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What an awful clickbait title. Can this be changed? It's totally misleading and lacks the important information that this only applies to the Device Manager. Automatic Driver Search through WU, of course, hasn't been removed. That would be crazy.

The article is entirely based on Fogg's behavior model. Your criticism isn't really addressing the article, it's addressing the model used. As for pain avoidance, that seems to be a part of the factor Motivation, which is divided into the sub-factors Sensation, Anticipation and Social Cohesion. I've found a number of sites explaining the model and they all have something like this to say about Sensation:

> Searching to experience pleasure or avoiding pain. These strong motivators are thought to be a primitive and immediate response to information.

I can't find an official source for it, so I have to assume it's in Fogg's book. But it seems pain avoidance is something that is addressed by the model.

Some relevant links:

https://blog.crobox.com/article/fogg-behavior-model

https://www.buzzstream.com/blog/the-psychology-of-behavior-c...

https://mariashriver.com/stanford-researcher-bj-fogg-on-the-...

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-stop-procrastinating-with-beha...

As for Fogg, he seems to be a research associate at Stanford and founded the Behavior Design Lab. How much weight that carries, no idea.

https://behaviordesign.stanford.edu/

edit: I think I found the paper where FBM is from

http://captology.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Beh... (found through https://behaviordesign.stanford.edu/fogg-behavior-model)

I've looked around and found it difficult to find a good resource for a beginner. Trying to figure out org-mode amounts to googling and finding a bunch of different unrelated sites that address the topic in ways, usually for an audience that is more advanced than I usually am and assuming knowledge that I don't yet have. "Plenty of information" isn't the same as accessible and practical.

The problem in this case isn't unemployment, and using unemployment to track it would be misleading. If small businesses die off, that means there will be less job openings for people to be hired into in the future. The US economy is already fragile. I'm not sure how it will cope with the kind of structural (long-term) unemployment that will result when too many businesses fold.

Per the article:

> While the businesses are small individually, the collective impact of their failures could be substantial. Firms with fewer than 500 employees account for about 44% of U.S. economic activity, according to a U.S. Small Business Administration report, and they employ almost half of all American workers.

It's appalling that all the focus in politics is on big companies and giving them handouts.

> If governments subsidized producers, and it turns out we end up with more masks then we need,

There's no way to end up with more masks than you need. Masks don't expire. If you're worried about the elastic expiring, require designs where the straps are easily replaceable or removable.

And masks are absolutely necessary for the future. Companies can't rely on society recognizing this, which is why they can't blindly commit to building the capacity for it. But that has nothing to do with how necessary masks are for the current situation and for the future. It's just another typical case of market failure, in the sense that a free market won't optimize for the same things you would if your priorities include things like environmental protection and health. This is something that needs to be regulated and subsidized by governments, who are supposed to be protecting us from future risks instead of pretending that there's nothing they ever could've done and nobody could've foreseen a global pandemic.

Also, if a government cares more about looking good than doing the right thing, then it's a bad government.

Yes. Plenty of experts. Actual virologists, epidemiologists and other scientists who've spent their lives researching infectious diseases like Covid. What actual experts have you actually read anything from?

What languages would you recommend for exploratory reasoning?

Every expert I've read about thinks the "evidence" is too flimsy to even consider Covid19 being man-made. That post isn't interesting at all. It's just clickbait fodder that appeals to smart people who like to think they've figured shit out as opposed to the experts, even if it's a field that's totally outside their wheelhouse.

I absolutely refuse to use Discord ever again after they started requiring phone verification. I'm tired of every company under the sun wanting all kinds of information from me that have nothing to do with what I need their service for. It's frustrating that it's become so popular.

I did read it. It doesn't explain anything. I still have no idea what it is.

I don't understand why governments haven't made the contracts and guarantees to ensure increased global production over the long-term (not just for Covid-19). We're going to need a much higher rate of production for years to come, yet everybody keeps thinking "Next month! It'll all be over next month!". I'm tired of this shit, and I'm tired of governments thinking so short-sightedly. The EU alone could make a huge difference in this area, but they're so unwilling to actually effect positive change in the world by using their position as a unified region.

What exactly is the long page metaphor? He doesn't really explain what it is and I've never heard the term before.