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Not sure what you mean by insulated. Bill wants to live in a country that hasn't completely gone down the drain just like you or I; he can't buy what isn't made.
The phone on the home page looks like an iPhone but the UI looks like Android?
I don't think it's a vacation. But I do think it will have some potentially beneficial side effects, as well as the obvious negative ones.
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There are a few reasons for this, but the obvious one is that all the factory, worker, machinery, etc time that has been forcibly idled is gone, destroyed, everything it would've produced does not exist and no clever financial tricks can fix this. There's of course a bunch of more indirect effectis involving mass unemployment, the collapse of many businesses, the failure of demand for things, etc which are also going to be devastating. The US is likely to come out of this better than many countries - it looks like the deaths from this economic destruction are going to be co ncentrated in developing countries - but that's not much reassurance.
Yes, very much so. Abusers arrange for various forms of leverage over the people, ranging from emotional to financial, and then children or other dependents make everything that much more complex.
I'm in Canada. We were a bit late to the punch, but I think by and large my government layers (municipal, regional, provincial, and federal) have taken the right actions at the right times given the information available. And they're clearly working in conjunction with experts, so there's that.

I definitely have policy beefs with both my premier and PM. I didn't vote for either of them and probably won't the next time either, but I can still be pleased at the degree to which they've stepped up. The contrast with US federal government is especially stark.
More like you need to turn it off and on again.
Bill Gates has been staunchly liberal throughout his entire philanthropic career.

I don't always agree with him, but Bill Gates himself seems quite consistent with regards to how he thinks the world should improve.
Yeah, I would like some more details. Not sure I understood what exactly it means to "watermark" the ID. Is the goal to change it subtly to find out if it was leaked? Or is the goal to redact parts of it?
Adult content is notoriously hard to filter on since nobody can agree what qualifies, and pretty much any site with user-generated content has content that is objectionable to someone.

Do you filter Wikipedia as "adult content"? Certainly one of these[1] images qualifies under most standards?

1: NSFW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Bad_image_list
Stopped using Cloudflare's DNS some weeks ago. I got from time to time errors (no page showing, forgot the exact error message) which never happened with Google's DNS. FYI I'm using DoT (DNS over TLS) on the router exclusively and I'm not living in USA.
Love it. I've been using it on Linux with v4l2loopback to get it into things like Skype, zoom, jitsi, and teams. Really slick.

For quarantine levity, this combined with live audio effects possible with JACK rack like voice changers and echos is hilarious. Maybe today's a good day to try that out on the engineering managers meeting.
Micro Center here in the states has you give them your phone number and they text you when you can come in. The one by me doesn’t even let people queue up and wait there - you have to go somewhere else while waiting.
What's your setup if you don't mind me asking?
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Okay, fair points. Here are some of the issues I see with that. You have two options, borrow or print, right? If you borrow, you pay it back. If you print, you don't, but your citizens absorb a serious financial blow. So let's say we don't want to ruin the savings of Americans, so we borrow. Who lends? As of Dec. 2019, 74% of our debt was held by the public [0]. Odds are on that Americans fleeing to financial security would buy the better part of new debt issued, too.

So, you've kicked the can for 10 years; now it's time to pay back. Where do we get the money now? If you cancel it, you're destroying the retirements of millions of Americans, not just hurting some abstract entity of "the Market". Remember that a large number of people feel the effects of a market downturn, even if through a retirement account or pension plan.

So, to avoid retirees eating dog food, you now have to pay back. How do you propose to do this, given we already have a truly colossal $23.6 trillion in debt?

[0]: https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-33...
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Which makes his views very bias. Italy's numbers finally seem to be turning down. South Korea, Japan and Germany haven't seen the same growth. ICUs in America are filling up, but so far I haven't heard reports of them being over capacity.

The thing is, people are going to die no matter what. There is no vaccine. You could catch this thing tomorrow or in August, but if you're one of the unlucky ones with the overactive immune response, you could get immediate care, be looked after in an ICU and still die.

I understand they don't want everyone to catch this at once, but if most places are able to keep up now, is shutting down the country preemptively really a good idea?
China didn't shut down the entire country does not give us any information on spread of the disease in China. if you are buying the Chinese figures for infections and deaths then I have a bridge to sell you.
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Reddit is a source for the corpus, so it is likely that the style matches it. More likely for some topics/styles than others.

Do you feel it somehow affects the quality of generations?

Thanks for the feedback. It'd be great if you can sign up and try it further and help improve the application.
> Masks and fever checks along with testing should be enough to slow the spread without triggering Great Depression 2.

