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It isn't hard to believe. We have clinics and hospitals pretty much everywhere except for remotest of villages. And Coronavirus is not something that can go undetected for a long time (incubation period is 5 days from what I have read). If there are more cases it will come to the fore. It cannot be hidden. India is a democracy and not an authoritarian regime like China. You can't hide something as serious as this for long. If you want to believe propaganda that is a different story altogether.

Quoting the World Health Organization's representative to India (Henk Bekedam):

"“The commitment from the Indian government and the Prime Minister’s Office has been enormous, very impressive. It is one of the reasons why India is still doing quite well. I am very impressed that everyone has been mobilised,” Henk Bekedam, WHO’s representative to India, was quoted as saying by news agency ANI" [1]

We have had cases of Japanese Encephalitis blowing up just a few years ago in Uttar Pradesh. The Government tackled that by immunizing millions of children in the State [2] and [3]. Can India handle this epidemic? Absolutely yes. From all evidence available publicly India is handling it way better than most countries are as of now.

[1]: https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/very-impressed-with-in...

[2]: https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/big-shout-out-to...

[3]: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/encephalitis-in-uttar...
> Assume it comes with the warning "this will kill you", printed large enough to inform exactly the same fraction of customers as PaleMoon users who have the competence and information to make an informed judgement regarding its security.

Fake news. Firefox had sandboxing (that was the excuse for deprecating XUL/XPCOM) before Chrom* and Electrolysis:

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Sec...

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Dis...

3. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Int...
I am living in India right now and have never heard about this. It is interesting that you would gather that the majority of us are on some dose of Chloroquinine. Nobody I know, is.
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I can't find it on the Apple app store among the see of other GitHub apps. I had to visit HN, find this story, and click the link to the app.
It will increase investment in the area.
Strictly in terms of market cap (not the best metric, admittedly) Tesla is larger than VW. (both company's stocks have been devastated recently though)
Yeah, xingyiquan is like that.

But the half-beat is one of the more simpler, narrower application of OODA. Really, the whole thing with using OODA in an adversarial setting is that you can manipulate the adversary's OODA loop, of which the half-beat is one of those methods to do so.

I got exposed to Cynefin a couple months ago, and it got me thinking about how Cynefin and OODA are related. Probably the biggest thing is that Cyenfin is not necessarily about adversarial settings, and OODA can probably take different forms depending upon which Cynefin domain we are talking about. The ones that uses it in its simplist method (speed up the OODA loop) are probably working from the Simple domain, and perhaps the Complicated domain.

Boyd had shown a shortened form of OODA -- and this is where it starts intersecting with the likes of Musashi, or some of the old, obscure sword fighting manuals from Europe. What's not said on there is a form of intuitive information gathering that, well, frankly, people mind find dismiss as woo.
The question was not what buyback causes - but why a company would do a buyback - and the answer was correct. If you expect that your company will be valued $1.1 (in total) next year and the current price is $1 and the rates are much lower than 0.1 - then it makes sense to borrow money and buy the shares. The company management, because of insider info, might be in a better position than the general market to evaluate if the hypothesis that the company market cap will be $1.1. They cannot use that info for trading in their own accounts - but they can do that in the company name. This might be perfectly rational.
With any non-negligible immunity rate (for example, 70% would be typical for immunity gained through an influenza vaccine [0]), we will still see exponential decay once a critical mass (R0 < 1) is reached. I believe immunity rates are higher after recovering from real infections, but still not perfect.

Therefore a headline reading "Japanese man gets reinfected" is not of particular concern while "50% of survivors get reinfected" would be highly concerning.

[0] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/seasonal-influenza/prevention-...
This is fantastic advice, and provides a very nice UX when coding against it.

Just wondering, are you trying to protect some "inside" aspect (or allow graceful degradation) by having 500 as "Unavailable" rather than "Internal Server Error"? Also, I take it this code returns a body of { status: ..., message: ... } with a status of HTTP 500? So the enum variant "Unavailable" is just for programming syntax and unwraps around the Json<T> inner body when it's called by Rocket?

Finally, I see you are making your diesel calls inside the controller. Is there a reason to prefer this over creating methods that impl your structs that can do the same thing? Such as:

impl User {
pub fn read_all(con: &PgConnection) -> Result<Self> {
User::read_all().get_results::<Self>(con)?
}
}

rather than (in the controller)

User::read_all().get_results::<User>(&*connection).map_err(|_| Status::Unavailable)?

