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Life is not a movie, some stuff is just hard ...

I think this sort of language is why a lot of non-professionals are sort-of balking. Life currently is like a movie. A zombie or some similar disaster movie, a situation where things are changing fast, where the normal plans are expected to fail.

...and requires a long time of training before we'll let you go 'solo'. One mistake and someone ends up dead, there are no do-overs, there is no undo button.

We are talking about a situation, coming up in X many days, when it won't be a matter of the authorities "letting" people try but a matter of the entire health system being overwhelmed. What are the other, workable plans you have for people dying in the parking lots of the emergency room? And yeah, this is a different world, one where we expect people to end up dead and we're asking how to decrease that are much as possible.

This horrible movie is the consensus of most projections. The question is not "could we deal with this? Can we play doctor, please!" but rather "how should we best deal with an ongoing disaster where we're assured, the doctors will be gone. Surely there's something one could beside 'die in place'?".

The last thing ICU's need right now is on top of all the stress already going on there to be overrun by eager rookies that are trying to help.

If the ICUs have a different, workable plan for when they are overrun with a massive number of patients, I'll be tremendously happy. The only thing I hear is "this won't work" "but what can we do?" "don't you understand that this won't work"....
A good editor can handle them without any trouble. I just downloaded Moby Dick from Project Gutenberg and opened it in Emacs. It opened instantly, I could immediately go the end (line 22333), scroll around, count the words (there are around 222617), count the ocurrences of the word 'whether' (there are 91, the last of which is on line 21769), make a change somewhere in the middle. All of this is instant.

You can do all that instantly in Vim too (... and I just checked to make sure). A megabyte of text is just not a lot of text for a good editor.
I took "mega" to imply "right wing."
“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear”

Informative?

"There's a theory that, in April, when it gets warm, historically, that has been able to kill the virus,"

Informative?

"when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away."

I could go on. And on, and on. But I doubt it will make any difference, whatsoever.
If 3 out of a sample of 5 are meeting, then they aren't outliers.

I agree, it would have been good to do a proper study, but surely you agree that the fact that these three are open is newsworthy, no? It's not science, it's journalism.

Did you similarly complain about the rigor of all the articles last weekend written about people being irresponsibly crowded in parks and on beaches?
Infected is obviously "tested positive". I'm not sure how that's any different whether they have a light cough or they're dead? They still tested positive for covid 19
NYU is full of crackpots!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nyu-dean-sends-dance-video-in-r...
They were bought out by a company from Cali. Bright Agrotech started in Laramie Wyoming.

Their first "major" greenhouses were behind the building that my company was in. Really interesting people.
I think there’s a perfectly good reason for their nigh-monopoly: Pantone has been clawing their way to the top of the space of talking about color for a little under sixty years now, with a constantly-updated set of references that they managed to get into every commercial artist’s toolkit for a big part of that span of time.

That said a quick check suggests that the average corporate lifespan is anywhere from 20-60 years, depending on the list, so they may be ripe for disruption.
A congregation of 500 is not a “megachurch”, >10,000 is.
The point is to see if it's flattening out or not over time. Clearly for the USA it isn't. Exponential curves start getting useless after a while from a trendline perspective .
You never know:
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=emr_na...
Can you blame him?

Because rest assured, a lot of people would have tried to.
The phrase "the Media's stance" refers to the media as a whole, the average of all media. By definition the average will be between the least and the greatest, which means by definition the Media's stance on a topic will always be too P-slanted for Q-ists and too Q-slanted for P-ists.
Can you account for the value of human life in the atheistic worldview? Bags of chemicals, here by pure, unintended happenstance, is hardly a high view of humanity.

Who will be around listening to these stories once the universe cools?
That's what our media has to offer? An interview by a comedian? I agree we need Fauci to walk us through it. I'd like a panel interview conducted by a reputable interviewer.
We had started tentatively using teams before all this. Now it's a critical part of our day-to-day functioning and you know what? It's not bad, not bad at all. It's pretty well thought out, reliable, integrated with Outlook and Sharepoint.

Even the few people who complained that they wouldn't use it because there wasn't a phone number to call for telecons were overcome when we told them to just install the app and join the conference that way.

For internal work, it's actually been a lifesaver. Webex and other solutions have failed to hold up under the strain while Teams has more or less just kept marching on.

I have a feeling as this goes on for the next few months Teams users will not go back to the fractured fragile mess of other apps we tried to get along with before hand.

Hell, there's even a halfway decent Kanban built in.
I just thought of a joke, "Only Catholic churches should be considered 'essential services' during the quarantine, since Protestants don't need it to know God."

I thank you for your comment, that you seem to be sincere in expressing your beliefs. I cannot help but express my absolute astonishment that this level of "proving your love by risking your life" exists in educated society.

