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So those of us without cell phones or with cell phones that we don't activate, we can definitely opt out of the tracking and this will be respected forever without exception through a constitutional privacy amendment, right?

Also we're all going to continue to be "allowed" to turn off bluetooth to save on battery right? (Spoiler: no, the system only works if it's bluetooth on all the time for everyone no exceptions even though bluetooth is absolute low quality poorly engineered garbage as a technology.)

And those of us who are brainless and perfectly compliant sheeple obeying everything the government and media tells us without questioning or rational thought will be allowed to keep our old cell phones with the previous obsolete bluetooth standards correct and not be forced to buy a very expensive brand new phone we don't really need and can't afford, even though that severely damages the ability of the powers that be to mitigate the latest crisis they have intentionally created, right? (Ha ha ha.)

The photo in the article looks cool, showing a full page of the New York Times in tiny dense font on a huge screen. But is anyone really going to want to read a paper in that format by standing next to a wall for an hour while squatting to various heights to allow their head to be level with the text they are reading?

> bioinformatics

The Honors Track of the UCSD series is really great.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics

It's super hard and as a side effect you learn a ton about very interesting, amazing, and useful algorithms that you'd never even hear about in a top notch CS program.

90% of people will comply. Let's say it's only 50% though. Those people are no more or less likely to be infected. So it's 100% perfectly fine not to test everyone if the goal is to determine the number infected overall.

If looking to go beyond, hey let's get testing capacity to the point where those who are sick and desperately want to be tested can be tested, then we can attack the 1984 fantasy.

"But but what if I can't force those to be tested who don't want it" is an absurd and insane concern given that only a tiny minority of people can be tested who desperately want to.

Once we have testing capacity then those who want to force testing should go out and try to force people to be tested and happily accept whatever happens to them.

It's definitely stalking. There is absolutely no question whatsoever about that. Please disclose how you benefit financially from the stalking so we can all be level here.

Agreed. Call it a corporate profit good and that's fair. Social good? Fuck those *s promoting such propaganda. Mark their aliases in your blackbook and forever look at them as absolute demons. Doing their thang.

Yes. Bloomberg uses their publication to manipulate the stock market to the advantage of insiders. This is completely obvious based on the huge number of absolute bullshit fabricated stories where they and their anonymous sources are the only starting point.

Yes.

Decades ago in the US I worked at a big factory that had an odd schedule very similar to this. It was absolutely exhausting. I was far less productive then than I ever have been. Also my coworkers were by and large imbeciles and criminals since anyone normal or competent quit after six months as I did.

I paid $4 per N95 mask in January.

$1 is an absolute bargain.

$0.10 is vastly below the cost of manufacture and only being promoted by people who mean harm.

Growing a lot of food and practicing my marksmanship skills.

Right, with this and chloroquine, assuming it works to prevent the virus from binding to ACE2, you'd want it to be in the early stages, before massive damage to the lungs, liver, intestines and brains are done (all of these are targeted by this virus). All other countries that are testing these are giving the drugs to patients in both the early and late stage of the infection. In the US alone, trials are only being done in the very late stage, after permanent damage has been done, and it's less likely to be of much use.

> the demand for food didn't disappear, it shifted from HoReCa (hotels/restaurants/catering) to groceries

The demand for food didn't change but the kind of food changed a lot.

I'm a heavy purchaser of fresh produce. I've completely stopped purchasing most produce because these are in open bins at the market and I see people with grey skin who are obviously infected staggering around and coughing and sneezing on everything. I'm not convinced I can sufficiently sterilize things like lettuce and broccoli. I'm still buying carrots but remove it from its bag, destroy the bag, thoroughly wash, and only eat as cooked. Avocados I wash in soapy water, then spray with 90% alcohol. Lettuce though needs to go in the fridge, at which temperature any virus sneezed on it lives indefinitely. So for me no lettuce, no premade salads, no deli products. No problem, I have about 200 sq ft of garden with lettuce and many other things at present, and am adding about 200 sq ft per week to this, and will continue until I have about a quarter acre. this should be enough for me and for the neighbors that otherwise might attack and raid should things get that bad. I've got 30 tomato seedlings staged of 3 different species and these will go in the ground soon. In the past 3 tomato plants have given me huge numbers of tomatoes all summer long. This year I'm going for 10x that. I also have a greenhouse under construction, for managing next year.

Now what if some others are like me? They maybe aren't eating that lettuce, demand is down. Looking around, everyone I know is planting gardens right now. Baking bread is the new thing since there were actual bread shortages here in the US of all places. Not the Soviet Union. At present yeast can't be found. So everyone has their own sourdough starter and is basically manufacturing their own yeast.

The pattern of what people buy has dramatically changed.

> It doesn't work, no more than placebo or straightforwards meditation does.

Equivalently: It does work, as much as placebo or meditation.

Thanks. That's very interesting he sent it to more than 20 people, though I haven't seen that reported on with official sources claiming so yet, maybe I missed something.

