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Corona Helper
Hello all,

Lots of people are having problems due to the corona virus. There are lots of people who are willing to help and are attempting to organise on makeshift facebook groups. I was hoping that something could be done to connect them more efficiently so we can all get through Corona.

Here is an idea for an app:

* On one side a user can post their need (such as: I am out of pasta/nappies and there are none in the store. Could someone check on my grandma, I have a burst pipe but there is no one around to help) along with their location.
* On the other side people who are willing to help can post their location and info such if they have a car or extra supplies
* Both users will post if they have been exposed to Corona or not. (this could go on for 12-18 months so people can show if they already have immunity etc)
* The users can message each other.
* This can be implemented worldwide using post codes/zip codes etc.
* Some things like safeguarding and protecting vulnerable people from exploitation will need to be worked out - but I'm sure solutions can be found.

To build this we will need:
* Backend Developers (Python/Ruby etc)
* Frontend (Javascript)
* iOS developers
* Android
* UX
* DevOps
* A project manager
* Anyone else with skills they can bring to the table.

I've set up a discord server https://discord.gg/YQgZvfr - please join if you have some time to spare and would like to help.

(if you could upvote and comment on this post to keep it bumped it would be most appreciated).
It’s missing a component for minimum 15-degree seat recline and minimum leg room consistent with the largest leg room available in emergency exit row in economy cabin, not subject to shrinkage.
Did you miss the section starting "Yet flexibility was not what Jerome and his lab found when they tried to get an E.U.A. for their COVID-19 test." ? I don't know how else to read that. It's paragraphs and paragraphs of evidence detailing the bureaucratic mess.
No availability at all is worse than availability at a high price.
The problem isn't national vs private companies. It's monopolies vs true competition. Any monopoly or oligopoly is inefficient by nature, and tend to become corrupt over time. National companies are monopolies. Incorrectly privatized national companies is just transferring a monopoly from one party to another.

Privatization done right can work. But you need to break up the big national companies into smaller regional companies that should be incentivized to expand into each others regions, thus providing competition.
I'm also not 100% convinced that it isn't something psychosomatic. The whole situation is very tense and that reflects physically. The fact that even in Germany testing isn't an option doesn't help. I stay mostly home and and it seems that the situation is improving. I hope you'll also soon feel better!
I don't think anyone on this thread read the article. They are taking over houses bought for the 710 extension that will never be built. I say, if moving into a house helps keep it nice, let them. This sounds cheaper than housing subsidies the county pays. Furthermore, if the kids are being taken care of that's a good thing. Those kids are less likely to grow up and rob and end up in prison @50k per year in cost to the taxpayer.
Question for anyone who read the book: Does it make sense for an amateur C++/Python programmer to read it? Thanks.
I understand some folks may find this helpful but I'd rather not normalize working from my phone.
This is definitely the key point, I think. Accuracy begets velocity.
I'm wondering if that was a constant 40 microwatts, and if that could be stored in capacitors so that every 4-5 seconds (the refresh rate of the panel) there would be enough energy accumulated to power the circuitry for an update.
> “We hypothesize that a bird nest might effectively be a disordered stick bomb, with just enough stored energy to keep it rigid,”

I've had the pleasure of seeing a golden eagle's nest on a mountain top up close and personal, and it was absolutely stunning how meticulous and clean it was. It shocked me. It wasn't a stick bomb at all, it felt organized and roomy, the surfaces were flat, the ambiance was relaxing. The thing felt downright designed and engineered.
An interactive web-based dashboard to track Covid-19 in real time
Well, you gotta follow the market, right? If they want mobile, then you'll have to give them mobile, lest they not buy from you. What is terrifying about that, except for not wanting to change?
When the US government bails out those airlines, they're using taxpayer moneys to do so. To be fair, if this bailout does result in a return, then you could view it as a government investing its tax revenues in profitable investments, sort of like a sovereign wealth fund. However, this viewpoint requires a level of trust in the government to act as a responsible steward of its tax coffers for the betterment of its people which frankly isn't there in today's political climate. With the level of mistrust towards the US government and megacorps, any bailout seems like the elites using taxpayer money to build a safety net for themselves that the average citizen doesn't have. It ultimately isn't a problem with the numbers in the books, but with pent up discontent in the minds of the public over these past decades about how society just doesn't seem to be in their best interests anymore. If you yourself aren't helped by the government when hard times hit, why should the elites get any help, regardless of whether benefits will trickle down to you?
Yes, at least in France. They passed (or merely announced?) a number of measures so that SMEs don't collapse due to treasury problems: postponed/cancelled taxes and contributions, paid time off for the staff without the usual delays, etc.

