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It is like the heresy of enabling bounds checking in C.

I have hardly seen a program where having bounds checking enabled was an issue, except naturally for stuff like real time audio or software 3D rendering back in the 16 bit days.

Even on 8 bit, plenty of successful software was written in Basic perfectly fine (naturally games were another matter).

The very few cases that it actually mattered, it sufficed disabling them locally on the hot loop that was actually relevant for it.

When using C++, enabling bounds checking on STL library types or making use of at() hardly caused me not to meet customer expectations.
It's not zero sum, it is negative sum: it comes at the cost of using up non-renewable resources and destroying the environment.
https://www.datainspektionen.se/nyheter/2019/sanktionsavgift...

Translated from swedish:
A swedish hight school did a pilot with a class with 22 pupils with facial recognition for taking attendance. The school is fined with 20 000 USD for invading the pupils privacy. All pupils has agreed to participate but that doesn't matter since the pupils is dependent to the school, they cannot agree to something like this.
> There was the choice what to focus on, and we decided we wanted uncontrolled immigration.

No, we didn't; US immigration is controlled both numerically and by qualities of immigrants. You may disagree with the choices of controls, but they absolutely exist.
“calculation of what happens to America if we do nothing”
> I suspect it is highly unlikely that a virus vaccine would give someone a bacterial disease or a genetic disorder.

Besides allergic reactions and contamination, the oral polio vaccine can cause polio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio
There are many people who enjoy producing "silly products and services". Eg: many people who are left at home spending time doing what they enjoy will make beer or wine. Some of these beers and wines will be excellent, people will like them, and they will want to pay for them.

I understand the motivations for what you propose, but I do not see how it would work in practice before going into full-authoritarian mode.
Given the temperature constraints, I can imagine exactly those plastics are fairly unlikely to be suited to the traditional extrusion heads on common-or-garden 3d printers.
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Letting 40-70% of the population being infected by a virus with 2% percent of mortality rate mean the death of 1% of the population. And probably even more because hospital beds will be saturated and won't be able to provide the cure they need to many people.

(for perspective the normal moratlity rate is 0.77% in a normal population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate)
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How exactly does cutting down the number of shampoo brands help fix the Coronavirus crisis? Even if you go from 1000 shampoo variants to maybe a dozen, the amount of shampoo that's produced does not change significantly. The only effect this is going to have is discrimination against minorities with special needs. I have atopic dermatitis and need to buy shampoo at the pharmacy for absurd prices because the regular shampoo brands have cut me out of their audience Pareto-style ("catch 80% of the market with 20% of the effort").
Do you realise that you are defending someone that tried to buy a German company that is working on a vaccine to give it exclusively to the US once it was ready?
Do masks even work on things as small as viruses?
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I'm not an expert, but I believe they stop the droplets, which are vectors for viruses.
It's not without cost, you lose the additional income you'd get from working. People making $1,000/month expend extra effort to make more than that when the effort to make $1,000/month is nonzero, so I have no problem thinking people with any kind of opportunity will do so when the effort to make $1,000/month is zero, as they will have a lot more available unexpended effort.
I don't think they are lying, but you simply don't have anything to compare it to yet, which makes current inference a conjecture at best. You can only evaluate the data in comparison to other countries. Maybe they will get hit much harder, but currently the evidence doesn't support that.
Woah. I had been kinda trialing Tailscale casually for a little while but I see they've now introduced pricing of USD$10/user/month! That's gonna be a very hard sell for what it offers. I currently handle access via wireguard VLANs and some ruby scripts and it works fine - change is nowhere frequent enough to justify going from $0 to $250+/month just for a little automation.

I'd advise Tailscale to rethink their pricing. I'm not averse to paid services at all, but it's pretty hard for me to justify hundreds of dollars a month for "VPN access management software", even to myself.
I guess he's talking about the European/Merkel "we'll grant the Syrians right to stay" to mean completely opening the EU border...
The big if at this point (and I say this as one of the locked - but healthy, luckily - people in Italy) is how long you can maintain the lockdown without economic impacts (people unable to work) and especially without social impacts (isolation and lack of human contact).

In particular the latter is important IMO because not everyone can endure being basically closed in their homes for too long.
> If we have the industrial / economic capacity to provide everyone with necessities of life (food, water, heat, shelter, ...), why not just provide that directly?!

People prefer money to buy their own food over government-issued turnips.
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> those busyworks are used to justify giving food, shelter and healthcare to those people.

