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#1: in context is a clearly forward looking statement, since the text surrounding it speaks of significant testing capacity coming online in the near future. Which it did. Currently labs in e.g. WA (original epicenter of the infection) are operating under capacity: https://twitter.com/UWVirology/status/1241953101076037632. NY is still challenging, but ramped up tremendously since then. I mean, you can armchair quarterback all you want, but those are facts. Capacity was promised, capacity is being delivered.

#2. Yeah, I will concede that this one wasn't the best wording. That's how he deals with clearly partisan hacks in the audience. If you think anybody in his opposition would publicly accept blame for _anything_ you're sorely mistaken. Do I need to remind you what the Congress has spent the entire January and half the February on?

#3. We've been over this.

#4. He's right, they are doing whatever they can to freak people out as much as possible, whether or not there's a reason to freak out. The risk was low to the average American at the time, and at below 150 cases per million it remains so even now. Moreover, if you conservatively (by which I mean all the currently active cases there end in a fatality, which is unlikely) extrapolate S. Korea numbers to 7x the population, you'll end up with fewer than 50K deaths. We could realistically end up in that situation, given that we have a comparable level of medical care, and given that Korea is perhaps the only country for which extensive, reliable test data is available.

#5. He's right. There's a ton of fake news, even from previously reputable sources. So much so in fact, that people are already writing papers about this: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/eci.13222

#6. This is from Jan 22. First case in the US was identified just 3 days before: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191. It did at the time seem that this could be "under control", especially considering that he was planning to shut down flights just 9 days later (something he was called a "racist" for at the time). You can say it ain't so with the benefit of the hindsight, but I bet you didn't think of this much in January, and if I told you several states would be in full lockdown, you wouldn't believe me.

7. In terms of the number of infections per million, the level of response, and the number of fatalities, we are in a "great" shape compared to most other places, including Korea, which is widely acknowledged to be a "success" as far as response measures and containment go. One thing we did fuck up is testing. That's being fixed as quickly as humanly possible: https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/coronavirus-testi...

8. Meh. Weak sauce.

Anything else?
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In Chicago, the stores still have Kleenex, so it can't be too bad out there.
The looting was all opportunistic -- not needs oriented. Nobody starves in 12 hours.

From Wikipedia:

"Looting and vandalism were widespread, hitting 31 neighborhoods. Possibly the hardest hit were Crown Heights, where 75 stores on a five-block stretch were looted, and Bushwick, where arson was rampant, with some 25 fires still burning the next morning. At one point, two blocks of Broadway, which separates Bushwick from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, were on fire. Thirty-five blocks of Broadway were destroyed: 134 stores looted, 45 of them set ablaze. Thieves stole 50 new Pontiacs from a Bronx car dealership.[3] In Brooklyn, youths were seen backing up cars to targeted stores, tying ropes around the stores' grates, and using their cars to pull the grates away before looting the store.[3] While 550 police officers were injured in the mayhem, 4,500 looters were arrested."
I think the idea is that not many people will actually misuse the return policy, and those that do make the tiniest fraction of the returners. Therefore, it's easier just to accept all returns to speed up the returns and eliminate complaints.
Title ahould contain "(2015)" - you'll see the "2015-01-07" date at the bottom.

The original Atreus was programmed with Microscheme, but it has not been that way for a few years at least. TMK was the recommended firmware when I started using one in 2016. Currently you'll see QMK as the defacto. That will likely change this year after the Atreus 2 is released. The kickstarter campaign for it launched one week ago.

Scheme still is used in the project, just not for firmware. The git repo has a scheme program in it to generate a PCB for an Atreus provided one specifies the desired number of rows, number of columns, angle, and column-stagger.
Why should your employer pay you 100% for 50% work? Are customers paying 100% for 50% product? Why should everyone except your peer group take the haircut?
Nobody wants somebody else’s nasty, COVID-covered bag of TP.
Google: No results found for "If you have a stash of masks, we'll be knocking on your door." The query without quotes also doesn’t show any relevant hits on the first two pages.

Also: the Facebook story is from Sunday. It’s not very likely that it is a reaction to a press conference on Monday, is it?

