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I know this is not you making this claim, but this type of thinking is what led both the CDC and WHO to mislead the public I'm masks for months.

Masks clearly work, but not perfectly. Better masks work better. Wear one if you want to reduce your risk and risk to those around you.

We knew this prior to this pandemic.

Governments and doctors should stop being so paternalistic and just tell the truth.
No I'm in US, Thanks for the reply.
This is a great chance to improve our communication skills.
Masks' efficacy at protecting the wearer is not the only point; their primary purpose is to help protect others, as in "my mask protects you; your mask protects me".
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> The situations are pretty similar, because your argument about 90% is not what the courts care about. The courts care about market power, not necessarily a literal monopoly.

To be clear, whether the court cares about monopoly power or not depends on what type of claim you are making.

Section 1 of the Sherman Act deals with conspiracy and unreasonable restraints of trade and may not require establishing any market power at all. Some actions such as price fixing and bid rigging are considered per se illegal regardless of market power. Other actions (such as tying) require an analysis of market power, but not necessarily monopoly power.

Section 2 of the Sherman Act deals with monopolization and claims made under section 2 will require establishing monopoly power (or likelihood of achieving monopoly power, for attempted monopolization claims).

In the context of the Microsoft case, the 90% market share was indeed relevant to the court because several of the claims were brought under section 2, specifically having to do with Microsoft's unlawful attempts to maintain their operating system monopoly.
Living in a major city, I and other people would still drive or even fly to other major cities for concerts or major sports events. That's not-that-frequent occassion, it's a bit more convenient if the event happens close to your home but living 100km from the city where it happens is not an obstacle anyway.

The location of jobs matters because many of them require daily commute. But for major entertainment events it's sufficient to be 'close enough' for the things that haven't yet been replaced with something that's accessible remotely. For example, 30 years ago living in a small town meant that your access to cinema was limited or at least delayed, so you were 'out of the loop' of the culture in some sense. That's not an issue anymore - not because there are more cinemas, because their role has decreased.
I forgot to mention, mainly because of SCA.
I like science. My kid is two.

Major disappointment when Google('rockets') results in only sportsball.

As in, zero indication that the word 'rocket' is to be associated with anything else.

So I used duckduckgo. Same result.

1. Bitterly disappointed in the state of search engines today.

2. Reinforced the idea of teaching critical thinking to my child...
Here is a public health authority saying "Masks don't work"

https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...

I'll quote it for you: (but read it in its entirety if you want the whole thing, it's only one Tweet)

> They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus...

There is no nuance in that statement (I did not capitalize the 'NOT'. It comes capitalized already).
Somewhat ironic in contrast to the article's push for us to do unglamourous, boring tasks like maintaining the basics.

Yes, the same thing will pop up again and again until it starts to look like a solved problem; in the case of maintenance problems, reasonably funded systems are what is needed to resolve the issue so that it can reach a steady state over the long term.

It may not be novel to you, but that's just it: this novelty seeking behaviour comes at a cost to all the basic things that don't get the attention they should.
Let me play devil's advocate.

> U.S. Surgeon General Feb 6 > Americans should be more concerned about the flu than coronavirus [...] As surgeon general, I’m telling folks the number one way to protect ourselves is to get a flu shot.

On Feb 6, if you lived in the United States, your likelihood of catching and dying from the flu was very possibly higher than COVID19. It's very possible the US Surgeon General wasn't saying to never worry; rather, that it was too early to worry at that time. I got a very bad flu-like illness in late January in Las Vegas. My assumption is that it was very likely the flu, based on estimated base rates of the diseases at that time.

> U.S. Surgeon General @Surgeon_General Feb 29 > Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

If masks have higher ROI for healthcare workers than average citizens, and there's a limited supply of masks, then telling average citizens to not buy masks makes perfect sense to me.

> They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!

> U.S. Surgeon General, Mar 6 [Deleted Tweet] > Early am flight. No one with masks (they aren't recommended for general public) but noticed several people using antibacterial wipes on seats (I do this too). I'm not worried about #COVID19 - I'm worried about #flu & the guy reclining all the way back into me before takeoff.

Yeah, I cannot come up with any defense for these statements. These statements were clear mistakes by the US Surgeon General. I hope he regrets them and learns from them.
Tabindex=0 means you can tab to it but you still can’t press Enter or the space bar to activate it like a real button. So now you have to bind a keypress listener.

