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I think we’re deviating a bit here. My point was that while most people might dream that, by and large going up there in space enabled by complex technology is in a few ways similar to asserting wealth via pineapples or large yachts or exotic cars. Yay, I got money, I can do it, look!
No Such Agency!

Jokes aside, I absolutely agree that this is a failure of the US federal government and congress. We should have answers for these things for now, or at least the beginnings of a national security program to combat cyber crime. The FBI is seriously overwhelmed and the other three letter agencies can't be bothered to play the blue team as far as I'm aware.
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I think this is it. Everyone's painting the roses red because spritzing some sanitizer on every surface costs a minuscule fraction of the massive revamping of indoor climate that's actually required to reduce risk.
No, this is not legal. I talk with the leading YouTube influencers in the area. What’s happening is that the highly corrupt Brazilian supreme court has made “fake news” illegal and are arresting top influencers in the country.

The judges are violating constitutional law by going after these people.

Here’s a video on twitter I cut with one of the top influencers (by YouTube subs) explaining the situation.

https://twitter.com/perpetualmaniac/status/12897624790152273...
There is no reason to design a worse mask than N95. They could have just manufactured more N95 masks and rationed them to prevent hoarding and speculating. Every household could get an N95 mask ration card to buy masks and decon tools like UV-C lights and sparky ozone generators.
>Maybe people felt like there was less they could do?

Probably mostly that plus a lot of the attention focused on transmission by touch early on. The last event I went to in March there was no handshaking, cleaning of surfaces, etc. But no masks or distancing.

But, yeah, taking additional care to clean surfaces is pretty easy and cheap. Completely redoing ventilation is going to be pretty much impossible in a lot of situations.
> Indoor mask-wearing becomes CRITICAL in public spaces

Mask wearing provides minimal benefits against droplet transmission, but they do nothing at all for small droplet aerosol transmission.
Right, but the sound helps your flex get noticed.
> Unencumbered by a mask.

Got a source on this? From the protests I've been attending, I'd say mask usage is easily at 99% of attendees. Everyone pictured in your linked article also has a mask, at least 10% have full masks and face shields.
> Stripe monitored the developer community enough to see our initial posts

If I can't trust that I'll get the benefits promised by a service unless my complaint about not getting the benefits reaches a certain threshold of virality in the community, I have to assume I'm not getting them. I'm glad that they did. Maybe I'll get lucky as they did with "an email" and maybe I won't, but I certainly can't rely on it.
You are missing the point...and not pretty much informed
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That's only a single paper, hardly conclusive. But also:

> Unencumbered by a mask.

The picture at the beginning of the article you linked shows every protester wearing a mask.
I have several (medical) doctors in my family. They were pretty clear from the beginning that what the WHO was saying was BS. They pretty much agreed with what you're relating; I don't think it's doctors in general who are ignorant of how a virus gets transmitted.

I completely agree with your first point; but what we need to seriously question is the cherry-picking of sources that were paraded in front of us by the media.
Unless you have children, right?
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Perl was the #3 language on the Tiobe ranking in 2005. It had massive codebases in banks and other industries. In 2019 it was ranked #19 and the incompatible replacement, Perl6, is #93. Breaking backwards compatibility is hugely costly. It creates immense work as people have to validate that new versions of previously working code meet the implicit, accumulated requirements.

Old code will always seem old fashioned. It will not address modern concerns. However, the option to keep using it is very valuable!
I love Scott’s books. Not just for the quality of the content, but also for the humor he manages to inject into a quite dry topic.

That said, I find he only covers a few of the more tricky topics, then after a brief “this is what it is and why its useful”, then spends more time on “these are all the edge cases that are dangerous and confusing”.

Maybe he’s right and it’s important to learn all that. But I tend to finish a chapter and think “Cool feature, but I’ll never remember all those foot-guns so I’ll just avoid it if I can”.

But maybe that’s a fair take on C++ <shrug>.
Architecture tools are way more niche. I think a better place to look is mechanical CAD: how many decent open source mechanical CAD programs are there? Approximately one: SolveSpace. And that is quite basic - even simple stuff like bevels is not supported. Absolutely nobody whose livelihood depended on it would use it.

It's just too niche and too complicated for there to be enough developers willing to writing it for free.
Note that the findings don't say "those who went to the protests did not catch the virus or transmit it to others". They just say there wasn't an overall spike after the protests.

The fourth bullet point addresses this directly:

"The study’s lead author, Dhaval Dave of Bentley University, said, “In many cities, the protests actually seemed to lead to a net increase in social distancing, as more people who did not protest decided to stay off the streets.”"
Not really. No one has enough time in their life to be informed and opinionated about every single topic of at least minor importance. No one is superior because they’re perpetually high strung from constant political news cycles.
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Indeed, when one big advertiser defects, the remaining advertisers get cheaper ads which should lead to more conversions
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It's surely one factor. Maybe going subtle and only making a system for 'complex cases' so they don't feel useless.
> Talking about airborne transmission, though? The kind of masks that can protect against that are hard to come by. Not to mention that the virus could enter via the fluid of the eyes (not trying to add conspiracy here, just trying to make a point about the difficult reality of preventing infection [0]). Bio-rated goggles and N95+ rated masks are more than we can expect from a public that's making face masks out of bandannas.

plenty of evidence that even a little bit of protective gear helps. it isn't a matter of hazmat-suit-or-GTFO.
Many people in this thread are criticizing the website's design, as though to criticize the content itself. In case it's not clear from the website: they did not make any of these observations themselves, they just curated and presented a list of observations other people made, usually decades ago. It doesn't follow that any ineffective design or unclear wording on the presenting website reflects on the validity of the source content.

