The legacy of public health experts advocating social distancing
Daniel Lemire
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Computer science professor at the University of Quebec (TELUQ), open-source hacker, and long-time blogger. 👨💻
Western governments deliberately exported dangerous viruses and technology to allow China's military virology laboratory in Wuhan to design new, more dangerous viruses. Canada contributed Ebola samples, shipped directly from Canada by Air Canada.
Presenting our Node.js work In Kilkenny. We made URL parsing 5 times faster (as of Node.js 20).
The US workforce participation rate (how many people are employed) is back to where it was in the 1970s.
Recently, a British MP stood in parliament to bring attention to the fact that the UK has massive unexplained excess mortality. There is a sustained 10% excess mortality. You have to go back to WW2 to observe such a catastrophe.
The number of transistors in our CPUs has been rising exponentially without pause. The cost of transistors has been falling continuously.
Source: IEEE Spectrum (2022)
The Jewish community has not yet recovered the losses due to the Holocaust.
