From what I hear from my Swedish friends the differences between Sweden's and other European countries' responses has been exaggerated. In Sweden, too, many children did not go to school or kindergarten. Many shops were closed and generally people adhered to pretty much the same rules as most other European countries. From a economic perspective, the GDP in Sweden is projected to contract 5,3% [1] which is pretty much the same as e.g. Germany. The mortality was higher than in most other nothern European countries. So I would say the strategy was 1) not that different and 2) not that effective.
It's always fascinating to see that even compared to prices you pay as a self-paying patient in Germany (which are already 1.5x - 2x higher than what the "public" insurances, ie. 85% of the population, pay for the same procedures), the prices in the US are about 5x to 10x higher. The standard of care seems to be quite comparable if you look at outcomes, so there must be huge inefficiences in the American system (doctors in Germany are consistently ranked as the highest paid academics, so I guess it cant be doctors' salaries alone).
The have to go through an approval process on every update but AFAICR only with a study including 300 adults, so substantially less then the tens of thousands that were included in the Biontec/Moderna trails.
Sounds like SolarWinds hired a good PR agency with the goal to deflect blame and make it sound like a big conspiracy. JetBrains being a Czech/Russian company makes it the perfect scape goat. As was pointed out, "solarwinds123" hints at very bad security practices which makes some unpatched system or weak password the much likelier scenario. It might well be that the intruders then manipulated the SolarWinds TeamCity config. Would have done the same with Jenkins...
I often find it hard to believe that a single person can make much of a difference in such intricate problem domains as chip design but in his case the evidence is overwhelming. Also goes to show what a shit show Intel has become since even he was not able to right that ship. I think in the CPU space it will be all ARM and RISC ten years from now and since Intel never really managed to become a dominant player in any other (relevant) field, they are pretty much done for.
Very, very well deserved! Great software at very reasonable prices. I had the ultimate collection (or whatever the package including all IDEs is called) for 3 or 4 years and it even encourages me to try out new languages once in a while. Its an excellent offering!
The hypocrisy is unbearable. Facebook is everything thats wrong with internet. A company that basically profits from people living out their worst instincts (xenophobia, misogyny, chauvinism, plain hate) and from fueling insecurities of vulnerable people (paranoia, body image issues, etc.). I recently switched to the IPhone after a decade of Android, mainly due to the much better privacy protection. I hope they go much further in that direction!
They switched many inner cities to pedastrian-only zones in Germany decades ago. What becomes more and more apparent now is that it seems to slowly but surely kill retail in inner cities. It starts with people getting their groceries at the outskirts of cities. More and more retail then is attached to those supermarkets and people only do clothes and specialty items shopping in the cities anymore which incidentally are the categories most people buy on the internet by now (its just more convenient then spending a fortune on parking and then walking for 15 minutes to get to the shop you want to get to).
In the end, while it sounds nice, in the age to the internet people are too lazy to keep a pedestrian-only inner cities viable from a retail perspective.
Thank you so much for Caddy and open sourcing it completely. Every few years there comes a piece of software that really opens ones eyes how overcomplicated life was before. Caddy is absolutely one of those.
From my point of view, this is all very encouraging and actually lets me find redeeming qualities in this whole Corona crisis. While the SARS-COV-2 virus is certainly not to be trifled with, it's easy to imagine more serious virus outbreaks and I think after this pandemic is over, we will be capable of developing effective vaccines for many viruses in 6 months which would make us much more resilient in the future.
Well, the use of this framework seems to "enable" developers to create some of the worst designed, resource wasting abominations in the realm of "native" applications. So I'd rather have that stay closed source.
I don't think that has anything to do with "support". Intel had a sh*tload of problems with their laptop CPUs, (eg. bugs, coil-whine, security problems galore, etc.). The main reason is more likely long standing supply contracts of manufacturers. I'm not sure if AMD or their fabs even had the capacity to supply all the run-of-the-mill PC manufacturers.
Edit: The problem is that companies get to pick their auditors. Since the auditors sell a homogenous product (it doesnt really matter, who signs off you yearly report), the only way the big four accounting firms can compete is by being cheaper and/or more "favourable" to the customer. Both not that great for the customer (which actually should be the shareholders and in reality its mostly the board).
