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Societies collapse long before public infrastructure or economies. It starts when people become callous to one another just to do whatever they want.

No schools in a war zone. That's a choice, making everything about you and your celebrity instead of just walking away. School for a long time has been a chore, like boot camp, instead of a place of education which really starts in the home. For a long time there's been no real community in America, looking out for each other, trying to be nice. Just unbridled ambition for celebrity.

Perhaps we are on the way towards no more fooling ourselves, that mistakes are meaningless and other people's lives are very important. Churning people, firing people, someone else's failures dumped onto society are often the very worst outcome as you no longer can help, and always come back home to hurt you far worse than what you have now.
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There is abundant evidence that children do not play a serious role in transmission, so concerns about the teachers are unfounded:

[COVID-19 Transmission and Children: The Child Is Not to Blame](https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/07...) - July 2020

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As far as negative consequences, there is no theoretical basis for long-term consequences of COVID-19. There is basis for medium-term lung abnormalities which happens in general with pneumonia, but that doesn't apply to children except the incredibly small fraction that actually have bad outcomes, which is so rare that we should literally treat it as a rounding error.

Even pediatric multi-inflammatory syndrome is incredibly rare.

No, most people are dramatically overestimating COVID-19 risk and dramatically underestimating risk of lockdown, universal masking, etc
I whole heartedly second this recommendation. This is from Diamond Dallas Page (I believe that was his wrestling name, I'm no fan of Pro Wrestling, I'm afraid) who had major compression of multiple spinal discs, almost unusable shoulders, hip issues and knees that were destroyed. He started yoga exercises without the "woo woo" and has brought a lot of the functionality back to his body.

He has gone on to rehabilitate multiple people and document it. It's really a fascinating story. Kudos!
I can take a guess. People consume different information sources, and have different ideologies. So, they may arrive at different conclusions than you. I suspect this is more heavily on the ideology side because it's hard to deny the body count.
I think the problem is a majority of parents are FOR school opening up.
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Even if it's a common origin, millennia of random mutations will make it so very, very different from the descendants of terrestrial extremophiles.
> Then you would expect divergent performance in the D-controlled states (eg. California) vs the R-controlled states (eg. Texas), no? So far, I see all types of states having similar outcomes.

Maybe if it were also possible to lock down borders between states, making them truly separate sovereign nations.

A lot of states had a declining infection rate and looked to be getting things under control, then people traveled to other states and brought back the virus with them.

There are still things only the federal government can do or coordinate.
it hates publicly subsidized private schools that are not effectively accountable

As opposed to existing publicly subsidized public schools that are not effectively accountable?
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I went to public schools for 12 years and I still turned out weird. No guarantees either way.

I think the view that homeschooled kids are weird is caused less by homeschooling and more by the fact that weirdos are more likely to homeschool.
This is entirely at the feet of the Republican party. They're the ones who have declared states are on their own and have suggested (and this is not a joke) that the next round of "relief" must include a capital gains holiday. There have been missteps from the left, but the Democrats overall approach has been to serve the needs of citizens in general while the Republicans have been eager to continue their program of concentrating wealth.
1) The article never clarifies why Apple is sending location data. It could just be for the Find my Phone feature in which case users should just switch that off.

2) Apple doesn't have computer backups. But agreed that it isn't great that backups are not encrypted with my key.

3) It means Apple will provide information to advertisers about users but not in way that identifies them. Look into Differential Privacy. And I don't think you understand advertising if you think Apple can ever compete with the micro-targeting capabilities of Facebook/Google's advertising platforms.
If you open YouTube in desktop mode (in the browser) and switch tabs, you can still play the video via the notification manager popup (not sure how it's called, basically when you drag down the top bar, there is still this sticky YouTube notification). This is how you can get free background play without 3rd party apps.
I mostly write for myself. The few times my posts have gained traction have been through hashtags on Twitter, or being retweeted by a relevant account. For example, Netlify retweeted my post about moving from WordPress to Jekyll.

I have an older post on Medium related to Django migrations that seems to get passed around on Reddit. If newer posts are relevant, I will occasionally post them to sub-Reddits.
These days I have enough other apple devices tied in (family settings etc) that i could lose one device and still be authenticated via another

I think the secure enclave is the winning technology - whilst not everyone has to have a smartphone in the brave new digital world,everyone will have to have at least one secure enclave (HSM probably tied to biometrics)
I'm assuming node already is fast on ARM since it uses the same javascript engine as a major mobile web browser.
I have a feeling Google's OCR for Ads (scanning for Ad Guideline violations) requires those types of fonts to get by without being banned too quickly.

