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Louisiana didn't close bars and restaurants until March 16th[1], which seems to be the same day that NY did as well[2]. Anecdotally, people were still gathering and going out in the french quarter right up until the ban took effect.

[1]https://nola.eater.com/2020/3/16/21182099/louisiana-closes-b... [2]https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/15/21180713/restaurant-bar-shutd...

>You need a significant infection which triggers a strong immune system response to build long term immunity.

I don't think this is true. I get the flu shot every year and have never had a strong immune response to it, yet I'm still immune to the major flu strains each year.

Point being, it's possible for your body to create long term immunity to a virus without suffering from a severe infection.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this used PCR testing to determine the number of _currently_ infected people. It says nothing about the number of people that _were_ infected, but fought off the virus and are now potentially immune.

What are some of the resources you used to get to your current competency? I took classes back in college so I have _some_ understanding, but I'd love to get to a conversational proficiency.

I disagree that the solution to "missing out too much" when you're sick is to go to work anyway and risk infecting co-workers.

According to the CDC, the average adult gets the common cold 2-3 times per year with symptoms lasting 7-10 days[1]. So it's more like 2-4 weeks per year, but I would imagine that number would decrease if you didn't have people coming into work sick in the first place (again, I recognize not every job will allow for this). Hong Kong's flu season apparently ended early this year due to the self isolation of sick people[2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/features/rhinoviruses/index.html

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/ad7ae6b4-5eab-11ea-b0ab-339c2307b...

>anyone with symptoms to self isolate for a week, regardless of positive test.

In an ideal world we would already be doing this. I know that some people have to show up to work even if they're sick, but even at my job where we have unlimited sick leave, and are encouraged to use it, people still show up coughing and sniffling.

I don't get it.

If your employer encourages you to work from home when you're sick, and you're actually sick, please work from home! No one wants to catch your disease, whether it's Coronavirus or "just" the common cold.

Robinhood opened up stock trading to a large portion of the population that would otherwise not have been interested in traditional trading platforms with high commissions.

Their success helped to pressure companies such as TD and Schwab to mostly get rid of commissions as well, which is great for the average trader

I think Robinhood has a lot of problems, but to say they're not pushing any boundaries ignores the huge changes they've brought to the industry.

Interesting observation.

I played around with it a little on google maps. It says it pulls route information directly from the King County transit website[1] which lists routes by the day of the week, not by the date, and seems to be displaying the routes for today just fine. My guess is that it's a Google issue, but maybe the King County transit website was broken earlier today and gmaps is just serving the cached routes now.

For anyone curious, this is what it currently looks like to get from Bellevue to Redmond in google maps. https://i.imgur.com/wMTIzBL.png

[1]https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/schedules-...

They could do focus groups though. Build a few different seating arrangements, pay people to sit in them for a couple hours, and collect their thoughts afterwards.

The item that's being scanned in and out of the Amazon warehouse is the box of boxes, not the granola.

This will lead to the inventory of granola to be out of sync with the actual amount at the warehouse, but in that case I'm assuming Amazon would eat the cost since they're the ones that "lost" the missing inventory. Think about a physical store. If they lose some of their inventory, it's the store's problem, not the product's.

I had to write a while loop in an interview recently, and I also made the off by one error on my first attempt. But after I ran through a couple test cases by hand, it was pretty easy to see the mistake and fix it.

I wouldn't say getting it right on the first try is the most important thing. Writing code, logically thinking it through, and running through test cases to fix mistakes is pretty similar to how coding on the job is, albeit with less contrived problems.

>The FAANGs spend god knows how much time and money on it, and they admit that their interviews aren't better than a coin flip.

I'm curious what this means. Whiteboard style interviews aren't perfect, but at the very least they demonstrate 1. You can communicate with another engineer on a technical problem (simply writing the code with no explanation isn't sufficient), and 2. You have the determination to study CS topics for a long enough time to be prepared for an interview.

Both of those skills should have at least some correlation with success at your job, certainly better than a coin flip.

Something similar happens in soccer, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was true in basketball as well.

If your back is to the referee, you know you're probably going to get away with a discreet handball or a bit of a jersey tug because the ref simply can't see it. And once you've played enough games, it's not too hard to keep track of which direction you're facing in relation to the ref since they have a general radius of the field they stay in.

