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Because they in the next breath said it had potential to become a pandemic if no intervention is done? At the same time declaring it an emergency outbreak of a novel virus?

Words have meaning, and pandemic a very specific one. Would you have declared SARS a pandemic when the first cases started to show up simply because it's a scary virus?
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Though if they get more work I imagine that they will raise their prices :). Which is good for them!
All I see is an advertisement for some service.
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Well, we deploy our Kubernetes cluster with Terrafprm and then use Kubernetes to deploy our "miniservices".

I do not see why they could be mutually exclusive, but deploying some services via Docker/Kubernetes and some via Config Management is probably less efficient, because one would have to maintain two separate deployment methods.
Why Shopify and platforms like it, will fail
sites that allow any scammer to scam people and take responsibility or give information of the trustworthiness of the sellers, are an area to be exploited heavily
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I'm not an expert, but it seems to me than other than a PR some of those dates are also set to provoke higher efficience and appease taxpayers. Once the project is underway and billions were spent it's much ahrder to back out.
How easy is it to get those loans? I know in the US the PPP seems easy to get the bigger you are, otherwise if you don't have a tight relationship with a bank you probably missed out.
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> Macs tend to lack decent GPU

Are you saying the majority of the emulation calculation nowadays are done in a gpgpu fashion in that emulator? For if that's the case, it would be insanely cool.
I guess the important thing is not so much if two viruses differ in any base pairs or in any 'biological property'; but whether immunity to one is also immunity to the other?

If they were two strains of SARS-CoV-2 but your body fights them the same, that's as good as only one strain for most people. But still very interesting for scientists.

Equivalently, if we see lots of differences in base pairs but no differences in biological properties yet, that might still alert us to the possibility of new strains rapidly emerging in the future.
i guess ads are down

this makes me reflect that almost everything online functions only because of ads, which is quite sad

either ads, or selling PII to companies that do ads
A chart about the world through the eyes of the US
Static sites can be a fine choice for non-techies too. A non-profit I work with manages theirs using Publii, which pushes the static site to Netlify. The whole thing is free (except the domain), and quite easy to move.
What’s the coolest thing or most useful thing you’ve been able to do as a result of having all this information?
I'd argue that the problems arise whenever the censorship is compelled by third parties, even if they're doing it for the benefit of others.

> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
As a hiring manager I can tell you the sad truth about this and github links.

No one reads them. Seriously. No one reads them. There’s simply too many resumes to look at. Having it something extra to look at, and it’s cognitive load is a hell of a lot more than anything else, because now I’m supposed to understand some random code dropped in my lap, or whether some rando’s answers on SO are quality, or not. (Points just tell me about how quickly it was answered, not necessarily quality.) Finally, assuming I did all that work, now I have to compare this to someone that didn’t list it, because they don’t care enough about SO to create an account (raises hand), or simply have hobbies outside of coding.

It’s easier — and fairer — to simply judge the resume based on the the actual resume, and then follow up with interview questions if appropriate.
It's not arbitrary though. Genetic variation is common within a particular species. Some humans have red hair. That doesn't mean they are substantively different. What the author is saying is that differences seen in Corona virus are also not substantive.
Other examples in the thread show people routinely outputting "Hello, world" from cold start in under 5ms.
Based on the difference in virulence of the virus in Western Europe and US versus Asia, it is hard to believe there is only one strain of SARS-CoV-2.

My hypothesis is that while Asia was originally infected by Wuhan originated strain, the Western Europe and US may have been infected by a mutated strain. The differences in impact in different countries is very difficult to explain without the hypothesis of multiple strains.

Edit: There was a decent article recently (I am unable to find now, most probably from NYT, WSJ) that addressed several factors mentioned in replies and showed none of those could explain the discrepancy in cases across countries. For example, high temperature and warm weather don’t explain differences in cases between Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Amazon region of Brazil.

The closest article, I could find using google search is from Brookings.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/05/05...
How does good character develop in the first place then..?
Someone would have ended up inventing some X-Session-Id HTTP header that the server would send to the user agent, and the user-agents supporting the "HTTP Sessions extension" would send back a X-Session-Id with the same content to the same origin. A special empty value would have been used to terminate the session, from the client or from the server.

Another HTTP header, X-Session-Expiration, would have been added to expire sessions.

