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> imprecision means no information

It’s imprecise enough that you’re better using other means to estimate the decline. I am between 1cm and 1 mile tall, is true but does not convey new information.

Similarly without knowing how fast was the economy was growing or shrinking before the decline, the decline hit, when peak decline hit, it’s impossible to say how bad things where at the end of the quarter beyond well it’s worse. I mean presumably when news of the outbreak hit but before the shutdown there was some effect, but I don’t know if it was a net positive or negative.

If you want numbers I would say 10+x larger is objectively a very large decline relative to 1%. Anyone talking about a 100% shutdown while still buying food is being using hyperbolic or simply does not understand what their words mean. It’s at best symbolically true in that net wealth is being destroyed so the engine of human progress has shut down.
Is a drug that makes a virus to mutate, very safe on the long run?

It seems to me that cancer drug resistance uses a mutation strategy to evade the drug effect?

Is this analogy valid for Covid?
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>This is my biggest pet peeve with news in general. Why does a high school paper have more rigor in terms of citations than the average post from a major news organization?

Because news is not meant to inform, it's meant to indoctrinate and keep you passively under the thumb of the rich.

https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...

>It makes digesting political news all but impossible.

The question is do you know the upper classes know your brain doesn't see the world as it is, you can be told the facts and not reason to the right conclusion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
When the pandemic started, they hired thousands of people to do the old-fashioned, labor intensive version of contact tracing. Technology and preexisting state powers certainly played a part, but the manual contact tracing is very transferrable everywhere.
> If you are roaming out when there is a lockdown, the cops ought to check the app. The app is meant for contact tracing. About getting beaten or made to do situps, in my view, a far lesser punishment rather than charging and going the legal route. Than would be draconian.

Was watching the news channel yesterday. Some guy had spit on the road. The police made him take off his shirt, and wipe it on the road thoroughly. If this wasn't enough, they made him do squats, while holding his ears, in the middle of the road in everyone's view. At some point, it turned from a punishment to simply humiliating someone just because you have that power.

> I would agree about privacy issues if the govt. asks citizens to use it even after this pandemic is done. In that case, I myself will go to the streets to fight.

This is just a guess of mine since I don't think we have seen any new devices coming with this app pre-installed, cause who's buying phones now. The app won't be easy to uninstall, and even if you can uninstall with adb or disable, how many people do you think will do that?

Even if the app is easy to uninstall, most people will forget to uninstall until specifically asked to do so. I have seen so many Indians still content with the Cheetah bloatware that often comes pre-installed, oblivious to the fact that they are utterly useless.

> The mobile number part concerns me. Government wants to use it as a way to contact people but the potential for abuse is there

>What abuse are you talking about?

Do you remember the adhaar database leak? How much confidence do you have in our government's security measures?
Why is contact tracing even relevant at this point? Especially for india? The data we have on the virus shows that a lot of people are asymptomatic, we also have some serotyping testing data possibly indicating much higher infection numbers than previously thought.

That wouldn't be much of a problem if the outbreak would've just started now (which is the reason contact tracing made sense for South Korea) but why would India, with it's huge population and probably similar real spread timeline benefit from it at this point? To me most of the world missed the small window of time when contact tracing makes sense and it is now a complete red herring.

By the way, why would you assume they would pull out the app after the lockdown? I mean, you could always argue that it will still be needed to make sure there's no second, or third outbreak. And then needed to make sure everyone got the vaccine (everyone should absolutely get the vaccine when it eventually comes out, my point here is that there will always be more reasons to extend the usage of surveillance tools like this), and then maybe keep the app to prevent future outbreaks. Where do you eventually draw the line? Who decides when the pandemic is over especially considering how likely it is that it will become a seasonal disease? There is literally no incentive for governments to eventually stop.

