You my friend need to study up on your queueing theory. Your fundamental flawed assumption is that the time it takes to die is identical to that that it takes to recover, but it doesnâ(TM)t seem that way. Those that die tend to go quickly whereas this virus seems to take a very long time to clear. Letâ(TM)s use an example, say there is a disease that takes 2 weeks to recover if you are going to recover and 1 week to die if you are going to die and that 100 new people get infected per week After the first week 10 people die, 0 recover completely, by your metric the death rate would be 100% Now the next week 90 people recover but 10 more die, now the death rate by that calculation is 18%, closer to the real rate but still much higher. Every week it gets lower and lower until it converges on the real rate. There is no indication yet that we have reached that convergence with Coronavirus

I bet Captain Murphy sent them there so that Sparks could collect on their life insurance.

Was expecting 0 hard evidence or actual citations, and was not disappointed. I know facts and reality are the archenemies of Republicans, but here is some actual you know, evidence, showing that your guy is full of shit. https://krugman.blogs.nytimes....

It very much is about money, if you read the article you would see that the biggest drops are in women 30 years of age, women(and their partners) who are facing crippling student debt, housing costs, and health care costs. Costs are certainly one of the reasons women aren't having as many children.

More precisely, smartphones combined with Amazon killed them. Internet shopping before the smart phone became ubiquitous wasn't really as big of a competitor to brick and mortar because if you wanted to browse then buy you had to go to the store, find what you wanted, note it down, then go home and order it and *maybe* you could save a little money. Enter the smart phone and now you can you can browse at the store, then quickly check online to see if you can find it cheaper.

Apple also has no qualms about promoting the crap out of something, then if it doesn't stick quickly deprecating and removing it, which can mean often times having to re-write entire apps because you bought into the Apple hype about a particular framework and it being the "future" of that kind of dev on mac. I ported a bunch of legacy stuff to Apple's "new" video editing/playback framework(whose name escapes me, this was a while back) only to have that framework totally scrapped and a completely new one put in its place.

Can you create an algorithm that is sufficiently hard so that coins don't flood the market but sufficiently energy efficient that we don't roast ourselves to death from greenhouse gasses mining computer money? I am opposed to crypto from a purely environmental standpoint, I think there are better things humanity could be spending its limited resources on than a bunch of calculations that prove you did a bunch of calculations.

Not to mention the electronic exchange of dollars does not require massive amounts of natural resources....

Electricity consumption ensures that it cannot be created without cost, thereby preventing anyone from artificially increasing the supply.

Costs that are not only paid by the person doing bitcoin transactions, but paid for by all of humanity through increased natural resource usage and carbon emissions...

They actually are creating problems not only for consumers but for manufacturers and retail outlets as well. I think a lot of people are missing the asymmetric risk aspect of what these things are doing. Most retail outlets have relatively generous return policies meaning that bots buying up tons of these items assume almost no risk, if they can't scalp them they simply return them for a full refund.

Meanwhile retail outlets and especially manufacturers are stuck in a shitty situation. They can order/produce more to meet "demand"(even though the bots may still be able to sap up all the supply) but if they overshoot they simply cannot return the "unused" product for a full refund, they have to sit on the unsold inventory until it sells(if it does).

So when it comes to automation replacing jobs, why does the list of things we need more of never include "birth control"? If less humans are needed to handle current workloads, wouldn't one of the coping mechanisms be well, less humans? Maybe because it's not PC and people will accuse you of "genocide", but I think birth control is our last best hope(it's also why the only charities I ever donate to are ones that include birth control, it's not my fault if you cannot breed responsibly, I just want to make sure you have that option)

Apple's clown servers

Come now, I don't think Apple runs Windows Server

The people can also just switch platforms, well before Twitter there were shadowy forums in Japan where people who wanted to kill themselves in a group could congregate and plan their final exit. I remember as far back as 2003 reading about a group of people(at least 5 IIRC) who found each other using one of these services who all agreed to sit in a car together and inhale exhaust until they died.... Not sure why people in Japan find committing suicide easier if they do it with other people(or in a famous place, I've been to Japan's "suicide forest" and found a skeleton), I guess its less lonely....