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> surely modern kids aren't as cool as he was.

Surely.

I don't get why you folks have to be so rude. It diminishes your argument. I was with you until you had to poke fun at me. I'm a human being capable of making mistakes and reevaluating my ground truths. Why be like that?

> patting themselves on the back

While there's a lot of nostalgia in my anecdote, it's mostly spurred on by my dislike of platformization and centralization. I think they produce many negative externalities.

But thanks, now I'll clam up and stop talking about my personal experience.
There are 5 other international airports that call themselves "London", not just Heathrow. And of course London also has road and train connections.
The linked paper https://fermatslibrary.com/s/proof-without-words-pythagorean... gives you the formula and I am much more a symbols guy than a geometry guy so I will prove it that way, first rearrange it:

(4T_n)^2=(4T_n+1)^2-(4T_n-1)^2+....(4T_n+n)^2-(4T_n-n)^2

Now, (4T_n+k)^2-(4T_n-k)^2=16T_nk (this, of course, shows up in the geometric proof as four rectangles where one side is 4T_n and the other is k)

so this is equivalent to

16T_nT_n = 16 T_n (1+...n)

which is equvialent to:

T_n=1+...n

But that is the very definition of T_n. Q.e.d.

Also if you want to take Pythagoras to a new level, Edsger W. Dijkstra who is much better known for his work in CS has a very interesting formulation https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/E... proving sgn(alpha+beta-gamma)=sgn(a^2+b^2-c^2) which includes and extends the Pythagoras theorem.
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That's silly though. That's not what war is like. War is messy and ad hoc.
Won't all the Brits be banned from entering all the countries in the world for very very long if they have such a big change of carrying the virus?
Cool sounds doesn't necessarily mean "nuisance."

Most US municipalities have noise ordinances for a reason. If you feel someones vehicle violates that, file a complaint with the local non-emergency police line.
Individual cristae within same mitochondrion are functionally independent
I initially read that as "Bash's prelude in C", which still makes more sense to me.
Maybe if the gouging limit were higher than 10%, CVS could have filled an extra warehouse with Charmin and Purell last year just in case.
That is not huge - in fact that looks like there's an incredible amount of miniaturization already put into that product.

Technology is great. Before this product it would probably take an entire university campus with multiple labs full of technicians to do the number of tests this is doing.
This is really interesting, but I have a few questions:

- The setup guide shows a Windows system making a Windows iot version. Can't I just download an iso and flash it to an sdcard with dd? Does it need a license?

- The demo projects show C# and while I can develop in monodevelop, I don't have a Windows to compile it with. Is a C# compiler included in Windows iot's .NET distribution or are there also cross-platform (interpreted) languages that run on Windows iot (e.g. Python3)?
" Until people see results in front of them they aren't going to respect these rules without authoritarian measures."

Doubtful.

Here in Montreal, the streets are bare. Restaurants are at 50% capacity, there is no toilet paper anywhere.

We only have ~100 official infections in 30M people.

People are taking this pretty seriously and at least as far as 'not going out' and 'social distancing' it's going to be relatively easy to enforce.

There are few 'draconian' measures being taken by any government really anyhow.

I think we'll be doing this for 6 months at least.
CMake subprojects was far from reliable last time I tested it. But this might also have been due to meson targeting unreleased CMake versions...
I'm not sure following honors/awards is always the safest path, but your answer doesn't make sense to me at all: he was awarded for infectious disease control "particularly the Ebola crisis response in West Africa", which sounds to me like valuable experience, and solid ground to claim some knowledge.
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I sure wish Qmake had won over CMake.
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The UK approach is highly interesting. It's assuming that a government telling people to social distance themselves is highly effective. You then direct the elderly to social distance themselves; they are mostly protected from the virus; it runs rampant through the general population; and after a two months of relatively mild, mass cases among the young, you've effectively built a herd immunity firewall around the elderly.

Three possible issues:

1) Telling people to social distance themselves has a weak effect, not a strong one. In that case, the fire burns through the young population and burns through the old population, and you end up with a pile of flaming corpses.

2) I don't know if herd immunity of the young population is enough, epidemiologically, to give herd immunity to an older population. Old people can pass it to each other, and their day to day interactions are disproportionally among the elderly. So you risk an older subgraph all catching it at once still. I don't think this is a big risk compared to 1).

3) Individuals don't develop an immunity. This would be disastrous for this strategy. Then again, it's disastrous for all strategies.

The first issue seems like the biggest issue to me, and I think it's pretty damning. If that's the case, the elderly never have the protection of herd immunity, and you're not flattening the curve but sharpening it.

