Its crazy that people prior to this thought this was some kind of conspiracy when it was so blatantly obvious who blew it up. Ask anyone working in commodities trading who blew it up, they all knew exactly who it was. The US had the most to gain and they even told us on 2 different occasions thats they would do it.
Nonsense, they have been tracking this thing since before it hit US airspace, through Alaska and Canada, they know exactly where it is and can take it out at any time they want.
"And, I'm sorry, how long have we been tracking it. I'm not going to go into all the details because I don't want to reveal sensitive information. But I will say we have been tracking it for some time. And we have had custody of it the entire time it has been over U.S. airspace, entered the continental United States airspace a couple of days ago."
I can believe that they've been tracking it for awhile, but it is unlikely that they can easily shoot it down. We probably literally don't have the technical capacity to do so reliably at this time.
If you Google part of his comment and add "Chinese spy balloon" to it you can find a plethora of articles. If I could choose between his and your petty little comment I would take his every time.
I don’t believe it is. I’ve been on a similar regimen minus the metformin for some time and the supplements he takes and the formula followed is fairly well researched with dozens of bio hackers across the world doing similar. The metformin alone is known to reverse aging significantly. Even myself just taking Nicotinamide Ryboside I have noticed a massive difference in everything from skin complexion to eye site to energy levels and improved cognition.
This is one of those things that just drives people out of tech and leaves the ones still in it super frustrated. So many buzzwords and PR non-sense from non-tech mgmt.
The money for devs in Switzerland is in:
1. Electronic Trading - Java / C / Python
2. Pharma
If you are trying to optimize your take home pay, first stop is changing canton to one with lower income Tax ie: Zug, but would look into getting out of the Pigeon hold that is Android especially if you plan on staying in Switzerland.
In 2010 I was working at a large hotel / convention center in Nashville, at about 8pm we were preparing for a massive event where a company had bought out one of the venues, the entire hotel was booked solid. In the days prior to this, we had torrential downpours and heavy rain but this was normal, until it wasnt. Out of nowhere we get reports that the underground tunnels in the hotel used for employees to get around were taking in water and it was quickly determined that the cumberland river had overflown after the army core of engineers put a damn down and could not get it back up. I cant begin to explain the chaos that ensued there with that many people and the hotel essentially being on a dead end. 3k guests, likely more than that in employees, all scattering to get to higher ground and out of a bottle neck. Hotel was safely evacuated but the entire place was underwater by the next day. That said, the "orientation" section in this article I think is absolutely necessary.
How often does this happen? Once in a life time? This is the kind of stuff that makes you go nutty. Of course you _can_ try to prepare for everything and anything, but does it actually make sense to worry about being in a flash flood like that? I doubt it.
"I don't have to worry about $PARTICULAR_DISASTER_SCENARIO because I've already precomputed a strategy for that scenario by ruminating about it."
!=
"I don't have to worry about $PARTICULAR_DISASTER_SCENARIO because I'm generally organized and well-situated above a certain threshold: If you picked a random disaster scenario $x out of a hat, chances are pretty good that I'd already be equipped to handle it."
P.S. Not trying to "counter-argue", just sharing a different perspective.
Indeed, big companies often do disaster prepareness exercises from a business continuity point of view. I remember doing one 15 years ago at a Big 4 accounting firm. Failing everything (including my little bit) across to secondary site in another city, and it had to be done by someone other than me (since I was the main person responsible for my system).
As they say, you should always check you can restore your backups.
Once you've actually successfully navigated any particular disaster scenario, you will try to avoid situations that look like they could contribute to a repeat. My wife once had a laptop stolen out of the trunk of a car; she is now hyperaware of where and how she parks and what is visible through the windows.
The orientation section doesn't seem incredibly inconvenient nor costly. It's basically just establishing situational awareness in an unfamiliar place. What are you getting kept from by doing it? A dozen extra minutes of terrible hotel TV?
