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You seem to have a very simplistic view of police, I almost envy you for it. None of what you're saying needs to be a reality. None of it is necessary.

> Police are people and they can get scared, angry, and make mistakes.

Everyone makes mistakes - that doesn't excuse anyone from paying for those mistakes. Some of these mistakes cost lives. Regular folks go to jail. The police in the US, in general, doesn't. Those who do are the exception. Usually - suspension, investigation, acquitted.

> When a police officer instructs you to do something just do it.

What do you think happens when 'the police' shouts conflicting instructions? The answer is: you get shot [0]

What if the police instructs you to do something illegal?

What if the police sexually assaults you? [1]

> If you disagree with the order there is a mechanism to voice that disagreement called the court.

So what you're saying is that if you disagree with a decision the police officer makes in a split second, you should spend the next several years of your life in the court system?

When (not if) the police illegally seizes your property, it's OK for you to spend the next few years in the court system to get that property back to be able to return to normal life, right? [2]

> they will use rapidly escalating force to make you comply that can endanger your life

Why? Is that necessary? The police in other developed countries, for example the UK, is overall orders of magnitude more civilized and respectful than the US police.

> This used to be pretty well understood

No, what used to be well understood is that the police is there to serve and protect. Serve and protect. The police is not there to intimidate citizens. The police is not there to beat you into obedience. The police is not there to escalate the situation until it results in you losing your life.

> I think we need better public communication about this.

It's not the public that needs to be better educated on how to handle themselves around the police. It's the police that needs to be better educated on how to handle people.

> We also need to make sure the courts are more accomodating to underprivileged communities because if people don't believe the courts are fair then disputes are going to get settled in the street with violence

Did you even read the article you're commenting on?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ooa7wOKHhg

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-mar...

[2] https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/john-oliver-amplifie...
Except they generally can't. See limits on who they can hire and what speech they can engage in. So we already limit the powers of companies to protect the rights of people even though we could have just told the people work/shop/go somewhere else. Why doesn't that logic also extend to speech?
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That's not what you said, and why don't you take a look at that article I linked. The restaurant case and the call center case it looks at were hardly in the category of "someone sneezes in your mouth."
> I'm curious what the reason for avoiding eBay is?

Super low quality customer support, eBay is on sellers side as they bring profits, sellers purposely adversative products to sell more then refuse refunds, when I made complaint to eBay eBay got on their side. I have humidifier that not suitable for my needs and has super-low quality filter that's not HEPA as it was described. When I want to buy something cheap of questionable/unidentified quality, I go to aliexpress.

I have motorcycle cover that was supposed be XL and fit my motorbike, but got S that covers only top half... seller sent be back 20% of cost, but I still have cover I can't use.

GPS tracker that for some reason doesn't work with Orange (and others) SIM cards in the UK, but works in Poland (with Orange SIM).

Arduino WiFi that came in original(?) packaging, but was rusted. I can keep going like this...

It's been like this since I ever use eBay (~2010), I always lie to myself "this time it won't happen" and it keeps happening.
an early consulting contract in the USA for me was, to retrieve the code and data from a State University department.. the contract was for >$10k per month, yet the graduate students who built it were paid miniumum wage.. records were in the collection. The school would not release the code+data for years, apparently, with infinite excuses and stalling, never a "no"
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> If a significant amount of critical engineers leave AWS and they make it clear that it was because of the poor treatment of Fulfillment Center teammates,

It seems unlikely not just because a lot of engineers like to close their eyes towards others suffering but they really believe "People should be paid according to the value they create". And it is just code that they should be paid more and lower rung can be paid next to nothing else robots will take their jobs.
What are some examples of keyboard macros you use? I read a lot about people loving keyboard macros, but I can honestly say I've never thought of a use-case for them. There's already a built-in IDE automation for everything I could think to do with a macro.
I don't know what to tell you if your political beliefs are informed by movies.
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thats a good start but it would be nice to get individual items directly with price
The curve will always flatten lockdown or no. It can't be exponential forever.
What impact did IRC have on the design of Redis? You have spoken about the simplicity of Tcl, are there other systems that you think have interesting design properties?
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Because the metrics for “we don’t need this emergency hospital” and “the epidemic is beginning to burn out” are different.
it is a whole cloth invention of law.
The question is - was the egregious price the contractors charged a good price? I have the right to care about that as a tax payer
I think this is an extension of the idea behind "literate programming," whereby the program code is just a part of a larger text designed for reading by humans in the first place. (This is opposite to embedding comments in code.)
The whole site offers a poor UX with weird redundancies, terrible navigation, grammatical errors, etc. It's probably sensible to conclude the methods used to gather, clean, and present the data are correspondingly untrustworthy.
> so far no one has proven precisely what factors make the biggest differences.