I also have never heard of Church described in terms of "honor and sacrifice" in a positive manner. I have never known that church was seen as so mandatory by a Christian faith that you should risk your life to go, excepting human oppression.
You mean the myth circulated by the current president of the United States that CoVID-19 is a Democratic hoax?
The degree of stupidity is simply unimaginable, therefore it has to be real.
Possibly, but we do believe that God's priesthood is a divine institution, thus God will select members for it. Those selected will begin to have a natural inclination towards the priesthood, though because of the gift of free will, they have the choice whether to accept or deny the calling.
Why is there a 300 LED limit?
In elementary school I got taught about six-kingdom system, so I am surprised there's been an update in 1990. To which domain do viruses belong? Still an odd exception?
If they want to go be with their god, who am I to deny them? They're gonna see him sooner than they thought if they keep at it. I'll just do my best to stay far away from them.
Congregants of megachurches in Louisiana, Ohio and Florida attended services in defiance of social distancing orders

That's pretty intentional.

I think I get what you mean, that the decision isn't being made with the intention of risking their health. But they are risking the health of their congregations, because they think they know better.
Fill them, sand or sawdust or something, and fragility might be less of an issue? Even just for windows it's a lovely idea. I'd worry about the strength, people living in glass houses would worry about shards.
How big is the fleet? Can i 'geofence' my code so that it only runs when over a certain part of the planet?
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Cute downvotes! Looks like the Venn diagram of butthurt Evangelicals and Hacker News users is more like a snowman’s silhouette than a Figure 8.
For what it's worth, some (most?) Catholic diocese in the U.S. are not having services and the usual requirement to attend is not in effect.
To be fair, you don't need a gym to get out and move regularly or have serious exercise. Lot of people just got in the park every day, and plenty of exercises exist that use only body weight for strength training. You're not going to become Arnie in his prime, but you'll be fit.
You don't have the right to expose other people you interact with in life just because of your fatalistic belief system. If you and your group are completely quarantined that's one thing, but otherwise this is unconscionably irresponsible.
That sounds a bit like the recognizance on HN a while ago that everything has a political dimension. What made you think this might be different?
I believe in a God, it's called a vaccine, and I got the numbers to prove it (polio, small pox, etc).
Growing food crops with artificial light is the most moronic idea I’ve ever heard.
Trump isn't really that conservative, he's just an egomaniac without any real principles. The conservative nutjobs have just latched onto him and made him their new savior, for now.

Notice how Trump's story changes rapidly. Early on, he was saying it was a liberal hoax or something. Now he's taking it seriously because he wants to look like a great leader in a time of crisis. The only thing he's consistent about is wanting to make himself look good. Luckily, for now, that's moved to actually doing the right things for the most part to deal with this (though it would have been a lot better if he hadn't screwed up so much earlier). True conservatives aren't like this: they are very principled, even if I don't agree with their principles at all. Somehow, they just haven't figured him out yet, or they're just using him for their own ends.
Wow I just realized that I did not practice good safety years ago when I used to solder stuff. Now I have p100 filters for working with solvents and de-lead soap and all that.

But that picture of the solder scourer made my brain tickle in that really uncomfortable way when you realize you fd up.

Now I should go look up whether or not smoke from melting/burning diodes is really bad for you. Probably it is :(
Good analysis. That said, this is one of those things where, yeah, if I soldered more than a few times a year, I'd probably worry about it. As it is, cumulatively speaking I probably breathe in more hazardous crap when I'm driving than when I'm soldering with a fan blowing the smoke away from my face.
Worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 according to the idiots at foreignpolicy.com
Yeah Biblical etymology and comparison with original languages is its own rabbit hole. See definition of word day in Genesis chapter 1 and how many conservative American churches don't do a very deep dive.
This did work for me but I had to install Chrome, it told me to install a "modern, updated browser" in the most recent Firefox and Safari. I assume they are abusing some anti-user capability in Chrome but I trust it more than any Zoom client.
This is the effect of the Fox News propaganda machine. This was literally a "Democratic hoax" two weeks ago. Many people are desperate to believe in the pap that flows out of that network.
Maybe I'm the first to bring up this comparison, but don't people deliver babies incidentally all the time (couldn't make it in time to the hospital, etc.) An event where I'm sure some would say only a doctor is qualified to handle it. And yet we still do what we have to.
I wonder, in such moments is it better to layoff completely or put the employees in perhaps pre-aggreed 20 to 25% work regimes, in order to be flexible when the times are good again? Because eventually, they will.
Some pastors have bills to pay on their second and third McMansions. Never mind the hangar fees for the Learjet. Please think of the needy.
I think there was a previous discussion on this article a couple of days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707365

The link there is non-paywalled.
The novel that imprinted itself on me the most when I was a teenager was described by Publisher's Weekly as follows: (though I didn't run across this until recently)

"Writing with a pretentious, almost adolescent sensibility and a bad case of logorrhea, --- whines unremittingly in a single-pitched, overwrought stream of consciousness that will probably alienate most readers...