You and all the other Trump supporters should stop making stuff up and/or learn to link to sources at least after being asked repeatedly to provide them.
but also ships bash for interactive use, so #!/bin/bash will just work, which you should be doing anyways in scripts that want bash.
It seems clear that Costco customers are willing to pay higher prices for this feature, though. Costco is not that inexpensive compared to e.g. Sam's Club, a large part of their reputation is based on their excellent return policy and customer service in general.
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If the skeleton of your system starts with these processes in place, then you can evolve the arch while maintaining these invariants. If something is an invariant rule, then it needs to exist at the start of the system's life. If you patch the system later, it won't have proper coherence.
It's hyperselective framing the argument: bork bork Delta-V bork...and let's just ignore the 6 months of travel time and logistics difference as though that doesn't exist. Then I get to be right!
I don't know, man, I "hoarded" 2 months worth of TP: two large packs of 18 "mega-rolls". If I bought enough to fill a room, that'd be like 10 years of TP. I have 2 people in my home, if that helps. Anyone who bought more than ~2-3 large packs was hoarding for resale OR has a huge family.
Refusing refunds has costs too.

Incremental levels of management get involved and sometimes a lawyer. By that point everybody loses. But that's enough for an idiot customer. All on top of lost future sales.

Buying back their unsaleable junk is quick. Costco tracks customers so it's fairly easy for them to track abuse and find a cut off point.
Productivity is going to decrease for the immediate future. That's a given.

I'm sure as a lead you've probably put in your share of unpaid overtime over your career.

It's time to withdraw from that account.

I think it's a major problem in this country (if not many others) that we have to go through this crises yet keep cranking away at work like nothing happened.

Cut yourself some slack. Cut your team some slack (they will appreciate it).

We are all human. This is a world wide crisis. It's NOT business as usual.

Talk to your team, your boss, set reasonable expectations (especially for yourself) or your going to burn out fast.
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Your parent comment meant short-term, "screw you poors, I've got $7000 cash, so buying it ALL" hoarders, who went in with bad faith motives of reselling/gouging and/or returning excess stock when the run has completed its course.
This is often very noticeable because Costco primarily carries name brands. For example, purchasing the large cases of soda at Costco is cheaper than buying the same brand at a grocer, but appreciably more expensive than buying the grocer's store brand. Costco hasn't built their reputation necessarily on being the cheapest, but also on carrying quality brands, so they are often not the cheapest if you compare across brands. This is particularly clear for products like soda where it's not that certain that the name brand is actually any better.
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Iceland’s serology will be interesting to follow.
This is absolutely the stupidest story ever. The journalists that are promoting it are doing Trump a favor because it’s this type of deceptive journalism that gives trump and his supporters carte blanche to disregard actual journalism.

This story is about a couple that drank fucking aquarium cleaner.

Not prescription drugs.

It’s a joke.
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There are businesses that buy stock for resale at Costco too. It's usually because the volume they buy is too small for wholesalers to take them seriously. Examples around here are small vending businesses and movie theaters.
At least temporarily, hopefully for some number of years, people's risk assessment philosophy will have changed. Maybe we will start paying attention to global warming and the level of effort needed to avoid catastrophe.
If you are driving along the coast and you hear on the radio some report of a earthquake by the ocean, do you wait until you know how big the tsunami will be or do you just do your best to get the fuck out of there?

Also, how hard is it to understand that if Taleb's argument was turned into action on January 26th (57 days ago!) the number of people being impacted would be an much smaller fraction of what it is today?

Also, today we have a virus that is "only" killing 1% of its people, and you seem to be okay with it. What about the next ones? Do you think we should take a "wait-and-see" attitude for the next epidemic that might turn out to kill 5% of the infected? What if it turns out to kill 10%?
I meant in the case of a visitor to the country who hasn’t purchased a local SIM yet, where the only contact information on the customs form is the hotel’s front-desk number.
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One of the nice things around here is stores like Walmart that sell groceries (so they are considered essential) also sells everything else (such as office paper).
It's not some quirk. There are two common endiannesses, and the byte sort precedence of one of them matches the byte sort precedence we use for text. Since we represent characters as numbers, and for efficiency we have CPU instructions that treat aggregations of these numbers as larger numbers, we can get double-duty out of these instructions/circuits if the order they use is the same as the lexographic ordering of our text.

I'm not saying big-endian is universally better. I'm just saying there are real-world advantages.

Note there are more than two endiannesses, where the most common middle-endian variant is big-endian order of 16-bit words, but little-endian order within those 16-bit words.

