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>Every other virus that comes from a place gets named after it.

This isn't true at all. No one is really worried about racism with regard to COVID-19, and instead, we're all very focused on health and safety. Injecting politics into this is distracting and unhelpful.
"The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association asked Congress on Thursday to allocate $100 billion to help health-care personnel and providers, including physicians, nurses and hospitals, respond to the new coronavirus, according to a letter on the hospital association’s website."

(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-ba...)
it should be, it isn't properly, we can try and fix that after we have helped people.
I'm really glad to see you back in action! I was so sad when ScreenHero shuttered. May I ask what makes this time different from ScreenHero in terms of running a sustainable business?
It's funny how we've come full circle from using CSS the way it was intended to be used to that being "considered harmful" and now we have the Javascript framework equivalent of < img src="spacer.gif" />, an anti-pattern I was using back in 1999.

The reality is that frontend is messy, browsers are still inconsistent with respect to how they treat CSS, and creating new layers of abstraction to handle trivial considerations like adding space on a display are just a way of denying that reality by fixing something that isn't broken.

Creating new, completely useless components to "bring us closer to how designers think" completely flies in the face of separating view from the program layer. And in my experience, "designers think" everyone has a 27" Thunderbolt display, or now increasingly a Pro Display XDR, so I wouldn't really put too much stock in what they think. If you disagree, I would propose spacer.gif as a much more succinct and widely accepted alternative to all the harm being done here.
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The point of Markdown is to be legible as plain text, without being run through a rendering engine. Rendering engines are a bonus, but not required. Based on the samples shared, ASCII Doc is hard to read without a renderer (just like HTML). I appreciate being able to use a simple, well thought out set of conventions to facilitate writing in plain text files. Markdown isn’t perfect, but it helps make plain text documents a little more readable, especially when dealing with hyperlinks.
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Potential directions of thought: Offer a series low cost test pilot class which allows potential students to take a single test course at MIT. The professors double as recruiters, they get to see them thinking.
Most mainstream media were using "Wuhan Virus" or "Chinese Virus" before switching to "novel coronavirus" and finally the scientific name (after it was decided). The switch probably happened about the same time as Trump started referring to it on Twitter and in his speeches, as mainstream media tried to distance themselves from the President and use whatever name he was using as another way to criticize him. It's now become another full-blown front in the Culture War, with many SJWs attempting to even rename Spanish Flu on Wikipedia!
I mean, the midlands are more pastoral than places like London. You will find the same community cohesion, including volunteer fire departments and (often church-based) benevolent associations, in most rural parts of America.

American cities on the other hand, like most cities, do often lack community cohesion.
As long as the converted html is provided for the reader, markdown is perfect
The definition of graceful graph is wrong. Edges E_{i,j} should have unique values as well, i.e. {E_{i,j}} = {1, 2, ..., n}. Otherwise it's trivial to label every graph into a graceful graph.
I loved those books as a kid. He brought a lot of happiness to a lot of people with his work.
I guess it could be like, in oxygen-poor places, animals are more likely to evolve to need less oxygen. Some (all that we know of so far) will do this by adapting to extract oxygen more efficiently and to use less energy, and others might do it like this parasite, by finding ways to extract energy directly from a host.
They have almost all received a text message by now. (A few are being reached by other means.) I know a couple of people that have received them, they’re pretty serious.
CSS grid is a lifesaver, but grid-gap does not replace margin unless you have a very regular design.
Still sad that Slack killed ScreenHero. Why this time will be different?

I feel it’s like 1 step forward and 2 steps back kind of thing.
The government needs to provide PPEs for volunteers, this should be a must.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/advice-fo...
What is wrong with you... Markdown is structured enough to be ingested by a parser. You can input or output Markdown from and into any other structure you prefer... :D
To be fair, all health systems seem to currently be relying on charity to deal with this crises.
We’ve heard this feature request a few times, so it’ll likely make its way into the product soon.
It means minimum distance. A key feature is margin is it can collapse. So if paragraphs have 1rem between them, and headings have 2rem above and 1rem below, you won’t wind up with 3rem between the paragraph and the following heading. Padding adds together, and space mechanisms seem like overkill when css can already do the thing in a straightforward way.

What’s befuddling to me about these threads is that they keep trying to make an absolute case. It’s true, I use margin less now that I have grid gap, but there’s still a place for it.
> the U.K. seems to have a community cohesion that we don’t have much in the US (many rescue services are non profit and operate exclusively with volunteers for example)

Counter-example: I thought the majority of fire and rescue people in the US were volunteers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_fire_department#Unit...
Most of them target big companies. It makes a very different product.

