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I'm Jeff from Malaysia. I've been writing code professionally for 3 years. I'm having interest in Programming Language Theory, Type Theory and Program Analysis in particular.

Location: Selangor, Malaysia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Haskell, TypeScript
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Email: goodboy96@live.com.my
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I read that in Australia there are a total of 2,200 ICU beds for the ~25 million population. As a result of COVID-19 they're increasing this number as much as possible, but if the infection rates continue the current trend, then there are going to be large numbers of people dying due to the lack of resources.

18 in 500,000 is 0.00366%
2,200 in 25,000,000 is 0.0088%

More than double, but still likely to be woefully inadequate.
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The problem is that the more people you adhere to the more washed out the game-play will become. So you have to ask yourself if you want the game to be super fun for a few people, or a little fun for many people.
An easy mistake new developers do is that they take something that is very fun, and make it less fun in order to attract more people.
Method and apparatus to monitor and locate an electronic device using a secured
The USA is not a signatory to that Hague convention.

I don't know what the effect would be of USA participation in a NATO action using expanding small arms ammunition.
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> Although these data cannot be used to determine whether transmission occurred from contaminated surfaces, further study of fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 aboard cruise ships is warranted.
They also have a steep fine for failing to report symptoms when entering the country, and have fined at least one person from this rule as well.

To balance things out, they are paying a $466 stipend for those that complete the quarantine.
I don't know, lots of their electronics stuff is pretty cheap for a hobbyist, even at retail prices. Unfortunately shipping from NYC to the west coast is either slow or expensive. It would be nice if they had a good west coast distributor.
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Did you look at the charts? If you didn't know there is a global epidemic, would you have been able to see it on these curves?

In France and Italy, there were between 50000 and 60000 deaths per month in 2018 and 2019. If most of those people died because of 2 or 3 accumulated factors, covid19 would be just one more factor. But maybe those people would have died one month later anyway without covid19
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The actual quote is:

> SARS-CoV-2 RNA was identified on a variety of surfaces in cabins of both symptomatic and asymptomatic infected passengers up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the Diamond Princess but before disinfection procedures had been conducted

But can anyone confirm if that means the actual virus was found, or would something inactive like random skin cells also get identified this way?

Edit: I asked the question, because the original title implied the actual virus was found.
If it comes to that using leaves isn't that bad and if there is no one left to run the power plants you aren't going to want to be anywhere near the city.
For the age range that appreciates strategic games, March of the Ants is a pretty fun 4X-like board game where several ant colonies compete to colonize a meadow. A deck system with random draws of ant species customizations and randomized events give a ton of replayability.
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OK, SK's new case rate is stabilizing, but they still have 5400 active cases. If even 1% of those active cases die (which is possible, since these longer-lasting cases are likely more severe), that's a total CFR of 2%. And this is for a country that everybody claims has been doing contact-tracing and testing asymptomatic people.
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...really? Cuz there’s a homeless person outside my window. I don’t see a comparison benefitting the US. I would give all my money to live in a country where bread lines are what people fear.
Two of my siblings were raised in cloth diapers due to our finances in those years. A clean butt isn’t difficult to achieve cheaply. It just requires getting a little more dirty than normal.
They lost 6 million TEU (twenty foot equivalent units) due to Chinese new year and Corona.

https://www.joc.com/maritime-news/coronavirus-cost-china-por...
Passengers airlines making big money from shipping cargo is not new.

From 2018
https://thepointsguy.com/news/how-airlines-make-big-bucks-fr...

Airlines don’t make money just from flying passengers: air cargo is a big business. It doesn’t fly just in dedicated freighter aircraft, but also in the belly holds of passenger flights. And right now it’s booming.

Also, the WSJ.com article seems to indicate American Airlines is the first in doing this in this covid-19 crisis, and that other airlines are following.

However I believe it was Korean Air that started to focus on shipping cargo on passenger airlines without having passengers onboard. This timeline makes sense as Korea was the first nation outside of China that had a big spike in covid-19 infections. S. Korea was one of the first nation that saw its citizens barred from entering other nations in this covid-19 crisis.
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I don't understand people like you who can look at the current numbers and say "Oh, it's not so bad" while also conveniently ignoring that the numbers are growing exponentially. People that are raising the alarm are not talking about the numbers now, they are talking about the numbers in the future if nothing is done to address it.
It's kind of a shame that he's wound-up writing an article like this. It certainly discredits him in my eyes and it seems utterly opposed to stated principles of evidence based medicine.

