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The hospitals were overwhelmed, with reports of EMS having to wait with critically ill patients in ERs up to 4 hours.

Where were stable patients supposed to housed when they are better? Clearly the hospitals were not the correct place.

I recently listened to a pediatric ICU physician from Columbia/Morgan Stanley say that her hospital and other pediatric facilities in the city were forced to admit many adult patients. This clearly isn't optimal, but is was necessary.

NYC did their best to manage the situation. It was a shitty position they were placed in.

The larger problem remains that in for profit system, hospitals are not designed to massive influx of patients from a pandemic or a natural disaster. They are designed to be "lean and mean". Excess supply or resources is considered waste in normal times.

The question can also be asked were was the federal leadership in this. We unfortunately know the answer to that.
Square and triangle waves do not exist in nature. What you get is always squiggly.

> A square or triangular wave will still be a sound, with a distinct character to a sine wave of the same frequency.

You're arguing with well known facts. Take some time to understand Fourier's theories.
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Indeed, I have a friend who totally loved Mumps. I have almost 40 years with Common Lisp, love the language, but I have always been fairly open to what customers want. I know people who do amazing things with Python or Java.

I don’t much care about other peoples’ preferences for politics, programming language selection, or religion (or lack thereof).

It seems best for a team to choose a stack by some form consensus, and stick with it.

I have read the linked article several times in the 5 years since it was written, and I enjoy the shared experience. But the article could also have been about using Clojure, or Ruby, etc., etc. And also been interesting.
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Will the real Italian please stand up.

People will still give money to figure out their genetic ancestry even though people have been in flux and on the move for over 20 thousand years. Arguably the biggest bogus “science” out there.
> I figured most "interpreted" languages would be trivial to implement any kind of threads, because at any point the interpreter could decide to save the state of one language thread and switch to another, without bothering the interpreter's own stack.

Some language interpreters keep the "virtual" stack and the C stack separate like this, including current versions of Lua. As you suggest, this allows Lua to support coroutines which each have their own virtual stack.

However other interpreters, such as CPython, keep both stacks synchronized. In this case, a call in the interpreted language corresponds to a call in C - recursively back into the main interpreter loop. This is why Python's generators do not have independent stacks.

The awfully-named "Stackless Python" [0] breaks the synchronization between stacks, to allow Python to support stackful coroutines.

At least, the above was my understanding until recently. The upcoming Lua 5.4 changes to using a recursive call [1], like CPython, but still supports stackful coroutines. I don't know how this is implemented.

[0] https://github.com/stackless-dev/stackless

[1] https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/196c87c9cecfacf978f37de4ec...
Missed an opportunity on the title there, bud. Should be: "Don't Be Af-RAID"
BAH is based on your duty location
Thanks Intel.
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What are some awesome lesser known links that you’ve discovered in the last year or two that could be useful to other users here.
I moved to Australia when I was 19 from the UK and I'm surprised more people haven't said the same. I don't work remote though the tech company I work for, I imagine that'll change shortly.

Currently live in Brisbane but i'd love to live in the middle of no where for months at a time any where in this country if I didn't need to be anchored any more.

I'd love to bounce between the Kimberleys, Tasmania, rural Victoria and everything in between given the chance. They'd be a lot of appeal of doing the same to New Zealand and South East Asia too given the chance.
Nobody is having a salary cut forced on them.

People are free to continue operating in the same capacity they were when first offered the salary (working in SV office). If they want to change that, then they are renegotiating the terms of employment and hence should expect salary adjustments.
> ...salaries will be adjusted to reflect the local cost of living.

So if the employee where to move to say Hong Kong where cost of living is higher will they also in turn increase wages? I think not.

If they keep a local address in some random apartment they never stay at but live elsewhere how would one check on that?

If you're willing to pay California taxes but live elsewhere I find it hard to see how they'd plan to enforce this. You could always argue you were temporarily traveling hence the local address you intended to return to and pay taxes at. Friends of mine do this, returning to the US every 6 months or so.
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I'm not sure if comparing bitcoin to BitTorrent protocol is actually a valid comparison.
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Looking clean and sharp, could potentially place an 'about us' segment as it is the second most view section of websites, your purple blue colour is really nice however consider it being close to cadburys, colours cannot be trademarked however it could remind your audience of someone else and not you in the future.
use the chat bot 'eve' looking thing as logo as it is more eye catching than 'G&C' as at the moment g&c is seen by the viewer as the logo.
The downside of patches is the slow release. Smoking is instantaneous.
Pathrise hounded me; until they left me in the dust
Maybe this is something about recruiting that I do not understand, but I was hounded and received several LinkedIn emails from Pathrise only to find that they didn't want me when I filled out their questionnaire. Why do they do this? Are there similar companies that I could work with? I love the concept.
If you are interested in this, you might also be interested in Atomic Rockets / Project Rho [1]

[1] http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
It's great for transferring [large] sums of money internationally.