/s
Given that they're numbered from 0x0 to 0xF, there are actually 0x10 rules listed.
We're working on a solution for user to link their Fb/twitter identity to a decentralized ID and post encrypted post/comment (even sending any crypto over) on Fb/twitter only viewable by friends *(not able to decrypted by Fb or NSA) -

https://maskbook.com

Source code:

https://github.com/DimensionDev/Maskbook

For now we're trying to integrate decentralized FS solution as well so eventually Fb/twitter can be merely an infrastructure layer
That's an interesting and important point. Luckily it seems to mutate 10x slower than influenza viruses and so far no different strains have been found. Finding new strains would also thwart some of the current work on vaccines being done.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/coronavir...
It is strictly true. The law states: "illegal to access foreign internet without government permission first."

The government opening up businesses to connect to services such as facebook or twitter to promote china businesses and so on is just the government giving permissions.

But for the every-day citizen, the use of a VPN is technically illegal as it circumvents the law.
I'm also using this, and now that I need some dynamic stuff to allow booking me in my calendar, I found that I also get simple access to aws lambdas for free, way enough for little me.
Who’s the audience for this $1 price point? If I’m looking for recommendations I can go to the sellers portfolio and see their review. I’m not going to spend $1 and have to fuss over cancelling the subscription before I forget just for a list of illustrators that might be good which is subjective too. Anyway if you’re using fiverr you probably won’t even pay for something like this
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Banning cookies wouldn't do too much against tracking: modern browsers leak enough information that you can fingerprint individual users by eg screen resolution, available fonts etc.
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I think it strongly depends on the tags of the question. In particular I think you will poor quality answers on popular, high volume tags like JavaScript.
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The article was interesting but boy, did it take an unexpected turn at the end.
I may agree with the article and the life in Senegal, but I definitely DON'T with the conclusion.
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First, why are you keeping cookies in the first place?

Install Forget Me Not and deny/whitelist/clean up cookies automatically. I deny all cookies, except the ones I need to login to a few sites. Another way to go about it, is to just automatically delete all cookies when you close a page.

Secondly, why aren't you using Temporart Containers?

Each domain gets it's own temporary container and there is no cross contamination. Close the page and it's all gone.
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Like, I appreciate your investigations, but none of those people were mentioned in the original post to which I responded.

Mark Zuckerberg: father was a dentist; solidly upper-middle class
Bill Gates: mother on the board of IBM, upper-middle class

I won't try to talk about anyone except the Collison brothers, and given that I was born somewhat before them in the same country, I can assure you that they were solidly upper-middle class by Irish standards. Also, please note that Patrick Collison attended MIT as an international student, which is not something that poor people do.
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hi, ggreer, I fixed some browser compatibility issues. Could you try it again? Thanks!
Ah..Ok, so contact information may have been leaked at various stages of the regulatory process or even at the Telco..

Good that you are taking action on the spam callers and hopefully other improvements have reduced the service interruptions. The regulatory environment possibily does not look with kind eyes on new entrants in the financial services industry. So I think you might have had many struggles to reach where you are.

I really didn't intend to shower negative sentiment about the service, only to highlight a few complaints I have heard, but later I saw it had become the topmost comment.
Really? Messenger can't. Whatsapp can't. Snapchat can't. Zalo can't. GroupMe can't (maybe I could create a solo group chatin it?. I don't remember telegram having it. At some point app fatigue sets in and you don't want to install even more apps.

I'm not setting up a second account just to have something to send it to. Additionally the messages won't be available on my computer.
Reminds me of this site: https://joebiden.info/

Except...you know...the Biden site is inclined to a more grave accusation
> 80,000 deaths is more than double the current number of deaths in the UK, which is itself very high.

That is not relevant.

> This difference alone is the difference between deploying the army to build field hospitals and emergency seizures of industry to make it happen, or doing nothing. And it comes from floating point differences between AVX and non-AVX hardware.

No, 320k or 400k deaths will not make the difference to decide whether the army will be deployed.

If the 80k were the difference between 100 and 80100, then it obviously would impact policy.

What matters is the relative difference, not the absolute. How is this so hard for you to understand?
Philips also had MSX based computers as well
As far as I understood the apps are designed to measure time of being near someone as well.

I think within X meters for Y minutes (based on how often the bluetooth pings are exchanged).

