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> The irony, it's the very definition of economic liberalism and what led to the current paradigm, globalism.

It doesn't mean it's the only path to a global economy.

> The pandemic is only global because trade is global and people can easily travel between countries.

The pandemic wouldn't be anywhere near as severe if there was a coordinated global response.

> the solution is to take back western industrial force from China

For that, you'll have to shut down economic liberalism, because otherwise the forces that caused the move of western industrial force into China will still be present, and will cause it again once the public forgets about the pandemic (i.e. in a year), and beancounters everywhere will be free to optimize the corporate balance sheets once again.
Why are they doing that? How is it easier than just having the app self install?
Real-time crowding info added to Transit app to help avoid crowds
The actual assumption is that with current social distancing, any outbreak will die down on its own on approximable dynamics. There is good evidence that this is so.

When we end social distancing, all bets are off. See http://www.healthdata.org/covid/faqs#length%20of%20the%20epi... to see that they are painfully aware of this and are explicitly not trying to model that.
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How does this impact someone like AirBnb? Other commentators made note of the fact that its loan with 10% interest rate is essentially non-investment grade. If the fed will buy junk bonds, does this prompt lenders to issue more of such instruments, thereby allowing companies like AirBnB or WeWork to float for as long as the Fed buys?
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> What I get from this is it's remarkable how inept the model established by 'economic liberalism', with its just-in-time delivery and 'globalized production to cheapest labour zone' is at delivering on people's real needs in time of crisis.

Indeed. The PPE/toilet paper/tasting kit/flour shortages are becoming farcical at this point. It feels like the Soviet Union, where wonderful pronouncements about the plenitude of _______ are made, but then you discover otherwise at the grocery, or the doctor.

Of course, in 2020, the solution to these problems is rationing.

It's almost as if rationing is the only way to solve these kinds of shortages. But since the rationing is per-shopping visit, people just hoard by hitting up multiple stores in one shopping trip...
> I realize the irony in doing more work to relax from work

I love work. Love it. I'd likely do 20-80 hours of work a week (it'd probably vary a ton week by week) even if I didn't need to have a job for income. Not as an employee, might not even manage to make money off any of it though I'd probably try sometimes, but it'd still be work.

I don't much like doing the same kind of work 40ish hours a week, week after week after week. Kinda hate that, actually. So I think doing "more work" to relax from work makes perfect sense. Work of a sort that I, in the moment, want to do is relaxing.
Canada, currently working in the States.
Some more context: DST was renamed to Mail.Ru Group, and is now owned by one of the russian oligarchs (Alisher Usmanov). They also control all the largest russian social networks (some like VK through hostile takeovers) and is widely reported to pipe all the data directly into russian secret services
What? You're still using you're default desktop
The amount of anti China sentiment in the US media is hyperbolic, that it is not possible to trust most US based media houses reports in this topic.

This topic has become too politicised by people and organisations with hawkish motives that sane discussion on this has become impossible.
If you can figure out how to turn off the part of people’s brains that wants to avoid them being part of the 5 to be sacrificed, you will have created world peace.

Otherwise, this is what peaceful cooperation looks like (I’ll give you this in exchange for that, where obviously the one with more desireable goods or services to trade will survive).
I'm not sure why you were downvoted for this but I share the same sentiment. I only use apps I'd they are essential or need to be apps. Automatic app updates are essentially a giant bait and switch.

Unneeded permissions are practically a cliche by now and the permissions that apps get are routinely abused. Give an app notifications and they will spam you while the app interface isn't running.

Some software doesn't even need to be native or connected. Word processors, calculator apps, many lower definition games and even image manipulation could be done with one fat webpage.html file.
If not open debate, then what is the approach you would take?
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I agree that video calls are great when used to create human connections and to vigorously debate - but little else. I've survived my share of Zoom meetings that should have been emails but it got WAY worse since the lockdown.
The ProtectLi boxes might cost a little bit more, but they seem to be really well made and of good quality. I moved from a PCEngines APU to a ProtectLi because I needed faster packet forwarding performance when I upgraded my home internet connection to 1 Gbps.
Yes, greenhouse gasses and lung effects aside, the sulphur mixes with carbon dioxide and other airborne oxides to becomes sulpher dioxide. This makes rain water acidic and causes the erosion on the Statue of Liberty.
Everybody screwed up. But journalists have a serious problem with exaggerating and outright falsifying controversies when their party is out of office.

That doesn't excuse the actions of Republican party members but it does destroy the credibility of the journalistic establishment. Which has devolved into a total cash grabbing, activist joke. And this happened before Trump.
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Is that really all it is though? Cases in point: Java Applets, VB, Flash, Dart ...
All of these were at one point or another "built into the browser", but where are they now?