They don't even need to have malicious intentions, it can be to avoid a future outbreak of a new disease that is this severe. But that's the whole point, there's always a seemingly good reason to increase surveillance and the excuse is often that there is no alternative. Which may be true, but all governments, even the most dictatorial ones, don't directly say that they are taking your rights for no reason. It's always because of foreign spies, to fight terrorism, to protect the nation or the most often used excuse: to keep people safe.
Jumping on the thread here, but do you happen to have a larger list of (non-branded) video hosting/streaming services?
Do you feel like a failure?
China is already a police that tracks every bit of data on their part of the internet. They don't need manual labor or new apps for contact tracing because they already had the infrastructure built.
The issue here is that the vast majority of American articles make no effort to convey the fact they are talking about America.

The internet is a _global_ space and there's very little effort required to make the distinction.

I would argue that the writers of these articles are the ones not understanding the "context of oneself" given how they think their readership is entirely American.
This is also where the word oligarchy comes from

Im pretty sure the word oligarchy existed before humans relied on petroleum.
Perl 6 is when they then took LSD and at a hang-up, they went to the clinic and came back a s two persons. One said: never again, the other: bring it on.
But in your proposed solution b would be evaluated twice. So you would have to add a new line, think of a new variable name, and so on.

if lower < x.calculate_weight() < upper:
...

Suddenly turns into

x_weight = x.calculate_weight()
if lower < x_weight and x_weight < upper:
...
Would the downvoters care to explain their actions. Aadhaar has been under fire for a long time and this seems like a factual comment.

It seems that one cannot criticize India or China on HN.
I might be misunderstand it but reading the document I couldn't see that this doesn't involve providing any data. I don't see a way how this could work without sharing data with authorities. The document seems to imply that the data WILL be shared with public health authorities (govt). So I don't see how this is better.

> • Each user will have to make an explicit choice to turn on the technology. It can also be turned off by the user at any time.

Ok, I can give you this one, for people who are mandated by law to have this installed, uninstalling is not an option.

> • This system does not collect location data from your device, and does not share the identities of other users to each other, Google or Apple. The user controls all data they want to share, and the decision to share it.

Yeah, but they have to share it to get any meaningful data, right?

> • Bluetooth privacy-preserving beacons rotate every 10-20 minutes, to help prevent tracking.

Don't know whether the app has this one.

> • Exposure notification is only done on device and under the user's control. In addition people who test positive are not identified by the system to other users, or to Apple or Google.

I would be damned if the govt app was exposing identities either.

> • The system is only used for contact tracing by public health authorities apps.

Sure, that's the whole purpose of the govt app too.

> • Google and Apple can disable the exposure notification system on a regional basis when it is no longer needed.

Not related to privacy I think.
Are those protocols available for potentially any cell phone in the world and devices that could be years old?

For examples has Nokia releases a protocol?
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Yes. It's rules by the God Emperor Money II.
That's unfortunately a common behaviour among 'experts' and we are witnessing this a lot at the moment.
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It is very competitive in Germany, and most of all in Berlin (where the Döner was actually invented!).

Too bad that there are very few real Turkish restaurants around. We happen to have one in my town and it's very, very good. When Germans think "Turkish" they think "Döner", and that's just unfortunate.
Like some people have said, learning physics is mostly learning how to think like a physicist. You can probably get the basic ideas from Wikipedia articles and popular books, but you won't really "get it" without some work.

I have a bias (a traditional physics education). But my advice to to supplement the popular stuff:

- Choose a career / hobby that is heavy in mathematical modeling. I find it much easier to explain physics to people who have built the intuition for applied math.

- Ask some questions on the Physics Stack Exchange.

- If you can, talk to a physicist.
> Without the setu app being mandatory, going by government figures (which I doubt somewhat), only about 1.2k people have died so far.

That's probably because we are in a strict lockdown which is not sustainable. The real effect of contract-tracing will be only be known when the economy is fully opened.
>> Basically piping from /dev/null

Can you actually do that?

Why not piping from /dev/zero , heck even /dev/random or /dev/urandom ?
The report in question:

"COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint"

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/sites/default/files/public/downlo... (pdf) 9 pages.
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First of all, for every buyer there's a seller, so for each person that lost money on Tesla, somebody made money (relative to the benchmark).

