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> The point is to prevent the medical infrastructure from becoming overwhelmed

I think this is clear for most people. I'm not American but I've watched Trump recent talk and they explained this clearly in a way everybody could understand.

What they didn't explain though is the post-lockdown strategy.

Most likely, in a few weeks, only a small fraction of the US population will be immune, and the problem won't be solved anymore than it was before the lockdown (except that the country is stalled). The virus will still be there, and there won't be any vaccine. I'd like them to think a few steps ahead and tell us what will be their plan.
This video was published on January 23rd. At that point, China had less than 1k confirmed cases and less than 30 deaths. I agree with the sibling commenter, this was a very reasoned and factual video, especially considering the information that was public at the time.
Their website is one of the clearest and easiest to navigate parts website I've ever come across. I just wish there was an equivalent for motorcycles.
I've been the person at the app banning voip numbers. The problem is there are some services that make it very easy to obtain a voip number at no cost to the user; if they don't have effective protections against bulk registration, spammers abuse them to get thousands of numbers and then use those numbers to abuse the service I was at.

Forcing spammers to have a non-voip number raises their costs, sometimes significantly, reducing their ROI and their interest in spamming our users.

We tried to make exceptions where we could, but it does suck for real people using voip numbers for whatever reasons.
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That absolute confidence is what makes them popular with their audience and they will suffer no consequences as a result.
So then similar kinds of damage should occur in flu-induced pneumonia patients. (if those assumptions are true, etc)
If mitigation works it will look like the virus was over-hyped and was never a real threat because death tolls will be low.
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Here is a decent place to start [for anyone truly unaware of the history of bad climate predictions]:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=bad%20climate%20predictions
There's a really nasty that is looming in my nightmares. Hurricane season is coming earlier now, due to warming, and the Hurricanes are bigger. And The South is going to be in the thick of the epidemic in mid to late may.
I see one prediction from an actual modern climate scientist. It reads:

"So the climate will continue to change, even if we make maximum effort to slow the growth of carbon dioxide. Arctic sea ice will melt away in the summer season within the next few decades. Mountain glaciers, providing fresh water for rivers that supply hundreds of millions of people, will disappear - practically all of the glaciers could be gone within 50 years. . . Clearly, if we burn all fossil fuels, we will destroy the planet we know . . . We would set the planet on a course to the ice-free state, with sea level 75 metres higher. Climatic disasters would occur continually."
I'm having the exact same experience. I live a few miles from the first outbreak location near Seattle. I first started experiencing symptoms at the end of February. Shortness of breath, extreme fatigue, loss of appetite, dry cough, and a fluctuating temperature that never went beyond mild fever (37.5C / 99.5F). My most concerning symptom was the sensation that I just couldn't get enough air.

I went to the ER one night in early March because I felt like I was going to pass out. They gave me a chest X-ray, blood tests, nasal flu swab, and ECG. Everything came back normal. No pneumonia visible in the X-Ray.

I continued to rest and recover, and things finally started to get back to normal a couple weeks ago. I thought I'd kicked this thing, whatever it was. But then the shortness of breath returned. (I've not had fever or cough.) I've cycled like this -- between struggling for breath and feeling normal -- for over 4 weeks now. I'm currently experiencing another downturn where I find it difficult to breathe normally. During my difficulties breathing, I find that standing up seems to help the most.

I'm open to the possibility that this is psychogenic. I've tried to avoid reading about the news, and that helps to distract me. But there doesn't seem to be any obvious psychological trigger to my breathing difficulties. I just wish I could get back to normal.
> Very nearly 100% of experts in this field agree it's happening, have agreed for quite a while, and think the impact will be dire and potentially irreversible in the timeframe of human lifetimes.

The consensus regarding climate change (and human's role in it) has been exagerated[0]

[0]https://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-climate-falseh...
Time flies. It really didn't feel like 7 years ago.
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I can relate to this.
Here's what's worked for me. Don't work on it alone. Get more eyes on it. See if other people find it useful. Get feedback. It's quite motivating to see your side project helping someone else. But it's also important to know when to stop.
Though the delivery wasn't as polite as it could have been, I believe it was valid criticism.
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TOTP apps are fine, if they're properly implemented (either completely on-device, or properly encrypted before stored in cloud). Services should properly implement account restoration codes if access to TOTP secret is lost. SMS should never be used for 2FA, ever.
"like him or hate him, his administration is using it skillfully"

I couldn't agree more.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-havin...