IMHO, even as a recovering laissez-faire libertarian type, the real reason for those jobs is to create funnels of money to the top of society to make a very tiny fraction of the population obscenely wealthy. The bigger scale and the glitzier the funnel, the bigger the fountain of cash for the execs to splash around amongst them. Billionaires are a mathematical anomaly, and those busywork jobs are their payment for us not decapitating the bastards like it's 1789, coupled with an absolutely stunning propaganda blitz that hoodwinked us mere techie upper-middle classers into believing they earned it, deserved it, worked hard for it. It's a lie; a lifetime is not long enough to learn 120,000 lifetimes worth of wealth, and I don't give a shit how many warehouses or webpages your minions make.

(sorry, this whole thing isn't directed at you; more like the Bezoses of the world).
Boost.ASIO (C++) does not expose the SO_RCVTIMEO socket options and instead makes you use a deadline_timer explicity. It's very annoying but this article kind of explains why it is that way.
ok, jean02, fair enough.

by your admission the person you are referring to is an engineer in a highly specialized field and is likely to be skilled at probabilistic inference as well as dissecting (certain types of) scientific publications.

I do have some special knowledge in biological research, from seven years of post-doc work at the Max Planck Institute for Computational Biology. We're the group that created the standard of care software for HIV treatment, and for a time we hosted the global influenza database. In other words, viral disease was a specialty of ours.

In my view, as someone with some high level expertise in the field, is that the original poster is correct in their assessment.
I do this as well and consider CTE's just a macro that is expanded when executing the query - similar to an inline view.

I've run into issues before with systems where the result of a CTE is so large that it is actually advantageous to instead place it into a temp table to avoid re-fetching the data at each invocation. Sometimes that can be better than a CTE for this use case - YMMV.
You misremember. [1] has the video on CNBC that started the Tea Party.

“Yesterday Rick Santelli, who reports from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade the for CNBC, unleashed a rant against Obama’s newly announced housing bailout plan, intended to help some homeowners refinance mortgages and avoid foreclosure.”

1: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/rick-santel...
It has been proved that most of those masks sold simply aren't closely sewed enough to stop the droplets containing the disease.
So in general the mask don't help.
Secondly the mask only help avoiding spreading the virus from yourself to other and it doesn't protect from receiving the virus
Credentialism aside, there were no sources provided.

I do find the point about no SARS vaccine compelling, however. Is that true?

I know the flu vaccine gets updated every year or so with new viruses that are prevalent, so if there is no SARS vaccine then I wonder if that is true and if it is true it couldn't be developed.

Again, multiple things thrown out there without sources which are not common knowledge, followed by "you can look this up yourself".
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Masks contain spread. They do not protect from it.

So if you are sick, wear a mask. Here in Germany you still get publicly ridiculed for it.
It makes less sense to categorize them as NoSQL. It implicitly means 'eventual consistency' and 'no relations' depending on who you ask. Some of the 'NoSQL' databases offer some consistency features, other distributed scalable databases nowadays provide relations and strong consistency models (FaunaDB / FoundationDB / CockroachDB / Spanner) although we would be tempted to categorize thos as 'NoSQL', or 'NewSQL' (but not all of those offer SQL), these terms imho don't really make sense anymore. Some of the older 'NoSQL' databases even start to add consistency features or some form of relations. In other words, the difference between NoSQL and SQL is fading. How good a database can support certain features at scale is what matters, and that depends on the algorithms behind the database (there are many approaches). Imo, look at the algorithms not at the buzzwords such as 'NoSQL'.

There is still a need for databases that are built for scalability (and there is a growing need for those that work well together with serverless), but in many cases, there is no need to abandon consistency since new algorithms make it possible to have consistency, relations and low latency.
I dont think thats a problem. At the very least there will be doctors who are infected and there is nothing to prevent them testing the vaccine on themselves.
> Unless “social life” just means “physical proximity to other people” for you

It would certainly be part of it, interacting IRL, yes.

> can be more meaningful than social interactions with fellow drug addicts.

Can be, sure, but aren't necessarily, and people with digital addictions can become very isolated and have health problems from inactivity.

I'm not trying to say drug addiction is a good thing, but that the initial comment was silly. Not all drug use is problematic, and digital addiction can have a real impact.
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Just think about what you're saying. The mask is a piece of material, it has no directionality. Stop repeating ignorance that you hear second-hand and think for yourself.
Interestingly enough, dogs seem to have problems with chocolate (theobromine, actually).

The only problem humans seem to have with chocolate are supply-related.

Yes, you test on non-humans. But because biology is different, you then need to test on humans.
I just found it in my notes. I don't think it looks too bad - everything you were going to do in the recursive part, you just do inside the subquery instead.