Secondly, I don't know why you think only "day traders and algorithms" were affected by this tweet. I assure you, retail passive money (e.g. pension funds) also have exposure to Tesla.

Thirdly, why so gleeful about someone's perceived loss?
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How does this work with Apple phones? Will apple make set up of their phones dependent on installing government spyware first? How do they handle this in China?

And does this mean that android permissions no longer work? What if people just make location and gps unavailable to the app after installation?
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The point of Forth/Joy is that the language is so simple, you don't need compiler. It is a minimum language.
So we are effectively stuck with this right. Why even complain ? Isn't complain a way to achieve change ?

So you are saying at most what we should do is complain. If that changes nothing, what else we could have done.
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The exact reason why there are lockdowns the world over instead of everyone doing nothing while waiting for a vaccine. Or why the human history is filled with flawed and working solutions for everything instead of perfect and imaginary solutions.

There might be better protocols or specs available. But no one other that a doomsday cultist can afford the bodies to start piling up while doing nothing instead of doing something.
TL;DR The real estate market is shit and should be nationalized.

I'm living in a big city and the rent these restaurants have to pay is ridiculous.

All new buildings get used as offices.
IANAL, but it strikes me as 100% illegal for Twitter to trade on their tweets before they are released (at least for the class of tweets which contain corporate announcements - tweets from e.g. the persident might be treated differently).

Some of those tweets can be resonably be construed as being MNPI, so trading on it before it's published on the platform is most likely illegal.

Can newspapers/journalists trade on a piece of news before they break it?
It seems your fundamental premise that is that since a few prisoners are very risky, we should impose extremely harsh measures on all of them regardless of what got them in there the first place. Is that right?

That's a problematic viewpoint because the same argument can apply to any free person today: "some people in this neighborhood committed some crimes a while ago so let's keep an extra eye on those in the zipcode. Maybe wiretap their houses and restrict communication."

Will that sit well with you?

Those who profit off the prison industrial complex and those who simply hate certain populations want you to believe that our prisons are full of extremely violent people who should be dehumanizing and taken from society as punishment. A lot of people are there because they had the wrong skin color, got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, are truly innocent, got thrown in jail for a harmless "crime" like having weed, etc.
I have a gaming PC but also used my MBP for gaming on non GPU intensive games.

I was happy with this setup until Catalina killed 32 bit support. Most of the games I played on the MBP was 32 bit.

Killed Mac Gaming for me.
I crave the experience of working in a restaurant. I did full-stack back-of-house in busy kitchens and it sure beat sitting around pushing buttons all day. I just haven't been able to afford to do it for the past ten years because building web sites pays so much better.
You know the current procotol that setu app uses is way more battery consuming than apple-google's bluetooth only approach.

I wonder how those poor old phones will survive with it.

(I don't wish to engage more because I don't think you are looking for a good faith argument here because android app released by the government won't work on those Nokias and I don't see why you can't have two different appS with different level of efficiency because you will need two different apps regardless?)
Considering she runs a takeaway Streetfood place i highly doubt she ever intended "restaurants" to be meaning "... and also bars"
> which "single" front have you fought ?

That doesn't have anything to do with my argument. I don't owe you any explanation of what I do or don't do with my life.

> being blind is one thing, and closing your eyes to a complete set of issues and blame the govt is something else.

That doesn't have anything to do with your argument. You basically said "if you don't like it why don't you go fix it". Which basically implies that people should be responsible for fixing the sh*t others do instead of their own, which is completely insane. If you are going to complain about reasonable complaints, give actual arguments. But what you said is just a pervasive form of the "man up (and fix my shit if you don't like it)" of social responsibility debate.

Sorry if you are not actually trying to troll, but it really looks like it to me.
> Also Apple’s tracing works via Bluetooth.

That's what I was expecting from this app too. This particular app won't work without cellular-data enabled.

> You won’t have that option.

Could you explain this is a bit? Why can't I disable it on my phone?
Finally a use for old smartphones that no longer boot.
I'm pretty sure jillesvangurp is referencing the OPEC cartel here, that they are the oligarchies, and the behavior they have is where the word comes from. Not that the word oligarchy comes from something around oil.

