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> I hope this kind of thing doesn't get banned entirely. when it works, I find that having a good navigation system allows me to pay more attention on actually driving the car.

Anecdotally, over the years I've been driving, a majority of potentially collision-causing mistakes I've made (and that I've noticed) have been when I've been cognitively distracted by navigation systems and was looking for a turn/exit or thinking ahead for a turn/exit.

I've adjusted to always prioritize real-time safety even if it comes at the cost of missing my turn and having to double back to get where I'm going. I believe that following nav directions in real-time comes at a safety cost, and am skeptical that many people both realize this and make the appropriate adjustments.
Amazon workers should unionize immediately now that the virus has given them leverage.
Put aside for a second the fact that being rich enough from word processing software to surround yourself with experts and repeat what they tell you does not (necessarily) make you an expert. Apart from that, I agree with the thrust of what you're saying: he's not the Waltons, and he's funded meaningful public health work.

The point I'm trying to make in my original comment isn't about BG himself, it's exactly about "the people in charge of our institutions". Rereading it, I didn't make this as clear as possible, so let me take another stab:

We think of ourselves as an advanced democracy (or democratic republic) and economy. We certainly pay for that in taxes and in other ways (obviously we're not Nordic in terms of income tax, but still). But when it's go-time for that advanced democracy, for the institutions and experts we pay to train through years of schooling in public universities and then pay to command highly specialized bodies at local, state, and federal levels, their performance is, excuse my language, so fucking dismal that the vaunted CDC cannot make a working test, that there are not enough latex gloves in that advanced democracy to keep doctors and nurses from getting sick ... their performance is so dismal and we're so untrusting of the basic decency and competence of our experts and elected officials that we crowd into a Reddit AMA to hear a software magnate maybe have a better solution ... Is that not just bizarre to you? Infuriating? Sad?

I fully grant that I may be alone in feeling this way. On some level I'm reacting strongly to the fact that the country I immigrated to as a teenager is revealing itself to be profoundly third-world in certain ways - like, this isn't what I thought I signed up for. Like I said earlier, there's something truly funny about it at the same time that it's terribly sad. (One funny thing is that the solution the guy comes up with is "let's put a microchip in everyone!".) Don't mean to impose my views on anyone, and again, I'm not saying Gates has enabled, via Windows wealth, zero good in the world. It's not about Gates; it's about us.
I've driven a BMW that featured a HUD for the driver and I think that would be a great way to display a lot more information that CarPlay and co do now on the console.
It does not have an R_0 so high. It’s estimated at 1.4-3 or so.
So.. Don't psych yourself out if you have a high body temperature after breakfast?
Maybe you're right, I can't say that resonates with me but I may well be in the minority. I do find it interesting though that the post you link to has this as it's first sentence:

"After six and a half years, Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is leaving Dropbox and heading into retirement."

No ambiguities regarding the reasons for the post then.

(Also, for what it's worth, I had no idea who Arash was prior to reading this post.)
It would be significantly faster, cheaper and more effective to open additional mask factories in China. And they’d probably have a life beyond the pandemic there as well.

Besides, it’s likely considering how few American regions are actually taking the steps needed to limit the spread of the virus that within a few months a factory opened anywhere in the US will be shut down to prevent the spread of the virus anyways.
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Agreed. There are definitely good arguments for using abort-on-panic, and doing isolation and recovery at the process level rather than the thread level. This is what we do with all the Rust code in Firefox, for example.

Unwind safety is a real issue. I have some personal experience with fixing panic-safety issues in unsafe Rust code:

https://github.com/servo/rust-smallvec/pull/103

I wrote a bit more about it here:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/c-pitfalls-hard-to-avoid-that-...
Has it? There’s probably a ton of people looking for this kind of job on the market.
I understand what you're saying, but walking out or forcing negotiations during a global pandemic is sociopathic, and the union would gather a massive amount of political venom.
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It's obvious to people without extreme anti-American bias.

Also, maybe don't throw out terms like "strawman" when you bizarrely transfigured my innocuous comment:

> The 30,000 US troops stationed in Germany and the existence of NATO are significant factors in European countries spending so little on defense.

into:

> This is a total fallacy - those troops being stationed in Germany does not mean Germany would station 30k of their own should the US troops leave.

edit - It should be clear to anyone reasonable that the way you interpreted my original post evinces anti-American bias. What you don't seem to understand is that US interests and Germany interests have significant overlap. The idea that Germany doesn't benefit from pax Americana is absurd.

