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I have no idea what those are, but I know what google drive is.
Thank you for this.

I hear lots of people complain about how bad things are. So I ask them if they know the difference between typhus and typhoid.

They never do, because at least in developed countries we never see either of those.

As backup, I ask them how many people they know who have died of starvation, religious pogroms, or smallpox.
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Someone told Trump they left the EU so in his mind they aren't part of Europe anymore.
Like a, “You can’t fire me because I quit,” situation?
"Special Relationship"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Relationship
> forced me to drive in some pretty difficult circumstances

It’s unfortunate that this happens so much.

Many dispatchers simply do not care about public safety. After all, they are not going to be responsible in case of an accident.

What many people don’t understand is how sometimes dispatchers are able to manipulate unsuspecting drivers, especially new drivers without much experience.
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Don't be absurd. I knew nobody liked me in HS long before reading this;)
I feel like there are some particular cultural attributes in the United States that make this useless at this point.

The United States has a very individualistic attitude. Sure, we can pause travel from Europe, but the current administration is very anti-europe. Can we pause travel in the US? I strongly doubt that we can effectively given the strong anti-expertise attitudes as well.

My guess is that the United States will become a more major hot spot for the virus than other locales. It will spread rapidly and the supply hoarding and sad state of our medical system will mean that in a few months, other nations will be rejecting flights from the US.

It's a prediction, a guess, but there are aspects of our culture that just makes it seem very likely. I'm not going to make any more predictions than the idea that we'll have more cases per capita than any other developed nation.

It's be interesting when I'm proven incorrect over time.
Including cargo doesn't make much sense to me. Did they include a justification for this?

In contrast, the CDC's take is that "in general, because of poor survivability of these coronaviruses on surfaces, there is likely very low risk of spread from products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks at ambient temperatures." -- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html
From the NYT article:

"He [Trump] said he would instruct the Treasury Department to “defer tax payments without interest or penalties for certain individuals and businesses negatively impacted.”

Why deferments for businesses? Don't they only pay tax on profits?
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yeah china (after they quit pretending it didn't exist) actually started to quarantine people an mean it, not just pretend its the flu an refuse to test people because it might make the official numbers go up.
The situation here will be much worse in 30 days, too.
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I think you need to be really careful creating statistics out of thin air, like: "20% of infected people require hospitalization". We don't know how many people in a given region are infected... we only know the positive test cases and all percentages are based upon the positive test cases.

There is evidence that a lot of people contract the virus and have no symptoms or very mild symptoms.

Reported stats out of various countries/egions also do not account for things like the severity of regional air pollution (Wuhan, Tehran, and Milan have BAD air pollution) or the other key statistics, like "do they smoke?" (lot of smokers in China, Italy, and Iran... just saying). Bad air pollution and smoking tears the crap out of the lungs and makes it much easier to contract respiratory infections.

Caution and concern are completely warranted.... significant action needs to be taken to protect all of us, especially our elderly and immune suppressed.

But we need to be careful about pushing information that causes a descent into panic.
I mean, he was able to put that website up and running (the main url), then another bizarre sketchy URL. What's up with paying something? How much is hosting, like $2 a month?!
Does this mean return flights too?

Or just travel originating from Europe and going inbound to USA?
> Are there any plans to handle truck tracking before they reach the warehouse?

Great question! Not at the moment. We feel there are quite a few people trying to solve load availability(tracking trucks while between facilities), and it is a gnarly problem. I don't believe there is any one, silver-bullet solution to tracking. It will require a multi-pronged attack-plan, and at it's core requires truck drivers to be incentivized into sharing this data.
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I'm not claiming smarts but my guess is it's purely a diplomatic gesture.
Except there are already dozens of coyotes inside the fence.
That’s not the stated reason at least. It’s to deliver food and run a mobile test station. A reporter asked the governor if he had the authority to ban gatherings in that containment zone and he sidestepped it and said that thus far all parties have been in agreement.
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Singapore is a city which acted as soon as the first case popped, with aggressive tracing and testing at entry point. US punctured and smashed that bus.
After dropping almost 5% today. Yikes.
In the US the person who has nuclear weapons is Dan Brouillette.
At least they are consistent. Following at a far enough distance gives you 20/20 hindsight for those you follow, but only if you can internalize the lesson fast enough. Otherwise you just slo-mo replicate their same mistakes.
Ugh, USA is at the moment likely on level with Europe.

