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It's a gamble, though. Say you're Uber's CEO, Travis Kalanick, and you believe 3 things for sure: 1. Uber's completely doomed if self-driving cars show up and Uber doesn't own it, 2. Sexual harassment is a good idea, and 3. Uber's behind the top players in self-driving car research.

Say you believe that there's a 25% chance that this Google guy can get you to the front of the self-driving car race, and there's a 50% chance you'll get caught. Based on those 3 assumptions at the top, this is a worthwhile risk.

Sure, he wouldn't do it again with hindsight, both because it didn't work out and because his board fired him for creating a culture of sexual harassment, but the risk was probably worth it, strategically if not ethically.
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Why be so polemical?
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Car factories can be converted to produce masks. An electric car manufacturer in China, BYD, became the biggest mask maker in 3 weeks.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/buffett-b...
Lack of tariffs results in no domestic industries at all.
Strategic stockpiles seem much more cost effective than autarky.
It is from my understanding that 19 * 400 ~= 8000. The OP suggested that for every 1 reported death there are 400 cases.
Chinese n95 masks are available very cheaply on Ali-Express from a variety of sellers who can ship by airmail. I don’t see why doctors/nurses shouldn’t order them personally if they can’t get them from work. For example: US $10.09 20％ Off | 10PCS Disposable KN95 Mask FFP2 Protective Mask Safety Masks 99％ Filtration for Dust Particulate Pollution N95 Protection

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True but maybe 1% of those need respirators and those that do need them regardless of testing are currently getting them. Due to current measures no one is dying due to a shortage of medical equipment in the US.

That said, we must manufacture medical equipment for pandemics locally or have a reserve like oil.
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No, I do not believe those physics professors would publish any "junk".
I expect some research reaches a dead end. However, those professors
seemed much too driven by the pursuit of knowledge to waste their time
on useless research.

Though the math is beyond me, theoretical physics is pretty much all math.
The math being developed may or may not be useful eventually, but it adds
to the knowledge base. I think "is this testable?" is the wrong wrong
question to ask.
Have you looked at the network traffic or behavior of most native apps? Continuous monitoring and cloud-based state are the norm everywhere, and for the same reasons.
Opera always experimented with browsers and different formats, forgot the name, but they had really cool product few years ago.

I think it is good that they are experimenting.

I don't get it but maybe I am not their target market.
Way too expensive.
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And then you'll get the "My account has been banned by Amazon after misclassifying a single listing" posts.

There are two sides to the problem, and changing criteria for suspension just shifts it to the other side.
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What if you go to war or the other country chooses to impose economic sanctions?
The truth is most deaths are going to be people near or beyond average life expectancy. I don't want to minimize the impact of any person's death, but I think people in general are willing to accept a fairly high death rate among the elderly, especially considering the most likely to perish are those who were already the most likely to perish.

The death rate among the under-70 population is a different matter. If the medical system is overloaded and working-age people start dying en masse, I imagine that would change public consciousness quickly.
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Yeah, seems like a more realistic approach than trying to bring back jobs from the developing world.
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it's a specialized swab shortage
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I'd hire a guy who was an ex-con, but not if his criminal history related directly to the thing I'm hiring him to do. I'd hire a guy who robbed a bank 20 years ago to design a bridge or build houses. A guy who screwed over his employer, though? No, not if there were any other candidates available.
I think it’s largely to soon to judge countries on this issue. In my mind the outliers are:

South Korea, as they had much better testing than China and new infections have been increasing at ~1% per day for the last week. It’s still early, but it’s a very promising sign.

Finland on the other hand had it’s first diagnosis on February 26th and closed all schools etc on March 16. That’s an unusually rapid response, though it’s to soon to say how effective it is.

PS: At least in the US it’s rare for the the people in power to actually get even 50% of the vote. But, I think we can safely blame non voters just fine.
I don't have a good answer. First and foremost, the shipping rates for consumer goods from China is outrageously low. People buying from Germany to Australia to USA - $2 shipped PCBs and $4 toys shipped - all have one thing in common: Shipping cost is highly subsized because of this treaty - https://www.vox.com/2018/10/19/17996378/trump-china-universa...