As I understood they took example on what Germany did in 2008, and learned from what worked over there. Whether all countries do the same is another story altogether, but at least in France they might save a good number of jobs (by inflating the public debt, but that's a separate issue).
Corporate media is being completely silent on this or have I missed any coverage?
If this approach works (and it's a big if) you'll still be vulnerable as a society for any flare-ups of the virus. The only long-term solution is to build up herd-immunity and spread it out enough to 50-60% of the population until we have developed a vaccin.
That notwithstanding, rather decent of you to post the non-paywalled link. Thank you.
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It helps. There is a place and a time for clever language. You don't have to make complex topics more complicated with language.

If you are a government service, you will serve people who are not native speakers.
Send home all the elderly people and anyone with a preexisting condition. Most people will get sick anyone. Vaccines take a least a year to make. Elon is openly saying people are overreacting
I thought they meant "wrong" as in "deviate from pure ideals of capitalism". But I agree that these pure ideals are wrong in a social/ethical/risk management sense.
Fancy name, dude, but a lot of people would rather sleep in.
I honestly don't know why there's a downvote function to begin with. I cannot downvote (yet?), but I wouldn't use it if I could. In the case that I disagree with someone and I happen to be knowledgeable on the subject at hand, I'll write them a reply if I have the time to do it. What downvoting does, instead, is fostering polarization and bias, on top of silencing controversial comments that could very well be absolutely sensible and truthful.
So you think it's OK for a business to knowingly take actions that are likely to kill people, as long as they really need the money? Thank God most of modern society disagrees with you.
We're in agreement!

Unfortunately, I think it's going to take wholesale misuse of the data of large swathes of the population that dwarfs the reach of Equifax and the sensitivity of ashley Madison while effecting at least a couple ultra wealthy public names, to get sane consumer data protection laws with teeth and enforcement.
> In other words, all it would do is prevent the type of activities that Trump finds personally threatening, without restraining him at all.

In other words, the president wants a check on the amount of power the executive branch can exercise. That is all I said. The sorts of activities it would prevent is irrelevant. If the set of activities allowed in the president's desired bill is a subset of those allowed previously, my statement would be true.
Call me skeptical.

The details in this article are insufficient to draw many conclusions. There is no paper, although a YouTube video (in French) is linked. The article doesn't make it clear whether Raoult was being interviewed, or the information was taken from the video.

The linked Google Doc (not regarding the study in question, despite another comment on this thread) summarizes results from other purported studies. Even then, this document itself appears to lack the usual signs of authenticity.

Be careful about drawing conclusions because the details just aren't there. Details are everything in drug discovery.

Edit:

Then there's the vague language in the article.

> “We were able to ascertain that patients who had not received Plaquenil (the drug containing hydroxychloroquine) were still contagious after six days, but of those that had received Plaquenil, after six days, only 25% were still contagious.”

"Contagious" means nothing because AFAIK, there is no test for it. There is a PCR test being used around the world to detect the presence of viral RNA. So it's suspicious that an expert would be using the word "contagious," which implies the ability to transmit the virus under experimental conditions.

And it gets worse.

Have a look at the video linked in the article:

https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/coronavirus-diagnosti...

First, it begins with a title that doesn't match the title of the speaker's slide deck.

Second, judging from the slides the video appears to be about COVID-19 testing in general. There doesn't seem to be anything of substance about chloroquine anywhere. I don't speak French, so maybe there is something there. If so, the slide deck doesn't reflect it. And there's no way that a successful clinical trial of a COVID-19 drug would begin with basic introductory slides that everyone already knows.

This just doesn't add up. I'm calling bullshit.
> Having cash on hand is independent of being a lean company.

Having cash on hand is leaving money on the table - you could put it to use in something that makes you grow, or lose to a competitor that does. It's a different thing than lean manufacturing, but same forces cause both.
There was enormous government intervention - the military industrial complex basically revitalized the entire economy.

And America didn't even want to join until we were attacked first, even with the threat the nazis posed.

This was all happening in the middle of the new deal, one of the most significant, major government bailouts in all of american history, fundementally defining america as a welfare state.

And what do you call the huge amount of sacrifice by employers taking lowered productivity by sending workers to be remote? Companies that have declared they'll continue paying workers even if business gets shut down? What do you call the enormous social effort to get people to understand social distancing and flattening the curve? Did the populace even know what those terms were a couple weeks ago? What about the thousands of students packing up and going home, evacuating campus while their graduation ceremonies that they've been looking forward to for 4 years are cancelled? And do you seriously think that in all of america during world war two, nobody was a bad person that didn't accept pain or sacrifice, or even actively make things worse? What about jsut a few years before int he spanish flu when government stupidity led to the streets of philadelphia being filled with corpses because people didn't want to call off a parade? What about all the nazi sympathizers and eugenecists in the US that supported hitler? If your bar for "society is just and moral" is that literally no idiots hold a saint patricks day parade out of 360 million people, we've never been at that bar. The only constant through history has been people with superiority complexes on the side moralizing about how people used to be so much more moral (just like themselves of course) in the good old days, and how much society has decayed today.
To revisit your earlier statement:

> The provenance of a company has nothing to do about the market regulation of the buyer country of residence.

