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> With more cold deaths currently than heat deaths

I disagree even to that. Any numbers for that statement, at least rough dimensions?

And, given world average rising a few more °C, and we get a similar extreme weather condition persisting for few days like described here, but where wet bulb goes not just close/slightly but significantly over 35°C, what will that numbers be in poor.. but heck, even in rich countries?

You cannot be serious..

(Adding: Btw.. after all what models tell and we already see, we are in general not getting rid of extreme colds as well, but even getting also more persisting ones of these.. )

Without bound, exactly. OP cannot be serious or this is deep sarcasm, or another form of climate denial?

Sure, you can die of cold, and given technology at some level it becomes really too cold for reasonable habitability, but that is quite low in relation to what we see around the world. And even our far ancestors could already "avoid" cold by just making fire, shelters, putting on cloth. Today we have whole cities built in permafrost, enduring -40°C temperatures just fine.. with the right clothing put on you can even survive outside for a significant amount of time.

If it is getting too hot (imagine 5°C over wet bulb temperature or more) there is nothing we can do but shelter in with air condition and hope electricity keeps going (which also becomes a problem at certain temperature), no going outside anymore.

AC is only omnipresent in the US, very recent modern technology, but even in the richest countries in Europe most have none at home or even work.. (it is just normal). Sure we riches can buy one, but situation around the world is very different.

Ok clarified, I'm just being Captain Obvious here, and OP must be another form of climate change denial.

Isn't that what this story is about? It likely wasn't like this before, but they fired people until one became the critical individual...why blame him?

Not species-appropriate usually without enough roaming space and a lake .. so not for everyone :(

Btw, did I see the robot harvesting in the end? Everything else is fine, but at least this don't take away from me! :>

Sold when I read tiling, yay.. maybe finally at some point I get rid of xmonad, which I loved to play with but do not understand anymore (nothing to complain, has been stable for years even across Ubuntu versions .. but also never touched the config in like 5+ years :D)

Not true, because there will be enough "test groups" due to this thinking already (and I believe now even the last one realized that this will now go everyhwere).

China locked down around ~400 known infections, in terms of spread we will soon learn what it means to have only done similar but much less strict lockdown at 1000, 4000, 8000 infections, actually it is all a number game, and the numbers were sharp enough and visible for everyone during February already.. we will pay a lot four our stupidity and "politically impossible", we said this since start of the year about Chinas measures, but what was politically impossible will now take longer and almost reach same strictness levels here..

Wait, what, just right?

First we laughed at China, downplayed it, now we ignore them again? (And if not China, why not look more at Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, there seem to be ways to keep the load for the health system reasonable enough .. but what I also miss too much is how we go forward, not just flatten the curve, but also rump up hospitals, and masks for everyone, and what else it takes to get into some reasonable state as before).

Just translating http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a089a4d9 from someone who claims to be China insider via his wife:

The reason why China thinks it can lower its shutdown is because they believe they control it now well enough. What is not clear to us in the West is how draconian but efficient they did the lockdown and quarantine:

- Immediate true and complete lockdown of whole China. They do not agree what we understand as lockdown in Italy and other European countries.

- In Shandong (80.000.000 inhabitants) they started tracking by licenses plates, train tickets and mobile phones all 70.000 persons that were in Wuhan and sent them to quarantine. That is like if Germany would have sent anyone who was in Italy on vacation into quarantine start of February.

- Every known infected case had 5 people working on it that via big data, tracking and interviews identified every contact person and put these into quarantine.

- As there was an infection case in a block, the whole house (30 flats) came for 14 days into quarantine into a hotel, they disinfected the whole house, and everyone else in the block (500 flats) were fever checked daily by security.

- Patrols in Wuhan arrested everyone breaking quarantine.

- Fever checking at every checkpoint.

But there was not only force, they are getting daily SMS to their chinese SIM:

- current state of epdemics

- state of food stocks of the province and there is no reason to hamster

- inform that all health costs due to corona will be paid

- how many face masks are produced each day

- that any price gouging is strictly forbidden, with a hotline you can call to report violations

- and general tips for behaviour

They partly paid people also a month wage if they went into hospital for testing/reporting their corona. What we don't understand in Europe is that Chinese government looked at Wuhan for few weeks and then decided that the cheapest way out of this will be this dramatic complete lockdown. Everyone travelling into China btw must go into 2 weeks quarantine. Thus they feel safe from a second big outbreak wave.

