NY has 1,300 deaths per million, and NJ has 1,800 deaths per million currently. Let's take the average and say that they reached herd immunity with 1,500 deaths per million.
Great.
For the entire US (320 million), that implies 480,000 deaths before reaching herd immunity.
It's not good, no. But I am not suggesting that this was a good plan. I am just saying it is the plan that is happening. I think the US government took a really bad route in handling the pandemic. New Zealand had the best model imo- shut down hard and early and eradicated. Hardly any deaths. Were able to reopen in 6 weeks.
Does the US approach mean countries like New Zealand need to stay isolated until a vaccine is found? Or would herd immunity eventually eradicate the virus in US?
They should definitely have anyone abroad strictly quarantine for at least 14 days upon entering the country. Herd immunity would slow it to a crawl but it seems like it could pop back up in odd pockets of previously unexposed people. We also still don't know how long immunity will last- scientists are hopeful that it will last until a vaccine is produced but that's not a guarantee.
It doesn't sound good, but I think it would be a attractive.
The current death toll is around 170K, so we are talking a 300k difference.
Deaths associated with loss of work and restricted access to healthcare will certainly exceed that by the time we lift restrictions. So the sooner we get to 480k, the better.
That said, I don't have much confidence in the 480k number.
As long as you and others _choose_ to define value of a person only for their economic value (work output), we will always have poverty, no matter how enormous our total economic output (humans+machines) will become.
My first Debian install was 2.0. I ordered the CD's (there were 2, as I remember) from an on-line shop that sold burned CDRs with linux images. I wish I could remember their name...
Over the last 10-15 years or so, I’ve tried so many of these new fonts but always just end up back to DejaVu Sans Mono Bold. Now that my eyes are getting older, it works even better.
Thanks so much for the validation! I really tried to love new fixed with fonts but they all look horrible compared to OSX default. Glad to know I'm not the only one who doesn't like the kool aid
I have been using a text file (actually an org mode file) since 2009. Before that I used a plain text file.
It doesn't handle video/bookmark/pdf. If I have to save those, I put them in a separate directory and make a note of it in the text file.
It's pretty well organized, thanks to org mode. It has a section that is by date, like journal entries, and a section that's by topic. Since it's just a single file, it's very easily searchable. It will never "go down". I don't need to run a database (I tried using wiki software for the same purpose). I can even "link" different sections, by having plain text labels. For example, I can refer to "ZFS Setup 2009-01-01" which is another place in the document I can search for.
I can "jump" to sections by using the orgmode annotation. Searching for "* Computers" will go to that top level section.
I liked this system so much that I also use it at work. People are very impressed that I can find things in my "notebook" so quickly. It's just text search.
Websites disappear. Web apps disappear. Apps disappear. My text file, does not.
> It doesn't handle video/bookmark/pdf. If I have to save those, I put them in a separate directory and make a note of it in the text file...
I've used a similar system in the past (though not based on org mode), but was too brittle if/when "links" broke or were altered. For an over simplistic example, if the references that you made to a video within your master text file(s) breaks because the video's containing folder name has changed even slightly, well that becomes annoying. For a small number of references, types of destination media types, etc., maybe not an issue, but after some point, it can become too much maintenance/annoyance. Is this an issue that you encounter? If so, do you have mitigations for avoiding/resolving the broken links? Just curious.
As someone with a similar setup, I have a Google Doc named "Weekly Scratchpad" with a shortcut on my Android home screen. At the end of the week, I copy anything worth saving into my plain text file(s) and delete the rest.
> perhaps only the DNA-based life survived some early period in Earth's history.
There is a theory that early life was RNA based. The mechanims are simpler, and it's easier to create "spontaneously appearing" RNA "life".
But as soon as this RNA life evolved and produced DNA based encoding system, the DNA based life evolved to wiped them out. Right now earth is full of RNAses, which are proteins that destroy RNA, made by DNA based life.
Evolution works in non-intuitive (mysterious) ways.
This is a very plausible theory. An analogous phenomenon happens in the world of memes, where some ideas produce "phenotypes" that wipe out other, competing ideas. c.f. Tienanmen Square in China or the Nag Hamadi scrolls.
I have, I'm interested in memes as Dawkins defined them then. I've also read many translations of Nag Hamadi scrolls, so your example sparked my curiosity. Perhaps I need to re-read The Selfish Gene, it's been more than a decade now.
Edit: with reflection I think I understand what you were getting at, that the memes contained in the Nag Hamadi corpus had been successfully suppressed by their memetic cousins which for whatever reason came to be the dominant 'version' of that information, until an accident of history reintroduced the different versions that had been all but extincted in the memepool.
This article is strange enough that I suspect astroturfing.
The reason 5G is being deployed in 24GHz is because we don’t have wide enough blocks elsewhere. The 800MHz and 1.9 GHz spectrums have existing services cellular services, and putting 5G there would have to block off spectrum that would otherwise be used by older technologies. This would increase congestion for existing users while very few people would be on 5G.
Unlike other countries, US govt does not force phase out of services—we still have 2G service in many parts of the rural us, and cell companies aren’t going to upgrade them voluntarily.
Eventually most of the handsets would be compatible with 5G, then 800MHz-2GHz bands will be converted over to 5G. This happened with LTE and 3G before that.
Maybe this article is being pushed by telcos, who wants the current TV frequency reallocated to them. Of course the broadcasters want to hang on to those to provide 4K TV over the air service.
TV frequencies have already been reallocated. Channels 52 through 69 (700 MHz band) were reallocated in 2008 and channels 38 through 51 (600 MHz band) were reallocated in 2017.
The 600 MHz band is currently being cleared and will be finished on July 3, 2020.
2G is already decommissioned for AT&T, and Verizon is this year. Next year is T-Mobile.
My experience is that 2G is nowhere to be found anywhere, and 3G also seems to be being phased out. Places I would get 3G signals last year are now all 4G.
This [0] is an excellent resource for ergonomic keyboards.
The common myth is that programmers type a lot. We do not. We spend a lot of time in front of keyboards, but most of that time is spent thinking.
People who write a lot of emails type way more characters per day than programmers.
Still, ergonomic keyboards are nice. I think Microsoft wireless one is quite good and affordable. I would love me a kinesis, but never managed to pull the trigger.
http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald_aaas_69.pdf