As others have noted here, the article calls for action based on very little data and lots of ad-hoc speculation. It also cheery picks its and falsely claims we don't have enough data.

I wonder if thinking all research is false too much lets jump to the idea you dream any opinion that's convenient.

Moreover, Ioannidιs has absolutely jumped into advocating this position from a partisan political position, with his positions picked up by partisan political sites such as the dailywire.com;
Headline: "Stanford Professor: Data Indicates We’re Severely Overreacting To Coronavirus"
https://www.dailywire.com/news/stanford-professor-data-indic...
Given the lockdown...isnt that sort of expected? If most people are at home, then what work is being done? And even before this, when they were progressively limiting the number of people who could travel to australia, you would expect employment in tourism related industries to go down a lot.
But you can use any paper towel in your outhouse, as there is no plumbing to worry about. Still no shortage of regular paper towels, right?
"Method and apparatus to monitor and locate an electronic device using a secured intelligent agent via a global network"

https://www.coresecurity.com/sites/default/private-files/pub...

Slide 22:

"The Past:

o US 6,300,863 B1 Pat. Figure 8A

o Filed Mar 24 1998, Absolute Corporation

o Agent inside modem Option ROM

o Support for DOS Backdooring

See “Implementing and Detecting a PCI Rootkit”, Heasman, BlackHat 2007""
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Have you considered a bidet?

Others with the disease strongly recommend them.
> ...really?

You don't need to take my word. Check out the book. It's only $2.17, thanks to capitalism!
According to this site it is 215 now (March 23):

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

This is just 3 days after the publication of the Reuters article, so it seems like it may be growing at similar rates to elsewhere (doubling every 3 days), just from a low base?
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Hackers target WHO as coronavirus cyberattacks increase
This is of huge significance.
So far I've been acting in the 3 days life on surfaces.

I quarantined purchases for 5 days before bringing them in the apartment.

If it's 17 days or more it's all been in vain.

It also means it's much harder to stop.

Virtually no one I know in Italy is taking precautions on the stuff they bring home from the supermarket.

My personal nightmare: a nation in lockdown getting infected by the stuff they buy.
Not necessarily. https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1242293578967085057
Bogus wars against viruses would've been totally unnecessary if leaders had prepared for this eventuality and not shutting down long-term preparedness. Look at this as payback with interest to that debt. Waiting for evidence would lead to worse handling, and shut everything down during panic time instead. Ensuring even worse outcomes.
Apologies if I misunderstood, but I don't think that particular point was missed; it seems to be the article's first stated viewpoint actually:

> the narrative I got was fairly clear: we didn’t use chemical weapons because after World War I the nations of the world got together and decided that chemical weapons were just too horrible and banned them, and that this was a sign of something called ‘progress.’

That point is even further iterated on in the conclusion when comparing them to cluster munitions which as you put, "cause multi generation effects" due to remaining active years after the conflict.
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I guess I should have articulated an argument instead of venting and using sarcasm.

Basically, I've seen my share of unqualified people (not that I'm qualified myself) building ridiculous models of exponential growth and predicting catastrophes, commenting on drug research protocols without necessarily understanding the details and so on.
I believe that the growing political polarization and anger we are seeing is in no small part due to the government and media "implanting" invalid perceptions of reality into people's minds (skillful use of language being only one of the many techniques used), and different groups each receive a different projection.

Scott Adams uses the analogy of different groups seeing a completely different movie on the screen.
True, and that is important, but there certainly is a correlation. Good luck writing speech recognition software to deal with this:

https://ifunny.co/video/damn-wtf-we-really-talk-like-that-63...

We may want everyone to be understood, but this goes far beyond speech recognition software. Humans often can't understand humans. There are lots of people who really don't talk well at all.
My personal nightmare is everyone getting infected by Amazon Prime shipments.
Honestly, this is going to sound absolutely terrible, but the easiest way I found around some limitations of mysql modules in Ansible is to create SQL statements using a template and just load that in.
> shows that Italy has more deaths due to influenza every year than any other EU country

I’ve read that if an elderly person dies in Italy while they have the flu or coronavirus, then that is recorded as the cause of death.

