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Definitely dropped the ball. It may seem like a small thing to that recruiter, but this can affect their reputation among talent pool. It happened to me with Microsoft back in the 90s (I was young, in my 20s). I spent a lot of time preparing an application package and solid interviews but then they just went silent. Never heard back. Calls were not returned.

Fast forward to the 2000s (some more years under my belt) Microsoft was actively trying to hire me. But the book was closed on ever working there. I let them know why politely and took a position elsewhere.

Its just lazy to not update candidates. And if the individual HR person cannot, an automated message would be better than nothing. This is just common decency, not rocket science.
I’ve heard that in Italy they are closing departments of stores that aren’t selling life sustaining items, even if other parts of the store are.
Would you prefer us to switch the link back? Author's call!

Also, is the title inaccurate?
> They weren't going to accept taxation that came with representation in Parliament.

Why do you think so? My reading of history is that the term 'loyalist' wasn't coined until well after the Boston tea party and several people who were later considered loyalists were participants in that event. It wasn't until it was clear that King George wouldn't respect their rights as Englishmen (three years later) that the patriots drafted the declaration of independence and the revolution began.

The actual list of grievances in the declaration of independence were focused mostly on self determination and representation, not taxes:

1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most necessary for the public good

2. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

3. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only

4. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

and so on.
> That seems as intuitive as the process can be.

Have you tried it with a granny? Have you ever trained people in using computers?

I have, young and old, professionally, some of them grannies, and this does not cut the mustard by a long chalk. I can imagine a few ways to make it easier.
Compilation speeds are perfectly fast for small projects, especially without compiler optimizations, especially when re-compiling (it only re-compiles what changed). I certainly wouldn't call that one of the barriers to trying it out.
We won't have a smoking gun unless somebody from the lab tells all, which would involve going to prison in China or claiming asylum in a different country. Such a person might even be ignored unless he provides wikileaks with a hard disk full of lab data.

They were definitely doing more than just "identifying and sequencing the virus in wild bats". They purposely caused bat coronaviruses to become more capable of infecting human cells. It's a cool experiment, but far too dangerous to attempt. One of the modifications was to use the ACE2 receptor. This receptor is found in humans, not bats. The pandemic uses that receptor.
What harm is there in testing everyone?
building anything takes years. this may plant some seeds but they will take a long time to mature.
Correct link: https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet
Not unexpected. A week or two ago a Chinese treatment protocol made the rounds where hydroxychloroquine was suggested as an alternative to HIV protease inhibitors. Since we now know that ritonavir/lopinavir doesn't work well, one wouldn't expect hydroxychloroquine to do any better. If it had remarkable clinical effects it would be the first-line treatment.
Pandemic profiteer

National emergency price-gouger
My point is that what you call "panic" is not really panic.

It is not panic to leave a building as fast as you can when a fire alarm rings - even if we don't know what caused the alarm to ring in the first place. I don't care about "numbers over hyperbole" or "science vs conjecture", I leave the building and assume that I am at risk by staying inside.

Likewise, it is not "panic" to propose that we err on the side of precaution and take measures that could contain an epidemic of uncertain risk and dangers, instead of adopting a "wait-and-see" attitude that might be fatal. Chinese doctors wanted to ring the alarm in November and were silenced by the Communist Party. When we got to December/early January and even the Party couldn't hide it anymore, we should've taken that more seriously and started to look for the "way out of the building", even if we didn't know yet how big is the fire/what caused it/who started it/etc.
>Why would we use the Diamond Princess CFR instead of China's, or Italy's, or South Korea's?

because everyone on the diamond princess was tested. So we know for sure how many cases we are dealing within the sample.

~0.3 and ~0.9% are also not optimistic guesses but the current numbers for Germany and SK. Italy sits at 9%. So the situation is either that Italy is vastly underestimating cases, or Germany and South Korea have lost a magnitude of corpses somewhere. I find the latter less likely than the former.
I've often wondered if there isn't a "secret" mailing list of people who go around and buy some product with the intention of creating a shortage and making a buck on amazon. The retail equivalent of a bunch of traders gaming some commodity.
The story I heard was that it started with an unconfirmed rumour (possibly completely made up) on social media about it happening in Hong Kong because of people making makeshift masks out of it, the western media picked up on it from Twitter & co, then accidentally created the panic buying in the rest of the world.
Well, they might, but they wouldn't be reselling rice they'd ordered. That would tend to defeat the idea of making your own rice.

