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use that same site that you linked to and view countries like south korea. ask yourself, why are these graphs so different?

the answer is that america gave up from the beginning. that much is clear from the graphs. other countries, like south korea, didn't just flatten the curve, they eliminated it. a total of 100,000+ deaths is a mass die off.

in the united states, out of every 100,000 people, 35 have died. and it's likely more because the united states has manipulated death numbers by underreporting them.

in south korea, out of every 100,000, only 0.5 people have died. by those numbers alone, the u.s.' handling of the virus is 70 times worse. i'm sick and tired of people like you spreading misinformation and shrugging this thing off like it hasn't been a big deal. it hasn't been that big of a deal in countries that have handled it. that does not include the united states.
> county police

This is very, very rare.

More frequently, we have county Sheriffs, not police. And their duties are quite distinct; only recently have they come to resemble police.

Shrievalty is more concerned with the functioning of the courts: sometimes holding suspects before trial (and maintaining jail facilites), ensuring the security and order of the court, protecting jury members from violent coercion, capturing fugitives, etc.

Patrolling and "preventative" enforcement is not a traditional role for the Sheriff.
Funnily enough, this existed, but it was an airship instead of C130 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_aircraft_carrier
imagine a day in the life of an inner city cop and then re-read your post to see how ridiculous it sounds.
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It's hard for me to see society being able to self-critique via social media as a bad thing—newspaper headlines have certainly been exploiting the same linguistic tricks you point out for centuries. I don't see why it's bad to return the favor and build a culture that isn't represented by legacy/traditional/whatever media.
Thank you for this thoughtful and well-reasoned opinion. I would also like to add a global take into the discussion. Who stands to benefit from the American people being both divided among white / black, male / female, old / young, and distrusting of the media? Certainly not anyone in America.
> is it safe to take morphine

it is safe for me if you take morphine; it is not safe for me if you spread an airborne pathogen. see the difference?
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> Only because it was filmed.

This is a big reason why I'm in favor of police body cams. In an innocent until proven guilty legal system, it's too easy for people to get off by saying "he lunged at me and I defended myself."

> coroner

Really? I assume you mean the country medical examiner. He ruled the death a homocide. I think people want there to be a simple explanation like "he was choked," but it was actually pretty complicated because of drugs in his system, underlying heart disease, and covid-19. I honestly think both reports are generally true, and there's enough room for difference of opinion in the exact cause of death that I'm not concerned by the different conclusions.
There are literally thousands of books in the Gutenberg Press, (http://www.gutenberg.org) that include stuff as recent as the 1920s. After the 1920s, things peter out because of the harsher copyright laws ("The Mickey Mouse Laws") since then.

These include books by many famous authors such as Dickens, Conrad, Conan Doyle, Defoe, Kipling, Poe, etc, etc, etc. Enough to keep you occupied for years!
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I see the intent... but scale is drastically different. You’re comparing a yearly figure to a daily one that is nowhere near the daily max to begin with.
This is definitely something that I keep at the back of my mind. That said, my current world view is that the entire fiat monetary system itself is a bubble. In that context, cryptocurrencies are a lesser bubble and by virtue of their limited supply, they will continue going up in value as they are constantly propped up by an infinite supply of newly printed credit from banks. The cryptocurrency community's ability to continuously buy politicians and journalists also helps ensure continued dominance.

Everything that's happening around the world now perfectly aligns with my world view. Guess who is going to benefit from the Fed's massive covid-19 fiat injections?
> Global warming skepticism is exactly the kind of thing that often occurs when people trust their own judgement more than that of subject matter experts.

Except that the "subject matter experts" have a horrible track record. Also, global warming proponents misrepresent the skepticism. Nobody is really questioning the warming of the earth. People are questioning how much man is responsible for it. After all, the "globe" has been warming for thousands of years before industrialization. There are "subject matter experts" who believe the warming is mostly a natural phenomenon. There are even fringe "subject matter experts" who believe the earth will cool. You aren't a cynic, you are just agenda driven.

> Want to get good medical advice? Find two highly regarded medical specialists and ask them independently for a diagnosis and treatment plan.

Where and which ones? The one's that say you don't need to wear masks or the one's that say you need to wear masks?

I won't bother with the rest. All you are saying is believe and trust authority. But the problem with that was a time when "experts" believed in global cooling, medical experts believed in blood letting, political experts believe in racism, financial experts believe in subprime loan derivatives, etc. Blindly believing authority also tends to cause a lot of problem. The problem with the "experts" in your list is that it has become so politicized and corporaticized that one has to be skeptical by default.
11kW in the 1GHz-1THz range, in a location where a civilian bystander could accidentally move himself into the beam, isn't going to happen. Not even 1kW.