The motivation of your friends to put many in Wirecard stock probably less about investment and more about gamblng. I guess, they didnt invest their life's savings but just some money the had not better use for right now. In these times of zero risk free returns (and even low returns on junk bonds), investing in distressed assets can be a good strategy if you have the stomach to lose it all.
Weird, I always thought of it as a reference to something along the lines of "master record". A master is also part of a master/apprentice relationship which should not be a problem.
Considering they probably tested everyone so there are no unrecorded cases, a 1% death rate is pretty much in line with studies finding the CFR to be in the 0.5-1.5% neighborhood [1,2]. I would guess they are younger on average, but the prison population probably has some risk factors in terms of nutrition, insufficient Vitamin D, lack of exercise, etc.
Well, all the antibody studies around the globe have several things in common:
* relatively small numbers of participants (< 5000 and therefore only dozens of partifipants with postive results)
* focusing on relatively small geographical areas
* working with antibody test with a high uncertainty regarding
the specifity
One argument that strongly contradicts the narrative that a huge number of people already are/were SARS-COV-2-positive is the of positive PCR tests in Germany. Germany performs hundreds of thousands of PCR tests per week but still mainly tests people with some symptoms. If SARS-COV-2 were that prevalent, you would expect a large proportion of the tested to be positive but its only 4% by late March [1]. Every expert I heard admits that there is a significant number of undiagnosed cases. But 30x-60x seems to be quite unrealistic if even only 4% of people with symptoms are positive.
The theory that the virus has been spreading for months just makes no sense at all. By all accounts, COVID has a pretty quick progression and serious cases need to be hospitalized after about one week of symptoms or about two weeks after contraction. How come that the virus has infected millions and millions of people in the last months but none of them got seriously sick. And now all of a sudden, 1000s are dying. Unfortunatly, it seems that even researchers from reputable institutions are now just pulling numbers from their asses to grab some headlines.
The theory that the virus has been spreading for months just makes no sense at all. By all accounts, COVID has a pretty quick progression and serious cases need to be hospitalized after about one week of symptoms or about two weeks after contraction. How come that the virus has infected millions and millions of people in the last months but none of them got seriously sick. And now all of a sudden, 1000s are dying. Unfortunatly, it seems that even researchers from reputable institutions are now just pulling numbers from their asses to grab some headlines.
Well, while some of the quarantine measures might seem excessive (and at thje same time ineffective, it seems), cancelling completely unnecessary sporting events or trade fairs certainly is a good idea if it can even slightly slow down the growth of new cases.
The point people often miss is that officials (at least in Germany) are not concerned with a major decimation of the population. But they are concerned that the high rate of contagion this virus seems to have combined with the high percentage of cases requiring hospitalization (even if its only 10% of the cases) would completely overwhelm the health care system. Mind you, there is at the same time a influenza epidemic (like every year) that is already taxing the resources.
We have used Scipio ERP (https://www.scipioerp.com/), which is based on OFBiz, in a couple of projects. It's very flexible and easily integrates with other systems (using Camel). It's more suited to bigger businesses, though. Some components are closed but 95% are Apache licensed.
Disclaimer: I'm friends with the devs behind Scipio.
It is often implied that telemetry is a universally bad thing.
If it is anomymized properly, I think its actually a good thing to base decisions on which functionality to improve and which bugs to fix on the usage patterns of the "silent majority" of users and not necessarily on the opinions of the vocal minority engaging with the devs in GitHub issues. There are many prominent examples of major products which were primarily driven by the interests of their developers and not the users, leading ultimately to their demise (e.g. Eclipse).
While not entirely "passive", houses built to the KfW 40 Plus standard in Germany are pretty close (without some of the inconveniences of a real Passivhaus)
Funny how this announcement comes the same week Oracle decided to kill Java EE. MS has always been good to it's developers and broadening the .NET platform this way makes one really consider to give it another look. Oracle in the other hand basically spreads FUD about their own platform, even though they seemingly don't even care about it anymore.