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Grandma would love the homebrew CLI!

> you seem to really resent the process

Do you know anyone who really enjoys it?

> There is a competing platform that has all the properties you espouse.

Thanks. This platitude was refreshingly insightful, and not obvious

> users seem to prefer using the Mac App Store.

Citation needed. Also, notarization is mandated by Apple, or the app isn't allowed to run. Guess what? The notarization certificate costs more than the Mac Store review (developer account).

Lastly, are you an Apple employee, or just a fanboy?

Outside of the "cult of Mac", people aren't really convinced on a $1000 laptop-ish device, on which apps are only allowed to run after passing an anal probe from the app store review team.

Which is why Apple stopped reporting unit sales on devices

1. Invest 50% in an index fund

2. For the short term gains, Gilead sciences, and other antiviral makers, even generic chloroquine & friends, are likely to gain FDA approval for CV.

3. Ventilator makers and even CPAP manufacturers are likely to see a massive spike in demand

Donate your gains from #2, #3 to needy CV patients/health Care centres

> At the scale of shit the world is dealing with right now, it just doesn't matter.

There are different ways to cope with adversity. The "Keep calm and carry on" method is a contrasting formula, which applied to Chrome, would see maybe one release versus three or four, even in the midst of an adversity.

As much ubiquitous suffering as there is currently, the comfort of at least a (slower than usual) browser release can be a ray of hope in an otherwise bleak horizon. Heck, if my browser won't even update, forget fixing a massively multivariate system/problem like public health, or the economy.

Your/Google's self awareness of privilege is much appreciated. But if you really want to make a difference, a slower release cadence is much more uplifting than resigning to the virus.

Because overconfident Reddittors >> HNers

I don't understand. Regardless of COVID, they always need to consider the impact on developers.

Like I said in my previous comment, the newly remote Chrome team may be facing many unseen roadblocks, but I expect that to be a temporal window of delay, after which the team should resume shipping, albeit at a slower cadence due to reduced productivity compared to normal-times WFH.

Remote work now is likely lower in productivity than normal-times WFH. If a software company cannot adjust to remote delivery, albeit at lower than normal productivity, the rest of the economy has no hope.

I don't understand Google's decision here - I wish they simply predicted a longer than normal release cadence, versus none at all

I think Google AI is choosing a more appropriate animal, after reviewing the Democratic primary debates so far?

France seem to be one of the few countries willing to openly challenge Apple's hegemony, be it planned obscelence, or colluding with distributors.

Why isn't the EU enacting this at the continent level? And why is the US asleep at the wheel?

All it took to curb his inner price gouging criminal and bring out the philanthropist was a teeny weeny criminal investigation. What a model citizen!

The only person taking anything I said out of context is you. I've been very specific about the 7% estimate being unique to Italy, replete with a source. I've never claimed that to be the overall wordlwide mortality rate, so read before accusing someone.

> Please, act responsibly ..

I suggest you practice what you preach, and read someone else's well intentioned, informed opinion without attributing malice or intent to spread falsehoods.

Most of all, the false narrative that a universal health care system somehow handles pandemics any better is clearly being proven wrong in the case of Italy, which is what I was trying to point out

Italy has both universal health coverage and sick leave policies, but is still reeling with a 7% mortality rate [1] and crisis. Neither replaces good leadership and policy/decision making by public health officials, and certainly has ZERO effect on pandemics.

FYI, countries routinely provide free health care [2] during pandemics because it typically is an existential crisis for it's civil society and economy.

[1]: https://www.ccn.com/coronavirus-death-rate-soars-to-7-in-ita...

[2] : announcement about US COVID-19 testing and treatment:

For USA -

Where to get COVID-19 test?

Enter your zip code to find out the nearest COVID-19 test site. (from US HRSA.gov website) https://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/

1. Go to clinics instead of crowded large facilities.

2. Fees: Testing and Treatments are free.

If confirmed, home isolation for 14 days, please help stop spreading COVID-19. Proactive screening to stop the spreads.