Another possibility: the government knows it won't work to seriously change the number of deaths, but it also believes all measures possible in Western countries are likely to fail. In that case, you immolate the elderly population as fast as possible and then get used to a new norm instead of spending months in a futile battle. Essentially, it's possible that even with heroic efforts that the curve can only be flattened a bit, so it's just a matter of timing the deaths and how long you want to be enduring terrible economic damage. And if every other country suffers pretty much as much as you do, political impact is limited.
Passive radar uses background RF, usually TV transmitters. Which is why they are the first to go everytime America decides to punish a nation for trying to use something other than the dollar to trade oil or decides to crack down on opium smuggling.

Not really enough though, which is how they lost all the F117s over Serbia in the 90s. One of which I have a framed picture of on the wall along side an original "sorry we didnt know it was invisible" flyer.

Tech has come a long way since then.
Why should I/We have to?

Surely people can just shut tf up?
Honda super cub begs to differ. Only 90kg of materials and a fuel efficiency of 60 km/l plus...
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I mean to say we are a net importer of energy

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/sep/01/uk-energy-pric...

And food

https://www.businessinsider.com/no-deal-brexit-percentage-br...
Yes, if the Tory press back them up. Brexit has shown that the narrative can be spun in their favor.
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That formatting error is repeated in at least one other place too.
Because it isn’t possible to screen every single person entering a country like the UK, which means it is inevitable the virus will get in again and you’ll have another outbreak.

However that’s assuming you can eradicate it. That might be possible in an isolated population centre like Singapore, but the UK has an extensive rural area where the virus can hide out, slowly propagating through many different sparse populations until it gets back into an urban centre. It can survive outside the body on some surfaces for 9 days according to recent studies so it can infect someone who has light symptoms, they put it on a new surface, then when they recover up to 9 days later it can up again in someone else. This can go on for months. You might track down some of these smouldering brush fires, but not all. That’s how flu keeps coming back every winter.
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Very cool! I remember working on an evolutionary algorithm at one point to generate CSS versions of images using random fonts, positions and transforms. The results you've got here are very impressive.
Do zodiac signs matter for founders?
I figurate out that with one of my cofounders, we can understand each other without words in any case, and we have the same zodiac sign. It's crucial to be on the same page, so what do you think? P.S. It's my new lifehack.
RNC head Ronna Romney McDaniel who was with President Trump twice this week is awaiting test results. She's home in Michigan with flu like symptoms. Tests for the flu were negative and they will know by this evening if she has the coronavirus.
Are we talking total environmental impact? Sourcing materials, manufacturing, shipping to point of sale, usage, maintenance and finally disposal?

Edit: just did some research on electric vs. gas vehicles and their total environmental impact. Nothing specifically on motorcycles, but some of the data would apply.

"Based on where EVs have been sold, driving the average EV produces global warming pollution equal to a gasoline vehicle that gets 88 miles per gallon (mpg) fuel economy."
https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-reichmuth/are-electric-vehicles...

"In a 2015 study, the Union of Concerned Scientists found that gas-powered cars emitted almost double the emissions that contribute to global warming as electric vehicles, which can make up the difference from the manufacturing stage in six to 18 months of driving, depending on the size of the battery."
https://www.businessinsider.com/building-electric-cars-how-m...
This is like every other service that supports screen sharing, is it not?
"In practice, people won't be disciplined about isolating vulnerable ones in the first phase, thus leading to disaster."

That is the point. One can catch the virus, become asymptomatic then continue to live normally and become even more dangerous to anyone in vicinity ("hug me, I'm safe!"). Eventually most of us will be infected anyway, and some will recover becoming immune (hopefully; this is far from guaranteed), so the correct line of action IMO would be to isolate everyone from everyone to gain time and resources. Nothing would stop them later from making people immune through controlled infection (aka vaccination) when the crisis is over.

To me they don't have a clue and just chose the only option that might paint them as still in control.
This is great. Been looking for a way to create a "virtual water cooler" for our team as we move 40+ people remote. Does the room always exist, and people can hop in and out? What's the business model? IE how can we pay for the service/support the mission?
On the subject of that painting, can anyone tell me what the kids are wearing on their feet?
Are you familiar with marginal analysis from economics? This is how markets work for everything. You are considering the one person with no TP, paper towels, or soap -- that is the person who will not be dissuaded from buying at any price. But there is always one person right on the edge of buying at the current price -- one who has a single roll left and can stretch it, or one who can just poop at work, or one who grew up wiping with corncobs and always thought of TP as a luxury anyway.