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Let's see if that works (keep in mind everyone there is wearing masks, while not perfect, they likely have a huge impact on reproduction coefficient on large scale).

I believe we should have learned much earlier when everyone was reporting that they e.g. build a hospital ultra quick, and then sent everything into complete lockdown, that they maybe had known what they have at their hands.

By doing our small steps, and also not having massive testing and good behaviour available like South Korea, I'm afraid, it will just take longer for us and the pain will be much larger. In Italy it already is :(

That is just amazing,

- passwords in plaintext, check - deliver that list without protection, check - put a hint to this route into the landing page, check

Wow!

Seeing projects that are neither fun- nor money-driven (though both are valid motivations and doesn't exclude this) but some guys really trying to improve a tiny bit on this world makes me sentimental lately.

Yep. Maybe not true, but also sounds too much for me like object-orientation is the saviour to all structural problems, and by just using it all these issues will go away.

No, that is not the case, practice taught us now for years it can even become the opposite; heck why are universities still teaching this without questioning :(

I don't get all this posts defending the (and I want to fully repeat the articles original wording) STUPID behavior of these people.

Yes agreed, if it really didn't delay no blame for causing any loss of life no blame should have been put on them, media coming too quick to lurid headlines is a common bad thing, bad journalism, true.

But this does not matter at all here WTF? Even if this behavior did not cause any death, or delay, it is just outright stupid.

It still risked other passenger's lives (no one can judge in this situation by "looking at the aisle" if it is save trying to get your luggage or not), it still risked hurting other people during evacuation, it still risked damaging the slide, it still ignored the safety instructions and the stewardess shouting at the people to get the fuck out, it still just is an ultra egoistic asshole move trying to save your belongings.

And btw I also don't get the defense of "people act irrationally or apathetically in disasters". Your most basic natural instinct is to flee a life endangering situation, the second thing that can happen is an apathetic reaction, but apathetic reaction != trying to save your belongings while a plane is burning. Anyone who tries to fetch and carry their luggage while the stewardess is shouting at you to get out is just trying to save their very belongings, and not reacting irrational or apathetic. Unfortunately stupidity and egoism is also human nature, but still it is just this and not irrationality or apathy, this behavior is not defendable and just outright stupid.

I also don't get the downplay of "people just carrying a purse"... please watch the footage, you can see a roll-aboard.

Wow, they detect the DDoS, but instead of blocking this they take off the servers?? Sounds ingenious..

Or are they unable to properly detect a DDoS and would also take off a server that hosts a web page mentioned on Hacker News?

How do other hosters handle this situation?

I don't agree with Microsoft.. but i also don't agree with statements like "Just NO NO AND NO...I want to be able to place my windows where I want...I know better than the OS how and where I want my windows" and "Wrong. Manual windows management is just what a professional needs." At least, it is not true for me. Manually placing and resizing windows, lowering and raising them, that is sooo much mouse work which reduces my productivity, i'm happy that in 99% of my workflow i do not need to do that kind of stuff anymore, but when i want the freedom i can just fall back to that ..

I think Microsoft got the point with their tablet-orientation fullscreen-only-apps, driven by touchscreen interfaces, but agreed, forcing everyone into that (currently coupled with the dual-old-desktop-mess) is ridiculous, user-hostile and typically Microsoft. This inofficial Windows 9 concept does not really help either.. IMHO they are looking for what tiling window managers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager) have implemented since a long time (without being driven by the touchy-concepts), without taking away any freedom like Microsoft always does it, because MS thinks they know what's best for their users? :

• Provide automatic placement for windows, fullscreen, halfscreen, spiraled, any layout which makes sense for you. • Have the nice side-effect that they are much more controllable by keyboard only, increasing productivity even more (at least for developer's kind of work) • Provide the freedom, that if you want to, you can just take windows and resize them freely like default window managers

Introducing and playing with new concepts still is the right, however i think MS should stop forcing users into every new concept, but leave the freedom for the advanced user to customize to their style... if i have ever to go back to windows i hope there is a tiling window manager with the features i am accustomed to ;)