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Generate a random int from [0,199]. If you generated a 0, you die.

Rationally, you pretty confident that you won't die? Sure. But what behavior changes are you willing to tolerate not to have to take the chance? I sure wouldn't take the bet on a lark, even though the expectation is that I live.

Now think about extending that same game to your family and friends, to the school down the street, to the shopping mall, and to the elder's home in town. Some people are going to roll 0, and there's a real risk that some of those people are people you know and care about. And even if they're not, your community will still be dramatically affected. It could be your car mechanic, your office's custodial staff, or the greybeard in your office who knows how to decipher the old FORTRAN code.

I'm not willing to be flippant about that. Even 1 in 200 people can be devastating emotional, logistical, and financial toll on a community. I'm not saying panic, but I don't think it's smart or responsible to downplay the risks of infection in a disease that is currently spreading exponentially (or, at least, maintains a positive growth ratio.) Canceling gatherings, temporarily closing schools, working from home, etc.--these are all inconvenient, they make our lives and business harder, they're having a negative financial impact. But they're also totally the reasonable course of action in the face of a pretty serious threat.
Good points, but:

> On top of that: the ddcisions we take now could potentially be multiplied by the next 1000 human generations, only idiots would take that risk lightly.

The problem with this is that the decisions we take now could potentially mean anything. The butterfly effect effectively makes it meaningless to measure what we do now, so many years into the future. There's a lot of sentiment against climate change "denial", but the real denial is not about the presence of climate change but rather whether it is wise to make changes that we cannot measure the impact of.
Or in the realm of 3% when hospitals are saturated, because everyone gets sick at once. Which they will with exponential spread and a doubling rate of 4 days.

I don't consider it acceptable to sacrifice 3% of the population in one fell swoop, to avoid short-term economic damage. Or even a fraction of that. It's abhorrent. Please walk me through the moral reasoning if this is your stance.

By the way, someone getting very, very sad because their quite healthy loved parent died a decade too early, is also economic damage.
DuckDuckGo should also probably be on this list (and is hiring for a couple director-level technical roles IIRC).
The S&P 500 returned 30.43% and not that much fuss was made about it - except for 'best economy ever'. Now 20% down is the end of the world and the US administration is floating gigantic tax cuts - so much for price discovery and 'free markets'.
Maybe, the curve will flatten as we approach summer...

Note. They are still aiming to keep the private sector running.
Here are datasets:

https://lionbridge.ai/datasets/coronavirus-datasets-from-eve...

Can't vouch for their accuracy though so be careful with any results.
And why is that? Because it made sense based on the options provided to them. And who decides what those are? The people with money and power, not the consumer.
I won't pretend I understand how it works but I think it has to do with accepting that you aren't in control of things, especially your addiction.
This is the most important thing here. The testing should be done at home.
It is not just about YOUR ISP messing with your pages. There are many ISPs (a different one, every few hops).
Hopefully this will be the final big sacrifice we all have to make to the Boomer generation. My parents are in that generation though, and I'm happy to make it.
Gov.uk, and gov.wales says to look at PHE (sic) figures for UK info, but they just give the England figures.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information...

The newspapers have figures, but I'd much rather an official source.

They've updated that link slightly, but it still says in the header "Find out the number of cases and risk level in the UK".

This is the page linked from the front page of gov.wales : https://gov.wales/coronavirus.
Or if you can spare the cost switch to SRAM instead. Not sure if the density would be comparable enough to be reasonable even with the 100x jump in price (source: pulled out of hat).
It is exactly an arbitrary threshold--defined as 20% down from recent highs.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bearmarket.asp

EDIT: Adding source.
Fraidycat is the first piece of open-source software I noticed using Blue Oak Model License.
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Went to the ER last year with fever because the insurance told me to go to an ER. Saw the doctor for five minutes and was sent home. Still calling the insurance and the hospital over a $500 bill that was supposed to be covered but somehow they keep sending it. My girlfriend once got a $300000 after a surgery that required a five hour stay at the hospital. It took her two years to clear that up.
$300 seems low.

'The distance' is basically irrelevant.

You're paying for a highly available, rapid response team to be prepared for almost any medical emergency, 24/7, literally almost at the press of a button.

'Preparedness' is expensive. What happened if the Ambulance broke down? Or a medic decided to say f-it and skipped a day. Or the phone didn't work. Or the critical piece of gear didn't work. Or ooops ran out of gas (hey doesn't happen often, but it happens!)

To get all of those things to 99.999% is quite a bit expensive. Constant vehicle checks/repairs/updates. Backups. Process, procedure.