I have a fun story with Wombat: I tried to use the product in my previous company (100 employees), had 4 different calls, with 4 different sales persons, during 2 months. At the end they just forgot about me.
My wife is part of a Mom's group based in the bay area. One of the mom's in that group (who happens to be Taiwanese), wrote a post about how she was a victim of statements along the lines of
a) "It is funny you want to practice social distance when it is you folks who brought the virus here"
b) "How dare you show your face here during this time..."

And this was by the folks working at the checkout counter (with passive support from other shoppers there).
IMHO calling it Chinese / Wuhan virus opens the gate to these kind of hate crimes to become common place.

My wife, who is Asian, is terrified to go shopping.
Of course: https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
World War 2 killed only 0.3% of Americans. When 3% of Americans die, you will lose your job, there's a very good chance you will lose your home, and good luck having a normal life.
I don't understand how your second sentence logically follows the first. Where does the "significant" adjective come from?
> It's too late to do anything about what's coming

On one side we have health officials saying "for the love of god, keep the barriers up".

On the other, we have politicians saying "we waited as long as we can, send in as many people as we need to sweep up the supercritical plutonium, it 'won\'t make a difference now' if the PPE isn't there".

Who is to say who is right?
Study of 2019-NCoV Vaccine (MRNA-1273) to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection
The quest for absolutes makes a lot of sense to me. I understand they are rare, but when we find them they're a godsend. We have to consider so much at once and there's so many ways to do the same thing that having an absolute can make things much easier.
A country in crisis calls for volunteers and you're saying 'no don't help stay home'?
Literally everything counts as censorship nowadays, huh? This isn't hiding the origin or making it privileged information. This is to help curb irrational fears against a certain area. What's funny is that this change in naming convention started within the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Nombre_orthohantavirus

Discovered in 1993 near the Canyon del Muerte on the Navajo Reservation, it was originally named the Muerto Canyon hantavirus, in keeping with the convention for naming new pathogens.[2] However, the Navajo Nation objected to the name in 1994.[3] It was also near the Four Corners point in the United States, so the virologists then tried naming it the "Four Corners virus". The name was changed after local residents raised objections.[4] In frustration, the virologists changed it to Sin Nombre, meaning "without a name" in Spanish.
Sorry, I abused the language. I'd say you have good healthcare but a bad healthcare system.
Then supply more funding. People are being made redundant, this should not be just for a person that is boring being inside.
China should decide the name since they discovered it.
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Does your solution allow for Administrator Escalation assistance on Windows?

Over the past few days we've been transitioning our higher ed staff to working remotely and are able to use Microsoft Teams or Zoom already to see another staff member's screen and walk them through basic things, but if the user needs to install a program, which would normally require admin rights on the machine, it appears that neither of those two solutions allow for that type of assistance from our IT staff.

Does Screen provide a solution for that situation? If so, we can give it a shot with our IT staff ;-).
I also don't see wrong stating the origin of something - French wine, Spanish wine, Chinese virus. I am Bulgarian and on the national TV, everybody calls it "the Chinese virus". There no acts against the many Chinese living in Bulgaria. Even doctors use it - Lyme disease, Marseilles fever, West Nile virus, etc. So, it's a matter of mentality, not how you call the virus. It is the same low-IQ crowd, which discriminate Americns from Chinese ancestry due to some name!
Even after China’s (self?)deception became uncovered, most countries still didn’t act effectively, or (even more bizarre) performed their own form of denial.

Wasting many weeks of runway, then suddenly discovering an emergency due to lack of foresight.

Many citizens knew what was happening, yet somehow our political organisations failed us.
Well, yes. Markdown is the right tool for some documentation. For other documentation, it isn't. Use the right tool for the job.

Markdown is a great format for writing basic HTML documents. It sucks for writing books or complex documents, as Matthew Butterick has argued [0]. But that's only a problem if you try to write books or complex documents in Markdown.

[0]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/second-tutorial.html
I really hope we (the US) conducts a thorough and credible investigation as to who is responsible for this failure to prepare for this crisis.

I don't see how blaming x and y will fix anything but boot out the current bureaucrats. The next time a pandemic happens, the guys who remembered anything in living memory are already dead or retired.