Something like this showed up on reddit a couple of months back: https://redd.it/ghmuy7
Honestly I think the government is too big and centralized. At this point is isn't much different that Soviet Russia back in the 80s and 90s. I think the reason the government can't do a good job is because it wasn't designed to operate the way it is now. We were supposed to be 50 states all doing what is best for them and not dictated by the federal government. The right decision for New York will probably not be the right decision for Wyoming and so forth.

To your comment about WWII. We had a common enemy and a common effort. This "wartime" economy pretty much envolved the entire economy and I would argue wasn't much different than what communism would be. Meaning that the central government pretty much controlled the means of production.
For me, it's because private, religiously focused schools can receive federal aid to indoctrinate children into said religion, dictate what is taught to increase indoctrination rates, and skate oversight. They are welcome to do this on their own dime, but as soon as taxpayer funding is involved all religious specific focus and values must be dropped. The school must no longer refuse employment or punish students based on protected classes, benefits and other school affiliated programs must not have any religious based rules or policies, and the school must be transparent to audit and review to confirm students meet standards for their education including basic science and and history like the big bang and fact based origins of dinosaurs.

In this instance, it's a separation of church and state. You should not get a public dime if they do things like fire an LGBT teacher who had otherwise glowing reviews and successful students or refuse to teach basic science and history.

But the arguments against charter schools as a suck for public dollars as well as the way voucher programs can be abused (with support by the present Secretary of education, someone who has investments and connections to charter programs) is another huge issue.

It's not that the left opposes education, it's that they want actual education in schools. It's not that we shouldn't spend the money to improve education, it's that we need to invest in programs and schools that meet federal guidelines and respect federal law and constitutional rights.

And for me it's because the first amendment should guarantee freedom of and FROM religion. If the best school in town is the religious charter school my property taxes are supporting, we have conflicts.
This is not true; a) more rural states have a much easier time with covid and b) blue states started off being hit the hardest, but red states are now catching up because their governors are incompetent
>You carry on the "draconian measures" until the virus is unable to spread and dies out. It's not magic. It spreads through human contact. Reduce contact you reduce transmission.

What does this look like in practice? Do you intend to keep every national border closed until the entire planet has eradicated the disease? How long do you expect that to take? Do you believe this is sustainable for 5 years? What about 20 years? Will you also be keeping the schools closed during this time?
I think this is definitely the case.

And as iCloud is a global service they really have to cater for the lowest common denominator.
They were both killed as a direct result of the protests, they were ironically Black children, and they were both shot by people acting as armed "security" manning barricades. I am not sure how that doesn't answer the question about murders.

Two may not be a lot (along with those merely shot), but they are still dead.
I find it impossible to understand that point of view.
If I want to support a content creator, I do so by donating to them directly, not by allowing a massive and (in my personal opinion) evil company to profit both of my and their backs. Not to mention that both seeing ads and using the official YouTube app is quite unpleasant.

I am very grateful to the developers of NewPipe for providing me with a painless way to experience the content produced by creators that I like, and which also respects my freedoms and my privacy. It is unfortunate that YouTube has an effective monopoly on its market, and that a lot of the content is not available elsewhere -- I'd much rather watch content served by a platform which respects its users, but unfortunately that is not really possible today. So in the meanwhile, I am happy that I don't have to support a nasty company with a nasty business model.
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Even for parents like myself that are really, really trying to make it work, it's a nonstarter. I have a 7 year old, and his computer is right next to mine where I am working remote, and I can supervise, except I'm in meetings often and it's hard to keep him on track. There's no peer pressure from other students to behave, the teacher has poor equipment and is barely intelligible sometimes, and there's every incentive to just goof off if I am not on top of him in a ridiculous way that would never have been the case in conventional schooling or even in traditional homeschooling.

I'm distracted and my productivity suffers also.

> Another is to design a remote learning system that actually works

I don't know what that would look like, because at the end of the day it'll just be a TV yelling at you, and kids will tune out. There's lots of interactive educational material, but unfortunately it's either way too much "fun and games" and not deep enough, or it's just boring worksheets slapped on a screen.

