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> Would you agree that using nukes as an example is arguing in bad faith

Nope. I chose nukes because they were an obvious example of something that we didn't want just anyone to have within arms' reach. I didn't expect it to be subjected to the kind of criticism you're raising.
Uber asks almost all employees to work from home
Nice. Blaming the victim and implying I was the hostile one.

I'm respectful of others' religions. It's a private matter. I made friends, ostensibly, until they found out I was an atheist.

So fuck right off with your pseudo-righteous bullshit, okay?
I basically use it for kickboxing, and the lack of locomotion in my apartment is a feature, not a bug. One reason I haven’t really gotten into thrill of the fight is because it involves actual moving, and I’ve found that isn’t really safe unless you have the space for it. Instead, I have to duck, lean, and weave enough with boxvr, and that is good enough for a lower body workout.

I’ve never used the knobs and triggers on my VR controller for anything beyond game selection. In fact, I think Oculus would do better just to put out additional simplified controllers meant for fitness gaming.

Nothing wrong with rhythm games if they can help you drop 40 pounds.

The space problem is easy to solve with....space. A VR gym setup could easily solve it by putting you in a racket court with an appropriate guardian, and then let the VR system do the rest. Otherwise we will have to wait for Omni directional treadmill tech to get better.
Last fall two regional banks merged, and they consolidated office space. A removals company was in charge of the move, and had a big sale. I missed the first weekend, but snagged 18 steelcase aria chairs - delivered to our coworking space - for $600 (and they took and disposed of 12 older chairs) These chairs' MSRP is $720 each.

Possibly one of the best bargains ever for me.
XFL definitely has more of the arena football vibe.
I suspect there will be flights, from the UK (which is why it was left off).
Again, I don't like APL.

Less code -> fewer bugs, all other things equal, eh?

> large, established ecosystems of dependencies

...are actually a symptom of failure to refactor. Ideally, over time, you code base approaches the Kolmogorov complexity of the problems it solves.

> If people can make working, maintainable software other ways ...

...but it takes 10x-100x more code, RAM, CPU power, developer time, etc. than if you hadda used K, then you're leaving money on the table.
Doubtful their location ranks high on the list of reasons they couldn’t hire. I interviewed there and one of the major reasons I was excited was that it would give me a good reason to move back to Florida. The interview was, to put it nicely, unusual. The highlight of it was trying to have a conversation with a director who sounded like he was driving down I-95 in a convertible, and was getting frustrated that I couldn’t understand a word he was saying.
Oh, that's probably true. They're optimized for throughput rather than speed.

Ocean liners that carry passengers take 4-5
How do we keep up with something like covid-19 in future?. I don’t think relying on government is the way to go.

Why not build a social network which helps to build close knit communities and it can have a cascade effect on the whole populace as a side effect("good"). Some of the key points for it to work being:

# Pool resources before hand so that the whole system is not suffocated.
# Internal resources exposed to close knit.
# External resources exposed to a radius.
# Cap on internal vs external resources.
# Split the community into smaller ones when it reaches a proportion.
# Point system to motivate communities.
# Ability to mobilize resource across communities.

This need not be the case with just a pandemic but can help us tide over other eventualities as well.
No, but it is in the nation's interest to get as many people tested as possible (assuming we can solve the pesky test kit shortage). If people aren't getting tested because they can't afford it, that hurts the country just as much as it could potentially hurt them.
Those are valid points. As to the test kits, I keep hearing conflicting info -- e.g. that there was a shortage of ingredients, too much FDA red tape, etc. There will plenty of root cause analysis in the future, but I think we have to reshore critical infrastructure and there is lots of red tape to cut in both CDC and FDA.
It is very clear. He uses it to refer to the unfounded conspiracy theories and accusations directed at him. What is so difficult to understand about that usage?
He seems more like a dyslexic who's always over compensating with bluster to avoid reading.
I completely agree. It's objectively counter-productive to over-exaggerate every little thing.
There’s no such thing as a fixed amount of travel, and constraining it on one way concentrates it in another. That makes no sense. Constraining travel will reduce travel, which will reduce interactions between people, which will reduce the spread of the virus. We know this empirically from previous outbreaks and countermeasures.
> You're pretending we will take no measures to control this at all. That's simply not the case.

the US gov't has spent the last 1.5 months doing nothing to contain this at all. ending flights from europe isn't going to do anything to help if they aren't testing people and preventing spread inside the country
You're thinking of the European Union. Europe is a geographic area. The UK is still in it.
A virus spreads just as easily in a crowded room in Fargo as it does in NYC.

China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong King all slowed the curve, and have rules governing their whole country.
It's a lot compared to the 6000 or so units Magic Leap has sold though, that's for sure.
It helps that they have a population which was all about wearing masks BEFORE this ever happened.
It's hard to find problems without narrowing your focus. Your goal is to pick an area and get informed and educated on it. Once you know enough you'll find areas where you can make a difference.

