Socialism != communism. Socialism != surveillance. Socialism != restricted freedom of expression.

What's the correct strategy? Building up a huge stockpile of nukes?

So would you then suggest the opposite? De-modernizing government services will no doubt help out the poor quite a bit. /s

Sure, a new disease can potentially start anywhere. The real concern is with respect to spread rate, not the exact origin. If a new disease started at the Pike Place market, it would spread around the world very quickly because as you say, it's a major tourist attraction. If the market was in the middle of a tiny village with no tourists, then that has a lower spread rate. It might never go much further than that one village.

As was posted earlier on this thread, Australia and New Zealand have much lower death rates compared to countries that permitted the disease to spread around quite easily. Mandatory quarantines do work, and the data proves it.

Omicron might be less harmful, which is of course a good thing, but being a bit cautious and making sure it's less harmful before letting people run amok again is also a good thing. Which is better, being cautious for a couple of weeks for no good reason, or happily letting a new variant run wild before we have effective treatments for it?

Or if it came from a wet market, 50 years ago you wouldn't find one in the middle of a developed city which has frequent air travel all over the world.

If countries adopted a strategy of mandatory quarantines, then we wouldn't have a pandemic. Which is better? An inconvenient two week quarantine for hundreds or the suffering and death of millions?

But 50 years ago we didn't have cheap air travel, and so the pandemic wouldn't have happened in the first place. 50 years ago, more countries were less developed, and so a disease that might have started in a wet market wouldn't travel far beyond the city that it originated from.

Can you cite the document that claims that the Loom project was supposed to be finished 3 years ago? The earliest reference I can find shows that the project began 4 years ago. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rp...

The key difficulty is maintaining full backwards compatibility and working with all the tooling that has been developed over the years. Golang has the luxury of being new, and so new features can be added quickly without breaking anything. In the early days of Java, features were being added at a much more rapid pace then they are now. The slower pace is just due to the maturity of the language.

Is your concern that all these thread-based tasks don't know how to coordinate their activities? The Loom project is also adding a structured concurrency feature, which helps keep track of all the sub tasks.

The Loom project relies on the existing fork/join pool, which is also heavily used by all the popular Java async frameworks. When a virtual thread needs to block, it transfers stack state to a heap-allocated continuation object, and so growth is managed by the existing GC facilities. In essence, Loom is automating the process of converting thread-based code to async-based code.

Even for people who don't go out in remote areas, this will still be a huge selling point. Just look at the number of SUVs out there that will never go off road. There's something reassuring about owning something that's there "just in case" you ever need it. Also consider electric cars and "range anxiety". Most ICE cars will never exceed the range offered by electric cars, but you never know when that extra range will come in handy, or that you know there's a always fuel station nearby.

This seems to suggest that the earlier reply remarking that Bing "sucks" is due to the fact that it's just not being used often enough by the user. I find that switching search engines from time-to-time is good for discovering new results, bypassing any special "learnings".

Another question that needs to be asked: Will a booster cause you to be 3 days sick, or will the protection from the earlier vaccination mean that your immune system adapts more quickly? I never got sick from a flu vaccine, possibly because my immune system is already trained to deal with the flu, due to previous infections and vaccinations.