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I don’t understand the motivation. Lying and pretending is just going to make the situation worse and push the reckoning to a later date. Given that it is an election year it seems to me that punting this out is a really stupid idea for the incumbent administration.

Maybe they are just hoping that if they lie and withhold information long enough it will just disappear over summer? Seems like a really silly gamble with a huge potential downside and nearly nonexistent upside.
From the definition: A pandemic is an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or worldwide. We knew and saw that weeks ago.

Declaration of official pandemic means world bank pandemic
relief fund program gets activated as long as many other clauses in different contracts and agreements. There is an influence on WHO and the people behind it didn't want pandemic to be declared too soon. If it was declared 3-4 weeks earlier there could be many lives saved in countries like Iran, what is happening in Africa is not known at all due to no testing but situation is probably bad.
Yeah, plus dead people tend to not socialize a lot.
> If you have a large population of mostly healthy young people who might carry the virus with few or no symptoms, is telling them all to leave and inevitably travel to other communities even wise?

Also: stress, like having to leave your home and travel to wherever else you can stay, or like being literally homeless because you don't have anywhere else you can stay, can severely weaken your immune system, as can sleeping on the streets.

The only real solution for a lot of these kids would be to bunk up, two, three, five, ten to a home, which is vastly worse for containing infection than letting them stay in their dorm rooms (assuming people are being careful).
I suggest waiting a few days if you can and then cancel.

News will be way worse than now, which allows you to excuse yourself better.
It’s around 4% of mortality, the flu in US kills about 2 orders of magnitude less.
that remarkable refers to a lower degree of "remarkability" than that stated by OP.

It is remarkable in that it is novel, but that's mostly it.
There's nothing wrong with having large-scale institutions. The problem is when local organizations can't act without a single centralized institution giving the OK. National health departments listen to the WHO but can take action as needed without WHO signoff; local health departments in the US often literally could not test for the coronavirus, even though they had the tools and the capacity and the desire to make tests, because they didn't have federal approval.
No need to apologise at all! You sound like a responsible parent - I commented mostly for other people reading. Your child is gonna do great because they have caring parents.

I would truly love an opportunity to not work for 6 months and have my child not go to school so I could spend that time with them. I'm sure you'll be able to find ways to spend that time enriching their life. Caring is the most important step.
I work on a virtual conference platform, we've had significant increase in interest in the last couple months... you might want to look into hosting a virtual conference to uphold your tradition and be responsible at the same time.
U of Dayton is a private, catholic university.
Any successful containment measure will be later criticized as "too early" and/or "too aggressive".

Much, much better than the alternative.

H1N1 was serious and compared to this, well handled.
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"If the role of the WHO is to stave off pandemics and not just to monitor them". Not really no.
Agreed. My son missed 2 months of 4th grade a couple years ago and when he went back it was like he hadn't missed a day.
it's Greek Orthodox Catholic, which is not a part of the Roman Catholic church.
Most republicans were successfully programmed to believe what Trump tells them, which as of today is a mix of underestimation of the risks and then dodging responsibilities.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-checking-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/politics/coronavirus-t...
Well, the truth: that you will be glad to attend if things get better, but that most likely they won't.
Overreacting? Did you miss the headline of the thread you’re commenting on? This is officially a pandemic. And instead of reading that and thinking “wow, this needs to be addressed with serious action” you instead thought that hundreds of governments across the world are working in tandem to make it easier to raise false flags in the future. Yikes.
> The president has been visibly out-of-step with the rest of the federal government messaging on this. One voice, no matter the position, doesn't evaporate what the hundreds of others have been saying.

The President has been accusing the "Bureaucrats" of not caring about average Americans, fear-mongering the virus, and claims the Deep State is after him.

The President's followers do NOT believe the government experts. As per the sitting President's plan. The sitting President has cultivated an "Us lay people vs Them bureaucrats" atmosphere.

Case in point: My own Mother believes that the Coronavirus is a Chinese conspiracy to attack the President. And nothing I say could sway her opinion. Unfortunately, the voters of the President support, and believe in him more than even family.
Name and shame... Also, country please. I don't know if this would also be a thing in Europe or if it's a result of the USA system (for all I know you're from China).
It is my understanding that there needs to be a specific reason to classify something (national security, etc.). Is that true or can the President classify anything, in the same way he can unclassify anything?
I believe it was declared a PHEIC - Public Health Emergency of International Concern - and this should be the signal that governments need to take measures for containment to prevent it from spreading.

