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decafjava said:
This quarantine thing is likely to have a lot of knock-on psychological damage even more worrying than the economic one. We've been told that staying in offices, spending to much screen time be it phones, TVs, desktops etc. is bad and now folks are expected to stay indoors. Not as big an issue for those with houses but folks in apartments like me?
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Actually wish they would implement our work from home soon since I get anxious around strangers, but yea the apartment thing is still bad because you still might encounter someone infected going for mail or just wanting to get fresh air. They should put some sort of temporary mail container by every apartment.
 
yaxomoxay said:
Sometimes you think too highly of people and of their ability to take common sense into consideration...
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Well, from the perspective of a (thinking) woman, even if inclined to do so, (which I am not), I would hesitate about even the notion of pregnancy at such a time, not least as the relevant health services and supports will all - most likely - be otherwise extremely occupied and insanely busy for the coming months.

yaxomoxay said:
Well, well... these are mixed signals here.
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Well spotted, sir, well spotted.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Well, from the perspective of a (thinking) woman, even if inclined to do so, (which I am not), I would hesitate about even the notion of pregnancy at such a time, not least as the relevant health services and supports will all - most likely - be otherwise extremely occupied and insanely busy for the coming months.



Well spotted, sir, well spotted.
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Awesome someone else has some sense. Baby boom is the last thing needed now in light of a pandemic. It's one of the main factors for a pandemic.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Good luck with the grocery hunt.
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Better be ready.

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So many idiots don't realize that the supply chain is intact; we lost only "extra" services such as restaurants and malls. Other than that, the supply chain is well... the problem is the stress that those idiots buying toilet paper as if there was no tomorrow are putting on it.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Better be ready.

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So many idiots don't realize that the supply chain is intact; we lost only "extra" services such as restaurants and malls. Other than that, the supply chain is well... the problem is the stress that those idiots buying toilet paper as if there was no tomorrow are putting on it.
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In my head that’s exactly what I look like topless.
In reality not even when I was younger.
 
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JayMysterio said:
Wishing there were more like these...
https://twitter.com/x/status/1240632652161593345
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Well that's just adorable.

I'm seriously bummed out I can't really go and see my parents at the moment, them being over 70 years old I really, REALLY don't want to risk their wellbeing at this point. I'm probably being a little paranoid or overly cautious, but other than talk on the phone and to deliver groceries while keeping a safe distance there's not much interaction to be had for the time being. I used to go over there at least once a week for lunch, tech support duties and other stuff so the current situation is not nice at all.

Maybe it will get better at some point.

Have a good weekend everyone, try to make the best of a bad situation.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Better be ready.

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So many idiots don't realize that the supply chain is intact; we lost only "extra" services such as restaurants and malls. Other than that, the supply chain is well... the problem is the stress that those idiots buying toilet paper as if there was no tomorrow are putting on it.
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Yea watched Demolition Man last night and may not be too far from the truth when Edgar Friendly said "We use these weapons to shop for groceries, a$$****" :(
 
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D.T. said:
Base model, upgraded to i5 quad-core (+$100), upgraded to 16GB RAM (+$200) ... $1299 :D
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Thanks. ;) I meant if the quad core Air came with 16gb already on board rather than having to upgrade to 16gb I would have pulled the trigger on an Air. iPad masochist here finally went with a cellular 11" 4th gen Pro for remote work. 🙄 Yes, I recently bought another 2019 iPad, but mom's 2018 is a mess (She does not treat her tech gently), so the 2019 iPad will serve as a back up.

I am also waiting on iMacs and 13" MBPs to be refreshed; but since my new job is starting remotely, a bigger cellular screen is the better call right now (along with the separate Windows PC* I purchased two weeks ago).

I will write some of this tech off on next year's tax return, especially since I will be using the PC and iPad Pro for remote work. *Given how screwy Windows10 and Catalina are at the moment, I did not want to run Windows on a Mac.

