If rare earths are actually rare, isn’t it better if China draws down their supply first?

Sounds like they’re the cheapest game in town.

humiliating

It was an Amdahl machine, it was their (Amdahl's) first machine capable of a Gigaflop. This was early 80s.

And it was not a single processor, it had many CPs. I don't remember exactly how many, my fuzzy recollection is that it was hundreds, not a few or a dozen. I don't remember them competing with anything Cray made.

I believe it used the same air-cooled processors, the 470, that was current in their mainframes at the time. The 470 was the competition for IBM 370 that ruled the world at that time. Air-cooling was a big deal, the IBM mainframes were water cooled and that added to expense and complexity.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Micro droplets:

@Loki said in Micro droplets:

The simulations are fascinating. I ask myself however if there was large impact greater than 6 feet wouldn’t we see a lot more infected.... anytime sometime goes to a grocery store or people out biking or running that otherwise self quarantined? We haven’t heard those stories yet have we?

We already have. Tons of people have no idea how or why they got infected.

Most people think a fomite is something the Orkin Man sprays for...

@George-K said in "Mr. President, when are you going to sign the checks?":

@Mik said in "Mr. President, when are you going to sign the checks?":

I guess it's only fair. Jon feels like Trump's been fucking him for three years now.

I doubt Jon got a check.

Told you.

@Horace said in Another contrarian view: Does quarantine matter?:

I'm curious how "everybody wears a mask and gloves and washes their hands a lot" compares to quarantine.

Quarantine is better because it's far more enforceable. No way to make sure people wear masks for example, and that would really help.

by creating a magnetic field and using a bipolar virus inside the device

Lolwut? So they have a schizophrenic virus that can detect any virus?

@jon-nyc said in Peak infectious period at or before symptoms begin:

Yikes. With an estimate that 44% of people were infected by people not yet showing symptoms.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0869-5

Add to that asymptomatic people and people not tested do we think we might be closer to herd immunity than we understand?

And what the hell is with that weird formatting?

Oh I see.

Beethoven? I really like his works. Didn’t think about him when thinking of a user name back in Piano World days.

More from AEI: https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/estimating-the-true-number-of-chinas-covid-19-cases/

Key Points

China’s COVID-19 figures are not arithmetically sensible. The Communist Party has deliberately made estimation difficult, but, outside of Wuhan city and Hubei province, cases are low by a factor of 100 or more.

In late January, Chinese media provided information about migrant outflow from Wuhan before quarantine. Using a lower number than theirs, then conservative figures for migrants’ infection rate and time in circulation before national lockdown, generates an estimate of 2.9 million cases.

This is partly due to China’s huge population. That population can also hide COVID-19 among tens of millions of respiratory illnesses. Along with harshly enforced censorship, the population can hide tens of thousands of deaths.

The time it would take paper applications to process would skyrocket if they didn't have the electronic option. I really don't see how this hurts.

No one's riding...

https://www.railpassengers.org/happening-now/news/blog/flexible-dining-on-amtraks-western-trains-temporary-but-necessary/?fbclid=IwAR2aWGSTiY9-csNSh3gN9PwGxvvqhvvrQVwuYIefovRlDtWUtGe3wD0LtWE

on a typical day on the National Network, some 90,000 passengers are riding the trains. Today, that number is hovering around 4,000.

I am - Loki brought it to my attention.

And I've worked with Tibco. They are ubiquitous on Wall Street for market data delivery.

Yeah, Larry, that was my guess too - tile on plywood or chipboard.

I'm pretty good friends on FB with a singer in NOLA. We chat about once a week. Since all of her gigs have dried up, she's now doing twice weekly performances from home, with a "virtual tip jar."

I send a few bucks every time I watch.

I worry that people like her are going be hit hard.

Her husband runs a glass studio on Magazine St. He's shut down as well.