VB was never built into all browsers. As far as Flash and Java applets, they were popular until they stopped being supported in all browsers - namely the iPhone and iPad.

Exhibit A: List of very different and diverse languages that compile to JS ( https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu.... ). If this does not demonstrate the flexibility and malleability of the language, then I do not know what does.

Almost any language can be transpiled into any other language. That says nothing about any trait inherent in the language.

Flash ActionScript was massive 10 years ago compared to any alternative to JS tech today, and where is it now?

Apple singlehandedly killed Flash by not supporting it on iOS.

CoffeeScript was all the rage 5 years ago, JS simply absorbed all its good ideas, where is it today?

CoffeeScript was never championed by a company that has the revenue and clout that MS has and never got the adoption. Please don’t mention all of the initiatives that Google tried. Google isn’t exactly known for its ability to manage a platform.
Not the person you're responding to but I do, or actually spacemacs does. The sequence would be $ -> J -> i -> ENTER -> ESC and I guess it's muscle memory.

I agree that this kind of indentation might not make sense on a collaborative project because different people have different standards, but if I'm the only one working on a piece of code I really think precise alignment makes the code a lot more readable.
If math isn't true, how are you typing this?
Maybe, in the sense that it could be politically destabilizing or something like that.
I prefer the Mark Twain version: “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
...nobody in academia uses python? I would strongly disagree. The whole point of this Swift library is to provide an alternative to PyTorch which is clearly very popular in the community.
> How can you compete with subsidies so heavy it's basically free?

Well we need to acknowledge the treat that is China first and foremost, which is hard for a entire generation of people who grew up addicted to China cheap goods.

China is a (bloody) dictatorship, they can plan a global strategy 50 years in advance. Our western countries are weak because of political whims and are unable to trace a clear strategy because we have been all about short term profit for 40 years now.
Icq definitely stole a lot from telegram.
Nah. Europe, most of the liberal world, are ready and recognize people add value.
I didn't claim they are heroes. I explicitly said that bad things do happen. I just want to stress that that doesn't negate the fact that good things also happen, and that all countries have good and bad things. Pointing out bad things is one thing; stereotyping and overly focusing only on the bad things is another.

As for Muslim camps: forced reeducation and deradicalization, yes; concentration/killing/genocide: no. Try these:

Daniel Dumbrill (Canadian living in China) on Uygurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6grvHceQsQ

Kim Iversen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff4YZBi4UTc

CGTN discussion on Xinjiang situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2yMjbB1q24 (disclaimer: yes this is Chinese state media, believe whatever you want, but I think it's still worth it to have heard this viewpoint)

And then there is also the fact that tens of Muslim countries officially approved of the Xinjiang situation. That's a bit odd, isn't it?

Now let me be clear: I am not claiming it's all roses and sunshine over there. It isn't, there are real problems, and people are indeed forced into things (though not killed), which is not good. But this is a more complex, nuanced situation than "China doesn't like Muslims so they kill them all".
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Or back in the day, post on f*ckedcompany. Though pud wouldn't bring that site back now. Back then it was because of irrational exuberance. Now, people are losing their jobs because of pandemic.
CCP does not understand that playing asymmetric games from business laws (booting Uber off of China for example), diplomacy and global influence, etc is damaging long term brand and goodwill.

In this pandemic, democratic nations are suffering more than authoritarian regimes purely by choice - complete Wuhan style measures are unacceptable say in Sweden. This asymmetry is going to give a short term boost to China. Long term, my opinion is that western democracies will realize what they’re against - all eggs in a single totalitarian basket - is a bad idea. Manufacturing and reliance on China will change.

It is already changing: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-04-08/japan...
ICQ means I seek you. Just in case you wondered.
Mistaken positive and mistaken negative may sound more intuitive.

Too many negativey terms being used:
null (hypothesis), false, negative, error
I am inclined to agree. At first I thought Redux was awesome, but eventually discovered that there is a lot of boilerplate and just a general overhead to doing certain things.

However, I definitely fall into the cluster of people that were "just told to use Redux". For my next React project I will certainly evaluate other approaches.
Lives could be at risk from thousands of new ventilators for the NHS
It is not that they are a good hero. It is that they are a system, not an evil cartoonish villain as a few in the west seems to think.
"Point of view is worth 80 IQ points."