The teachers are honestly trying their best with the materials they have, but it doesn't work, and it seems like really we're stuck between wasting formative years, or risking that we get sick with a disease which honestly has a pretty low mortality rate in otherwise healthy people. I hate the decision, I hate the dichotomy, I wish there was another option, but I don't see it.

And this is with a private school outside of America; so I can only imagine how it would be in a more impoverished American inner-city setup, or how it is for people who can't work remote.

I think they have to go back and we just have to accept the health risk. I hate that this is where I've landed.
There are people who live happily with minimum wage jobs though. I have to assume that this is at least partially due to genetics.
States are resource constrained in ways that the federal government is not. Most, if not all, local governments are required to balance their budgets on an annual basis. Conservative politicians insist on tax cuts during economic boom times that prevent these governments from being able to withstand downturns without dramatic cuts in services (which is the real end goal of the conservatives).
> For me, the most interesting aspect was that it's part of standards, requiring no dependency, so it means that I can use this app for decades without having to maintain it.

I mean, you can also do that with React. Just don't update the library. The reason a web-component for decades without maintenance is because you won't be using all the new features— same thing.
I hope not for their sake since that would be a straw purchase---a federal crime.
Ah, statistics. A notoriously accurate and complete way of understanding how other people live.
IIRC, states are mandated against running deficits, and their budgets are set 1-2 years in advance (eg, Texas, whose legislature sets the budget every 2 years), which limits their maneuverability in this regard. Also, states don't have the equivalent resources and bargaining power of the federal government.
> I'm no fan of our current leader, but let's be honest Obama failed to properly launch a simple website for his signature initiative[1]. The problem is much deeper.

This strikes me as a pretty passive-aggressive argument style.

Who, in your opinion, is the better leader? Which of Obama or Trump do you think would handle this pandemic better?

You are picking out one mistake, and kind-of-sort-of implying that makes them both the same, except you don't have the courage to directly state that. If you have a point to make, make it.
> Want to use a different programming language? An OSS library? A SASS vendor? Please get approvals from legal and finance with ROI estimates.

This is true of all of enterprise IT though. It's not due to "CFO types" getting involved, it's just part of operating at scale in a public company where your tool choices have an impact on long-term support and governance/controls. I don't begrudge technologists who are chafed by this, but it's inherent to the category and not particular to a single corporate entity.
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If you keep posting nationalistic flamebait to HN we are going to have to ban you. This has been a problem already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363011.
Do Google and Microsoft also have plans to pursue ARM?
It was more of a rhetorical question. I know why it's happening, it's just ridiculous and infuriating that it is happening.

Anyone who comes in with good faith and actually objectively looks at the statistics and response can't possibly come to a different conclusion. The problem comes down to the "good faith" and "objective" parts of that sentence.
This. Think of the marshmallow study where long-term planning kids turned out richer than the short-term minded ones. We need to push back against the Idiocracy mindset.

It is our prerogative as the less reckless to breed and propagate our genes, and teach our culture to our young. As you mentioned, the force of nature is against that, so we need campaigns, perhaps by the State, for the “careful thinkers” to breed and hold control over culture.
Would you take on the cost and risk of additional machines and employees for an ephemeral market and small margins?
That's a lot of time. And lot of good information to know! Wish you good luck hopefully it does what you want!
> Some of the states that had the strictest lockdowns, NY, NJ, also had the worst outcomes.

NYC metro ordered lockdowns after it was hard hit, because it was hit early on before there was a real understanding of what was going on.

A lot of other places still haven’t peaked, the reopening push in response to overall national case decline was driven entirely by NY being past it's peak while the rest of the country combined was still on the upswing.

> Growing cases does not concern me.

The growing list of places at or near ICU capacity should, though.

> Death rate has blipped up a little but no where near in proportion to the cases.

Since the peak death rate was when almost all the cases were in NYC when the NYC health system was overwhelmed, that's unsurprising, we shouldn't see similar death rates in proprtion to cases unless almost all the cases are in similarly overwhelmed locations, which because it hit different places at different times will, even with uncontrolled spread, take a little while.