As the price goes up, those people drop out one by one. It is those marginal consumers, not the one who needs TP the most, who are price sensitive. This ensures that the person with no TP, paper towels, or soap is always able to get the TP that they need now. Even if there's only one roll left. The price may have to rise to $100 a roll to distinguish between them and the next-most-marginal consumer (who also has no TP, paper towels, or soap, but is willing to hold their poop for a day to save $100). That's the most efficient outcome and markets are great at finding it.
They are talking about their ability to run on biofuel (e85). They achieve the greatest performance on e85. The most recent research I’ve seen is that production of fuel ethanol is now carbon 0 or slightly carbon negative, for the whole chain (including production of raw materials, transportation etc). This won’t be the case for all plants, and it’s not clear to what extent production has reached this level, but it shows what is possible.

So yeah, burning things may not be necessarily bad. Unfortunately no one seems to be investing in similar technologies to apply to other sectors of transportation such as aviation and shipping. It would seem to me to be much more realistic to design an engine for a airliner that burns a biofuel than to design a battery electric version.

The people who have embraced biofuel (e85) the most are car guys looking for more power. E85 has good knock resistance (high octane rating) like race fuel, but is far cheaper. It also has a greater cooling effect upon injection (because you need to inject more, as it is lower energy density).
Yeah, it's absolutely fine for casual consumers, but similarly to cars, you're going to be really lost if something on one of those multiple layers of abstractions malfunctions.

People will have to accept paying for computer repairs like they do for car repairs. Moving everything into the cloud won't help; Google will be weird and generally has no support, so you'll need somebody to figure out why those docs aren't visible in drive.
Silicon chemistry runs slower than carbon chemistry. There's more to it than just assuming carbon.
The whitelist for Safari on macOS is kept in a text file entitled IDNScriptWhiteList.txt, located at /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/Current/Resources

ꑮ is from Yi script, which is obviously whitelisted.
Your car creates external effects. No matter how much joy you're giving yourself, if you're causing harm to others, then you're creating the problem. I can buy an air horn and follow you around, but blasting it in your ears is illegal for a reason.
As we saw with both Iran and Russian AA teams shooting down passenger jets...
There is no way a B2 will be deployed without at least a couple fighters escorting it.
Wait, do they not teach typing in elementary school anymore?
The UK government is criminally insane to the point that they should be locked up and shot.

For every person who would die in the normal course of the disease, around 3 more needed hospitalization. The Wuhan experience showed that when hospitals are overwhelmed and cannot put them on ventilators, the fatality rate roughly doubles.

The UK course of action is guaranteed to overwhelm local hospitals. At which point even if half the vulnerable population does not get sick, you have as many fatalities in that group as you would have if the rate of spread was reduced.

Worse yet, it is currently unnecessary. Both China and South Korea have demonstrate that aggressive containment and quarantine efforts can result in exponential declines in the disease. As a result we should not yet be giving up hope that the disease can be contained, avoiding mass casualties. And even if we did want to take the UK approach, you could always switch to it after you had demonstrated that you can't contain the disease.
I really love the idea of a camless engine. Is there some fundamental reason it hasn't been more widely adopted other than tooling change costs? I can't imagine the solenoids are that much more expensive than a ground camshaft and all of the supporting hardware at volume.

This very much feels like the transition from brushed to brushless motors to me - super cheap compute power and sensors unlocking a much more efficient way to drive electric motors. As far as I know there's no _real_ advantage to brushed motors except in dirt cheap applications where a potentiometer is the most expensive speed controller you can afford.
> Wuhan had the great majority of cases in the entire world.

That was true a day or two ago, but that's a bit outdated now: Wuhan at most has had a bare majority of total cases in the world now, and probably a minority. In any event, it'll be a minority in a few hours.
That is not 12% of cases. That is 12% of hospitalizations are under the age for 50.

The overall hospitalization rate is difficult to know, due to the huge inaccuracies in the case numbers.
> When you can buy twinkies and pork chops you're not actually poor. When you are really poor you eat rice and beans and some vegetables you grow for yourself. And then you don't have diabetes typically.

The EBT program here in the US completely distorts the situation.

My local grocery store serves a very poor community, most of the customers pay with EBT. I get to see what kind of things these folks buy, it's idiotic. We could do a lot of good if EBT were only applicable to fresh perishable goods like produce/eggs/milk/fish/meat.

It almost seems like people on EBT hate themselves for being poor and lean in on being self-destructive while at the store paying for things with EBT. They largely buy processed/prepared junk food, it's unbelievable, but if you view the food they buy as another drug prodding the reward centers of their brains, it's making them feel good in the short-term while giving them diabetes and other ailments in the long-term. EBT enables affording it by being almost equivalent to cash.
> It looks like to me just a comfort pill for the public. They basically acknowledged that they can't handle the crisis already. So what they gonna do?

