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I'm looking specifically for WHO pandemic declarations.
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These are definitely the kinds of problems we're trying to solve. We've been working with our launch customers to get their whole company to understand the tradeoffs involved in customer support.

It's actually very hard to have both fast response times and high occupancy (the percentage of your team's time actually spent answering tickets). Often a company wants both, but it's hard to convince people that you can't have both. We've helped our early customers show this by actually planning different scenarios out.
There are not many people actually going to e3.

I was always curious why it matters at all.

As a consumer you have to wait ages and as a journalist you are there a day earlier or have invites.

It's much cheaper to invite all relevant journalist on a global scale.

But honestly? If I'm able to watch the release show from companies like Ms Sony and co live on YouTube I will do that.

I assume this creates more then enough buzz already.
It was from a wet market, and was probably contracted during the butchering process, not during consumption.
A proper justification, such as a closed school, would explain the delay in the child's education, and likely negate most (all?), negative reactions people might have about the resulting delay.

Citation may be needed in general, but here… that's sounds like a reasonable guess.
If by community you mean the US as a whole, yes. But there are many areas and smaller cities in which it has not arrived. Those could be helped. And if a smaller city is infected and then gets clean, they could be helped too. That's what I was referring to. Stopping domestic flights.
Honestly at this point the socially responsible thing to do is not to attend, regardless of whether they cancel or not. You are not just putting yourself at risk by attending. We all must take steps to combat the spread.

But I don't envy your position, I know these are tough calls to make.
Who is your goto authority that has supplanted WHO in healthcare matters?

As in, who do people like you, who claim that WHO's maybe flawed handling of this has erased all of the work they've done in the past, consider the best source of truth in these matters?
The Chinese government appears to be trying very hard to not be blamed for it and is spreading fake news of their own, which is what your acquaintance may be telling you.
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Toptal is profitable and 100% remote, not a single office anywhere. Not sure if largest, but quite big at ~500 employees.
It is clear that some stories are boosted up, and some are boosted down, and it is not clear the process those get chosen.

It may be that "you find them interesting is enough", and it's your site so this is not a complaint, but it is not a transparent process because despite "thousands of comments" there is little documentation or explained policies.

We know there's an "anti flame war" trigger on the down side, but of more interest is what causes stories to jump hundreds of spots and that has never been well explained to my knowledge. (Or perhaps it has but I haven't been to read such an explanation).
> I get it that JavaScript/Python etc... programmers who always had a garbage collector might have trouble.

FWIW, as a JS/Python programmer I didn't run into borrow checker issues on my most recent Rust foray -- I think it's gotten easier over time with stuff like non-lexical lifetimes?

What I did run into was differences in error handling. If you're used to exceptions it takes a while to get a feel for the variety of idioms that replace them, particularly the chains of and_then().unwrap_or().map().filter().ok().filter_map() that are more familiar for folks coming from pure functional languages.
People can be transported from rural areas to urban hospitals..
Rational Recovery, an alternative to group therapy, has been around for 30+ years.

https://rational.org/
"More Jews have died in car accidents than by Nazis" may be a true statement in 1939, but it looks pretty dumb in 1945.
Don't worry about it. You sound like a good parent who will think of ways to keep your kid engaged.

Think of some ways you can help kids who won't have a steady source of meals if they're missing school.
Property values will fall after the next recession. It looks very likely that this set off what will become the next recession. (I mean, a recession is two quarters, so it hasn't happened yet... but it seems really unlikely to me that we won't see a recession, considering.)
> Please describe a 'militant' atheist perspective unironically. :)

I think of militant as unyielding and confrontational. This isn't some pejorative assigned to others, it is a term forwarded and embraced by proponents of that ideology. For an unironic perspective I suggest this New Yorker article "All Scientists Should be Militant Atheists" by Lawrence Krauss [1].

1. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/all-scientists-shou...
I'm struggling to figure out how closing campus housing is legal.

There's a huge chunk of student for whom that IS their housing. Full stop.

They paid rent. They occupy the space. They have no other home to go to.