Cruises are generally feeding each passenger 3+ meals per day though. And people tend to overeat on vacation as well.

How many meals does the average tech employee eat at work per day? My initial guess would be around 1.5, with the biggest meal of the day, dinner, usually being eaten outside of work. That would mean google spends more than twice as much per meal than cruises do.

Mosquitoes kill more people per year than every other animal (including humans) combined[0].

There may be unforseen consequences to eradicating mosquitoes, but to do nothing is already pretty catastrophic.

[0] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Most-Lethal-Animal-Mosquit...

And if you don't know the name for the generic product to search for?

Jacuzzi, styrofoam, and Super Glue are all brand specific trademarked items[0], but I doubt most users care about that when they're searching for those terms.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...

What about generic or almost generic trademarks? If I search for something like bandaid I am certainly _not_ expecting Google to rank Johnson and Johnson (the owner of the trademark for bandaid) above other potentially more relevant results.

And the same applies to other terms like Kleenex, Ziploc, aspirin, etc.

I believe jhipster works with kotlin as well.

I was going to mention QT. Though most their locations are in the Midwest. The only chains that even come close to the same quality and consistency are Racetrac or _some_ circle K's.

I pretty much always choose to stop at a QT if I can just because of all the little things you mentioned that they do better than every other gas station.

It is fully hydrogenated.

You can read the ingredients on their website[1]. While it's not the healthiest fat for a typical Western diet, it contains zero trans fat(partially hydrogenated), which is the only truly harmful fat. Trans fat is pretty much dangerous in any quantity and directly correlates to an increase in cardiovascular events.

Artificially added Trans fat was banned in the US in 2018.

1. https://www.crisco.com/products/vegetable-shortening/all-veg...

The original comment I responded to compared the average American to the average citizen in the "developed world". I'm using OECD countries as a proxy since the term "developed" is ambiguous. But comparatively, US workers are only slightly above the OECD average in number of hours worked per year (1,781 vs 1,763).

>The US bottom 25th percentile earn less than 1/2 the 50th percentile.

Again, only considering the average American here. I would agree that it's worse to be poor in the US compared to a lot of other countries due to fewer social safety nets.

> But the average american has to deal with long working hours, poor access to high quality food, extortionate costs for healthcare, cities where you can't walk anywhere, etc.

I'd question that. Poor Americans maybe. But the average american has relatively average work hours[1], shops at large grocery stores or supercenters[2], and has among the highest median income in the world(adjusted for PPP)[3]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#OECD_ranking

2. https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/august/most-us-hou...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income#Gross_median_hou...

Don't Teslas have some sort of collision detection that will automatically apply brakes in case of an object in the road?

And anyway, I'm not sure why an all metal grill would be worse than the grill guard (cow catcher) already present on a lot of trucks.

A quick search suggests that's not true.

>Our feline friends carry broken versions of the genes that build sugar detectors on the tongue. As such, they’re completely oblivious to the taste of sweet things. So are Asian otters. And spotted hyenas. Sea lions and dolphins too.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2012/03...

Well by that logic you could say the same thing about retired people that take part time jobs just so they have something to do every day.

They're not necessarily doing it for the money, and most states in the US allow you to quit at any time without repercussions, but it'd still be illegal to have them work for free.

It's more about whether the person is doing 'employee-like' duties and how much control the company has over the person's actions that determines whether they should be classified as an employee or not.

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Do you have numbers on that? In a city like NYC I find it hard to believe that there's many delivery trucks with a suboptimal load. With the scale they're dealing with there's no reason that most trucks can't be 100% full, except for poorly written software.

So no sports or after school clubs?

8pm bedtime is great with no other obligations, but I was regularly at school events past then (lacrosse games, robotics, quiz bowl, etc.), so that schedule would have prevented me from doing a lot of things I enjoyed in high school

Wow, that just reminded me of ChaCha.

When I finally got an unlimited text plan(~2009), I asked soo many questions. I was still on dial-up at the time, so it was actually faster than trying to look something up on Yahoo. And as a bonus, I could still use it while my mom was on the phone!

https://www.cnet.com/news/chacha-gives-you-answers-via-text-...

The entire fashion industry is about disposability. Forever 21 simply fulfills it at a low price.

If everyone tried to keep up with the latest trends we'd be throwing out nearly our entire wardrobe every year.