "Screw you Japan" - China
the main advantage for tmux is in remote use. i work on multiple machines (laptop, desktop, etc) and i often like to access one from the other. tmux allows me to switch devices in a seamless way. i don't use i3 but you are right about the splitting in particular. it would be nice if we could have more gui integration of tmux. like a graphical tmux client that maps split windows to resizeable gui panes
Or, have less people producing waste everywhere.
Linear algebra IS about linear transformations and vector spaces.

The thing is that the field over which the space is defined can be quite arbitrary (finite, infinite, not algebraically closed etc.) which has immense consequences on the behavior of such objects.

When one drops the assumption on finite number of dimensions, the story becomes wild (and is known as functional analysis, beautiful and extremely useful branch of mathematics).
Even in a "socialist utopia" with public healthcare and good sick leave there are a lot of open questions like that and I get the feeling that the poor will be hit hard. If they shut down non-essential places then how do the people working there pay for rent and food? If they shut down schools then can the parents take paid time off to look after kids? What if the parents are nurses? So far I haven't seen an explanation of how all this plays out, or how it's playing out in already quarantined areas.

I'm about to finish my current job which wouldn't normally be worrying, but if hiring stops and interviewing becomes impossible the equation changes pretty fast.
my girlfriend got one of those, and i absolutely hate it. it wakes me up with light in a way that makes me feel bad. it honestly puts me in a bad mood immediately.

one thing i have noticed being a night owl is that even during periods where i am sleeping "normally" (i.e., early) and waking up moderately early is that i still hate the mornings. i could be making this up, but it feels quite inherent to me that i do not like the climate and sunlight in the morning. the climate transitions that happen at night and also the light at twilight have always been extremely calming to me.

when i was younger, i would play basketball during the evenings and into the night. during the summer, i would also get up early and workout and practice, and it was always a complete slug, despite being well rested. the air and light just feels different for me in the mornings. also, when i wake up and immediately shower, like for a workday, it feels worse than when i sleep in on the weekends, am awake for an hour or two, and then shower.

i have no idea if that's really what's going on, but that's what it feels like to me.
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Living in Tokyo and just returned from Seoul yesterday. It's striking how differently the countries are handling this issue. Korea is pretty much on lockdown -- the government and the population are being quite proactive. Masks everywhere, thermal guns at junctions with high human traffic. Water fountains shut down, etc. Even the airport staff at the eateries were undergoing temperature checks before interacting with customers.

Coming back to Japan; however, people seem kind of unconcerned in comparison. The airport was business as usual and no visible increase in mask usage.

I went to a GP just this morning for a shoulder injury and noticed some of the staff weren't wearing any face protection, and a few wearing them incorrectly. It was a bit unnerving, to be honest.

I have a feeling Tokyo is about to have a huge outbreak any day now. I'm not one to fear-monger, but knowing how casual people can be when out and about (unchecked coughing/sneezing, subpar handwashing in public toilets), it almost seems inevitable especially given how crowded this city is. As a resident, I'd like us to step up our precaution game before we hit infection levels that we are seeing with our neighbors -- but I'm afraid it might already be too late.
Madagascar, before they close the ports
that sounds like an expensive solution. I can't napkin math any of this since I don't know how much CO2 you could extract along with the other engineering and logistical problems:

* which areas are suitable

* how much energy is required

* how much area of land is required.

I hesitate to give credibility to any answer that starts with 'just... [do this thing]'.

If you have any references I'd be curious to learn more
glad you're happy, but I would caution thinking that choices of framework count as competitive advantage.

I usually say, if your customers don't care and cant tell then it's not an advantage.
Mind sharing that script?
Unless you always use VPN,
they can still do that, even with DOH.

And if you use VPN, they can see your traffic.

Personally I trust my ISP more than some random VPN provider on the net.
familiarizing yourself with the program, the author and the supply chain is more than just inspecting the downloaded code.
To your average layperson who doesn't know much about aviation, "autopilot" means "the plane will fly itself".
Yes it does. After we have vaccinated vast amounts of global population with flu vaccines that mostly work. Try flu without vaccination and potentially 10x mortality rate: CoVid-19.
Thanks. I actually just took a look around there and was disappointed there wasn't a 'News' section or something like that, so glad to hear there will be updates soon!

I do have one other question: is there any chance you'll partner with a Canadian charity, or other ex-US charities for that matter, to accept tax-free donations from other countries?