This seems like illegal eviction to me.
SARS-CoV-2 virus is zoonotic for sure, question is only what kind of animal was immediate host and what was mode of transition. It didn't have to be eating, might as well have been transmission of body fluid like mucus while hunting or cutting meat.
Would it be theoretically possible for CC to change its trademark policy on those symbols in a way that affects documents that use them?
A lot of the initial response to Covid-19 in the US was based plainly on implicit racism against Asians. Essentially the government saw the Chinese, Korean and Japanese fighting this virus with all their forces and then just thought "this will never happen in American because somehow we are better". They had 3 months to prepare and, still, they believe that to fight the virus is just enough to wash hands and stay a few feet away from their coworkers, just as with a normal seasonal flu. That's ridiculous.
In most cases personal problems are the reason why children/young people skip school, not the result – that's why skipping school sounds problematic. But there are cases when it's entirely justified and it's entirely manageable then – surely an epidemic is one such case.
The US's rural healthcare is really bad. I was in a very rural part of Ohio recently and was listening to people talk about how they really only have an urgent care facility nearby but the closest hospital is a decent bit away. Even then they talked about how it wasn't a good hospital and recounted horror stories of friends/family and how they always go to a further/different hospital because they don't get good care at the closer one (which again, is not that close).

I live (urban/suburban) in spitting distance of 3-4+ hospitals (I don't even know for sure) with at least 2 of those being ones I would trust my life to in a heartbeat (the others I just don't know enough about). I was really unaware of the disconnect before that trip and it didn't really occur to me that hospital != hospital. So not only do some rural location have limited or no hospitals but they don't trust the ones they do have.
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By delaying the "pandemic" designation, the WHO has inadvertently cost more lives. They will strongly need to reevaluate their role and policies going forward, because this was a monumental process and leadership failure.

The messaging from the media (who are laypersons) and the politicians (who are economically motivated laypersons) has been that this is "just the flu". Weak messaging from both the WHO and the CDC has only reinforced this in the public's perception.

The WHO should have taken the decisive move to encourage greater caution by employing the "pandemic" label. That label comes with real power. While there is danger in crying wolf, it was evident months ago from the growth rate of the virus and the lack of quarantine procedures being put in place that this virus would reach the pandemic stage.

If the role of the WHO is to stave off pandemics and not just to monitor them, then elevating the risk profile of the virus should have been a top priority. Since people look to the WHO for guidance, their actions have direct impact to sequestration and bringing the outbreak under control.

Both the WHO and the CDC were too afraid to take early action. Their wait and see approach will ultimately result in more human deaths and suffering.
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Hopefully the school districts will now close.

Parents from every school districts in the Bay Area have collected thousands of signatures to close, but the politicians are not doing their job.

I was on call with Santa Clara county hotline and the school district and the standard answer I got was: Oh, the kids are at low risk and the numbers are low so we're not closing yet.

What they don't realize is that the kids can still be carriers and many teachers and parents are in the danger zone (age or underlying conditions)
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That's nuts. This should be the top comment.

And here I was just thinking the finding makes sense to the extent that AA is (probably) more involved than (most) psychotherapy. To extend my point, I think when people consider the benefits of things like therapy, that--because their attention is on the therapy at that moment--they don't realize that if therapy is 1 hour a week, there are 167 hours left in the person's week that can either help or harm them with respect to their goal.
If you had a random six months of your education removed from your memory, how long would it take you to relearn it? If it was prior to high school, would you even bother relearning it?

How important is any particular six months of your education to your ability to do your current job?

Missing 6 months of school isn't ideal, but I think we tend to overestimate the importance of hitting every nail on the head when it comes to education.

Not to mention the fact that if most children in the US miss 6 months of school, they will have that as an excuse when they start sending out resumes in however many years.
> If you told me someone "copied your API", I would absolutely assume that they'd copied the implementation and not just the declarations or the way the declarations were organized/named.