More relevantly, it's not at all implausible for a farming operation to be selling rice on another continent, and to schedule shipments several months in advance.
I am sorry if this is already answered, but what is the revenue model and how do they afford a network intensive tool like video conferencing?

BTW, I loved it.
Exactly this. Zoom is crushing it here. Whatever negatives they are doing privacy side is paying of BIG time in ease of use.

Did a call recently, host wanted to google hangouts. 50% could not get in. Finally someone else said let's just use Zoom. 1 minute later we are all in. I think google doesn't work well with domains with hangouts meet blocked if you invite folks on those so they need to spin up a different account. Or people don't know meets is restricted to domain users only? Or get confused between hangouts / chat / meets etc. Something is wonky sometimes with google in terms of 5 solutions to one problem.
I've heard it's because it's the most visible item, as opposed to a pack of beans, for example.
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If cloth diapers work, I don't see why cloth toilet paper wouldn't work.
Now might not be a good time to buy laptops with the new AMD 4000 APUs coming in the next few weeks.
Worst case. Instead of quickly developing herd immunity, the US ends up with persistent low level outbreaks over two to three years like the 1918 flu. If that happens the rest of the world will quarantine us.
I suppose there was a delay realizing 'The shit has hit the fan! Hoard TP", and they took it too literally. Honestly, the compulsion to 'do something..anything' panic mode is a good explanation, aside from profiteers.
One does not just "buy a bidet" to solve that problem...

Between plumbing and installation alone it's a very expensive solution to what should (under normal circumstances) be a simple purchase.
Yeah, it definitely takes some time. But we are saving a little time not having to drive our kid to and from school, and breakfast can happen as slowly or quickly (with less parental intervention) since we're not rushing off to school.

I am glad that my kids are so young going through this turmoil. I'm sure it is much more disruptive for older kids who are applying to college, and for parents who feel they have to make sure their kid doesn't fall behind. Must be very stressful and time-consuming.
Can I ask if you are using video conferencing in a business setting?

When folks are trying to get stuff done in tough circumstances NO ONE has ANY patience for the home built / funky / privacy enhanced multi-click setup. Especially not the top executives now dialing in from home who aren't tech forward. IT doesn't want to trouble shoot things either - all of a sudden you have 1000+ folks video conferencing.

I'd be interested in these dealbreaker privacy problems in the current client.
We do not have all the data we need. Just for starters, we don't know why the situation is so much worse in Italy than in Japan.
Last I heard, bidets were OOS as well...
Spot on. Too many comments are see-sawing on details of parameters and trade offs but just talk to a doctor in NYC, they are out of room in ICUs and terrified about triaging that will start taking place.
Bruce Aylward's visit to China made it sound like they were testing everyone too.

Germany is at 0.42 and South Korea is at 1.24 now that more diagnosed people have had time to die.
That rate is highly unlikely to hold. There's enough stay in place restrictions in effect to drive it down after about a week or so.

FWIW, at this point, it looks like NYC is going to take a huge hit and the other outbreaks (Seattle, California) will look mild comparitively.
We were lucky to have bought a 6-pack of triple-length rolls of TP right before the drought hit, but it's been a few weeks not and every time I've been to the shop the TP shelves have been bare.

A checkout girl told me they restock overnight and every day it's gone within two hours of opening (although that was before they brought in the dedicated AM shopping hour for the seniors/disabled to get their supplies).
There's a reason FB and Google call them users instead of customers. I remember an old joke... "there's only one other industry that calls its customers users."
There's something very viscerally gross about an imaginary scenario where you've been locked inside your own home for weeks and you run out of TP. I think a lot of people reacted emotionally to that scenario without thinking critically about it.
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Or just let your employees take some home, or share with your neighbors. This is easy to "solve", and it's not like the value of the toilet paper is going to make that much difference in the run of a business.
Diamond Princess (pop. 3,711) was stationed right next to Japan (pop. 126M) and could use its full medical resource. That's not a good model for an actual country hit with the virus.
If it can be done cheaply and easily while preventing additional infections, no harm at all. In fact, testing as many people as possible to isolate carriers is, I believe, the single best way to handle this crisis. It's not doable at this point, although hopefully we'll get there.
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The GP shouldn't have used the trigger phase "you people", but I don't read it as snarky.

