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Sure.

Most of the world does not live in western countries (As a simplification think Europe, Australia, US, Canada etc).

In general, most of the world's valuable intellectual property has originated from Western countries.

What intellectual property law does is provide a monopoly on selling/producing something to a company or individual. The thing that is interesting about intellectual property is that it is not tangible. If someone is assaulted, or their physical car is stolen- the damage is very real and tangible.

However with intellectual property we have a worldwide system where copying intellectual ideas is equated to the same thing as physically stealing.

For example, imagine I setup a factory that outputs clones of the "Land Rover Range Rover" in East Timor. I may be allowed to sell the vehicle domestically, but exports of the vehicle to "advanced economies" will undoubtably blocked due to IP infringement.

This is a highly questionable practice for a few reasons.

1. Worldwide consumers would benefit for lower prices on Range Rovers
2. The production of Range Rovers in my knock off factory does not prohibit Land Rover from producing their vehicles
3. The special interest groups who benefit from the Range Rover monopoly are much wealthier than the rest of the world, and the monopoly only serves to reinforce that.

Intellectual property is fundamentally a way for the wealthy (people who can afford lawyers) to prevent potential competitors from implementing ideas.

There is no monopoly on differentiating mathematical functions, or calculating the current in an electric circuit. Yet somehow there are laws prohibiting copying designs for integrated circuits. It is all nonsense and the only winners are IP holders and lawyers.
I think the comment by the expert government advisor is probably correct: the confirmed cases are just the tip of the iceberg. However, I had some unrelated tests to do at a hospital in Shizuoka prefecture and had to stay overnight. I asked the nurses what they thought and if they had seen anything unusual in the past month. Although there are about 60 confirmed cases in the prefecture, in the hospital where I was staying Corona virus seems not to have touched it. Obviously anecdotal evidence, but the nurses claimed that everything was business as usual and there was not an increase in respitory illnesses, etc.

I really do fear golden week, though. The news has been full of coverage of people going to places like Kamakura, filling up car parks and creating traffic jams. After being fairly severely rebuked by both the government and the media, I've heard that people are mostly taking it seriously, but we'll see starting tomorrow I guess.
I replaced our older electric water heater with the 50 gallon version of this last month: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rheem-Performance-Platinum-50-Ga.... The heater was about $1200, the rebate from the state of Vermont was about $800. I did the install myself with about $100 of parts.

Positives: As far as I can tell so far, the savings in electric usage should pay back within 2-3 years. It has a 10 year warranty, which should keep it working for a while. If the compressor fails, there is an electric element as backup. The device itself seems solid and well built.

Negatives: Even though it's in the basement, it's louder than I'd like --- about like an window air conditioner. Getting it down the narrow basement stairs (and getting the old heater out) was hard. Reheat is fairly slow if you keep it on the highest efficiency "heat pump only" setting. I've yet to get the phone app working to control it from upstairs. The basement is quite cool (especially in winter) so I'm worried it won't be maximally efficient. It produces a small amount of condensate water, which requires a drain of some sort.

Overall, I'm hoping it will be a win. It produces enough hot water for our 2-person needs, and seems like it should be more efficient than what it replaced. If you are considering one, it's worth thinking about the cooling effect that it will have on the room that it is in. If you already run an air conditioner, this is a win. If you are heating, this is a loss. We heat with wood in the winter (which is inexpensive if you cut your own) and don't have any other summer air conditioner, so for us this aspect is fairly neutral.
Economy will crash even if we open up and 50% of the population can’t participate due to age or having condition like obesity, diabetes or hypertension. People will continue to voluntarily shelter. Only way out of this getting Is community spread to near normal so we whole society can participate. Other countries have achieved this and will dominate economically. We are going to have food shortages because of our lack effort to control the virus.
Thanks, but I was referring to space comms ctfs specifically :) it’s one thing to find a buffer overflow exploit on http but I don’t even know what the carrier protocol for a ku band transponder is called..
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BTW, Rust ecosystem has a fear of calling things 1.0. In the Rust world "1.0" often doesn't mean the first stable release, but more like "done".

There are plenty of crates that are stable and production-ready, but with 0.x versions.

In some cases ironically authors don't want to bump the version to 1.0, because the crates are so widely used and stable, that the mere version bump would be an unnecessarily big change (e.g. the most used libc crate will likely stay as v0.2 forever).
I use ClojureScript professionally, and I believe Hooks are great. Reagent, Re-frame all have tradeoffs that they've made to try and shoe-horn in a solution that Hooks cleanly provides first-class support for.