That's just you being unreasonable. I've literally never seen anyone else make a similar assertion or assumption, while the opposite is very common—most APIs that get copied are ones where the source code to the implementation is not even readily available to be copied, or where even looking at the original implementation's source code is dangerous for the author of a clone because of its license terms.

Confusing the API with the entire standard library implementation is not a common mistake, especially among people who pay any attention to this legal case.

> The "SSO" language is not an arbitrary or legal distinction. It is a technical one that is necessary to convey the exclusion of the implementation precisely because people would otherwise assume we were also talking about the implementation when we say "API".

The "SSO" language is not about clarifying that the API is separate from the implementation; that distinction is pretty clear on its own. It's about trying to make sure the API doesn't run afoul of copyright law's exclusion of "any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, [...]", by making APIs out to be something more than just a collection of parts that are individually not copyrightable.
Are there citations for evidence of the opposite?
> Many companies do patents as means to protect their IP when copyright isn't enough.

It's hard to believe that 95 years of protection after publication (or 120 after creation) "isn't enough" for corporations, but I'm sure they'll find longer terms in one country and then push the others to "harmonize" on the new value at some point or what have you.

Walt might lose his incentive to create new works if the Mouse's copyright is allowed to expire on January 1, 2024.
Concern is more for vulnerable species on the decline such as songbirds than small mammals, and yes, cats do kill significant numbers.
Exactly. Summer break? Spring Break? Winter Break? I'm somewhat perplexed by OP sentiment.
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> if we stop eating exotic wild animals like bats, which is not hard to give up

That seems a very first world-centric point of view.

Isn't the eating of such animals partially driven by cultural culinary preferences, and partially driven by the availability of such foods (eg. unable to afford beef or chicken, but can afford the next best thing).
I would imagine it's similar to all insurance: there are events outside the scope of your agreement with the insurance company for coverage.

For example, your home insurance would cover your house burning down but might have a clause along the lines of "if the whole town burns down, we will not cover you."

I'm guessing some health insurance plans have a similar clause of "if there is a WHO declared pandemic, we won't cover you".

The fire example from a real historical event: a German city burned to the ground and put multiple insurance firms out of business. This led to the development of "re-insurance" aka insurance firms that insure other insurance firms.

For an interesting take on the above plus catastrophe bonds in general (mentioned in another comment) I highly recommend this article by Michael Lewis: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/magazine/26neworleans-t.h...

EDIT: changed "would have" to "might have a clause"
Yeah, looks dead:

> Is this project still alive?

> Sadly no, we've all been very busy at our company and haven't had the bandwidth to work on this thing.

From https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat/issues/781
People are already largely suspicious of the US government's statements and responses about coronavirus. This sort of thing doesn't exactly improve that problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-pAWbqdyuY
Anyone know where you can find information on the demographics of those affected in Italy?
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This is how I quit and it's a profoundly disappointing and discouraging thing that this is not more broadly known. I should have quit 15-20 years before I actually did and had I known about The Sinclair Method the first time I was subjected to AA and did that instead, I'm convinced I would have been able to quit then. However, I wasn't aware of this and continued drinking for another 17 years.
The US is likely about 11 to 14 days behind Italy in terms of medical infrastructure collapse.
This is true. Big companies were the first to pull out of GDC as well. I think the big players feel they have to spend a lot to keep up and they don't get a lot out of it.

I believe the smaller companies are the ones that tend to benefit from the big conferences, because it gives them a chance to talk to people all over the world who might not otherwise be available. Speaking for myself, these cancellations are understandable, but a big problem for my work.
Junior health minister. I think she is in charge of a subsection of areas, but she is not THE health minister from what I've read.
My work consists of several things based around events (a website and planning a workshop/performance).

Pretty sure none of those are going to happen. Neither is the wedding I got invited to yesterday - or probably the dinner invite for 3 weeks from now.

I'm not sure what to say to people who are involving me in their plans for April and May...
No. You misunderstood the OPs premise.