That doesn't mean that the US always uses its power responsibility, it just means that things are more complicated than the caricature of US foreign policy that often shows up on this website.
It's also highly unpleasant, with a lexicon reminiscent of 4chan.
These anecdotes are interesting. While they might fly in the face of science, they provide strong evidence that there is no one size fits all.
Even for a typical right-winger like me (I'm actively fighting against unionization in my own profession) it makes total sense in context of warehouse workers and current events.
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and the u.s. is not intentionally misleading the people right now when it's clearly in front of us? the u.s. government is blatantly lying and even profiting off of the virus.

and your comment about china continuing to manipulate numbers is poor speculation on your part. i am unable to find the article at the moment, but the WHO representative who was there was asked that question, and he stated that there was no reason he saw that numbers were being manipulated. he stated that once the response ramped up, that they were taking it very seriously and were quite methodical.
> to eliminate the effect of menstruation and the related hormones, which we've seen can be very potent.

Interesting, never considered this.
How fast would they be able to hire and train replacements, and how much would it cost?
Wrote a prototype for something like this years ago but don't know enough frontend stuff to take it to production. The big difference is there was a certain amount of randomization to the survey prompt. And had some calendar functionality so as not to ask during scheduled meetings. And allowed you to set some top-level strategy/goals, so that the question "what are you working on now / how bout now / etc" could include a bit more context around core workstreams. Wanted to avoid typical taskmaster PM or GTD approaches that skew toward micromanagement, while still maintaining a general sense of measurable progress.
> The second solution is to ration the commodity – putting limits on the amount a customer can buy. Imperfect though these buying limits are, they are feasible, as shown by the restrictions put in place by Australia’s supermarkets.

The restrictions do not work, if not heavily supervised. And even then it’s still a gamble. People would queue again at another cashier to buy another pack of TP. I don’t think there is a solution, if actors are invested in gaming it.
I missed clapping reactions during our remote all hands meetings at my company, so I built this.

I ended up having fun doing so!

Code is https://github.com/netgusto/taptapclap
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The industrial baguette (which includes those of a lot of bakeries) is pretty uninteresting, with a uniform and non-structural internal texture and a vaguely crusty exterior. Compare that to the radically different banette you can find at artisanal bakeries which unfortunately of course are hard to sustain financially outside wealthy enclaves.

Also if you didn't experience it, the food choices of the 60s, 70s, and even early 80s were pretty restricted and of poor quality in Europe, Australia and the USA (and likely elsewhere). Even in the USA where there was an explosion of products, the quality of the food was poor and largely undifferentiated. And thus with bread in France.

I was lucky that our home in Paris had several good bakeries within a few minutes' walk of our front door (including Poilâne's) but it was obvious that this was a product of economic good fortune. But when you venture out to the countryside in France or Germany the goods in shops primarily come from a truck from a faraway factory. Surprisingly this appears to me (unscientifically) to be more extreme in France than Germany
This seems like it could be useful for UWB communications or a very precise radar. Is it easy to generate an EM impulse with similar bandwidth? I guess the difficulty is to do all signal processing in the optical domain, since it's impractical to digitize all of that spectrum.
After noticing how hard it was to create shots on Dribbble without the proper tools (e.g. After Effects), I decided to work on a tool to create animated mockup videos and GIFs on the web, for free. Using FabricJs I added a fully interactive canvas, and I thought I might as well add the option to add textboxes and images for more complex designs.

I've also open sourced the code, so if anyone wants to create something similar or expand on the concept you are completely free to (and encouraged to!) :)
Considering the person who is surrounded by the best experts, and should be in charge, spends his press conferences contradicting what those very experts just said minutes ago, we are kind of forced to listen to other people who have access to the best knowledge here, and that’s usually the wealthy.
The title is misleading.

The price hikes, however, came months before the coronavirus outbreak morphed into a global pandemic, and well before physicians and scientists came to believe chloroquine might prove an effective treatment.

In the past two weeks, Rising Pharmaceuticals slashed the price in half as interest in the drug erupted.

A false news title is worse than pharma companies jacking up prices.
I would not be surprised if the pay increase is a preemptive move prevent unionization. But then again, could just be real increase in demand.
I hadn't thought of that - I'll into the idea of musicians named "candyman" in the tracker scene.

Thanks for the lead, and for having a listen of the track !
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I'm looking for some references on past research that has been done which tries to predict how long a pandemic would last based on various factors like source of the outbreak, vaccination available or not, nature of the virus, etc. This research could be based on pandemics that have plagued our society in the past.

