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Well, communism is not indigenous to China. It is a western idea imported by western educated Chinese intellectuals, who then indoctrinated Mao.

Whether the western control is direct or indirect, it is indisputable that the CCP is not an indigenous movement. It is a product of western ideological imperialism.

As a very visual example, go travel around China, visiting areas with greater and lesser CCP control. The less the control, the more elements of traditional China are around. The greater the control, the more it looks like a replica of yet another Western metropolis.

I saw this very clearly when visiting Xinjing province near Tibet and hiking through the villages. The normal part of the village has traditional, hand made housing, beautiful craftsmenship, great food. Then, on the outskirts of the villages, were towering, empty apartment blocks. The CCP planned to move the villagers out of their traditional homes into these huge apartment blocks they could more easily control.

So, yes, most clearly the CCP is a product of the west, not ethnic Chinese culture.
Echoing what others in these comments have said, simple and direct is good but to call this site a masterclass in design is really going overboard
Michigan’s order started on March 23rd, so just 3 weeks and 1 day ago. I guess next week we’ll have better data on the impact.
We use this at my.zerotier.com and it works quite well, though it can be a little heavy.
Nope. The common cold is a catch-all term for over 200 different mild upper respiratory viruses, the clear majority of which are not coronaviruses. The most common strain of virus causing the common cold is a rhinovirus, which does have the property of mutating well and thus being hard to develop a resistance to. It is true that some of the common cold strains are coronavirus, but not most of them, and regardless, they aren't COVID-19 (which is of recent zoonotic origin). Preliminary analysis of COVID-19 indicates that catching it once is likely to confer life-long immunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus
Very modest, a PC that I purchased for $200AUD ($130 USD?) a few years ago, a monitor I purchased even earlier and a shitty MS keyboard, on a cheap desk. I am remote connecting to a dev machine with more meat. I have a dedicated room - which I think is the key thing, I feel luck to have this as many people have to share at home with other uses of a room.
There's millions of lines of C code that isn't going anywhere, and still many platforms that those languages don't support.
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That is categorically false. They’re not testing every dead person for the virus, and most people die from one of its side effects, like pneumonia.
The "visionaries" are often cons like the Vision founder. It might as well be the Peter Principle fund.
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Sweden's number of confirmed cases is not in full exponential growth right now. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
> CHAR_BIT needs to be 8.

Why?
Yeah, fwiw I would not argue with someone that claimed that nobody has a complete picture of all of the factors in the virus's infection rate. There has been a lot of conflicting and incomplete information and it's been difficult to stay up-to-date. It might be that there's some sort of difference between California and New York or northern Italy that would make California far less susceptible. Maybe environmental, or demographic, who knows.

The problem though is that we don't know that California would somehow turn out differently, and because of this thing's damnable asymptomatic incubation period and rates of spread, by the time you realize you haven't taken it seriously enough, it's going to be very bad.

So imagine you're sitting at the table with the governor and CalOES. They're asking you to make a decision today: tank the economy, or not. In two weeks you get to see how it turned out: either you saved the economy and only several hundred people died, or several thousand people have died and your healthcare system is on the verge of collapse and the economy tanked anyway because sick and dead people don't do a lot of shopping.
> What incentive would an executive have to run a business into the ground

The one given above: laying off workers to make the business competitive results in having your salary clawed back for three years. Staying inefficient and getting out-competed does not.
> the linked-data and RDF tool-chains were severely lacking.

I'm curious if you evaluated any of these solutions and if yes why you found them lacking:

* Jena

* RDF4j

* Blazegraph

Also, why not SPARQL? And if your query language is based on triples, why not Turtle for serialization instead of JSON-LD? JSON-LD is not very human friendly to write by hand, imho.
I saw a really good reddit comment about this topic recently (server side templating vs client side). Tl;dr: when things get really interactive/dynamic, the js framework simplifies things.

“Server side templating can work really well when the website is static. The problem is that as you add more and more dynamic elements, you either have to go to the server and re-render everything with every change (which can be slow), or you can make the changes on the client side with something like jQuery. But the latter option presents a challenge because you'll eventually find yourself duplicating functionality.

For example, imagine a to-do list website that you render on the server with a templating language. It fetches the user's to-do items from the database and then renders the list. Now let's say you want to let a user add a new item without re-rendering the entire page. You could use AJAX to tell the server to add the new item, but now you need to update your UI list accordingly. You could use jQuery to construct a new DOM element and append it, but now that list element exists in two different places: in your jQuery code and in your template on the server. If your website becomes very dynamic, this situation can get really unwieldy from a programming perspective.