WITH RECURSIVE my_cte AS (
SELECT foo, bar FROM whatever
UNION ALL
SELECT (s).*
FROM my_cte, LATERAL (
SELECT ... -- refer to my_cte multiple times here
) s
)
Avoiding spreading from yourself to others is half the battle though.
> Secondly the mask only help avoiding spreading the virus from yourself to other and it doesn't protect from receiving the virus

This is a large contribution for containment. Masks should be worn by anybody at this point.
As far as I understand it, both companies use the same basic approach and are roughly comparable. But the issue, as soon as a valid working vaccine is found, will be production capacity: you cannot produce vaccine for 330mil people overnight; none of these companies can do that by itself. Hence securing eventually-needed production capacity has its value, especially if you need the vaccine to be broadly available before a certain election date happens, because otherwise you die a political death.
Please don't use code blocks for quotes. They are illegible on narrow screens such as mobile.
I didn't understand why you would want to write that code. To me, a struct is a (very very mild) abstraction, since there can be padding added for alignment and if you don't need to know about each field's offset, then you shouldn't care.

So just write

memset(&a, 0, sizeof a);

and be done, that will zero any padding too and end up just doing the right thing. It's also very clear to the compiler what you're after, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if a compiler chose not to call memset() for this, and just does the equivalent of

a.x = 0;
a.y = 0;

or perhaps, by knowing about padding, doing a properly-sized single write to both fields at once.
The spark for the Tea Party was a viral rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli against a program to help individuals avoid foreclosure. Look it up.
It does have something to do with the problem, though it's more adjacent than spot-on.

Think about the dense crowds on airports, for example. How many of those people actually have to use an airplane to get where they need to be? I bet a lot of those are flying to a business meeting that could have been a telco or a chat instead. Or if their job turns out to be a bullshit job, the meeting would be entirely pointless.
I suspect you need dozens of actors to keep a market healthy. With only a couple producers, collusion is too easy. I suspect the auto market is already heading in the wrong direction, with all the mergers that we constantly keep hearing about... For example, I've noticed that, over the past 5 years, cars have gotten significantly more expensive where I live, without a corresponding quality increase.
And the problem is that users ask the compiler to optimize, and then they complain because it optimizes.

See, optimization can do a lot of unexpected things, but it is very difficult in general for the compiler to tell whether a certain application of (say) range analysis to eliminate dead code in a bunch of inlined calls is going to be unexpected. That's exactly the kind of optimization I want a compiler to do; I can write small functions that are as generic as possible yet cover all the edge cases, and then the compiler can find out which edge cases cannot apply in this particular situation.

If the compiler told the user every time it did something, you'd never finish reading the output. Might as well ask the compiler not to optimize at that point.
> The Welt am Sonntag story spoke to an anonymous German government source as saying Trump was trying to essentially buy the work from the scientists for a vaccine, “but only for the United States.”

Bareknuckle and self-interested as Trump's foreign policy may be at times, I have a hard time believing he'd go so far as to deny the world a vaccine for this, though I do see the sense in attempting to acquire promising research teams in order to avoid the overhead of multi-organizational collaboration.

If the last four years have taught me much, it's that anonymous government officials say a lot of things. I can't read German, does the original article do anything to validate this claim?
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Government (i.e. productive, working tax-payers) should provide for people's needs, people should work to provide for their own wants ("preferences")
> I think the idea here is since both SARS and Covid-19 are part of the coronavirus type, a vaccine for SARS would make modification and rapid deployment of a Covid-19 vaccine significantly better. Really, any existing coronavirus
vaccine would have helped research efforts tremendously.

do we know that's the case? It seems to me that the bottleneck is testing, which need to be done specifically for each vaccine.
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> So in general the mask don't help.

Is that proven?

> Secondly the mask only help avoiding spreading the virus from yourself to other and it doesn't protect from receiving the virus

Doesn't this contradict your first statement? In fact the statement contradicts itself, stopping spreading the virus from one person to another by definition protects from receiving the virus.
Well it's exactly the same after you make the choice/use the first valve.
It was addressed, along with all the other points.

You are implicitly believing that those measures can last for a long period of time if implemented right now. The government is arguing that there are inherent limits to how long that can go on for and that if they must be used at the right time, when more people are infected than at the moment.

The author of the article makes the same mistake. He writes as if social distancing is something you just switch on, and then the outbreak ends. There's no concept that normalcy must return, and so that there's some kind of planning involved in when and how to ramp it up/back down.
Yes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440799/

The virus is not airborne, it is spread is small droplets. Those are effectively reduced by all kinds of masks.
I don't get this sentiment, I mean numbers are pretty clear at this point. We have +-2% mortality rate, and that when system is not utterly overloaded and those critical patients (15-20%) are getting artificial ventilation and very personalized treatment. Without it, most if not all would die.

