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If you click into the per-country view on Worldometers you can see their sources. For example the current numbers for USA came from nyc.gov.

The real disingenuity is using technical minutia that have plagued our industry for almost 5 decades to shit on a company that is having short term success being one of the few goo…

I see, so it turns out you didn't care about the encryption, but do care about lying about something you don't care about. An interesting hill to die on!

Feel free to list the top 10 teleconferencing services by traffic, then put a tick next to each that sport verifiably end to end encryption, excluding cases where they control unat…

This could have been true except probably half of HN have an Android phone in their pocket. So this, like with Android and Google Play Services, is a case study in perception manag…

Entirely shoot from the hip comment, but at this point I feel it's warranted.. What is with all the Zoom hate? The company have been around for a decade, enjoyed relatively mediocr…

I mistakenly thought you wanted clarity on my reasoning, instead it seems I've been made a fool of by providing an opportunity for you to argue a position I already understood and …

There's really not much to it, but if it's a foreign concept it may require a kind of conceptual leap. Essentially, this code worked perfectly well, and suddenly it no longer worke…

I recognize it may be difficult to understand, but this is a thread about backwards compatibility. Of course if I had any faith in the contemporary Python community, I would still …

I'm several years into the "upgrade" and find myself still swearing daily at the idiocy of the whole thing. Hundreds of scripts used maybe once a year, such as 'dups.py' I tried to…

Notably compared to the 2008 program, this time around they allow dealer banks to take out cash loans using... equities.. as collateral. Dealer goes bust, market takes a huge hit, …

The dates are up to present day. Trump is due to give another press conference during market hours (3:30 today), watch the chaos he's wreaking on your friendly neighbourhood index …

> Here is evidence why it works: new cases/day decreasing dramatically since February: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESywcEKUwAADhcQ?format=png&name=... . Such an impressive single d…

You can think of them all as JPEG NB.. 'no browser support' ;)

Is it my imagination or was this the second country announcing the same in the past few days?

It eliminates the sizeable premium that previously attracted skilled labour to the instability of contracting. Without premium, why bother with the risk? FWIW, prior to the recent …

The most common thing I've heard is "blast radius reduction", i.e. the general public are not yet smart enough to run large shared infrastructures. That seems something that should…

They moved responsibility for determining whether a person is acting as an employee or a vendor in the vast majority of cases to the client, who must demonstrate a bunch of factors…

The UK HMRC has just absolutely devastated the London contracting market due to a rule shakeup like this. Speaking as an ex-contractor and current hiring manager, the result has be…

OVH also offer a free control plane, but their service is relatively beta so far.

It appears to be pretty much all western governments. at least 3 countries in the middle east appear to be pretty transparent, including surprisingly, Iran The level of censorship …

BitBucket still has users? I assume at least one, the person who thought the last redesign was a good idea.

> it's so rare for an application to ask you to open a port in your firewall, most users probably don't know how to do it. in home settings this step has been automated for somethi…

> How do you know where the key is, and how are you guaranteed to be able to read enough of it before the "shifting sands" that is timing unpredictability and general noise in the …