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I mean ISO. It's lexicographically ordered. And gets more detailed / fine-grained reading left to right. (Year-month-day). I like those features.

I mean ISO. It's lexicographically ordered. And gets more detailed / fine-grained reading left to right. (Year-month-day). I like those features.

I mean ISO. It's lexicographically ordered. And gets more detailed / fine-grained reading left to right. (Year-month-day). I like those features.

I mean ISO. It's lexicographically ordered. And gets more detailed / fine-grained reading left to right. (Year-month-day). I like those features.

I mean ISO. It's lexicographically ordered. And gets more detailed / fine-grained reading left to right. (Year-month-day). I like those features.

European here, American date format is better.

I think prices today are to some extend inflated by government action. But it is hard to tell by how much, since also the global economy will grow again very soon. And if anyone benefits from more digitization and remote work it is MSFT.

Also for MSFT specifically, I think the company is in a very good spot right now with its cloud business, gaming and office, developer and productivity software

My feeling is that best Indian software engineers are in the US (or even Europe) already. I have great Indian and Pakistani colleagues at my company, but we had very mixed results with outsourcing.

I am in Germany (where software engineers are ridiculously undervalued) and would consider 80k an underwhelming mid-level salary. According to levels.fyi, salary in the netherlands is quite a bit better.

Thank you! Any other optimistic and believable sci-fi you would recommend?

Sounds like "Pandora's Star" by Peter F. Hamilton.

I only read Pandora's Star so far, but I really liked the fact that it was a rather optimistic vision of the future. Humanity had colonies on dozens or hundreds of planets, and due to life extension people were basically immortal and could even choose the shape of their body.

Jazz is great. They don't know what they are talking about.

It's cool technology, but I guess ebooks might have been even more effective.

Side note, for once I am happy to be in Germany and not the US. Here Libraries are open. I go to the gym. Next week I even have a movie date at the local cinema.

It will go away. I'm in Europe where things are closer to normal already. I meet friends, people go shopping (with hygiene measures and masks), schools and gyms are opening.

Also keep in mind that there was always a threat of infectious diseases. And it will persist until we find a universal cure for all viruses. Being somewhat of a germophobe myself, I was always aware of it.

Hopefully, people will stay at home when they are sick, though.

The fatality rate is below one percent. It's quite a bit higher for the old and sick, much lower for healthy people. The only rational and sustainable solution is to isolate the vulnerable and let the other people live their lives with the appropriate hygiene and safety measures as well as extensive testing.

By what metric will it turn out to be a mistake? I think there are better alternative to the course taken, but a universal, indefinite lockdown is neither appropriate nor feasible. What would you prefer - and again by what standard and which metrics?

Yes. Same url just drop the "_en": https://www.land.nrw/sites/default/files/asset/document/zwis...

Sure, as does the study. ;-)

Takeaway: death rate is lower than many initially feared. But it is not like we have already 15 % immunity. In reality it is probably around ~1-2% based on the number of deaths.

However, the "controversy" has been overstated by the German media as well. Drosten, virologist who has been cited as one of the critics, called the Gangelt/Heinsberg study "very solid and robust" just yesterday: https://www.zdf.de/politik/maybrit-illner/christian-drosten-...

Particulary, the death rate will be close to the estimate.

"ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL" "AUTOMATION IS DEADLY"

... wait, what?

At my current company, Powerpoint is used as the main medium for communication and reporting. Powerpoint slide decks are even considered some form of documentation by many, even though they are not really suited for that: Bullet points instead of coherent prose and explanations, ambiguity on the audience of the presentation (internal vs customer), general clunkiness of a ppt files. For many projects, documentation is just a shared directory with a number of powerpoint files from various stages of the project. I hate it and I want to change it, but I am still new to the organization and this behavior is deeply ingrained.

Besides that, Powerpoint is pretty good if you actually want to do a presentation.

It was in a press conference with the German minister of health and the RKI. The British chief medical advisor estimated 20x in Britain. Of course nobody really knows at this point. In Germany, a large-scale study using antibody tests is starting next week to estimate the true numbers.

You are right. According to the Robert-Koch-Institut, even in Germany, where there is a lot of testing being done, the number of actual cases is probably a lot higher than the number of confirmed cases. We are talking about 10x or higher.

Why shouldn't they? There are probably no cases in the community.

No. Its year=2020, Month=03.

Do you have any facts to back that up? Leadership issues aside, the US is clearly the country that is best equipped to deal with a pandemic (see https://www.ghsindex.org/).

Agree completely. It's a fallacy to believe we will require less energy in the long run. We need much more, if we want to advance as a species.

Why are suffering, illness, and death not terrible things - especially if we have the happiness of a life well lived as a contrast?

There is not enough funding or investment in longevity to consider it over-hyped. Compare it to, say, AI and VR. Or even meat substitutes.