The problem is in the question itself. Behind it is an expectation that there is just a tiny number of "magic spells" or "a trick" that would "solve" the problem, and that anything else is unnecessary.

The reality is the opposite: all the countries, and where the regulation was weaker, the people on their own, with the time attempted with different levels of success to protect themselves. They all did many things, many real people on many different levels, and with many not identical results. But it's much more complex than the assumption behind the question.

For example, people like to quote Sweden as some "magical other way country" whereas the universities and upper schools were shut down there too, it still has more deaths per capita than the US, the rate of new confirmed cases is not sinking etc.

Also, those who claim that there is an "impact" which "is different" typically don't try to fairly compare the actual impacts which are eventually much more similar when compared properly than implied in such a claim with no correct comparison done.

That is, a lot of such "arguments" are frauds which depend on those hearing it not willing or being able to look at the data properly.

I worked in finance for years, and I can tell you: if those who promote various claims in the news, media and social media would trade while ignoring so much data which is here so obviously available to find and compare, like they do in their claims, they would lose all their money in a blink of an eye.

I don't know how it would be possible to organize that, but if people who claim bullsh.t would have to invest some money behind their claims, and lose it if their claims would be proven wrong, we'd have much less insane conversations.

Just looking at the raw data and comparing can show you that a lot of claims floating around are plainly and completely false.

One page that allows magnificently easy comparison is

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Additionally, one should search for the original sources of the information for different countries, and compare the numbers based on that additional information.

I can especially recommend translate.google.com for an amazingly efficient way to read some information from the original sources.
It's possible that "looser lockdown with mandatory masks" might work - it seems to have done so in Eastern Europe and some of the South Asian countries. But for some reason that doesn't seem to be on the agenda in the US or UK?
> The benefit of Amazon, at least in the UK, is they will take a return for basically any reason regardless of whether its been opened or not.

Then they package the returned drive correctly and send to you, where it dies 5 months after warranty ended.
Yep, is the same that I said before... they are missing lots of positives

The frivolous consequence is that France is in "7th position" and Germany in "6th". More serious consequences are that French could have a false sense of security at this moment, and that there is a lot of unknown and hidden damage being done in French lungs that could lead to a mortality increase in the future by "natural causes".

Are they trying to estimate this number?
Great stream! Except for the intermittent glitches due to 4g... but the mixes were great, keep up the good work!
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I heard about that story, albeit through "The Power of Habit" by Duhigg, which is probably what your referencing. My reservation about just saying "safety is the top priority" is that it can quickly turn into management cargo culting if someone doesn't actually understand what changes it made at ALCOA and why it worked.

Its the same as a manager who hears that being interested in the well being of his employees can get them to work harder so he starts pretending to be interested in his employees, not because he cares but because he wants performance improvements. It ends up being insincere, creepy and off putting instead.

If the brass of a company try and emphasize safety to try and get the benefits ALCOA got, they won't pull it off, not because safety isn't important but because they didn't really care about safety in the first place.
The Linux Foundation is a foundation.

Hyperledger Project is a project of the Linux Foundation, not a foundation in and of itself.

Source: Am Linux Foundation employee working on Hyperledger
Big change is made up of a bunch of small deeds that are each individually not much. Good for you!
Check out Citizens Climate Lobby. citizensclimatelobby.org

Non-partisan group attempting to get a carbon tax and dividend law passed, and they are making progress. They continue to get new co-sponsors on their bill, they do a lot of training on how to get involved, how you can speak to your Congressperson etc.
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"Beat cops don't need guns." - in the UK!

In the US, every second person has a gun, and think they 'have the right to shoot people' for a host of arbitrary reasons.

Meaning the cops pretty much have to have guns in the US.

Similarly, I think the issue of police aggression is 90% about culture and not about constitutional issues.
Field Hospitals are designed for Trauma patients. They were never designed to handle infectious disease case loads.

