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Here's the trick: Higher powers are how society applies repercussions.

Note: I'm aware U.S. Govt 1st amendment doesn't restrict anything but the govt. I think we're both talking about the general concept of free speech, not that particular example.

Let's take the example of twitter. People swamp twitter with misinformation and toxic behavior. As individuals, we're all free to ignore/block the annoying/misleading people, and the company (the higher power) does not interfere. Ideal, right?

Except that the toxic people drive the others away. White supremacists attack and threaten people of color. Toxic bros attack and threaten women. Misinformation swamps the good information, and only the people that are already experts can tell the difference (and the misleading people will claim to be experts, so...).

If your response to above is "threats are illegal", you've not paid attention to how threats can made sufficiently arguable to be legal, but still clear enough to threaten.

Putting the burden on each individual to filter everyone is NOT taking "no" stance, it's taking the stance that those most willing to "speak" (which includes expressive actions) are given power. When the talking is for good things, that's great. But the people least willing to consider other people, the people lacking empathy, will have no restraint on what they say (or do, expressively) unless imposed. Long before they suffer any personal social repercussions they care about, they will have inflicted their harm upon a lot of people.

Preventing our "higher authorities" from taking action is reducing the power of collective people to take action. Sometimes collective people are wrong, but sometimes they are right, and that's why I say the topic isn't simple.
YES.

This is one of the most monumentally stupid things I've seen in response to COVID19, stupider than hoarding toilet paper and drinking colloidal silver.

I suspect the University will be taken to court and fined quite a bit for this. Some students left homeless will sue for civil damages.

Happy days for lawyers in Dayton. Students not so much...
On the bright side, a disruption in supply may teach us what we really need, and what we don't need. Maybe after this breakout we'll realize the importance of slowing down, consuming less, and resting more.
Presumably when they're not is exactly when those students 'are approved for an extended stay or housing over spring break'?
The WHO knew (and told people) that this disease had the potential for a pandemic and/or widespread harm a long time ago. Here’s a two-months old article with the title “Narrowing window to contain outbreak, WHO says”: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51591091

There is a difference between a potential, or even a certain, pandemic and an actual one. You and the WHO knew what it meant when you looked at that egg. But only now has it become an actual chicken.
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I like to think it's never too soon, most seem to think otherwise.
That was in 2012. The data is way outdated. The vast majority of young voters nowadays are swaying democrat.
XMPP, RSS, and similar protocols feel like they died due to this. Technical stuff, sure, but I tend to view the technical reasons more as business justifications for lock-in than "legit" issues.

I work in the micromobility vertical, which is facing some of these issues around trips, privacy, companies owning data, and cities wanting open data. Stuff like this [1] is popping up more and more.

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/10/transport-trip-p...
It's not the average that's important, it is the percentage above 70 and 80 years that is the important factor.
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1. It's unlikely that this coronavirus was caused by the consumption of bats. It is more likely that it was transmitted through an intermediate host such as pangolin.

2. A very small minority of people in China consume exotic food not because they are cheap, but because they are more expensive and were considered prestigious.

3. There is now a very strong pushbacks against this culture from both the Chinese government and the vast majority of the Chinese people.
I listened to Joe Rogan's podcast with Michael Osterholm and he gave an interesting perspective. He said that most nurses who have children will suffer if kids have to be sent home. They most likely don't have people that can help take care of their children while they are supporting the influx of patients. Moreover, many children rely on school provided meals so sending them home will be very tough on the families.
This is where I'm currently battling my south-Denver community. They're all up in arms reciting the GP's facts-in-a-vaccuum. They honestly don't give a rip about the extreme pressure it's put on healthcare systems in Italy (let alone Seattle). They're mad at the local government for "bordering on hysteria" because they're following the South Korean model for management.

Once it's fully spread through our community because the've decided they're entitled to be carriers (because, hey, you're more likely to die of the flu), they'll blame that same government for failing to provide the requisite care in the community.
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oh lord yes
> stop eating exotic wild animals

You're probably referring to the youtube disinformation that has been trotted around by right-wing media outlets as "the cause".

It may very well have come from bats. But bats can infect other animals, in various ways, including ones that are traded in live-animal markets.

This is not about cuisine.
Automattician here. Over 1000 employees, fully distributed (with the exception of Tumblr, which has an office space).
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True. And we don't care about the number of cases anyway. We care about the growth. Assuming China has been ramping up its testing efforts, that gives us a clear picture of the spread in China. Especially compared to countries with slow-to-start, spotty testing.

It seems to me that the U.S. government would prefer for cases to not be tested. Whatever medical competence there is appears to be sidelined by other interests.
I understand that. In which case at least they should make school optional.