A stronger criticism, at least in my opinion, is that presenting observations about user behavior as "laws" is misleading, since humans aren't particles. You can have laws in physical science, but not in design. If you thought of these as laws rather than wise words to bear in mind, you'd be an ineffective designer.
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well thanks, even though i'm on HN constantly I never saw that project..
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Of course they left the Wall Street Journal (paywalled and quite expensive) out of their list because it doesn't fit their narrative.
One issue is that we seem to have an all-or-nothing view of infection. People think that either a virus gets in your nose and you get sick, or it doesn't and you're fine. This extends to thinking that either there is a risk or there isn't, which motivates incorrect anti-mask arguments.

In reality, the probability of infection varies continuously with the degree of exposure, and the minimal infective dose might be prevented even if not all viral particles can be blocked.

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

With airborne transmission, it is practically impossible to reduce the transmission probability to zero in many situations, and we have overlooked the value of finite improvements. However, the circumstantial evidence suggests that, since super-spreader events are correlated with apparently high airborne concentrations of viral particles, that reducing the duration and intensity of exposure may yield significant benefits even if inhaled air cannot be made completely free of virions.
Yes, there are some admins who will ban any instance that federates with Gab and its ilk. Personally I think that’s going a bit overboard.
> Making sure everyone wears masks will, at the scale of the general population, reduce the infection rate by some noticable percent.

I said that.
at least on the topic of tesla, nyt has been wrong and unfair against tesla for about 10 years. i really don't know about other topics... but...

pg repeatedly questions the integrity of nyt and has personally been the victim of their bias.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1236975851255857152?lang=en

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1236979160100343812
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Thank you, I've mailed author, he updated the post

> UPDATE 2020-08-03: I no longer stand by the content in this post. I think the overall sentiment is marginally accurate; however, the details in the post are incorrect (as many have pointed out over the years).

> As has been pointed out, remove-if-not’s start/count parameters behave differently and cannot easily be separated out of the function, a design trade-off that I appreciate.
"No fault" is useless when there are children.
The US has people who hire killers to murder their spouse in order to obtain custody of their children.
That is an interesting approach.

Not to be overly cynical, but part of the appeal of a large expensive system that "everyone" uses is that you feel better writing that large check. "Nobody gets fired for hiring IBM."
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I've noticed airlines started doing this as well - I think there might be logic in it, especially from a terminus. I'd wager people would subconsciously assume the train just "appears" ready for their journey without thinking about knock on effects of the logistics, no matter how illogical it'd be.

I've seen enough irate commuters getting agro with station staff that I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't A/B tested which messages result in the least complaints.
They're in the extremely well ventilated outdoors, and at least at the protests I was at there were very few people not wearing masks. Also, people in these gatherings tend to mill about, which means any contact with a stream of virus-infused exhalations will be brief and less likely to introduce a viable quantity into you.
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So why talk about HVAC systems ?

Context:

>” by 10 bottles of hand sanitizer without a word on ventilation—whether it was opening windows, employing upgraded filters in its HVAC systems, or using portable HEPA filters. It seems baffling that despite mounting evidence of its importance, we are stuck practicing hygiene theater...”
It's so disheartening to see both Cuomo and DeBlasio's absolutely pathetic response to the pandemic - really on every level, but in the case of this article, the economic response.

Nearly every other city has taken major steps to make it easier for people to spend time outdoors, for restaurants and bars to serve patrons outdoors, assistance programs for local small businesses, and so forth. By contrast, DeBlasio has been chipping away at Open Streets, cancelled Summer Streets, and both he and Cuomo have been actively impeding restaurants and bars from adapting to serve food and alcohol outdoors.

They've insisted that bars cannot serve alcohol without serving "real food" (nachos doesn't count), which is a huge blow to bars which don't have a full kitchen. Even for restaurants and bars which do, though, they've been incredibly aggressive with issuing citations. Many have complained that, if a server clears the empty dinner plates before patrons are finished with their drinks, state inspectors will cite them because "there's no food", even though the bill shows that they were charged for dinner. Others have complained that the city has cited them for "violations", but unlike the health inspectors, doesn't actually provide a list of the offenses that need to be corrected.

In addition, they've provided ~zero financial assistance for small businesses - particularly bars and restaurants, which are hit the hardest. That's in stark contrast to other cities in the US and elsewhere, which have given direct cash assistance to help them weather the crisis.

It's a disaster all around, and neither the governor nor the mayor have shown any interest in taking meaningful steps to support the state's largest economy. (Cuomo has done a better job at framing his actions to the press, but when you actually look at what he's done, he's done a really awful job).
When I look at this heat map of recent cases per capita in the US

https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppressio...

the first thing I see is hot spots all across the southeast and desert southwest. These places have widely varying governments and cultures, but the one thing they do have in common right now is: they're hot.

My suspicion is that many of the outbreaks we've seen recently are caused by people from different households congregating indoors in buildings with air conditioning and closed windows. The article mentions this, but I rarely here it talked about on the news:

"The importance of aerosols may even help explain why the disease is now exploding in the southern United States, where people often go into air-conditioned spaces to avoid the sweltering heat."
Ok. I'd like to be treated like a King. I am expecting your full support in providing whatever I desire, no questions asked.
Gyms and restaurants have had their air conditioning off in Aus. Israel turned off their bus air conditioning.

This isn't breaking news but I suspect it would be a new angle to the media rhetoric for a few countries and media outlets.
I went though every link and there was not a single interesting or cool thing.

Outside of the real estate company they are all gambling and coin 'investing' companies. I was bullish on ethereum and still have ~$11k from early purchases but I lost interest as it's all people trading alt-coins to trying strike it rich without creating anything.