So right now we're at 0/3? We CAN shut the country down today, but we can't get enough masks, fever checking, and testing for everyone, and I don't know when we will be able to.
He has access to top medical experts. I saw a talk from him once where he described access to experts to explain things to him as one of the biggest perks of his position.

I'm also a bit skeptical that Americans elected officials making decisions is much related to "democratic engagement"...
Clever. What solutions has said legislature come up?
This. Also, very wealthy people tend to have personnel such as security guards, chefs, housekeepers, drivers, even straight-up butlers and maids. I have no idea which of these Gates has, if any, but will he have the ideological consistency to send them all home and do his own cooking and cleaning for a few weeks or months? And if so, will he ensure these people will at least still have enough income to live on?

Increasing the severity of the shutdown means different things to the richest 20% than it does to the other 80%.
When you spend that kind of money on an effort, you don't just write a check and forget about it. He's been known to be very hands on in his global healthcare efforts.
> My employer is allowing us to use our paid leave for this purpose

It's YOUR paid leave. They are "allowing" you to.... have what they promised you when you took the job. That has nothing to do with the pandemic.

> You still only have a limited amount of paid leave per year

Then what's the concession? If you have 3 sick days in the bank, and you get coronavirus, then what is the "protection" we're even talking about?

> Not sure why you added the word "unrestricted."

Because no one mentioned any restrictions.

> Seems like bad faith.

Sounds like you're about half a step above cussing out a stranger because you disagree with them.
A $19 trillion dollar economy is largely shut down to protect - mostly but not entirely - those 65 and older. That's fine, but let's be direct about it. We're sacrificing our doctors, nurses, jobs, national security and much more for our aged and elderly. I'm not saying this is wrong. I'm not saying we should do differently. I really just want to see is clearly stated in this thread.
Quite agree, and your comment reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang%E2%80%93bang_control
This Gates dude has a 66,000 sq/ft house. Easy for him to say that everyone should just stay at home with no access to public parks and beaches. And he has a private waterfront.

For the rest of us, there's no no scientific study that says staying 24hrs/day in our little hovels is more healthful than occasionally walking and enjoying public amenities while maintaining appropriate physical separation from others.
Very true. This idea is an extreme measure and there are costs that are outside the virus, costs that could cost more lives:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/covid-19-is-two-disease...
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that's a great idea even if it just means people can sit in their vehicles outside the store.
Paywall, no?
"The Leader of the Free World" is such an unnecessary term. It started out as propaganda and hasn't gotten more true since about any POTUS.
It's extraordinarily ignorant, which is unfortunate in the case of it being Bill Gates.

Instead, Texas and low-infection states should be helping to keep states like New York afloat through this, economically by helping the nation and in terms of manufacturing capabilities. Texas has 41 deaths and isn't seeing a surge due to its different climate.
Well given the polarized climate/full of mistrust, top down "strong measures" will run into all kinds of issues.

Local leadership, preparation, measurement and imagination at the state and county level is what is going to decide how things play out.

National leadership in all countries has been a gigantic kabuki performance for the media and political fan clubs.
Am I missing something? The NYT lists each state having at least 100 cases.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c...
Gates gave a prescient TED talk in 2015 [1] in which he describes the risk of a global pandemic and the general lack of preparedness. The Gates foundation has also been working for years to help eradicate diseases like polio and malaria [2][3]. Given his expertise in this area, it would seem worthwhile to listen to what he has to say rather than dismissing him as just a "billionaire industrialist."

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI

[2]: https://fortune.com/2018/04/18/bill-gates-foundation-malaria...

[3]: https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-letter-eradicate-...
Given that Bill Gates has spent years now working on polio eradication, who do you think might understand this better?

The President, Republican politicians, anchors on Fox News, or Bill Gates?

Who is getting the most public mindshare right now?

Nobody should be comfortable with the honest answers, and when this is all done, perhaps it's time for America to "talk that over" at the ballot box and by turning off cable news.
I didn't say use was unambiguously non-therapeutic. I said it was unambiguously a drug. There are no famous cultural metaphors analogous to "homebrew computer club" etc. It always refers directly to the substance.

Maybe you should consider that a close family member had problems with this very recently before you call me tasteless. It is in fact really fucking stupid that some privileged Mac programmer, probably young and of limited life experience, thinks that is a cutesy name for his (yes I am assuming male) project and not the name of something ruining a lot of lives, probably thinks it's hilarious and clever. He has no taste. Opiates also have legit use. I wouldn't name a project after those either. There is a thing such as tone deafness.
Next headline: Zoom Client Kills Your First-Born
> I'm tired of the "shutdown everything" acting like the underpants gnomes. Gates argues for a 10 week or more shutdown and then says we are ~18 months from a vaccine. If we are 18 months from the definitive solution shutting down for 10 weeks doesn't solve much.