Everyone will come in contact with the virus. People under 50 years old (as recent reports have stated) have a high chance of survival. The deaths from it will mostly be from those 50 years and old. Voters who are 50 years and older largely vote for the Republican party.
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The quality of medical infrastructure is going to play a small role in outcomes when the entire system is overwhelmed many times over in the next month or so.
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As someone who is been in psychotherapy and an arm-chair psychology enthusiast, not every kind of therapy will be effective for everyone. This also goes for psychiatric medications.

CBT is often oversold as a cure for every kind of mental health issues. New meta-research has found that the effectiveness of CBT has been decreasing for quite some time and long-term effectiveness of CBT is arguable.

Regarding effectiveness of AA, I think it makes sense. Lot of people with addiction suffer from childhood trauma, emtional neglect, and abandonment. In psychological term it is called attachment injury. A community where you are not shamed, validated, understood, and accepted would give corrective emotional experience, which would in turn heal your attachment trauma. I've heard this phrase somewhere: "what cures people in therapy is love". So it's not surprising that finding a community where you are accepted would help you treat your addiction.
She will probably benefit more from a few weeks of being a child, and being worry-free. School was the most stressful time of my life. Tests and exams always hang over your head. Pop quizzes, mid-terms, finals. There is literally NEVER a peace of mind.
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oh my god I sincerely hope you catch the virus. you are annoying as hell. the WHO isn’t responsible for any of this shit. have some self reliance. you’re like a fucking turtle stuck upside down on its shell.
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I really wanted to give Rust a chance for the memory management but I just don't have the motivation to get past the absolutely bizarre syntax, naming conventions full of weird abbreviations like it's the 80s, and the inscrutable replacement for the OO everyone is familiar with. Every facet of the language feels like an exercise in NIH syndrome and it's just too much at once.
In Italy, all weddings and funerals have been shut down until at least April 3rd.

It's the sensible thing to do

https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
Anyone following the social media and the news would’ve called the pandemic weeks ago.

I hope this will make people realize that we need to abolish centralized institutions in our highly complex world. They are single points of failure which introduce significant systemic risks.

CDC also dropped the ball on this one. In Washington state local authorities discovered the outbreak only because they defied federal regulators.

We need better organization at the local level, and we need it now.
This is so culturally unhealthy IMO and it's why America and similar academic oriented countries work work work until they die. It's like 1 year of being off course people act like their lives are going to end.
Interesting history on catastrophe bonds in general: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/magazine/26neworleans-t.h...
I don’t know what “media” you’re referring to, put the idea that it’s being dismissed as “just the flu” by anyone except the US government and their alt-right propaganda channels strikes me as blatantly wrong.
Suburbs are the best place to be.

My mom drives 90 minutes a day to be with my dad in nursing home rehabilitation, the closest facility. The normal response time for an ambulance is 20 minutes, plus 30-45m to an ER. Their doctors are a similar distance. Note that the ambulance is volunteer, and the average member is 55. They live in NY, in a county with a decent sized city. It’s worse in the real boonies.

I live in a city, a paramedic will be at your door in 7-10m. Hospital 5-10m, etc.

If this gets bad, everyone will be familiar with tragedy. The urban stories will be about neglected patients in overcrowded wards and people who die of untreated strokes, etc. The rural tragedies will be finding grandma, drowned in her own phlegm because sick relatives and travel restrictions isolated her from support.
I've been watching COVID-19 very closely since 2019 Dec it, I also witnessed how WHO responses to this Pandemic. If you were me, you will notice that WHO tried very hard to please China, rather than taking people's health into consideration. Many things they did:

- Advice not to ban flight to China after China locked down hubei lockdown (yes, many country trust WHO, like Japan and Korea)

- Met and praised Xi many times, admire how wonderful they did

- Keep down playing how serious the problem can be, and didn't advice any action

And recently, China suddenly donate $20M to WHO

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/coronavirus-outbreak-china-t...

For more details, please watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5VGPYtbTk8
> I am certain that it helps

Yes, about 1% soaking wet, with pockets full of bricks.

This anti-government religion can turn pretty dangerous in situations like this.
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