I believe the pandemic label is when containment has failed and governments need to go into mitigation mode. Seeing as it had been relatively contained in China, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc., it seemed reasonable that taking measures would be sufficient to prevent further escalation.
Never assume that. People rarely even read the article they comment on.
Windows Defender had exactly the same design, with a similar bug [1]

>The Google researchers found that MsMpEngine contains a component called NScript that analyses any filesystem or network activity that looks like JavaScript. NScript isn't sandboxed and runs at a very high privilege level, and it's used to evaluate untrusted code by default on almost every modern Windows system

Every antivirus is bad.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/windo...
False, it is currently thought to be between 0.5-4%. But this is probably a high estimate, because many or most cases have not been detected.

https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
I expect many schools may close for a few weeks. How do kids that get stuck at home during blizzards and hurricanes manage? Do what they do.
You probably need to increase max open sockets using `ulimit`. Plus ab kinda sucks, use wrk instead.
I guess it offers more specific features compared with git-annex or lfs?
If you're paying attention you know he's wrong. But there are large swaths of people who when it comes to believing the CDC or the president choose to believe the president. Just this weekend a group of relatives was making fun of the coronavirus as a hoax.
Sounds like Berkeley instructors are handling COVID19 well
Can I ask what country and health insurance? It's not my understanding that would be legal in the US.
I thought the same thing. No one is going to buy a 5MB hard drive in 1979 that only stores the equivalent of 5 floppy disks.
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The administration's supporters won't be swayed by a bunch of critics having 'suspicions'.

And convincing the administration's detractors has never been a priority.
I think the right way to model 45's behavior is an evolutionary feedback loop, where the success condition is pushing the buttons (positive and negative) of the public, for narcissistic attention. He's a paperclip maximizer for outrage and fervor, a Facebook engagement algorithm made flesh.

Because this "skill" has been honed from a lifetime of obsession with media, he's exceptionally good at bypassing anything resembling rational thought, and hitting emotional triggers, resulting in otherwise intelligent people engaging with Frankfurtian Bullshit even when they should know better (opponents and supporters alike).
Many contracts that have illegal/unenforceable clauses have been run by lawyers...
If anything, this is evidence that we need to empower centralized institutions. China started late and fucked up early, but they dealt with it (at least for now). And we'd all be in a much different place now if WHO had actual power and could start bossing countries around a month or two ago.

Similar to how the number 1 problem with the UN is that it has absolutely zero power to do anything.
30x of 0.1% still ain't bad.
Now you're getting into the definition of "writing". I would say I've only seen emoji typed, not written. (Before anyone asks: yes, I've seen cuneiform written. I have some interesting friends.) If you count any visual communication that is typed on a phone under the greater umbrella of "writing", then we could also include colors, styles, orientation, funny fonts, image memes, animation, etc. There's no end to the possible visual communication that people might want to transmit digitally.

Where do you draw the line? I draw it at "anything in or using a language that people might write in the absence of computers, which they would then reasonably want to store and transmit using a computer". I don't include "any possible visual communication that can occur using a computer". That's far too broad to define "text", or be part of any existing "language", which are the stated goals of Unicode.
My read from the US is different. I think over the past 20 years Americans have seen coverage of many scary diseases from afar (SARS, west nile, zika, MERS, ebola). None of these had a large impact on American society. So these experiences have led Americans, not wholly unreasonably, to not pay much attention to a new infectious disease in a faraway place.

I doubt it comes down to thinking America is somehow “better”. If anything, people seem more inclined to envy the coordinated responses of Asian countries, especially South Korea.
I think it is too early to say much about the mortality rate. 4% is an upper bound, since that is how many lab confirmed cases have resulted in death, but that doesn't account for all of the minor cases where people didn't even know they had it.
I think it's easy to criticize their leadership from the outside, but I would assume that they make their decisions with great care, and aren't going to throw around "pandemic" or other words easily. If they do that, people stop listening.

It's akin to people not caring about a major hurricane barreling towards them because they've heard the doomsday scenarios before and nothing has happened.

They have to be careful, and that they were.
His surgeon general has echoed his sentiment although not so tersely. Yes, they are only two people, but if you can't believe either of these two people, who can you trust, particularly when they are making exclusive claims? Besides, he has made a cult of personality around himself and many people do listen to him.
This kind of Sinophobia is so unwarranted -- China has done the best to control this disease outside of maybe S. Korea.
Health checks can have several purposes. They're used by the routing control plane to determine inclusion in the load balancer pool. This is already a kind of circuit breaker and is similar to what an application-level circuit breaker would poll. But they're also used by the scheduler to determine whether the instance needs to be restarted. You don't want your thing in a restart loop just because a dependency is down! In fact, if a very widely shared dependency went down, and everyone was checking it in their health check, the scheduler control plane could quickly have a backlog measured in days trying to move all those instances.

