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I've been building web applications for ~15 years, with experience as a startup founder, full-stack engineer, and most recently as a technical product manager. I'm comfortable wearing many hats and am looking for a full-time salaried position to wear them in :)

The US is about 11 days behind Italy, with approximately the same growth rate (keeping in mind this is only counting confirmed cases).

Compare the "Total Coronavirus Cases" charts: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

But the question is whether the social distancing being implemented across the US will reduce the rate of growth. There’s been drastic action taken this past week.

I mean it's very state by state right now and in disarray. In NYC they've tried to ban public events and large gatherings; no public schools are being shut down and it's pretty much whatever each entity decides. It's a hard choice to make in a city like this, but I feel we are on the "not doing enough" side of things. I think for the US they are definitely trying to weigh the economic cost so that's just competing with the heath cost. I guess time will tell.

Boston just canceled public school until the week of April 27.

Based on what’s about to happen, the schools won’t be able to reopen, because it’ll be too dangerous.

Different major cities are likely to experience different outcomes, by chance and by actions taken. Maybe we’ll hear of overwhelmed hospitals in some areas of the country. But I’m hopeful that the US has enacted social distancing measures at an earlier stage of the spread than did Italy.

I am not seeing much social distancing. People are talking about it, but I don't think people are really doing it. I see pictures of other countries where people are visibly standing 3-6 feet apart, everywhere. Here people are standing in groups in the supermarket telling jokes as they're stocking up, as if they're involved in a light-hearted roleplay of a pandemic.

Maybe this analogy would work:

Imaging a million haystacks with a million different keys scattered within them. There is a lock which only one of those keys can open; it is difficult to find the key, but when you do, anyone can easily verify it is correct by turning it in the lock. Once a key has been found, a new lock is created and the process starts again.

The more robots (mining power) you have to search for the key, the more likely it is that you will find it before competing machines do.

Besides explaining how we are looking for a nonce, I find it both difficult as well as elucidating to explain how whomever mined a block is rewarded.

The main point of block-chain is decentralization. It is thus important to emphasize that there isn't a central authority that rewards the mining of a block, but instead that the miner includes his reward in the block. It is also important (though less relevant) that the challenge of mining a block is a mathematical result of the last block. It too arises without a central authority.

Moving to even less relevant and yet interesting thing is that not all miners need be mining the same block. This is already the case for the 'reward' they are mining, but miners are free to exclude a transaction from their mining attempts. This then begets the matter of fees as a secondary incentive for mining besides the block reward.

I'm experimenting with a hybrid approach, where the server injects a JSON string into a hidden div's data attribute, containing all the data the front end would have traditionally received through an ajax call on initialization.

It's no ideal, as the initial DOM render isn't fully populated, but it's much faster than waiting for another round trip to the server to populate the view.

Here's an example sketch using vue.js (data is in #game-data div): https://game-collector-staging.herokuapp.com/

Or, even better, I just inject the JSON data into a script tag with a var declaration, sort of like:

<script> var models = {{=models}}; </script>

And just like that, I have my data accessible as a global variable.

Have you seen https://www.makethunder.com/, thefalcon?

I've not used it, but it looks like it might help. Here's a demo video: https://vimeo.com/163751319 (warning: loud surf-rock soundtrack).

I had not seen it, thank you very much.

Thanks for the link. From the summary of findings on page 78: "Glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A)."

From page 22 of the preamble: the category Group 2A "is used when there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals".

http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-F06....

Also :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_2A_carcinog...

Something may also be classified as 2A when "Exceptionally, an agent may be classified in this group solely on the basis of limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans." Which I think Glyphosate falls into.

If your mattress has a tag in one corner, it becomes pretty simple to know which operation to perform next.

If, when facing the headboard, the tag is to your right, rotate; else, flip (on the roll axis).

This is fun to play around with.

Can you explain how stock splits are accounted for in the "Percent gain" calculation for this case?: http://newinvestordaily.com/what-would-it-be-worth/r/30991

Intuitively that value would be much larger (300% or so instead of 40%).

Splits and dividends should be factored into the price. I use the adjusted closing price http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/adjusted_closing_price.a....

However in this case with Ebay it wasn't a stock split but rather a big chunk of Ebay (Paypal) split off into a separate independent company. I think what happened is when Ebay and Paypal separated Ebay share owners gained the equivalent Paypal shares. So this would throw off the numbers.

Online browsable manual: https://archive.org/details/NASAgraphics

Direct PDF download: https://ia801501.us.archive.org/16/items/NASAgraphics/tmp_26...

Performance reviews at Trader Joe's heavily weight customer interaction. Employees who don't engage customers very well will receive smaller raises, and eventually leave.

Source: I used to work at TJ's.