Worse, punishing people when they don't understand or making honest mistakes are going to lead to hiding of their mistakes or incentive not to understand anything.

but I thought the CDC was one of the few government agencies that had its shit together. Apparently they couldn't even be bothered to keep a reasonably stocked reserve of masks and ventilators

It's hard to keep a reserve of masks and ventilators when the higher ups don't think your mission is particularly important and you don't have a budget. Ventilators and masks costs money to store, maintain, and test.

The better solution is to prioritize pandemic preparation and war game pandemic scenario, and conduct an honest investigation to prepare for the future, rather than punish people.
I recommend you also check out Ben Eater.

https://eater.net
https://www.youtube.com/beneater
Couldn't you say the same thing about every non-100%-certain method of protection?
I haven’t been through the process recently, but I believe the i1 Display Pro I have includes optional workflow steps which ask you what controls are available on your display, and gives you a chance to make those kinds of coarse adjustments before building the LUT. For some monitors it can also automate that process via DDC/CI, but I think that’s an extreme minority.
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It's only "1 step forward and 2 steps back" for the users using the product.

For the share owners and everyone involved in the acquisition it's loads of dollars in the bank. So who cares about the users?
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It's certainly not that you're supposed to only say popular stuff. But if you're going to say something unpopular and inflammatory, the burden is on you to do it in a way that isn't destructive of ensuing discussion. If you just post it as raw flamebait and start fires, that damages the container here, which is already fragile. The site guidelines are designed to help us all protect against that: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

In a way, the one who has a contrarian (a.k.a. unpopular minority) view has a greater responsibility—not morally, but practically. If you know some truth that most people don't, that has much greater potency than most information, and you're responsible for how you handle it. If you act like a cowboy and just blare it at people, they will seize up and become less receptive, which discredits the truth and leaves its cause worse off than it was before. So the community interest (not to be destroyed by flamewars) and your personal interest (to express something unpopular in a way that can be heard) actually coincide.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Totally agree. The people who have heard of GNU screen will learn the difference and those that haven't are blissfully unaware.
True, mine is a generalization. However Italian geography also lead to heavy concentration of people in limited areas. Lombardy, the worst hit region, has a population density of 420/km2. Look at this map of Italian geography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy#/media/File:Italy_topogr...
I don't know man, seems like you could do a simple google search and find a ton of references:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/not-just-older-pe...

The virus grows fast so the question is what % of people of a particular category who have it will need an ICU/hospital to prevent their death.
Lots of (most?) programmers don't keep up with the field outside their daily work. It's just a job for them (and that's OK!).
Ohhh, yup, thank you!
(Discussion-wise, the link is a dupe.)

A recent discussion thread on exactly the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22675165
Zing! I see what you did there :D
2019-nCoV was the provisional name, SARS-CoV-2 is the current official name of the virus.
Some of the jobs include telephoning people isolating to check on them, so everyone can help in some way.
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Capitalism isn't the answer for everything we encounter in life. Being human is sometimes required.
You are if you want to spend the entire project fighting the browser.
Don't quote me on this and I don't have a peer-reviewed paper as source, but as far as I know, people can get reinfected after being infected once.
Memory fences and atomics are a part of lock-based code as well. They're just hidden by the locking and notification primitives.
> randomly throw margins, negative margins, and paddings on _everything_ (probably in JS/JSX) in the vicinity of the thing you're trying to position and visually iterate until things looks okay-ish

I wish this were not the case, but having researched the front page HTML of the 10 top trafficked websites during a new framework selection for a client, this is exactly how things are done.
Did you try punitive disincentives?
Anyone disputing this comment has covid, pass it on.
Numberphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5KWzOOhZrw
Useful article and I want to do this but happiness might not be the best utility function
Strong words from a dormant project.
The Government is providing 80% of your pay to anybody not able to work. Self-employed measures are being announced soon. Redundancies are limited in comparison.
Nobody is talking about conflict of interest not because it's an unworthy issue of governance, but because this question has already been tested and America has already answered -- it's okay.
> For example, it feels nice to define margin or padding on a <p> element, but what does that mean - distance between two paragraphs? Between paragraph and heading? Between paragraph and bulleted list? Using spacers seems like the only way out of this madness.

I don't want to be rude but you are completely misunderstanding what CSS and HTML are supposed to do.

1) The <p> tag denotes that the content in the element is a paragraph in the document.

2) The styling is just tell the client (which is typically a browser) how the element is supposed to be styled. It isn't supposed to mean anything in relation to other elements and it isn't supposed to convey meaning.