The idea that this will prevent "infected people streaming into USA" is uninformed.
This step limits transfer both ways, between two regions that both have similar level of infection spread.

It may help both sides contain the virus, but it won't limit the amount of infected people in the USA on its own.

Please, be careful about the language you use, the way you wrote the sentence promotes FUD.
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It's entirely possible to have a charismatic moron. Political instincts and intelligence aren't the same thing.
Well, it's not hard to test if someone's dead.
Krita is not an image manipulation tool, it's a digital painting application aimed at artists. Comparing the two is like saying that oranges are inferior because they're not a truck.

GIMP on the other hand is an apt comparison. Linux users are best to use photoshop under wine.
Because Boris is UK-Trump? (said only semi-seriously, I don't follow UK politics close enough to know for sure how good the comparison is)

I suspect it's a matter of the "special relationship" the US and UK have had for decades; Trump doesn't want to be seen as the one throwing our UK friends under the bus, especially with the promises he made during the lead-up to and implementation of Brexit.
> And this is an inherently-scalable process

If this thread didn't already include https://lwn.net/ml/linux-fsdevel/20200217001153.GE10776@drea... titled "FS Maintainers Don't Scale" ... from someone much, much more qualified to judge that topic than either of us unless of course you are also a kernel maintainer because the author of that email sure is.

Of course this is nothing new. For example,
https://opensource.com/business/16/10/linux-kernel-review also at https://lwn.net/Articles/703005/

http://sei.pku.edu.cn/~zhmh/linux.pdf is a scientific paper stating, among other things, "In summary, adding more maintainers to a file yields only a power of 1/2 increase in productivity, thus, four parallel maintainers are needed to double the overall output. This suggests limits to the
scalability that can be achieved by adding multiple maintainers to the same files."
In my experience, airports have been pretty good about checking for potential issues like that and warning passengers at check-in.

That experience doesn't include American airports though, so YMMV.
Chip (ASIC) design and FPGA logic design can certainly be done remote.

Electronics is sometimes done sort-of remote by shipping kit to little consulting firms of one or a handful or people who work on it then ship it back. For them, remote means the supplier has their own little lab/workshop with scopes, soldering & other electronic tools, and other test & measurement kit. Not a lot else required.

CAD for product design can be done remote, and you can get the results manufactured elsewhere.

Finally, I know of a stealth-mode startup that is working on making custom silicon available at a low-ish cost, similar to the way you can order PCBs today.
> Chromium also has its code indexed by the older version of this tool: https://cs.chromium.org/

Chromium recently switched over to a new version of code search.
Some people may call this the apocalypse. My GAD calls it a pleasure.
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As others have commented the goal at this point is curve flattening.

What is "flattening" in this case? it's attempting to limit the peak concurrent cases. There will likely not be a hugely significant reduction in total cases, but that isn't the goal.

The reason this is important is because no matter where you are, healthcare systems have a finite limit to the number of people they can treat at once, and if you exceed that you'll get a massive increase in mortality - both due to "survivable". cases not being treated, as well as unrelated medical events that don't get treated because there isn't capacity, e.g. you have a stroke, but there's no ED or ICU beds available.
Exactly. Easier to hunt and kill the interlopers if you can prevent more from coming in.
Perhaps certain people want to buy stocks cheaply ...
There are lots of individualists that will flout advice, but there's also lots of people that will isolate themselves in quite a paranoid fashion.

I think there's more of the latter.
Are we calling disease victims coyotes now?
I'm sure it has nothing to do with Trump owning golf courses in the UK.
Go for it. The worst they can say is no, in which case you can come back in a year.
But doesn't that require the notion that infection rates are higher in the excluded place? Given the US's incredible failure to test widely, I am not seeing why flights from Sweden or Ireland are any more dangerous than flights from Seattle at this point.
Also, it ignores the deliberately inaccurate case numbers in the US :-/
In 1918 the town and county of Gunnison, Colorado quarantined itself (letting in noone) against 'Spanish Flu', to considerable effect.

https://www.gunnisontimes.com/content/gunnison-and-great-inf...
Broadcast didn't give any rationale, maybe they're concerned about the ship crews being carriers?
I'm not sure where this level of panic is coming from.