I'm just getting in to Rust, and have been dabbling with Rocket and Diesel a bit lately. So this is a pretty interesting thread and like seeing how and why people are using it :)
It was. The recent damage to the price puts it closer to $80B today.
This made me immediately skeptical of the article. S3 is the best option for static hosting 99.99% of the time.
They start out saying that, but keep reading and "clearly show" becomes "is improbable":

"It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related SARS-CoV-like coronavirus. As noted above, the RBD of SARS-CoV-2 is optimized for binding to human ACE2 with an efficient solution different from those previously predicted. Furthermore, if genetic manipulation had been performed, one of the several reverse-genetic systems available for betacoronaviruses would probably have been used19. However, the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone."

Their argument boils down to "it doesn't look like previously published work" (that's me paraphrasing, not a quote).
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He said "we will continue to develop and support both Atom and VS Code going forward," which at least of right now is still happening -- Atom 1.45 was released last week, along with 1.46 beta 0. The conjecture that they've effectively defunded it is reasonable, but it's still conjecture, and even if they have it doesn't actually break Friedman's (possibly quite deliberately worded) statement.
UBI ... providing direct services for/to the poor ... or a blend, will never resolve some people from "being poor" or adding "burden" to the system despite the system giving them "a minimum of what they need to survive." You can give a mentally ill person $1,000 a month for years and every time he gets the check, maybe he hands it over to a slum lord who secretly threatens the safety or has "tricked" the mentally ill person into giving him the money instead. Bottom line: Giving that person the money every month doesn't "fix" the mentally ill person's problem(s). It's just another roundabout way to try and minimize poor-dom.

All of these solutions are potentially workable, or a blend. I think if anything what we should focus more on is which methods (or blend of methods) works to minimize poor-dom the "most" compared to many of the others, while also balancing the overall cost to deliver said methods on society.
> eports are that the POTUS told states to find their own. Having a politician like the Vice President that knows how to speak effectively be the sole speaker would be better, even with the incompetent response.

You fell for the fake news media and their usual tactics. It's not like it's hard to listen to his actual speech and draw your own conclusions about the media and the POTUS.

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/busted-again-the-new-york-...

tl;dr he said: “We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”
Why do you think starting a business right now isn't a good idea? To me, it seems like the perfect time.

In there next 6 months, there will new opportunities that never existed before. For example, there are many companies that are realizing they will get left behind if they don't let their workers, work remotely. I am sure there will be a new set of companies that specialize in making certain job roles more remote friendly.
All of the US, each state has a department of insurance

edit: wouldn’t let me reply, I know they regulate existing product prices and that new products need to be filed and that states have different laws regarding coverage limits and litigation details
Yes, I understand this. I also understand this may be a mistake in testing for this specific individual. I was wondering about the effectiveness of vaccines in the hypothetical scenario posited by the OP, "what if you can be reinfected after cured?".
It's not, I've taken Hydroxy-chloriquine for years and I feel fine and my doctor has said as much. You should get an eye check yearly to make sure it's not hurting your eyes.
American airliners returned 96% of their profit as share buybacks and are now requesting a $50 billion bailout and you still want to defend borrowing money to finance buybacks, which were illegal until sometime in the 1980's.

With this kind of mindset, I'm about to say fuck it, let's not bail these companies out. Let's let capitalism take its natural course.
I think they meant that no one will ever build a site using WebComponents and NPAPI together, since NPAPI has already been discontinued before WebComponents has taken off.
Viruses do mutate. So for many people, the body may never develop complete immunity.
I was out of country without my workstation laptop and the company I was working for encountered the biggest fire of its relatively short existence, causing an all-hands-on-deck situation. In a pinch I helped by changing an nginx configuration and scaling settings on a mission-critical service from my phone in order to be more accepting of exceptionally-long request timeouts while the company chased down the root cause.

Nowadays I have slack on my phone and click links to open PRs occasionally.
Nice. At least in a first glance, and on the iPad.
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Ah, sorry, yes, that's true. I didn't mean Vitamin C doesn't prevent Vitamin C deficiency.

Your second statement doesn't negate my claim that Vitamin C is essential for tissue repair. It absolutely is, but of course that's not all it's essential for, and I did hint at this in the bit you didn't quote.
I don't know why you're downvoted; this is a decent argument in my opinion. Node has a fantastic ecosystem, and API + database calls (aka, IO) are its bread and butter.

We see people switch from Rust to node due to scale and reliability. If you're not feeling those pains from Node, then you should absolutely keep using it!
Go to the post and click on the direct link, the catalogue front-ends aren't synced yet.
You are not reading carefully.

The question is why would a company use debt to finance a buy back.
https://workingcopy.app is my go-to here.

Strongly recommended. And the author responds to emails all the time.
> Well, it's a new computer so there's no notion of compatibility.

