aaaaaaaaaand we went full on China.

Same for me. Privacy is why I came, bangs are the reason I stay.

Yes, personally I'd go live to China for a while before than to the US.

All isn't as white and black as "we have ideals and they're the baddies". The US has a lot of negative things too like x40 guns per citizen [0] or a prohibitively expensive healthcare [1]

I'd also like to learn Mandarin, but that's on me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_systems_by_country...

Care to share why? I'd like to help, but the trouble is how am I sure that the money goes to the pockets of people who need it and not to some CEO's holiday?

tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofits in the US are required to file IRS form 990[1] which sheds some light on the financials of the organization. it doesn't mean that the organization is run efficiently or puts money to good use, but it does increase transparency[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_990

2. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/

Yeah, to be clear, I'm not demanding it of you. If you just happen to know of something then I'm hoping you'll share.

And yes, but slightly more. I want to know that the carbon credits are real, i.e. that I'm actually offsetting.

I'd like to see your sources on that.

"A semester or so" reasonably covers until September 2021. I can't see the world standing for social distancing that long, and as such covid will spread throughout the population just like Polio, TB and uncurable/vaccinable diseases of the past. IFR of covid for undergrads is about 0.002-0.005%, so 1 in 20k-50k.

Chance of death for a 20 year old in the UK is about 1 in 4k, so you're 5-10 times more likely to die for some other reason than covid.

Indeed by moving away from home you're less likely to infect older parents, so it's a rational call.

There are multiple vaccine candidates that have passed phase I trials, have demonstrated they produce antibodies in humans, and have demonstrated they are successful in animal challenge trials. The chance's are good that we have a working vaccine by end of year, and the chances are very good that we have one sometime next year.

In the unlikely event it turns out that we can't develop a vaccine in the near future, we'll have to just deal with the disease long term. If we try to keep the world economy shut down for more than a few months at a time, we'll kill more people than COVID would. And as other people have pointed out, college students are very low risk.

wow, really nice IMO. I'd be interested in seeing the spider and crawlers to do this, as it's something similar to other project I want to do.

Thanks! Mind sharing what kind of project?

I'm trying to scan the whole Android Store.

I just started Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden. I thought it was going to be more tech-heavy, but, at least the start, seems to be more on the memoirs side.

I use a markdown blog with Github Pages. This way I have my notes online and can access them every time I need them.

I came here with the hopes of finding something similar to GCP. Thank you!