The amount of training required for Medics should be quite a lot, considering the first few minutes of any problem are usually the most critical, and it can be 'anything'.

My unscientific 'instinct' is that $1K per call seems to be more or less in the right ballpark.

There should be some kind of insurance for this, one way to make it more palatable would be to have it subsidized. People who call more often I think can be expected to pay a little more but we can't be breaking the bank on folks.

Given that healthcare is a skyrocketing part of the economy, I wonder if we're going to end up with a kind of triage in Ambulances as well - i.e. ambulances for crazy life-threatening things, and ambulances for more common things which mostly require 'getting to a doctor quite soon, please' i.e. this is important, I need to go to the front-of-the-line'.

Edit: actually, $300 is definitely 'too low', there probably is some kind of subsidy.

Very crudely suppose an average call may last 1 hour. Suppose due to scheduling, that an ambulance may be idle for 1 hour in between calls. So the 'average call' would be 1 driver, 2x medics, for 2 'man-hours' each. Of course, there's other labor overhead: for each ambulance, there might be 0.3 mechanics, 0.3 dispatchers, this before we get into all the other unit an ancillary costs. $100K/year for any kind of professional in the medical field is ballpark reasonable, that's $50/hour - so we're looking at roughly $300 just for the immediate staffing - not including the mechanic, dispatch, op staff, gas, insurance, training, facilities, advanced equipment etc.. So very crudely ... ambulances are expensive.

Edit 2: yes, I'm talking costs here, obviously this is different than what people end up paying as a commenter has indicated.
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You don't think we will have budget for a few safety checks?
If you have a company laptop, definitely use it. It will protect you from mixing company and private content. In practice that will save you from cases like "why is confidential information on your private inbox", "why is company accessed by a worm which spreads only via (game you play)", and accidental "why are you watching Netflix via company VPN". It's just not worth the risk to mix contexts. If you need bigger screen, get a bigger screen to plug into the company laptop.

TeamViewer has different use case normally (support with active person on the other end) - look for a better/native remote login solution if you can. Windows remote desktop, or ssh/vnc would be better if available. Alternatively https://www.nomachine.com/ is very cross-platform and works great.
Conferences, concerts, sporting events, expos etc. They're just trying to slow down the rate at which it spreads. All of these types events also typically involve some amount of travel (whether on the part of the organizers, entertainers/presenters and attendees)

It's not only the fact that it's a large number of people gathering, but also that it's a large number of people in close proximity to people they wouldn't otherwise be from out of town who are at higher risk of having been exposed to the virus. They pass it on to a few people at the event, who in turn take it home and give it to family members and in a few weeks the city has a big problem.
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/models/1lXY78MD/

Also terrifying... I mean, it's google... after all - Pretty sure my android device knows when I'm touching my face when it's turned off.
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Man, I would have said the same about Italy two months ago. Even last weekend people were still carelessly going out. But the tide has turned, the numbers now are too big to ignore.
No idea. Fried of a friend did it.
I've worked from home consistently a few times over the last few years, and my suggestions differ from a few of the others around here. I've found that it's what works best for me, so it's what I stick to.

- I do work from my normal desk. At my last job, it was a super big no-no to use your own computer, so I switched the input on my monitor and had my keyboard, mouse, and DAC running through a usb hub I could easily swap to my laptop. At my current job, I just supplied a separate SSD and dual boot. Either way, the point is I have good ergonomics and fantastic peripherals and don't need double space or equipment.

- Find the morning ritual you need to get your head in the game for work; mine is a shower and painstakingly making coffee or espresso.

- House chores are basically off limits. I may load or unload the dishwasher if I get a snack or another coffee, but I do that in our physical office too. It's a 5 minute task at most.

- If anything, feel MORE comfortable leaving your workspace and going somewhere else if you can't get in the groove. I have a bad habit of staying in the office and basically staring at the walls because I can't get my brain in the game some days, yet when I WFH I'm far more likely to catch that 15 minutes in, pack some shit up and head to a local coffee shop and see if a change in venue jump starts something. More often than not, it does.

- Set a timer. If you start at 8 and don't take a lunch, that means your timer should be going off at 4. Pack it up, you're done. Go for a walk or go to the gym and start your evening.