Also, talk to more knowledgeable people in that area as they will be able to identify areas of pain.

One of the fundamentals of software engineering is a needs analysis. A process where you ask a lot of questions that help you understand where and how software can help. But you need to focus otherwise you won't be able to get any usefull information to act on.
Seems like many companies are already curtailing or banning business travel (especially international), so this might not be too much of a change.
Is there anywhere in the US where we are doing random testing of residents to determine what the real infection rate is here? From all I can see we're currently just adding up the number of people who have come in with symptoms and tested positive instead of getting a real handle on what percentage of the population is infected. The CDC website right now says that there are 938 total cases.[1] That's laughable. At this point I'd sooner believe 93,800 or 938,000 than 938. Oh wait: "Now that states are testing and reporting their own results, CDC’s numbers are not representative of all testing being done nationwide." OK, so nobody's keeping up with the totals? Is that what I'm reading?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html
I saw someone mention that whats to stop them from getting comfortable with remote workerse and then hiring cheaper labor from the next state over, inevitably taking advantage of skilled international yet cheap labor, remotely?
Sorry I just had a good laugh at this. Pretty dark humor in these times... but that just sounds great.
It hasn't existed in the US for the last 1.5 months.

We are testing people, and we are doing quite a bit to prevent spread inside of the country and out.
It’s a matter of timing. Europe has higher concentrations of the virus than the US. The chances that a plane from Europe contains an infected individual are getting quite high.

When the concentrations in the US get higher it will start to make sense to constrain travel more over there. Right now the chances a domestic flight contains an infected individual is quite low, but that won’t always be the case.

Bear in mind the virus cannot be stopped, or contained at this point. All we can do is slow it down while also limiting the harm our countermeasures cause.
4h delay and the people who de-boarded the plane initially, are not re-boarding because they probably left the airport by now, not knowing they had wrong information.

For those that live in the US and de-boarded because of this "missing detail", I wouldn't be surprised if in a week or two they don't feel like they dodged a massive bullet.
I've lived in both, and you're missing how large the difference is. Not to mention you seem to be missing the point.

What the OP was saying is that americans don't eat out that much, is a very heavily home-oriented society - thats why the OP mentioned take out and delivery - not going out for lunch.

And yes people out of cities in nearly all countries have big backyards, but you are missing the people have big back yards in the US EVEN inside city limits. There are ofcourse the couple exceptions like NYC etc. but mostly even big cities have the weird suburban style houses even in the most expensive areas!
Their staff is also a nightmare. I heard from friends that they had to sign an NDA just to interview, and even after that the interviewer gave away nothing about what my friend would be working on or what the job would entail. Needless to say he rejected the offer and went for a better job (I think Google or something)
And soon to be HBO show! [1]

[1] https://www.techradar.com/news/the-last-of-us-hbo-tv-show
>please listen to Goop product descriptions before me.

LOL - the FAQ is worth the price of admission
I would think we be able to estimate fairly correctly. I assume pretty much everyone who dies from it would end up in a hospital and counted. And since we know the death rate, we know for every 1 death there were x who have it and will/have recovered.
I think this kind of behavior does increase your risk of getting the disease, but I imagine there's a strong selection bias.

People that don't do this, won't have a viral moment when it's announced that they have the disease. People that do this kind of thing can have a viral moment when it's announced.
In a hypothetical world where our competent president and his competent staff made an occasional error, it would be reasonable to give the benefit of the doubt.

This is one of three or four errors just in this address alone. An address that may literally be the most important of his presidency. It wasn't just some George W. tripping over his words, he said literally the exact opposite of what the policy actually was and just kept rolling.

This is too important to be grading on a curve.

edit: To be clear I'm not suggesting he misread the teleprompter intentionally. I am saying that he and his administration have a level of incompetence and neglect that would result in jail time in many private industries.
Johns Hopkins is keeping up with the totals.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu
Scientists debate risks of accelerated testing due to vaccine enhancement
I would be a little hesitant when making that claim. It would certainly be a shorter than usual incubation period, but I don't know how many sigmas away from the mean it would be.
> More Americans use e-commerce for shopping than Europeans.

Do you have a source for that? I couldn't find a great single source but this says 9% of retail sales were ecommerce in Europe in 2018:

https://ecommercenews.eu/ecommerce-in-europe/

and this says 8% in the US in 2018:

https://www.invespcro.com/blog/global-online-retail-spending...

If you treat North and South Europe separately, it looks like Northern Europe has most ecommerce, then the US, then Southern Europe.
My personal theory is that someone in the executive branch wanted to secure an exclusive contract for a personal friend. Something similar happened in the first few months of the Kuwait oil fires, with certain american fire fighting firms being given exclusive contracts to fight the fires, despite lacking the technology and expertise to extinguish them.