In any case, your (or anyone's) response needs to do a little less damage than the stimulus—not more—or else we get a downward spiral.
Eehm... Arbitrage is buying on one market to immediately sell on another market at a profit. Which is exactly what these folks were doing.

Except that the other market administratively blocked them from selling. Then the first market wouldn't reverse the purchase, leaving the would-be arbitrageurs holding the bag.
TP is cheap, large in volume, probably has lots of producers (no patents) and plants (because transport is expensive relative to price), can be replaced by shower/bidet/worn-out socks/even white bread.

I can’t think of a worse product to do this with. The daily newspaper, maybe.

If this really is scammers getting burned, they’re not getting my sympathy (the budget of sympathy-for-the-undeserving is mostly pledged anyway, for the people who insisted on going to Church this Sunday)
Reacting without panicking is possible.
Broken link for me.
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Not having great data to go by is part of the definition of a crisis. If we had perfect data then its unlikely we'd be in a crisis.
Well, hypothetically speaking, a state might have secretly mass vaccinated it’s population against its engineered bioweapon(eg hidden in tdmr vaccine).

But I agree many things might go wrong with such a scheme. More of a plot device for bond movies...
Non-ergodic means the virus isn’t randomly bouncing around with the same parameters on the way down. It has very different dynamics on the way down than on the way up, due to contact tracing and more, as seen in China and S Korea etc.

The UK was using a model that said after suppression it would just immediately rise, as if other measures wouldn’t be taken to hold it down.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669467
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Might as well count gasoline bombs and napalm while at it.
It’s just panic. The best I can think is there was a TP panic during the Nixon years.
Personal attacks and "factual truth" are orthogonal, and we certainly will ban you for the former (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) so please don't do it again. In practice, people underestimate how much of the former they're doing and overestimate how much of the latter they possess, so the distinction isn't generally useful.

It's easy to make your substantive points without declaring others to be stupid, so please do that instead.
>There is dishonesty in this situation. If you ask Costco if it's ok to buy lots of toilet paper to resell, they'll say no.

That's debatable. Plenty of small businesses buy Costco stuff to resell, or for business use. They even have business memberships! Unless they have explicit no resell notices (although even then it's unclear what legal force they have), I wouldn't say it's dishonest.
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I'll be sure to pass on the "money is imaginary" line to my landlord when they're asking where the check is.
Costco isn’t bound by the Constitution. Their fine print lets them basically do what they want to and if you didn’t want them to have that right you shouldn’t have signed their membership agreement.
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Definitely the products are different - I say that because there are a lot of people, at least in my experience, who prefer an off-brand. RC is somewhat famous for being a discount soda with a strong following. Given the number of people who have a strong preference between name-brands Coca Cola and Pepsi, if they squared those against the few dozen off-brands would there be another they preferred? In another market space Coca Cola and Pepsi are now the underdog fighting back against National Beverage, a discount manufacturer which managed to sweep the market with their La Croix brand. At the same time their Shasta brand still runs fifty cents a can at the right vending machine and in my opinion isn't that bad. Coca-Cola tends to be better regarded than Pepsi due to their history, while Pepsi more often wins blind comparisons. This consumer preference is famously reversed in the soviet bloc. At the same time Coca Cola's Mr. Pibb is decidedly "off-brand" compared to the smaller Dr Pepper-Snapple group.

So I think it's hard to say that there's a clear quality hierarchy with sodas. Rather, they drive strong consumer preference and two brands happen to be the best known and most widely distributed. This is more or less true of a lot of other products as well where there isn't a clear objective measure of quality, it just seems especially noticeable with sodas.
It left me so stoked to see IPX mentioned in the first paragraph...

And disappointed to not see it mentioned in any of the comments.

The native support in many DOS applications and ease of configuration was a dream. As a kid setting up LAN games he nailed it with the header "The childhood magic".

edit: Fixed spelling mistake
Costco does similar limitz I wish they used member id as the limit, not the checkout Id...
No, that trial has some glaring flaws. Several threads go into them way better than I could.

https://twitter.com/GaetanBurgio/status/1241201751916568576

https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/12414295448478638...
Taiwan is doing more than public service announcements. Singapore too. Japan closed all schools in Feb. Tracing won’t work without first getting the number manageable.
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Don't they have different memberships for business vs. personal?
No, you're the one assuming they're functioning companies to prove that the deserve to be saved. That's itself circular.