Specifcally, the problem is the Universal Postal Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union

Locally made goods can benefit from some tax breaks and government subsidies as well, but the aforementioned problem needs to be resolved. Alas, it won't be because executives keep lobbying and paying off key decision makers.

The whole thing is corrupt. I don't agree with President Trump on majority of things, but I try to not let bias triumph over logic, pragmatism and rational ideas; no matter who is pushing them.
Sorry, I misread what you wrote about civil liberties being violated. I agree that they would be violated if more countries adopted the location tracking apps, but I think that we're already past the point of no return regarding the violation of civil liberties when police departments are using stingrays, people can be harassed when entering the country when they want to check their devices, and we have broad laws such as the CFAA.

Vietnam is also doing a mandatory 14-day quarantine at designated sites (hotels, military bases) for those arriving from ASEAN countries, the US, and Europe. There is no reported community spread yet, and all the cases are from people flying into the country and infecting a few individuals. The policy was only enacted a few days ago, but I really hope life here can return to normal if we start to catch all the cases before they leave quarantine. Additionally if we can test everyone before letting them leave quarantine.
This works for private buyers, but these gov agencies have a regulation that doesn't allow them to pay in advance ever. The price isn't the issue. So they can only buy from really big firms, who don't have stock right now and aren't flexible.
It’s prescribed here in Canada, but at least in Alberta, the prescription goes along with annual in-depth retina screening to catch retinal toxicity before there’s permanent vision loss. It’s ok, but there’s a reason it’s not available over the counter.
From the discussion [1]: "A duct is akin to a first-class call stack".

For a more detailed explanation, you can look up the type definition [2] in Arvo (Urbit's Kernel) and here [3] you can find an example of how the stack looks when setting up a timer.

[1] https://urbit.org/blog/precepts-discussion/

[2] https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/arvo/arvo/#duct

[3] https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/arvo/move-trace/
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Instant coffee is no substitute for the real stuff.
maybe a non-native english speaker
Knowing why you call it won't help with the feeling or this communication.
Trump already gave a press conference about it today about the FDA investigating it quickly
> It certainly has drawbacks. (Ex: we subsidize too much corn and wheat.)

Huge drawback right here, corn (high fructose corn syrup, corn itself) and wheat are both at the center of the obesity epidemic and health crisis. It's a point that's often brought up and isn't controversial at this point, but inertia makes it hard to correct, especially with said subsidies.
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Well, I hope Netflix is going to cut prices just as well.
Not really. Tea is oxydized in pans or with steam, cured, aged etc.
> Many people, cops included have been convicted for such things.

> So no, it's not likely.

Has it occured to you that if cops have been convicted for such things it's because they have at some point engaged in such behavior? Sure, it would be foolish to do so given the risks of getting caught, and yet you could say the same thing about every cop ever convicted of a crime.
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Amazon's app, at least on Android, is anyway so bad it's almost surreal. Massive lags without any indication of progress or indication that the app even accepted the input.

Now that I think of it, it feels like a bad website shipped as an app. Which it probably is.
> Ethiopia and other poor countries are unable to reap profits from the coffee they grow thanks to extremely restrictive WTO tariffs that essentially prevent them from processing it before they export it. This means they're forced to export raw beans for pennies, and they'll never really make much money doing so.

As someone who has roasted my own coffee for 20 years, I'm confused about what you're saying. What are these "raw beans" that the Ethopians are forced to export?

I do buy green coffee beans from Ethopia, and have about 25 pounds of Ethopian at home right now. Are these the raw beans you're talking about? I certainly wouldn't want to buy coffee that was roasted in Ethopia; it would be awfully stale by the time it gets here.

I mostly buy dry process beans, occasionally wet process. I've just never heard the term "raw beans". Are you talking about raw unprocessed coffee cherry? I didn't know anyone exports those as is. I thought they would go bad in shipping, and no one would buy them. And the sheer bulk and weight of raw coffee cherry should make it more economical to do a dry process or wet process at the source, to separate the valuable beans from the husk.

