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Re:Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:36AM (#23688692)
The biggest problem is that Apple insists on tying the fake email with your iCloud email, which the vast majority of people don’t use.

If they tied it instead to what people’s normal mail was, a lot of issues would be averted.

Re:Megadesk on Monday June 29, 2020 @09:10AM (#23677227)
The autonomous desk is sturdier, cheaper, bigger and actually has built in position memory settings etc.

It’s served me amazingly over the past few months WFH. Definitely worth a look.

Re:Shopify goes after Amazon with new Walmart deal on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:56AM (#23551401)
So sellers will create a different FB shop, a different Walmart shop, a different website shop, download and pay for a whole bunch of software to keep all the inventory in sync, and have to merge different interfaces and APIs to try and figure out what their final sales, revenue, etc are.

Or they can use Shopify and get all of those, and manage their inventory, and pricing, and shipping rules, etc all from one place and pay Shopify a few hundred dollars a year, when they would have paid thousands in software annually to replicate the same anyways.

Yeah, I can totally see why they would go the non Shopify route.

If I understand this correctly, they changed the format of these legal proceedings to better suit the TV coverage?

Is this the NFL we are talking about or the Supreme Court?

Re:Google Pixel Buds on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:59AM (#23005739)
It’s a comment about Google Hardware on a story about new Google Hardware?
Apparently it’s so well hidden that you have reports on it in a UK and Middle Eastern media establishment.

It’s so well hidden that it’s been discussed on the floors of the US Congress, UK parliament, and between the Indian head of state and his UK/US counterparts.

I find it fascinating that people write comments where their own evidence disproves their comment. Neither of the articles you link to even mention hidden mass deaths, and the articles’ very existence only goes to prove the point that it’s hard to hide info in India.

That’s not to say that China has been hiding a mass of dead bodies that hasn’t been reported. However, it would certainly be a lot easier to do that in China than in pretty much anywhere else in the world, especially India.

Sweden has a strong healthcare system.

For the vast majority of other countries delaying deaths will mean saving many lives, because of overwhelmed healthcare systems.

In the US, for example, healthcare systems are overloaded in places far from hotspots. If the lockdown had come a day or two later in places that are hotspots it would have been a catastrophe.

Even if India’s number is off by 2 orders of magnitude so the number of cases were actually ~70000 (highly unlikely, since those numbers would show up in hospitalizations), that would 70,000/1.4Bn, so about 1 in 20,000.

NYC at 6000 cases meant it had approx 1 positive in 1000, and the UK at 6000 cases meant it had approx 1 positive in 10,000.

So even if we assume that the US and UK were not undercounting, and that India was undercounting by a factor of 100 (!), India was about half as infected as the UK and an order of magnitude less infected than NYC when it entered lockdown.

I flew from India to the US in early February (2nd week).

Indian airports were doing thermal checks on passengers (using tech that had been installed during the Zika virus scare a few years back, I believe). The newspapers also had info about how anyone found with elevated temperatures were being asked to self quarantine, and the police was also following up.

The US had, absolutely nothing. Nada. Before the flight I was afraid that entering the US would be difficult, but it was clear (and it remained this way for over a month), that if anything, entering India, if not difficult, would actually involve checks, something that was non existent in US ports.

Further, and I don’t know if this is mentioned, the flight into India involved the cabin crew spraying some sort of pest control spray in the cabins before we landed. They mentioned it was due to regulations. Considering SARS-COV-2 has been found to have been easily killed (within minutes) of exposure to common disinfectants, could this spray have greatly minimized the virus entering the country, on baggage’s and clothing, etc?

Re:Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:14PM (#22628883)
If we are making changes solely on the basis of COVID-19, then isn’t the lesson that whatever you do, make sure you’re manufacturing and hiring people in China? (Or South Korea).

I mean, China was the first one affected by this, and after a few weeks of covering up (something western countries like the US also engaged in despite having already witnesses the negative effects of COVID in other countries), China took swift and drastic action (the kind which other countries may not even be able to do legally) and got the situation under control.

The US, on the other hand, is gonna be shut for months, and if the global supply chain was dependent on the US we would likely have been even more screwed.