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It takes leadership of government, focus, sacrifice, and understanding of the citizens to fight this virus.

I'm based in Australia, Victoria (population of 6m+, exceeding the 800k mentioned in the Bay Area [EDIT: San Mateo county]) and we have now had over 30 days of zero cases of coronavirus, after having a peak of 680+ per day [1].

We went into a tough lockdown, stamped out the virus, and are slowly easing restrictions. We are working towards a "COVID normal" holiday season.

We had stay at home orders, restricted access to shops (supermarkets remained open but most closed, with one trip per day per household), social distancing orders, and months of wearing masks, and 10-20,000 COVID tests performed per day (again, free).

Our Premier Daniel Andrews faced a lot of criticism for pushing this hard, and it was a lot of pressure on small businesses and the mental health of citizens, but ultimately it was the right decision -- the alternative was untenable, let it become out of control and watch our (universal, free) health care become overwhelmed, and no one would even be able to do anything -- an acceptance of the virus flourishing was not acceptable.

If you don't have a leader capable of fighting this virus, get rid of them. It's frustrating and sad watching from afar this virus run amuck in the United States (and the health care system failing you - I'd _never_ want your insurance system anywhere near me - but that's another battle).

I hope and wish for the health of everyone affected by this pandemic.

[1] https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/victorian-coronavirus-covid-19-d...
It may not be uncommon in the US but shouldn't it be? Do you know what your rights are when the cops show up at your door with a search warrant? If that happened to me I'd probably be finding and calling a lawyer with that 20 minutes, not setting up an ambush for the cops in a house with children inside.
There are enough SUVs on European roads to prove it's possible. There are also countries like Switzerland or Luxemburg that have higher average incomes than the US, and still prefer Porsches or Mercedes to SUVs. Looking at the countries with slightly lower GDP per capita like Spain or France, you can restrict statistics to just the upper classes, and any group income-matched to the US population will have just as many garages but still far fewer SUVs.
most likely a gas leak, India has a problem with gas leaking from private industry
disgraceful comment
If I pointed a gun at someone that would, at the very least, be assault with a deadly weapon. It's definitely violence.
1680x1050 was available on the 2010 15" MacBook Pro, but I think 1440x900 was the default option.
Wow. Lest anyone think that Dr. Morrow is some kind of anti-lockdown activist - back in the spring, San Mateo county had one of the most restrictive and prescriptive lockdowns of anywhere in the US (residents were ordered to limit outdoor recreation to within 5 miles of their home).

It takes a lot of guts to just look objectively at the data and do what you think is right, regardless of what pressure you’re getting from the media, the state, the governor, your peers in other counties, etc. Not to mention, publicly call out the defects and contradictions in the state level orders. Much respect for this man.

> “But what we have before us is a symbolic gesture, it appears to be style over substance, without any hint of enforcement, and I simply don’t believe it will do much good. I think people should stay at home, avoid all non-essential activities, wear masks, and not gather with anyone outside their households. I’ve been saying this for about 10 months now. If you didn’t listen to my (and many others) entreaties before, I don’t think you’ll likely change your behavior based on a new order.”

> “Being in the purple tier, the State has already put significant restrictions on businesses and the public space in San Mateo County. I am aware of no data that some of the business activities on which even greater restrictions are being put into place with this new order are the major drivers of transmission. In fact, I think these greater restrictions are likely to drive more activity indoors, a much riskier endeavor. While I don’t have scientific evidence to support this, I also believe these greater restrictions will result in more job loss, more hunger, more despair and desperation (...) and more death from causes other than COVID. And I wonder, are these premature deaths any less worrisome than COVID deaths?”
To be fair, I started with "I don't understand the current state of self driving cars".
I had an identical first-time experience a few months ago. For some reason I was expecting the Glock to be way easier and less terrifying than the AR, but it wasn't. It really blew my mind that I could aim directly at a human-sized target only 6 feet away and totally miss.

Isn't the first thing they tell you about guns something like "don't point it at anything you don't intend to destroy"? How does a trained officer hear that two children are in the house and not immediately de-escalate? This is insanity.
1 out of 6 traffic fatalities is a pedestrian. Roads are designed poorly, ice exists, cities are built on steep hills, and people walk at night on the side of county highways.
When I was in the service area, I had written a EAP proxy and did it that way (I've still got the code around somewhere, ran on FreeBSD, email in my profile if you want it), but I've heard the easier way is to put an unmanaged switch between the ONT and the residential gateway, let the gateway do the 802.11x, then unplug it from the switch and use hardware of your choice. As long as your switch isn't too smart, it won't know to send an 802.11x signoff, and the ONT will leave the network port working. Yay, security theater.