The plan was to help take on non-covid case load from primary hospitals in the region that they were deployed to.
I am not asking you to do research. You said, "If you don't know, don't guess". You said that there is a measurable performance difference. So surely you know the numbers, and you're not just guessing, right?
People don't need to explicitly audience-tag every single thing they write. I don't know if "entitled" is the right word, but it's really an annoying demand. Most times, if you can understand something, or are willing to Google the jargon, then you're part of the audience, and that's plenty of precision.
> I'm just looking for any example of a QM theory predicting something that overlaps with GR

The most famous example is of course Hawking's prediction that black holes emit thermal radiation and will eventually evaporate. This prediction has not been tested yet, but it is testable.

Another example would be the recent test of whether the Newtonian gravitational potential affects the quantum phase of neutrons (it does). This doesn't test any relativistic effects of gravity, but it does provide evidence that gravity is an interaction in the quantum sense.

> which doesn't rely on a kludge like the renormalization

AFAIK Hawking's prediction did not make any use of renormalization, nor do the more recent treatments of the same thing.

> when was that?

The 1960s, IIRC.

> I should have used "gravitational scales" instead

That makes it clearer what you meant, yes.
Have you tried to get your hands on any of the Intel HEDT parts? There's little to no supply and the supply that does exist is heavily marked up. 3950Xs and Threadrippers are in stock everywhere.
>We should remember how America fought so bravely against German fascism

About that...

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

We should more accurately remember that it was the express policy of the United States to rehabilitate and support former fascists in postwar Europe, Southeast Asia, and in Latin America. The US opposed German nationalist imperialism (quite late into that campaign), but never meaningfully fascism as such. During the Red Scare, several people were even investigated and blacklisted for being "prematurely antifascist."

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tAcKhl...
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Protocols designed to avert industrial accidents don't automatically translate to protection from COVID. Specifically, the article mentions that 6 ft distancing is not being maintained.
Misread Holocene as Holodomor. Both extinctions being man made of course. So Holocene is the macro of Holodomor.
Seems pretty natural, when information is provided, to offer another perspective. It's one of our core functions as human beings in a social construct.

I also think there's a tendency to anchor on what "is". Just because things are natural doesn't make them implicitly "good". And how does one define quality in the first place?

Put another way, what is the distinction between natural and artificial? Are humans not part of nature? And will "nature" not be here long after we've destroyed ourselves, if in fact we do?
Maybe we need to look into more practical non lethal weaponry for the police, and remove their ability to carry a lethal sidearm. If we could develop a high accuracy non tethered taser, or something that has good stopping power and a decent accuracy at 25 meters, that would be a replacement. Then they could have an AR15 locked in the trunk; if they know they're going into a really high risk situation, it'll be there. But it won't be the first thing that they reach for when a homeless guy is swinging around a broom handle in public.
There's plenty of appetite for opening back up, which'll almost certainly bump up the curve. No one's saying outright "let's have more infections!", but it'll be the end result of the reopening policies.

Even hard-hit NY is looking to do it fairly soon; most of our regions just need more tests and contract tracers hired. https://www.governor.ny.gov/programs/new-york-forward
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UTF Emojis work in Emacs, and control characters are displayed and easily removed.

If you're git-savvy it's even easier to merge the comments in by using Magit and reviewing the changes individually.
Is there a name for the phenomenon where your opponent always seems to be playing more dirty? Or where it's hard to see your own's side's emotional manipulation for what it is?

I know I've often fallen prey to this effect. You feel like your team has a disadvantage and then think the other team crazy when they claim the same. Almost like our brains are trying desperately to let us feel justified in relaxing our moral code.
Trump claims experts were right.

Trump acknowledges he defied the experts and potentially wasted a bunch of money.

What, exactly, are you imagining is the scandal here? That Trump is lying, he didn't defy the experts, and the potential wasting of money was the fault of experts and not Trump? Is that the scandal you're imagining?
Were you a contractor? If not, sounds like you have cause for unlawful termination. Bring it to them.
Yes, this creates a very bright line that's easy for lawyers to follow, but in return it allows every trivial act performed on an ordinary computer that someone has not yet submitted to the USPTO to be an "invention."

Given that inventions are not rivalrous and actual practitioners of the art don't generally go around reading patents in the first place (other than, perhaps, those newsworthy due to litigation or sheer idiocy), this makes an area ripe for trivial lawsuits from people taxing the work done by others while providing no actual benefit from the patents themselves.

This leaves the two arms of the scale badly unequal. Supposedly, we derive the benefit of knowledge in exchange for patents. Instead, we're getting "do X on a computer" we already know how to do and make for any given X in exchange for a huge number of lawsuits from patents filed by lawyers who have never actually built a thing, who have at best a vague idea as to how something might be done.

