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It's actually suspected that the whole epidemic in Europe originated from the first confirmed infection in Germany. A woman from Shanghai who had a business trip with her car manufacturer. That same manufacturer happens to have a factory in northern Italy.

Some Italian scientists did an RNA analysis on samples from infected people from Italy, and confirmed they descended from the first German case.

Basically, if this hypothesis is true then German quarantine and/or exposure tracking failed. Had they played it safe and properly quarantined the entire staff of the office building , Europe's coronavirus pandemic might have gone entirely differently.

There are _humans_ who are currently volunteering to get infected by the virus who would probably gladly participate in such tests. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01179-x

Why would it be? China, South Korea, Hong Kong have all pretty much managed to lower their amounts of new cases down to basically zero, and their society is open for business albeit with social distancing and mandatory mask usage.

The trick is to NOT stop testing once your case count starts going down, instead give the test to everybody that wants one.

A few million spent on 99.9% negative tests daily > a few billion spent on the economy being shut off daily

Why does it have to be anonymous? The coronavirus is not HIV, there is no social stigma in knowing someone was infected.

The biggest problem is exactly the fact that since it spreads so easily, it's impossible to reach all who have to been exposed

And anyways, the harsh lockdowns currently implemented are basically forcing the virus to evolve into being asymptomatic. Currently, anyone with even mild flu-like symptoms stays home

I don't think the mutations are the reason for asymptomatic cases. Coronaviruses mutate very slowly.

More likely, viral load, immune system strength, overall age and the genetics of the person infected are what determines if the infection is fought off before any symptoms are shown

If an attacker has physical access to a device, it should already be considered compromised...

Don't look at case growth. That is limited by testing capacity/policy. Look at deaths.

They're not being rented on AirBnB, they're being converted back to normal rental apartments.

They tested every single person in the country who showed up to a doctor with a fever.

USA banned flights from/to China. Italy banned flights from/to China. (both decisions caused an outcry about "racism" at the time, btw) Other countries kept the flights going. USA and Italy are now the countries hit hardest despite these restrictions, because the economy is global.

Either all countries must react properly, or a single country's actions won't do anything. Good luck with that.

Probably in that while internet usage exploded by 100000x, yet IRC is less popular than ever with barely any new users.

Because they've had 50 years to network and build wealth, compared to 5 years of the average 20-something?

Ugly UI will absolutely reduce the amount of users and even more so potential sales.

^ developer time is worth crazy much, it's just irresponsible to waste lots on it on a 0.3% of the users.

just go ask the actual playerbase if they'd prefer the devs working on linux/macos ports or actual gameplay/issues affecting the average player and see the answer.

AKA "The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."

—Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

Please research opportunity cost. The total time you spent to optimize the service was probably in tens of hours.

Multiply that by the amount of money you cost your employer per hour and you'll realize that your "optimization" actually resulted in a net loss.

Are those prison cells located in the center of a very desirable city though?

Any non-tech firm.

Not only that, but the answers on Quora seem to be 80% garbage.

I believe Elasticsearch doesn't allow restricting access by requiring login unless you pay for the enterprise version, which is just straight up stupid.

Ticket opened 20 years ago, damn.

News flash: All devices ever released have always came preinstalled with yet-to-be-discovered vulnerabilities.

it doesn't always have to be nefarious.

By having a FB/Google sign in a website won't have to deal with implementing login, registration, email verification, forgotten passwords, etc.

Oh and even better; if they get hacked then all the hackers will be left with are hashed FB/Google IDs.

School is supposed to be a place of learning. Instead, it became a daycare for kids to spend their days in autopilot mode

Not just open-source maintainers but also moderators.

A bad thing about moderators is that nowadays they tend to be immature teens, it's one of the reasons Reddit content quality has been going down in the past few years.

It also creates some moral questions, as companies with giant revenues are outsourcing their internet janitor duties to naive unpaid child labourers

the problems with resume generators are

* privacy: if it's not client-side only, how do I know you're not saving all my data and selling it to advertisers recruiters spammers etc?

* popularity: a random recruiter pulls up two applications and they both have the exactly same template. this is probably a bad thing. best case scenario you become less unique and more forgettable, worst case scenario they think you're a liar that has plagiarized the resume from somewhere and the contents aren't correct

Google is scared shitless with the DOJ investigation on them.

Remote work will never become the standard way of working. 80% of jobs require a physical presence.