Make that ±80…
The killer feature for me would be sending photos in original quality cross platform, but not sure if it's enough to warrant installing yet another IM app.
If you fork quietly, you can avoid the drama. Just do your thing and don't respond to anyone (in any forum) who isn't reasonable and civil. Don't start drama, don't feed drama.
> Any reasonably complete smoke or integration testing regime should expose this problem

But that's not without cost. At least in the Ruby world (and Bernhardt holds/held this view) integrated tests are to be avoided where possible because it creates a negative feedback loop of slow tests and an exponential number of tests that need to be written to achieve equivalent coverage.

> but more immediately I think developers should be actively testing the thing they are changing while they are changing it

This smells like the age-old discipline/rigour/professionalism platitude often trotted out by proponents of Software Craftsmanship. I'd rather embrace the fact that humans make mistakes and optimise for that, rather than hold people to unreasonable standards.

Furthermore, while I agree that people should be testing the thing they are changing while they are changing it, you appear to be implying that only one form of testing is acceptable here. Why not test the type signature? Why not a formal proof of correctness? Why not a property-based test? There are many ways to improve the chances of a piece of software to work. Restricting ourselves to only one of those ways is, quite frankly, dumb.

> Personally I dislike compilers and restrictive type systems in large part because they _inhibit_ this sort of rapid, iterative testing and fixing.

That's a fine opinion to have, but that's all it is. I've worked professionally with dynamic languages, and I hold the opposite view. I work with a few projects totalling about 60,000 lines of Haskell, and I feel the language enables rapid, iterative testing much more than Ruby ever did for me. Of course I can't prove this empirically, which is why my opinion will only ever be as good as yours, and vice versa.

> Partially functional dynamically typed code is far more useful to me as I work through a series of related changes than statically typed code that requires I fix all the issues it perceives as important before I can keep going on what really matters.

I'm sorry, but this is plainly incorrect. The ability to defer type errors to runtime certainly exists in Haskell, and I expect not exclusively.
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It's like trying to calculate the Butterfly Effect during winter at the Reserva de la Biosfera Mariposa Monarca (Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_Butterfly_Biosphere_Re...
And the original was owned by Israelis
You are correct but in this situation there is fear and anger which leads to isolationist policies.

The path out of this, both the handling of the virus and the economic fallout, is more corporation and trade. For Japan it means more trade with China as it is dependent both on Chinese supply and Chinese demand.

I think the policies will be walked back or just become overshadowed and insignificant.
Fair, and I absolutely agree with that.

Unfortunately, it would have to be mandated by fiat for it to happen, because market economy tends to reward people in proportion to the inverse of the value they provide to the society at large.
I found multiple dispatch to be odd at first, but after adapting my mindset a bit I really like it. It makes it really easy to just drop your functions specialized for your types into existing libraries, for example. It's a win for code reuse.

What do you mean by "types are too shallow"?

Yes, jit can be slow to boot, but I think this is an area they're going to be focusing on.

"the tooling is poor" Not sure I agree here. I think it's great that I can easily see various stages from LLVM IR to x86 asm of a function if I want to.
> The pandemic wouldn't be anywhere near as severe if there was a coordinated global response.

You mean if China didn't lie at the beginning of the pandemic, that's with these people you want to associate?
MATLAB is used by a lot of engineers, Mathematica is used by mathematicians/physics theorists, Python is used widely by a lot of different fields.
What’s the excuse for this now days? You didn’t test this on a standard phone resolution with dev tools at a bare minimum?
Wasn't CSS Grids the best thing that has ever happened to CSS? Why is Flexbox keep getting recommended on its own without Grid?
> I argue that post-modern perspectivism and the individualistic or collectivistic logic which nurtures its scope can be transcended through construction of hyperperspectivistic prisms based on alogic of interrelation animated by the interdisciplinarian spirit prevailing in the field of modern science. This latter serves as the leading thread for the foundation of a new canonicity which, without losing its historical and cultural character, can make claims to truth and validity of general acceptance. The hyperspectivistic canonicity deriving from such an interrelational logic is in a position to animate a new educational model capable of overcoming both idealistic and romantic versions of Bildung.

Come on, this is self-parody.

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html
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The flight was allowed to land 2 days later. The earlier decision was taken in mistake.
thanks! That helps a lot, although I am not familiar with that area of knowledge.

Indeed, I got some ML metrics on a test split that gives me an idea of its accuracy :) But it's just an estimation, so indeed I am looking out for feedback to know its real performance so I can debug bad cases and fix those with more data or a better model.

The test performance on subreddit r/hearthstone is 0.21 f1-score, which is not great. And looking at the confusion matrix for r/hearthstone it gets often confused with:

r/BobsTavern
r/CompetitiveHS
r/customhearthstone
r/Blizzard

If you are curious, I uploaded the metrics (precision, recall, f1-score) and confusion matrix on the test dataset on a Google Spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NBY1o85ZiNpcm4tcYhKk...