As for linguistic quirks, there's no obvious universal connection between writing order for text, the order digits are written, and the way numbers are pronounced, so I'm not sure what you're getting at. Arabic is written right-to-left, but they still write the most significant digit on the left. However, I've read that Arabic writers line-break numbers (when forced) by placing the most significant digits on the upper line and the least significant digits on the lower line, so it's not a clear-cut case of Arabic writing numbers in little-endian order right-to-left. I'm not sure about Arabic number pronunciation. I do know that German pronunciation is middle-endian: 256 is "two hundred six-and-fifty", despite the digit writing order being big-endian in German. I met a German guy who incorrectly swaps digits if you talk to him in English while he's doing mental math... forcing him to process English somehow also swaps digit orders in his head.
But you're not one of googled biggest customers, so.... If you were, your experience night be very different.
In Australia here too.

Supermarkets have introduced limits on the number of toilet roll packets you can buy (which is sensible).

However, last weekend I was at the supermarket when it opened, and I observed something I haven't seen noted elsewhere.

Manufactures seem only to be shipping enormous packages of toilet paper (24 packs). This means people buy 1 packet of 24 rolls, because that is all that is available. These huge packets also take more shelf space, which results in more shortages.

Some smaller, independent supermarkets have taken to re-packaging the rolls into smaller packets, which is a win/win for both the shop and the consumer.

But the manufacturer behaviour is interesting and unfortunate.
I think people just generally have a lot less sympathy for literal Nazis, who the Germans voted into power, and any aggressors in a military campaign. America didn't just nuke Japan out of nowhere, the Japanese opened the door to that when they bombed pearl harbor and attempted to conquer the Pacific.

When the bad guys get what's coming to them, people don't feel so bad about it. And don't pretend civilians are completely innocent in these cases. You blame Americans for voting Trump into power, right? Then you also have to blame Germans for putting Hitler into power, and the Japanese for supporting their leaders' violent colonialism. The conflict was hugely popular on the home front in Japan. Until they started losing, of course.

Japan and Germany were not the victims of WWII.
Warehousing is probably a bigger issue. There aren't a ton of TP packs to the pallet. Even a small percentage of people returning TP can result in there not being enough room to store it and the cost to ship it elsewhere is just too high.
I believe he was referring to the article itself, rather than the quote.
Agree. The fact that I’ve seen this several times posted in HN is very discouraging.
/You also have a misreading of what Ioannidis is trying to push for. He isn't advocating against taking action before good evidence comes out. Rather, he is highlighting that our current lack of good evidence about the epidemic is necessitating a greater reaction than may actually be necessary if we had better evidence./

This is kinda the core problem, though: We don't have access to the full evidence (yet) and things already look somewhere between very very bad and mildly catastrophic. (I'll reserve full catastrophe for Giant Asteroid.) If you don't plan for the 'catastrophic' case and it's on the table, you look pretty bad if the error tends in that direction. By the time you KNOW you're in the catastrophic case, it's too late to deal with it.

I've seen the Ioniaddis pieces showing up in a couple places, and he really comes off as a bit of a crank, more concerned about his Stanford-supported stock portfolio than considering the Actually Available evidence. I don't give a fsck about the initial wrong reports in China... Italy's got overflowing hospitals and a very exponential-looking death curve right now. Not enough testing means we're getting better numbers, leading to a sharp spike... but the numbers are still reflecting mostly the worst cases, coz that's who tests are available to. And the numbers of deaths and very bad cases are climbing very, very fast.

Here's a model you can tweak, with plots of available data and estimates of available hospital beds, etc... Just looking at the death curves (can't hide a body, amirite) the 'Fast/North' scenario looks like it fits well for the US. Moderate-to-no mitigation is then modeled at O(3MM) deaths, and strong mitigation drops to O(1MM). So, the error bars that we're playing with are measured in millions of lives.

https://neherlab.org/covid19/
Costco: the only adults in the room
Not in the bay area(San Jose, Coleman Ave). I was there a few days ago. Not as busy as a pre-covid Costco of course, but the aisles were still busy and only a couple of the shoppers seemed to have any awareness of personal space. When I went to Lucky market today, they at least had blue tape near the checkout to indicate proper spacing(although the guy behind me was oblivious). Costco needs to step it up.

