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Alarmed by mpox surge, Africa CDC is poised to declare a 'continental emergency'
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has never done anything like this before. The agency is poised to declare a “public health emergency of continental security” as early as next week.
Since the beginning of last year, mpox cases have been surging in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with children making up the majority of the 14,000 reported cases and 511 deaths so far in 2024. Those numbers roughly match the number of cases reported in all of last year in the country.
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Source: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-44-gdpr/
Example of an EU rep for hire: https://edpo.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/preppers
Some are ready for a "HTF" (hit the fan), society-collapse events. Others, like myself, focus on the higher probability but less attention grabbing situations like multi-day power outages, supply chain disruptions, and low-cost-high-ROI investments (like buying two sets of N95 masks for the family in 2018 in the unlikely event of a pandemic).
There's lot of view points within the community as to what is best, but generally the agreement is to determine what your personal level of risk tolerance is, and invest + prep accordingly.
I'm guessing that in addition to Elixir, they also used plenty of boring technology. Like using `cron` or `at` rather than writing your own scheduling subsystem. Or building on top of a standard OSS database rather than rolling their own.
The point isn't to _never_ to use new technology, but rather to use enough boring tech that you still have mental bandwidth to pour into the new tech, innovation, or product that will be your competitive edge.
Perhaps part of the answer is that if you're a solo founder who is staying solo, try not to create a business where you have these kinds of dynamics.
OR, if you are creating one that does, scale up past being solo ASAP.
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So while it’s all good to discuss gamification and the dark side of these things, it’s not the apps designer that decided to negatively reinforce bathroom breaks, but their app did allow the teacher to set that up.
What other user defined settings and unintended dark patterns are out there?
Another way to spot "The Churn": When you're done, what new value did your effort create or unlock? Are users better off? Is the system more resilient and reliable? Or did you just get it back to the way it was working before everything went sideways?
Find more ways to create and unlock value and you'll find you move forward much faster.
At CES a decade ago, I got to play with a touchscreen prototype that offered tactile feedback. Press a button and the screen would push back and/or buzz (it's been a while, hard to remember). What I do know is that it _felt_ like I was pushing on something, not just glass.
At the time, it required a big area around it. Think ATM sized. For an ATM, it'd be awesome. I'd hope Moore's law would get the tech down to phone size by now, but here we are with more apps and no tactile feedback.
At the CHI conference about a decade ago I spoke with some of the lead HCI researchers at Mitsubishi (which has long contributed to human factors research). During Q/A they said the single best thing you could do to improve safety was to NOT buy a car with a touchscreen interface. Lack of tactile feedback is a major problem. We all were quick to point out that they were selling cars with touchscreens. The HCI researchers said yes the company did, but their point still stood.
You want to be able to do things like adjust heat and defrost without looking (just with hands).