The sheet 'confusion_matrix_gt2' can be used to find similar subreddits.
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> Objective quantitative analysis based on models that don't know about the pandemic should be pricing in a disastrous 30% unemployment, and clearly the market is not.

That's not necessarily true. First of all, 30% unemployment, while a big scary unprecedented number, represents the expected outcome of the official policy of all governments (Federal & State) , which is forced unemployment. The CARES stimulus includes a $600/week unemployment insurance _on top of_ the existing state UI. In every state, the unemployment benefit is actually higher than the median wage [1]. Businesses know this, and proactively lay off / furlough their employees so that they may collect this benefit, with the intention of having them be first-in-line for re-hiring once this all passes. The other half of the CARES stimulus includes forgivable loans to businesses with the hope that those loans can keep businesses afloat so that they may be in a position to re-hire once this all passes. Put simply, because half the stimulus is in the form of direct insurance payments to people, and unemployment is the means of receiving that, you will see high unemployment numbers. Not only is this expected, it is intended.

All this being said, it's still not certain that many of these businesses will be able to survive even with the loans/stimulus, nobody knows for sure. The market doesn't price in the scary 30% unemployment number, it prices in the expectation that this number will fall back to usual levels by next year.

The grandparent comment asked why the Dow increased today, and it's because the Fed announced $2.3T in new small-business loans, which slightly increases the percentage of businesses that may be able to weather this storm.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/AifRmdD
I was born in China. I have family there. My wife is Chinese. I disagree.
A global government would have led to a more uniform response, but arguably that's exactly what we don't want in a crisis like this.

Each nation was able to react differently, and those different responses have provided us the closest thing we have to controlled experiments. Those experiments have allowed us to understand the spread of this disease better.
Tucson has lots of tiny 'TB' homes that were built in the early 20th Century.

[edit] pg 130 identifies the boundaries of 'Tentville' which is/was just north of the UA campus

https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/preservation/TucsonHealthSeek...
The pomo people telling the anti-pomo they just haven't the understanding is reminiscent of religious apologists/theologians telling atheist debaters they just haven't ground to stand on because they haven't adequately digested a sufficient body of obscure tomes to dismiss X religion. Or "You just haven't read the Koran in classical Arabic! Understanding Islam is beyond you."
No consistent logic can reach all truth.
>>This post made me wonder what happened to ICQ.

Same here... I haven't even thought about it since the turn of the century!

I only used it a couple times. A colleague asked me to install it so we could work together on a project. If I recall right I started getting messages from people I didn't know so I deleted it shortly after installing it.
>the models themselves are so simplified that they can't capture much of the important dynamics going on

That isn't my (outsider) understanding, could you provide a reference? By reference I mean a recent survey that demonstrates the specific limitations?

My understanding of the Imperial College model is that it uses a 30m*30m grid of the world and the expected people in the world and various additions to simulate schools and workplaces. Maybe you know better?
While true, I would recommend reading this comic, showing the different rates of warming.

https://xkcd.com/1732/
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Yeah, but it's evenly distributed across the whole bond market, and in purchases along with market buyers. How does that translate into (any reasonable operationalization of) "wildly overpaying"? I get overpaying, but I'd need to see how it becomes "wildly overpaying".

FWIW, I don't like what the Fed is doing, and am troubled buy it, but I think OP is overstating it.
How would it work if we got globalism "right"? What if instead of a virus, it was an asteroid which instantly destroyed all the factories in Country X, so there's no way for Country X to send supplies overseas even if they wanted to? If we want to be safe from events like that, we better not outsource any critical production to Country X. But if we don't outsource any critical production to any foreign countries, what's even left of globalism then?
Getting excited about Helium-3 on the Moon in 2020 is like a caveman in Europe getting excited about the easy availability of crude oil in Saudi Arabia.

We have zero use for Helium-3 at the moment. It is not at all clear if fusion will ever be solved, and it is absolutely clear that it's not going to be solved in the next two decades.
I'd say we are roughly in the era of milking old franchises.
Chrome uses an DMG, and the result is that people are using ancient versions of it straight out of their Downloads or Desktop folders.

Zoom uses an .pkg, and have now removed the one-click install script. So every update to Zoom now runs through the same multi-step Next process as well (with one of the steps inactive until you select your disk, as is customary). If you think that isn't a problem for users, you've never walked grandma through the steps while she's trying to show her screen though the phone to you.
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