But with enough cases, you can get a pretty apocalyptic total death toll without going back to the peak death:cases ratio.
The earliest article I can find from the FT that references insider allegations of fraud is https://www.ft.com/content/03a5e318-2479-11e9-8ce6-5db4543da..., which was published almost three years after the report referenced in the Yahoo article. What article was this supposedly timed with?
No offense, but this is where it starts getting weird and into the whole "society is bad!" that seems pretty extreme:

>They just choose to not settle for the mediocrity, nor accept the indoctrination pushed by the education system.

Most people I know who went to public schools came out fairly well. I refuse to share this elitist/ideological attitude towards them. What indoctrination? Don't you think that's a rather general and blanket statement considering how varied each school district is? Maybe that's more of a criticism of how schools are run in your area.
An interesting side effect of making your product ad-driven is what it does to the incentive structure of treating your product as a platform.

Twitter is just one example of many of companies who have created an API, asked developers to build on it, and then later burned the whole thing down.

Fundamentally, if you let developers build products that access your data in ways that users want, the very first they're going to do is remove the fucking ads. And, obviously, if that's how your company makes money, you can't let that happen. Given the choice between killing your ads or killing your API, you're going to kill the API every time.

Imagine running a casino and offering a "slot machine API". If you let the developers discard all of the losing spins, you're gonna have a bad time. This is essentially what an ad-driven company does when they have an API that lets developers separate the data users want (actual data) from the data they don't (ads).
Overflow is easy enough to deal with, text-overflow requires more work because it actually requires you have a model that matches the W3C specification understanding of generating boxes, instead of matching elements 1:1 which is what most naive implementations do. The same can be said about the white-space property.

Both are easy to implement; in one version, you parse then push the exact order of the parsed statements to matrix transformations. In level 2, you coerce them into the standardized order.

That being said, if you wanted to do anything based off of developer-specified transforms, you have to use level 1's style of applying the transformations. I would expect that GSAP and other such libraries rely on this behavior. Anyone familiar with shader-based transform code will be thinking in this manner anyway.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to use the level 2 manner of specifying transforms if you know what you're doing, because presumably, you immediately lose the ability to push additional transforms to the transform stack.
Meanwhile multiple N95 production lines are sitting dormant in Texas and elsewhere. You're confusing not being willing to make masks with having trouble getting enough. No, we have no trouble getting enough. We have no willingness to make any. Those two couldn't be further from each other.
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> So you think it would be better under a different political leader?

No US President in my living memory would have screwed this up as badly as Donald Trump has.
All the credit here to Brad DeLong. Just wanted to share something interesting.
Have an upvote for your mature response. If more people were willing to own their mistakes instead of hiding or doubling down, the world would be a better place :-)
> Then you would expect divergent performance in the D-controlled states (eg. California) vs the R-controlled states (eg. Texas), no?

It’s not so simple in that many states are miniature versions of our polarized country. For example, you have a Democratic governor facing Republican opposition in rural counties in Washington, and a Republican governor suing a Democratic mayor in Georgia.
Disagree.

This is old journalism 101.

I remember hearing about this years ago in civics class.

Newspapers put all the meat in the headline and first couple paragraphs. Old newspapers are a Google search away to verify. Lots of the same behavior as you see on sites like Huff Post.

It would be more accurate to say SEO borrowed a habit of shallow attention grabbing from news editors.

But humans have evolved into wanting depth in their ideas.

We’re into more detail all the way through now.

Look at popular media, sci fi and magical worlds, deep character connectivity. Look at Serial and anything Ken Burns.

Depth is cared about AND sells.

Bloomberg is relevant cause Bloomberg is rich. That Bloomberg is not capable of depth isn’t a surprise.
> a group of i identified people

I'm assuming this is a typo, and you meant "a group of unidentified people"
Also, tasers regularly kill people with no underlying health conditions, typically the autopsy will say "heart issue due to drug use" or something along those lines. Whenever there's a taser involved death, Axon has a "response team" which works with police to ensure "correct" death classification.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taser-deaths-insight/...
For the most part, your mind will tune out the regular, "background" rhythm of the heart. When it deviates from normal, or if you have certain special sensory differences to regular people, it makes you aware of it.

But normally your mind should tune it out unless you focus on it.
> If the best school in town is the religious charter school my property taxes are supporting, we have conflicts.

What is stopping other schools from improving their standards? After all, they also have access to the same public dollars and I am not aware of any funding imbalance between charter vs public schools (though please correct me if I am wrong here).
thanks for sharing your experience, and agreed that being able to compartmentalize in separate, composable files is a desirable feature.
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