I do buy a lot of my green beans from Sweet Maria's. They have a Farm Gate program where they work directly with coffee growers to make sure they get a fair price - generally more than the "Fair Trade" pricing.

If you can help educate me on what I'm missing here, I would appreciate it - thanks!
Given the number of rich celebrities that apparently manage to get a test just because they're rich, I wonder if there is more illicit testing going on. Meanwhile a colleague of a doctor I know remains untested due to lack of tests despite symptoms entirely consistent with covid. Lack of tests are likely behind the comparatively high UK death rate.

Seems like there's a good opportunity for a nefarious get rich quick scheme here: setup a website, have hypochondriac rich people send in a swab, charge them lots, wait a couple of days and inform them of a random outcome with a warning about false positives. If this is going on, they should at least give people a positive so they quarantine them self.
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> If you can ballpark it I'll ask around.

About $0.5 to 0.6 for surgical masks ex factory. My email is in the profile if you got a hospital or similar. Not selling to consumers for now.
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You know you basically have to toss them after a single use if you want them to be effective, right?
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"Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." - FA Hayek.

I am australian and also very concerned. The powers currently granted to the QLD Chief Medical Officer sound like they come straight out of North Korea.
It is not about autarky, but diversification and resiliency of the supply chain. Automakers are experts at this - BMW cars made in USA (South Carolina) have US made parts and ones made in Germany have locally sourced parts from Germany, yet the ones made in South Africa have diversified sources - both local and international. If you're in the US, you can see this % of locally made parts right on the window price sticker. It's not just for show - if there is a shortage of headliners in US, it can import it for a short term needs from Europe and vice-versa.

No one is suggesting complete in-house isolation aka Autarky, but to avoid SPOF (single point of failure) supply chains - probability of each link breaking adds up when your supply chain is 18 levels deep from an iPhone to the copper mine.
> There is an adage with which my father frequently admonished me as a child: You can lie as much as you like, but don’t believe your own lies.

Strange advice to give a child.
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Do we know how long it will take to reach herd immunity with an infection rate that our health care system can handle?
This is what will happen to the 1000 bucks that they deposit in all accounts.

People don't get the number of systems that will automatically target the most vulnerable/easily exploitable as soon as a deposit shows up, is a much bigger issue than actually handing cash out to people.

The "squeeze every penny" mega machine has grown so complex and large its hard to see how it can be dismantled.
How common are "coffee breaks" still in businesses? I've never worked for a company with mandatory breaks (coffee or otherwise), but maybe that is because I am engaged in more mental that physical labor?

Ironically, my company does have a number of fitness facilities on campus and it is entirely kosher to take an hour plus break each day to workout, i.e., engage in physical labor.
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I’m not sure why your getting down voted. It is irresponsible.

This sort of thing is relatively easy to do for someone with the right background, but hard to do well. Aside from wasting reagents that could be potentially used by an actual diagnostic lab, some student running PCRs is going to get nowhere near acceptable test reliability. Those they falsely reassure will run around spreading it, and those they falsely diagnose will inappropriately self isolate. The more they test, the more accuracy matters.
I agree this is exactly the right approach. The goal is to flatten the curve, not try to obliterate it. We're not going to eradicate this virus without a vaccine, so we have to aim for transmission rates that don't overwhelm healthcare capacity. Keeping the virus away from vulnerable populations helps that significantly.

In the UK and Colombia (and maybe elsewhere) there are mandatory quarantines only for the elderly. I can see this being tried in other Western nations if blanket quarantines go on too long.
That's not 1060 cases, it's 1060 tested positive.
You can't even get a test unless you're a celebrity or high risk... if you're a nurse and your wife is positive, they won't give you a test. We're under tested so there are a lot more than 1000 cases right now.

