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Let's say a particular disease requires 80% of the population to be vaccinated to provide herd immunity (this percentage varies by disease). You are extremely unlikely to have 20% of the population have AIDS or otherwise be so immuno-compromised so that they cannot get a vaccine, so everyone is safe.

The anti-vaxxers come along and free-ride, and for 10+ years, they think the are brilliant -- their kids do not get these mythologized diseases! But one day, enough morons start thinking that, that you reach a tipping point, and only 75% are vaccinated. All of a sudden, an outbreak occurs, putting all the immuno-compromised at risk, as well as the other 20%+ children of anti-vaxxers. Many kids die or become very sick. Suddenly, the anti-vaxxers realize they were playing with fire, putting children at risk.

What don't you get about this?
> But I wonder to what degree insurers and businesses could affect the decision making: if you're not immunized, we won't cover your hospitalization; and refuse to hire people who's immunizations aren't up to date.

You can't do this in the United States ... because of Obamacare. Obamacare's prohibition on discriminating on pre-existing conditions allows health insurance companies to consider exactly five factors: tier (level of coverage), age, location, single or family, and whether you smoke cigarettes. All other factors are illegal. Prior to Obamacare, it was legal for companies to charge unvaccinated individuals more and inidivudals who exercised less.

Source: https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/
I don't really keep track of your comments, but your username and topic combination sounded familiar, so I checked to see if you were the same personn.

I think topical context with a commenter is relevant, just as my past remarks on China are. If someone wants to construe "refuse to reply to the content of arguments" (as opposed to replying on the basis of where someone lives) as bullying and harassment, so be it.

I don't deny that if you conform in China you have nothing to worry about. It's no warzone. But it is not a friendly country to those who are not conformists or are minorities, and may not toe the Party line.

As an example, the Uyghurs are a sizable group for whom are consistently oppressed by the government. This is not a distortion of any kind. We know about the intense surveillance (more intrusive than normal Chinese citizen surveillance), the "re-education camps", et cetera.

Direct experience can only serve to confirm or deny facts, it does not change them. It's also much harder for direct experience to be of any value without a free press to challenge government narratives.
Though it hasn’t happened yet, and there is no real plan and total disarray. It’s not a reassuring situation.
>I feel like the argument weakens when he compares countries. I'm looking at the railway maps of France and Japan thinking: 'this entire country is the size of a single, largeish US state'.

Not that old tired chessnut again.

First, all of Europe is connected by trains. You can go from any country to any country in EU by train -- if you wish so. That's equally large to the US (and the train lines even continue down to Moscow and further down to Beijing).

Second, it's not like you need to hook up all of the US or nothing. Where is a comparable and equally nice metro/train solution within a single small state (dozens of which are smaller than most European countries) or even within a city?

Even Chicago or Manhattan are worse than anything shown train/subway wise.
Spot on. Public transportation is obviously built where people are.
But doesn't that mean that kids who are too weak to get vaccines are going to carry diseases too?
Those do not affect TCP state machine parameters like RTO(min), ATO, and TLP timeout. These are internal to the kernel and are either static, or can only be set systemwide. For example the minimum delayed ack timeout in Linux is just 40ms and can't be changed except by recompiling the kernel. 40ms is a totally inappropriate number for ATO in a datacenter or other low-latency setting. Other numbers like RTO(min) are specified in RFCs as 200ms, again completely inappropriate in a low-latency setting.

QUIC also frees us from other outdated misfeatures of TCP such as timestamps in milliseconds when they should be in microseconds.
The best equivalent today is probably the older model MacBook Air (still in Apple's official line up) - new for 800 euros is the lowest Black Friday price around here.
The comic is basically "women have harder lives when they have low standards for the man they let knock them up."
Yet in practice, I’ve had the opposite experience.

In China, when you break some rule or law, the police are much more lenient and forgiving. First time offenders (of minor crimes) always just get warnings. Even if the law requires a fine or some punishment, most cops will let you go after a stern lecturing.

But in the US, once the bureaucracy kicks in, then you have to follow the letter of the law. There is very little compassion. It’s about punishment, not re-education.

Perhaps it’s different in Europe, but that’s my experience in China and the US.
That's relative, isn't it? Below average is effectively negative for most purposes. Contrary, the Root Mean Square of a sinusoid AC supply can't go negative, for example. Economy (or socio...) is maybe not that simple, but still based on a balance between giving and receiving. What's interesting then is the average of the slope: zero for AC pretty much by definition. While stability is important, growth is too, economically speaking, so the derivative would need to be normalized under an average, so we are back to square one.

That's to say, of course people can be on the decline.
>How often do people need to get from NYC to Syracuse?

For people living to Syracuse, tons of times. Equally many times with any EU train that connects e.g. Paris to a city within 50 or 100 or 200 miles.