The real work is the implementation. Maybe you could convince me if they actually had to build the software and release it to all alongside the patent so that society benefited from that when it expired, but the patent terms are too long for such software to be useful at the end and the various patent lawyers I've interacted with are adamantly against that idea.
This isn't true though. Non-Covid patient load plummeted because people were forced to stay at home.

Field hospitals were never designed to handle covid patients in the first place.
All of the above. I would add a breakdown of local community institutions - churches/temples/mosques, fraternal clubs, unions, etc., and the switch to online "communities" with no real human contact.
People who work in big data understand how statistics, extrapolation and time-series work. You might be more interested in the ADP data, as they use actual payroll data. Their payroll research shows 20.2 million jobs lost [1].

[1] https://adpemploymentreport.com/2020/April/NER/NER-April-202...
I'm unsure why IG_Semmelweiss sibling comment is dead and why I can't vouch or reply to it, but even NPR is reporting on the exact same phenomena:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/06/8504549...

This concerns me because my dad has congestive heart failure and can't get proper medical support right now.

What we should be doing is segregating hospitals, keeping some focused on COVID and others focused on non-COVID medical emergencies.
But the whole point of the lockdowns was to "flatten the curve" meaning to prevent the hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. That's been done.
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The great irony is that, in trying to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed leading to unnecessary deaths, we cleared out hospitals too soon, to prepare for a surge that never happened, and lead some people to unnecessary suffering and maybe death.

People without jobs had to get surgery now, before their CORBA ran out.
That's clever. I might steal that at some point. Or combine into a millisecond_of_month on a 32 bit processor.

For people that don't play with bits often: Unsigned 16-bit integers have their max as 65,536. Storing data often wastes most of the bits, since a field that goes from 0-1000 doesn't fit in an 8-bit integer, and C doesn't have native integers between 8 and 16 bits long. (You can mask out relevant fields, but that's annoying.)

So there are 1000 * 60 = 60,000 milliseconds in a minute, which is an impressively good use of the space available. There are also a max of 60 * 24 * 31 = 44,640 minutes in a month, which is pretty good usage of the second value as well. The final 16 bits are probably 4 bits for month and 12 bits for the year, going up to 4096. Alternatively it could be using it as something like month_of_common_era to get it out to year 65536/12 = 5461.
Uh...some of the biggest spenders (wasters) are big companies. Divisions get completely fed up working through thier enormous shared infrastructure org and use the cloud to go around it. The provisioning overhead is enormous for on prem so I get it but it is short-sighted. Eventually you will end up with the same problem in the cloud though once enough applications are deployed there. What's worse is that these places are getting stuck on specific providers like AWS because they are not thinking in terms of cloud but in terms of AWS or Azure or Google. Another massive mistake we are all going to watch unfold and reverse over a twenty year period.
Because Ruby is dead, Netcraft confirmed it. /s
The stock market doesn’t, and never has, represented the entirety of the economy. This was already obvious if you think about it: black markets and the illegal economy (including tax evasion, drugs, cash-only payments in the food service industry, etc.) aren’t reflected in the stock market either, yet make up a gigantic proportion of economic transactions.
> Even the stereotypically low-earning majors (Education and English) are very (financially) rewarding to those who complete degrees.

I always wonder about that. You always hear "getting a degree adds £1m to your lifetime earnings" or whatever, but suuuurely there's a pretty strong correlation between people that would have gone to uni anyway and people who are smart enough to earn more money. I mean, there's definitely a significant amount of correlation over causation but it's always stated as if it is 100% causation.
"The epidemic is beginning to burn out" is also very different from "everything can go back to normal now". We saw how quickly this can get out of hand if left unchecked last month. If people rush to get back to normal and pretend that things are fine, it's just going to happen again.
The vast majority of businesses are what I describe. The large economic profits are mostly rents accumulated by a small fraction of businesses, in a Pareto distribution. I argue we’d do fine with less of the rentiers.
Because these are agencies. They're often called in to maintain legacy systems, which don't get to use shiny new tech. Hence low or missing numbers for things like Ruby or React, despite their prevalence otherwise.
I find it reassuring to read these accounts. Even though I've been in the industry for years, I still have times (like this week), where I spend way too much time trying to do something that I feel shouldn't be that hard to do and imposter syndrome kicks in hard. A lot of what I see on hacker news is people at the top of their game, so it's nice to see people talking about actually struggling.