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At my local grocery store, every frozen vegetable package is sold out except for a tall, untouched stack of mashed cauliflower packages. My wife and I laughed so hard about the poor person who is in charge of getting those sold
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Haha, I did actually - the app just doesn't let you create cycles :). I don't want to be held legally responsible if someone gets stuck in an infinite loop.
> Why would I choose to jump through bureaucratic and degrading welfare programs for vouchers and discounts when I can opt-in to a superior UBI program that gives me cash which I can use for anything?

Because we'll have an issue when you spend your UBI on anything and then need assistance with rent, food etc pp.
Housing would be a problem where supply is constrained, I can't see it being a big issue in the US.
This seems a legit argument in 1000 years by a historian who wanted to logic why drugs clearly couldn't have needed prescriptions.
Cottages can be hard to reach, especially in winter. Health personell can't prioritize thus. Also, there are entire cottage villages, adding 20000-30000 to small town populations. The ban is for preventing future unnecessary crisis that could weaken health coverage.
Uncovering the security issues of shared scooter services
Fvwm is so nice, it's possible to customize everything from Color scheme to Mouse/Window behaviour. In Fvwm terms this is still mostly a theme, but given the flexibility themes can be very complex...
> Amazon famous literally pays $0 in taxes), but not relative to how much they make.

because they took every penny and reinvested it and lost money for a long time because of such heavy investment.

just a few months ago everybody was complaining about companies not investing enough and returning money to shareholders - there was even legislation floated to force more investment.

companies cant win with people like you - invest and get assulted for tax reasons, don't invest and get yelled at for that.

you have this Utopian view of how you want everything to work, and don't even realize it isn't even possible most of the time.
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Can someone confirm as it's not clear from the article: WinUI apps will run only on Windows 10, correct?
If you’re using the default jitsi we provided, then yesterday it was incredibly overloaded. We are working on it currently; typically the video quality is rock solid.
I was pretty excited when I realized you can buy fairly pure, concentrated sulfuric acid in the cleaning isle at Walmart. Nothing cleans dirty glassware quite like it! Accidentally got a stopper stuck in a flask? No problem, add some H2SO4 and just pour the stopper out a few days later.

Restricting what people can buy because they might hurt themselves with it doesn’t work (because everything can be misused) and only creates problems because sometimes restricted things turn out to be really important.
It's not just the net money supply that results in inflation, it's also the prospensity for it to be spent, and on what it is spent (inelastic/elastic demand curve goods and services) which determines the amount of inflation.

If you took 100 dollars out of the pocket of every American and gave it to Warren Buffett, that would most likely be deflationary.
I've looked into it, it appears to be because Google is blocking oauth requests from webview apps. Sorry about that, I'd recommend either using the web app (https://i.ntention.app) or using a different provider to sign in.
-Do note that the question I was (poorly, as it were...) trying to address was 'what is the appeal of SUV/4x4 type vehicles?', not 'why is a 4x4 the only right choice, for anyone, under any circumstances?'

That being said - yes, the narrower track and somewhat higher CoG does make the LC handle less well than the Passat at speed, however this disadvantage is largely negated by the local conditions - I live in a (very) rural area where the posted limit is mostly 20 or 30mph.

Blind zones are definitely much smaller in the LC - side mirrors are almost three times larger and placed farther from the vehicle body; the rear window is more than 50% larger and, crucially, more than a foot closer to the rearview mirror than in the Passat, greatly improving the view.

I agree tire quality and wheels driven affect handling very much (obviously!) - part of the (local) problem being that when it snows, it really snows, and with very few people living on this island, every snowfall is effectively a DoS attack on the roads. When there are 6-8" deep ruts while waiting for a plough to eventually arrive, 15" ground clearance beats 6" ground clearance every time.

As for moose, luckily we don't have anything larger than deer, but if we did, I'd rather be in the Passat driving under the moose rather than in the LC getting it in the face, no doubt.

Again - I did not intend to leave the impression a Humvee was the only choice which made any sense -rather that 4x4s have properties which make them sensible choices to some people in some locations.
It's to make the design simpler. If you only use one crypto algorithm there's no cipher suite negotiation in the protocol (and thus no downgrade attacks). And while AES-GCM is faster with AES-NI, ChaCha20-Poly1305 is constructed to avoid timing side-channels (so software implementations are automatically much safer by default).
I keep hearing “masks are useless”. If every person who has any cough or any chest tightness or any sore throat, however mild, put on a mask, wouldn’t that stop the spread?

I live in Japan. It started here earlier but didn’t explode. Nothing is closed. Business as usual. everyone wears masks.

