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I have one way worse. My Dad rented a couple houses for extra income when I was a kid. One tenant was evicted for reasons I cant remember. To get revenge they spread bird seed or grass seed all over the living room carpet and then turned the sink on and stopped the drain. When my dad came into the house later the seeds has sprouted and were growing out of the wet carpet.

Travel insurance did not cover my 2 week vacation I had planned in Florida in May. They would only cover it if I or a family member who was traveling with me was sick. I count myself lucky to have a job that I can do from home. Others have it way worse right now.

> ios safari was arguably the single biggest cause of the death of flash

I count that as a good thing about ios safari.

Youtube also removed several videos from a youtube channel MedCram.com. Its a channel run by a medical doctor who discusses updates from medical journals in technical detail.

The following videos have been removed from youtube.

- Coronavirus Epidemic Update 10: New Studies, Transmission, Spread from Wuhan, Prevention (2019-nCoV)

- Coronavirus Pandemic Update 43: Shortages, Immunity, & Can a TB Vaccine (BCG) Help Prevent COVID-19

- Coronavirus Pandemic Update 57: Remdesivir Treatment Update and Can Far-UVC Disinfect Public Spaces

- Coronavirus Pandemic Update 60: Hydroxychloroquine Update; NYC Data; How Widespread is COVID-19

- Coronavirus Pandemic Update 71: New Data on Adding Zinc to Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin

Watch their latest video to see that they try to stick to the facts and avoid politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANgon3Umns

Its almost easier to get around large urban cities on foot then with a car. My strategy anytime I am in a large city is drop the car even if its not near my final destination.

Keep in mind this is deaths so far. This number will change as some may take more time to die. So maybe the radio could be around 1% to 2%.

This company is already dead before covid-19. The virus just accelerated it and likely gives the executives somewhere else to point the blame. It takes large companies years to die. Just look at Sears.

There is a hospital here in Colorado that during covid-19 told its employees it needed people to work more hours at reduced pay because of covid-19. After that the leadership turned around and gave themselves bonuses.

It might not be censorship (in the classic government sense) but its still very sad to see US based companies and organizations bow down to China. Granted I am aware China is not the only communist country.

Another example of companies bowing down to China: https://www.reuters.com/article/china-basketball-nba-espn/es...

Adequate sleep is very important to immune function. I should sleep more at night but its my most productive time. I started taking some vitamin D when all this started because a doctor recommended it. Granted I think if I just go outside into the sun a little bit I should have enough.

> she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less formal) instead of the plural "you" (I'm not sure how it translates into German)

Are Germans usually this strict about language in a professional setting? I am from the USA but worked for a company with offices in Germany for a couple years. They were formal in some ways but also made many jokes that could get you fired in the USA. Maybe my experience was the exception.

I wonder what the US going into a deflationary spiral would mean for real estate like rental houses? When economists say deflationary spiral do they mean prices of assets (like houses) would fall?

The issue is that those "in the know" will just rig it in some other way as soon as the peasants start to try to mimic them. Its a cat and mouse game and we are not all that sophisticated to play it.

I do expect that at some point this pumping of economies (by increasing money supply) will fail miserably. I am not really that confident of how to position myself to profit or at least not loose my wealth when it happens.

My position is in mostly in real estate that I purchased during the last housing bust period. Hopefully that turns out.

Another book I heard about from the Matrix behind the scenes was Out of Control by Kevin Kelly. It was pretty interesting to read especially in the context of machine learning now days. Its hard to believe that it was written in 1994. I was only in high school at the time but I could hardly put it down. I still would like to find more books that interested me that much. The reference to bees on the cover is that a simple bee has little intelligence but the a hive mind has much more.

I read Simulacra and Simulation after hearing about it related to the Matrix. It was a bit hard to follow and I lost interest.

This could also be useful for websites that do not print well. I have run into a few occasions where adds and other website elements printed with the actual recipe. The result was a small recipe divided on several pages mostly covered with other content. There were pictures and text formatting that I could not copy out. Often for stuff like that I just pull the HTML and edit until it prints well but I would rather have an easier way.

Your ignoring population size and focusing on totals. We are talking about the USA overall. According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ as of now:

Country, Deaths / 1m pop, Cases / 1m pop

USA 171, 3,045

Spain 503, 4,907

Italy 446, 3,298

Sure if you cherry pick the worst city in the US and compare it to Italy or Spain then yes you can make it look like there are more cases in the US and be technically correct but overall the US is doing better then Italy and Spain.

The first Harry Potter book was released in 1997 and the first movie was 2001. So to satisfy that the author be compensated would not require 70 years after her death.

I think most of us agree that copyright has value but its become excessive.

In my experience, companies expect developers to output features quickly. When it does not happen as quickly as expected the assumption is that its the developers when often times its the overall organizations process that is a mess. Its not necessarily a technology problem but a people problem.

Most likely we will need mail in ballots and there has already been issues with that. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/24/28_mil...

I don't feel too bad for the oil fat cats but when oil prices fall it can hurt the electric and fuel efficient vehicle industry as well. Granted prices will go back up as soon as this is over. Its not to say that people don't care about the environment at all but cost does have a factor.

One thing I do not like about Ubuntu anymore is its embrace of snap packages. It just updates on its own. This has created surprises where a package or program just suddenly stops working correctly. Because I did not manually update it I have no idea what happened that could cause it. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1131182/how-can-i-disable-au...

To me Snap was a bad choice.

I used to run Gentoo but it started to lack in documentation maintenance and I became tired of spending so much time solving problems. Full disk encryption was a bit of a chore to setup on Gentoo and even then I was not sure I was doing it in a reliable way which required more testing. On Ubuntu it was just a few clicks.

This is a good cheap alternative: https://www.amazon.com/Breville-Crispy-Crust-Pizza-BREBPZ600... It looks like it might be discontinued although there is a similar one by another brand on amazon. Its major drawback is its only good for a pizza as large as 10-12 inches and if your pizza gets a large high bubble it can touch the upper element. I have made much better pizza with it then my standard kitchen oven. I do want to build a brick oven in the backyard when I get a chance some day though.

I see many of these same problems in large companies. Every one just tries to avoid being blamed. Those best at avoiding blame while assigning it to others rise up. Its politics.

It has become clear during this latest crisis that if we do not have the ability to make things inside our own borders we are sitting ducks. Its not accurate to think that when we need PPE and all sorts of other medical supplies we can suddenly build factories. Its not just a matter of keeping jobs in the USA its also a matter of security. Its a matter of self sufficiency.

I am not sure that I agree with outlawing political parties but removing the monetary influence companies have would help. Large companies take huge risks that if they pan out for the company they keep the profit. If something happens that destroys the company they get a bail out from society.

I agree with your point of view. Youtube is not the government so it, in my opinion, should have its own freedom to make its own rules.

The issue to me is that Youtube is pretty much THE video sharing platform. Yes there are others but as a content creator you will reach the most people on Youtube.

Would criticism of WHO be removed. Would information about China's handling of the outbreak be banned if it is contradictory to the WHO point of view. These videos are already demonetized.

I also am frustrated when I see videos claiming garlic will prevent coronavirus. Or that 5g is the cause. I would like to think people will recognize this is not accurate but people continue to amaze me.

In some ways though if I believe in freedom of speech though I suppose I should be prepared to accept all speech.

I asked this same question to a doctor and his response was: The particles of concern are likely to be more than just a single virus cell on its own so an n95 mask does help to some degree.

I think you mean tungsten. Aluminum is very soft to cut. Even aluminum used in aircraft is easy to cut.