Several Universities are closed, several schools are closed and we need to worry more about the spread because if we don't we'll have the problems you mentioned in addition to a massive spread.
also, adding support to dynamically probe for a GPS attached to GPIOs would be very straightforward (almost identical to the tbeam case). If you're interested in this ping us on the devchat and someone will help talk you through it.
> If you leave it to the engineers to write about interesting things, and get the approval process out of the way then you might put up something of interest to engineers.

True, but there's also a good chance that you will get something that provides no marketing value, or employer branding, or sales value, or any kind of value whatsoever. Sure, you get an interesting blog post, but why should a company pay its engineers to do that?

IMHO, good corporate blogs happen at the intersection between marketing and engineering. If the process is skewed too much towards one end, what you get is rarely worth it. There are exceptions (there are plenty of people doing marketing, or engineering, whose vision exceeds their own department) but they're very few. Most companies can't afford them, and those that can often fail to attract them.
> Since Covid-19 is now a Pandemic, my Health Insurance provider will no longer provide treatment to me for free :-(

Welcome to the free market. Please take a survival fitness brochure on your way out.
> Enable analyzers by adding .deepsource.toml

Why is this needed? Can't you imply the necessary analyzers from my codebase?

There is no support for Javascript, Typescript, PHP, Java or C#. No HTML or CSS support. Is there a roadmap?

Also, the name implies use if Deep Networks and AI. Am I mistaken? If not, what kind of AI is used here? Seems like just an automatic runner of static analysis tools.
The disease should be called SARS type 2, because the virus is called SARS-CoV-2.
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I wish more outlets were doing more to give us age data.

I saw this released earlier today: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Bolletti...

Basically, of the 357 deaths in this report from Italy March 09, 0 below 40:

40-49 1

50-59 3

60-69 37

70-79 114

≥80 202
Some policies just explicitly won't cover them. And it's not only the US, I found examples in at least Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-06/coronavirus-covid-19-... and India https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/insure/health-in...
Here in Austin, SXSW was cancelled but I've seen numerous "unofficial party" lists of people organizing events.

I understand people want to support the Austin economy since losing SXSW is a big hit, however it was cancelled to limit mass gatherings yet people still want to gather.
Explanation: this is a commentated, recent speedrun of Donkey Kong 64 which uses glitches and intimate knowledge of the underlying code to skip parts of the game and perform various time-saving tricks. It's a "tool-assisted run" (TAS), meaning the controller inputs are controlled by a computer script.

Heavily-commentated videos like these are fascinating because they explain all the glitches and tricks in great detail, allowing the viewer to appreciate what's going on.
There's also the political backlash if the WHO accurately says, "this is a pandemic," early enough to flatten the curve and save lots of lives.

Do you expect politicians to actually think? Especially when they can point at the "fakenews WHO." (I don't know how Trump would actually say it but you get the picture.)

If the WHO declares a pandemic early, they _do_ save lives. But they take the political beating because "nothing happened."

If the WHO declares a pandemic late, they don't save lives. They take a mild wrist slap because "they were late to declare it," which will not be remembered in about a month.
This. Last month all of the analysis pointed to the fact that the mortality rate was being severely misrepresented, either through intent or ignorance.
That sucks if that's true for your insurance provider. Here in the US it is not always true. For example, Blue Cross Blue Shield in MA are covering expenses for testing and waiving co-payments for medically necessary treatments. https://home.bluecrossma.com/coronavirus
The responsible thing to do is cancel, even though I know you're feeling damned if you do.
That clause seems like the kind of thing a judge would immediately throw out the window when it conflicts with tenancy laws.
Republicans may be marginally older, but they are also more rural. Presumably cities would be harder hit with a pandemic, but then again city folk might have easier access to care. It's really hard to say.

Beyond direct consequences, it seems reasonable that covid19 would affect the election by tanking the economy and giving Trump nothing to point at as his big accomplishments
Exactly. The media has fallen victim to corporations and special interest groups. This is why I'm voting for Bernie Sanders, personally.
You probably still have coverage. Trump stepped on their balls the other day so they extended it: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/486816-pence-major-hea...

Quote: "all the insurance companies here, either today, or before today, have agreed to waive all copays on coronavirus testing, and extend coverage for coronavirus treatment in all of their benefit plans"
>I hope this will make people realize that we need to abolish centralized institutions in our highly complex world.