Some other countries put down other reasons like diabetes complications, or heart failure. Possibly due to pressure from insurance, or avoiding liability for iatrogenic diseases, or avoiding KPIs targeting lower death rates for infections in hospitals.

You are jumping to conclusions based on a few numbers, without understanding the background of where those numbers come from or how to validly compare them between countries.
Ioannidis even questions if ventilators are helping. He basically says without evidence to the contrary, they may be a placebo (the part about ICU beds).

And all the low CFRs he cherry picked have now increased dramatically.
Would you mind linking a couple here that are worth a follow?
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"Hoarding" is just a smear word on building an emergency buffer just-in-time. Or, JIT supply chains extend all the way to end-consumer, so let's not act surprised that a spike in demand due to perceived risk increase breaks everything up the chain. This should've been conpensated for in the chain.
Say it with me: viral RNA doesn't necessarily mean live virus was present. Now you're going to see "coronavirus can live on surfaces for 17 days!" over and over, but we don't know that based on this study and for those using live virus, it's much shorter.

https://twitter.com/aetiology/status/1242254105155973122
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SARS-CoV-2 RNA was discovered on surfaces inside cabins in the ship after 17 days of quarantine measures according to an NIID[0] staff member.

It is not yet confirmed that this has been a vector for further transmission.

During the vessel's quarantine in Japan, all passengers were quarantined on land, but some crew were quarantined on the ship.

This quote appears roughly halfway down the page:

"SARS-CoV-2 RNA was identified on a variety of surfaces in cabins of both symptomatic and asymptomatic infected passengers up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the Diamond Princess but before disinfection procedures had been conducted (Takuya Yamagishi, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, personal communication, 2020). Although these data cannot be used to determine whether transmission occurred from contaminated surfaces, further study of fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 aboard cruise ships is warranted."

And this quote earlier in the page refers to the quarantine in Japan:

"After disembarkation of all passengers, crew members either completed a 14-day ship-based quarantine, were repatriated to and managed in their home country, or completed a 14-day land-based quarantine in Japan."

[0] - https://www.niid.go.jp/niid/en/
Accessing from India redirects to .org domain and throws a 404.
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The same risk would seem to apply to most Silicon Valley oncall rotations every night.
For context, this was ~2008. I got my first personal laptop in middle school the only way I could manage: buy a two and a half year old hand me down Toshiba from my uncle for $200. It was too slow to be updated to a new Windows OS and I couldn’t afford the license anyway. My neighbor, a govt. systems programmer, told me about Linux. I looked it up and found Ubuntu. I installed it and encountered all of the problems the parent comment described. I learned a _lot_ for a 13 year old thanks to a great deal of very patient people on IRC. I spent most of my time alternating between debugging audio drivers so I could listen to music and trying to get wine to work so I could play games. When things were really running well, I’d mess with fancy window managers. This resulted in a lot of broken 3D drivers. Although I’ll admit I was interested in the naughty stuff, I either wasn’t motivated enough or wasn’t dumb enough to try it. Without a doubt, I screwed things up weekly. But 99% of my problems came from sudo apt-get upgrade rather than some other source. On some level, it blows me away to hear stories of people intentionally borking things like this. Perhaps I did stuff like this, quietly fixed it, and then forgot about it. Alternatively,when people taught me dangerous commands, I guess they just did a good job of explaining why and how they were dangerous.

Regardless, even if most will eventually do the worst, isn’t it worth it? Perhaps not in the case of the server, but arguably even then one could (perhaps facetiously) just say that the sysadmin learned as much as the student. For me, one thing is certain. It made a huge impact on my future.
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Don't believe everything you watch on youtube.
But the government isn't aiming to keep the productive machinery going as much as possible. They're doing precisely the opposite, shutting down productive machinery as much as possible.
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That's broadly correct, although most definitions of "pandemic" jump through some hoop or another to make seasonal flu not count.
> I quarantined purchases for 5 days before bringing them in the apartment.

> If it's 17 days or more it's all been in vain.

> It also means it's much harder to stop.

IMO, if you want to quarantine stuff and don't want to wipe it down with bleach/hydrogen peroxide, I'd leave it outside (in direct sunlight). Strong UV exposure is pretty deadly to viruses.

