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A couple of great posts on the right policy proposal to address the coronavirus suggest everything from giving Americans money directly, to even more radical forms of government involvement.

The only challenge is that we only have one globally interconnected economy; so there's no real way to scientifically evaluate the consequences of any proposal. We have to just implement (generally in emergencies) and hope it works out.

CoronaCoin is interesting because - while poorly named and irresponsible - it kind of hints at crypto's potential to lets us test new market structures in isolation.

DeFi can blow up without many people being hurt, or another protocol can get a 51% attack, etc.; but the silver lining is that these experiments are run off to the side, without hurting the majority of people.

Imagine if we could do the same for broader policy proposals.
Then why not just leave it to an algorithm? Why the need for editorial intervention?

The person I was responding to was basically saying "let the users decide" but that can't happen if TikTok is lying to the users.
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You can check for a magic string after decryption and only update the screen if valid.
But there would be more stuff, the increase in demand would be met with an increase in supply. Thats the magic of the market.
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>The flu does not overrun an entire country's hospital system like COVID-19 has done to Italy.

to be fair it certainly can and does. The 2017/2018 influenza pandemic was probably the worst one in a decade, with 35 million infections, 700 000 hospitalizations and 60k deaths, and people for a while were treated in tents and a state of emergency was declared in Alabama, and Southern California and Texas had to turn away patients.

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
I was a fairly early pre-order for RM1, early enough that I had forgotten about it in the 6 months or so it took after pre-order for me to get it.

But as soon as I get the email for RM2 I pre-ordered again. To your point, it is the product the digital paper market has been waiting for.

I am an avid hand-writer. I have been a Levenger Circa user for more than 20 years, and basically had a subscription to the Circa paper for the last several years, as I went through so much of it. It took me a while to adjust my workflow and so forth, but I am now a full convert to the RM and think the device and the ecosystem have enormous potential, especially for developers.

The RM folks are very dev friendly, though their docs and so forth are poor at present. I take this to be a function of focus/resources rather than intent. The architecture of the software on the device is very good and dev oriented, and the code (what they've released) is well written. The device can run a webserver! The APIs- community documented- for the server-side of the RM platform are minimal but well structured. I was fairly quickly able to dig into them and write some utilities, which work reliably. So I am very optimistic about the ecosystem around these devices.

To your questions- I write on the order of 20-30 "pages"/day on the RM, and go through 1 tip maybe every 2 weeks. The writing experience is very comfortable. Adding an "eraser" to the premium RM2 pen addresses the main ergonomic inconvenience. I also use the device for reading PDFs. There are some ergonomic nits there but on the whole it works well.

Yes, RM is a new, small biz, but to my eyes they have a great product, a great approach, solid operations, and are developer friendly. I have not used the Sony device, and can't compare it, but I see nothing but good things ahead for RM.
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The article mentions topology but I feel like most everything in physics is geometrically oriented and makes no particular topology rules, just normal continuity. I feel like the next discovery will be topological in nature. Some relativity of topology that fixes locality.
I imagined exactly the same. However, Planck experiments show that the universe is flat. It means, our theory was wrong - or the sphere is so big that we can't notice its curvature, thinking we're living on a flat 4-dimentional surface (almost like with Earth in ancient times)
My family still lives in Turin and mom work in hospital ;)
So, i think i can write something down:
The biggest problem is that C really affect old people.
So, yes - old people die...thats terrible, nothing to say.
BUT, mom hospital is overcrowded with < 45 years old...
Why you ask me? Cause people is went crazy, media, tv, everything.
Yee, you will feel it like a cold, yee its a tougher one, but honestly, if you are <60 and can still breath on your own -> just lay in bed, drink more and relax. Thats the only advice for now.
Don't worry, the current set of actions being undertaken will cause 100% jobless rate as hiding a job becomes illegal.
We have a flu shot that was partially effective this year. Some years are better than others.

We have no defense against COVID-19, so until herd immunity becomes a thing by social distancing please flatten the curve to keep our health system from being overwhelmed.

Influenza death rate on known cases is about 0.1% or less. Best estimates for Covid-19 are from SK and, to my knowledge, are around 0.6%. But the ICU fills up quick and then death rate spikes.
Yes :) sorry.

I used to work for Acompli (now Outlook Mobile) and we hated when people spelled it Accompli. Now I’m that guy
>It is misinformation to blindly compare total deaths between two diseases like you are.

mis•in•for•ma•tion ►
n. Wrong information; false account or intelligence.
n. Untrue or incorrect information.
n. Information that is incorrect.

