thoraway1010

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by thoraway1010 7y ago
Their warnings are wrong.
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mask wearing and mask guidance is 100% different in asia - a big emphasis of their control strategies as well.
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
Masks work, masks are low impact on daily living, masks are used successfully overseas by countries that didn't lock down their society (tawain / Singapore etc) - huge empahsis on masks including govt run websites with live maps s
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
It's funny, if you watch a show about farmers in the US - when they talk about farm product prices you are like - huh, how is this product so CHEAP? Seriously - the great increase in wheat prices brings it to 8 cents per pound in the
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
Don't countries like ethopia skim the foreign currency sales of things like coffee in various ways (ie, low official exchange rate, then elites can resell at higher black market rate and give farmers the less valuable local currency).
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
Nicw. I'm still going into a docker for linux on windows dev but want to play with using WSL2 for this cycle (deploy is to linux machines / container images). Mostly just need to figure out tooling setup (pycharm / vs code)
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
I was basing this off first person accounts from ex-pats in asia - the big message was that masks are now worn both as a courtesy to others and in some cases are required and kids don't like to wear masks - which makes it tricky when t
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
Wow! Fascinating! So wrong so many times - I did not know this history. You can see how having this guy on TV re-assuring people starts to reduce confidence people have in "authoritative" news sources - and they end up on the inte
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
Like it! Maybe train people not to touch their face and in higher risk situations (think public transit with lots of touching or bigger group events) add a mask as another layer of protection and a reminder.
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I think it was for this reason - the focus should really be on increasing supply and encouraging mask use if there is effectiveness. South Korea went this route -> masks are in the post offices and other govt buildings to increase distri
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We are closing schools and you are saying masks ONLY help when someone sneezes right at you - TOTALLY false. Masks are an absolutely basic viral control measure. Seriously, a virus is on a surface, you touch a surface, then you touch your m
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
No surprise. We had Larry Kudlow saying a week or two ago that the virus was "fully contained" in the US. [1] We had the CDC take down the number of folks tested from their website because it was embarrassingly low and different t
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
Someone else suggested the same thing actually. Easy to get lazy when it "just works" and internet is 1gig home and office - you can see how bloat just builds up.
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
Every reasonable study shows masks being useful. It's why everyone wears them in a medical setting. They are not a guarantee by any means, but you can layer risk reductions. Remind people not to touch their face. Put a surgical mask to
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
Yes - I've heard that. The whole don't want to worry people by wearing masks. If you aren't wearing a mask a sneeze near me I'm more worried not less. I don't know where the don't wear masks they aren't he
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"Masks are NOT the most useful thing you can do to protect yourself: they’re hard to wear properly, especially for long periods of time, and their effectiveness against viral particles stops as the filter gets moist with your breathing
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Interesting that the advice here - masks not helpful - is almost totally and directly contradicted by the advice in all infectious disease transmission training, most other countries that have flattened the curve by dramatically increasing
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Same revolt happened with users, including executives. There was tons of pressure to stay with Blackberry (it WAS the monopoly incumbent - almost every major IT department had invested in it - telcos loved it for the $$$). Seriously - someo
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Unfortunately a fair bit longer - I'd say 6 years? It took me a bit to catch on to the right approach and had to learn along the way (wasting time forever with a folks who were set on doing it their way into the ground and learning fro
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Checking I'm on my throaway. I followed exactly this practice - immediately left crappy places -> kept strong clients. Took myself from $40K/year to $500K/year (not tech BTW so this is I think a bit harder than in tech). H
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by thoraway1010 7y ago
I use fargate and pretty happy with it. Don't need big scale out - it supports $1M/year revenue so not huge, but LOVE the simplicity. I just have the CLI commands in my dockerfiles as comments, so once I get things sorted locally