It's not great for doing anything illegal, and criminals get caught faster because they're using Bitcoin [1].

[1] https://mashable.com/article/dark-web-child-pornography-ring...
I read somewhere that they were talking about using the Facebook app itself to track remote employees whereabouts. Having trouble finding the reference right now though.
This is far from how it should work. The MPAA needed to certify a good faith belief the code was infringing. There is no reasonable way they could believe that the code itself was infringing on their copyrights.

The fact they had no concern at all filing a frivolous take-down request shows how broken the DMCA checks and balances are. This is a long standing problem [1]

[1] https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/media-entertainment-law/...
So Ottawa does have a tech industry -- QNX, Corel, Shopify, etc. were all founded there, and a bunch of big name tech companies have engineering offices there) -- but just so you know, Ottawa does get hot and humid in the summer. Not as bad as Texas, but it does get hot.
I don't know which platform you used it on but I've found the Windows version to be quite unstable. IMO the Linux version runs much better.
ability to think ahead in space and time
probably at least for one election cycle, until the blue voters that moved to the suburbs see how blue policies make it worse for them in the suburbs, and then start voting red (or whatever colour looks after their interests better) :p
Not everything needs to be a pun.
The city has a limited ability to remove them. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Martin v Boise, which held that it was illegal for the city (of Boise, Idaho) to remove homeless people from public spaces if the city has insufficient homeless shelters. This is a binding precedent in San Francisco, which is also in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The city of Boise, Idaho appealed to the Supreme Court, prodded by several cities including Los Angeles, but the Supreme Court declined to see the case.

San Francisco is still held to Martin vs. Boise. They need to either build sufficient homeless shelters for all of the homeless in SF, (lol) or allow them to sleep where they please in public places.

I am not a lawyer, but I got an A in Political Science 101 and I read the news. This is not legal advice, but my personal advice is that cities in California oughta build more homeless shelters.
The people living in LCOL areas don't hustle. They aren't the type to do 100 hours of leetcode. That doesn't make them bad engineers. But it precludes them from passing the incredibly one-dimensional assessment FANGs apply to engineers.

The hiring committees would throw fits if they had to consider hiring even the upper-end of talent in non-competitive markets.

These committees could be in for a reckoning if businesses realized they could be just as effective with mid market talent, because truthfully, not every problem that needs to be solved at a FANG needs a top 1% best-of-breed, (for example) 15+years-of-GPU experience engineer. Not every problem demands niche, hard-to-find specialty.
There's a thing called being a tax resident.

For example, at the country level, I'm currently working remotely from Spain. If I stay here longer than around 6 months, I'm considered a tax resident and then I should pay taxes.

If you're planning to start working remotely from another country, you should know that the USA requires US Citizens to pay taxes anywhere they live. You should also know that some states require you to pay taxes wherever you live. For example, California has the highest state income tax in the USA, and it (tries) to tax CA residents even when they are not in the state. If you leave your nice Palo Alto apartment to work remotely for Facebook from Da Nang in Vietnam, you'll be paying USA taxes, and possibly California taxes.

If you don't know what terms like bona fide resident & physical presence test are, it is (in my opinion) very much worth talking to a talk professional to understand what your tax liabilities are if you intend to change your physical location to work remotely.

If you wanna go down the rabbit hole, start by looking up the foreign earned income exclusion.
No government authority requires salaries to vary based on location.
Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on his PC
The fjords in Norway are the prettiest things I’ve ever seen. When CoVid travel bans raise, in definitely going back.
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Good thing everybody who's going to get this has already gotten it, and all death has stopped, right. /s

I mean seriously it's been like 2.5 months.

We have 2 million confirmed cases nation-wide and that is WITH social distancing. We've never social distanced for the common flu, and the average death is like 40k/year.

If you extrapolate that for every 3 million cases reported/tested positive you get 100k deaths, then when we get to 30 million cases that's 1 million deaths. 60 million cases and it's 2 million deaths.

The second wave of the spanish flu was WAY deadlier and terrible than the first wave. I don't doubt the same will happen this time around.

That's like saying in June, eh we've only had 1 hurricane, the hurricane season for 2020 was great, we only had 1 hurricane...with 3-4 months left in hurricane season.