Our environment now supports distinct answers to those two questions but most service authors don't know about it.
Seeing where the link was pointing to (Shopify), you could have expected it.

On the other hand, the same article from the Philips Engineering Blog... now that would be very confusing!
It's not even about a super fancy phone either, it's the bargain bin version of the iPhone.
Name your insurer.
The delayed message of the WHO was really more like a very slow reaction at the cost of potentially millions infected with several thousands dead. By the time it spread to Europe and the US, it was essentially game over.

Perhaps the 'doomsday clock' was right all along but didn't see this one coming.
I am a US citizen and believe that I am rightly suspicious of our current government. It's also my opinion that, since the number of questionable situations has continued to rise for the last three years, there is no road to the administration recovering their credibility.
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I don't eat bats and I don't travel, so I don't see why it's fair that I should be affected by this.
The 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects free speech from government regulation, but that does not mean it is free speech.

Free speech as a concept absolutely does mean an absence of consequences for, or at least a relative tolerance of, speech that people in society may generally disagree with.

It stems from the belief that the truth can sometimes be unpopular, and that in order for us to benefit from the truth we must give people some latitude to be unpopular.

The 1st Amendment does not enforce free speech in the social sphere merely because that is not the purview of the Constitution.
My original point was that a health-check is a good preflight check before the circuit-breaker goes "half open" in the article's terminology, letting traffic flow through again as a test to see whether the service has recovered. The circuit breaker should still do that—but it should do that after a health-check tells it the service has recovered. That way, you don't have random timeouts as your service abuses user-requests as a bad way of finding out the trivial information that it can't even connect to the service.

Instead, the circuit breaker will first get an upper-bound on healthiness from the /health endpoint—and that'll be enough to tell it when even the upper bound says the service is unhealthy. Then, when the upper bound says "healthy", it'll seek a tighter bound on healthiness by letting through actual requests in the "half-open" state.

In this way, depending on how you've written your /health endpoint, you can ensure that far fewer users get their request abused as the scope for the service's health-checking reconaissance-in-force mission; and so decrease your 99th-percentile latency. (Since, of course, a background poller hitting the /health endpoint is outside the request flow, and so doesn't count toward 99th-percentile latency.)
I heard phone screen interviews are easier..Is that actually true?
Which legitimate person would ever say open borders help an epidemic? The virus spreading as it is a direct bad side-effect of globalization such as it is.

The main issue right now is the lack of testing and covering up just to try and bump the stock market, and it obviously is having the opposite effect since the problem is just getting worse the longer the problem is ignored.
Frank Lloyd Wright sought to elevate the environment workers or occupants had to spend their time in. He was designing buildings for people, not as snarky societal commentary.

Maybe we should return to that idea that people are valuable and ought to be treated well, and hire architects to design that way.
> which merely tells the system where to find the right code and does not implement any logic.

This is not true (declarations in Java are evaluated at runtime and compiled to real machine instructions -- i.e. they perform very real logic; also, what algorithm or logic does the following "implementation" Java code describe `return a + b;` ?), but even if it were, I don't see the relevance to copyright. Maybe there are other arguments for excluding such code from copyright, but I am not aware of exclusions for "code that doesn't implement any logic". That's just not the law.

> It is absolutely required to copy that and other APIs in order to be compatible

That is a fair use question, and it is certainly possible that copyrighted code can be copied for compatibility as a fair use. But this case is about Android, and Android is not and was never intended to be compatible. Google admitted that in court, and said that their goal wasn't compatibility but reaching a large pool of developers who would be familiar with the general structure. I don't know if "familiarity" is a fair-use defense, but that is another question before the court.
There were changes after SARS that led to better containment and reporting measures in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.

Sure, the initial cases were clearly messed up, but it has mostly been contained in Hong Kong and Singapore. And with the way this disease has progressed, I would bet many countries are going to overtake China in case counts.
I am old enough to remember when US media was lobbing criticism at China for downplaying the threat to the public.

