Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Anything resembling a "transhuman" won't be possible without post-singularity technologies. (In before "no true transhuman" fallacy.)

Quarantine disrupts internal clocks. The disease designated "COVID-19" by the WHO might disrupt internal clocks, but that's not what the piece is about.

You would prefer the more technically correct headline "It's Official: SpaceX Is Not a 'No-Go' To Launch NASA Astronauts On Crew Dragon Spaceship"?

the difficulty will decrease to encourage participation

What a fucking cancer.

Is there any instance of Mozilla ever having reverted a change due to user feedback? They seem to suffer from GNOME syndrome.

10 RHCoin have been transferred to your wallet.

3: Closing borders and instituting quarantine periods on any arrivals.

This step is obvious to anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together, yet every major government (including those down under) waited until the virus had arrived in their own country before doing so.

Why?

The Agriculture Department and the C.D.C. emphasized that "there is no evidence that pets play a role in spreading the virus in the United States." Other experts agree that people should not start looking at their cats with suspicion.

Gee that sounds familiar...

"No evidence of human to human transmission."

"Closing your borders is racist."

"Hug a Chinese tourist."

I think I'll stick to the precautionary principle, thanks.

So Snowden should have told his spook bosses that he thought domestic warrantless wiretaps on U.S. citizens might be at odds with the 4th amendment and surely they would have realized the errors of their ways and started operating within the bounds of the law?

It's pretty obvious that the only thing keeping Mozilla afloat is Google's money, which Google is happy to pay. Propping up something resembling "competition" helps Google deflect some amount of anti-trust attention. It's even better when the competition Google is funding is on a trajectory to alienate ALL of its users (though if Firefox actually dips under 2% of market share that might be so low that they no longer provide Google with meaningful cover).

What a shitshow.

Did you stock up on hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, and toilet paper back then? No? Then you were just as complacent about this as the national governments throughout the world.

This is the most idiotic "thought" I've seen posted on /. in a very, very long time, and I browse at -1.

And even then, most people were expecting this would be like SARS, where it died off because people weren't contagious until they were symptomatic.

Ah, now I understand why you think the lack of response was justified. You've apparently never heard of the precautionary principle. The optimal way to avoid risk is to assume that something is dangerous until proven safe. Just because a long-incubating, highly contagious virus is unknown in recent memory, that's not a justification for responding to a novel outbreak as though it couldn't possibly present a new threat.

World leaders should be familiar with the precautionary principle. A 12 year old who has played Pandemic / Plauge Inc would have seen the inadequacy of the containment strategy of national governments. You don't have to be a member of the epidemiology community to have seen the risk. Jesus Christ.

Why did every government in the world wait until the virus had spread to their country before closing their borders / requiring quarantine for arrivals? Were they afraid that restricting travel would hurt their economy? Do they think that was a good decision in hindsight?

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that anyone entering the country from abroad —Israeli citizens and foreign nationals alike — must self-quarantine for 14 days.

Those foreign nationals who are unable to demonstrate to Israeli border authorities that they will be able to self-quarantine for two weeks will not be allowed to enter the country.

"This is a difficult decision, but it is necessary to protect public health — and the public health comes before everything," Netanyahu said in a video statement on Monday.

Nobody could have stopped this from entering the US.

Not with that attitude, that's for damn sure.

Isn't this exactly why Dr. McCoy refused to use them?

Also, how can we know that our "self" survives sleep? Maybe our awareness actually ends permanently and an entirely separate awareness with our memories and personality wakes up the next day.