Anyway, am glad I could do this and am looking forward to the new job. Thanks for the intell.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Great video - very articulate, impressive, and ethically informed.

Thanks for sharing; when was it made? I couldn't see a date anywhere.
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On YouTube the posted date is May 7th, 2015.

The article that the video is from.

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8660249/bill-gates-spanish-flu-pandemic
The most predictable disaster in the history of the human race
This is what Bill Gates is afraid of.

By Ezra Klein@ezraklein May 27, 2015, 8:30am EDT
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II. The most predictable threat in the history of the human race
No one can say we weren't warned. And warned. And warned. A pandemic disease is the most predictable catastrophe in the history of the human race, if only because it has happened to the human race so many, many times before.

In a 1990 paper on "The Anthropology of Infectious Disease," Marcia Inhorn and Peter Brown estimated that infectious diseases "have likely claimed more lives than all wars, noninfectious diseases, and natural disasters put together." Infectious diseases are our oldest, deadliest foe.

And they remain so today. "In a good year, flu kills over 10,000 Americans," says Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "In a bad year, it kills over five times that. If we have a pandemic, it will be much worse. People think the H1N1 flu wasn’t so bad. But more than 1,000 American kids died from H1N1!"
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The CDC has even released a document titled "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse." The point, obviously, isn't that the CDC expects a zombie apocalypse around the corner; it's that since a zombie apocalypse is simply an infectious disease apocalypse, talking about how to avoid becoming a zombie is a safe way for people to talk about how to protect themselves from pandemic disease.

"When confronted with real anxiety, a lot of people shut down," Brooks said. "For them, planning for an actual crisis is just too scary, too paralyzing to think about. Make it a zombie attack, though, then there’s some psychological padding."

Pandemic disease is something our culture thinks about, knows about, fears. It's so topmost on our minds and in our nightmares that we've created an elaborate metaphorical architecture so we can talk about it even with people who are too scared to talk about it. We think about it so much, it seems almost ridiculous that we aren't ready. But we're not. Not even close.

Just look what happened with Ebola.
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IV. How human beings have helped infectious disease
Behind Gates's fear of pandemic disease is an algorithmic model of how disease moves through the modern world. He funded that model to help with his foundation's work eradicating polio. But then he used it to look into how a disease that acted like the Spanish flu of 1918 would work in today's world.

The results were shocking, even to Gates. "Within 60 days it's basically in all urban centers around the entire globe," he says. "That didn't happen with the Spanish flu."

The basic reason the disease could spread so fast is that human beings now move around so fast. Gates's modelers found that about 50 times more people cross borders today than did so in 1918. And any new disease will cross those borders with them — and will do it before we necessarily even know there is a new disease. Remember what Ron Klain said: "If you look at the H1N1 flu in 2009, it had spread around the world before we even knew it existed."

Gates's model showed that a Spanish flu–like disease unleashed on the modern world would kill more than 33 million people in 250 days.

"We've created, in terms of spread, the most dangerous environment that we've ever had in the history of mankind," Gates says.
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Huntn said:
Is there still a reason to buy a MBP, my last one in 2016 cost $2k and does not even have dedicated graphics.
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The 13" MBP is definitely in a weird place, I mean, it might have more peak performance, but if you're starting to get into concern about video processing, or compile times, etc., you're probably looking at a max CPU optioned 16", and of course, for anything graphic intensive, a discrete GPU, again, on the 16" only.

When the 13" MBP goes 14" (assuming that's a thing), that it also gets a dGPU, maybe an extra port[?], just something that provides clear differentiation between the product lines, and where the two pro models are mostly (maybe some slight thermal limit differences) about size differences (and not CPU, GPU, RAM, ports, etc.)

I think as soon as this new MBA is in the refurb channel I'm going to replace the little G's notebook with one. That's ~$1117 with the typical 14% discount on a $1299 model (usually they go more "even", so probably $1099 or $1149 ...)
 
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