We are what we think China is.
That's unclear, actually. The biggest single US cluster so far is in a retirement community in suburban Seattle. No one is safe here, novel viruses like this simply transmit too easily.
That's a good point, I suppose my argument hinges on the fact we can prevent exponential growth and if that isn't the case because the data is wrong...
This administration is the most crooked set of losers ever. From day 1, they've only divided and destroyed effective governance and shredded effective people from the government.

What are they going to do now? Let people die just to keep the economic illusion running or let people live with actual infection numbers and crash the stock market?
Please remember that "China" is not one person, and that the dishonest actions of some in their government should not be used to condemn thousands of innocent others to danger or death.
The WHO also renamed the coronavirus to COVID-19 at the behest of China in order to better fit the CCP narrative that the virus did not originate in China.
If your alarms always go out when something is wrong, you do not need a graph.

However, alarms are never perfect. Issues can occur without triggering alarms at all. The graphs cover your blind spots; they help you debug the issues that you do not yet have reliable alarms for.

If an issue occurs without triggering an alarm, but the graphs help you debug the issue, then you should create an alarm that would have caught the issue. Next time, you will get the alarm, and will have a better idea of what is happening without having to look at the graphs.
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The US exports a massive amount of crops to China, not vice versa.

US Agriculture Exports to China = $25B
US Agriculture Imports from China = $5B

Source: https://www.mda.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/inline-files...
> But months ago they really couldn’t have known

It already looked pretty bad mid/late January when China started construction of hospitals. Were there any reasons to think it would no go global?
oh I see, you're just a troll. carry on, then
Suggesting the Who is partial to China is not sinophobia.
The thing is, that infrastructure already prepared yearly for the flu. They have capacity designed around it. It is "normal" for thousands to die from the flu yearly, and nobody says anything. (Except that you should obviously be vaccinated.)
Because the virus can propagate asymptomatically. And even in the best performing countries, only symptomatic people are being tested.
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> Every facet of the language feels like an exercise in NIH syndrome and it's just too much at once.

Not really, a lot of things are taken from sensible theory (e.g. traits and typeclasses).
You should see the list. I've been living in the US for ~21 years now, and at no point I had coverage from a company _not_ on that list. I'm also pretty sure the rest will also get their balls stepped on, this being the election year and all.
Secondary indexing is a hack to address the reality that most indexing algorithms can only represent a single type of relationship efficiently and typically only in a single dimension. This is not a law of the universe, it is just how our algorithms tend to work. If you could eliminate secondary indexing without sacrificing selectivity, it would be a massive win for performance and scalability. However, this would require a single indexing algorithm for complex data models that preserved an arbitrary mix of relational, time-series, spatial, graph, etc relationships for searches and joins.

To make this work in a practical database engine, you can't index the data model per se but you can make it work by indexing a moduli space into which arbitrary data models can be mapped. These tend to naturally expose the topological structure of the underlying data model for computational purposes even though you are not computing on the data model per se. Designing very general moduli spaces for database purposes is non-trivial and, to make matters worse, they are pathologically incompatible with typical surrounding database infrastructure once you figure out how to construct them. But you can use the exposed topology to execute complex searches and joins on the underlying data model.

None of my database engines use secondary indexing at all, hence the excellent scaling and write performance, even for complex mixed-mode data models. A decade ago the representations were pretty brittle and limited because I didn't know how to express many things, but these days I know how to elegantly express just about every common data model.
The USA is really quickly drifting away from our civilization. Way too many Americans have lost any connection with reality and have become Fox News zombies, to continued believing Drumpf was an accident or Russian hack.
Did I claim superiority or equality? And is there not a problem if an insanely expensive institution is not orders of magnitude better than its free/cheap alternatives?
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Also, now is a particularly bad time to go visit museums or other places where people congregate.
You didn't use it as an example, I was recalling from the initial theories when "coronavirus" was making the news.

It would also be helpful to the discussion if "we" stopped casting broad nets and making sweeping generalizations without specifics and context.

"Eating exotic animals" has no real meaning. Bats may not be exotic in that region. Additionally, you specifically said "eating" and, so, my comment was specifically directed at the consumption of animals. In that case, cattle (not "exotic" in my region) can carry bovine spongiform encephalopathy which _can_ survive ingestion (most likely CNS tissues). So, when dealing with science-y sort of things, making generalizations in order to support an opinion, you're basically opening yourself up to people (like myself) who desire specificity and factual support.

As was mentioned in an erudite child comment, the most likely form of transmission was in the preparation of the foodstuff, so if you believe that more caution should be exercised, then you'd get no complaints from me.