Use a real <button>! You can style it.
I guess that your brain plasticity has reached stability too? Or you're talking about stuff you actually know, you took the time to read most of the future features on https://chromestatus.com/features like me and judged (unlike me) that ALL (universal quantifier) of them were a net negative to the user experience.
Or I can reinterpret your sentences to means that most of them are a net negative which is still a totally absurd statement that needs to be argued. Extraordinary claims require more than ordinary evidence. Here you provided none hence my snark about conservatism which is definitely something that I will get too when I will mutate and age.

A great mental exercise would be for you to look at the list and select at least one feature that should be reasonably a net negative to the user experience.
I agree that many people hold this well intentioned goal. The reality I have seen is VERY different.
That sounded really expensive but apparently it can be as cheap as $0.50/gal, and about 1 gallon of liquid nitrogen will freeze 1 gallon of liquid cream, and 1 gallon of premium ice cream has maybe $5 worth of ingredients, so I suppose it would probably work out plus or minus an order of magnitude. Neato!
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There are lots of possibilities; e.g.

- Compliance with and enforcement of the mandate is low.

- There could have been even more deaths without the mask mandate.

- People might be more negligent with social distancing when they think masks will protect them; e.g. I can go to that keg party with 200 people as long as everyone is wearing a mask. (as happened with seatbelts)

- Concurrent opening up has led to more cases anyways.
Thanks. The contract and NDA is normally a few pages with terms I don't really understand fully, but I did read "once you're employeed we own you even for what you do after work and in the weekends".

Can't say there is 0 overlap but the main market and product type are definitely different.
> Allow users to submit "agents" rather than "requests."

Having dealt with something like this, I can assure you that no one wants to learn a new scripting language, which only runs on someone else's machine, and no ability to debug it.
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This makes a lot of sense to me, and so do a lot of other things on that website. I'm intrigued.

I'm also trying to see if there's anything shady here. Is Haliburton lobbying for a big infrastructure repair contract or something?
Right, and this is a big part of the post-war economics. After WWII a huge number of people were looking to buy homes in an unusually short span of time, and they pretty much all wanted a "typical American home" with lawn and fence. On top of this, there was a large workforce available that basically kickstarted the American homebuilding industry as we know it today, and made buying a brand-new home a very affordable and attractive option.

And what do you get when you have a huge number of people looking to buy brand-new houses? Urban sprawl, there's not really any way to avoid it.
Overuse of abstraction is penny-wise and pound-foolish.

It is penny-wise in that it saves some code, but pound-foolish in that it makes maintenance harder.

Why? Because when you have an abstraction, your code, possibly in many places, depends on it. Now if you need to make a change, you will need to understand both the abstraction, and your "instance" of it.

Well no rather you need to understand ALL instances of that abstraction, to know that if you change the abstraction you are not breaking ANY of its uses.

Penny-wise and pound-foolish in many cases.
I've had people chew me out for using function objects in Java, saying it's too complicated and the newest thing isn't always great. I wanted to point out that Java 8 is 6 years old now, and qsort() has been a thing for a while.
The viral load thing came up in some podcast I was listening too. So experiments were done with the flu Or cold virus and a smaller load resulted in a less severe infection.

They obviously can’t repeat the experiment with COVID. They suspect the same thing happens but they aren’t sure.

Oh the off chance it really is true, I’m wearing a mask!
How similar were the strains on the two cruise ships?
Reading the threads, I can see that Apple AppStore is not a gate to keep their customers safe (security, frauds, etc) anymore.
It is to get more profits for the company by forcing more rule on 30% sales on every app.
Very good point.

Somehow I reached the point in my life where I started to question all these things many years ago.
It still isn't default on Windows yet, though, because it doesn't have full parity with the legacy version.
> This disease is novel in ways that no other disease is.

It is a novel disease, but it is close to SARS-CoV-1 from the 2003 outbreak. There is a lot of long-term research on the quality of life indicators. One paper listed 20% of hospitalized with full disability due to chronic fatigue syndrome 5 years after hospitalization.

Young people with viral pneumonia and mechanical ventilation still walked slower than 60+ seniors (very little restoration of lung capacity).

> a large percentage of those who get it will experience life-long adverse effects

Mental health also influences QOLI. From SARS, MERS, HIV, and other severe viral infections, we know that this can have severe impact on mental health (many from SARS-CoV-1 and MERS suffer from PTSD and depression if not degenerative bone necrosis == constant muscle pain).

People report trouble smelling or speaking months after COVID. There are support groups popping up for people with persistent problems, chronic fatigue and sleep problems being one that seems to linger for months.