I see a lot of other Clojure users wade into discussions like these and reveal an unexamined view of the technology they use and the way that other communities are trying to solve these same problems. It's really discouraging to see people put Clojure(Script) and associated libs on a pedestal, because it removes any nuance from the discussion and makes people think that the Clojure community are a bunch of holier-than-thou zealots.

FWIW, I was (am still) super excited about Hooks and have posted a lot of things critiquing ClojureScript React wrappers in the past, but I recognize now that they are making tradeoffs that ultimately are what the authors think are in the best interest of their user base. It would really be great if you (and everyone else) would enter these discussions with the same assumption.
We have to find a way to get to a new normal, where we can go about our daily lives with some reasonable level of safety measures. It’s simply not sustainable to maintain a shut down long term.
Cyan had already made Myst and Riven. This is close to the opposite of what I was asking for.

So once again: you seriously think that J.K. Rowling, a completely unknown author with a manuscript repeatedly rejected by publishing houses, is going to be able to raise sufficient funding on Kickstarter for her first work?
The exposition is tight.
You cannot mitigate economic damage with fiscal or monetary means in any serious way. That statement of yours indicates that you do not understand the difference between money and wealth.

Money is an abstraction we use to measure (relative) value. Wealth is the sum total of physical goods/services/resources that we rely on.

When you neuter an economy, as we have done in the US, you destroy real wealth. There is no way to counteract that by injecting money. It’s like trying to claim your company is growing because share buybacks made your per-share price go up, yet your market cap in an efficient market has been unchanged.

It is no surprise then that someone who holds that view would have trouble seeing the real damage that a shutdown like ours does. We have postponed elective surgeries, leading to furloughing tens of thousands of medical workers across the country because in many areas hospitals are practically empty. We’re halting meat packing plants because some portion of employees have tested positive. We’ve stopped educating our children in person despite covid-19 being less deadly than Influenza in children (this is a fact at this point).

We treated a really bad but manageable papercut by chopping off our hand, and in doing so we have widened inequality in _every dimension_. What does a poor school-aged child who does not own a laptop do with remote schooling? What do millions of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck and are now unemployed do? What about those postponing important preventative care that will prevent future deaths from cancer, heart disease, and diabetes?

How large of a spike in suicides, opioid overdoses, and psychosis are we going to see?

We took a bunch of otherwise healthy people, instilled them with disproportionate, all-consuming fear, and have had people in social isolation, which not only produces its own mortality but will also retard the natural exchange of micro-organisms that our health relies upon.

And the biggest joke of all is that eradication is impossible and therefore we didn’t prevent any mortality, we just postponed it, while destroying the quality of life of the 99.4% of the population who never would have died from this thing anyway (there’s debate as to whether the IFR is .3% or 1% but I think .6% is a very conservative number)

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In answer to your question about models, you are right that we need more of them, and in rereading your comment I see you were more raising questions than advocating a pro-lockdown stance. In any case I encourage you to check out http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/abstract.asp?index=69.... I’m on mobile right now otherwise I’d quote from it but they look at it in terms of wellbeing-years
I once had a relationship with someone with depression. As someone who is naturally quite happy[1], the thing that suprised me most at the start of the relationship is the amount of time she spent strategising how to be happy, rather than just getting on with being happy. In her case, it's understandable because depression is completely irrational[2]

But nations do have the capacity to act rationally, so when I these posts and wonder if the world really needs more strategies. Do we need to spend more time strategizing, rather than getting on-board with the solutions that already have steam (as imperfect as they might be)?

Anyway, here is my contribution to the noise: https://paul.copplest.one/blog/why-nations-succeed.html

[1] happy/positive, whatever word you want without derailing the point of the comment
[2] for anyone with depression, please read this with positive intent. Depression is horrific and I wouldn't wish it on my enemies
Which ones, other than SK the other good example (japan, china, singapore) all turned out to not be testing.
Five out of six Russian roulette players have a positive outcome.
I want to add one other piece of information to this discussion, because Ioannidis is somewhat central to the point the original article is trying to make, and it is ignored by the article (because it significantly weakens some of their arguments).

Had the study simply been released and criticized, then much of this current controversy would've been avoided, but that didn't happen. Instead, Ioannidis did the rounds at several conservative news outlets in the wake of the study's release, and promoted the study's findings as the new "best evidence." This aided in pushing certain social and political agendas. Many scientists (especially on Twitter) found this specific behavior to be unacceptable, especially from a scientist that they also felt should "know better."
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Rowling is quite an outlier - 1% of 1% of 1%. While a fascinating example, it seems unoptimal to center copyright protection laws around her experience.
in rural Sierra Nevada foothills California counties there is not ubiquitous natural gas
The funny thing is that they actually do this -- they show that based on their measurements of the assay's specificity, the confidence interval for the number of true positives includes zero. That means, even discounting all of the other biases, their study cannot provide a lower bound for the number of infections, which was the whole point of the study.