Could also be that I'm reading it too favorably, but I guess that's better than the opposite.
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> And no, markets don't do that nearly as well as you might think

Markets depend on Good information To function well. Market participants can distort the information in the market for profit. In so far as this profiteering can be maintained, markets won’t function so well.

Some conjecture that might not be too far off the mark.
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I am in the same boat. To find myself how I can impact the world or people in a positive way. Deep meaning. Purpose. Right now I fail to get hired at a company I would be so very passionate about at this level. And I must earn my living so that one day I can sustain running a company.
Well, Gandhi also slept naked with his teenage nieces to test his celibacy, so let's not wonder about what he would or would not approve.
Every judicial system is corrupt. Indian judicial system works and people have faith in it. Could it be made better? Hell yes.
You can triangulate based on cells. In urban areas the accuracy is around 25m or was 14 years ago.
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Michelson language has distinctly ruined my taste for language like this.
> Can you show me that contact tracing can make significant difference?

It’s a standard technique that has been successfully used for a long time. For example, it’s how smallpox was finally wiped out.

(This is a separate point to “does this particular app look suspicious?” to which I say “yes”).

> going by government figures (which I doubt somewhat), only under 1k people have died so far.

In India, which is doing the things you’re complaining about.

Meanwhile, the USA, which has less than a quarter of India’s population, has 65,605.

Are you familiar with exponential growth, or do you only ever see the word “exponential” used to mean “rapid” without the strict mathematical meaning?
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Aquariums in Japan are simply awesome. One of each five aquariums in the world are there. This means that there is a permanent competition for public's eyes and the risk to the people forgetting about a particular installation and favouring other.

The direct translation of this article for me is: Aquariums are expensive to maintain, especially if the public expects a high level of excellence. If your bussiness depend on massive loads of people and suddenly this is not possible anymore by the current situation, you have a problem. Some systems will struggle after two-three months of sudden lack of income. Either they are trying to monetize remote viewings or, if coronavirus keeps pushing, "Adopt an eel" campaign will most probably follow.

Both are reasonable solutions to a problem, of course, as long as people remain informed if their video-chat data are being monetized somehow.
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High Street rents are incredibly high. I'm in one of the poorest UK cities, but even here - with (literally) every other shop empty - rents are phenomenal.

But then property owners are accruing financial value through property price rises, they don't need to have leasees, they're still making money.

I don't understand why the Council isn't super harsh on property maintenance (absent landlords let their properties bring down the appearance of an area); and why the gov. don't levy high taxes for empty commercial properties. IMO high-street properties that are empty should be a heavy loss on landlords.
To be clear: this is an entirely backend framework, with no support for writing Janet on the front end, correct?
Perhaps I should clarify: my statement applies for Germany and probably holds true for large parts of Europe.
Yes completely! Medicine has done wonders but also has some serious skeletons in the closet when it comes to medical reversals.

I’ve found this book to be fascinating and super enlightening about what has gone wrong even in recent history.

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I’m hopeful one day that fat demonization will be formally reversed.
Possibly because the machine costs a bit, the constant running costs, and maintaining of course as well.

Also maybe because you don't want to use tap water...
Roth score is unreliable in remote assessment of patients with possible Covid-19
You can do following things-
If you can improve the solution by X factor, do it.

If your solution is same as there's then price it down by Y dollar than your competition.

If competitor takes N seconds to provide solution, see if you can provide in less than N seconds.

If onboarding to competitor product is difficult, you can make your product onboarding simplistic and write better documentation then there's.
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There are 2 different aspects of privacy in Contact Tracing technology. One is regarding device-to-device contact and another is device to cloud. In case of device to device, there's no knowledge if it shares your personal info to other phones.

If a person is found COVID positive, all the traced contacts will be under high-risk. In that case the details are sent to the cloud/governments to take apt precautions and to quarantine the individuals.

Even Apple/Google's contact tracing app send your personal data to the cloud and "works closely" with governments.

Source: https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-p...