But I'm just a cynical man. It could very well be something else and I'll be very interested to read about this emergency once it's all behind us.
It may, but improvement regarding weather is related to people staying inside and in very close contact with one another when its cold/winter, nothing to do with temperature killing the virus.
I was about to chastise him for horizontal scrolling, but it's a personal blog written years ago. Guess I can ease up. :P
Asset prices are based on forward looking projections of the business, not on current revenues, or even next quarter's revenues. This is why S&P 500 companies trade at an average valuation of 15X their current-year earnings. If anything, they're way oversold already.

Nothing's fundamentally or structurally changed in the US economy. There were no bad mortgages. We hit the brakes for a bit, but before you know it we'll be back up on our feet and working our asses off, and if we're lucky, we'll get some mandatory paid sick days added to employment law out of it.

[edit] well actually, something has fundamentally changed: the cost of borrowing got somehow even lower meaning an eventual recovery may be turbocharged. The Fed is very unlikely to raise rates as we move past this.
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Most of NYC is probably covered in single family homes, not sure that's really relevant though.
Can't help but wonder if the new XFL would be better off if they had been able to ditch the tainted name. Even many people who don't follow football closely have heard of the old XFL and only seem to have the worst memories of it. The new league doesn't deserve all that baggage - most of which isn't even related to the actual on-field football.

Here's a good video about the disastrous old league, if you need your memory jogged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVj6I_5gCR8
Am I so out of touch that I've never heard of these 2 sites that everyone else is intimately familiar with? How did you become familiar with them OP?
All those panicking on the account of economic downturn need to remember that the US need not run faster than the bear, economically, it only needs to run faster than the other guy. Which it will. For starters, the US has 16% of population over the age of 65, compared to e.g. 21% in Germany, 22% in Italy and 20% in France. Population density is much lower here. There are 2.5x ICU beds per capita as well, and more diagnostic equipment, too. A lot fewer people use public transport. Strong containment measures were also taken _earlier_ in the infection cycle than e.g. in Italy.

I mean, sure there's some well publicized incompetence at CDC and FDA, that happens, but to say that the US is _more fucked_ than e.g. continental Europe is just not in alignment with reality.

Later this week the improved test kits should arrive en masse, and then we'll see how bad the situation is. Right now it's just pure conjecture and panic.
> Ultimately, companies are not sold, they are bought.

What does that even mean? Companies are both sold and bought. One implies the other. There are always willing buyers for entities with non-negative value. Hell, I'm a willing buyer for Magic Leap, at the right price.
Using the Magic Leap One was an underwhelming experience. It was like using the first version of Microsoft's Hololens except with higher expectations. Truly disappointing.
Americans all gather together in the same room 5 days a week to work. They also have less protections for paid sick days so you will have min wage mcdonalds workers coming in sick and coughing on your burgers.
But at least you're going to get what you bought -- Walmart may sell snake oil, but at least they don't repackage snail oil and sell it as the former
Yes, the game takes place at Century Link stadium, which is in King County. It's affected by the ban.

The game will still be played, but no fans will be admitted to the stadium. The game will still be aired on TV.

Sorry for your cancelled tickets! What a bummer for timing...
Trump said "these restrictions will not only apply to the tremendous amounts of cargo..."

but DHS is now clarifying that it doesn't apply to cargo, and the order itself doesn't mention cargo[1].

So who knows?

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation...
The CDC gave local labs the go-ahead to develop their own tests, but that was very recently and it seems very likely that the CDC doesn't have a centralized reporting system in place.

I really doubt there's capacity to do random tests for scientific field study, considering there's a large backlog of people with symptoms or suspected contact w/ infected that are waiting to be tested.

For example, here's aerial footage of the lines in Denver for a drive-thru clinic restricted to patients with "a doctor's order confirming they meet requirements": https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1237869000169644032
You are assuming that timezones don't change ever in relation to UTC. This is wrong. Timezones change all the time.

When I set an alarm for any time in CEST in 2022 and convert this to UTC before saving it, it will very likely ring at the wrong time, simply because CEST will probably not exist by then and be replaced by CET due to the EU getting rid of DST.
it will at least convince all the casual travelers who go "ooo look at the cheap airfare! I'm sure I'll be fine" from booking/traveling

I don't think it'll have such an effect on Americans since they are exempt from the ban. But now they're guaranteed to have more room to stretch out on the plane.

But you know what would have such an effect? If the government just came out and said "We strongly recommend that you cease all non-essential overseas air travel, including vacations"
The U.S. did not suspend all travel from Europe. The WH issues clarifications and corrections shortly after the speech.