It's also possible to get UV lights designed for the task (typically for purifying water), but you'll never find one with the intensity of the Sun.
Finding RNA is no different than finding a dead body and declaring it still alive because the body is still there. The virus particles don't just vaporize.
You can also do a per-directory _global_ git configuration, e.g.

in .gitconfig, you say:

[user]
name = Me Myself
email = personal@example.com
signingkey = D34DB44F

[includeIf "gitdir:~/src/github.com/work_org/"]
path = ~/.gitconfig_work

Then in ~/.gitconfig_work:

[user]
name = Me Myself
email = work@example.com
signingkey = D34DC0D4

[core]
sshCommand = ssh -i ~/.ssh/work_ed25519

I like this way better, because I don't need to remember to specify per-project config, as long I put them in the right directory :-)
They found viral RNA in the cabins, confirming that the virus had been there. This procedure found RNA up to 17 days later.
I've been going on 9 days, so I've been quarantining masks for 10 days before reusing them (unfortunately I don't have the luxury of using new masks, I have just 10 total)
And by extension your connected sense of taste would be altered as well. 2 years ago I had a cold or the flu and for a while after, ketchup had a distinct difference, where it almost tasted like a fancy mustard
For a commodity that is in short supply, mis-allocating it to people who literally do not need it seems like a strong negative.

For another example, let's say tp was being rationed. The amount each person gets is calculated to be the amount the average person uses.

One person uses 90% less tp than average, because he's got a bidet. Another uses 3x the average because he's got a bowel problem. Anyone who gets more than they need will feel no need to conserve it, while those who get less will treat each square as precious.

Is this equity? How does this make practical sense?

(Disallowing bartering won't help here, it'll just make things worse.)
Stuff you buy online has usually been packed months earlier.

The potential issue is thus only the outter packaging. If you take precautions, immediately discard the box and wash your hand you should be fine.

Packers and deliverymen should also wear gloves, etc. these days.
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This is evidence; it isn't great but it also isn't conclusive. We'll need to wait longer for something a little more decisive. A twitter link is also unhelpful because we only get a blurry abstract to go off.

The happy dream is maybe hydroxychloroquine has prophylactic tendencies since it is something people can take long term to be at a substantially lower risk vs catching COVID. The abstract doesn't really show much either way on that front.

Spitballing as an amateur, I suspect once someone has actual symptoms or is verging on a serious case it is too late to help - what is a drug supposed to do, regrow a busted lung? It comes to a point where the virus isn't what is killing you, it is the damage the virus did while breeding and/or the immune system overreacting fighting back and going haywire. Antivirals should help but aren't expected to be magic for either of those things.
That is untrue. There are coronavirus outbreaks all the time. What makes MERS and SARS special is that they are the only known human coronviruses with high mortality.
> With people staying at home, the demand of toilet paper has shifted to the home more.

This. TP consumption is unchanged per day. But the proportion of consumed TP that is consumed at retail must be up 30-50%. Nearly nobody is using their work/school/restaurant's TP that comes in giant rolls or in a cardboard box without a UPC code.

Same for tomato sauce: Most people don't want the 10# cans that food-service used to buy. Or the barrels that a pizza shop would buy. Grocery stores probably don't have a SKU for those. Could be a different packaging factory entirely.
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It's disappointing because it's no better than placebo.
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It's also possible that Italy is vastly unlucky for some generic reason, considering most of the deaths are in a particular region of the country and among an age bracket that is less cosmopolitan and more likely to reflect limited geographic genetic dispersion.
I should go earlier. I went around 7pm IIRC. My biggest problem was the people inside. I kept trying to stay out of people's way but it was impossible. People kept walking at me without giving me a chance to move. Other people were travelling down the middle of the aisle, effectively blocking anyone from going by. I think Costco needs to make aisles one-way for now, and tape off sections to give people a hint at the recommended spacing.
This is a new virus, _no one_ knows about the future. Data we have now could be biased toward an hidden variable we didn't figure out yet.
I have the opposite experience. Both my current employer and my old are migrating _to_ Firebase as we speak.
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> Does tonic water even have a theraputic dose of quinine anymore?

It never did. It's poorly soluble in water, that's what the gin was for. If it's not pre-mixed, your tonic water has a negligible amount of quinine.
Covid-19: India Recommends Hydroxychloroquine As Prophylaxis For Healthcare Providers, Patient Family Members

https://swarajyamag.com/insta/covid-19-india-recommends-hydr...
People seem like computers these days: they only think in logarithms, they "forget" to add some common sense.