It's true though that they aren't using the highest rate they could (the 20% per day we got before social distancing). I hope that closing the schools helps... and the ICUs don't overflow immediately.
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Personally I'd buy stuff in China and ship it to a hospital of your choice. Given they can accept the certification.
Note that the estimate of mortality in the article (which is about 3x of the normal flu) is relative to symptomatic cases.

The actual mortality is lower by a factor of 6 or so, considering the percentage of cases which are asymptomatic.
We're past that stage. It's purely about flattening the curve so the health system can cope while protecting the the vulnerable.

The official statistics have a lag in them due to only showing confirmed cases.
>grew unchecked or for months

It really didn't "grow unchecked for months".

>using our thinking machines.

OK. You first, then.
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That seems like a complete non sequitur, but it reminds me of an old joke.

1. Elect people who don’t believe in government 2. Get shocked when they do a poor job. 3. ??? 4. Profit

More seriously, I don’t think this is the kind of situation where people are ever going to be happy with how it’s handled. But, governments can do a better or worse job.
> The HTML, Javascript and CSS in a single-page application are not separable in any meaningful way. Maybe for some parts of your app, you can maintain this separation of you try, but it's not something that adds any value at all. Even if it could work, there would be absolutely no reason to try. The type of redesigns I do on this type of code affects HTML, Javascript and CSS equally, always.

I've heard different forms of this argument for decades in dozens of systems. Same old "why pay for abstraction" argument. I'm not going to answer. Either you figure out the answer or you don't.
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Interesting, It seems that things have changed over the course of the last week. Thanks for letting me know
Almost completely OT but:

I’m almost certain I’ve had Corona, but it’s almost impossible to get the medical system to test for that where I live (for good reasons).

Will it be possible to get a test kit like this https://www.biomedomics.com/products/infectious-disease/covi... as private individual (in the EU)? Will that test show if I have been infected previously? The graph on this PDF suggest it https://www.biomedomics.com/?fldl=3001
Is there people actually buying more than 2 iPhones? We are speaking about €1200 phones (11 Pro). What do they do for a job?
> Data is better than code.

Eventually you'll realize data and code are the same thing.

> A client's representation of data should be as close as possible to that of the server.

This is not even wrong.

Hard to agree with any of the principles, sorry.
>The Law of Leaky Abstractions is a lie; abstract airtightly.

Man, when I read things like this about "design principles" I know I'm getting into a bag of hand wavy opinions with no rigid theoretical proofs. That's fine because not everything is covered. But the minute you say something that is outright false I know you're worthless.

All abstractions leak. I cannot make an abstraction perform better than what's underneath. The performance leaks through every single time. An abstraction will always only be worse performing then what's underneath simply due to the cost overhead of the abstraction itself.

Rust is a great example. It has something called zero cost abstractions, meaning that the abstractions that Rust uses are more complicated than normal in order to maintain the zero performance cost. That is leakage. There is always a cost.
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Let's go to the source of this problem - Corn/Wheat lobbyist paying off lawmakers in DC. This is the root cause of American sell out. It is an awful system that needs to be completely dismantled, criminilized and banned. Please don't tell me about how each special group has the right to lobby... this is an asymmetrical game. As the corn/wheat lobbyists lobby, who is opposing them? No one. And, as their interests are in billions of dollars, it is literally impossible of oppose.

I am willing to bet, large number of America's problems can be traced straight to the abhorrently corrupt process of lobbying.
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It doesn’t stop working at all. It stops getting free OS updates, presumably because there are many dozens of hardware configuration to manage, and having fallen into that trap once with Android devices, they didn’t want to immediately jump into the same pit a second time.
My grandmother born around 1900 said what happens when you don't have some government market coordination is damaging boom bust cycles in agriculture. Farmers chasing last years profits tend to over produce, prices crash and farmers go bankrupt. And if you don't keep your poor urban workers fed really bad things happen politically.

I think there can be a lot of debate about the mix of subsidies and price controls. But the need I think is there. Food is a critical need as we are about to note. And it's really not the end of the world if things aren't perfectly optimal.
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