On the topic of flash floods esp. when traveling; I make a conscious effort to not park/stay anywhere liable to flash-flood, and that requires some situational awareness in the sense of at least knowing your surroundings and the area's geography/climate/seasonal weather patterns. We recently narrowly avoided getting caught in [0], and that was with us making a conscious effort to not spend too much time in any of the low-lying areas, not even for a day hike - we'd always park somewhere relatively high and simply avoided hiking any of the low regions. That storm happened just oneday after we were there passing through that exact spot. The tourists staying at that popular hotel probably didn't think about how they're staying on the floor of an enormous desert valley in a monsoon-y time of year. By failing to prepare you're preparing to fail...
>What are you getting kept from by doing it? A dozen extra minutes of terrible hotel TV?
I don't go to a hotel to be in my room. If I am traveling there is a reason to do so.
All in all I think this paranoid fear of hotels and travel is something specific to US. I've never had issues with security in a hotel or even given it a a thought. In normal world you don't need to worry about this kind of stuff.
My biggest worry in hotel rooms these days is how to rig the A/C to stay on while I'm out.
> My biggest worry in hotel rooms these days is how to rig the A/C to stay on while I'm out.
Heated blanket on the thermostat? Or do they have timed-shutoffs or door-key based systems that cuts off the electricity when you leave? What do you do then?
Most of them just have a slot for your room key to turn on the electricity and/or A/C, but many times it is a physical which i.e. it doesn't care what gets stuffed into the hole and often there is some kind of brochure that can be folded/ripped into card shape to trip the switch.
Hotels routinely give me two cards when I check in--and certainly will if I ask. I usually stick one in my wallet and one in my bag or whatever so I'm less likely to accidentally leave the card in the room.
Charging devices, leaving the TV on to fake occupancy as the article suggests.
Also AC is much more efficient if it keeps the room at a stable temperature rather than letting it heat up and then cooling it down again. I never set it that low myself but some hotels don't have a temp setting, that's true
AC might be comparatively more efficient at cooling the room 1 degree rather than 5, that doesn't mean that keeping that temperature for 8 hours will consume less energy than cooling it once you come back in.
If it were really overall more efficient it would be cheaper for the hotel owner to just keep it on all the time, but clearly it's not.
It really varies. Some places have the bare minimum of air conditioning to say they have it, but underbuild the system such that there’s no chance of recovering if you get back during the day while it’s still sunny&hot outside.
The variety of situations in which being confident in my escape plan would be helpful is pretty high. The effort required to review a basic escape plan ("follow the route mapped out on the inside of my door") is pretty low.
I don't really need to know the odds of each specific reason I might need to get outside to determine it's worth a short walk to the end of the hall to confirm I know which door leads to the stairs and where I end up outside once I go down them.
TL;DR: he got hired as a security officer for Morgan Stanley's WTC offices, and he made the employees regularly practice evacuations.
> Rescorla wanted the company out of the building because he continued to feel, as did Hill, that the World Trade Center was still a target for terrorists and that the next attack could involve a plane crashing into one of the towers.[17] He recommended to his superiors at Morgan Stanley that the company leave Manhattan office space, mentioning that labor costs were lower in New Jersey and that the firm's employees and equipment would be safer in a proposed four-story building. However, this recommendation was not followed because the company's lease at the World Trade Center would not terminate until 2006. At Rescorla's insistence, all employees (including senior executives) then practiced emergency evacuations every three months.[18]
> After Dean Witter merged with Morgan Stanley in 1997, the company eventually occupied 22 floors in the South Tower and several floors in a building nearby. Rescorla's office was on the South Tower’s 44th floor.[4] Feeling that the authorities lost legitimacy after they failed to respond to his 1990 warnings, he concluded that employees of Morgan Stanley, which was the largest tenant in the World Trade Center, could not rely on first responders in an emergency and needed to empower themselves through surprise fire drills, in which he trained employees to meet in the hallway between stairwells and go down the stairs two by two to the 44th floor.[15] Rescorla's strict approach to these drills put him into conflict with some high-powered executives, who resented the interruption to their daily activities, but he nonetheless insisted that these rehearsals were necessary to train the employees in the event of an emergency. He timed employees with a stopwatch when they moved too slowly and lectured them on fire emergency basics.[15][18]
More about Rescorla's "epic death" — and his "epic life," as a "Celtic warrior," including legendary performance in combat as a young U.S. Army officer in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, written up in We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young — from the Washington Post shortly after 9/11: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/10/28/...