We're a few weeks away from mass-testing in the USA.

By shutting down for a few weeks, we will at least give time for test-kit manufacturers to mass produce test kits and get our health-policy experts ahead of the curve on this.

For now, the US has the steepest exponential rise in the world and some of the fewest test-kits per capita. It seems like our citizens are not taking the lockdown seriously, and the disease continues to spread far faster than it really should be.

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This isn't about "winning against the disease" anymore. Its about stalling for time so that our nurses have enough N95 masks to be safe while treating people again.

We're out of supplies. The nationwide stockpile of masks is depleted. Hospitals are running out of equipment. Stalling for a few weeks will help significantly.
Of course they will try - they're forced to because a dead or quarantined workforce isn't exactly productive.

But the ongoing incentives have existed for many years, and the numbers of companies supporting true remote working has been essentially a rounding error.

The problem is that these companies are adopting it because they had literally no other choice - not because they wanted to try it - so there's automatic friction there.

I think a lot of society (particularly big city issues) could be reduced greatly if remote working was adopted more broadly, but I've also heard all manner of arguments about why remote working "doesn't work" for the past decade or so I've been doing it.
It's common in times of crisis to dwell on "what could we have done to prevent this?" or "what could we do better"?

There are many positive actions also taking place. Not to mention brave front-liners who are helping managing this to the best of their abilities.

No one could have predicted the magnitude of this.

The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The next best time is now.
You could also say the booming economy was fueled by tax cuts. Personally I think the majority was from deregulation however the tax cuts did play a role
They use dark pattern to hide that: You'll have to cancel their attempt to open/download (one of that, don't remember) the native app three times before the link appears.
In terms of social interaction, maybe somewhere in June. Economically, that will hurt for years to come.
Exporting to something like iMovie to manage chroma keys (video alpha channels), or manage the two videos separately: zooming in, highlighting in the background recording, effects for the foreground recording etc.
Thanks, I'll fix that right away!

Knowing some French I know that the translations can be a bit.. special sometimes. For this app all I can hope for is than in most cases the poor translations are better than no translations.
No, but he's a chairman of a well-endowed foundation (BMGF) that probably had more experience managing responses to contagious virus epidemics than most elected officials.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-zika-gates/bill-ga...
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Maybe you're right, however in Italy when they announced the shutting down of regions in the north, people fled to the south and immigrants started flying home, which helped spread the virus in all of Italy and throughout Europe.

It is now generally believed that a better strategy would have been for all of Italy to be shut down at once [1]

Also Bill Gates might be wrong on this one, but I wouldn't call his opinions in this field ignorant. Given his track record and the work that his foundation is doing, I'm pretty sure he has expert counseling and his advice on the matter is anything but.

[1] https://hbr.org/2020/03/lessons-from-italys-response-to-coro...
Why wasn't that the first headline?
I don't know why I would want to generate a line like "Flair: other" in a blog post. Why would the flair for a Reddit post even be in the corpus? Your app is billed as a writing tool, but this seems like a Reddit title and flair generator.
China shut down travel inside the country, which is something no one wants to do in the US.
Your last paragraph is correct. I think that's what Gates is advocating for as well. But it's hard to implement when hospitals are overwhelmed. He's proposing one serious shutdown to calm things down before we gradually go back to normal life.
I think anyone who's used a lawnmower knows the concept but not necessarily the name.
This would have been better if it was a joke. Big welcome to our new moral police, now encoded in two bits of a vanity IP address! Not a word spared for what kind of content is filtered, how they evaluate websites, any kind of appeals process... they did manage to portray it as helping the COVID-19 pandemic relief, though.

Edit: I missed this text:

> In the coming months, we will provide the ability to define additional configuration settings for 1.1.1.1 for Families. This will include options to create specific whitelists and blacklists of certain sites. You will be able to set the times of the day when categories, such as social media, are blocked and get reports on your household's Internet usage.

Regardless, I am still opposed to this service, and opposed to all forms of internet censorship and spyware. CloudFlare is already really bad for the internet, and this isn't helping their case.
I would just note that what you're saying is, he hasn't done enough to help Americans. You are one of the richest Nations on earth and should be able to help your citizens without requiring a billionaire to buy the presidency. what Bill gates has done is improve the lives of many millions of people in less developed countries, but that's not enough for you because you don't benefit or see the benefits for your country.
Did you report this to us? Would be interested to know why.
China could retaliate if US brings new chip sanctions
just awesome, vendor lock-in on a whole new scale.
Yea I would not even bother with automatic translations.
>it gets stuck in the traffic exactly like everyone else's car

