This would have been the perfect year for driverless cars as people are trying not to breath the same air.

I agree with this statement. At my workplace those are the only people raving about Go.

I was actually thinking in some cases maybe an employee made a boneheaded decision to make it easier to work on things from home. Probably not what happened here since we're talking about Github. I vote boredom for this one.

Plus fuel...unless you weigh nothing.

Bingo. This is what I came here to say. If we spent more time developing treatments or vaccines for coronaviruses, it would be a small leap to resolving this one similar to the flu vaccines developed yearly for the newest most common strains. The previous encounter we had with them was deadly, but didn't blow up like this one and everyone lost interest. Just a little preparation over the more than a decade we had since the last scare would have saved us all of or most of this crap we're dealing with today. I mostly blame the governments for not funding this kind of research enough since you can't expect the private sector to do something without a clear path to profit.

I understand the concerns about privacy invasion, but if you are concerned about being traced after the pandemic is over, just uninstall the app. The only huge problem for me would be if the government made it compulsory to have the app on your phone like some oppressive countries have done with other apps and root certificate authorities.

To the people saying this will enrich Apple's and Google's data about you and who you interact with, they already know anything this would tell them and more.

I assume you read the NY Post article that's the first result. I don't see where it shows the columnist is a data scientist or statistician. Could it be that this is just an opinion piece? I too am not an expert, but I would say you're assuming we stay locked up for the rest of the year which isn't realistic and that all of the unemployed people right now for certain have nothing to come back to when their respective industry re-opens. I'm not ignoring the whole identity thing, but to be frank, they can't take results from a normal year of unemployment and compare it to a year of special circumstances unemployment and call it apples to apples. Feel free to come back here and say you told me so next year.

I've seen what loss of expertise does first hand when HR basically cuts everyone above a certain compensation level regardless of how it leaves everyone scrambling. It took over 4 years to feel fairly confident we have our crap together again. It's not pretty and I don't wish it on anyone.

I've seen that most of the jobs I have interviewed for were geared just like the things mentioned in the article. My biggest problem is that while I do think about possible questions and answers ahead of the interview, I inevitably get asked something I can answer, but it's not likely I would come up with that answer within the allotted time for the interview. I'll overthink questions, end up going down a rabbit hole I probably shouldn't have and I feel like I come across as not prepared when in fact I did spend a lot of time getting myself prepped.

The thing is, most of these questions do not reflect my ability to do the job so much as my ability to fit in with the company. While I think that's also important, I would do much better if they focused on the skills part and asked scenarios that could happen on the job. I've become better at tooting my own horn because if I don't no one will, but I still don't feel right doing it because that just not how I was brought up. I'm proud of my abilities, but I'd rather you see them in action than I just spout off nearly unverifiable claims.

These companies always justify their existence with the same crap politicians use to achieve the end goal of surveillance of everyone. They will saying it's to get the bad guys doing high crimes. We all know they really want to use it to find dissidence and conduct fishing expositions on people they "don't like" for any reason.

On another note, it's probably incorrect to say those servers have logs on them since any company good at privacy doesn't keep logs that might expose the private thing by default.

Interesting read, but depressing as hell. I have never read into the Great Depression with this level of depth. I mostly just knew what I learned in high school which characterized it as bad with examples, but seeing an overview like this helps you better wrap your head around what was really going on for most people.

Can you tell this is a tech community? How could this ever be helpful to an average person?

Storing location specific risk levels only increase the chances someone figures out who you are. I'm honestly not following your logic. Are you suggesting that someone being tested is wondering around in public waiting for results, then they suddenly find out they are positive and you see on your phone 10 meters ahead there's danger?

Yep, this is exactly what people seem to be forgetting. The implementation designed by Google and Apple as I have heard it described has far more privacy than any app you install that gives your discounts while tracking your every movement. Maybe the hangup is on who can access the data and not so much that the data is being collected?

The companies that are OK with this are already allowing it. I'm sure if the company you're working for doesn't like this, they will find another "unrelated" reason for your termination.