The more important thing is to have a state of mind where you are willing to recognize the early indicators that a situation is only going to get worse and take action to exit that situation.
Also, if you park a vehicle at the hotel try to avoid spots that would likely be blocked by fire engines.
Am I the only one that doesnt read these articles anymore? Its like they are continually trying to force covid down your throats in effort for it to still be a topic of relevance, and for what? Has the world not moved on?
Given that the EU and US are both seeing around 100,000 new cases daily, no, I don't think the world has moved on.
In the US and Canada (can't speak to other countries), we've collectively agreed to pretend that COVID has just disappeared and return to normalcy because we're tired of dealing with it, but in spite of pretending it's gone away people are still getting sick and dying from this disease every day.
I caught COVID for the first time in July and my "mild" case knocked me out for five days. It was the sickest I've been in ten years and I'm a fit, healthy thirty-something.
He didn't say covid disappeared. He says that he "moved on" aka thinks that covid is here to stay or at least we didn't found something to get rid of it in the near future.
I actually don't see anything in the OP's comment to indicate whether they are pretending COVID has gone away or accepted that it has become endemic, it's clear that we both interpreted their statement through our own biases.
If we take your more charitable interpretation, I still think it is fair to ask whether we are ok just accepting 100,000 new infections/day of a serious respiratory illness as a normal thing in the summer months, a time that we usually see lower infection rates for this type of illness. For every endemic disease, there is a number of infections that are considered acceptable and public health measures are taken to keep the real infection rates at or below that. I, for one, do not think 100,000 daily is an acceptable number of infections in the US and we should be speaking out to say so. We can collectively do more to bring that rate down, but we don't want to because we're tired of wearing masks on the bus and for some reason have tied protecting yourself personally to a political ideology. We can do better as a society and should be demanding as much from our leaders, not encouraging them to do less.
> we don't want to because we're tired of wearing masks on the bus and for some reason have tied protecting yourself personally to a political ideology.
This is so incredibly rude and dismissive. It's straight up bullying. It requires a serious amount of privilege to think people should hunker down in some kind of "new normal" like the die-hard zero covid people suggest.
Perhaps the vast majority of people are well aware of the actual risks of covid and have decided that there are thousands of problems in their life that have to to take priority over one single respiratory illness with a vaccine. To expect the entire world to live this kind of myopic covid-centric lifestyle for years on end with zero defined end-state is complete and utter nonsense. It is scary to me how long society managed to get fooled into playing along.
This might come as a shock to some of the more hard-core covid people but there exists millions of other problems in the world besides just COVID.
"Moved on" is an English idiom meaning "we don't think about it anymore". GP's interpretation was the correct one.
> a time that we usually see lower infection rates for this type of illness.
We're still mass-testing, which is drastically inflating the numbers compared to all other viruses, which we don't mass-test for. Nowhere near that many people are actually getting sick.
My elderly grandfather has never had COVID and is excited to get a new, updated shot. If he does get COVID, he has a pretty good chance of suffering a pretty severe illness. Maybe occasionally think about other people, and their varying life experiences, which may be radically unlike your own? It's a really great habit.
The recent “5 times higher deaths for the unvaccinated!!!” headline was a study the CDC cited that used predictive models to make the claim that you’re more likely to die being unvaccinated. They put a number on it of 5 times but it’s just estimates of what could happen, not what did happen.
There are no numbers that exist to back up your claim. Or post away with a source if you think it’s real.