Generally wherever possible you should try to separate the markup and its styling. You can't always do that, but you should try to.
Maybe they don't want the overhead of interviewing and taking on full employees expecting long-term employment at this time. I don't know if UK employment laws allows this (they are pretty strict) but perhaps they can issue a stipend for temporary volunteers who show up consistently.
>it's a "we don't even have the same mother tongue" difference.

What is wrong with that? Belgium and the Netherlands are successful peaceful multilingual countries.
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Taiwan, which has one of the best medical systems in the world, is heavily reliant on civil society -- which is many things, but one of which is heavy participation by unpaid volunteers. Social capital is a real thing and a valuable thing.
Hah. I'm trying to find a non-dorky way to clip it to my belt. It's my "hey I gotta go to a meeting and take notes but I don't want to mess up my desktop" laptop.
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> The parasite doesn't appear to bother the fish much, she said, but tapioca disease can make its meat unmarketable and also cause the meat to spoil more quickly, making it a nuisance for the seafood industry: "No one wants to eat salmon full of white dots inside."

In a sense this is, in fact, a symbiotic relationship. It's funny that we'd call it a disease, but this bug is a feature.
Not all the jobs are contact, some are delivering medicine or telephoning. Everyone can help in some way.
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate just to hire people and set them to work in the NHS?

It’s way past time the government stopped messing around and just hired all the spare labour - which can then be directed to assist the NHS or directed to stay at home as required.

When there are so many people without work that want it we need to stop QE’ing Gilts and start QE’ing workers hours instead.

All this could be done with an off the shelf PAYE system and a few scripts to generate the BACS file to hand over to the BoE.

It fixes the layoffs, redundancies and the lack of work for the self employed and it will automatically back off when things recover.

Pay people and they spend it - keeping the economic circulation ticking over.
Does Italy have greater seasonal flu mortality than other countries?
I'm glad to see Mozilla giving a bigger platform to this style of revenue generation. Not only is the price reasonable, it's on my favorite web browser.

Brave's BAT has always appealed to me, but the browser's too niche and the UX just isn't there for me. I think Mozilla has the resources to make this realistically become a realistic part of the dialogue with respect to monetizing the web, and only wish that they'd tried it earlier.

I'd like to learn more about Scroll's policies with respect to partner selection before I consider investing however.

The current crop of Scroll's partners is a strong whose who of some of the best and/or most well-known publications available online, but it's a pretty homogenous group. Can I run a web forum that supports scroll? Is membership content gated? Can porn sites join? Would fringe outlets like Project Veritas or Unicorn Riot (I'm not suggesting moral or qualitative equivalence, just notability) be allowed to join if they so chose?

If the Intercept dropped a set of documents that the state or a large interest group disliked, would they lose their (theoretical) membership, or would their funds be witheld?

If I'm going to invest in a service like scroll, I'd like to know that it's an open payment platform which allows for content irrespective of its moral worth provided that its content legal in _my_ jurisdiction (meaning if a foreign country decides to outlaw _x_, my consumption still supports it).

I'm also curious to know if they have any privacy protections in place to divorce my identity from the distribution of my funds at whatever interval.
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Is "cohabitate" used here as an English-English euphemism for sex? It seems so unnecessary given the franker glosses of "to ravish" / "copulation" / "sexual intercourse" / "coition"... but it's given as the gloss for "coire" and "coitus" ("going together"; same thing as "coition"), for "commiscor", which is just the passive of "commisco" ("to copulate"), and for "concumbo" / "concubitus" ("lying together").

And then an adjective derived from "concubitus", concubitalis", is glossed as "copulative".
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I didn't want to put too much forward but truly I'm interested in starting a secular church to capture new parents returning to the church. The main issue is the base organization would have to change. Sermon's would have to become a sometimes activity and we'd have to go back to the small gatherings of "Sabbath school" being the central activity...

But WOW oh Wow is your insight about sport deep and well said. I think that could be the central focus of the group activity. And perhaps communal art and dance could be the primary replacement for the sermon.

There's something there and I can see how focusing on sport makes the idea more palatable to people who aren't naturally open to meditation, yoga, or Buddhism.
The NHS are currently texting and sending letters to everyone classed as at risk. If you're at high risk, you will be contacted by the NHS by Sunday 29 March 2020.
In English:
Every quote you hear on the internet is false. ---Abe Lincoln.