>And if you built a train to Syracuse, what would you do once you got there (without a car)? The city is the centerpiece of a region with a million people, less than 1/6 of whom live inside the city?

If it's "a million people" it should be able to afford its own public transport connected to the train station, which answers the question "what to do there without a car".

It's not like there aren't places in Europe, Asia etc that are exactly like this...
Interesting that in Jerusalem he encountered Jews! Where were the "Palestinians"?
It seems a bit more complicated than that to me. In many cases Americans in at least some regions do want it, and even vote to fund it, but nonetheless the political & civil service machinery seems unable to actually deliver it. Especially, unable to deliver it for anything approximating a reasonable cost. See, for example, the way over budget and delayed NYC 2nd Ave Subway, or the California HSR. Some countries are able to build a single 400-mile HSR line in less than 30 years.
> Pure assertion.

It’s also what was asked for.

> What is Brexit doing to the economy in your view?
Why is this marked as a dupe? Past shows no other submissions. No moderator comment indicating what this is a dupe of. What is this a dupe of?
You might be able to discriminate against potential employees based on their obvious stupidity, but you might be on less certain ground when they claim it is a religious viewpoint?
The point is that it is not GRPR-compliant. It must be explicit opt-in, not tracking be default, which you must then opt-out of.
But won't work on any device at any screen size ("responsive design"). There's a way to do server-side rendering for image assets in this regard but the front-end devs in charge of this kind of thing rarely know how to set something like that up.
Regarding the receipt, one can always issue handwritten ones. It is a perfectly valid form of receipt, albeit tedious to issue.

I’ve paid with cash in many smaller shops and received handwritten receipts, one time after the receipt printer malfunctioned.
The TFT isn't totally horrible, but there aren't enough of them.
Thank you for replying. Do we have the infrastructure to compete with large shipping vessels? Part of my curiosity is the switch over that supposed to happen soon in diesel fuel. If the price of fuel increases, will it make manufacturing in a central continent preferable?
He commends it for managing to not have a power brick, despite its small size. He then criticizes the small size (not the power brick, at least as I'm interpreting it), saying that most users wouldn't mind it being much larger if it meant better specs.
This is definitely an interesting development - but in the spirit of trying to work out 'what can go wrong' with new technologies and services (something that the tech industry hasn't been doing a great job at), one idea I'd throw out there is that while good managers help and support their reports, bad managers may effectively end up controlling or telling their reports what to do, and having undue leverage over them.

It's hard to say whether that will happen in many cases here, but this does have the potential to set up lots of direct relationships with unusual power dynamics over time.
One time I had a tiny magnet inside one of my USB ports. Vexed me for several minutes.
When I was a child, and for generations preceding me, it was very common (almost universal) to seek out children with Chickenpox and to get your children infected with it (something like 95% of all adults alive today went through this ritual). The reasoning being that the childhood version of it is relatively mild while getting it fresh as an adult was potentially deadly. I think when I was growing up the guidance was to get your kids the Chickenpox between the ages of 5-9. You'll notice the CDC guidelines points out certain age ranges as being dangerous, but curiously for the rest it's not much of a big deal.

Since childhood infection was near universal, adults could easily take care of the children since none of them would likely get a new and potentially dangerous infection and for the children they got a week out of school and an itchy rash about as bad as a run-in with poison ivy -- another very common childhood right-of-passage in my part of the world.

The vaccine simply didn't exist and wasn't in common use until I was well into CDC "dangerous" territory, but I had already had the pox by then anyways.

Another anecdote, I have an adult uncle who didn't get Chickenpox as a child and ended up with it in his 30s, spent a spell in the hospital and had a very very rough time. I remember the discussions about it with my Grandmother where she was chastised for not having had him infected as a child properly.

The connection between Chickenpox and the Shingles wasn't even really understood until the late 50s or 60s and I don't believe it really started entering popular consciousness as a related disease until at least the late 80s though it was widely known as being a disease of the elderly. My guess is that most people still don't know that there even is a vaccine for it.

Point is, there are literally billions of people who've been through the childhood Chickenpox event, and it was the social norm until very recently to purposely infect your kids with the pox because there wasn't really much alternative and it was considered to be the safer practice.
Is the RL part very different from David Silver's UCL lectures?
I think a better metric would based on actual user behaviour rather than a simple count. For example, the number of posts or comments across the network, or the number of friend requests sent (new connections made). I still use Facebook quite a bit, but I've definitely become more of a consumer than a participant - I don't think my own status has been updated in months. It's basically become YouTube/Reddit, but with content based on people I actually know rather than what's popular.
So my dad worked in international development his whole life. A big part of it was helping deploy vaccinations to countries around the world. When he was a child in Bangladesh, 1 out of 3 kids died before age 5. Today it’s down to 1 in 25, thanks in large part of vaccination.