If you look at a microwave magnetron (don't), you go blind in seconds from your eyeballs getting cooked and turning opaque. Surgery could theoretically replace them (and leave the retina), but I'm not aware of that ever happening.

It's quite feasible for a sizable eNodeB to consume 11kW, but keep in mind that they have significant amounts of compute hardware.

It'd help if you'd make a bit more of an effort to check/validate/cite the concrete numbers you name, if you don't want to be seen as a "confused anti-5G person". I don't think you are malicious, considering your history, but no everyone will.
Well, shit... I've been a lil frustrated by a lack of a clear resource and consequentially haven't gotten far on a couple half-hearted attempts to learn it. I can just make it up myself? A little late in the weekend for a new project, but I'm suddenly interested again.
I didn't know who Fred Hampton was (I do now; this comment prompted me to read his Wikipedia article), but I did know his name, from Gil Scott-Heron's poem/song/rap, "No Knock".
> but it's not all them.

Sure, and the other ones look the other way. Totally "good" guys just lettin' bad guys be bad guys. Until the "good" guys start going after and punishing the "few bad ones", they are all bad.

If we're going to use the "just some bad apples" argument, then it might be prudent to apply it to the protestors, too?

At this point it's borderline ignorant to be unaware of the ongoing police brutalities. And if one -is- aware, it's disingenuous to compare what they're doing to some stores being set on fire- turns out people really, really care about property damage suddenly. [0] [1]

[0]: https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/blob/master/repor...

[1]: https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/blob/master/repor...
Did the Inca genetically engineer llamas? Clearly they were around before the Inca, just like they are still around, even after the Inca.
There's a big problem with even asking this: it's asked as if there are objective answers, but no single person can possibly have worked in enough startups to have statistically significant knowledge in this area. Unless someone has done a scientific study in this area it's just a bunch of anecdotes and disagreements.
How do you figure—where would the threat come from? We can certainly still produce necessary goods while the majority of the workforce stays home. In that light—every industrialized country, probably. Certainly other countries every where you look on every continent seem to be doing markedly better at this than the US, including countries that are opening back up. Our best parallels are the goddamn UK and Iran, the former of which is trying to hang itself and the latter we've been trying to choke out for 40+ years.

Anyway, I can't even guess how you think the economy works if you think we need to open up or something bad will happen that nobody ever names. Oh no, a U shaped recovery and not a V shaped recovery? How will my 401k ever recover in the next six months?!? Think about all that risk to my capital! :'( How can this country ever recover from such a critical loss of portfolio value?

Instead of actually ensuring people can survive this crisis, we've bought corporate debt and told people to get back to work. It's a goddamn joke of any understanding of economics. Honey, every person that's ever read adam smith could do better than that. "developing countries" are putting us to shame, and good for them, because we're on the bus in Speed.
There is only one power spec for usb cables before type C. Anything beyond that was a proprietary variant that, yep, wasn’t always obvious upon inspection.

Not defending USB type C here.
The reality of the situation is the opposite of what you are concerned about. There are large numbers of un-prosecuted police misconduct cases that we've seen happening just this week. You are making the same argument against passing a law to deal with real and current concerns that Sen Rand Paul says the new law against lynching will make it too easy to accuse people of lynching - but the us has a real problem with facing up to lynching as a historical reality. And almost all the other republican and democratic senators and reps don't see it.

We have an even bigger problem facing up to police misconduct in the US and the multiple layers of extra protection police get when something violent happens: (1) time to figure out their story before they are questioned, which normal people don't get, often based on union contracts (2) often cities have contracts to keep misconduct hidden, and we see many of these problem officers with multiple misconduct issues over the years until they finally go a bit too far (3) the supreme court and legal doctrine that sets a very high bar especially for convicting police of malfeasance.
a lot of ruby people are into it, and there is some Go crossover.

a lot of us who don’t like that almost every new language turned into a jitted or interpreted universe like Go and Rust
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> If I had to describe who I felt was the target demographic, I'd name middle managers who work in tech but don't actually know much tech.

Who do you think gives purchase approval for Cloudflare services in an organisation?
I guess it’s convenient and probably would save lives by way of course early detection...

But... what about going in for an interview and unbeknownst you get idd and samples get sent. Or your employer... oh so and so is coming on with an expensive disease which requires loads of time off to recover...