While I too favor decentralization, what we really need to do is return merit to our institutions. We need a social climate that encourages Pattons and Churchills and the like. Unfortunately to return to such a time of competent leadership (not just in government, but society at large) would require undoing decades of propaganda that convinced some two generations of children that we all have equal ability and any of us can do anything. The dangerous downside of giving everyone a trophy across society is that now people have grown up less able to judge competence and merit in others.
From the death %, symptoms, and recovery stats, it really is mostly "just the flu".

If you are otherwise healthy, this is like getting a cold with a fever for a week, then feeling better.

Sure, call it a pandemic, because it is worldwide. But honestly it's just not that remarkable. This isn't some godly virus with 25% death rates!
Wow you handled that awkwardly critical comment like a champ! Haha. Cheers.
That's outrageous. Every living person deserves full healthcare coverage. Leaving people behind by private insurers is inhumane, and in difficult times like these it's in fact a hazard for the public at large.
Yes, I'm glad. Currently we have 246 confirmed cases and with those measures they may rise slower than otherwise.
People are buying tickets right now and it's irresponsible to be selling them.
I think it's 33% distrust in governmental institutions, especially the liberal elite fake news CDC, 33% the fact that it's mostly hit large cities so far, and 33% the direct actions of the administration and the right wing media machine.

I think the fact that it's an election year, more people are susceptible to thinking the pandemic is overblown and thus a conspiracy to defeat Trump.
> Bots warp a Twitter user's ability to estimate how many human actors are involved in a given interaction

I think that's a feature, not a bug. Alts and pseudonymous speech are some of the most important speech.
I guess a "riot" is defined as "young students milling around recording with their cellphones."
Different people experience differently. Tests were always less stressful for me than non-test days. On a non-test day, there would be a non-zero chance I forgot/didn't know to do homework that was due. But homework was never due when there was a test.
Toptal is a software consultancy right?
Let’s hope this attitude doesn’t trickle down into the legal profession where we have attorneys and layers in general refusing service to people who are morally corrupt /bankrupt or are previous felons. Or, don’t spend public dollars defending “bad” people.
The president himself severely downplayed it and gave the opposite advice as his own health officials (including [paraphrasing] "it's just the flu" and "go to work.")
Those are actually the least solvable problems. A disproportionate amount of poor people are going to lose their jobs during the next 3-6 months because of a recession. A lot of people especially in the US are going to suffer because of the vast income inequality that has arisen. So there is no good solution, just like quarantine isn't a good solution but at some point we have to do it.
Cool! Can you provide some real world examples of issues you flag? I poked around on your site and didn’t see any.
Okay. If you need a license for something and someone isn't going to license it to you, you don't have carte blanche to do whatever you want with their IP.

> Please don't do this. The irony of making such a silly claim using a software stack that is so thoroughly built on those "different rules" is too much.

Give me a break. You just said yourself they circumvented Sun's licensing. If software licensing and trademark usage doesn't matter, then why do even bother with them?
Requiring approval will still inevitably leave some students homeless, especially when requesting it is likely to take longer than the eviction deadline.
> but I haven't seen it downplayed on the Federal level at all

We truly must be living in different universes.
Isn't this happening in many places? In Greece, schools are closing for two weeks, all gatherings are prohibited, and celebrations for various holidays have been canceled.

Notably, the Church of Greece has announced that "the virus cannot be spread through Communion" (where everyone drinks wine from the same cup). You can imagine how angry this self-serving move made most people.
Yes, she is one of four ministers underneath the health secretary. Care is not in her portfolio luckily (she is responsible for mental health and patient experience).
It's right there in their post... older voting population combined with taking fewer precautions against the virus. Both mean it might have a larger affect on the republican block.

Personally I'm not sure if it will outweigh how democrats are more likely to live in denser urban areas where spread is faster.
As a parent, please take my advice: Your children's learnings will be okay in the long run.
> We’re working on supporting Ruby and JavaScript and integrations for Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.
Which will lead to massive layoffs, starting with the most vulnerable (small businesses, hourly workers, etc)
Underrated advice. I'd get 10x as much benefit from my undergraduate studies than I did if anyone got it through my head that the academic staff will help you with the stuff that was in the class - and more importantly, they're very happy to tell you everything about their field of research.
> Startup time isn't what is holding the language back.

For what it's worth, I am a system administrator (or DevOps engineer or infrastructure architect or whatever the trendy name is now). I've written several non-trivial automation tools where I had the option to use pretty much any language I wanted. The startup time and overall awkwardness of deploying the JVM for scripting was the undeniable deal-breaker. (I used Python instead).

> For boring code, which is the reality for many developers, they just want a clear best practice to get the stuff done.