Both Angular (from what I've read) and React (from personal experience) are highly suitable for creating single page apps, with the goal of creating a dynamic, fast, and maintainable website. There are other benefits, as well as downsides, to using Angular and React, but I hope this clears it up a little bit. Both of them make server side templating unnecessary by moving UI logic/rendering from your server to the client's browser. So a user who visits your React powered to-list website would get the React code as a JS bundle, it would make an AJAX call to your server to get just the data, and then it would render the UI based on the data." -/u/VertiGuo (https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/6t22cr/back_end_templ...)
i don't know what you mean by "ST" programmer, but i'm a dev and i have an aircurve 10. do you need something?
And Sweden is higher in the per capita death rate and on track to go up much higher in that ranking.
Hospitals are already pressing CPAP machines into service in this way, this firmware hack is only making the devices more fitting for the role they're being asked to fulfill in exigent circumstances.
Out there? I doubt it's being enforced at all. How would you?
Fair questions. What fatality rate are you expecting for not-at-risk people? Is that risk of death acceptable to you? What risk of death should I expect, I'm a healthy 47 year old male. Is it 0.1% or 0.01%? The difference between those two matters to me and the research isn't clear yet as far as I can tell.

By doing a bunch of the steps implied in the document my chance of surviving is better, by keeping the infection rate in the populace lower so that I'm less likely to get infected and die before the vaccine arrives.
They've fallen behind in testing capacity, like many others. You have to go by hospitalizations and confirmed deaths because those are the only stats likely not to be underreported too badly.
what book are you working through?
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing):

"The World Health Organization adopted the German recipe for manufacturing kits sent to low-income countries without the resources to develop their own. The German recipe was published on 17 January 2020; the protocol developed by the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was not available until 28 January, delaying available tests in the U.S."

So, a German lab found the test, and WHO helped manufacturing it in low-income countries.

But, as I said in another comment (only to be downvoted), the WHO is a sum of its participating countries. So everything the WHO finds is actually from some country's lab. That's just how WHO is made.
This sucks but isn't Atlassians fault. The lesson is of course to never connect an account you don't own to anything you can't afford to lose.
As a native English speaker, I think the situation leans fairly in my favor already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...

612k engineers. Let's assume that Amazon aims to hire the top 20% (I would expect software engineering skills to follow a power curve), so roughly 100k qualified workers.

That's pretty small if you're looking to employ 2-5k of them. That's a lot of competition given that there are likely at least 50 companies making Amazon-type offers.

I'm not saying they can't hire people if 10% of that pool decides they won't work there, but I'd imagine they would want to extend their pool to maybe top 30% at some point.
It does have to do with the problem. Your points only go to show why people grow to hate coding despite the enjoyment it once gave. My own suggestion is to try to create something not for money or fame but simply because you think it is good and take whatever time you need on it.
Yes. Contrast Sweden and the US to Australia and South Korea. Australia and South Korea are doing much better. The Australian and South Korean response has been competent.
That's not exactly true once you have to deal with vector extensions like AVX-512. It's quite a pain to write by hand (C intrinsics) and many of the ways to abstract it away end up giving you a GPU-like programming model (eg. Intel ISPC).

Plus, this has largely been tried before with Xeon Phi and it didn't end so well.

Huge vector units like AVX-512 are mainly useful for workloads that need huge amounts of RAM that you just can't get with a GPU, or for workloads that are very latency sensitive and incompatible with GPU task scheduling because they are in some other CPU-bound code.
If COVID-19 had been spreading uncontrolled in California for four months prior to containment measures being enacted, the number of deaths by now would be truly mind-boggling. It's simply not possible for this to have been the case, because it would have been obvious sheerly looking at the all-cause death rate in the state increasing by many times its normal value months ago. This didn't happen, ergo COVID-19 was not spreading uncontained in California for that long.
Wow that is so cool. Most of us never have to dig that deep and so weird stuff like that usually flies completely under the radar...

Thank you for sharing!
Zoning is so that a meat packing plant isn’t built next to a residential neighborhood. I won’t disagree that there are challenges with zoning, where upzoning is an uphill battle (I myself face these challenges as a real estate investor who prefers to build multi family properties in an effort to create affordable housing), but I understand why it exists and have an appreciation for the intent behind it.
It looks like the 64 bit version of MenuetOS is free for educational use, but costs money to use commercially while KolibriOS is GPL.
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The draft is still legal and constitutional. If society and the constitution thinks it's acceptable to send 18 year old boys against their will to get machine-gunned in a foreign jungle in the name of "national security", then by those standards none of the measures being proposed to combat the coronavirus are an unprecendented or unacceptable violation of any so-called inalienable rights.