This also has basis in virology where rate of infection for flu/corona substantially increases when you are close to someone within X meters (say 1.5m) for longer than a defined time Y (say 10min).
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Have they hired a alien attack movie scriptwriter? - Since then, we have entered a new era, and societies in every corner of the globe face a historic challenge. We are reminded that for all of our advances as a civilization, nature can be a powerful force which we must adapt and innovate around.
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Could you elaborate on this? How do the effects differ and couldn't a lot of it be explained by the vastly different pandemic reactions (lock-down vs doing almost nothing)?
Preferring only POST form submissions vs GET links might have helped some, with proxies perhaps, while previous implementations of “disabled cookies” functionality in early forum software would tie the session ID to other information known about your session, such as your IP address and browser identifier, and often there was a time-out for your session identifier that would reset every time you visited another page on the site. Thus somewhat limiting how easily you could share your session accidentally with someone else in multiple ways. Today this would be less practical as folks switch from wifi to cellular frequently. And it was still a “workaround” even then, the preference for developers was still to use a session cookie where available for simplicity. (Annoyingly, the session cookie historically often came with the same IP address and browser user agent matching restrictions though this wouldn’t be as necessary given the different technology employed.)

I do recall that in early implementations of cookies in web browsers, they were disabled by default. But when a website wanted to set a cookie, a prompt would appear. Actually, this might have just been the configuration of some of the shared computers I was using at the time at school and in other places.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365024.365034 has a number of screenshots from early browsers, Netscape 1-4 and IE 3-5. All had cookies enabled by default, apparently.

I might be thinking of the cookies prompts in Links and Lynx text mode browsers, as I tended to use those more often back then over dialup. The cookie prompts in general were terrible because you never knew what part of the site would be enabled or disabled before interacting with the site. To that end, Safari’s approach is quite reasonable for a default.
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I may be misunderstanding this thread, but what the parent is saying is that the BLE permission in Android was _never_ meant for privacy focused contact tracing, and you are saying this is not a secret.

This is why Google and Apple developed the Exposure API, which is more private because it doesn't save as many metadata than the classical BLE permission, and at least Google does _not_ allow apps to declare both the Exposed API and the location permission at the same time.

This gives more guarantee to the users than just trusting the app developers.

In other words, any serious privacy-focused contact tracing apps should use the Google/Apple Exposure API, and not a custom made solution on tops of the older BLE permissions.

However, I still think digital contact tracing, even private, is a bad idea.
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I guess they didn't raise prices enough to make demand match supply?
Agreed, it’s a pretty strange set up. I did cancel once I’d got the list but the profile links are legit.
AdBlock Plus is owned by eyeo GmbH which actively forces media and news agencies to pay fees to allow advertising in their "acceptable ads" program. You can look that up on northdata.

I would heavily recommend to switch to uBlock Origin (and maybe uMatrix) instead.

Disclosure: worked for eyeo in the past, and quit.
I was going to suggest that ?x-private-*= or ?s= URL query parameters could not be copied/pasted /s ;-)

I imagine the page would need to also use some sort of dictionary-based compression for efficient transfer of the page if it has many links on it. ;-)

On the plus side, you wouldn’t need megabytes of cookies...
We decided on the useReducer-hook instead of using a proper state library.

We did this since the thing we are currently building is essentially just a set of forms with a lot of client-side and server-side validations.

Of course, if we were building a large SPA we would probably reconcider at this point. It feels like we're already at the edge of what useReducer was designed to do and I do not think what we are doing now would scale cleanly to a larger project or a larger team.
I just recently started hosting my personal website in my closet on a laptop: https://notryan.com.

I also host a Discourse forum. It's pretty snappy for being in my closet (https://forum.webfpga.com) Beats paying DigitalOcean $15/month ($180/year!) for a machine with 2vCPU + 2 GB RAM (the minimum for Discourse).

I think more people should consider self-hosting, especially if it's not critical. It makes the Internet more diverse for sure.
I think that's true for almost all the messengers. You dont know who is spying and peeping into your chatbox. We've given so much power to social media and softwares that they are kinda driving us now. Huh!!
No, it's more that the consoles they're emulating have GPUs, so they emulate the GPUs with the computers GPU.
How about the fact that a character in a Marvel movie, ostensibly an inoffensive family film, who was originally Tibetian, was changed to a white woman just so it could make money in China? I don't think Disney has any Chinese ownership, but it's pretty blatant that the industry is bending over backwards to not piss off China and get the box office returns there.