...premise is interesting enough, her characters are one-dimensional monomaniacs engaged in a disturbingly simple-minded, voyeuristic search for altered states in bona fide pathology"

Or, as some reviewer on Amazon said, this book sucks because the characters are all losers.
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It's really not that complicated. "Stop paying for everything except for persistent storage" is sufficient for the majority of use-cases where a soft cap would be appropriate. When you need to do anything fancier, you can just continue to use alarms as you do now. A tool does not have to solve every problem that might ever exist to be useful.
Most employees will not accept this and would rather go work somewhere full time, and can find such work since the FAANGs shouldn’t be too harshly impacted.
It's better for you if you aren't breathing the rosin smoke which comes out in greater quantities at the higher temperature you have to use. Since there are an awful lot of people breathing rosin smoke maybe there's still a place for lead solder. (Pragmatically, vents are not very common, and few people will buy a vent when switching to lead free.) Rosin smoke is a serious danger and the number one cause of occupational asthma.
> Which is more humiliating for evil? Being instantly defeated by an omnipresent, all-powerful God, or having been resisted and fought against by comparatively weak human beings who gave their all in resistance?

That's not the whole set of choices. There is also the 'painful defeat by a small virus for which there is at present no cure' and 'spreading that virus around to others who do not share your particular beliefs'.

God - assuming one exists - isn't moving that virus around, but you are.
Leaded solder just way easier to work with, unfortunately. I agree. I’ll stick with it because some simple precautions make just about every “danger” involved moot.
Yelp is definitely in the fault here for starting gofundmes for restaurants without consent, but it’s not as if they murdered anyone. I tend to think that yelp genuinely had good intentions, as evidenced by the fact that they don’t profit off this and they would match donations to the gofundmes
It's asking them to self-select based on how much the priesthood appeals to them. Not all Christian denominations may agree that pastors must be celibate, but we all agree that leading a church isn't something you do from 9 to 5 while maintaining a normal life on the side.
>Welcome to a pandemic. Americans today aren't used to being vulnerable. If anything, it's just a reminder of how thin the facade we project on the world actually is.

No, the problem is that America has an incompetent government. China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have shown how to handle this thing with reasonable degrees of competence. We have not.

Plagues and diseases have been around since long before humans. Dealing with them is one of the functions of civilized society, and ours is failing, while other nations are doing far better jobs. But of course, Americans never want to look outside their borders at how other countries do things.
As someone that's not religious, I never understood prayer. I mean if God already has a plan for everything and everyone, wouldn't the prayer already been taken into consideration so that it shouldn't effect the outcome at all?
It would be surprising if marketing wasn't already down by 99% a month ago. Travel industry is going through an existential crisis. Even when the pandemic is controlled, it would take atleast 1-3 quarters for consumer confidence to be back enough to sustainable tourism industry. Corporate will also reduce travel because of scare and in general financial pressure.

Places like Maldives, Bali, Hawaii will be badly hit, as most of the economy is based on tourism.
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."

And, to be honest, most of us will give our lives for _something_ even if it isn't God. Whether it be pleasure, success, money, drugs, we all chose something to give our lives for.
"Start up" companies need to also cut down their frivolous expenditures such as office deco, unhealthy snacks, company boondoggle trips...and a long list of pareto tail items that if added can be a significant recurring cost to the business. It almost feels like when economy is good, instead of capitalizing on efficiency and perfection; the choice is instead to ship broken products and waste insane amounts of money - reminds me of pre-dotcom bubble when people were spending VC cash like there is no tomorrow. Use capital to increase business leverage. Employees are also at fault - startup folks demand such cool places to work because that's what everybody does. The effect compounds with no one looking at it from the bird's eyes perspective - not company leaders, not employees and not investors.
I know and I don't argue that. I gave 10x less deaths for that, which is generous - but that still means deaths counted in millions.
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Is the crisis being used as a bully stick against religion?
What is the formula/model used?
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The travel ban didn’t help much. There were thousands of US citizens flying back and probably hundreds of them already carrying the virus. The travel ban most likely slowed the spread down but looking at the situation today, it was insignificant.
Thanks for sharing this. I browsed a few posts and liked it. I thought it’d be nicer to have an archive page that shows all your creations (with clear thumbnails and links to download). It doesn’t have to be infinite scrolling. It could be a page with 20 posts each or so.
Catholic priest salary is not high: About $45K according to https://work.chron.com/much-catholic-priests-paid-12915.html. Certainly not McMansion territory, which is why you may notice the comparative lack of wealthy Catholic priests compared to Protestant denominations.
> or did you not read it through to the end?