> It seems shortsighted to hamper the future for the sake of the miniscule past.

These too statements seem somewhat contradictory to me.
If we don't provide means for making systems where it is easy to validate their backwards compatibility then it becomes difficult to EVOLVE the system incrementally. That would seem to me to "hamper the future".

This is how biological evolution became a great success, not by "starting from scratch" every time but by making sure that new individuals were always more or less "backwards compatible".

Yes sometimes it makes sense to rewrite something from scratch but forsaking the idea of reusability, which is very closely related to the idea of "compatibility", just seems to me as hampering the future.

Not preparing for the future by not making sure you can easily ensure and validate backwards compatibility, is "hampering the future", in my view. :-)
> 1. Bullshit. Show us the data to substantiate your claim.

I don't think this is relevant or even something which an outsider can easily make claims about.

This isn't a normal situation though and employers who force employees who have the option to work from home to come into the office are just flat wrong here. Or as you said "The CEO's policy is stupid, irresponsible, and/or callous."

I'd go further and say not only should employers support anyone who can working from home do so, they should also support the right of workers who can't work from home to take the time off even if the business isn't closed.
I'm not sure where the article author is going with this, but the official way to host a static web site on S3 with HTTPS is to use ACM and CloudFront:

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloud...
It appears that COVID-19 lasts for about 4 hours on copper. So better than other surfaces, but it does still live for a while

source: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200317-covid-19-how-lon...
False negatives are a huge issue here. The tests aren't that sensitive. If it was truly recurrent we'd see a lot more than one person since the disease is so contagious.
Do they regulate prices? Or just coverages?
Interesting, and thanks for replying. I realize I know very little about vaccines beyond the elementary-school-level basics (even though my brother is an immunologist... maybe I should ask him).
(2014)

> Plenty of conferences and magazines feature interviews with Andreessen where he talks about the future. What’s difficult is getting a man so excited about the future to talk about the past. The following is the story of how Andreessen became Andreessen… rarely told at a Pando event in 2014.
What research papers have you seen with more optimistic projections? You're calling the projections that two governments are relying on as ill informed based on what credentials?
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It’s not perfect but it prevents a scenario where Fortune 500 companies buy up as much as possible and use their position as a source of profit growth.

What country do you live in?
The point with this article is that it misses a much deeper application of OODA. And even that application is a fairly simple application. This article is really talking about one example manipulating the OODA loop of your adversary.

Having said that, AlphaGo and the deep learning starcraft bots look like they are starting to approach that kind of exploitation of the adversay's OODA.
But for most of the last 4 years, gas prices were going up, while ridership went down.
Why pay their employees $200k/yr? Why not $100k? Why not $50k? Why not $0? I mean they are just playing on computers all day.

I know this may be a __radical__ idea, but possibly paying your employees more and giving them good benefits helps you: 1) get the best candidates 2) keep the best candidates 3) keep workers happy (read efficient) 4) keeps them working longer hours and taking less time off (less stress). If only there was a plethora of studies and historical evidence to back this.
The FDIC can get as much currency as they need from the Treasury to cover their obligations, so in that very technical sense they aren't likely to default. However, in the event this were ever actually tested they might as well have defaulted since the resulting inflation would be so high that currency would be worthless. Going from "can't get your money out of the bank" to "your money can't buy anything" isn't exactly an improvement.
Reducing how often you're around people you're in close, on-going contact with (e.g. office mates). You can't reasonably expect people to just stay put and never leave unless you start bringing them supplies.
The guidance was adopted far too late but may slow the spread and reduce deaths. You have to catch things early. In Australia, Chinese immigrants came to their doctors and said "I have a symptom and I demand this prescription and here is the research and I won't take no for an answer."

Chloroquine seems to work best if you start it within the first few days of infection. So if you are say the US and have widespread BS regarding testing and prevent people from getting it, by the time they are tested and their results back it's too late. There's no chance the US will come to their senses and start using or even producing this drug in time to help stop mass deaths. Some people bought animal grade chloroquine and are self treating, but all that supply is gone now for purchase. Doctors won't prescribe it in the US either, for their own reasons.

In China and South Korea you can get tested if you have symptoms and you can start treatment if you have symptoms. So we are seeing things turn around in both places because of this and other actions.
This is the US. Where for many not having a job is risking your health and your families health so it's a catch-22. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Same with me. I scrolled down alot but still not there.. Maybe a caching issue.
The hard way? You do realise science and technology is a thing, right? There is a lot owed to the careful and meticulous work of researches across the globe that have time and again performed nothing short of miracles after mircales despite the flaws in the system. And that is spartan enough for me, thank you very much.
He sounds like he's from another day and time! His stubbornness to evolve to current times is putting his employees and their families in danger.
That's the British expression for "for sale at a discount". "Bananas were on offer, so I bought two bunches." "Don't buy milk unless it's on offer."

