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josephbyon Why I believe the US has herd immunity in some states

> Why would Floridas numbers start to decrease if not for herd immunity? We know they aren’t being more careful. Disney land reopened and there is a police sheriff who literally made a rule that police officers and people going into the station were not allowed to wear masks.

This is idiotic. Rather than “herd immunity” one could, in fact, be seeing the impact of large numbers of people having been scared straight simply avoiding further contact.

The author’s conjecture could be correct but they offer no proof.

josephbyon Ask HN: What large tech companies have become remote-friendly during Covid 19?

Slack - https://mashable.com/article/slack-remote-work-permanent-cor...

Shopify - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-21/shopify-i...

Twitter - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-...

Facebook - https://www.forbes.com/sites/krisholt/2020/05/21/facebook-re...

Open Text - https://www.fastcompany.com/90502606/covid-19-showed-my-comp...

josephbyon Virus-Tracing Apps Are Rife with Problems. Governments Are Rushing to Fix Them

Which of these apps, if any, used the Google/Apple Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing approach? Why didn’t the Times mention that? Did I miss it?

josephbyon Call it the ‘boss tax:’ Seattle finally finds a potent way to tax the rich

Credit for creativity but my hunch is the only people who will get money out of this are tax lawyers

josephbyon Tribalism comes for pandemic science

“Yuval Levin is director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute, editor of National Affairs, and a senior editor of The New Atlantis.” Useful context before the click.

josephbyon Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods

More Modi-fake-news; you can't out-Xi Xi. Good luck guys.

josephbyon Ask HN: LinkedIn Jobs sucks for remote roles. Who will disrupt them?

Yep, they're the one that I've seen so far. Beautifully designed.

josephbyon Ask HN: What are the reliable data sources to learn about Corona virus?

These daily updates on r/supplychain have been interesting and, from what I can see, well sourced: https://www.reddit.com/r/supplychain/comments/fbcc9h/covid19...

josephbyon Flashing Light, Sound Restore Memory in Alzheimer's Mice

Mice clap don’t clap get clap Alzheimer’s.

They have neural plaques, artificially, chemically induced, that are coincident with Alzheimer’s in humans.

josephbyon How to Build Culture Through Office Design

Crap. Open office cargo cult.

josephbyon Expensive Loans to Desperate People Built the $90B Payday Loan Industry

Payday Loan business. #savedyouaclick

josephbyon Gum disease–causing bacteria could spur Alzheimer’s

Mice don’t get Alzheimer’s. Inducing plaques is not the same thing as giving mice Alzheimer’s.

josephbyon How did the Nazis gain power in Germany?

That’s an amazing, if terrifying mini series that I finally watched earlier this year.

josephbyon The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

Dupe: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Birth%20of%20the%20New%2...

josephbyon Over 30? Too Old for Tech Jobs in China

How will this play out as the workforce ages? Will Chinese employers engage with older tech workers more effectively than their U.S. counterparts? Or will they continue to be ageist and complain loudly about a talent gap?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/chinas-...

josephbyon We need a nationalised alternative to Facebook

Fexit

josephbyon Miller’s Law – A Rule in Product Design and Life Management

Hacker News desperately needs a "Saved You a Click" feature.

josephbyon “ALL PHOTOGRAPHS ARE PROFESSIONAL, ENCRYPTED AND COPYRIGHTED”

What does that even mean?

josephbyon Ask HN: How much did Google pay for kaggle?

To me that sounds optimistic. A bearish view would be that they limped to enough revenue to cover the costs of operating a solid recruiting and contest site; non recurring revenue of, say, $15MM without a strong growth or margin story.

Kaggle was a great recruiting play; given that Google bought them, and not a recruiting company, I would bet that this is an acquihire.

josephbyon Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X

I agree; it would be great to hear from developers who've experimented with switching from macOS to Windows 10, and use Ubuntu userspace on Windows.

I switched about a month ago and, to be honest, I've been pleasantly surprised with Windows 10, with modern, top-of-the-line Windows hardware, and especially with Ubuntu on Windows.

josephbyon Amazon Go

Why announce this 3 months ahead of the scheduled opening?

josephbyon iPhone 7 bursts into flames, destroys vehicle

Even when it comes to blowing up, Apple beats Samsung, hands down!

josephbyon The only way to revoke Spotify API tokens is to delete your account

Delete your account!

josephbyon Google Fiber Phone

John Oliver called this two weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU8dCYocuyI&feature=youtu.be...

josephbyon The tragedy of the Arabs

Correct headline is "The tragedy of the Arabs"; omitting the definite article makes the lede significantly more offensive :)

josephbyon Net Neutrality Protestors arrested outside Google

It's good to see Mountain View PD earning that overtime ;)

josephbyon End-To-End – OpenPGP Chrome extension from Google

Someone should try using it with this: http://sicomail.com; automatically encrypts all of your incoming email.

josephbyon Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

Or you could use ettercap to redirect all DNS requests for any device on your local network. That's how I test iPhone, iPad, and Android applications when the services needed don't have DNS entries: http://joseph.by/post/83414951259/effectively-edit-hosts-fil...

josephbyon How Much Does Obamacare Rip Off Young Adults? We Ran The Numbers.

"How much does _pay as you go social program_ rip off _demographic not currently served by program_? We ran the numbers."