More likely they just need a solution with the least-necessary added complexity or observable downsides, and that rules out the bulky JVM with its slow start-up time and the fact that Java has been under the jurisdiction of Mordor since 2010.
Yes, I've been saying this from the start as well. Also note that they used China's severely misleading statistics from day 1 with no disclaimer. The WHO is incompetent and/or corrupt.
Just because it says that, doesn't make it legal. I have no idea if it or isn't, but contracts can and do include illegal and/or unenforceable clauses.
Cities skew democrat, particularly inner-cities. Those built-up areas are also more vulnerable to the spread of disease.
Where do you live that CV is 20-30x less deadly than elsewhere? From the numbers I'm seeing, it's not just the flu.
It is remarkable, it's just not civilization destroying. Lots of old and vulnerable people will die. The healthcare system will be taxed for many months to come.
> Where democrats have been cancelling travel and buying toilet paper, republicans didn't even believe the crisis was real until the market crashed.

Don’t spread partisan bullshit.
Every mainstream news outlet in Canada. Followed by National, local polical leaders of all groups. On the advise from health official. Who get directives from the WHO.
Wow, this idea of grouping messages is really great!

I would really love to see a Mastodon (Fediverse?) client implementing it!

Congrats @ author!
And, as leader of the Executive Branch of the government, what exactly will he do to change the private media so that it's not serving private interests?
Now, assuming:

- old people vote in far larger proportion compared to young folks

- they tend to vote conservative

- this virus is likely to kill old people disproportionately

- red states tend to do less well in terms of all kinds of infrastructure, including medical

...then would you expect to see a change in the results of future elections?
> For example, your home insurance would cover your house burning down but would have a clause along the lines of "if the whole town burns down, we will not cover you."

This isn't true. Insurance companies can and do regularly cover people in areas where massive destruction occurs within a particular area (e.g. hurricanes). This is why some companies no longer write policies in certain areas: their risk managers usually require them to "spread out risk" and so they write some stuff in some areas and then they may stop and lower rates elsewhere which are deemed "lower risk".

EDITED: Actually, some companies will even cover you in some pretty extreme circumstances, but this is stuff you have to pay for extra and isn't usually included on most policies.

At any rate, what _is_ true is that most insurance companies won't cover you based upon the cause of something: e.g. if your house is burned down due to a riot "civil unrest" or because of something like war, it will not cover you. If your house floods because a pipe bursts, then it is OK. If water comes up from the ground (i.e. a _real_ flood) then it will not cover you because it looks not only at what happened but how it happened.
What? The Federal Government has been saying exactly that -- that the flu is far worse, it kills more, and that Covid19 is no big deal. They've said it repeatedly from Day 1 - Up through two days ago when Trump tweeted:

> So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12370273563148697...

The top performing story on Facebook right now is a Fox News piece highlighting the President downplaying it:

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1237092136958545923

Basically the entire GOP leadership structure has decided that people are only worrying as much as they are to damage Trump politically. Essentially the only top level official giving the straight story is Dr. Fauci and he's immediately contradicted by others in the cabinet who seemed to be completely preoccupied with the stock market and the election.
It's collapsing health care systems every where it breaks out. It doesn't take a high hospitalization rate before the CFR jumps way up. Italy's is 4% because they're just letting older people die because they don't have the resources to treat them.
People who cannot appreciate exponential growth are at a higher risk than people who do simply because behavior matters.
Congressional doctor predicts 70-150M U.S. coronavirus cases
Re: grouping. This is a feature called "bundling" that I'm halfway through finishing. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/63

It doesn't track unread items. This is a move away from the 'news feed' or 'inbox' approach to reading the Web.
That sounds like a great way to kill the travel insurance industry. Not paying out means that the same people won't buy it again next time.
More transparency on the fingers.
Don't remember where I read, but some district or something has proposed (or implemented) an option where kids are able to get lunch/breakfast and take it with them without needing to attend school.

It does not solve the nurse issue, which perhaps as a community we need to solve. Perhaps limited opening of school monitored by younger healthier teachers/PTA reps.
Exotic animals are not something poor people eat because they can't afford. It's absolutely the other way around. Exotic meats are mostly consumed by the powerful people as delicacies.
Interesting, didn't know that. Seems weird they'd do that considering they show your photos on a map.
I was under the impression that the Pandemic label was a response to objective criteria, not subjective decision of leadership.

In particular, one of those factors was sustained duration of the outbreak. My understanding is we finally crossed the time threshold for declaring this a Pandemic.
I've heard it was more important, at GDC at least, for indies because you have legendary devs walking around who can help small teams get deals or contacts with bigger networks. Make a demo that catches the eye of the right person and it can be really helpful.
A lot of individual differences in terms of cognitive decline.

ruth bader ginsburg is 86 years old, and still seems sharp as a tack.