You may need to spoof mac for DHCP, but I don't know if that's strictly required.
Probably one of the best papers on the topic: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2923-3

You will not find much if any based on contact tracing data. Typical participation in CT isn’t remotely close to “I ate at x restaurant on y day”, and the entities tasked with CT are often inadequately equipped to handle the volumes/technical capacity of such a task.

There is, however, a wealth of literature using cell phone mobility, such as shown above.
He’s speculating that Yeager died of COVID-19 and assigning blame to Yeager himself as the cause.
Chuck Yeager, Broke Sound Barrier, Has Died
Aside from newer methods the only syntax gotchas in my code are template strings and let/const. That makes the code really quick and simple to convert to an old IE friendly application.
> This is standard procedure if they were noncompliant

Laws differ greatly across the US as to this. I am unfamiliar with the laws and procedures of this particular jurisdiction though.

> No harm was done

Though everyone is different, pointing guns at kids is very likely far from harmless, no matter the firearm operator. As we have seen very much in 2020, law enforcement makes mistakes all the time (to be generous).
Unknown unknowns.

You only hear about things that are no longer a secret. This only means you know about ex-secrets that are no longer secrets now. This is different than saying there are no secrets anymore.

Anything that's a secret today isn't known to us.
Hopefully not for long. Tomorrow hopefully will be a big step forward with SpaceX's 12.5km hop.

EDIT: Or the Israeli ex-gov guy saying "It was definitely aliens".
Right, so if you are getting Uber stock, presumably nothing happens? Or I'd assume it's the same as if you'd been fired.

This is not a liquidity event for Uber. Uber is selling a portion of its business, not being sold.
For better or worse it’s simply not in America’s collective nature to obey authority on the scale you’re hoping for.
Aren't the latest California directives attempting to adapt to this at least at the county level by tying restrictions to hospital capacity in each county?

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/12/03/california-health-official...
And good on them! I like whales and I think nations should coordinate to ensure that they stick around, but this doesn't have to mean that we ban whaling forever. As with most natural resources, managed harvest is a better long-term policy than an absolute ban.
Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Is Dead at 97
To my knowledge, much of the rest of the developed world doesn't have a problem with cops being able to lie under oath with no punishment. The non-adversarial systems you reference rely on the confidence that when a cop gets caught knowingly lying to get a warrant, that cop is fucked. Here in the US, it's just another Tuesday morning at the coffee shop with the boys.

On the destruction of evidence, this one has always baffled me - so is there evidence or not? Presumably when I go to a judge saying I need the legal authority to kill some babies at 3 AM because otherwise the evidence will be destroyed... I have enough evidence to justify killing those babies, right?

... So this begs the question... Why do I need authorization to kill babies at 3 AM? In case the suspects destroy more evidence? What was my evidence to kill babies to begin with? Just a hunch? Because a judge should absolutely shit on that, and it should be adversarial. A judge should laugh when evidence for a warrant request is "oh, I need the warrant because they'll destroy the evidence for me to request this warrant."

From my rough observation of the news for the past 20 or so years, the evidence of these crimes these babies died to protect has never been worth it. Maybe you know of a few where the death of a few babies were worth it because the crimes were so heinous. Every time I'm aware of - it's just been drugs, which could have been done in daylight hours, with no dead babies.

Now maybe this is your point about unarmed police. I'm not sure. But a warrant tends to be a fuck ton of latitude (as I've said in prior comments - judges just hand them out like candy), so just send in cops who want to kill with their bare hands and you'll get the same result, in my opinion.

I agree I'm being extreme, but that's where we are today. We tried the whole "let's just all get along and try to fight crime together" method, and it turns out cops will just lie to judges and go kill kids. This isn't me doing a slippery slope "what if" scenario. This has already happened. A bunch of times. Too many times in my opinion.

So now it's time for us to take away everyone's toys until they can show us they can all be good.
Seems like he's being contrarian at times.

> what we have before us is a symbolic gesture, it appears to be style over substance

I think the problem with being idealistic is people will see this leader,(especially in liberal mecca that is the sf bay area or how ever those people talk now) will latch on to this as a reason to do keep acting irresponsibly and justify their behavior.

> Less overall mobility, means less spread. The take home message here is: STOP MOVING!

This is why all the counties should act together, otherwise people just go to the open place to do what they want. The adults act like children and need to be treated that way.

> I continue to strongly believe our schools need to be open. The adverse effects for some of our kids will likely last for generations.

This comes off as dramatic. Like is missing a year of 4th grade going to be a problem for anyone? I barely remember school up until 11th grade at this point. Generations? Why is he saying that?