Early research from Italy:

> Patients were assessed a mean of 60.3 (SD, 13.6) days after onset of the first COVID-19 symptom; at the time of the evaluation, only 18 (12.6%) were completely free of any COVID-19–related symptom, while 32% had 1 or 2 symptoms and 55% had 3 or more. None of the patients had fever or any signs or symptoms of acute illness. Worsened quality of life was observed among 44.1% of patients. [...] a high proportion of individuals still reported fatigue (53.1%), dyspnea (43.4%), joint pain, (27.3%) and chest pain (21.7%).
There's no hint of "cars are bad" in this article, so it's not the standard StrongTowns article that gets posted to HN.
The current brains are totally lost. Maybe a partial image of memories could be recovered when we understand more about the process but I wouldn't count with it.

But if tomorrow we would found a suitable antifreeze in some obscure creature that is not rejected by the body and does not damage the cells, this is a game changer. To be able to put the body just about to freeze but not further... that would be awesome.

Would be a key to 1-hibernation and long term space travel, 2-increase life expectancy slowing the metabolism and this mean slowing cancer also, 3-increase in the range of temperatures that humans can stand without suffering chill burning and losing fingers.

De-thawing would be still a brutal process. Not all cells would survive.
Important to note: This study was conducted for _health care workers_. Not the general public.

Cloth masks aren't designed to protect the wearer, rather protect everyone else around them by catching droplets / reducing nasal spray / etc. It only works if everyone 95% of people are wearing one, especially indoors.
Second OnShape. Autodesk Fusion370 also has free license for hobbyists and even startups with low revenue.

In the OSS world, I believe the best contender in that space is FreeCAD. I've yet to try it myself.
Oh, interesting!

We certainly see eye to eye far more than I'd initially thought, regarding actual methods in practice.

I generally like to label such actions as something more like "providing immediate/direct feedback" over light shame and, re: "what would others think of you," I might rather try to frame as something like serving to one's convenience in future interactions.

Thanks.
Fatality has gone down because we are testing a much higher percentage of infected people. When 20+% of tests are positive you’re testing seriously ill people. When ~4-8% of tests are positive your testing people who may recover before becoming seriously ill.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/COVID-19... from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Unite...
I live in Texas, it seems likely that it's technically true that 85% of people sometimes wear masks... but it's not anywhere close to that if you go out and about, sometimes it's 0%, sometimes 50%-80%. Except where masks are required, e.g. the grocery store.
(this is wealthy/educated austin suburb statistics btw)
Here's the link, for those who don't remember: https://twitter.com/Uncle_Muscle/status/1246243641439457280
(Screenshotted reply to a CDC tweet.)

We call this "lying to manage supply", which is worse than negligence. The US Surgeon-General could have instead said something like "We need the best masks for healthcare workers because they are at the most risk, but we don't have enough right now. Here's how to sew your own cloth masks: $LINK. The general population is at lower risk, so please leave rated respirators for healthcare, where they can do the most good."

The Czech republic told its citizens to make masks for each other. That could have been a good move too.
Or JavaScript getting a new name.

(Or Java getting new maintainers...)
There are challenges retaining users and bringing them back to a webapp instead of a native app. That being said I also am hugely in favour of web apps because the likelihood of people visiting my site is higher than them downloading my app. So user acquisition is easier but retention is hard. I do like the idea of email notifications as a replacement for push notifications - I think others such as Twitter/FB notifications could also work.
How is that the same thing? Thats for google cloud. This is clearly for Oracle.
Yeah but it's not an important distinction.
I meant not having to think about wrapping/boxing/unboxing, as they have exactly the same native data representation, so it's slightly different than LTO. But mine using "FFI" there was probably too vague and frivolous, I agree.

> You can do this in Rust, too.

not always within boundaries of safe Rust though (assuming each iteration is allowed to brings zero unsafe/unverified code), which undermines the initial safety argument.
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I'm also going to use this post to highlight how historical revisionism and censorship of opposing viewpoints is occurring regarding masking.

http://web.archive.org/web/20200625094522/https://www.oralhe...

The article is called "Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review", published October 18, 2016.

This is the webpage as of early July 2020:
https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-wor...

"If you are looking for “Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review” by John Hardie, BDS, MSc, PhD, FRCDC, it has been removed. The content was published in 2016 and is no longer relevant in our current climate."

"No longer relevant in our current climate."
Reference: https://www.securityweek.com/malicious-actor-controlled-23-t...

Sounds more like a team of people that knew what they were doing.
Sure, but being able to say that the mask protects you too will appeal to some people. If people's reasons are selfish but the outcome is the same it's fine with me... I do suspect that it protects the wearer as well though.