They then proceed to ignore this and use a point estimate for their further calculations.

The right thing to have done would have been to test the assay further, or move the study to an area where there was higher positivity and they could get a more reliable signal.
All node-based trees with a small branching factor of 2-3 have the same performance problems on modern hardware, irrespective of the theoretical big-O algorithmic complexity.

They all have poor memory locality, high overheads, and high indirection. This is kryptonite for typical x86 or ARM CPUs. Unless you're only developing for some tiny embedded CPU with no cache, no branch predictor, and low frequency, such algorithms belong in the dustbin of history.

Practically always, you get better actual performance when using array-based structures such as hashtables, B-Trees, or the like.

Features like snapshotting can be implemented using virtual memory tricks, but is a gimmick rarely used outside of pure functional languages. You might find that simply copying an array when needed for a snapshot is faster than a fancy tree with sharing as a native capability. The exception would be certain dynamic programming scenarios where cloning is very common.
I wasn't aware I was making any kind of assertion, honestly. But I think a world in which proprietary content must be totally vertically integrated with a non-owned proprietary device is at least an honest way to enforce artificial scarcity. I think the "shape" of this system represents a kind of platonic ideal that combines artificial scarcity in a free market system that values property rights. I find the idea abhorrent myself, and would not intentionally lease such a device, but I think it helps clarify the discussion.
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No, simply not true at all. I've done both a few times. And yes, I have relevant experience.
Your knowledge isn't mine -- I found this to be quite a condensed way to understand something I've little relation to.

What do you have to contribute that teaches not criticises?
If we are talking a world without copyright but all other forms of IP, patrions or merchandise.
Chinese Covid-19 vaccine protects monkeys from new coronavirus
I totally acknowledge this is true, it's just hard to quantify. I really do wonder exactly how common the consensus reddit views are.
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Wow, this sounds awful.

Good that the UK is moving away from this "feature".

(I still remember that to take a call on another phone, you could just leave the receiver up on the phone you too the call on, provided you're not too lazy to hang it up later).
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You've never seen energy used until you live in the American South for a bit.

$400/month for a/c and pool in summer isn't unusual and power is cheap too, $0.10 - $0.15 kw/h.

It's jaw dropping.
Gotcha thanks. I also found r/medicine. Lots of doctors and ER professionals weighing in on the news with personal experience from their hospitals.
I'm incredibly scared of a future where all personal computing is restricted by large companies. We see Microsoft, Apple and Google all moving in the direction of releasing almost completely opaque hardware that only works with their own software.
Well-developed (highly-litigated) areas of law don't work this way.

A phrase in children's book is unlikely to be considered sufficient evidence that Disney has conveyed an unlimited license to sell Mickey puppets.

At best, the language might protect an unsophisticated infringer from having to pay statutory damages or Disney's legal fees. For example, if a naive person (non-lawyer, non-business person) sold a few of the infringing puppets on Etsy, Disney would drop it (or a court would force Disney to drop the case, if needed) as long as the infringer promises to stop infringing.

In contrast, a sophisticated infringer would be hung out to dry. Because sophisticated infringers cannot credibly suggest that they believe Disney has conveyed an unlimited right to make and sell Mickey puppets based on a phrase included in a children's book.

Note, the words of a license or contract (including signatures if present) are taken as providing some amount of evidence of a license or contract. Contract docs memorialize an agreement between parties to enter into a contract. Formality requirements depend on the stakes, tradition, sophistication of the parties, etc. Most of this can vary widely depending on the industry or type of contract. Plus, in many cases, other statutes or regulations may come into play depending on the subject matter, type of agreement, duration of agreement, jurisdiction, and so on.

Here, since conventional language or formalities that Disney normally uses when licensing its IP is absent, a court is likely to find no license grant or contract.
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Unfortunately there's often no one in the decision making process with skin in the game WRT free expression when it comes to axing a feature.

It frustrates me that often folks who express support for HK independence so fiercely can't even tell me who Modi is.