There are implications that need to be adressed.
I think it started the collapse of that narrative. The failure of the Arab Spring and the rise of Xi Jinpeng did the rest.
> the former discourages bad interfaces

That does entirely depend on your language and tooling.

> the latter does not

And that does entirely depend on your processes and internal communication.

If your people keep changing, your chances are much less astronomically bad with a monolith.
I wish our scientists would be completely apolitical and stay within their realm of expertise when speaking publicly.

For the non-factual topics, such as whether there an epidemic of unjustified police violence against black people (the data does not clearly show that there is - and in fact imo shows that there is not), stating their opinion on the political topic means their scientific opinion loses credibility immediately for significant percentages of the population.

Why do any scientists talking about the spread of virus need to say that they support the cause? When they say that they do support the cause, why should the 40% of the country who voted for Trump and watches Fox News still follow their scientific advise?

I can't help but look back on the anti-lockdown protests and sympathize with those people's skepticism and animosity toward scientists.[1]

It feels to me as the hard sciences have been inflicted with the same political ideology that has dominated the arts+social sciences and that the scientists are scared to share their scientific opinions in an apolitical way. The same reason that your dishsoap company emailed you to let you know their political beliefs.

I remember seeing photos during the anti-lockdown protests of medical workers standing in front of cars: https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/denver-count...

And a few weeks later photos spreading virally of medical works supporting protests: https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?url=https%3A%2F...

It feels to me that in much of America, politics are not allowed to be public unless they align with liberal views.

Is there any reason to have renewed confidence in these influential people and institutions?

[1]https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1267281387486412801
Most police have never had cause to use their firearm while on duty:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/08/a-closer-lo...
Our system doesn't assume criminal guilt under any circumstances, by design, and that's a good thing. Everybody accused of a crime has the right to a trial, even cops.
Pointing out, or asking about, incongruities is fine. How one does it makes a difference, as does the intention with which one does it. If you want to call all of that cross-examination, that's fine, but in that case we're using the term differently. The main distinction the guidelines are trying to draw is the one between open exchange and destroying enemies.
I haven't really seen any research on packet-switched pneumatic tube networks, or any kind of more complicated routing. Every time I've seen one in person it has been more or less point to point, or point to mailroom. I think modern sensing tools, either NFC or high-speed cameras, have the potential to enable some significantly better topologies than what I've seen in real world pneumatic networks.

Also looking at projects like the hyperloop, I'm wondering if a smaller version linking cities would make sense. We already have infrastructure for transporting oil and natural gas through very long pipelines. How about actual packages? If the hyperloop can make sense, I feel like inter-city mini vacuum train probably can as well, and linking two cities together doesn't require any great flexibility.
> I think communities would be better served by an increase in social workers in most cases

I couldn't agree more. I think there's an appropriate ratio of police/population, though I don't think I'm even remotely qualified to speak on that subject. But when I think about the "police/prosecutorial/prison-industrial complex", I can't help but hope that the only real path to a long-term solution is actually giving a shit and genuinely wanting to help people get better, vs "justice".
It wasn't a riot situation, it was a human situation, he was just standing there. Don't forget that also the initial police report (they put it on their twitter even) that someone "had tripped". It was the usual denial of the situation with lies that we see so much now, that actual video can expose. If that video of the old guy going down wasn't taken, we'd never have known.
> The central premise of microservices architecture is that the services manage their own data.

No, microservices can handle data from a Bounded Context, that can be its own data, external data, or aggregate data. A Bounded Context is data that is part of a specific Domain that may connect to other Domains that have edges explicitly defined. Therefore the data is decentralized, it can connect to an API that is a monolith, it can interface with messaging services, send notifications over websockets etc because its... a middleware service.

From the article that you linked to debunk me:

> The Guardian website is a good example of an application that was designed and built as a monolith, but has been evolving in a microservice direction. The monolith still is the core of the website, but they prefer to add new features by building microservices that use the monolith's API. This approach is particularly handy for features that are inherently temporary, such as specialized pages to handle a sporting event. Such a part of the website can quickly be put together using rapid development languages, and removed once the event is over. We've seen similar approaches at a financial institution where new services are added for a market opportunity and discarded after a few months or even weeks.

And if I am reading this right, they have a monolith backend, but the frontend doesn't read directly from that it reads from some 'thing' in the middle? Oh what's that called? Its on the tip of my tongue. Ah, right, its called middleware. Because microservices are middleware.