And if you think the market is correctly pricing the equity, you can't turn around and say it's mispricing the bonds so the Fed has to "correct it".
"Asshole" works.
The unanswered question of the GP is why you'd expect only 1% of the US population to be infect?

I can't see the slightest basis for such an assumption. This an extremely infectious, quickly spreading disease. 30% of the US population seem like a more likely estimate.

SK has a 1.3% fatality rate at the end but that was with a functioning health case system. If even 1% of the US population get infect, the health system won't be function and you'll have a higher fatality rate.
Whole Foods had signs all over about not taking returns on food due to coronavirus. It's a reasonable position for them to take, given the risk. Months ago I remember seeing a sign in a Whole Foods in SF that asked customers not to load up their reusable bags while shopping (to use a basket/cart instead). The reason was that if you take something off the shelf and later put it back, then you've potentially contaminated someone else's food. This is basically the same logic for not accepting returns (that have been in someone's house) now.

Not surprisingly, the signs were mostly clustered near goods that people might stockpile, like pasta and canned tomatoes. Aside from liability, they also want to discourage hoarding.
As an ex south korean army (mandatory service), our neighbor in the north still think chemical weapon an effective asymmetrical weapon against us because our small piece of land won't really allow any mobility based modern warfare. There are outposts throughout all the borderline.

We do quite a lot of training to protect against chemical attacks and also the protective respiration devices are included for every soldiers. The most probable attack against us will begin with spreading chemical gas on air to crush the first defense line in the borderline.

If situation become really bad and raw - killing all the civilians - chemical weapon would still be a very effective weapon I think.
How many people are in your house? My family of 3 goes though about 1 roll per person in a week, and we aren’t super conservative about it, so a 12-18 pack should last us a month. Personally, I think it’s the people buying 4 24 roll packs (or an equivalent number) at a time for the same size family that need to calm down.
It seems odd to me that their concern was availability of TP, which is not actually essential if times are tough. If they were buying up all the canned food, I'd understand that. But the grocery store I go to ran out of TP, not canned food.
So based upon the timeframe it seems likely that he bought them independently versus manufacturing them at Tesla, but its at least a contribution to the crisis. I'd be impressed if Tesla was able to manufacture medically sound ventilators this quick.
It is being used correctly here (as on Mingyur Rinpoche's Wikipedia page). As long as they don't call him Mr Rinpoche...
I wouldn't say that any individual 20 year old would be more or less considerate of people outside their social circle / age bracket than a 50 year old, of course, I even know some who are[0]. As a cohort though, I've no qualms!

[0] They don't develop single page apps using the trendiest Javascript frameworks though, maybe there's a self-selection link ;-)
Coincidentally, the edit I made to my comment is nearly identical to your comment. But now I’m outside the 1 hour window of being able to edit.
Snopes is not legitimate.

In this case, they give a "mostly true" rating while barely acknowledging that the anti-trump timeline is missing some events.

Those events, of course, are not minor. They make the timeline into what we call a "lie by omission".

Most importantly, the entire Snopes article neglects to mention that Trump's ban on travel from China was issued on the last Friday of January.

This is typical for Snopes.
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Except the patient we're trying to save is the market, not any one business, and malignant businesses are like cancer. It's important for the cancer to die so the patient can live.

I mean, if you want to debate this thing entirely in analogies.
WP white phosphorous is actually a chemical weapon when used against people. It is an anti material weapon and used for smoke screens. But read up on the use of WP in fallujah.
I imagine he's referring to the type you can buy on Amazon and attach to your toilet seat.
Precedent for making it mandatory - state by state with varying degrees of confidentiality : https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/hiv-and-health-...
As do I, as that was never their plan. Their plan was to isolate the aged and the at-risk, well away from those who may infect them, and send everyone else who wouldn't get horribly sick out. This would create a protective barrier around the old and sick. Nobody has proposed what dingaling has suggested.
his is a personality i love to hate, but the man gets. shit. done.

re-tooling and knocking out these ventilators as quickly as that is nothing short of astounding.

yeah ok, should have read that article.. (i read one earlier that didnt mention this):
From TFA:
The billionaire said in a tweet he helped acquire 1,255 of the machines from China last week and arranged them to be air-shipped to Los Angeles. He thanked Tesla staff and customs officials in China and Los Angeles for assistance.