I don't know why that was even in serious question unless the only transmission method was putting your fingers in your mouth or something. Of course more filtering will be better.
No, but there are specific collaborations for high risk purveyors of things like explosive precursors.

If you show up at a farm store to buy certain fertilizers in unusual quantities, that interaction will likely be reported or otherwise flagged.
OECDs countries use the same stats everywhere

USA ranks 34th on 36 countries

> GDP is important. It's what pays for government services

It depends on what you buy with it and how much of it goes back to society in the form of government services for the public

For rich countries in the G20 it shouldn't matter as much as how you redistribute it

I'll repeat myself, despite the highest GDP in the World USA can't even pay for the citizens' right to not be shot in the streets

What is it good for then?
Great answer, thank you very much :)
Better than losing your life or the life of a family member, which would make your "signals developed over many hundreds of thousands of years" either sad, or very very quiet.
How does that compare to job postings overall? Those would have fallen off a cliff as well.
How do you reconcile that some of the most respected and influential US politicians (the main authors of the US Constitution) were essentially rich people from well off families?

If you think about it it makes sense: poor families do not have the luxury to care for societal level change or to promote it in any shape or form. They are more worried about putting food on the table, keeping themselves clothed and a roof over their heads. I think it's only logical that people who do not have to struggle with such issues are the ones that are more likely to influence political change, even if at a glance the changes they are proposing do not seem to directly serve their interests.

Now whether their stated ideas are followed with action is a different matter.
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> advocates for an employment guarantee, banning private property

Why would there be? These are ridiculous goals. North Korea has open doors if you want to defect. I've heard it's pretty nice over there.
Deaths are trailing, and often ~20 days after hospitalization. These are stretching out as we get better at treating it.
UUIDs aren't supposed to be secure. They're aren't supposed to be unguessable. They're just supposed to be very unlikely to be duplicated. They have one use case: as universally unique identifiers. That's it. Any expectation or off-label use that goes beyond that is misuse. In other news, most hammers are found to be unsafe to use as toothpicks.
Looks like you can support the creator by buying in on Steam (edit: looks like it's free on steam as well): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1311660/Friendly_Fire/

I'm contemplating doing a similar thing, I wonder how viable it is (100% open source game that can optionally be purchased on Steam/Itch)
> No, the problem is that JavaScript has not been replaced by something better before now.

I suspect replacing Javascript was an out-of-scope task for the people trying to design a `sort` function.

> and backwards compatibility requirements prevent

WASM will work just fine without breaking existing websites. People can hate on Javascript all they want, but "don't break the web" is a good policy that we should be encouraging in most cases. If anything, there's been a kind of harmful trend from browsers like Chrome in the opposite direction, and I think it's bad for the web to make it into a less stable platform.
I stand corrected! I had forgotten that the Surgeon General said that.

My theory is that when people think that the guidance has radically shifted throughout the COVID-19 epidemic, it's because they are getting their information from non-authoritative sources. But like your example, sometimes the "authoritative sources" are super wrong.

Dr Fauci did eventually admit that the guidance on masks was not optimal:

> "We have to admit it, that that mixed message in the beginning, even though it was well meant to allow masks to be available for health workers, that was detrimental in getting the message across," Fauci said in an interview with Mary Louise Kelly of NPR's All Things Considered. "No doubt about it."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/01/8862991...

What about your points 2 and 3?
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Where outside of North Korea, Stalin or Mao had abolished private property or has a full employment guarantee?
People are a lot more willing to do something that also benefits them.

Especially when there are many others who are non-compliant - otherwise you get "why should I protect you when you refuse to protect me".
We will see when we have time to look back and this virus has infected a much larger and more uniform population. One paper is only one paper. It shifts my priors upwards as to whether this is the case, but it doesn't set them to 1.
What r they gonna switch to?
And people with vitamin D deficiency, regardless of age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjQX8HVtG4
Also maybe they could pool resources? Like pilots in an area where everything is fine leave their planes on full auto and go take over another plane from another pilot?

Edit:
Or maybe, expect the planes to be fully auto, then have a bank of pilots available to take over any plane that is having troubles.
>However, OOP languages also suffers the same problem whenever the number of function/method arguments get more than two, for example:

Well yes except Smalltalk, the original OOP-language. Smalltalk requires you to use KEYWORD METHOD-NAMES whenever you have > 2 arguments. That makes Smalltalk code highly readable.

(I told you so 20 years ago today) :-)
With all claims like this, it’s rarely the case that these decisions were made on the basis of a claim like that but it was used in a compendium or arguments for whatever policy. If you’re a pro-car lobbyist for example, you might as well throw something like that in as it strengthens your case.