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I think the winning countries in this pandemic would be the ones who were able to collectively wait for a vaccine while maintaining low death rates.

Sadly US will not be one of those.

Simple math below.

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.

Does 480,000 deaths sound good to anyone?

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.

On a Mac, Menlo looks nearly identical.

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.

> 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 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.

This is such an awesome answer.