Best wishes friend.
The requirement to be actively searching for work has actually been temporarily paused in many states, including eg/ CA https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/eligibility.htm. Presumably that provision will be removed along with the SIPs, but just figured it was worth being precise here.
Depending on where you live you can expect a gas line fee of $20-40 a month before you use any gas. Something to consider.
Woah, just realizing that 10.39M 4k IOPS is 42GB/s. Doing 40GB/s of sequential IO was difficult not that many years ago, let alone random IO. That's faster than my memory bandwidth.
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You can change the resolution to run at retina resolution: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7ld2ht/civ_vi_is_cap...
it really isn't that hard to set up dynamic dns yourself. like maybe a day of work. just don't forget to upgrade your dns server software when exploits are discovered
But you have access to everything at every stage. There's no need to figure out what the data is or how it got that way - the hard part of debugging - because there is no data, no state, no user input. It's more like fixing a compilation error than debugging.
Isn't what this article is about? "Some" states are "opening up", so I guess we'll get data soon as to how much economic benefit they got vs. how many lives were lost.

This doesn't sound, to me, like a very ethical experiment given that the cost of waiting it out for another two-ish months is comparatively easily calculated and not terribly "doomsday" in scope. Whereas a return to the days of late March where the death count was doubling twice a week very much... is.

Now... in practice? The "lockdown" won't really be released like that in these states, because people aren't going to be willing to travel or dine even if it's "legal". So these states will probably see a moderately worst outbreak and see moderately better results, and we'll all get to continue these arguments forever.

Probably. Or it could be a total disaster. I wouldn't bet on that result, exactly, but I wouldn't be shocked if it happened either.

For evidence: consider pork production. That is an "essential" industry. It's never been "locked down". Yet per the news today I see that 25% of the industry is effectively shut down by viral outbreaks anyway. That's what we should expect if we insist people go to work -- unexpected, uncontrolled outbreaks in locations and businesses and industries. We're not going to get to anything resembling a normal economy.
I had to rescue a codebase that was all-in on sagas by developers that didn't seem to really understand what they were for. It was one of the most difficult and frustrating projects I've ever worked on. Debugging was a total nightmare because bugs were so decoupled from their causes. I'm sure there are cases where, in the right hands, sagas can help solve complex problems but, like redux, they are overused by people that are just following the herd and can create a ton of accidental complexity.
> FWIW, my complete crap Chrome browser on my complete crap Samsung Android device refuses to allow me to screenshot this HN thread claiming it is a "DRM protected page".

Just tested with Firefox on Android (Moto E4 phone). Firefox did not block taking a screenshot of this thread. Perhaps you may wish to test Firefox yourself to see if it better obey's you than Chrome does.
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At this point that's effectively impossible. To the point where I don't think that's really a viable solution to America's problems.
Why would we need to incentivize creating more legislative annotations?
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I think the researchers behind the Santa Clara study should be applauded for going out and gathering data. While the methodology may have been flawed, I think that having a small amount of flawed data is better than having no data. My hope is that the public controversy of this study spurs more and better serological studies in the future.

I don't agree with the premise that scientists should be silenced or suffer personal attacks for putting out controversial or even flat out "bad" science. I think we have seen that approach backfire, and lead to distrust of expert opinions and traditional news sources. Instead I think that we should be focusing on improving scientific literacy in the general population, and electing leaders who surround themselves with and take advice from competent scientists. And if people in certain countries, districts, etc. are not interested in doing so... well... they are certainly free to vote however they see fit and live with the results of that decision.
Did the Covid-19 virus originate from a lab or nature? Examining the evidence
Here in Canada recovering heat from the drain can be used as part of energy efficiency code requirements in new builds.

They can recover quite a bit of heat, around 50% depending in inlet and outlet temperatures. Pretty good for a fully passive technology that has no maintenance or moving parts.

It does require a lot of copper, so the parts are about $1000 but it's a really easy install.
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Congrats to Sweden for "only" having 2,000 dead. Tell that to the over 56,000 dead Americans despite lockdown.

Also, Sweden is under de facto lockdown even if they don't want to call it that.
It's worth noting that reopening early will also cause economic damage, and possibly more that not doing so would.

People dying costs money, both in the lost productivity of the dead and reduced productivity among those emotionally affected. More people will die with an early end to lockdown than would if it was maintained for another month or two.

I expect lots of grim economics research to come out of this.
Location is not the really interesting thing - the social graph is. Location is interesting because it reveals the social graph, not the other way around.

> In fact there is no data at all leaving the phone until you get ill.

Source? Everything I found that could be interpreted as a statement in that direction sounded like it was part of a description of the Apple-Google approach.

In particular, I wonder if the APIs exposed to non-system apps let them rotate the Bluetooth identifiers, of if this will cause the phones to beacon their non-randomized Bluetooth equivalent of a MAC address nonstop. (The Apple-Google proposal covered this by randomizing that address too.)