There were several pallets of toilet roll, with a yellow A4-sized price label showing a small reduction in price.

Wiktionary is my usual reference for foreign languages, I don't know if you'd have success with English / British English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_offer
Does anyone else get the feeling that the author has not used any of these services before and is just writing this from reading AWS documentation and pricing?
I can't find the source anymore, but the latest Roche AG systems are capable of doing 4000 tests per day. The last generation was 1000 tests per day. Germany also is doubling the capacity of intensive care beds from 28000 to 56000. There is enough money for the machines. Also look at the ratio of infected to dead: 7000->20, while Italy 30000->2000. Just more tests.
You're talking about the United States vs. China, not China vs. individual American companies.

Over the past several decades, China has undergone massive internal structural changes, many of them at the behest of the United States. China has made massive changes to its economic and legal systems in order to allow foreign companies wide-ranging access to Chinese markets. Those changes allowed unprecedented profits for American companies.

But the way you're painting it, allowing American companies to exploit cheap Chinese labor, allowing them wide-ranging access to the Chinese market, where they sell enormous amounts of goods and dominate many market sectors, and constructing an IP enforcement system out of nothing constitute China taking advantage of American companies.
Booklights are a thing.

Cheap, modular, long battery life, effective.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=booklight&ia=images&iax=images
Hence the awkward part. It's not impossible.
>They’re vector editors with some specialized features for UI/UX

I've used Sketch, Illustrator, and Photoshop pretty heavily in my career.

Your statement is a bit like saying that a motorbike is just a bicycle with a few specialized features for people who want to go fast.

The way component libraries, CSS outputs and Craft plugins work with Sketch make it a totally different workflow to Illustrator, even if the basic features are the same (draw vectors).
I think you missed an association there. (WebComponents AND NPAPI)
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Is there terminal support?
It has come down a lot in the past year actually. You can get a 30 day supply for an adult for like $30 for the generic brand without insurance if you shop around. I take it everyday, I don't have any side effects from it but do have to get my eyes checked annually with an expensive test.
what were the reasons for doing so? maintenance, theft/vandalism, or worse, bad software?
Anyone have any look developing and running software on this thing?

https://remarkable.engineering/

Isn't easy to find from the official site (remarkable.com), and I've yet to find a simple "Hello, world"-example from ReMarkable...

Ed: i see there already are some comments on this topic. I think I just might pre-order an rm2.
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I feel his pain. The company I work for, while remarkably practical in many ways, and already possessing systems designed such that every corporate employee can work remotely, still insists on butts-in-seats even while the state we're located in has banned gatherings over 10. It's fucking ridiculous.
What? Nobody is going to be flying anywhere soon, regardless of whether you give everybody $1000.
I'm really glad this comment exists. Just because this article is written by 3 PhDs and posted by HBR doesn't mean it isn't complete nonsense. The comment by Michael O'Hare in the comments section of the HBR article is also a good explanation of the complete misunderstanding of market fundamentals by the authors.
I'm just using soap. Supposedly it's better, and I'm barely leaving the apartment anyway.

If soap weren't available, I'd buy a 1L bottle of shower gel. It tends to be the same thing, with slightly different perfumes.
You really can not compare Venezuela and France like this. I love both countries but they are worlds - ok, continents - apart in how they are governed and to what degree corruption is prevalent.
When is a good time to introduce an engineering career ladder for your team?
Risk mitigation. Financing operations in good times allows me to run my company in a downturn with cash on hand when lending tightens up.

Financing paying shareholders is the opposite of this.
It is, but in recent years it was much higher because of "shortages" (actually just lack of competition after one of the main suppliers got busted by USDA for poor quality control).
As I was reading this I got a notification that Uber Eats would be providing $0 fee delivery for food in our area.
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I think the general consensus is that it's fine for bad companies to go under. But we have a situation here where a lot of reasonably good companies could go under just because of the social distance on a global scale.

The 2008 crunch was almost purely financial. Let's get past this pandemic and then see where the businesses shake out financially.
Back when I still had to support bleeding-edge web apps more than a few of my bug reports were from Pale Moon users because the devs couldn't configure their compiler properly and were always behind on bug fixes. Impossible to act on that stuff, though I tried. Once I realized how bad PM's security story was I gave up on supporting it, not gonna expose my development machines to that.