At this point, given how poorly I've seen people respect social distancing, I'm beginning to question its cost to benefit ratio. We are not as disciplined as many other countries.
From what I’ve seen their dev tools internally are incredible- Facebook engineers constantly are saying that github is crazy behind and I’ve witnessed things that they can do that would make that true. Other times... they still have pretty old school hookups and getting stuff provisioned can be a pain (but if you can make a compelling business case this can all change)
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Even Apple gave up on 16:10, for half of their computers. The iMac went 16:9 in 2009. The Cinema Display went 16:10 in 2010, and the recent XDR followed suit. The LG they sold in between was also 16:9. Only the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro remain 16:10.

I'm with you. I much prefer using my older non-Retina 16:10 displays than my newer 16:9 Retina display. Microscopic pixels are nice, but an extra 10% height is huge.
I was also curious. It appears they used Normandy.
From the Mozilla website: "Normandy Pref Rollout is a feature that allows Mozilla to change the default value of a preference for a targeted set of users, without deploying an update to Firefox. This document focuses on the use of Pref Rollout as a mechanism to enable feature flagging in Firefox."

And I see a new Firefox about:config preference:
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The filtration doesn't run out when working with particulates, it actually gets better. The reason you have to replace them is they get too good at filtering and it restricts natural breath (or they get damaged).

In this situation, you assume the mask catches particles containing coronavirus. The mask becomes a biohazard pretty quickly. They could probably be safely disinfected and reused.
50%+ of the US population also uses paper when peeing...
As far as I understand it, changes in a contract require notice, arbitrary or not. I don't believe it's legal for a company to change their contract, in this case stating that something is no longer returnable, after the fact. It still applies after the notice is provided of course.
This isn’t a remote possibility. The California wildfires were real. People were wearing N95 masks last year due to the wildfires. There was even a famous article about a couple who had their engagement pictures taken wearing N95 masks due to the california wildfires, which you could see in the background of the photos. And since global warming is actually a real thing, we could project more wildfires for this year.

It isn’t a “remote” possibility that facebook employees end up needing respirators since it isn’t a “remote” possibility that there will be wildfires again in California this year. That is what is expected to happen.

Although it’s hard to tell what will be the impact of the global shut-downs reducing greenhouse gases on global temperatures this summer (if that will even have any impact so soon).
In my experience, Perl is available everywhere. Some sort of bourne shell is likely available everywhere, but Perl is a safe bet.
(EDIT: actually, some systems have recently started removing Perl from their base I hear... Fedora?)
Does tonic water even have a theraputic dose of quinine anymore?
It isn't just a gimmick, it is a legit feature when working from home and you don't want everyone to see your messy kitchen or bedroom. Sadly the chrome app version you have to use for ChromeOS doesn't support that feature anyway :(
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I could totally imagine them being at capacity and buying more servers for Christmas in October then after Christmas renting the excess out all year (Jan thru dec). Then in October buy more server again, rinse repeat. Sell 2019s Christmas burst servers starting in 2020... How does that not pass the sniff test?

Obviously they wouldn’t pull the rug from folks and spot didn’t exist, but that doesn't mean it didn’t happen that way.
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> The Federal Reserve banks themselves would also make available a digital dollar wallet to any U.S. person eligible for the payments as well.

I'll pass on the stimulus grant then. The chance to de data mined is too high.
Why does playing Fortnite prevent you from taking someone seriously?
Is this really as good as zoom? Zoom's UX is terrible, the only reason it has taken over is because they are better at preserving audio quality and doing echo cancellation than previous contenders.
My exact situation in the midwest as well.
Staple items. Dishwashing liquid. Peanut butter. Even things that I thought only Costco carried, like those dinosaur chicken nuggets (hey, what can I say, I have young kids...). Brand name foods, not "equivalent" items. All cheaper on a per-unit basis at Fred Meyer. And Fred Meyer is most assuredly not the cheapest source of groceries.

Once I started paying attention, I was startled how many things we buy at Costco are actually cheaper at the grocery store.
You say that, but a long time ago I tried to return some toilet paper when I had only used one side and they wouldn't even give me store credit.
Depends on how you are defining "worth" here. They are the only devices "worth" their price as evidenced by how well they hold their value and how much consumers are willing to pay for them. They are not "worth" the high price if you are valuing the internals (what GPU, processor, memory, HD you get).
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My main fears:

1. They find it does effect kids, it just takes longer

2. They find reinfection is common
I can't see this CNN article as literally anything other than "fake news."

This whole time, liberals gave Trump shit about using the term "fake news."

I'd love for someone to let me know how this article is anything but.