Not many people could survive this, then become president.
I like NAPA/Oreilly where you can see whats in a store and have them set the parts aside for you so they are there when you get there.
When and why people got things wrong is also important. People who underestimated COVID-19 in January because evidence of its lethality and r0 were scant are somewhat different from people who downplayed the virus in March because it aligned them with a particular political figure. Similarly, it's a lot easier to sympathise with the epidemiologists who will turn out to have massively overestimated casualties because we took unprecedented action to shut down society to avoid them than the people still organising mass events or the people who have concluded that the disease is best stopped by attacking 5G masts.
I think it's important to also understand that, despite broad name recognition, Nintendo isn't a huge company in the way that Sony or Microsoft is. Their entire corporate revenue for 2019 was about $11b USD with about $2.3b USD in operating income. We regularly talk about startups here that are technically larger.

What Nintendo's philosophy boils down to in terms of business strategy is using the fact that they are smaller and more nimble to allow creative solutions to make it to market. We see the exact opposite from Microsoft/Sony where their strategy is pushing the highest possible technology they can get to consumers at a reasonable price, and their solutions are virtually interchangeable with fairly minor differences in overall tech.

While Microsoft and Sony's revenues per platform are around the same, their console businesses are small pieces of very large organizations -- with all the ossification that comes from being huge companies.

It's also helpful that culturally Nintendo is a toy company, and thinks about the platforms and games (and toys) they create in terms of principles of play vs. electronic experiences. You can really tell this in their games, where each game feels like an integrated toy system with figures, playsets, very light stories, and a fair amount of open ended play (within the rules of the "toy"). Nintendo's focus is on how to create this play experience, and what's the right amount of technology needed for it instead of launching a rocket into orbit so that I can mow my lawn in the dark.
I've started playing with it but definitely haven't gotten far - behaves very much like Airtable with more focus on the less "tabular" layouts. Like if Airtable Blocks were first-class citizens.
They made the right decision. Communication in online gaming is poison and only gets worse and worse over time. Keep your kids off of it as much as you can.
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I've found a well-curated Twitter feed of smart sources from various ideological and media camps helps to find interesting and informative info which would otherwise take a great deal of time to find. You do get misinfo and bad takes sometimes, but if you set it up right it's no worse than mainstream sources. Lists are useful as well to avoid Twitter's feed curation algos.

Just specifically for COVID-19, this led me to:

- Pay closer attention to the pandemic in China and request testing for my daughter when she had flu symptoms in late January while traveling (the CDC had no tests, of course)

- Begin using masks and gloves while going to groceries and other stores long before it was in common use and the value of masks had been acknowledged

- Mentally and materially prepare my family for an extended quarantine period long ahead of when the necessity was broadly acknowledged
Only with government intervention. If company A switches to more expensive domestic manufacturing while company B stays on the other side of the planet, B can undercut A. Next time there is a supply disruption, A will be able to beat out B, but A might be out of business by then. Government intervention would be required to even the field, maybe through tariffs or importation prohibitions.

An alternative would be for company A to appeal to the public (or business customers) to buy from them at a higher price because it helps keep society from being disrupted by supply chain interruptions. That might work short term but cheap prices seem to win out over concerns of societal wide benefits in the long run.
In ballet, being invited into pointe class is a big deal coming of age for ballet dancers. It represents their first step to becoming a real ballet dancer. Dancers don't get to do pointe until/unless they are good enough. It takes a few years of non-pointe ballet and not everyone gets invited to do it.

I think it appeals to people who strive to be recognized as elite members of a group. My daughter couldn't wait to get into pointe class. However, once she got in and did it a couple a years she moved on from ballet. But she still gets admiration when it comes up that she did pointe and was in a couple of Nutcrackers.

I remember when my daughter's cohort were invited to start pointe. They were all so proud and happy. Now, for the first time the Ballet Mistress would spend time with them, personally showing them how to sew the ribbons on their toe shoes, talking to them about foot care and pain, and so on.

It is a bit like if a figure skater learns to land single Axels in competition. Most people never get there. (Let alone triples or quads that we are used to seeing on TV). Landing single Axels in competition was the first separator of competitive skaters from recreational skaters. I think pointe is similar in ballet.
Caveat - "if the numbers of cases and deaths from the new coronavirus remain stable."
It might be more useful to think of Brim in terms of "a different zoom level" than "better than". Wireshark focuses on showing as much detail as it can about every packet that you see. If you have a lot of packets this will burn a corresponding amount of CPU time and memory. Brim, Packet Analyzer (mentioned in another comment), and other tools zoom out a bit and let you process a larger number of packets, but with less detail. If needed you can pass the interesting and relevant ones to Wireshark for more detailed inspection and analysis.