First, it's not all of Europe -- 26 of 44 countries in Europe affected. Second, it doesn't include cargo (the president misspoke). Third, it doesn't restrict Americans traveling. Those affected are foreign nationals who have been those 26 countries in the last 14 days.

I agree this is still a bigger deal than Tom Hanks. However, for 99.99% Americans it's the first person they "know" who has coronavirus. So obviously people will see that and it will feel more real to them than a short-term ban on certain foreign nationals who were in 26 countries in the last two weeks.

The restrictions start for foreign nationals who aren't up in the air by Friday night, midnight Eastern time.
for about 5 days maybe.
For me a nice monitor is a must. I cannot be productive on a laptop for more than an hour or two. It all feels so constricting.
I absolutely think the region is high on the list of reasons they can't hire. They pay less for worse jobs at lamer companies and don't have money flowing to startups. Magic Leap was very much the exception, and it's kinda cool because it's there because the founder liked it, just like Shockley thought NorCal was dope.

And much like Shockley semi I think ML is a flash in the pan. But unlike Shockley Semi, Abovitz didn't hire an equivalent of the traitorous 8 because they already worked out here and got paid way more money to hang out at a FAANG or startup.

Everyone I'd want to work with from my time in South Florida is either out of the area or trying to leave. It pays like shit, and there is no money or companies down there to make cool shit to make up for it. Besides ML. But it appears that is shifting.
https://twitter.com/JDFSports/status/1237913999074787328

His teammate Emmanuel Mudiay has also tested positive.

Edit:Unconfirmed source
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Tens of thousands of Californians move to other states each year. California has 40,000,000+ residents. The video dramatizes reality. Half of people "think" about leaving California, but how many care enough to vote with their feet? Many orders of magnitude less.

California has problems. Talking about people who can afford to leave doesn't provide a meaningful solution.

The tax comparison between CA & TX (9:35) compares corporate, sales, and income tax but conveniently misses property taxes.
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There is the small matter of a 2-week quarantine upon return though.
Camostat and E-64d need to be fast-tracked for clinical trials
These two compounds together form a synergistic blockade of the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to invade human cells (prophylaxis; per the paper in the Cell journal). If side-effects can be rapidly identified and minimal, it could be good bridge until a vaccine is developed (2 years+, high probability of yearly/semi-annual recurrent epidemics).

Camostat Mesylate / Camostat / 59721-29-8

- 100-200 mg p.c. (300-600 mg/daily)

- Used in Japan for postoperative reflux esophagitis & acute chronic pancreatitis

E-64d / Aloxistatin / Loxistatin / EP-453 / 88321-09-9

- Possibly 100-150 mg p.c. (300-450mg/daily)

- May increase risk of bleeding / bleeding strokes / reduce clotting / thin the blood

- Prices of this compound are currently very high but would hopefully reduce with scale and local synthesis
I see the point you're making from an epidemiological perspective but, because it's so important to people from an individual perspective to avoid contracting the virus, I have to take issue with your claim that it is likely possible to contract the virus from a surface after a period of a week or even weeks. I haven't seen evidence that would substantiate such a claim. According to that preprint linked above, even a period of one week on a steel door handle is more than six half-lives past the "death" of the last detectable viable COVID-19 virus. The science is not all in yet, and it may indeed turn out that COVID-19 is much hardier than we thought, but until then I don't see how you can say that it "probably can" survive for weeks in some cases.

I apologize if this is coming off as pedantic but the damage being done by misinformation and speculation about the coronavirus is significant, and I don't think it's possible to be too zealous about precision here. Trump's claims that fears were overblown and a "hoax" have been amplified into widespread and potentially deadly skepticism that coronavirus is even a danger. People have suggested various quack cures that at best drain the resources of vulnerable people. Even saying something as seemingly-innocuous as "wear a face mask to reduce your risk" ends up having a devastating impact on healthcare providers who really need the masks but can't source them. We should be listening to public health authorities and mainstream health experts, and taking reasonable precautions, but absolutely refraining from speculation that might have unforeseeable consequences.
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The Japanese response has actually been pretty lackluster and haphazard. I'm rather surprised rates there have not been exploding the way they did in Korea, Iran and Italy.
True and fair point with which I agree. I don't know all the considerations that went into this decision but I lean towards supporting such plans that limit unnecessary chances for exposure
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Sounds like you’ve never heard of hiring a banker to run a sale process?
It is. Timezones change all the time in relation to UTC. If you set a date in the future and think converting it to UTC doesn't lose information, you will be surprised when you get bitten by it.

Example: The EU will most likely get rid of DST around 2022. Any time you set beforehand in CEST or CET will be an hour off, depending on which the EU will get rid of.aybe the EU doesn't get rid of DST and keeps it, you don't know. So unless you have a time machine, you cannot convert the time to UTC.