Any research papers on the same or reference links would be highly appreciated on this topic.
The virus, in some ways, has given them the opposite of leverage. The labor market is and will be flooded with laid off workers.
The virus has given them no such thing. These are only temporary measures meant to stem attrition because Amazon set a policy of unlimited UPT until the end of the month for anyone sick... as soon as that's no longer necessary, there will be mass layoffs and pay cuts across the board.
You are absolutely right that the early phase of logistic growth is practically indistinguishable from exponential growth. As to what extent this observation is useful when applied to the current situation, I don't know – I am a mathematician, not an epidemiologist. But as a rough guide to aid understanding, I think it probably has some merit.
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maybe it's time for you to realize that an authoritarian capitalist state is no better.
> How is CarPlay or AA anymore distracting than having a tiny phone screen on your dashboard?

I don't think anyone is making that argument.

The argument is that you shouldn't be using your phone via any interface while driving, because it isn't safe.
You will still eat the worms, not that it is necessarily a bad thing. When I go fish in the south of Norway I see these worms in maybe 1 out of 10 fish I catch. I personally don't eat them but I don't think it's unhealthy as long as they are dead.

Considering health and seafood, I'd be much more worried about is eating Norwegian farmed salmon, that stuff is poison [1]. The amount of toxins has not go down since this article was warning Norwegians.

I never touch it myself and the wild fish you catch close to the mares are monsters compared to the fish that does not consume leftovers from feeding the salmon.

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https%3... (Google translate)
There are many ways to make bread. If you got a technique that doesn't require preheating, that's fine, it's yet another way to make a particular kind of bread.

I will not say that your bread isn't good. However, if you want great crust and oven spring using dutch oven while baking in a home oven, a preheat is a good idea and it works.

I preheat at max temp, 500F for 1 hour with the empty dutch oven inside. Here's a good recipe that I've used recently, it's beginner friendly and uses common flours (King Authur bread and whole wheat blend)... https://www.theperfectloaf.com/simple-weekday-sourdough-brea...
There is a video here by an M.D. who sells nothing but books on nutrition and donates the profits to charity; the page includes links to all the papers he cites
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/chronobiology-how-circadian...
I'm wondering how long it will take everyone to be at capacity for toilet paper. I mean I can fill entire rooms with it but then it physically gets in the way. There has to be a point of diminishing returns soon.
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Is there a reason why China hasn't done massive randomized blood testing in the city of Wuhan, to see what the real spread was? Surely that is data they would desperately want.

We know their infections were radically beyond the 80,000 they claim. For exmaple we know they changed their qualifications in late January / early February, to hide infection numbers by dropping non-severe results (which produced a fake taper off in their case expansion at that time). However, it would be an immense service to the world, if we could find out just how widespread the virus really is in populations. If anyone could do a million blood tests in a short amount of time, it would be China.

Did herd immunity help China bring the outbreak under control in Wuhan, because it had hyper spread there? It's crazy that we still don't know basic things like this.

Has Italy really had 500k-1m cases of it, not 47,000? Such that it took that many cases in the general population, most undocumented, to generate the ICU overload they're seeing.

It changes everything about how we handle the virus over the coming months, if it has already spread in large numbers across the population. Some large population country with a lot of infections needs to do this asap. China, US, France, Spain, Italy, Germany. Even Switzerland at this point might give us the data we need. Do they really have 60,000 cases, rather than 6,000?
Mortality and R0 will be inversely correlated viruses that excel at killing the host will be contained by the hosts dying rather than infecting many others.

Also the natural selection on viruses would result in them evolving into less deadly forms because those would be the ones that get more wide spread.

Other factors like long incubation and infectiousness are also often inversely correlated the incubation period is the time when the virus replicates while remaining mostly asymptomatic which often means for airborne viruses it’s also a period when the host isn’t particularly infectious.
If Amazon wanted to win immediate trust and lasting goodwill, they should secure suppliers for "Amazon's choice" cotton surgical masks, providing priority service to hospital systems in regions of need, but also (publicly), their own warehouse and delivery workforce. They have the leverage, analytics, and supply chain to make it happen.

Edit: We need to provide enough masks so that people don't feel like they are depriving the hospital system. Also, we need more corporations in America to step up and set an example, protecting their workers and customers. People should stay home, but when they have to venture out (or are needed for work), they should be wearing masks!
There is apparently one trial beginning now: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/21/818759617/i-wanted-to-do-some...

Per current rules, there's 14 months of monitoring involved before it is considered safe.
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"fermented sea salt"

Might be effective in some way but there's a heavy dose of wackadoo there. US patent 88,819,662 doesn't seem to exist either.
I believe context is needed, so here is Bill Gates:

"Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it."