Disclosures: Wireshark pays for my mortgage. My employer makes Packet Analyzer. I'm friends with people at Brim.
at compiler time, you can type check and statically validate. Doing things at runtime with lit-html where things are in a string, quickly falls apart in a large project. One of my biggest griefs with Angular was that you could miss an ending tag in the template and it would work fine until it blows up in production when a customer accesses that specific scenario.

I stay away from magic templates compiled at runtime. I've been bitten way too many times. Plus it's not good for load performance when you have to ship a string compiler with your code.
Whoa! Congrats to Gil and the rest of the team back at Factual. I'm eternally grateful to them for giving this ex-bioinformatician a shot and starting my career as a data engineer, I learned from some of the very best. They were doing some brilliant stuff, both from a technical standpoint and an organizational standpoint, so I am glad to see them continuing forward!

Gil is also responsible for bringing Google to LA when they bought his previous company Applied Semantics so he had a lot of cultural imprint on that office as well.
Bikebandit's website isn't too bad after you figure out how to select your bike.
Where I work, anyone in the world can read my emails. You just have to make a request, and we have 15 days to provide the email. There are some cut-outs like attorney/client communication or health related, but pretty much any email I’ve ever sent or received is subject to inspection by any member of the public. (Most government entities have a similar law and it generally more open than the Fed’s FOIA.
This is like saluting Aung San Suu Kyi for being able to pivot to genocide. I'm not going to give a company any plaudits for selling personal data to advertisers, no matter what their starting point.
Is there an API?
>> using them (tax incentives) is good

that's a 180 from your initial comment

>> Avoiding the behaviour they were supposed to stimulate but avoiding taxes

I very clearly stated that I was talking about legal means. If a company claims a tax deduction for an action it did not actually perform, that would be illegal.

>> recent crisis tax reliefs

I can't speak to non-US policy, but in the US, the recent stimulus is not a tax relief bill, and thus inapplicable (though I will agree there is likely to be a lot of fraud).
Even if there is, there are still so many different carriers in the world. I doubt all of them are going to implement safeguards against this, which means that accounts will be at risk as long as websites rely on these phone numbers.
I'm pretty sure that a significant portion of the developers for those mentioned games may not strongly agree with your opinion.
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We as a society are in need of a long-term, detailed collective memory of evidence of credibility.

But that is only useful if credibility is highly valued.

Neither are true of our society today. People both forget what someone said yesterday, or if they remember then they decide it didn't matter that much they were wrong.
Is your experience since before or after https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2020/march/dl-access-... ? Seems strange they would offer Open Access and then ban people for accessing things.
I read "five minutes" as being hyperbolic, but it could simply be a rapid deflation of interest even without gaining new knowledge. I've read about creating a roguelike but didn't have the interest to really go forward with it.
sweet. I just made some buckwheat crepes the other day. Buckwheat is really high in magnesium which is awesome
Incidentally, I went the other way. I somehow got fixated on my breathing[1], and "thought" (rationally I knew it was wrong, but the anxiety overrides) that I wasn't breathing enough unless I forced myself to, to the point I didn't sleep for multiple nights as I was convinced I would be in trouble if I fell asleep. Got a cheap O2 sat. meter, checked it was above ~95, even after holding my breath for tens of seconds, and after a couple of hours it didn't bother me anymore. I think seeing actual evidence was enough to jolt me out of it, at least in that case.

Still got my baseline, for lack of a better word, OCD compulsions, but they're at least somewhat more manageable than that was.

[1] OCD/GAD can sometimes latch onto some weird things out of the blue, at least for me - having a diagnosis of central sleep apnea didn't really help either
My favorite from Target was eight Contigo travel mugs (bought for holiday gifts) that came in a very large box with no padding. Even though they could have clanked around and gotten very scratched, they were all OK. Sort of a miracle, but it didn't give me much confidence in Target.com.

And you can't state quantities on the Target.com site when you select an item. You have to go into the cart and change the quantity. That's something most sites do better.

Also, I understand it's a difficult time inventory-wise, but don't let me put stuff in my cart if you can't deliver it and won't let me order anything until I remove them. Give me a "save for later" feature ... like Amazon does.
I mean technically that is stealing but I guess its pretty low on the scale of "bad stuff".
Each day, you have to read CNN, Fox, Reuters, the Economist, the Center for Disease Control, and some of the better local newspaper sites to figure out what's going on. Ignore what they choose to put on the home page. Even Fox News is not totally out of touch with reality once you get off the home page and ignore the opinion section.
I would say this is a problem with type systems. Programming languages (including SQL) mostly just have one type for “integers”, or possibly a few types for different numbers of bytes of storage.

“Priority” and “array index” and “number of cantaloupes” and “age on 1-Jan-2020” may all be represented by integers but they’re all very different types.