We've literally got like 2-3 years left in coronavirus 'season' (until there's better treatments/vaccines/plans in place).
Most SaaS companies remain “failures” by his definition of success. For every Zoom there are thousands of SaaS companies that can’t make payroll and require their founders to work at other daytime jobs.

While Zoom was successful before, Coronavirus helped being the accelerant for it. Now it will face real competition. There are no barriers to entry for competitors as all you need is a shared link.

Zoom has benfitted from their competitors being obsessed with awful UX like Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts/Meet etc.

I have had to cancel many Microsoft Teams meetings because it won’t let me join the call. Google requires you to sign in with gmail.

Zoom requires NOTHING to join a call.
> They're just trying to justify illegal software.

Please define "illegal software" in this context.
Thank you for this addon. Google should have done this 20 years ago.
Purely anecdotal, but I've never had a hard disk just outright fail 100%, they always start going click click click on certain areas of the disk, and avoiding those files you can rescue the rest. SSDs on the other hand, I've never had one properly go into a "read-only" soft fail mode, they just fail to show up one day.

This is all among consumer drives though, enterprise stuff probably behaves better?

I'd love to see some kind of statistics on actual failure modes, but aside from Backblaze, everyone keeps their storage statistics private.
No worries, I think that's a fair risk from a user perspective
- upvote for the feedback.

I'd recommend anyone worried about this to sign up with an email alias (<username>+feedsub@gmail.com), (though again, that's something that can still be easily detected).
Thank you, for your kind comments!
Ack my bad! I wrote "2nd generation Zen" but I meant to write "Zen 2" which is (confusingly) the 3rd generation.

I found some historical price data and I'm surprised - the 2700 really was $150 back in January! Vendors are price gouging the old ones now, and the 3700X is currently $295 on Newegg.

As far as the GPU goes, an 8GB from the 500 series (only 32 CU, released 2017) is still at least $140 today. And noting the memory again, that's 8GB GDDR5 versus (reportedly) 16GB GDDR6 so I'm skeptical the price will fall all that much relative to the 6GB card I mentioned.
I doubt middle america is going to benefit much from this. Once a company has bitten the remote workers bullet there are far cheaper alternatives that hiring a SWE in Ohio. There are huge numbers of highly capable devs right across the border in college towns in Mexico and farther south in multiple South American countries. All on US time zones and working at a fraction of the price of a US developer regardless of their location.
> Truth is you're more likely to get killed in a car accident than by Covid-19

In the US during 2018 there were ~36,000 auto fatalities. For the first half of 2020 Covid-19 is nearing 100,000 deaths with all the precautions. And there may be a surprising number of people with health complications of one kind or another (over 30% of US population is obese) that could be exacerbated by this virus.

> The real problem may be characterised by the fact that half of the population has an IQ below 100. However as a society we've given up on eugenics, so that is a path not chosen!

We are stronger when we work together. Suggesting that the government regulate procreation to increase society's IQ is ... not going to help toward that end.
So this is basically a simple video intro generator?
This definition of "essentially every" is also extremely flimsy.
Yeah. It's based on work site, but they define down to the county what the location adjustment is. But the same thing could be used for remote workers. I strongly assume the remote work positions that exist would pay based on the county where the worker resides.

If these large tech companies just used the US GS Scale's locality adjustment, it would be super easy and non-controversial.

https://www.federalpay.org/gs/locality
It's like comparing BitApples to BitOranges.
Sounds like you just don't like nicotine users, and your observation is a little biased.

I've worked with smokers and non-smokers, both unproductive and productive alike.

I would venture to say that a metric like social media use has a higher correlation with lack of productivity, wouldn't you?
if the lockdowns were needed to stop the spread, then we would have seen the states that opened up 2-3 weeks ago having a dramatic increase in hospitalizations right now.

but that has not happened

also when the lockdowns started we were not sure about the details of the disease, now we have a relatively better understanding
> AB=(B'A')'

Can someone clarify the notation for me? What is B' and A'? I've never seen that before.
Do you want a picture of my passport? I can easily provide it.
I didn't say that it was Bernie's ideas what ruined my country, just that the kind of policies he preaches have been applied here for decades. Don't take my word for it, just look for any of Cristina Kirchner's speeches, and you will see.
Yes. And we're both clear that there wasn't always a mobile app version of Gmail, right?
I've had some luck with a similar strategy on subreddits. Find related communities, message active members and ask for feedback/ux interview.
How did you presumably google Kerala and then pick a city on a different coast in a different state?
I would probably move back to Texas or just hop from airbnb to airbnb internationally.
Not just big tech companies,it's SOP at most companies in pretty much all industries.