Ohhhh no no it is waaaay different because I make the lights that you don’t. Yes sometimes get stuck in traffic but not nearly as much. I can observe speed limits and still be way ahead of you because of the acceleration speed (quickness). Acceleration ability also means being able to keep longer follow distance in traffic without losing chances to pass safely when they open up.
> I'd be a little surprised if the weak NTLM hash is still on by default in current versions of Windows

Even if it didn't, which I'm not sure about, they still need to send one if you're trying to open a samba share. This attack works by presenting a UNC link to a samba share, which (when the user accepts the credential prompt) will send a nice compatible NTLM password hash.
Hello, weather app developer here (https://wg.tomaskafka.com)

As multiple people speculated on reasons, I believe it is very simple - before the acquisition, Apple didn't have weather data, and thus was forced to direct their users to weather.com, which is a terrible, ad-infested (and probably personal data harvesting) experience.

Don't forget, every weather provider gets hourly access to your real location, which is very valuable.

Dark Sky acquisition fixes that.
I experienced a similar thing while testing it. Had it on another monitor with an app in full screen and it just locked onto a single frame.
The contrast between Norway and Sweden is particularly stark.
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The point of these models is to estimate peak utilization of health facilities, not to predict outcomes of different remedies after the initial suppression period.
I am not a die hard libertarian but went through my libertarian phase and read a lot of "die hard" literature. My guess would be that the die hards are people who are libertarian on moral grounds rather than utilitarian grounds. That is, they would see the exercise of state power as illegitimate as a moral principle. So the approach to dealing with a pandemic would be:

1. Get out of the way of private actors trying to do things to help. Completely deregulate the manufacture of Respirators, ventilators and other PPE. Get the FDA out of the way of trying new medications and vaccines, etc.

2. Restricting people's freedom to move and peaceably assemble is wrong on it's face so it is irrelevant whether it helps stop the pandemic or not. Would forcibly arresting and isolating in a quarantine camp in Alaska anyone who tests positive stop or slow COVID-19 from spreading? Maybe, but I think that we would still not accept such a course of action on moral grounds.

Again, not positions I hold but that would be my guess on how a die hard libertarian would think about it.
I'm in NYC and it's the reverse. Amazon / Whole Foods is a nightmare for delivery. OK, workflow is I spend 30 minutes putting things in my cart. Sometimes as I click it says No Longer Available. Eventually I get to check out. No delivery slots available. I check back again a few hours later. Now most things have been autoremoved from my cart. Try again. Same result. Tried every few days for two weeks.

Instacart had same day delivery and a shopper that interacts with you on the app to ask about substitutions, using the automation of the app, and sometimes chat and pictures. Great luck with that.

The Amazon grocery shopping experience has been an absolute nightmare. I've stopped even bothering.
This is not only about people who disable js, but also about people with disabilities who would benefit from accessibility features on your app. With this arguement, we should also ignore them, since they might not be the ones making the most traffic i.e. revenue for us.
There is also the increasing number of users who disable trackes out of privacy concerns. At lease most of the marketing guys I've seen still assume what trackers show is all there is.
Abusers are like an exponentially worse than a typical asshole. They have no shame and will do anything to get their way. They are highly manipulative, but at more controlling and intimate level. They get into the head of their victims to control them with guilt, shame, "love", affection, blackmail, isolation, access to children, etc and reinforce that control with physical abuse.

The manipulation makes it difficult for the victim to act. Family suspects the victim is a little unglued, Friendships are disrupted early on, etc.

Read about this guy as an extreme example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Raniere

This guy was a self-help guru type who leveraged guilt and blackmail to literally build a company around having a harem of sex slaves.
It's not like he's been to medical school, or has he? So far all I've seen, including your comment, boils down to "Trust him, he's rich."
It's a non scalable outreach tactic. It's not a strategy.

Yes it has a good chance to work, if you are willing to spend hours researching your target, hours producing free content for that target, and insisting until the target gives up and give you what you want.
I'm so sick and tired of this conspiracy theory going all around reddit. Do we have any reason to disbelieve China's numbers are orders of magnitudes wrong? China's numbers are wrong in the same way Italy and USA's numbers are wrong, because data collection is flawed. It is also very plausible to claim China has incentive to hide new infections in their country. Even US has incentive to have this to minimize the panic. But claiming a country with 1.3 billion people, who recently accepted WHO to audit their pandemic management has a massive epidemic when they're reporting almost no new patients is "US didn't go to the moon" level conspiracy theory. Please put your tin foil hat away.
I love the big knobs and switches on my 2013 Honda Fit. They are big and chunky so it's easy to tell the difference between the vent and the temperature on the AC. Everything about it is simple and ergonomic. Although I kind of wish I went with the manual instead of the automatic sometimes.

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/honda/fit/2013/photos-in...