If a law is selectively enforced against foreign entities, provenance suddenly does matter. That is my only point. It undermines the spirit of free trade and invites retaliation, leaving everyone worse off.
That’s the least bit of malpractice I’ve seen in the past year.
Java 7, 8, and 11 are the Long Term Release (LTS) versions, that are getting patched every 90 days. Support to 2025'ish for them. With 9+, all the other versions get a 6 month life span, with new features in each and heavy deprecation/dropping of older bits with each short term cut. 9+ is fairly backward compatible with each other. 8 to 9 required a bit of finesse for things like JAXB and other things dropped from the 'core' into external libraries.

At least our shop made it to JDK 11. Next LTS version is 17, which is a while out.
9/11 was a terrible thing for sure. Think a little bit about why it might have happened. How many thousands of people have died as a direct result of American intervention in the middle east, or do lives not matter unless they're American? How much cultural and economic regression and political instability have the military inverventions caused? All with super dubious justification pre-2001. How would that not provoke some kind of extremely violent response? Maybe without the intervention there wouldn't have been a response?

Nah mate, pushing past the knee-jerk reaction of fear takes too much effort, empathy is too hard, my life is easy and thinking about what my lifestyle costs other people is too unpleasant. Just slap a terrorism label (or maybe 'think of the children', or maybe 'war on drugs', or...) on it and call it a public license to go round fucking up cultures/demographics/human rights/geopolitical regions with impunity.

I'm not the one playing bullshit word games.
The Apollo Guidance Computer and the hack that saved Apollo 14
I'm really tired of being called a fascist for wanting to live in a country with boarders.

You certainly didn't misapprehend the narrative this article is trying to push. I don't think immigration enforcement should stop as a result of the pandemic, if anything we should be even more determined to discourage illegal entry.
I feel like those models take china into it. A place with high levels of smokers and pollution. When the dust settles I doubt 2 million old people will die.
Yeah, I'd recommend using the `-p $pid` option when you can. Not just because it doesn't need to scan all of /proc, like the -c[ommand] or default mode do, but also because it doesn't suddenly start listing other processes when you're in monitor mode.

That said, sometimes it is nice to see the other commands pop up in monitor mode. For example, when the rate suddenly drops in a command that you care about then the other output will often show the culprits for you to `kill -STOP`.
You're forgetting half of assassinated presidents. Nobody cares about President Garfield and President McKinley, it seems.
No. Most companies do that and they do crash because of that. The market doesn't care about survival of any individual company.
Upvoted based on the authors (and will definitely be reading)...

Titus is both on the C++ standards committee and did a ton of work working on C++ style and core libraries when I was there.

Hyrum was the king of large-scale refactoring and had (IIRC) more than billion lines of code changed and millions of CLs submitted across all of google by the time I left.
Search engines aren't selling peanuts clearly marked as store-brand; they're showing information most users presume is in descending order of relevance.
I guess the problem with with riders and such. If someone adds their own pork to the keep murder illegal bill, it could cause issues. But I think that is a case of pork being the problem, as it also causes issues with many other sorts of bills.
I recently switched key layouts and learned to properly touch type at the same time using keybr.com and a game called Typing of the Dead
Not to mention a lot of the open source stuff at Google like Chromium or Android is very readable.
The article links to that research too: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTi-g18ftNZUMRAj...

Under: "US academic study concurs" half page.
> vi. Gas stations and auto-supply, auto-repair, and related facilities;

Isn't it auto supply or related?
Agreed. Very much inclined to read the straight-to-the point material.
It is more oriented to teaching, so it's more classroom style: there is a main presenter and many listeners, it had a whiteboard, things like these. It's quite feature-packed, while Jitsi is maybe more minimal.
Have you seen/tried DPT-S1/DPT-RP1 and if you have, what are your thoughts including compared to reMarkable, because I've been looking at these tablets for many many years now (There's even DPT-CP1 now). But because they are all very costly, it's really hard to decide, I did buy DPT-RP1 for ~800€ but because of the high price, I returned it.

Also, how often do you need to buy new tips, or do they not wear out? I'm asking because the ones for DPT family are designed in such a way that they wear out. I guess I've always been more on the DPT side, because it's made by Sony, which gives me a feeling of confort, you know, a company with long history.

If price wasn't an issue, which would you prefer.
rM2 does look much more refined and it is half the price of DPT-RP1 (the Sony website does list the price at ~600$ but sadly the reality is that if you want to buy that in the EU the price is approximately:

EU_price = base_price + (base_price*0.22))

And of course the shipping...