The virus poses a larger threat to national security than the Viet Cong, after all.
Smaller drones have weaker propulsion and can't keep up with the ship its supposed to provide a detection bubble around. Being underwater and having to deal with additional drag also doesn't help. The large size of an aircraft carrier belies the fact that it is the fastest ship in the carrier group and can outrun all of its escorts. Larger ship = more space to pack powerful engines.

That's also a major issue for a lot of other drone swarm schemes such as using drone swarms to counter fighter aircraft. Smaller drones don't have the propulsion to keep up with fighters, and once you make drones large enough to hold the engines that would let them keep up with a fighter you might as well build a fighter instead.
I don't mean this as a slight because I love the project and other light fast OSes... but with modern compilers, what does assembly get you over just using C or another language and having it handle the translation? I was under the impression compilers nowadays have lots of optimizations that would take a lot of work for a human to do by hand, as well as creating less readable/maintainable code.
Props for the photo caption too
it gives too much political power to Google. If google decide to ban you from youtube, you become non existent.
Or they sink a truck?

https://youtu.be/GpEcU0OEzhc?t=120
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As a frequent coment typo maker I'm conflicted about others reading my comment's in general
I think this would be a very good advice in any other politically charged situation, that requires quick action. However, in the case of pandemic your own plan has to depend heavily on the worldwide plan.

If my state would manage to kill 100% of the virus within its borders by quarantine-like measures, and then reopened the economy and everything else before other states and countries do the same, we'd quickly get the spread back on track. So if there's no federal/worldwide cooperation on that coming from the top, local politicians must push up as hard as they can for a global plan to be made.

At the very least, there must be a plan per continent.
In this day and age, sharing this community forum discussion here is the only way to get resolution. I'm happy helping people out and tweeting my displeasure with companies, but we need some way to scale this. We can't just help the people that get enough publicity. We think we're helping, and we are, but only a small amount of situations end up getting front paged.
Curious how this isn't Atlassians fault. Can you elaborate?
It isn't your subscription that funds Netflix's original content, it's investor cash burn. To the tune of about ~$14B since 2011.

They won't keep paying that bill forever.

Think about that for a second. All of those Netflix subscriptions and it's still a flaming fourteen billion dollar crater.

How are they going to close the gap? Where are the new subscribers? How much will the rate go up?

The answer is neither of those. It's far more likely that the money faucet going to content will change first.
But isn't the output of this declarative config files?
This whole thing is a distraction to try to minimize and deflect blowback from the US's own ineptitude.
Some common ClickHouse use cases and verticals shown below. Basically any case where you have relatively structured data, very large fact tables, and a need for low latency response. Names of companies that have given public talks are shown.

* Analyzing netflow logs (network management, numerous users)

* Content delivery (Mux.com)

* Web analytics (ContentSquare, CloudFlare)

* Generating optimized parameters for real time ad bidding (various, not too many recent talks on this)

* Log management and system observability (surprisingly common across industries-Sentry, Cloudflare, Uber)

* Valuing assets from market data, e.g. tick data (financial services, not many companies will discuss publicly)

Druid is used for some of these. I don't know that much about Pinot, hence cannot comment there.
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Given the weight of US in UNO, why would they want to stop their funding, instead of pushing for a reform of WHO?

Of course everybody benefits from the existence of an organ like WHO, the only problems would be the number and quality of its experts network and labs. And to reform that, that's in the opposite direction of stopping funds...
Also if you calculate the USD per 3.0 lane value you will find you can go much,much higher in CPU prices. If you look at various combos you will find it very rare for the server CPU+board price divided by the number of 3.0 lanes or equivalent to be below 10USD.
The idea is that if your country/region doesn't have excess total deaths, then whatever pandemic restrictions and policy you've implemented is good enough.

To make an absurd example: Duterte in the Philippines has allegedly ordered the military to shoot at people who violate curfew. That helps bring corona-related deaths down drastically, but if your population is dying because you're shooting them or they're starving to death because they can't leave their homes, that's obviously not a good whole-society policy.

And that's why staring at only the corona-related numbers is wrong.

