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That analogy doesn't really work tho. No one is complaining about getting keyless entry (almost all phone had Bluetooth for the past decade or so, no one minded), just the removal of physical keys (the 3.5mm jack).

While I'm not an expert on cars, most cars that have keyless entry that I've came across DO come with physical key, either separately, hidden inside the key fob, or the whole key fob works as a physical key as well. The only exception I know of is Tesla, but even they give you 2 keycards and you can purchase more. The reason is basically the same the reason I want headphone jacks back - fobs/Bluetooth can run out of battery, they are expansive to replace so you can't have multiple of them lying around.

While I do use the wireless option most of the time. I want the wired option as a backup.

Additionally, wired better functionality than the wireless option in this case - FM radio (not relevant for iPhones, but it does for Android), better audio quality, less battery consumption, ability to charge the phone while in use - features I personally am not very attached to but can see why they might be important for other people.

> You cannot tell me this virus has a higher mortality rate than any other major outbrekas like cholera, polio, tuberculosis, leprosy, etc.

Cholera and polio are transmitted by unhygienic food and water supply, you don't catch it by breathing in someone's cough or spit, we try to (and largely successful in developed well) by improving access to clean water and cooking food thoroughly. While they can be deadly, they are not highly transmissible between people.

Transmission method of leprosy was not well understood (even now, and especially when its effect was devastating), and nowadays it can be treated and even cured, plus it's effects are slow and rarely result in death.

TB is the closest in your examples - but it has some key difference, for one, it is not transmissible while it's still latent, so you are not going to think you are in perfect health while actually transmitting it. We also have vaccine for it, that is in wide use in areas where TB is commonplace, we also have treatment for it. It rarely results in death in places with adequate medical facilities.

In short, this virus is different from "any other major outbreaks", at least in recent centuries. And we currently do not have vaccine nor treatment for it.

I'm no economist, so I cannot tell you if "less than 10% of the population" dies or become severely ill would result in bigger economical impact, but I find it highly responsible to basically say "sorry, but these dozen companies' survive is more important than your grandpa's life" to the society at large.

I'm highly suspicious of that 50/50 split.

Every time I see that stated, I only ever see sitters being surprised that standers exist, not the other way around.

They might exist, but either they're are much smaller minority, or it has a strange correlation with how they use the internet.

I can visualize specific, static picture like stock photos, but I cannot manipulate them.

eg. "picture a venn diagram" - I can imagine the basic one with A, B and C overlapping a bit. I cannot adjust how many items are there or how they overlap or what colour they are.

"imagine a beach" - standard photo of a beach you see in travel ads. Usually include text like "discover Greece!"

"picture a cat" - the most common photo of grumpy cat, I can also switch to keyboard cat, poptart cat, Garfield, Felix the cat, but I can't picture a "regular" cat despite having owned one for over a decade

I wonder if that counts as aphantasia or just severe lack of imagination. Since I'm not "blind in my mind" - I've a large internal database of pictures, but I can't do the "picture yourself on a beach" thing either.

It is "terrifying" (may be bit of an exaggeration, I'd call it deeply worrying) because if people who are sick is not tested, and is afraid of staying at home due to job concern and/or not caring since the disease is mild, they'd be spreading it further.

The sickness is not very serious for the young and healthy, it is quite deadly or the elderly (21%+ for 80+ people https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se... ) - speaking as someone who live and work with elderly and/or compromised people, the long asymptomatic period is worrying enough on its own, the thought that there are people who are showing symptom but are still walking around going to work / movies / etc is scary.

Aside from the fact that HK has much fewer cases than a lot of places despite the close proximity to China. For the past few weeks, almost all new cases were traced back to either people sharing meals with someone who was infected, being in the same unit of someone infected - both of which situation would involve removing the masks.

There are some research showing that it helps. Other than the one linked in this post, here's a couple others:

> Among nurses in Ontario tertiary care hospitals, use of a surgical mask compared with an N95 respirator resulted in noninferior rates of laboratory-confirmed influenza. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19797474

> during a severe pandemic when use of face masks might be greater, pandemic transmission in households could be reduced.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662657/

Also, purely anecdotally, in Hong Kong and Taiwan, virtually everyone are wearing masks when going out in public. Compared to other regions, the spread is much more limited despite the close proximity to China - Taiwan had blocked entry from China early on, but not Hong Kong.

Lastly, even if it "only prevent the sick from spreading it", wouldn't it help with limiting the chance of the asymptomatic cases from from further spreading the disease?

Now, if the general population purchasing masks is truly impacting the medical staff's supplies, then it's a legitimate reason to ask people to stop buying them. But telling them it is useless seems quite misleading.

To be fair, there's also wood/east-elves, fair/light-elves, grey-elves, green-elves, all of whom are bona fide elves.

So just because he's called "modifier+elf" doesn't mean they didn't think he's a proper elf.

What the customer paid for is a subscription where they get to read anything they want for however long they want. They don't pay per book, so there's no "left with something they don't want".

Presumably when they stop reading Book A after the 5% mark, they would move on to Book B and Amazon will then pay the author of book B. So Amazon is paying someone for the whole duration that the customer is reading from their collection.

Personally I think it's a fair arrangement. Some of the "books" are really low effort cash grab that you'd literally open, read 3 pages and drop - it'd be unfair if they got paid just as much as well written works of the same length that you finish reading through.