Edit: Oh look that article you linked to debunk me also has the very image I am trying to describe with words:

https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices/images/decen...
Perhaps it's because my father probably had to take redundancy from his factory job when the UK ultimately lost most of its automotive sector in the wake of Black Wednesday, so I know how this organisaions leadership has no qualms, better yet, takes delight in destabilizing nations.

As for myself I can not complain. I have not quite been able to erase my black country accent (ranked least desirable & lowest class in the UK) but I managed to get a hardship fund so I could go to university, I am the first generation in my family to do so and since then I've been able to score contracts so tbh it's happy days. My parents (I think) are proud though I know they worry sometimes I might accidentally encounter some Marijuana (now it is Elon endorsed, I don't feel quite as guilty :)

I have been taught to consider the police as much of my people as black folk. The UK does not have a problem in relations between the races, I have worked with many black people at a professional level in large and small organisations, some of their children call me uncle. The problem if I am honest is more knife and gang crime in London, driven by a gangster culture that rap and hiphop producers (who many of which were not black) thought was wise to use as a message. This also indirectly affects me through tourism, as people dont want to vacation in London or other large cities, that are no longer what is on the postcard.

My point is this movemnent is making me worry that they are instead being used as an asset to enact change, but in the worst possible way you could concieve to do so, something that the left has proven they are willing to do before, and something that I worry could be a cause great enough for them to act on, to comprimise my software, and my clients.

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That is exactly why I wrote TeamTail :P.

If you look at the client script, it does an AES-256 encryption first before sending to my server. The data I store in my database is all just the encrypted strings. You share that password with your team, and the website will do JavaScript decryption. The password is never sent back to TeamTail.
wow... if they change the power structure for the better, that is great news
> the first group was protesting not being able to go to Applebee's

This is such a terribly uncharitable assumption and ruins any sort of ability to have reasoned discourse.

Are you aware how many people are unemployed in this nation right now because of the lockdown? Are you aware how many people’s businesses are destroyed, shut down permanently? And your assumption is that the only reason anybody could be upset is because they can’t go to their favorite restaurant!?
We don't know yet, which is the point and why myself and others in this thread are expressing what would otherwise be considered useful and healthy skepticism. Given the general rhetoric of the activists, the scene with the Mayor yesterday when he said he doesn't support disbanding the police, and how easily an extreme position gets support online it's totally plausible that one of the conditions for "disbanding" the police and rebuilding it is that current officers are blacklisted from re-hire. The civil bureaucracy is up for grabs too, as the protesters announced yesterday their political goal is to remove the mayor from office. That may be the right thing to have happen, but thinking that the city's bureaucracy won't be "disbanded" and "reformed" is I think a bit naive. It's certainly possible.
Cutting funding for the police...

What a boneheaded move that is. It's like cutting off a finger because your hand dropped something.
that's why it's underwhelming. its best case scenario is a marketing channel, not a revolutionary new distribution channel, which is what i would have expected from a company like cloudflare.
I was expecting a video streaming CDN so anyone could build a Youtube/Twitch competitor without having to deal with storing, transcoding and (live)streaming video. I vaguely remember AWS offering something like this. Not sure how much money there is in this market but definitely sounds like a great product fit for someone like Cloudflare.
Let's just ignore the scores of videos of businesses being looted, cars being flipped, places set on fire or the killing of David Dorn.
Wouldn't it be better to review and synthesize the duty logs of several dozen police officers, maybe grouped by the amount of crime they deal with on average, over several years?

People that don't know the average day don't have any basis to accurately imagine the average day, it's not a useful activity at that point.
What you certainly don't do, if you're doing renovations, is sign off on something that you know to be unsafe because the people who built it are fighting systemic racism.
People just need to know when to use replaceState instead of pushState.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/rep...
I can see the crossover with Go, but Ruby?! What is the reason behind its attractiveness in the Ruby community?

I get that some developers believe that Rust is "better than Ruby" and that Rust has far more momentum, but their use cases are very different.
I remember one particularly. It showed a man in a German WW2 helmet saying "Nein! And zat's what der dumpkopfs did, zey sent me nine" (issues of MAD)" for the price of eight!"
If the punishments are so harsh then the 'irrational' means seem to be pretty rational.
I mean, this ain't entirely unreasonable. Considering the database to be its own "service" is perfectly valid, and you can control what things a given client can do through users/roles, constraints, triggers, etc., which you absolutely should be doing anyway.

That is: the database's job ain't just to store the data, but also to control access to it, and ensure the validity of it. A lot of applications seem to only do the first part and rely on the application layer to handle access control and validation, and then the engineers developing these apps wonder why the data's a tangled mess.