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Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Re: Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Post by appleshore »

foobarbecue wrote: post #154
appleshore wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was Kushner. I live in CA and President Trump isn’t hated here as one would think from the media.

You must not live in my part of CA!

As Tim Pool said, California is the king of greed. A lot of rich people secretly support him and working class people who have to deal with the societal breakdown that is California politics.

4.5 million people or 32% of the voters in CA voted for President Trump in 2016. Democracies of uneducated masses (on both sides) don’t make any one side intrinsically right. Cue Socrates.

Re: Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Post by thawaway1837 »

vikinghckr wrote: post #3

Found it strange that some parts of media decided to focus on the semantics of Google and Verily being different subsidiaries of Alphabet. This is an almost meaningless detail.

Very few of the media seemed to focus on that. They largely seemed to focus on the fact that the Verily plans were nothing like described in the speech.

Re: Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Post by thawaway1837 »

aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #158
sdenton4 wrote: post #108

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...or maybe trump heard something in a briefing and said what he thought he understood, instead of what he'd been told. And without, you know, coordinating or having the speech fact checked before delivering it to millions of people. The dude doesn't do process... See also, walking back the "no trade with Europe" thing a few days ago. He doesn't get a lot of slack (outside the right wing machine) because he's repeate…

I personally think Trump is doing a great job. Unfortunately he inherited a dysfunctional CDC, but at least he was one of the quickest to shut down flights between China and other infected areas, unlike eg Trudeau up north who took his sweet time. Talk about someone who shouldn't get a lot of slack eh

Right, which is why he shut down the division created to plan and prepare for pandemics, and terminated the position created to organize the response for a pandemic.

The CDC was so dysfunctional that by the swift signing of a pen the CDC has been made great again.

Of course, it took him 2+ months to actually sign the document that waived restrictions (which were Bush era, anyways, and any decent government creates laws for the norms, but provides power to override them in case of an out of the norm situation, which Trump waited 2 months to do because he insisted it must be business as usual).

Re: Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Post by dwnvoted2hell »

76543210 wrote: post #153
tootie wrote: post #140

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They maybe could. But so could the federal government and it's their actual job.

If I didn't pay taxes my mortgage would be paid off, I could quit/work from home for a decade. How much abundance would we have without the federal government?

This is really more of a question of what kind of federal government we maintain. No one seems to dispute that having some form of federal government is good.

Re: Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Post by zaroth »

jjeaff wrote: post #115
zaroth wrote: post #97

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Will everyone who blasted Trump in this entire post apologize? Don’t hold your breathe.

If I could make a list of the people least deserving of an apology, Trump would be near the top.

No, no not apologizing to Trump. Apologizing to HN readers for spreading the fake news even after Google themselves came out with a statement saying that they are in fact doing what Trump announced.

Re: Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Post by TSiege »

76543210 wrote: post #153
tootie wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They maybe could. But so could the federal government and it's their actual job.

If I didn't pay taxes my mortgage would be paid off, I could quit/work from home for a decade. How much abundance would we have without the federal government?

If we didn't pay taxes we wouldn't have schools, roads, or the internet, and maybe even your mortgage (along with countless other things). So imagine where you life would be without it.

Re: Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Post by axaxs »

zaroth wrote: post #160

Google made the following statement on Twitter; Google is partnering with the US Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk and testing information. This is _in addition_ (emphasis added) to other measures we are taking, including: - A Google “home page promotion” to promote greater awareness of simple measures citizens can take to prevent the spread of the d…

I'm betting on the former. As dangerous as it is to basically blanket call the media liars as Trump has done, there are just enough cases of it being correct to keep you scratching your head. Journalism of today is little more than Gawker-esque trash. I feel sorry for the remaining good journalists, having their industry muddied so much.

Re: Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Post by monadic2 »

D2187645 wrote: post #139
mitchtbaum wrote: post #61

I'm more focused on groceries at the moment.. https://www.walmart.com/ideas/discover-online-grocery/google...

I wonder how many people are actually using these voice systems. In public, obviously zero. Ok google was convenient for a while while driving, but I havnt used it for months. Are these alexa/home gimmicks? Id have to see reviews, quality, stats, visualize a purchase which is not easy to do over a speaker. Turning of the light is already in the palm of your hand. I have a smaller 12 room house, light switches are rig…

In my experience these voice assistants are wildly popular among older and less technically literate people. I have an aunt who has around a dozen alexa-enabled speakers, tvs, and tablets around the house and constantly talks to them—weather, news, turning on the radio and music, ordering things on amazon. She doesn’t appear to be bothered by having to change her behavior to suit the assistant, including occasionally ordering the wrong item on amazon (!) and simply saying “play (genre here)” rather than album oriented listening she normally does, which disturbed me a little bit. Other older people in my life have similar behavior, and on a related point I’ve gotten at least one assistant enabled device as a gift for each birthday and christmas for the last several years (I give them away, I already have too many damn electronics).

Re: Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Post by Reedx »

axaxs wrote: post #167
zaroth wrote: post #160

Google made the following statement on Twitter; Google is partnering with the US Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk and testing information. This is _in addition_ (emphasis added) to other measures we are taking, including: - A Google “home page promotion” to promote greater awareness of simple measures citizens can take to prevent the spread of the d…

I'm betting on the former. As dangerous as it is to basically blanket call the media liars as Trump has done, there are just enough cases of it being correct to keep you scratching your head. Journalism of today is little more than Gawker-esque trash. I feel sorry for the remaining good journalists, having their industry muddied so much.

Exhibit A: Downplaying the concern and shaming the tech industry. This was 1 month ago:

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21128209/coronavirus-fe...

In general the media was strangely quiet about it until very recently.

Re: Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

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Post by BryantD »

zaroth wrote: post #160

Google made the following statement on Twitter; Google is partnering with the US Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk and testing information. This is _in addition_ (emphasis added) to other measures we are taking, including: - A Google “home page promotion” to promote greater awareness of simple measures citizens can take to prevent the spread of the d…

Probably the latter. If the nationwide effort had already been underway when the President made that claim, Google Comms would have no reason to hide that fact. Instead, they initially pointed the media at Verily and only yesterday announced a larger effort.

When you say the media was confused by multiple efforts, you’re sort of hand waving away the fact that the same account you linked pointed the world at Verily right after the President’s speech.

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