Most cases in Hokkaido. Maybe because it is much colder there and easy to overexposed and tax the immune system.
That make sense. Thank you ^^
There are lots of different plans: https://ubicalculator.com/

But the main point is 99% of people are already spending more than $1000 a month to survive, so we can afford it without spending more. It's just about how the books are balanced.

For high earners it means $1000+ in taxes. For the poorest it replaces conditional welfare.
There used to be outdoor wards when dealing with tb patients not very long ago. Seems medieval now

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6571543.stm
death rate (mortality) of the total pouplation is around 1-2%/year. Yeah, the coronavirus would have to be huge to increase that - but what is your evidence that it's not being able to get as huge?
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Are you a bot? This has nothing to do with NLP.
Hmm, I really wonder what mess he is talking about: "and here we are in the middle of this mess."

It takes an experienced sysadmin a whole 20 min of his life to install the program, play with it and judge it (I guess, it took me a whole evening before I understood that the client needed its own config which can be created on the server, it's nice that you can then just scan a QR code with your phone though to configure it). Or even less when he talks to colleagues. This whole sentence immediately puts me off.

I'm just a home server guy, no vpn experience. Messed with WireGuard for a night and left it installed. Have been using it ever since with no issues. How did I get in the middle of this mess?
Zinc supplementation is an effective treatment against many commonly found viruses. Are you saying the new virus is an exception to this? Seriously curious, as I haven't looked into it specifically.

Also: Gargling a zinc/water solution has an astringent effect and removes the bacterial film in your throat, which seems to help in the initial phase of an infection.
> during nineties and first decade of the 21 century

Anyone else like “naughties”? Heard it first on Mythbusters of all places and it stuck with me. Not sure why it’s not more popular.
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dags are trees that can share non-root nodes
> That's what we said about the Skype acquisition too.

“On 10 May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications, S. à r.l for US$8.5 billion”

I think Microsoft has changed significantly in the last decade.

I’m quietly hopeful the npm acquisition will go well for us (although I still hold some serious grudges about Microsoft’s past behaviour).
that would make sense:

test everybody, if positive take the drug for 5 days, rest for 2 more and back to work you go. a win for everybody!
There is a precedent to this situation.

During the Great Depression/Dust Bowl in the 1920's, government officials were adamantly opposed to giving cash or food to citizens. Moral hazard, and all that.

The result was that:

- there were food riots

- some Americans starved to death

- Washington, D.C. was occupied by protesters living in tent cities, and the military had to intervene to prevent government buildings from being stormed.
I also think it’s ridiculous for people to want these companies to store up money for a rainy day, while at the same time keeping interest rates incredibly low.
Yes, so the only way to increase profits is to increase automation. A much better use of human brains then using them to flip burgers.
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Hope everybody happy and stay fit.
Pearls model based causality is from a set up the same as structural econometric models of the economists.
Here, economists largely care about identification and partial identification (check work by Manski), which is at the same time related to causation but also a more practical matter of data and model choice.

Very interesting stuff all this
I'm not sorry. The Android app is basically just a webview, and Apple's app store policies forbid webview apps unfortunately. I just don't have the expertise or time to write an IOS app, and even if I did it wouldn't be worth it for me financially.

The good news is that the web app, https://i.ntention.app, has all the same features of the Android app. If Apple ever properly support PWAs, it'll behave very similarly to an app.
I agree. The internet should be a bit like roads. Yeah sure, you can put up a toll road somewhere, but you can't generally block people from using the road network.
amounts to a tax on conscience: https://youtu.be/m2q-Csk-ktc
Your definition makes zero sense. Unless you are physical unable to speak, you are always "free" to speak, saying whatever you want.

Freedom of speech is by definition exactly this: free of consequences.
Would love to know why you are saying "stay away from x"? Based upon what?
> underinsured Americans were afraid to go to doctor
[...]
> US government just sunk trillions into economy

These two sentences are just waiting for a punch line.
ChaCha20-Poly1305 outperforms AES on mobile devices where it matters most. The article espouses a desktop-centric view of the world that is completely obsolete.
I think some of the logic behind "masks are useless" is that if people believe masks will prevent it, they'll get too reckless about going out as long as they have a mask. Sadly many people wear masks incorrectly and other people will wear masks that don't actually block viral particulates while out there acting more dangerously than otherwise, spreading disease.

IIRC anything below N95 isn't going to do much, and from experience (yay wildfires) I can say wearing N95s is very uncomfortable. Incidentally even physicians wearing proper PPE (n95 or better, etc) can still catch COVID, so it wouldn't be appropriate to say that those are good enough.

It's certainly better than nothing - I'd prefer it if everyone out and about was wearing masks - but the risk of false security leading to dangerous behavior is strong, and we already have issues with mask supplies, so it makes sense to discourage it.
It's not enough to wear a mask. More than 90% of the people I've seen wearing a mask are doing it wrong.

