jplayer01

This is quite clearly a policy failure. I don’t understand why the US isn’t subsidizing production for something as important as masks or other medical supplies. Obviously it is a national security issue, the same way food security is and which is why agriculture is so heavily subsidized.

I don’t understand why people are so eager to trust this company with sensitive business information. They’re totally untrustworthy after what they’ve done. It doesn’t matter what they pretend they’re fixing. Their word is worthless. What is it with you people blindly believing whatever garbage comes out of these companies?

You don’t remember the whole Australia debacle when their government passed a law allowing them to secretly compel software developers to compromise whatever they’re working on? This is basically the same thing, where we know the Chinese government is capable and willing to coerce anybody in their grasp to serve in their interests. Guess where software developers in China happen to live? China. Where can the CCP most easily wield their power and influence? Also China.

Aren’t most of their developers in China?

Then you must not have been talking to people. I’ve had to argue with way too many people since January who believe masks don’t work. I don’t know if people here are living in a pro-mask bubble or what, because there are too many people who believe they don’t work.

This study really isn’t sufficient proof for anything. Not even weak evidence. We need far better studies before deciding to give up on a drug.

Plenty of people in the West are of the opinion that anything less than an N95 is useless. I know because I've argued with them and see comments everywhere to that effect. It doesn't help that the CDC and other Western health institutions have spoken against mask use.

Oh wow. I didn’t know it was that uncommon. I’m fairly short, so every gf I’ve had was taller. But it’s terribly clear women have filtered me out often because of my height. It’s depressing.

> I don't ask for that level of efficiency,

Well, why the crap not? Why is the west so unbelievably bad at handling this epidemic? Why aren't we able to produce our own masks? These things are essential and it was all off-shored to China. Now the west is screwed while life goes on in Asia.

Am I taking crazy pills? The US and Europe subsidize their agricultural industries heavily and have done so for decades. They're fully or largely capable of feeding themselves - and yes, precisely because these places decided that food is a significant factor for the stability of a country and a national security issue. Hell, people bitch and moan about how agriculture gets so many subisidies (corn in the US? anything in the EU), but frankly, to outsource food production to the rest of the world would seriously threaten the cohesiveness of our countries.

Except there are situations such as this one where it doesn't matter how cooperative countries are. Even China was unable to produce enough medical supplies for their own needs, much less for the entire world. The US and Europe absolutely need to rebuild their industrial capacity to be able to cover their own needs in crisis situations. Anything else is just insanity.

I worked as a technician for a while recently.

> There are stats you can get from the SSD which will indicate the end of life.

I've seen too many consumer SSDs which failed completely without warning from one day to the next with no chance of data recovery. At least if an HDD starts to fail, there are signs that you can act on (files not opening/saving, Windows behaving weird) and you usually have plenty of time before it actually happens that you can start data recovery and get a decent amount (or even most) of data out of it. And even once it fails, data recovery is possible. SSDs are just dead black boxes. It's why when I upgraded a customer to an SSD, I always put a big emphasis on making backups onto an external drive or a cloud service or, well, anything.

Out of all the failed SSDs I've seen, only a single one managed to put itself into an RO mode for data to be recovered. And they often give the weirdest stats. Like, some of them will report everything is okay even though you're getting garbage or nothing out of it and can't write to it.

When they work, they're great, but the failure states are just obscene.

Thank you.

I'm curious about why people aren't naming any courses that exemplify the good or bad things they're mentioning.

What MOOC did you take where you had to write an interpreter?

Aw man. That sounds pretty cool. I guess there isn't anything comparable out there? I'm interested in contributing to the Linux kernel, but it's just so hard to get into it.

> But the idea that many folks make an affirmative choice not to seems pretty far down the totem pole.

That's not really the point he was making. People internalize a lot of behaviours and beliefs that limit their realized potential. It doesn't require a conscious choice to limit yourself, it takes a bunch of internal, unproductive thoughts and emotions and decisions that sabotage you even though you may not be entirely aware of it.

You're getting it wrong and you're confusing everybody. Detergent isn't non-toilet soap. Toilet soap can also be liquid soap. It took me all day to figure this out and understand what you were talking about.

Under toilet soap:

> In a domestic setting, "soap" usually refers to what is technically called a toilet soap, used for household and personal cleaning.

I'm not sure if that also includes detergent like dish detergent, but it's certainly not non-toilet soap.

Under non-toilet soap:

> Soaps are key components of most lubricating greases and thickeners. Greases are usually emulsions of calcium soap or lithium soap and mineral oil.[5] Many other metallic soaps are also useful, including those of aluminium, sodium, and mixtures thereof. Such soaps are also used as thickeners to increase the viscosity of oils. In ancient times, lubricating greases were made by the addition of lime to olive oil.[6]

> METALLIC SOAPS ARE COMPOUNDS OF ALKALINE metals or heavy metals and monobasic carboxylic acids containing from 7 to 22 carbon atoms. The water-insoluble metallic soaps are of particular interest to the coatings industry, although potassium and lithium soaps have limited water solubility.

They can also be lubricants for machines and you don't want to use any of this for cleaning anything at home.

> I'm assuming he's talking about toilet soap, not liquid soap.

... what's toilet soap and how does it differ from liquid soap?

And Europe's policy needs to change. Nobody is saying dealing with this epidemic is going to be free.

Yet the doctor is one of many who are dismissing the likelihood of somebody having coronavirus just because they haven't been to Italy. So yes, stupid.

Test, test, test. South Korea has tested 100.000 people. In Europe? Nobody is doing anything. You can't respond to something when you have zero idea what the scale is. We're literally seeing Europe stick its head in the sand.somebody comes in with flu-like symptoms, you fucking test. Psychosomatic doesn't matter, either you have the symptoms or you don't. And if you do, you test, test, fucking test. Not tell people to go home, you obviously can't have coronavirus.

The diagnostic is dead simple. Look at any health ministry of any country. It doesn't take a medical degree to understand that if you have flu-like symptoms, you need to be tested for the flu. And if you don't have any of the flu strains making the rounds, test for Coronavirus. You know, exactly what SK is able to do but somehow Europe isn't.

I don't understand. How are doctors this stupid? We have obvious communal transmission in France (and other countries). And if nobody is fucking testing for it, the doctor can't fucking say that you can't have it. What happened to evidence-based medicine?

Being downvoted for an uncontroversial opinion is also boring and quite shitty, and becoming quite typical of this site. Wish the site would finally get rid of the fucking downvote system. If people disagree, they should actually comment and talk about it, instead of blindly downvoting whatever opinion they happen to disagree with.

Opposing counsel doesn't care and nobody on the jury will be a Unix user. So ...

I don't see a moral dilemma. The journals don't pay anything for the research that they publish. In fact, they paywall research that is often funded by the public.

Btw, you seem to have misspelled the link to the landing demo at https://github.com/prevwong/craft.js/blob/master/packages/ex...

That's a consideration that makes sense though, since France's reliance on fossil fuels is very low and they can rely on nuclear for base load. Germany, instead, has decided to replace nuclear with renewables where something like 40-50% of our energy comes from coal. If that's not insanity, I don't know what is.

I have to assume then that these are the runways that lead down into the secret Illuminati bases beneath the airports. Has somebody taken a closer look?

I've seen this argument before but I'm not sure it's the case (anymore). Example: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2.

I've also seen other similar conclusions elsewhere. It's worth looking into.

I'm not 100% sure. I remember reading this about the MH17 (satellite-based infrared tracking) and assumed similar would be possible in this case. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/how-us-satellite...