For myself, my partner doesn't bother me during the day; we still chat online even if we're 6 feet apart, but nobody is talking and distracting the other. We don't have kids, so that doesn't factor in for me, but I know some of my coworkers have been struggling badly lately because they don't have a home office and their kids are too young to understand why mommy or daddy can't pay attention to them. I don't envy that struggle; my Bernese Mountain Dog is needy enough as it is.
> the 12 step program is super light on the spirituality stuff and very atheist friendly

This is highly dependent on where you are. I experienced verbal abuse and was made to feel unwelcome at meetings when people found out I'm an atheist. People have told me, verbatim, "You don't belong here if you're denying God".

Needless to say, I am no longer a part of that little cult. I'm doing fine without it.
It took me three re-reads to get that by "stressing" you mean "emphasizing" rather than "being stressed about".
This is cool but the downside of having a dell xps is that the camera is basically always looking at my hands :D... works fine if I'm not using the keyboard :)... or if I got up and actually went to my desk and that sort of thing..
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I thought people were advocating for responsible behavior, not enforcement.
> Nobody is dying from global warming.

This is definitely not true now and will be less true in future. And its a very narrow view - climate change is spreading misery and destruction at massive scales.

- More powerful hurricanes and cyclones kill people directly then many more through disease, starvation, homelessness, etc.

- The Australian fires killed 1 BILLION animals. [1]

- India is running out of water [3]

- Ocean fish stocks are collapsing - leading to malnutrition and starvation of many who depend on them

- Global heating is driving conflicts and migration from places like central america, middle east, etc.

- While not climate change, the cause of it (fossil fuels) causes 10K deaths EVERY DAY [2]

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-fires-over-1-billion-...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/03/10/every-da...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/opinion/india-water-crisi...
How you know the coronavirus information that you are getting from an http site hasn't been tampered with before it reaches you?
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Your links (including https://www.modulo.app/covid19) look very useful, thanks.

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, they cover only half of the problem: I'm not a stay-at-home parent, I'm a work-from-home parent, which means that I have to spend slots of at least one hour concentrating on my work if I want to have any chance of getting anything done!
Do you think the response would be any different if this disease primarily affected younger people instead? I could imagine even more aggressive measures in that case.
I'm up here in Canada - my wife's uncle had to wait three months for cataracts surgery, cataracts surgery is good in the long run and extremely non-urgent. He also had to have a rotoplasty in his heart to clear out plaque, he was booked into surgery within a week - my wife's aunt fell off a cliff (a small one) and got a concussion, she had excellent care.

In Canada non-urgent procedures have moderate wait lists, and urgent procedures get immediate attention. In the US monied patients get immediate attention and poor patients get long wait lines.

Honestly, this rationing BS needs to stop, the people spreading it are either maliciously disingenuous or misinformed and I'd bet quite a few are acting maliciously.
Tbh, i think we should employ wuhan-style lockdowns globally as early as possible to reduce the rate of infection as low as possible for some defined time span (e.g. for 2 weeks). After this the number of people requiring ICU should be known and stable, and then lift the lockdowns appropriately according to the percentage of people requiring intensive care.

I live in germany and currently it seems we're approaching that. The US still seems to be in denial.
Double. That's the inefficiency you can count on with JSON over CBOR or MsgPack if you're dealing with number data or short strings.

Sure, the HTTP overhead and TCP overhead under that are significant if you're transferring a single bignum. How about 10,000 of them?

Even if the best case of all strings where binary gets limited by ASCII's inefficiency, "":"", is "only" 5 bytes of wasted data, but what about a million item JSON? 5 million wasted bytes does seem like it outpaces NIC then TCP then HTTP layer overhead. But uea, IDK.

The claim was that JSON is lightweight, it is not. It's not as bad as XML, I'll give it that.
Jury duty's a pretty important function. It's not a particularly large gathering and keeping people detained for longer without trial (as would be a necessary consequence of stopping jury duty) is a considerable imposition.

It's not an inconceivable measure, but it's not one to be taken remotely lightly - probably not until you ban all gatherings altogether.
The insurer paid about $3000 according to the screenshot. The $10,000 is an illusion but I believe it's for tax purposes. If someone gets a $10k bill and the hospital eventually writes it off, they can write off the whole 10k.
I have no idea why someone would go through all this trouble when you can just drag and drop a folder onto Netlify or Zeit.
Correct. How is having gatherings of 1k people a good idea during a pandemic? The internal meeting that generated 70 cases in Boston had 170 attendants.
> Consider the incubation time of 5 days avg, 14 days max during which you're already infectious."

I have seen several comments like this on this thread suggesting people are contagious during the incubation phase. Do you have a source for this? AFAIK this has not yet been confirmed, other than perhaps a few anecdotal cases.
I believe they're advocating for an 'advanced search' type page.
Something like these:

https://www.novelupdates.com/series-finder/
https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Where you can search all your subscriptions by meta data (and possible keyword in post).