So if you're wearing a mask, at least do it correctly.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
Curious, why does singing unlock songwriting?
It's becoming more popular in Eastern Europe, because cheap and fast. Architects say that typical age of their client is 40 to 50, and these people started to realize that their children wouldn't want this house. So the house only has to last another 40 years.
Coronavirus: Spain nationalizes all private hospitals
There is a huge shortage of masks in the west - even hospitals are running out.
I like KinD, but find k3s much faster to bootstrap and lighter-weight too. Rancher have gone GA with it and provide commercial support, Darren Shepherd also tracks the latest k8s release very closely.

Linux -> k3s (build a cluster or single node via https://k3sup.dev)
MacOS/Windows -> k3s (runs k3s in a Docker container, and is super fast)

That said, if you're hacking on K8s code, then KinD has nice features to support that workflow. KinD is only suitable for dev, k3s can run in prod also, try both, compare. They are both easy to use.
That's exactly right. Each intention can have multiple parents, which I believe makes the topology a DAG. The only constraints are that you must have exactly 1 root node, each node must have at least 1 parent (apart from the root node), and that you can't have cycles.
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It’s more like almost everything from the old WordPerfect. I think if you actually try using this you’ll quickly notice the limitations, no tables, no fonts, no graphics and very little usability.
It’s much easier on the OpenBSD OpenIKEd (IKEv2) server that competes with theirs and that they denigrate, at least with iOS and macOS clients. Where WG wins massively over IPSec is in ease of configuration.
In Australia, the fines are as high as 19k for breaking self isolation. We have the government door knocking and also calling daily to those that have tested positive.
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> It wasn't until this latest outbreak that I realised just how pervasive the ideas of pandemic are in the creative works I consume.

This very thought came to my mind too. The examples that I thought of first were Thomas Mann's Death in Venice where Aschenbach hesitates until it is too late to flee.

'Among these things the Englishman said the most important one. "[...] The ban can hardly be delayed for more than a few days."
"Thank you," said Aschenbach and left the office.' [1]

Back then fleeing was at least considered an option but today? Where would you go?

Very striking is also Albert Camus' classification of people in the face of crisis in The Plague:

- the ignorant

- the revolting

- the ones in solidarity

- the loving ones

Lastly not to forget, the episode about the telephone sanitizers in Douglas Adams' book;-)

[1] My own translation (attempt)
Sadly that's not a possibility.

According to mathematical models the capacity of your hospitals will be exceeded by more than 30 times.

Give it another week or two.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
Vitamin C is essential.

This means it is essential for tissue repair. Also the production of neurotransmitters / cell signalling molecules.

Of course it improves recovery and reduces severity of symptoms. Of course it won't prevent anything.

I can't understand how there is any dispute.
It's business as usual because the government refuses to increase testing. They're pretending there's no cases because they don't want to cancel the Olympics later this year. For a more realistic figure look at South Korea where mask usage is about as common as here.
> I think some of the logic behind "masks are useless" is that if people believe masks will prevent it, they'll get too reckless about going out as long as they have a mask.

Lying to people for their own good may be acceptable in some circumstances, but in the long run it's always going to have deleterious effects. It erodes trust, it disincentivizes responsible people, and if the people doing the lying are wrong ... it makes things worse.
Indexing doesn’t have to be 1:1; the goal is to ensure some of the productivity gains go to the workforce, but that can be done while still allowing improvements to be a net benefit to the company.
This panic buying is so ridiculous. If there's one thing the U.S. still does better than any country in the world, it's produce mass quantities of food. There'd need to be an apocalypse before we had trouble stocking grocery shelves over any sustained period of time. Plus, the buying patterns are totally illogical. All I see are people snapping up perishables; nobody's baskets are full of canned foods. How are people going to eat more perishables than they normally do? Are they all using this opportunity to improve their diet?

sigh

I told my wife three weeks ago that if she was worried she should start stocking up at the grocery store. But, alas, she didn't start caring until everybody else did, and then fought it out with people at Costco.

double sigh
Haha sorry about that, I didn't think anyone would notice tbh ;). I'll update it to an android phone.
> it's for a lack of testing capacity

I feel compelled to point out that it's purely a lack of _authorized_ testing capacity, although things seem to have improved recently. The test itself is relatively trivial from a scientific perspective.

The fact that our bureaucratic apparatuses were so ill prepared for such an event I find highly concerning.
Investigation of three clusters of Covid-19 in Singapore
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Analog to digital conversion is highly variable in quality and responds dramatically to budget. If the thing you want is ADC, you want it all spent on the ADC.