I disagree.
It's hard to climb up, but it's harder to stay at the top, so they put barriers behind once they have reached high enough.
That's platform vs editor problem of social media all over again. You're either a communication platform akin to a phone cord that functions regardless of what's communicated on it, or an centrally controlled media with an editorial board which is in charge of what users post on in and is responsible for it.

The only difference with Facebook is that it got crap from people who wanted it to be responsible for it's content (fake news), while TikTok gets crap from people who were not prepated for it to be so moderated, but it's still the same fundamental problem of trying to sit on both chairs at the same time.
Too bad you got junked. This was a major complaint from folks Peter Attia had on that trying to take a drug etc to market can cost hundreds of millions and years through the FDA process. It actually could have been David Sinclair that was saying that but I might be mistaken.
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Please don’t take it wrong, I like what I read so far! It was just my random observation
Contaminated hands are much more dangerous than contaminated elbows because people frequently touch their face with their hands.
It would be like comparing Compact Disc sales from 2016 and 1996. Sure, both are compact discs, but the comparison isn't relevant anymore in the broad context of music consumption. The point is that while the comparison is superficially similar it isn't really supporting any major points beyond "these things are different."
No it's about knowing how diseases spread. This is not a new disease. the mortality rates come from the ratio of known deaths to known infections. Obviously not all cases are known especially in the USA where we don't even have enough tests to test people coming in with severe symptoms.
To be fair, this is exactly CUP's intent.
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Good to see some progress. The more experimental research on this sort of stuff the better. It's still not clear if these sort of meds should be given early as soon as you get a temperature say, or wait till hospital, or how those options compare. I'm hoping there'll be some good result like giving it early means almost everyone recovers without hospital but then maybe that won't work. Test baby test!

In fact this sort of stuff may be our biggest hope. Containment doesn't seem to be working, vaccines will likely take too long but treatments like say giving chloroquine on fever might reduce deaths from 1% to 0.1% or some such. But we won't know without experiment.
Man, what a pickle.

Every country, every world leader, is faced with agonizing decisions. All are shades of right/wrong. All are simply trying to do the best job they can.

Not an easy time for anyone.
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If you're not allowed to work from home, stop working. Contact your doctor and request relevant paperwork to stop work and go into isolation. (if this is possible in your country - depending on the country, "I've been in contact with a case" may be enough)

But also keep in mind that unless you hear a real confirmation, the case you know may actually be a third-party rumor, so... don't panic yet.
Lose your love for 50 euros and call a lawyer. Alternatively, contact your work or health regulator, and document the case to them the best you can.

Documentation and evidence is now power for you.
> Had the developers stopped to plan they would have built something with over 16 bits of primary key

While true, this was in the 16-bit, Windows 1.x era. Also the ~640kb of RAM era (disks also werent that big either, DOS (v3.x) around that time only supported 32 MB partitions). Not sure which version of DOS Windows 1.0 ran on, I didnt use windows until v3.11 for Workgroups. A 32-bit primary key would likely have been seen as wasteful (not that I'm excusing it) and impractical, because you could likely never practically store more than 64k records on a PC of the day (and even if you could, you wouldnt have an disk left to do anything else).
Contact your local authorities non-emergency number. This is an emergency, but not immediately actionable (you don't need a firetruck right at this moment). Discuss the situation with them and they will hopefully act accordingly.

Your workplace should be quarantined and sanitized, this is a major risk to public health. Best of luck.
Uriel Frisch's Turbulence: The Legacy of A. N. Kolmogorov is an accessible introduction to one of the most important and still unsolved problem in classical physics. That book has over 7000 citations on Google Scholar.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/turbulence/FD8C5E35E5F1...
Gross $100k

Net after tax: $74k

Monthly take home: $6166

Rent: $3000 ($3166)

Health insurance + meds: $600 ($2566)

Student loans: $1000 ($1566)

Muni: $196 ($1370)

Groceries: $400 ($970)

Electricity: $90 ($880)

Internet: $80 ($800)

Cell: $150 ($650)

Debt: $300 ($350)

So that's $350 for a family of two at the end of the day to spend on life, in a city where two cheeseburgers can cost $50. A lot of times for me this would be spent flying home for holidays. It would take about 8 years to save up enough of an emergency fund to cover 6 months of expenses if 100% of that were put into savings, which isn't realistic. This is a salary that provides a comfortable life, but like I said, it's paycheck to paycheck. If I had a disruption in my income, I would be out on the streets in short order. None of that can really be cut except cell and internet.
Some are shutting down. Tesla is different because all their cars are ordered by someone and so shutting down impacts customers. Others are just building for market and since people are not buying now they are more interested in shutting down production because it just builds up inventory that they need to sell (often meaning a sale).

