I think OP means embedded links and other services that spawn a browser tab, and that make a clean hyperlink hard to acquire. Also, if you want to avoid MS search results, duckduckgo is just about the last browser I'd use given their ties to MS, and how they preferentially return MSN-wrapped search results that force app download to even view.

Technically, you pay to turn on the headlights, on every car.

I'll show myself out.

So how's your lawn doing, this summer? Mine's great, the neighborhood kids all grew up, and taught their own children to respect other people's lawns.

Nah, they thought it was just Voodoo.

The Korean response is impressive. It did an amazing job at initial containment so they could ensure their health care system stabilizes while everyone learns the scope of the problem. Unfortunately, the goal of actual containment is now known to be impossible unless they isolate themselves globally, for years, while the rest of the world attains herd immunity. The game changed on them.

As a result, while Korea did an amazing job, it is also no longer an endgame plan. The other side of the coin of succeeding at initial containment means they are also further from herd immunity. Local containment in Korea just means that their highly susceptible population will be re-infected once isolation and social distancing is lifted. They will have to carefully manage that. Their experience to date will greatly help them manage the disease, no doubt, allowing them to tune the level of social distancing to ensure their health care system is not overwhelmed while they progress toward herd immunity.

Make no mistake - there is no scenario short of crippling isolation where Korea is not re-infected. And there isn't much they can do to lower the death rate other than providing good care, leaving a certain floor on the total number of deaths they will likely incur by the time herd immunity is attained. Sadly, the vast majority of their infections and deaths are in the future, and there isn't much they - or anyone - can do to prevent it.

Bottom line - yes, the US response has been miserable to date, but using the per-capita Korean death rate as a goal doesn't really have any meaning anymore.

I'm scratching my head on that one. It seems like you could have said "for an asparagus eater", for all the difference it makes to your argument.

Oh, I get it. It is a proxy for a lower bound.

Mortality rate of all injected seems like a bogus stat? Seems like you should only concern yourself with final outcomes, when calculating mortality rate.

Only since last century? Pshhaw, I'm here since last millennium. Get off my lawn.

I know you're an AC, but lest some reader thinks your reply is insightful:

* "immuno-compromised" includes people taking immuno-supressants, such as those with Crohn's, Ankylosing Spondylitis, etc.
* some people attending may have a newborn or elderly at home, and they could take a new infection back home with them

ah, it's the ol' Slashdot read-a-roo

That is a disturbingly insightful description of modern engineering practice. Good managers can flip that though - put someone with confidence in that DOORS role, and tell them not to sign off on a requirement unless they would be prepared to testify in court that they believed it was righteous. And teach them how to sprinkle a few discoverable emails here and there to document any pressure put on them to accept bullshit. Of course, that requires a manager who is prepared to be a human shield for his/her team. Sadly that's something in short supply these days, but I'd like to think theres a few of us left. Maybe not at boeing though. I'm starting to preferentially book Airbus flights, lately.

Do we say "username checks out" here, or is that only a Reddit thing?

I find it increasingly hard to understand what value people get from trolling on slashdot, now. I mean, the value proposition has always been questionable, but now that /. is well past its heyday, the comment sections are a ghost town. There's not really anyone around to give trolls the attention they crave.

Hold up. You are claiming that an application of De Morgan's Law on that simple SQL query sped up your run-time by 360x?

I don't have much experience with SQL, so take this as just a request for info with merely a tinge of scepticism (rather than full-on scepticism.) But:

(assuming 'a' and 'b' both represent SQL queries)

* Your 'orig' looks like it would often get away with just 1 query (i.e, if 'a' proves to be not-null, then no point querying 'b')
* Your 'new' looks like it would always perform 2 queries

Which leads me to the following observations:

* 'orig' actually looks to be more performant that 'new'
* Even if you just accidentally swapped your telling of 'orig' and 'new' in your comment here, still at best you are looking at a 2x speed up, not the 360x speedup you are claiming.