Live gear has different tradeoffs. Particularly at the low end, it's not meant to produce a signal that's pleasant to listen to alone in a silent room. As you walk up in price point, money will be spent on things you don't need, like onboard processing (your DAW is better anyway), durability for touring (overkill to sit on a desk in your house), convenience of managing chaotic high-channel-count situations (studio work is methodical and iterative), integration with proprietary low-latency networking, etc. Pristine, noise-free preamps are pretty late in the list. Different needs, different tradeoffs.

The very best digital live consoles asymptotically approach the capabilities of Pro Tools on your Macbook. Having to operate in real time adds a few zeroes to the cost.

If you really must record several mics at the same time, and can't afford enough ADC to bring in the tracks separately, then it might make sense to mix the signals upstream of the recording using whatever is at hand.
It’s the opposite in the UK, with the exception of oranges fresh produce is fine and things like pasta, rice, baked beans and frozen fish fingers are long gone
>"The transistor gates are the green lines. Line A (polysilicon) is colored both pink and green; it's green where it is a gate and pink where it's just a wire."

Thanks so much for this explanation. The input and output lines in schematic diagrams have always vexed me. The disconnect between how a transistor is often represented as a standalone 3D graphic such as you have above and how its actually implemented is silicon being the source of my confusion. Have you considered turning these z80 blog posts into a book? You have a great way of explaining things. Cheers.
This doesn't add up either -- immunity per individual is expected to last 'only a few months', opening the door to multiple infections per year per person.
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>Replace the mask with a new one as soon as it is damp and do not re-use single-use masks.

I can't find a place to buy a mask in my city, so all those rules work only in an ideal situation.

In reality, people are buying and selling musky online for profit, which in my opinion should be illegal.
What are you saying, that thalassaemia is protective against COVID?

Thalassaemia protects against malaria because blood cells (the home of the parasite during a phase of its lifecycle) are destroyed up to 3-4x faster than in non-thalassaemia traits (where they last on average for 120 days).

Chloroquine seems to work by interfering with cellular binding and entry of SARS-CoV-2 on the ACE2 receptor (amongst other mechanisms)

This is why only people with training or understanding should speak about medical matters, there is enough rubbish out there (particularly at the moment) without you adding to the noise

(0) https://emcrit.org/ibcc/covid19/#chloroquine
Same here in London over a month ago. Though my wife and I did develop mild respiratory problems.

I've been arguing for days that the death rates are complete fantasy. People still only using tested cases / deaths when in fact no one is being tested.

In South Korea, as of the weekend only 248,000 people out of a population of 50,000,000, with 8,086 +ve cases and 72 deaths. Without statistical extrapolation that's a <1% death rate. Real rate a fraction again of that. Hospitalisation rate is high because an abundance of caution due to the publicity around this.

Regarding your fear about primary carriers, the advice in the UK is not to visit vulnerable groups. If you are asymptomatic you are also less likely to cough etc and died the disease.

In my office culture anyone who is sick is told to go home and made to feel unwelcome (in a friendly way) Had been this way for decades. We know not to visit each other.
Hmm..do you mean that k3s does not track the cloud deployments closely ?

So the dev -> production experience is less than ideal ?

We are planning to use k3s for local development and deploy to EKS...so this is interesting.
Here’s another question: isolation... and then what?

Sit at home until 2021 when we maybe have a vaccine?

I don’t see how we make this virus disappear so while I can see how people staying at home can stop the spread, what happens when they leave? Back to square one?

Maybe UK approach is better.

Maybe we should infect young people deliberately. Here’s Netflix, some books, some video games, some virus, stay at home for 2 weeks. Build up herd immunity. Get a paper, move on.

That’s UK approach except they wait for clusters to pop up. Why not make them? Control the infection rate.

If the chances are everyone gets infected would be better to chose when!
that is the first smart non-obvious move I've seen someone do. (off the top of my head, there might have been other ones that skipped my mind)
Dr Raoult has announced yesterday that the test of hydroxychloroquine on 24 patients showed positive results, especially when combined with an antibiotic against pneumonia. Slides of the presentation are here: https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/20..., results are on the last slide.
> As a cheap, safe bet it’s not unreasonable to start having a g&t each day along with a zinc pill.

Make that a zinc lozenge, though. Zinc works by coating the esophagus, and killing the virus on contact there. Zinc pills that you simply swallow don't work at all.
This hits a core point: some rules protect you; other rules protect others from you (even if you're asymptomatic)

In Italy the rules are designed to protect others from you.
I think it sounds super interesting, would love to see how you've solved it :)
I'm using Auth0 for the user login, and my domain on there is "dwmartin41". That's a very odd message, but it's basically saying you're registering an account on my domain. I'll see if there's a way to override the message with something more sensible.