Hungarian tried to solve this, sort of, but it’s at the wrong level. It’s not going to know which ones of these sort in which direction.
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You seem to be mentally unstable. There is nothing insulting about being skeptical. I have facts to back my statements, can you say the same for yourself?
I’m not sure that’s true. Some objective “truth” exists in the world whether it’s noticed and reported correctly or not (the tree falling in the woods), and some news outlets (NYT) report this truth more accurately than others (Fox News). It’s misleading to insist on “both siding” to make a mountain of untruths from one outlet seem to be the same size as a molehill of untruths from the other.
I look at it a bit differently. If someone's pushing the line "just listen to the experts," then it should be acknowledged that experts do get it wrong and have massively dropped the ball on COVID-19. The signs of how lethal and contagious the virus is were there in China for anyone to read by early January.

Of course, "experts (in particular our experts) don't know what they're doing" is different from "... and therefore you should listen to any yahoo who says it's 5G."
Then I don't understand why are you saying that WAN is dropping packets all the time. That's not the case for me. It happens, but it means that my Internet is almost unusable and it's rare event. I'm pinging various websites from time to time (because I play online games and dropped packets is very dangerous) and those pings are just fine. Unless it's common occurrence to pass ping packets but drop data packets, that's not happening for me.
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Email might get compromised more often, but that's usually due to some kind of user error. The problem with these sim swapping attacks is that the only way as a user to guard against this is not to give the company your phone number. This often means that you can't do 2FA.
Most of the really good and informative papers and books have no time limit. I think the papers and resources that made the biggest impact on me would have been easily dismissed by junior-me because of being before 2010 but fortunately, less-junior-me read them anyway and they changed how I work in many ways for the better.
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hits too close to home.
>I see one prediction from an actual modern climate scientist.

The original conversation was regarding all public statements, not scientists. This is more about journalists than scientists.

>...and consider how it applies to all the people who have made confident predictions over the years regarding global warming.
What would be the point of the government giving people a check only to immediately take some back as taxes? Why not just give less?
Microservice design was not meant for [only] a simpler system but ease of dividing people into smaller teams where a team could focus on a single objective without worrying about rest of the company.

If the microservice architecture has made you less productive than the top leadership is to be blamed.
Honest sites let you enter a zip code at the very start of the shopping process and display an estimated shipping cost as you're looking at items. Dishonest sites make no mention of shipping costs until you're at the very end of the checkout process.
In case anyone else is wondering, the spreadsheet gives a total cost for the project of 1,448,100.00, without specifying any units. I think it's safe to assume the price is in Nigerian naira. Given an approximate (Google-provided) exchange rate of 0.0026, this works out to $3,765.06.
>> CNN/Fox/MSNBC

One of those is not like the other two.

CNN and MSNBC may not be as high quality as WaPo/NYTimes in terms of depth and quality of journalism, but they also don't maliciously and cynically and shamelessly lie to their viewers.
Sweetwater is good. BHPhotoVideo is also excellent for music stuff (as well as tech in general). Free shipping, great service, affiliated payboo credit card that covers sales tax, saves me 10% on every order.
It's not clear why anyone just learning about programming would need to know this, but somehow already know what unicode and binary are?
That is from Jan 23, 2020... when everyone was clueless as to the consequences so she didn’t predict those.

Everything else is spot on, and it is still mostly older people with underlying conditions dying. She says the death rate is 2%: no pretending that it would be like a normal flu season.

I just can’t see how you can cherry-pick a single thing out of that reporting to criticise, even given it was done on January 23rd!
I've also had great experiences with Rock Auto. I've been ordering the occasional part from them for about 10 years. Shipping can be expensive but everything comes pretty quick.

Some parts are cheap but they're also inexpensive.
Reading this entire thread, something became very clear to me: there is STILL a lot of room for improvement to be made for online e-commerce. Someone should invent a local-first inventory-first Amazon
I think it's safe to say you shouldn't expect any privacy when it comes to your work computer.

If you look in Chrome's privacy settings, you may notice: "Your administrator can change your browser setup remotely. Activity on this device may also be managed outside of Chrome". Considering I've granted Google Hangouts screen/webcam/microphone access, I'm assuming they can access my screen/webcam/microphone whenever.
Same. I have like 10 or so days a year when I’m so quick-thinking, motivated, optimistic, and energetic, I feel like if I kept it up for a year I’d take over the damn world.

But it’s just a day every now and then, so doesn’t amount to much. I do wonder whether most high-achievers wake up feeling that way more days than not. God damn life would be so easy and pleasant if that were the case.
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