Not everyone agrees this was the right call:

https://armedservices.house.gov/press-releases?ID=2EFC2A13-1...

> he made sure it got leaked

Is there evidence of that?

Thanks, that "black hole story" is a really useful and compelling metaphor.

> you have no other choice but to go public

There's no evidence at all he is the one who leaked the memo. It may have been someone up the totem pole. Without knowing who leaked the memo, his being relieved of duty was premature and will only serve to damage morale. This was a very poor call by the acting Secretary.

You are correct about the dogs and I do not understand why, can you explain?

There are countless newspaper articles about how all the animal shelters have had all their dogs adopted out in the last two weeks, for the first time ever. Is it single people wanting a companion while they work from home?

I'm not Zooming, but everyone I know is, and it looks pretty damn slick and seems to work great. I can't think of any service that has had as fast and huge an adoption, which is obviously due to blind luck/things beyond their control (no one saw global apocalypse coming and hoping for such would be a horrible business plan).

Of course there's been other services working just as well or better for at least 10 years now. Interesting things converged suddenly on Zoom. I guess full cross-platform support was the key? Also interesting is the deluge of anti-zoom articles that are blanketing the cybersphere :-) just as they are getting traction. Jealous rivals? Disgruntled lovers?

> most jobs in finance, corporate management, and professional and scientific services could plausibly be performed at home

Or some of this could simply not be done at all.

> very few jobs in agriculture, hotels and restaurants, or retail

Au contraire, all agriculture work can be done at home when we raise our own food. All teaching can also be done at home and currently is being done so. The basic need of a hotel, a place to sleep, and restauranting, of preparing and serving food, can be done at home. And retail is already done at home, store clerks are largely obsolete. What can't be done at home yet is delivery services and most manufacturing in its current state, but manufacturing probably could be done at home through expanding micromanufacturing. Networks of craftsmen shops running mini production lines can make a lot of things.

I'm not sure that police shutting down parties is always authoritarianism. In the present case we have public health authorities issuing very sound and science based banning on large gatherings, done under temporary emergency authority during a declared emergency, all in compliance with established law and long known medical knowledge of epidemic management. These orders are then enforced by police. Is this really then an authoritarian government that operates this way?

It seems to me the authoritarian way would be that the strong man issues an edict which may or may not be legally allowed or based on reason, and then his stooges, which may be the police or military, enforce it in a draconian manner, without regard to what the written law may permit.

Some pigs are pretty smart. Not sure if smart as dogs. Pig parts have been transplanted into humans for medical reasons with good results. So we are kind of similar. I don't eat pig for these reasons. I don't have a problem with others eating it though. There's no shortage of pigs and they are domesticated so it's easy to make more.

When I ate dolphin I didn't know it was dolphin. It was so good. Then I found out it was dolphin. I think no one should eat dolphin because if they do soon dolphins will be extinct because they are that yummy. Dolphins don't do well in captivity and haven't been domesticated. So we can't just ramp up the number of dolphins. Eating them is a real risk to their survival as a species.

It will filter out particles. Just not as many as a high end mask like an N95. But better than nothing. Studies prove this. The masks-don't-work people are causing extreme harm and killing people.

The poor little dolphins!

Ha ha just kidding, I've had dolphin it's very very good, but I feel it's immoral and a little like cannibalism since they are probably smarter than us.

Have you heard about the small child with cancer? He is dying and wants to see his favorite baseball team before he dies.

We are (I am) collecting funds to help him achieve his dream before his tiny life is extinguished. Won't you give what you can today?* Blessings, dear fellow kind human.

* Please note I have no connection to him or authorization to hold this fundraiser and if he doesn't contact me to claim the money I guess I'll have to keep it for myself but I'm not going to mention that in my appeal.

Yelp has consistently behaved in an exceptionally sociopathic manner for many many years. I don't see any reason why that should have changed. Does a leopard change its spots?

Yes, the dynamics remind me of all the proposals for "orphaned works" where some agency collects royalties on stuff without a contract and creators are then forced to go beg from them and accept their terms without negotiation, or get nothing. In reality most creators never figure out or are aware of the system and the "facilitating agency" aka den of thieves is raking in billions that are never claimed.

> "Fuck All of These People Entirely"

I agree with this guy without even knowing what he's talking about. It's just a general finding.

Wow you created a brand new account just to post that one comment? I'm honored.

On to the response. First, doing something I don't want to do that someone else told me to do and not getting paid for it is slavery. Slavery is bad.

Second, I don't use their solution. I have my own custom DNS intercept system I wrote myself which is much better and also enjoys security by obscurity. With a single user it's hardly worth the time to mess with.

Third, I already donated to their project, above. I reviewed their code, agreed it was complete shit, and concurred with the consensus that they need a complete security audit. That is extremely valuable advice which is worth $3000. So I donated $3000 and all you've done is sit and whine and create anonymous coward accounts to troll people. Tsk.