Numbers are about to spike everywhere pretty much no matter what anybody does, because better testing and funding has become available.

Quarantining an entire continent, and even worse than this badly doing it, seems to be an astonishing overreaction. The average age of death for coronavirus victims is 83. The mortality rate seems to be as low as 0.6% in South Korea or as high as 5% in Italy. Italy is especially vulnerable because it has the oldest population in Europe which is one of the factors that is leading to the 5% figure from there.
It is not an End of Days zombie apocalypse.

I recently watched a speech by a US mayor which essentially said that the panic over Corona is going to do much more damage to people than the actual virus and I tend to agree. Simple quarantining measures mixed with best practices for infection control until we have more information about the virus seems perfectly fine. Blowing up the global economy is complete overkill and is a typical move from an administration whose response to topics are either to ignore them or sledgehammer them.
Although it behaves a lot more like a GFCI than a circuit breaker, but apparently nobody involved ever watched This Old House, or any other home improvement shows.

I would like these throttling tools to behave in a different way, one that more closely resembles a circuit breaker. But some rat bastard has already used that name so now I don't know what to call it.
If you had to fight 5 coyotes or 10, which would you choose?
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> Do you really think some moron bumbled his way into the most powerful office in the world?

Yes, and in light of anecdotes of how decisions are made in the current administration: double yes
might as well let them all in right
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This isn't just about COVID-19. This is economic warfare.
Is there a point to this? The virus is already everywhere.
Actually the UK has done a lot more testing than many other countries, more than double the rate of France, and 4x of Japan -

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/

I don't know where you get that info from but it is severely outdated or just outright wrong.
Exponential growth doesn't seem like a problem, until it is. A primary concern is reducing peak load on medical services.

https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool...

This term has been around for quite a while. I don't think it's a very apt term, but it's the one that was chosen, so whateryagonnado.

Welcome to the 10,000.
Shut up, you'll annoy the an-caps with your example of their fantasy world failing in reality!
> a lot of the infrastructure costs etc. seem like they'll be similar

Helicopter infrastructure is so cheap that there are many places with a pad that is just used for emergencies.
There appears to be a fuller version of this talk on the author's own site: http://www.pathsensitive.com/2019/07/the-best-refactoring-yo...

Agreed it's quite good.
We're okay for now. Im in SE asia and i think im in an okay place to wait things out if necessary.

I don't see them restricting the rest of asia specifically unless they close it ALL down.
(In the USA) Is this going to accomplish anything?

The virus is already here and has been spreading out-of-control for quite a while now. The only reason the numbers are still so low here is the incredibly low number of tests being done.
It's not even that. Can coyotes double in number every 5 days?
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"I get that they excluded the UK for diplomatic reasons"

Like extraditing Julian Assange while the world is looking elsewhere.
> The mortality rate seems to be as low as 0.6% in South Korea or as high as 5% in Italy. [...] It is not an End of Days zombie apocalypse.

A few percent is a lot. World War II killed 3% of the human population, and that's where we're headed if we don't stop it.
Consider people outside of tech, like restaurant workers who only get paid for the hours worked. Restaurants are likely to be closed or run on reduced staff due to fewer people going out for dinner. All of a sudden whatever money they have in their bank accounts must cover their living expenses until this is over and things pick up again.

There are lots of other industries similar to that.
Yes. The point is to flatten the curve. https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
Analogies serve a descriptive purpose to highlight common characteristics

They can be purposely interpreted on the basis of their obvious uncommon characteristics but that is very unproductive
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By all means write better fire codes, but unless you wrap yourself in a mile of asbestos blankets I don't think anything you do will render you immune to burning gasoline. There is nothing you or any government can do to stop a nutjob from killing you with gasoline.

Yet here you are, unscathed. Nobody has thrown gasoline at you yet, and probably nobody ever will. Why? It's not because of any gasoline regulations, nor because of your reaction time to smells, nor because of tanker truck regulations, or anything like that. The true reason nobody has lit you on fire yet is because there aren't really that many arsonists who want to light you on fire. That's it; it rarely happens because it's rare that anybody has the inclination to do it.