Very very few people would not be expecting a location adjustment to their salary with a major relocation. Especially when that relocation is entirely for the benefit of the employee, not the employer.
No more concessions from the EU will be given to the UK over Brexit
I'm skeptical it will go that way. If you look at the history of smoking, wikipedia has

>Pipe smoking gradually became generally accepted as a cause of mouth cancers following work done in the 1700s.

ie. the negative effects were obvious for a long time. There's nothing like that with caffeine - if anything is seems to extend lifespan perhaps in humans and definately in Caenorhabditis elegans https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922918/
Really appreciate the heads up, I’ll reach out.
Normally I would but I have committed two sins:

1) Enough of my products and/or products I made for corporate clients are known one or the other way.

2) I sometimes talk in non tech topics (even tech ones can be rather political when you talk corporate culture).

Given amount of modern snooping by potential clients (comes from experience) I have zero desire to give them a chance to connect two dots.
Doesn’t really have to be one provider. I wouldn’t mind if there were 100 Netflix competitors if whichever one I picked gave me all of the content
I'm from nz as well, I wouldn't get your hopes up for 5g. We have too many trees for 5g, its only really planned in malls, airports, universities ect. Large indoor areas.
as I read the above PayPal wasnt a button on eBay yet. Just based on the above comments it sounds like initially PayPal staff were doing a bunch of buying and selling on eBay and insisting they they be paid via this thing called 'PayPal'.
That's a fair point. In North America, one of the other things that we should probably consider is the American beaver, which can help with this sort of thing naturally, if they're allowed to. Their activity needs a little management to prevent them from disrupting existing settlements, but compared to effect they had before trappers started in on them, it seems like there's might be some room for a natural solution that checks both boxes to a degree.

Edit: Just kidding, I hadn't realized that the Eurasian beaver had been reintroduced to so much of its original range. Looks like it's not just something for North America.
> the core of your position

Is not what you say. If you insist on breaking it down into "axioms", here are some:

(1) Government policy/law cannot take into account the individual circumstances of individual cases, since it is impossible for government officials/lawmakers to obtain that information; so government policy/law that dictates what people must or must not do will always dictate the wrong thing for some people.

(2) The government dictating the wrong thing for anyone is wrong in a free country.

(3) Therefore, government policy/law should not dictate what people must or must not do at all unless failing to do so would make it impossible for a free country to exist.

Whether or not the government dictating that everybody must wear masks in public, or must not leave their homes except for a certain small number of reasons, would be justifiable under #3 is a question that might be worth discussing (I personally think it wouldn't be, but others might be able to give reasonable arguments that it would). However, the grounds under which the government dictating those things is actually being justified is nothing like that. The grounds on which it is actually being justified is that we don't actually have a free country: that the government does not need to meet anything like the above standard before dictating what people must and must not do.

If your response is basically, yes, indeed, we don't have a free country (which is what it seems to me to be), then I guess you're right that the discussion isn't worth continuing. But it certainly seems like a sad outcome considering the country's original goals.
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Nashville is the place I would plant myself. Lived there for a large chuck of my life and miss it dearly. Great city with plenty of great neighbourhoods, good schools, lots of Universities in the the area, and truly livable city.
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International coverage, soldiers in the war, etc.
Surprised more people on here aren't saying nice, relaxed, sunny places like SE Asia. I'm a white american citizen and I've been living in SE Asia for 3 years having the time of my life while working remotely. I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. Looking back at the US, I don't miss the jerks everywhere, the value system of work, work, work and more money. Here in SE Asia, they value quality of life, being happy, family, and friends over money and "success" which is what Americans value.
I'm currently in Helsinki, and it is a really great place to live - speaking as somebody who moved from Edinburgh, Scotland.

The public-transport is first-class, with a single system for the local rail, trams, and busses. Even in winter they're almost always on-time, and in good-shape.

The place is clean, the people are generally helpful if you need assistance, although the stereotype of Finns being "closed" and noncommunicative is pretty true, in general.

The city feels well-run, and well-organized, and the child-care is first-rate. Where I live I'm two minutes from the sea by foot, and the back of our apartment block faces a large park which contains our allotment on the far-side.

Many of the apartment buildings have children's play-areas, sandboxes, swings, etc, in them, and I guess we're lucky that where we live there are about ten children ranging in age from 1 year to 7 years. So there are always neighbours to chat to, and company for the children.
People tend not to hold animals to the same standards (compassion, empathy) that they hold humans to. A human mauling a baby deer on camera would be lambasted, whereas a tiger doing exactly the same would be considered 'natural'.

Agreed though that nature is anything but 'nice'. Anyone who thinks otherwise has been lucky enough to be almost entirely shielded from nature by human society.