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Apr 28, 2020Liked by Vicki Boykis

Re: supply chain. You may have come across it already, but this person's updates have been going for a couple of months and are often a good read: https://www.reddit.com/r/supplychain/comments/g9kp1a/covid19_update_tuesday_28th_april/

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Apr 25, 2020Liked by Vicki Boykis

I've also found myself paying more attention to local news (FB, news articles & videos) and actually reading Hebrew for a change. I'm now more willing to dive into the source material to understand what guidelines have changed or what BB said, rather than waiting for some incomplete English translation.

Also, in case you haven't seen this R-inspired coloring page by Allison Horst (does this error also come up in Python?): https://twitter.com/allison_horst/status/1241181785049841665

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I've seen that! It's beautiful.

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Re: Prime Now - Whole Foods delivery and Amazon delivery via Prime Now have different delivery slots and I've found the Amazon ones have better availability, especially when you check out early/mid-morning. I've reliably been able to get a Prime Now/Amazon slot almost every weekend so far. There's a lot of overlap in inventory too, plus Prime Now/Amazon has some of the cheaper Amazon house brands.

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>I have become extremely interested in logistics. My most-visited sites are now Instacart and Amazon Prime. For the first few weeks, I tried using Amazon Prime now for Whole Foods delivery, but then stopped completely because it completely stopped working.

living on top of Whole Foods pays huge dividends here. we’re very close to a store of food; the round trip is small

the word “store” is interesting. i wonder if the commercial association people typically bring to it mostly came later

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living on top of Whole Foods is the edge computing of domestic supply chain operations

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>This is a weird, extraordinary time, and even though I’m probably one of the most pro-privacy people out there (I did write this), there is no room for discussions about privacy when we’re trying to meet our basic socialization needs, in my opinion.

civil liberties are always most tested in crisis. this could easily be an argument for passing the Patriot Act (“there is no room for discussion when American lives are at risk”). i‘m not so sure being for privacy is something you can put on the shelf temporarily

you should do a piece on the contact tracing armistice between aapl and goog

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I think the difference here is that terrorism (for whatever definition of the term) was a manufactured crisis, a very ad-hoc and knee-jerk response to a single tragedy, the effects of which we are still feeling today. Here, we have the equivalent of four 9/11s worth of people dying across the country every day, for the past month.

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you’re claiming there have been 360,000 deaths in the US attributed to COVID-19. this is wildly false. it’s not a fourth of this number. seems like you’re engaging in your own knee-jerk response here

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3,000 deaths on 9/11; up to over 30k deaths per day from covid https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily

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Sorry, 30k cumulative* deaths. So you're right, it's not quite the same. But the impact is still much larger and felt every day.

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i don’t really want to get into a debate about how to compare the threat of suicide terrorism in a nuclear age to previously unknown viruses spreading pandemics. they’re both incredibly serious natsec issues which require risk management optimized for low-probability, highly catastrophic black swan outcomes. the point is that institution’s always opportunistically claim that they create special exceptions to civil liberties which are supposed to be inalienable and permanent in the West

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Agree to disagree on this one :)

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