So real mortality, once health systems will crumble from the load (we will see in 1 week here in Europe), might be more around 10%. Not many seem to like to accept this simple fact, happy to hear where my conclusion is wrong. I mean if you have water/mucus in your lungs, that's it, very little can be done.

If we take >50% of earth population would eventually take it (which seems more realistic, since we have no vaccine, and no effective treatment and those won't work very well in many places like India or most of Africa), we're talking about 80 million - 400 million of dead (2-10% of 4 billions). I don't see how we can avoid this - we can't shutdown whole global economy for even 6 months, whole system didn't evolve with this safeguard in mind. People will have to start working again. Producing food, goods, services etc.

Now lets be skeptical and have only 10% of those horrible numbers coming true - still talking about 8-40 millions of dead.
This is technically correct, but I believe this is also a very buggy area of the compiler and there are cases where it will accept undefined behavior in a constexpr context: https://shafik.github.io/c++/undefined%20behavior/2019/05/11...
I don't! I fully support people's freedom to spend their own money for anything they want! Just not the tax-payer's money, that's why I'm in favor of things like food-stamps (that could only be exchanged for some "basic" staples), government-provided housing, ...
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Same everywhere in Europe I think, people get scared if you are wearing a mask, which should be the opposite...
People presumably still want the recession form of death than the pandemic one, it's not even a competition. There is no amount of evidence you can present to the public that would make this call even a close one. "ten times as many will die from the recession unless we let X people die now" doesn't work.
Probably most important: they didn't bother to ask the supervisory authority before they started their tests, with Datainspektionen only learning of the pilot trough the media.

I think asking for permission rather than forgiveness doesn't work as well when you are part of a government agency.
My key reading from the article was over-fertility leads to mono-culture, so paradoxically you need to reduce soil fertility to encourage diversity.

Reducing soil fertility probably needs intervention to remove rotting vegetation etc.

I am guessing that at one point in time native plants would have had animals and insects that were eating them and maybe reducing soil fertility.
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Please stop spreading this false information and have a look at the infection numbers in China. The masks stop droplets coming from your mouth and nose and if everybody wears them, then they are a very effective mean to massively slowing down the spreading of the virus.

No, the masks are not 100% virus tight. Yes, they prevent spreading of diseases. That's why they are worn by surgeons.

They are 20 cents a piece, that's nothing compared to the current economic costs of useless social distancing as long as people still go to work. Unless we stop the economy, masks and hand sanitizer are the way to go.
We had "if programmers build a plane". Maybe it's time for "if programmers run a vaccine development" video. Lol.
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As long as is in the law (countries may differ) any jury that would not desire to be sued by prevarication. All of them.

Counterfeiting in clothes is one thing, counterfeiting in hospital matherial, when even perfect products can be accidentally contaminated with biological matherial and create lots of problems (or even kill people)... Well, this plays in a very different league.

And cloning devices of course opens the door for other companies to crush the original maker flooding the market with cheaper products exactly when the maker rely on benefits to recover their money (after mass producing products). I assume [1] that there are laws also against this.

[1] I'm not a lawyer and could be wrong. Your mileage may vary.
Not really. There's tons of steady demand to drive money forward. You can double or half average consumer confidence and it won't change the price of a burger or a t-shirt.
Well, there are factors like health and safety risk in these industries.

The gig economy works because these costs are ignored. How many Uber drivers have commercial insurance? If they don't have commercial insurance, does their insurance company cover the damages (including medical bills of passengers) in the case of an accident while the vehicle is in commercial use?

Or, what is the Air BnB host's personal liability in the case that Air BnB requires hosts to refund bookings cancelled due to COVID? A hotel is a corporation, as an Air-BnB host do you have similar limitation on personal financial liability?

The gig economy is supply-and-demand combined with dodging regulatory costs.

Which is great until you run into the situation the regulation is designed to protect against.
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At least for Kubrick, this task is quite easy thanks to the credit roll at the end of his movies.
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Sure, but what do you have against a personal in-home test? The information should be available at least to the individual.
> Whose pockets do you think it's going to come out of

Well, if America just reversed the past 3 years of tax policy, that money would come out of the pockets of the top 1%, primarily. That's people earning more than $400k a year.

As it is, we are going backwards. The government is literally borrowing money now to give money back, in droves, to rich people, instead of to poorer and middle class people.
The german ministry of health confirmed[1] the newspaper report. If this is true it's a major turning point in the trans-atlantic partnership.

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/so-agiert-trump-beim-coro...