I'm also following the debate in Sweden, which has less restrictions de jure than its neighbours, but people are de facto self-isolating and keeping their distance to almost the same degree. There are lots of people in Sweden screaming that government absolutely must impose a stricter lockdown because the corona-related numbers are worse than in Denmark and Norway, who have stricter lockdowns, therefore Sweden should also follow suit.

But if Sweden doesn't have excess mortality, if Sweden's total mortality rate is the same as Denmark and Norway, while Sweden's economy is less restricted, then I would argue that Sweden is doing the right thing. Or at least not doing the wrong thing. :-)
Cool. I didn’t know about this one. Definitely looking into it.
The author, according to the metadata, is Dr Sonia Angell, MD MPH, currently director of the CA Department of Public Health: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/meet-the-director

Pointing out that you don't know the source is not an ad hominem, because you are apparently offering yourself as an expert as to what a good plan is here. You also don't appear to know the difference between medicine and public health. The latter, of course, is very much about the tradeoffs between medical and other societal factors.

So I'll ask again: given that you are presenting your opinions as more pertinent than the experts here, what's the expertise you're basing that on?
Sounds kinda like the users fault, having a corporate and personal email on the same account. Atlassian probably could put a warning though about the issues that could arise.
It seems to me that you're describing the homeostatic feedback loop that prevents wealth concentration beyond a certain point. If the people with all the money were always the best at deploying it for further profit, the concentration of wealth would have no limits. It's because, and when, they screw up, that it stops.
What a nice comment! And in a thread where I am definitely not at my best (it's been an allergy migraine kind of day). This made my evening; thank you. iSEC was a great team!

I'm more of an absolutist about HTTPS than you are, though. :)

I feel like every once in awhile I need to plow face-first into the brick wall of a friendly comment like this just as a signal to dial it back a bit. It's been a challenging couple weeks. I'll dial it back a bit! Thanks again.
Amazon's product selection can be quite hypocritical.

https://www.amazon.com/UNITED-BARGAIN-DIVIDED-BUMPER-STICKER...
(Un)fortunately WeWork didn’t go public!
If you’re going to travel to another county, you could check the website for that county to see their rules.
Thank you for your reply. I don't understand the objection that this is locking government in. Every level of government keeps setting dates then changing them, so I don't see how changing a criteria for a level is worse.
> The idea of inalienable rights is antithetical to this outlook.

There's no such thing. The idea that a right is inalienable is aspirational. While we should respect it, we should also respect that nothing is absolute and the best laid plans of mice and men and whatnot. We cannot allow perfect to become antithetical to good.
One size fits all? The Africa Covid-19 challenge
There is a low limit to the maximum size of an SMS message. Small enough to fit the entire thing plus all meta data easily into a 512 byte UDP packet. Sure, UDP is unreliable, but everyone knows that and you build additional reliability mechanisms on top of that. The SMS protocol is different, but still shares a lot of similarities.

With iMessage, the messages themselves can be much larger, and the larger the message the more likely it may run into packet fragmentation which could easily result in it being silently lost down the road.

With SMS, once the network has accepted the message, I think you have a higher probability that it will actually reach the recipient.

Another factor here is cost — precisely because you pay for SMS messages, the carriers are going to aggressively maximize the delivery probability, because they don’t want to lose a single red nanocent. But iMessage is free, so why should anyone care to optimize that for maximum delivery probability?

Then you also run into the other issues noted above, e.g., where someone previously used a given number with an iPhone and then moved to Android. The number is still detected as being iMessage capable, but you can’t actually send an iMessage to them on Android.

I guess all I’m really saying is TANSTAAFL — There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

Oh, and be careful what you optimize for. You may optimize yourself out of a job.
Thank you! Yes it is, I really enjoy trying to solve my own problems. SendGrid provides that signup form and it’s very limited, probably I’ll need to have a custom one at some point.
I think atlassian’s position is correct here, sad to say. They had to make a branch cut and i don’t think the other arm would be safe for them (company stuff leaked to a private account). Of course that stuff was already leaked, but I think the liability would fall on Atlassian if the company count delete that stuff.

Don’t connect your personal stuff to your work stuff. That’s messed me up more than once — lesson learned, painfully.
If you want to check out a great "Audio Course" (essentially reads like a long audiobook) on this topic, I recommend 'Foundations of Western Civilization II' by Robert Bucholz. No need to read the first part. Its a great outline of the culture, politics, and turning points that led to where the western world is today.