I agree with this though

> That the State considers pro sports a critical infrastructure (essential) activity undermines this whole rubric in my mind.
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You really do get to choose if you want 1 or 2 spaces or whatever formatting you want. Certain publishing houses might have style guides that they follow strictly and others less so, but all this just makes the formatting for a book a perfect metaphor to formatting code.
It really depends on who is buying.

But with Travis and Idera it was pretty clear it will go this way, looking at past Idera purchases.
dxvk was a massive success for DX11 games on Linux. Now vkd3d-proton is a major effort to make DX12 games playable.

Thanks to all developers who are involved in these and other projects like Wine, Proton, Mesa, radv/aco and etc. which make gaming on Linux great these days.
Seizures, nausea, and foaming at the mouth?

I'm going to guess some kind of synthetic chemical leak.
If that is the case the people who green lit this design should be culpable for gross negligence.
800k is San Mateo county only.

The whole Bay Area has a population of closer to 8M.
Lambda(TM) your entire infrastructure and save the most ;)
The article says in San Mateo county there are an estimated 8000-15000 contagious people.

That’s several times higher than how many positive test results have been logged in the past 14 days.

https://thecovidcomplex.com/state/california/san-mateo/summa...

Disclosure: this is my website based on data from the New York Times.
Those are older photos, so the amusement is the poster comes across as especially ignorant in their trolling attempt to tear down the great Chuck Yeager.
I would challenge the conceit that 'they do good by making their investors money.' They make their investors money, full-stop. Perhaps their investors choose to do good with that money, more likely, they choose to do business with that money. The private equity at no point ever did good through the act of making money, they did their job.
I'll happily bite that bullet: in principle there is nothing wrong with eating gorillas. Or whales, or dolphins, or whatever other non-human species we're projecting onto today.
It's a bit painful seeing what else his spouse tweets about other than this announcement, but I guess that is the price of getting this kind of news directly from Twitter rather than a conventional news source. :(
Well, it's been demonstrated around the country that not locking down is considered perfectly acceptable.

The reason for the lock down is to prevent numbers from skyrocketing - the anemic response from the US ensures long term economic damage due to failure to control the outbreak - the question becomes one of what the numbers in Sean Mateo will do over the next few weeks compared to the surrounding cities. Ignoring of course infections spread to the surrounding areas by San Mateo remaining open.
I understand that Dr Morrow is a health professional and not a writing professional. For this reason, I would recommend that San Mateo county hire a public relations / social media expert to do some editing on this and future posts. It lacks the structure and coherent message that a public notice needs. I read it from start to finish and I’m not sure exactly what purpose it served beyond Dr. Morrow justifying his decision to the public. Which I’m not sure anyone asked for.

I think this could be cut down to a few salient points:

(1) Social distancing, mask wearing, and staying at home are the best ways to keep you and others safe.

(2) Based on the best available information about hospital capacity, San Mateo is not issuing a Stay at Home order at this time. This means outdoor dining, take out, full capacity grocery remain open at the retailer’s discretion. San Mateo will comply with a Governor’s order if and when that order is issued.

(3) Schools will remain open in San Mateo with appropriate sanitation and distancing measures as appropriate.

The other 11 points are not needed and should be eliminated. There is also a significant amount of hedging that is not appropriate for a public official / medical professional. He’s a leader and an expert, he should state his opinion as one.
Yes, but the other Bay Area counties have chosen to shut down way in advance of that.
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from january to be specific: https://twitter.com/GenChuckYeager/status/121912204437113241...
Context for aliens:

https://m.jpost.com/omg/former-israeli-space-security-chief-...
> or is it preferable that it never ends?

Hesitant to respond because I think your fishing for a certain response with that line, but the state has guidelines for each stage of lock down we're in.
> You say that as if it's a bad thing, but making pollution more expensive for the consumer is a good thing.

I don’t think it’s a bad thing. We should make polluting activities more expensive. But the accurate version of the statement shows why we won’t do it: most of the increased costs will be passed onto voters. Not only that, but higher gas prices dampen consumer spending and slow economic growth: https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/how-higher-gas-prices-hur...

Focusing on “big evil oil companies” makes for a neat narrative, but it blinds us to reality. There is a reason Obama attacked Romney in 2012 for wanting to shut down a coal plant: https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2012/08/new-obama-... (“New Obama ad hits Romney on coal 'kills people' remarks”). There is a reason Obama still proudly takes credit for fracking: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/28/obama-takes.... He’s not doing this to appease the Exxon. He’s doing it because making polluting activities cheap is politically necessary.
Especially when the party in control of the government spent months claiming that it was a hoax.
Looks like this is what happens when unique companies with a vision hire mediocre business execs. I'm sure there are other ways to monetize while keeping OSS actually free. But you won't get there when your top decision makers treat the core user base with contempt. Now they're yet another CI company I can ignore. I'll be happy to learn another API (Github Actions) or even pay for CI. And it leaves the door open for other innovators (now that you have stopped innovating). Great job all around guys.
California actually has fairly carefully considered taxation of equity compensation. It might be that the structure Rabois has put together allows him to avoid taxes on equity after he moves; but most people who are leaving will still have to pay those taxes when they finally sell.