Hyperbole is a feature of political discourse in the US, let's not get semantic.

The article fails to ask the obvious next question: if this can potentially apply to much cheaper and instantaneous tests, maybe something ultrasound based? I'm not an expert on medical imagining, so can someone comment on ultrasounds' usefulness here?

I'd rather have a sustainable Gilead, with a strong moral compass that prices things fairly, to invent the next antiviral.

But the middlemem and insurance companies add ZERO value - invent nothing, treat/cure no one. They're just a leech in the system, and they definitely shouldn't profit from a pandemic

Almost certainly a lie. What would techcrunch write about, if the founders said something banal?

Revisionist, sexy origin stories are a proven way of getting free press. Somewhere, these guys are actually confessing how much free press their wild concoction earned them

If approved for treatment, I hope this is fairly priced, given that the CDC predicts 40M infections in the US.

Just to be clear, pricing ultimately comes down to insurance companies, middlemen taking a cut, and a government mandate that can pressure the ecosystem into acting in the public interest in times of a pandemic. So please make a reasonable profit to continue developing treatments, but DON'T get greedy, especially applies to insurance companies and middlemen whose entire role is financial engineering adding next to nothing in value

Is SARSCov2 == COVID-19?

Or is SARSCov2 ~= COVID-19?

It [1] looks a lot like the AirBnB logo.

[1]: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/Cli...

Has anyone considered the probability of the virus spreading via overnight e-commerce packages inadvertently containing infected steel/plastic?

These numbers put the expected mortality rate at 5%. However, the WHO estimates it at 3.5%. Either way, it appears to be significantly higher than the flu

The impact of a collision is so devastating that any life surviving it is unlikely. Unless such life can endure such extreme conditions, in which case, it would exist on such inhospitable conditions as on Venus

Why 50/50? It should take on the statistics of causations of chirality. And based on that, one might be able to guess the exact location and orientation of the meteorite when these chemicals were formed

Even at it's peak monopoly, Microsoft wasn't as evil or delusional as Apple. It's suffocating to stay inside the "walled garden" of a deeply unethical, trillion dollar mega-corp, with zero self awareness of how much developers are starting to hate these artificial roadblocks. Why is Safari oh so special that it's extensions need Apple developer ID, approval and a $99 annual fee?

I was on the iPhone, from it's release date till the iPhone X. Switched to Android since, and have never felt more liberated. Same with my workhorse PC, WSL on Windows 10 is pretty cool, if a little slow on storage. But WSL2 will fix even that. So what exactly does Apple offer, other than 2X-3X markup on inferior hardware, with unlimited roadblocks to your dev workflow?

I'm calling it - unless you develop for Apple devices (iOS, Mac, ..), a Mac is simply not the best choice

Definitely the payments company with zero medical, specifically infectious pandemic training

Interesting strategy of name-calling people with opposing opinions, without offering a shred of evidence in favor of your argument. And somehow, that isn't unhinged, for society has to believe in the intrinsic benevolence of a trillion dollar super-secretive mega-corp with such a chronic history of victim shaming that their "excuses" are literal memes [1]

[1]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=You%27re%20H...

Too little! The cost of replacing an iPhone dwarfs $25.

The reason they settled was likely due to guilt, because proving innocence is cheaper than $500M. They should not be allowed to get away with a slap on the wrist

Not the end of the IPO - end of private cabals who shake hands and sermon a 10X P:E price on a comparable stock/product currently public at 1X P:E. Despite the jowly greed of influential VCs et al. they cannot bend reality

Says the "opinion"/history section of WaPo. And the Democratic presidential candidates flat out lied in the last debate with claims of funding cuts to the CDC & NIH [1]

Also, lest you forget to blame Trump for feeling down & out, NYT opinion literally called it the TrumpVirus. [2]

Is it too much to ask for grace and to not FUD during a pandemic?

[1]: https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104

[2]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opin...