An alternative but similar functionality would be a table where you can filter the columns. i.e columns might be Platform,Poster,Date,User Defined Tab[],Platform Tags,Summary

So for instance you can show all posts in between 20200219 and 20200305 not on twitter or youtube that are either your tech or finance tab that have the word covid or corona in the summary.

Great work by the way.
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Gotta be less than the cost of losing 5% of the population.
Or even more specifically to the article's point is equal pay

Ultimately my question is how do you quantify equal pay when the leagues have entirely different pay structures?

Since these the leagues are on different contracts with different pay structures, we are effectively comparing apples to oranges.

"Men's team players do not receive a salary from US Soccer, and they are paid only when they are called up to play for the men's team, according to the filing."

"US Soccer is required to "pay a $100,000 annual salary to a minimum number of 'WNT Contracted Players' each year" even if they do not play for the national team."

It doesn't seem like it's possible to have equal pay with entirely different pay structures.

If what was being advocated for was equal pay structures then I would understand.

But if they are only advocating "equal pay" then we need to spend some time to define what "equal pay" even looks like for people on entirely different pay structures.
A large number of companies have instituted a work-from-home policy in response, mine among them. Indefinite duration. Priority given to people who ride public transport, and especially people who are vulnerable from a health perspective. Estimate approximately 70% of the company will be working from home for at least two weeks.

Let's see if this works. Otherwise, it's soon the Wuhan routine or the default result: write off a low single-digit portion of the population in two months. The last option would be devastating.
Insurance _never_ pays as much as they bill. This is one of the reasons to have it in the first place: each insurance company has negotiated rates with the hospitals. Even if you have high deductible, you'll still be getting negotiated rates, not the bullshit they (try to) charge people with no insurance at all. IMO, this is one thing that should be made totally illegal, no matter where one lands on the political spectrum: cash customers should be "favored", meaning cash price must match or be lower than the lowest insurance negotiated rate for each procedure. Anything else is just stupid and unfair. That way if the insurance pays five cents for the paper cup the pills come in, you can't charge fucking 13 dollars for the same thing if I pay cash.
I wrote this up for work http://bit.ly/fb-wfh-tips

My dev team is pretty versed at WFH, but even then it is great to be reminded of these common best-practices. The other target audience is other departments who don't WFH as often.
If one or more of the four people who have downvoted my comment could explain themselves we might all learn something here.
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In the SIR model, a factor 1-1/R0 of the total population end up being infected over time. That means with a reduction of 0.1, you will prevent about 0.1/R0^2 from ever being infected, so something like 2%. Of course there are other effects like less load on the hospitals.
Really? Individuals can't do things? Only governments can?

It's so easy to just blame the government...
> front loads the problem solving

Indeed, and I think this principle applies to other things, like statically-checked type systems. You have to decide types early, but it means a huge class of bugs becomes a non-issue.
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why isn't the author pointing fingers at the EU?

Italy cannot control its own currency so it's at the behest of the ECB when it comes to supporting banks, citizen bail outs, etc. the ECB is still in "monitoring mode", whatever that means. also recall Italy has been in various austerity-like periods for some time now. is Brussels sending in staff and building emergency facilities to help out its struggling member?

so what gives? is the ECB going to backstop Italian banks/businesses? directly inject capital a la what the US Federal Reserve ostensibly could (will) do? how about other member nations e.g. Germany?
Pro tip: If you can't land a job at one of those "high perferformers" try freelancing.

Freelancer are even accepted as remote workers in non-remote companies, after all, you're just another "external" company they are working with.

The barrier to get hired on a project are lower than getting hired on a permanent position, because the companies take less risk.

If you living somewhat frugal, the money you get from 3-6 months project work can be enough to pay for the whole year. So you only need 1-2 "yes" on your applications a year to get along.
Exactly. Nothing.
Where I'm from, in the EU, there is an organization that pays for procedures that people have in hospitals, and they have a price list that they agree on with the hostpitals in a contract. If a hospital wants to be paid for some kind of operation on patients or for "days in type x of hospital bed/care" then it's all in the price list they agree on. And the hospitals don't go bankrupt... or make a profit. They are basically non-profit organizations owned by the local government and the country. They were created with the goal of taking care of peoples health and doing the procedures that people need, not with the goal of making a profit or meeting some financial targets.
The Dutch would like to have a word with him.
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