So how about phosphorus crime? Is that common? No, and I see no rational reason to believe it would be more common than gasoline attacks if phosphorous were as unregulated as gasoline. Even if phosphorus were unregulated, the market demand for it would be low and therefore few stores would sell it. Gasoline would remain the obvious accelerant for any would-be-arsonist.
Honest question, is the government allowed to prevent US citizens from returning to the US?
Because the virus can spread on surfaces I think. As well as food, and organic matter.
From what I read in WSJ, it's not a ban on travel by anyone, only on Europeans (whatever that comes to be defined as). Anyone found any more clarification? In one case that might mean the cessation of flights altogether, in the other case some flights still might fly?
Probably is targeted more at small businesses who might have trouble getting all of their bookkeeping and records in order in time to file in a few weeks. If this somehow benefits large corporations, they will no doubt take full advantage of the situation.
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More or less doesn't matter. It's a classic case of "one person can ruin it for everyone", which is why in many countries there is strict enforcement rather than just recommendations.
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>The reason the UK is behind continental Europe is the lack of testing

Can you elaborate on this with some sources?
I don't see why commercial sea-shipping would be restricted.

Me either, but Trump did seem to say that. Vaguely. Stand by for "clarification".
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This is an evil generation. I see it in their eyes.
Europe or North America are not being quarantined off. And if people don't take measures, all healthcare is going to be overwhelmed.
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A pixel doesn't represent a hardware pixel.

https://mindtheshift.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/r-i-p-rem-viva...

So knowing about the existence of the reference pixel, as someone who isn't a designer, I don't see why text would have to be half size on a high resolution screen. I've seen images targeted to pixel density, but fonts are vector so it doesn't seem necessary. Am I missing something?
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Because World War 2 killed 3% of the general population.

The coronavirus, in a single country, has killed 5% of infected people and elder people or those with pre-existing conditions are majorly overrepresented in infection rates.

>World War II killed 3% of the human population, and that's where we're headed if we don't stop it.

This isn't just wrong. It's irresponsible for you to be saying these types of absolutely incorrect things.
>Which is the goal, reduce infection rates.

Based on the localized infection cases I see across the US and have been watching as well as the characteristics of the virus (life outside host/on surfaces, in air, the degree of asymptomatic transference, etc.), it's well beyond containment IMHO.

Travel isn't going to do too much to reduce infection rates alone. We need significant cultural changes to reduce infection rates, but I don't see that happening for a variety of reasons. This country isn't about proactive action and is all about reactionary action though, so we're just waiting for that reactionary threshold. Some preventative measures have been pushed but they're no where near aggressive enough at this point.

It will be interesting how this is handled in our modern cultural, current political and work culture, etc. I suspect it's going to be fairly nasty but certainly hope not. I've been advising my parents to stock up and minimize any outside interactions for awhile.
I have to agree. you may as well ground all flights at this point.
Good advice! I think Envoy is very well suited for this, configurable over API and has dynamic async DNS resolve with keepalives.
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What cargo it does and doesn't cover isn't really clear from the announcement. What Trump says often doesn't completely match what the policy turns out to be. When agencies release the actual rules we will know more. I wouldn't be surprised if cargo only meant air cargo.
Really loved this interface (also cs.chromium.org) while I worked at Google. It was easy for me to orient myself, find what uses this and that, where it's being used, and then it had whole "debugging" facility:

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later one can (I tried it in Java, but I believe it's available for other languages too), you can inject statements right around the begining of function (a way of breakpoint), and that statement can be something like - let's log how this function was called - you were able to reference nearby statements. This could be set from the command-line, and took a bit mastery (and was bit afraid first time using it, or more like had chilling effect on me), but then my task (with 10 or 11 instances) reported these log lines, and I was able to see them in the browser.

(I have no experience with GCP, or the public face of Google Cloud, so I don't know what's available there), but this was freakin cool.
This is possible. But less likely.

The point of travel restrictions is not to be 100% effective, but instead to reduce the number that travel.
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