Regarding their actions being a symbolic betrayal of the Bay Area, I suspect most of them feel betrayed. High income tax in California doesn't reflect high provision of services. It's due in part to poor cost control and in part to poor property tax policy, such that California's income tax is a de facto transfer of wealth from working people and capital investors to property owners. These investors, companies and workers have paid a tremendous amount in taxes, and have been repaid with ever greater taxation, ever decreasing access to the property they are helping to subsidize, poor services, and even disrespect.

There's no reason to assume that every tax, fee or levy that the government issues is justified. The authors refer to Twitter and other companies as being "...let...off the hook..." for a tax but fail to mention that this was San Francisco's effort to impose its own payroll tax!
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It is worth reading many of Dr Morrow's previous statements on the pandemic. This statement reflects the learnings across 10 months of fighting this virus. We really do need to some moving, congregating, and gathering in groups indoors. So on some level forcefully shutting everything down should achieve that, but we are humans and will make mistakes. So should we shut our way down into compliance or focus more on the specifics of what science says reduces transmissions? Dr Morrow makes a clear case for the latter. The only trick is how you convince everyone to comply.
I don't really understand how this is a response to what I said. I pointed out that much of Europe doesn't even have the exclusionary rule: that if the police obtain evidence through misconduct, prosecutors are allowed to use it at trial. You responded with 6 paragraphs about killing babies.

Be specific. What country has better rules regarding warrants than the US? This should be easy, because it seems hard to believe that we could be the best country in the world at this process. Then we can go look at how that country handles things, in specifics, and learn something.
I like the idea that zookeepers are now walking around shining ultraviolet light on their animals to see which ones light up
At some point everyone's speed relative to ground goes to zero.
I often feel like bioinformatics is like this steampunk alternate reality where, because HPC clusters don't generally do database administration, all the technology and the ecosystem has developed has been built on flat files. Let me tell you, it's not great.
What is unreasonable about my way of looking at the situation?

Look at what happened to Aaron Swartz. If he lost at trial, he was facing a lifetime in jail. They were also seeking damages that he had no hope of paying because his finances had already been drained by the legal fight. A legal fight that was projected to cost over a million dollars more than already spent.

Or he could take a plea bargain. Which would have put him in serious debt, in jail for a few years, and made him a life-long felon.

Or he could commit suicide. Which, of course, he did.

In that surprisingly typical example, if his odds of winning were 90%, on average he spends as much time in jail if he chooses to fight. Which he couldn't afford to do. And you still have to accept that chance of losing your whole life in jail.

In that situation, I'd probably have accepted the plea bargain. No matter how much I believed myself to be in the right.

Given those incentives, it is somewhat surprising that 3% of people do choose to fight. But then again, that's down in the range of the portion of the population with serious mental illnesses.
Reading this I was expecting the same knee-jerk, panic response that has become the "acceptable" public health response to the problem the pandemic places before us.

While I detect a hint of futility in this statement, I am nonetheless deeply heartened to know some public health officials are themselves questioning some of the simplistic premises that have been driving policy to this point at all levels of government. Really there at least three attributes that I see in this statement that I don't typically see in utterings of our bureaucrats:

1) I actually get the sense of outright honesty from this statement. Not some overly messsaged, PR driven/reviewed statement by some spokes-hole. I actually think this statement is really what this guy believes... a public statement that even expresses some vulnerability. Despite the subject, very refreshing and I'd be more likely to listen seriously to what he has to say in future.

2) Struggling with right and good uses of power and seeing not using one's power as itself a public good. Good heavens... this guy should run for President! I expect I'd disagree with much of his politics, but I'd vote for him just for having such thoughts and expect the nation would be better off no matter his other leanings.

3) Questioning the mandates, their effectiveness, and whether they might be causing more harm than good. And not doing so from some artificial posturing to show "the right politics", but honest, genuine questioning.

Whether you agree or not... I wish more of our public officials were this thoughtful on critical issues such as face us in this pandemic.
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OK, granted. But there are many more examples of projects that were more complicated than you needed to be because someone thought they needed to use a cool new storage technology they read about but didn't really understand when something tried and true would have served the purpose just as well.