Well, they could do what every other developed country is doing: implement social distancing measures. Social distancing can't stop the spread of the virus, but it can slow the spread down.

People seem to have an impression that the case fatality rate (CFR) has some fixed value somewhere between 0.1% and 4%, and that the CFR is set in stone; but obviously there are many confounding factors, such as access to ventilators. If a sizable portion of the UK population contracts the virus all at once, the NHS will be overwhelmed and many otherwise preventable deaths will occur (see the graph near the end of this BBC article [1]). In contrast, social distancing would "flatten the curve", reducing the burden on the NHS (eg, see this interactive Washington Post article [2]).

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[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-51632801

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-si...
I’m in a very similar boat. I’ve served in the military, been a tiler, been a developer, worked in customer service, been in finance for a large bank been a student many times over. There have been many times though where a general practice/skill/thought process from one industry has solved a problem in another.

I’m a similar age to you and at one point I had considered myself a “jack of all trades, master of none” and that really bugged me. But now I’m glad for it. I find my thinking doesn’t get too tunnel visioned because of it. It also took a while to shake the stigma of not “specializing” enough.

I ran across a quite a while back though that really struck a cord with me:

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
(hope not a problem that I brought up your comment but I liked it much)
It's amazing that even when a pandemic produces a textbook example of a market redistributing supply to where demand is highest, people don't recognize how well markets work.
Sounds good to me. RasPi are solid performers to us. I'm assuming the XML would need to be updated as the dictionary changes. Sounds easy enough. The loading of languages might get fussy/impossible if I want multiple. A stretch goal is to support multiple languages from the same device.

I'd be hoping I can also load in text-to-speech as well either separately or as part of same application. From what I've read the windows approach to the Pi is more like an appliance. Your application takes over the whole device. This is fine as long as I can load in more functionality to that application.

I need to read more about this.

Thanks for the pointers.
>trying to assert this article is telling people not to self isolate is such an on purpose misread it is painful

Thank you saurik. I began to type out everything you say here in my own reply to ColinWright but gave up when I realized he either hasn't actually read the entire piece or is not interested in honest discussion.

The same people today saying active measures are "not needed" or are "too late" are the same ones who 2 months ago said shutting down the boarders or quarantining new arrivals was too expensive or too racist or too impractical.

Do you have any other insights into why the response in the US is particularly anemic? Why aren't local officials taking action given the reports out of Italy? (which no one can claim are fabricated by an 'authoritarian government')
Just started using Cue, it is fantastic. It was built for this problem
Is this not just the world we live in? Personally I agree with you but then I also consider how there are a handful of billionaires with more wealth than a huge portion of the global population and big pharma/ insurance companies charge so much that people are dying because they can't afford medication like Insulin.

If that's the way the world is then why should anyone be expected to behave any differently? It's not right to vilify these people while we give a free pass to everyone else doing equally unethical things.
>But where is South Korea going with its strategy

drawing the infections out so that the hospital system can stay stable and thus minimizing the amount of people who die from the disease. Not to mention that there will likely be a vaccine within 12-24 months and medication approved within the next few months.

Mind you this is in addition to South Korea having ~13 hospital beds per 1000 people, compared to ~8 in Germany and 2.5(!) in the UK. This strategy in the UK to let the virus eat through the population is insane.
Thanks, that project sounds interesting, I'd love to see some examples.

I should also clarify - I'm more of a front-end developer and I'm just using an open source style transfer algorithm from github (with some minor tweaks) on the back end. I can't take much credit for how well the artworks turn out, apart from the factors of UX guiding people to choose good images, and a good set of preset styles.
In the context of T2 diabetes, white rice is a high GI food. Brown rice, legumes and grains contain plant toxins and antinutrients which are poorly researched, but at least anecdotally can cause all kinds of issues especially in sensitive people.

Also, in the west, a lot of the culture of preparing these foods (such as fermenting or vigorous soaking) is bypassed.

> Bean consumption is typically a good predictor for survival in elderly people.

That data suffers from the usual issues related to nutritional studies. Consuming beans in place of donuts may be a good predictor of health, that doesn't mean that beans themselves are healthy relative to other healthy foods.
> I don’t see why this is true. The only benefit of moral significance is medical, and there’s no law of the universe that states that must be paid by an employer.

Most developed countries consider maternity leave, sick leave and compassionate leave (carer's leave) basic rights.
It is indeed highly intellectually interesting to observe... and absolutely terrifying to experience. It will give the world lots of interesting data, in precisely the same sense that the WWII Axis biological experiments did.

God help the British people. I'm so glad I moved out of the UK half a year ago.
Fundamentally? Maybe nothing. I was responding to the parent comment which claimed there's no real reason for China to under-report numbers.