People in the third world, with vastly inferior education systems, understand the importance of vaccinations and are lining up to get them. So the idea that people in the first world are deliberately turning them down just blows my dad’s mind. In my view a sign of some serious cultural decay that this is happening. Some combination of declining trust in core institutions and a rise in pernicious individualism.
You need to be able to choose boss type. Perhaps according to Theories X, Y, and Z. ? :P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y
I think GP was dumbfounded by the mis-spelling of Venezuela than actually asking for more information.
We did have a block of inflation move through following the devaluation of the pound. It might be low now but the prices are still higher.
Repeating yourself doesn't make it sound any less ignorant. You are not a good parent in 2018 if you're intentionally getting your kid sick with chickenpox instead of getting them vaccinated instead.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/index.html

It is an ACIP recommended vaccine for at least a decade, which means all state Mediciad recipients can get it for free or for a low cost co-pay. There is no good reason why any child is getting chickenpox today.
I also have a very odd issue which I think has its root in the underlying firmware. I have an Dell Latitude E6520 notebook with a Intel Core i7 Sandy Bridge processor. Though I bought this laptop in 2013, it is still fast and works quite well even with Visual Studio / ReSharper.

Only one thing, it is sluggish as hell. Mouse clicks not responding, everything feels slow. Except when I undock it from the docking station and redock it again. Then you feel the fan spinning up, the CPU doing work, and everything becomes smooth. I checked the clock speed, its the same before and after docking.
There is nothing keeping the CPU busy either. Its like something is somehow preventing the system from executing efficiently until the system is re-docked.

The solution? I don't know, I might never find out. I will just keep redocking my laptop every time I boot Windows.
Maybe I am interpreting him too charitably, but I don't assume he has an agenda. I am wondering if the Wikipedia article needs to point out how the game theory works for those who are unfamiliar with such things.
I have, they have admitted it in public comments to me already.
> The worst part is that Yahoo innovated a lot

^ This!

Yahoo innovated a ton! Everything from the software infrastructure level (a few submissions to the Apache Big Data suite), to the hardware infrastructure level (data centers) to acquisitions (had they just made a mobile app of Flickr they would've had Instagram years before Instagram).

But yes, their biggest problem to me, seemed to be by far and large lack of leadership (e.g., the CEO turnover)

Disclosure: previously worked at Yahoo
I don't think it has to be that way. When I compare US politics to Germany Germany politics is much less vicious and they talk more about issues instead of the focus on character assassination and demonization of the "other" side as it's common in the US.
So for fun, I read this article to my child.
He just farted at me and giggled, maybe too meta.

Ps how do you get a 4 year old to lie still in an mri ?
What the Truman Show Can Teach Us About the Future of the Internet
I have a personal laptop that doesn't see much use (though I am using it right now, coincidentally). However, whenever I'm working on non-work projects, I use the personal machine to ensure that there's no question of copyright ownership.
Religious thinking never works
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We've just launched 6 new open-source projects at Top Hat in less than a week
Ask HN: How do US freelancers/ small companies(1-3 person) buy health insurance?
Sure but where’s the failed pizza delivering samurai or the mafia-backed punk skateboarder ;-)
The northeast US conurbation is one of the densest conglomerations of urban centres in the world. A proper high-speed rail system would take you from NYC to Philadelphia in less than an hour and to Boston or DC in a couple of hours. The ”US is so big and sparsely populated” excuse really doesn’t hold water.
You're right that the bigger picture is the proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, where "we" (US + UK at least) are on the Saudi side, with Russia backing Iran. This is fought is at least Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and may blow up further at any time.

It's hard for me to see which side is the biggest monster. Perhaps Iran is the aggressor and Saudi + allies are just fighting back, I don't know.

Note that Israel is a strong part in the anti Iran front, which means Saudi Arabia and Israel are quite friendly today. It is a new era in the Middle East, for better and for worse.
I think for (1), it's completely fair for a company to investigate the potential financial motivations of their critics (for example, people were not this upset when Google pointed out that the "search rankings are rigged" "independent" agencies were actually just Yelp and Microsoft paying for an attack.) I think the fact that a supposedly grassroots organization of protestors received a slew of money from a variety of significant liberal donors does point out that this isn't as grassroots as people think.

There was so much else that FB did wrong (Stamos admitted in his WaPo opinion piece that Sheryl was upset at him for telling the board about Russia and that PR pieces about that were obfuscated). Why is the media so focused on what seems to me to be a routine investigation which even they engage in? This just doesn't seem like a winning argument to me.
Read them a book
That wasn't the question I asked, I asked this:

"...what is the failure rate?"

I didn't ask what the "success" rate was, and there's a huge difference because without details 97% is a nearly meaningless number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem
It's a dupe of this discussion from three days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494345
But closer to the truth than not.
>Yes, there are examples like this. Collateral damage will happen in war.

