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This site has historical details: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The WHO numbers in there are 3 days behind the directly reported numbers.

Second problem is that herd immunity has never been achieved before without a vaccine - even for non-mutating diseases that we’ve had for thousands of years - like measles and polio.

If it moves too fast it can overwhelm the healthcare system and many more people will die than otherwise. Even if the same number of people is infected but it can be spread out more over time, there would be hospital beds with respirators available vs. being sent home.

It hasn't in Australia - the Australia community spread rate is pretty much the same as everywhere else.

.7% (28/4000)

No he didn't because he reported the problem with that off-ramp to Tesla and to his relatives multiple times. So he knew very well it was a problem, yet still chose to play a game.

I know 5 Tesla families and we're all "Tesla only" owners. Ok, true I have an F350 as well but that only ever pulls an RV which is permanently attached to it. It's not a car-substitude in any way. And if a Cybertruck can pull it the F350 would go bye-bye the same day.

The other important thing is that we’re now pushing up against hardware limits again. You can get 256gb of memory for about $1000 but Windows 10 Home will only see 128GB of it. Same with CPU’s - Windows Home only supports 64 logical CPU’s but a 3990X is a 128-way CPU. Previously this used to...

Brave man! Do you ever eat at the same restaurant more than once?

On April 1, 2013 Elon tweeted something to the effect of: "We're going to have Tesla's first profitable quarter this month". If in the week following that tweet you bought $1000 of the deepest out-of-money 1-month TSLA call options, held them until the day of expiry, then converted it to TSLA...

I had a financial institution ask me to send a fax to them last year. I just told them: "Sorry, I can't - because I live in 2019". Then went somewhere else instead.

A TCP packet walks in to a bar and says “I want a beer”, barman says “you want a beer?” and TCP packet says “yes, a beer”

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The bartender says: “What’ll it be, boys?” The first mathematician: “I’ll have one half of a beer.” The second mathematician: “I’ll have one quarter of a beer.” The third mathematician: “I’ll have one eight of a beer.” The fourth...

I told number 5 to a group of friends when we were all 13 or 14 years old. One guy took incredible offense to it - said: “That’s disgusting!”. And "I never expected that from you!". Then stormed off and didn't want to sit with us for the rest of the year. I'm still baffled by his response to this day.

I got passed that one by promising to do a purple chrome wrap on my CyberTruck ;)

Sure but that's only because 0x0C (10) is a round decimal number. My point was that 10 itself is not otherwise a very naturally occurring number. We don't often buy or use 5 or 10 of anything, unless it's something artificially constrained to fit in with decimal or metric. Our world is full of...

Base 8 or 16 is much simpler. Humans can instinctively do multiplication but not division. The reason for that is base 10 is horrible for division - if I ask you to slice a pizza into 10 equal pieces it will lead to amusing results without pre-measurement. Slice it into 8 (or 16) though and...