I'm not going to comment on if they should shut down. With the right provision it is safer to go to work than stay home bored and tempted to go out and do something. this assumes many things not all that I'm aware of, and they might or might not be possible in the factory
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OP, I'd be curious to hear more how you structure your lessons for an online environment. This post mostly details how you [technically] teach online classes. For the many teachers who are now in a remote environment, what should they know about online learning vs traditional classroom learning?
Can't you get your doctor to give you a note that you have to work from home for now for medical reasons? It seems that in most EU countries, your employer would be forced to respect that. If they refuse, get a sick note and stay home, there's no reason to put everyone's lives at risk by getting infected at work and spreading it through your commute.
These contractors at tech companies typically are full-time employees, they're just full time employees at other companies. The setup is that Facebook, or Google, has a contract with company like Accenture, which in turns provides its own full-time employees to do some work on FB/Google projects.
I'm building the picture but still have a lot to learn. I'd love to hear your thoughts. What's your take on the key issue?
Your country/state/province likely has a labour board you can contact to have them get involved. Alternatively, contact an employment lawyer. There’s a good chance a labour policy or law is being broken, especially if your region is under quarantine or self-isolation guidelines.
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There might be something to do here to clean those up and make them more ergonomic for the device. I have de-DRMed most of my kindle books and turned them into PDFs, even some thousand page monsters with graphs and images, etc, and so far all work well on the device. There are a bunch of open source PDF utilities that may be able to help if desired. Cheers.
I think the problem is that the information (and specifically your third source) is misleading.

Note in your first source that the CDC estimates _36 to 51 million_ flu illnesses this season _in the US_. I'm not sure why your third source says "5 million cases".

The flu doesn't originate from a single point geographically every year, as it is already embedded in communities globally.

So, even if the current numbers we have for coronavirus infections are off by an order of magnitude, it is easy to reason that once this coronavirus reaches spread at the levels of the flu (i.e., 30-50 million infections _in the US alone_), the death numbers are likely to be much much higher than the seasonal flu.
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My kobo device got stuck in a boot loop and when I opened it up I saw the internal storage was a micro sd card. Put it in my computer and found a full linux system. Deleted the user database and the device booted again. I also saw there was a recovery partition so I probably could have fixed it from a button combo but still, cool stuff.
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Although this ruffles sensibilities, isn't it kind of expected from an entertainment platform?

Any traditional teen magazine from 20 years ago (seventeen, tigerbeat) wouldn't be scolded for heavily policing what photos go in the pages. Not only that, they heavily post processed everything.

There's superficial and arbitrary gatekeepers for what is called news, what is played on the radio, basically everything. Even some of the talent shows have strict, rather low, age cutoffs. 29 is too old for American Idol (it used to be 25).

Even more apparently egalitarian entertainment, such as contestants on the Price is Right aren't "truly random" and get shortlisted into energetic people who come in larger crowds in order to make better television. Most people think that's probably also fine. Some guy just standing and shrugging after being revealed a "brand new car" wouldn't really be right.

So for a digital social entertainment platform to do the same kind of pruning, it's kind of expected. Content is filtered to create better entertainment for the target demographic, one that I'm not in.

Maybe you think it's not the right filter system but now we're doing a target marketing debate and not one of ethics.
I looked in to the remarkable a few months ago and I couldn't find any way the price justified the benefit over pen and paper. Unless you are reading lots of pdfs, it seems like a waste. At the new price point it might be decent though.
For someone with access to citable stats, you sure seem to have left out the cumulative number of people who get influenza, and the amount of people who are slated to catch the more infectious coronavirus.

Without those statistics, you're comparing apples to oranges when you point to the total number of deaths per year for both diseases.
What the hell are they thinking? I had flu symptoms a few weeks ago, and our office has transitioned to full remote till the situation calms down a bit, and we're not even in a particularly affected country!
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And that's a 0.2% mortality rate, still nowhere near as bad as even the lowest estimates for COVID-19.
Congrats on the launch, Michael. Been experiencing the same - after conducting demos of our application, we've been told that we aren't enterprise-ready and so we've gone away to figure out what that looks like. I've got extensive experience in the enterprise space having worked in banking tech for a few years so happy to help. Currently, we're building an AI performance management platform for enterprises and so could leverage WorkOS to accelerate our go-to-market. How do you compare to Replicated (https://www.replicated.com/)?
Isn't Twitter where official government business is handled now?
I'm very curious what you think the real problem is. Please enlighten us.
Indeed and it probably makes much of the difference why active cases in Korea have kind of leveled off while in Europe they are growing about 25%/day. And just a reminder that's 800x a month.
I am unable to see what is wrong with all of this. I wont be using tiktok if it had ugly people doing stuff I am not interested int.