There's no war declared, and this is just random people (as far as the UN is concerned) deciding and sending drones to kill other people -- and in any case, without any due process, official declaration of war, or anything of the sort, and in sovereign countries at that.

>National security has always been thus and always will be so until there is no such thing as a nation.

It's not "national security", it's just might. If national security was an excuse for such an act, then the nations those innocent bystanders died in the strike would be OK to send missions to kill those responsible as well, and why not, 20-100 "collateral damages" as well.

>It is tragic and always will be

Doesn't seem to be perceived that tragically. A few people dying in some mass shooting in some US city gets 100x the media coverage and public tears...

It looks more like "yeah, whatever, they're third worlders anyway".
This is a brilliant equivocal take :p
We Pakistanis tried to control Afghan's politics and meddle in their domestic affairs. And it has come back to haunt us and thankfully, (at surface level) it seems Government and masses in Pakistan have realized not to meddle in another Nation's affairs.

Hopefully Saudis (and Iranians) realize this as well - let Yemen be, provide humanitarian aid to them and allow dust to be settled there. only Yemenis can solve problems of Yemen.

Look at Somalia - 20-25 years of bloody internal conflict but now they are starting to turn a corner. Had other Nations meddled with Somalia in the extent similar to Afghanistan or Yemen, it would have been much worse off.
Anybody have recommendations for fitness/sleep trackers that respect privacy (e.g. keep data local, doesn't need the cloud)?
xubuntu versions running perfectly on my Thinkpad E550 (and Desktop) for many years already.
Raspbian on my PI's and ubuntu on my beaglebone black.
Don't settle for the provided software configuration. Settle for the open tool that is made for support.
HN has fault habdlers in place for accounts with karma going too far below zero. It was a hellban at -13 for my old account. I did keep writing for weeks before I noticed, the exercise of which was still rewarding in a way, and I still receive few answers now. Sometimes I suspect mods to the visibillity. I reinterpretted rangeban to mean banned beyond a certain range (as opposed to how it is commonly used: the ban of a whole range of possible identities).
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/

Basically, it covers companies with some legal entity in the EU.
This is pretty much it. The political class needs conflict to have purpose and reason to exist.
So use an external HD! A 2.5" usb3 SSD will fit in your pocket. Comes with the added advantage that you save the copy step of transferring files to colleagues.

Additionally depending on OS / hardware similarity at each end you might even be able to make it bootable and carry your toolset everywhere too.
Not a feasible solution at all...
Pretty much everybody born before 1984 had it (I've seen numbers as high as 95% of all adults). It was common practice to infect your children with it during a certain "safe" age range where it was just a miserable week long rash rather than a life-threatening event. There was no vaccine until then and it definitely wasn't common practice to use it on the childhood vaccine schedule until much later.

Most adults having children now may not even know the vaccine exists and just assume their children will have to go through a week of the pox to get them immunity.
Is that really a conspiracy theory then? Israel unquestionably wields disproportionate lobbying power in the US.
Definitely agree. Japan’s social and cultural norms are a lot more stifling than China’s. But both are more stifling than the America’s.
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Disregarding the fact that this is the Economist who don't usually publish such drivel:

You don't have to be a short-seller to hate Facebook.
The problem with that map is that the annual average obscures the wide seasonal variation, which was the main thrust of my comment. The high winds come during the dry season, then die down during the bulk of the wet season.
Hi there! Thanks for the info. I'd like to use Google Cloud in the EU - do you have a recent reference for this? I googled but could only find more generic info about GDPR compliance etc.
>A virus depends on carriers to reproduce itself.

Other comments state that anyone can carry the virus, even vaccinated people though...

>One needn't vaccinate every person in order to stop the contagion.

My original question needed to be clarified, forgive me for confusing things. My question was about protection more the "spreading".

Shouldn't a disease only spread to unvaccinated people? And that all vaccinated people should be fine? Again, I reference the idea that a single US traveler needs their shots before entering a country with certain diseases. (a single person surrounded by unvaccinated)
Elevators don't go into free-fall even if all the cables are cut at once. The safety chain is just one of the two or three safety measures.

The clack-clack-clack sound they reported was probably safety clamps attached to the rails. When the speed of the elevator exceeds some limit they start automatically breaking.
Of course it’s clear. It’s no great conspiracy. Apple has been emphasizing their service revenue growth for years and they said they are emphasizing making their products last longer. iOS 12 is compatible with the 2013 iPhone 5.
"Germany had been under US attack"

Is that how it is called now?
It's the experience of reading comments that does it for me. It's just so poor.
1. 100 years of being colonized by multiple countries. Then a World War followed by a Civil War.

2. Deng for sure.
That article appears to have been flagged and removed before it hit the front page.