Either that means a biometrics being signed by 3rd parties or a chip being signed by 3rd parties. At best there are major privacy concerns.

But things get weird elsewhere when you have developers talking about "anonymously" tracking people for purposes of identifying contacts. Just because you swap IDs with something random doesn't make it anonymous or safe.

"Shit like this is why im a developer." - we have plenty of talent and a plethora of bad ideas
People are getting laid off from every other job left and right I would be surprised if they have the leverage you think they do. The increase in pay for people working through this is to compensate for the perceived risk of getting sick which is different than a shortage of workers. When you have record numbers of people applying for unemployment you can certainly replace striking workers quickly and with the current situation there would be zero sympathy from the public over a union causing that kind of mess.
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This doesn't validate the idea, if that's what you're implying.

To be necessarily negative, this sort of product has appeared countless times. It fills a need that people just don't have. I have four kids, a wife, a dog, a skinny pig and a bearded dragon. I can internalize shopping lists, as does my wife. It is incredibly rare that we even send reminders to each other of things. The idea of creating and managing an inventory system is just a complete non-starter.
CPAP machines are probably still needed more in this pandemic, there will be a lack of them as well, and having more available will save lives. (I'm not a doctor.) AFAIK they've run out of even basic medical oxygen delivery capacity in many places in Italy, which is even simpler than CPAP.
That site demonstrates the erratic nature of current data. For instance, their source data for Nevada is https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiMjA2ZThiOWUtM2FlNS0...

At the moment of this comment that data says that ~2500 tests have been performed and ~2700 people have been tested. Perhaps those numbers were transposed. Maybe there is a simple, explainable mistake. But all the numbers everywhere are so full of errors, it makes casual statistical analysis just a fancy form of home entertainment at the moment.
The electronics and software would be a critical component as well. It really wouldn't cost that much to develop the software/hardware or even the electronics as microchips are now often cheaper than an equivalent set of discrete analog components. The _real_ costs in any medical equipment is passing FDA (or equivalent European) certifications.

The most plausible way to handle these situations would be to have "pre-authorized" set of plans, bill of materials (or qualified components), and manufacturing process. Critically there would need to some sort of checklist and verification process to verify the equipment (preferably able to be performed by a third-party with minimal training). A consortium of FDA, WHO, etc worked with a established non-profit organization could design a set of plans and procedures for "emergency medical equipment". Then the entire world could be prepared for such emergencies, and possibly double as lower cost equipment for developing nations.

Likely established manufacturers would lobby hard against such measures (why would hospitals pay $50-60k for a ventilator when these "open plan" units only cost $1k?). There would also be questions of reliability of such devices. These issues could be mitigated by authorizing use of such equipment only during state of emergencies. This would make sense as such equipment would possibly be of lower (or just uncertain) quality compared to normal devices. But the laws allowing for this would need to be passed, and again, that's the difficult part. The technology/manufacturing/3d printing is almost inconsequential _without_ appropriate legal infrastructure in place.
I'm guessing this is a ymmv type situation. I personally find navigation to be by far the most stressful part of driving. I have a bad tendency to flip binary directions like left/right, east/west, etc. when I first had my license (before navigation apps for your smartphone really existed), I had to spend a lot of my cognitive budget trying to remember whether the turn at X St was a right or left and not paying as much attention to the evolving situation on the road. I'm always willing to miss an exit/turn if I notice it too late or there isn't room to merge safely. if anything, I'm more willing to miss a turn in an unfamiliar area when I know the nav system will automatically find a new route.

this probably varies depending on your spatial reasoning skills. my brother can take a quick look at a map and remember the connectivity of all the major roads and then navigate from memory. whenever I try this, I end up in a stressful loop of miss turn -> find place to pull over to look at map -> miss turn again. stress has a comparable impact to driving safety as distraction in my experience.
I once had my mom complain to me that nothing on her phone was working properly and discovered that it hadn't been restarted in something like ten months.
That's fair, but this is exactly the sort of issue that needs to be orchestrated at a higher level. If Illinois handles this perectly somehow, but the surrounding states do not, then Illinois' efforts will be wasted and overcome by the neighbors. There's no way this sort of problem will be resolved without the entire country being on the same page for the solution. That's exactly the sort of thing the federal government is good for.
There is no future for eBay other than in the belly of someone larger, and soon.

Why is that the only option? What's wrong with a stable, profitable company staying a stable, profitable company?