As someone has pointed out on this threat elsewhere, Tiktok is a night club. You gotta dress up, put up fake eye lashes, high heels and show some cleavage to get more attention. THAT IS their business model.

This outrage is nothing but silicon valley hippie attitude which I think the chinese simply don't give a shit about.
Do they? I work at a factory and those doing production are in small teams (6 max, and your team is assigned for the duration of this crisis) that have it easy to never contact the next (except lunchtime and those of us with a desk are required to eat at our desks to give them more room - I'm working from home which is better yet) modern factories have most of the work done by robots, so it is easy to keep a robot between you and the next team.
Characters in Greg Egan's hard sci-fi book Diaspora do this
Wanting to stop online bullying sounds more like a cover story then the truth.
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I was going to say, club bouncers have been doing this for decades.. it's really nothing new...
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There is no market rate for this because it can only be provided by government and because these events are basically unique.

The key here should be for the insurer (government) to recover a little more than their expenses in the medium term. That's a correctly priced insurance policy. That's exactly what tarp did. It's actually very impressive that the managers of the program were able to price the policy so correctly if you think about it...
It can hurt a lot, see nearly any quack peddling homeopathy. But no, self-serving posts are not against the rules of this forum, nor inherently evil.
A little anecdote here. I remember when I was suffering from malnutrition issues (due to certain health problems) back in the day, I used to prefer Dasani to any other water as nothing felt as satisfying. Other water felt like tasteless distilled substance. At the time, someone told me Dasani's somewhat harsh taste/texture is due to trace amount of minerals added to it. If true, it does make some sense (at least to me) why some prefer it and others find it repulsive (plenty of anecdotes).
As a former customer, WeWork really got me offside. So much so that I switched coworking spaces to an independent provider. They made me feel like cattle in an abbatoir, not a paying customer that is central to their business.

They demanded that everything be done their way. Long story short, WeWork acquired the coworking space we were using and then used incredibly obnoxious tactics to "require" us to sign new contracts and move to the WeWork model (that removed a lot of benefits, like the meeting room booking credit system). Things like sending e-mails saying "This contract will expire in 24 hours, you must sign this today".

Or even afterwards, preventing my part-time employees from sitting next to my full-time desk. I could understand if the space were at capacity, but I was literally sitting in a row with 12 empty desks.

Not to mention the constant noise interruptions from community managers laughing, the music from the lobby, the printer requiring a driver installation, and so many more.

Coworking spaces are commercially viable, but I'm only going to fork over money to businesses who actually treat customers well (and not like a box in a spreadsheet to please investors). The whole WeWork company can die in a fire. Good riddance.
What ammuses me is looking at some of the hard-coded "end of time" dates at previous employers. Instead of using null as an unbounded upper bound (because nulls are hard /s), there are hard coded "end dates". One was 2032-12-31, another 2037-12-31 and usually 9999-12-31. Obviously, these all have problems, especially when used in finance. 2037 makes sense, because 2037 is the year that 32bit linux overflows. 9999 also makes sense. At least none of us will be around, so it's some future generation(s) problem. The 2032 one made no sense to me, and I was never able to get a justification.
Start coughing up the hierarchy. Once you cough on someone high enough I suspect the situation will solve itself.

edit: Turning this approach 180 degrees, have the employees ask the people with power to change the policy what do they think the legal liability is in the case any of the employees or any of their family members dies?
Well that’s like saying Reddit suppressed pro Trump community
>Its either taxes, which means that tax money collected can't be spent elsewhere. Or it has to be printed, which is inflation.

I thought the lesson we learned from the largest money printing in modern history is that printing money doesn't directly equate to inflation. Especially in a world with active Global Trade.
> Aw, you mean @elonmusk actually has to follow some rules?

No. No he doesn't. Privilege has its privileges.
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Thanks, those are good examples I hadn't heard of.

From the descriptions there and coming out of Italy it should be clear that COVID-19 is much worse than the worst flu we've seen in a decade.

The only thing keeping deaths low to this point is that it isn't as widespread.
And getting it later as opposed to now falls under the definition of "safe", as cases with complications will have greater odds of being properly treated.
It was seen as an internal competitive advantage to reject these processes! What does that say about how they are perceived internally?

It certainly says something about how the Android org was perceived internally during most of the time I was there (2011-2018).
Nah its a year minimum like going breakneck. No vaccine has been developed fast and definitely won't for something so none lethal to normal people