I really hope rM2 turns out to be an amazing product, because the digital paper market feels very stagnant at the moment.

I would love to hear more of your experiences with the device.
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This is so lovely to see! ZZT got me into programming in a very holistic, human, way. I'm happy that it's being explored.
Same discussion coming up in Germany, although there have been voices for years now saying that the only way to stop the decades-long decline of the German railway network is to nationalize Deutsche Bahn again (also privatized in the 90ies).
>I'm not a fan of the banks, they were encouraged to loan to risky borrowers, people who bought as much as they could with little more than a pulse.

There is so much to unpack in this sentence, this alone could be a book about the financial/housing collapse.

Yes, in Clinton's years the banks lobbied and successfully had regulations rolled back so they could underwrite loans on stated income from broker applications. For purposes of culpability/intent, look no further than these lobbying efforts (I am skipping the other deregulations they successfully lobbied for: 103% financing/nothing down/adjustable rate mortgages).

With these new rules its fair to say banks encouraged brokers to in turn encourage borrowers to make up numbers because now they would not be verified.

When it all blew up, the banks blamed the borrowers for lying on mortgage applications, making themselves out to be the victims.
You and I probably move in different circles. I love cooking and am pretty serious about good food, so my bar must be high. But I know less than 10% people who can make good meals.
I absolutely agree. Not only can Web Components simplify web development and lower the barrier to entry, they can also bridge the gap between frameworks and the modern modular web.

As a developer who works in an enterprise environment, frameworks like React and Angular are our boon and bane. Beyond the advertised features, they are amazing at providing repeatable patterns for developers and offer structure to large and small projects alike. And in my experience, they have proven to be significantly smaller, more performant, and more maintainable than the vanilla JS apps that were being delivered to clients previously. Also, it is because of legacy browsers that we still need all the features these libraries and frameworks provide. Many of our clients are just now moving away from IE 10 and 11, and tools like these have kept us all sane.

So we take the cost of learning frameworks, bundling through webpack, and being tied into proprietary ecosystems, because the trade off is worth it to us when our focus is delivering value to the business and functionality to our customers.

Enter Web Components. Trying to maintain branding, coherent styles, accessibility, and a cohesive user experience across an entire enterprise can be a huge undertaking. Common component libraries help, but the multiple frameworks used throughout a company can result in duplicated and triplicated work. Web Components offer us the promise of creating these assets once and including them in any application we build, regardless of framework. And since they are spec compliant and framework agnostic, changing to a new framework--or no framework--in the future doesn't have the added cost of rewriting every component to match the new lib/framework API.

To address some other comments here, it's worth discussing who controls the specs, and what's the right path for the future of the web, but we still have to develop for the world we live in today.
U.S. Halts Visas for Mexico’s Seasonal Farm Workers
There are 100 shares in the market
I have $100 in cash, and $100 of Assets.
My Company is worth $200

If I pay a $1 ps dividend, then the share price should halve, and the share owners get $1 each.

If I buy back 50 shares, at $2 each, there will be 50 shares left at a value of $2 each. But now my earnings/share goes up as if by magic, and my options are worth more than in the dividend case.

Also capgains vs income tax yada yada
I actively avoid clicking on links pointing to techcrunch because they put up a geowall asking me to let them track me. Ban it!
>Patients were given 600mcg per day for 10 days.

Did they really mean micrograms or is this a mistranslation of milligrams? 600mcg is much lower than any dose I've heard of for other conditions.
IF you are i the US employees may be eligible for unemployment immediately even if employed with full/cut/zero hours. Not super helpful to you as the owner unless you can also apply but could make a shutdown easier on staff.
It's extremely similar, and even looks better out of the box, IMO.

When gitbook moved (rather poorly - there was a lot of confusion on what would happen to the old codebase) to a service, mdbook is what I switched over to, and I'm glad I had been forced to look for an alternative to gitbook.

Haven't really done anything with Rust, but having been bitten once, my research suggested they'd be unlikely to drop mdbook anytime soon.

Edit: example GitLab-hosted book: https://gitlab.com/strivinglife/book-git-commands
We are seeing inter-country information warfare.
Now I understand why the Stark Trek people used to have dozens of tablets ;-)
> It is entirely possible for all of that to be true and for smacktoward's suspicion — that Moonchild's primary problem with Web Components is that they work poorly in Pale Moon and it would be a lot of trouble to fix that — to be true.

It is not true

for the simple fact that the next milestone release (v29) of pale moon will support WebComponents

> Neither of those really even contradict what smacktoward said, much less disprove it.

smacktoward repeats the same tired oversimplifications that PM is just "rebased itself on mainline Firefox circa Firefox 52" both my links prove that the above statement is fundamentally wrong.