Here's a whole article on it: https://www.cnet.com/features/marvel-is-censoring-films-for-...
Agreed. Emacs and Vim basically try to do the same thing with two very different approaches, and both can fit well depending on the use-case. I also get why many prefer VS Code, because spending hours to learn and configure a program just for text editing is not universally appealing. But other people just want that configurability.

> Evil has existed for a long time but vim is still more popular.

Because the behaviour isn't identical(it even has default settings that intentionally deviate!), because it isn't complete(it doesn't affect any other mode), but most importantly for me because Emacs cannot fully match Vim's keybinding functionality. I broke my Emacs configuration a dozen times before realising that.

I am glad I tried out Emacs as a Vim user though, it led to a couple improvements of my Vim configuration and I learned a couple new things.
You, you are going to be crucified by scientists. :-)

More seriously, I get your point but many discoveries are done by finally observing something which existence has been anticipated, hypothesized but still unproven. A planet that had an effect on nearby objects because of its gravity for instance. Or the Higgs boson.

So, yes, thinking of things that are not proven to exist (yet) is often scientifically helpful.

You still want to apply Occam's razor of course.
If you have any alternative that gets popular, it'll probably be full of SEO gaming, too?

(Though, of course, the team behind the alternative might be better at resisting the gaming? Google, the company, isn't magic.)
Fantastic job with this! Feels like I've stumbled upon a [vastly more productive] clone of myself.

The best way I can describe this type of thinking is a very strong, overriding compulsion to think and live in an augmented, external, hivemind-like capacity. It's beautiful, but it certainly isn't normal.

It makes one wonder what the etiology of such thinking is. Were I to guess, based on personal experience: hypomania, ADHD, obsessive tendencies, indignation at tech platforms sucking so bad, technology fracturing our fucking minds. Any combination thereof.

>I'm not willing to wait till some vaporwave project reinvents the whole computing model from scratch

Sorry, turns out it's kind of hard! :)
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You have to define what kind of developers you're talking about.

Do they work with graphics? OSX doesn't really have many native games running on it. So clearly there's a whole group of developers who aren't Mac first.

Like OSX is enjoyed by a lot of developers because it's similar to Linux.

However Apple deprecated openGL, aren't using Vulkan but have their own thing called Metal. So that makes it quite OSX specific.

Edit:

Looks like someone is working on it:
https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/18
Here's a chart that pretty clearly shows how well the US is doing in comparison to the rest of the world: https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1256769252369072134

Live version of essentially the same chart here: https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries
If the server redirects the browser to the identity provider, and then goes back to the browser with the token, and the browser gives that to the server, that doesn't seem to require third-party cookies.
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Everyone knows Javascript is bad. Millions of programmers use and know it, though.
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Yes, it's been a long term trend. Prices tend to decline towards their marginal cost. In the case of software this is close to zero.

Hence companies like MicroSoft are shifting towards services.
Buying a phone and replacing the software will be cheaper unless you're making truckloads of these? (There are a dozen brands of point-of-sale systems that are an iPod Touch or similar with a magnet attached to the headphone jack)
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When Spolesky brought on this guy, I was shocked. He had no profile or activity on Stackoverflow. He wasn’t even a developer and his resume indicated he was just generic management talking head. Given how much Spolesky emphasis “product person” to be in charge as opposed to white label MBAs, none of that made any sense. I’d to only imagine he was cashing out and part of the deal from investors was to place this guy who they trusted to grow “enterprise” business. Just why every beautiful startup must make their owners billionaires while getting ruined?
> advertised as local stock with 2-5 day shipping, arrives 4 weeks later with postage marks from China

We also see that issue sometimes. I hope you ruthlessly leave negative feedback for those sellers, at least.
Not quite sure what you mean by "Smartphone-esque". There is a bunch of devkits with multiple sensors integrated, systems with standard connectors and a range of matching sensors and outputs, ..., which make prototypes and one-offs quicker to make. Of course more expensive than starting with individual parts. And sometimes using a phone, possibly with a small custom board, can indeed work.
I've also been listed on papers just because I was a student intern that conducted a part of an experiment and wrote a few lines describing it. My own paragraphs didn't make it into the published paper but I contributed to the research and was credited for it in the authors list. It does not seem wrong to do that - except if you interpret authoring narrowly as typing things.
For anyone else reading and wondering what the founder effect is:

> In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population.

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