Have you asked why he should feel okay about it?

The parent comment explicitly says context was ignored. He committed genocide/xenocide because he was literally being deceived and then spends the next 2 books regretting and making up for a move he wasn't responsible for.

The literal example here would be playing any video game but instead of it just being a game you were literally killing whatever the game is about.

In that case, wouldn't you feel that you were wrongly deceived? That you're not truly a killer? But in your eyes and the article's... you absolutely are a killer. 100% responsible and the book is wrong for teaching otherwise.

Pretty obtuse to think hold such a belief.
PostgreSQL kinda mimics the oracle way, though it only goes so far. The default definition of PostgreSQL's search_path is:

"$user", public

So if a schema was named the same as the user, you'd automatically have objects available without qualification.

I spent about a fair amount of time working with Oracle and it forces the paradigm of a schema meaning user much more than does PostgreSQL... though with some effort you can make it work somewhat like the logical namespacing capability that PostgreSQL schemas are used for.
It was 1800 people 7 days ago

https://www.brproud.com/health/coronavirus/central-church-ho...

Quote just for fun:

> Spell told BRPROUD that he believes covid-19 can be cured through “the healing hand of Jesus.” When asked what would happen should one of his parishioners test positive for the coronavirus, Spell referred to a passage from the Bible. “If that is our command, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.”
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/cgi-bin/mega/db.pl?db=default&uid=de...

The first 15 unique churches on this list that had active links are all meeting online. But the first 15 coin flips could be heads, I suppose.

It's newsworthy, but I'd much rather it be reported in a responsible way.
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In this case, wouldn't doing everything you could be stay at home and not help spread the virus? I mean, what would make God happier, no one dies and no one goes to church for a while, or everyone goes to church and some people die because of it?
Which is why we take reasonable (and even somewhat unreasonable) precautions, such as offering the mass with all people inside their vehicles, even though less than a dozen people have died in our state AFAIK. Going to a grocery store is certainly riskier in our area.
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I looked at a few of the instances (20 or so) and did not see any substantial increase over the past 4 weeks. Which instances are you seeing spiking up?
I don’t understand the level of outrage here, it doesn’t seem to match the reality of what happened which was Yelp trying to help small businesses in a way they can. The opt-out and heads up for sure could’ve been done better though. But I don’t think it deserves this much aggression.
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That culture of pressure never changed, and they are better for it.

The best analogy I can give you is this: Imagine your CTO just decides to walk up to your datacenter to throw open a breaker or few to verify that your failover and redundancy tech works correctly.

The CTO doesn't do this often - just once every few months. Each time the failure mode is different. Remove a live hard drive, disconnect some network switches, etc. The only reason she does it to is to emphasize the importance of these drills upon her VPs and directors.

They run drills of this nature on their teams every few days.
During the 2008 crisis, EMC^2's CEO Joe Tucci announced a company-wide cut in salary instead of laying off people... I think that was a prudent decision. Keeps morale high, team culture intact and plans in place. They did change the ESPP rules (close price) but never restored the old ESPP (min of open and close) after they restored the pay :-P
Right but you'd be utterly naive to expect companies which are still hiring to hire on the same generous terms of one year ago. I fully expect compensation, perks, and the "hiring bar", to begin to strongly favor the hiring companies who now get an even better pick of the litter.
PCC as well. Actually the ones not taking these steps are in the minority. Safeway and QFC are doing a few of these
Tin whiskers are a fact [1] and a reason why military and space applications only use leaded solder. I want my electronics to be reliable and last a long time, which is why I'll never use lead-free solder. Leaded solder is safe as long as you take basic precautions (e.g. use a fume extractor, wear gloves, don't lick the solder [2]).

[1] https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/

[2] https://www.edn.com/analog-guru-jim-williams-dies-after-stro...
Ironically the amount of people that want to get out of town for a weekend is likely higher than ever. Was just looking at flights tonight, $42 round trip from Columbus to San Diego on Spirit (pack light!) and $200 on pretty much any airline to any spot along the west coast. I'm working from home, my kids are either unencumbered or schooling remotely, really never been a better time to book a place for a month and get out of this undecided Ohio weather. Tis a shame...

Edit: I'm not really going to travel folks, lol.
I'd have to say The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand! The books taught me to stand up for my ideas and vision and not agree on inferior outcomes or decisions.
I think you're being a little overly optimistic. FAANGs will have pick of the litter, they're not just going to absorb all refugees from travel tech.
...but there actually was a liquid sodium reactor sub built in the 50s, from what I've heard.