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This "safely be unvaccinated" nonsense is part of the problem with anti-vaxxers.

It represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how vaccines work: For highly contagious diseases you need to ensure that the vast majority of the population is vaccinated, in the order of 90+%. Otherwise your "choice" puts immuno-compromised people at people at risk, it puts pre-immunisation infants at risk, and finally it drastically increases the likelihood of the virus mutating such that the vaccine no longer works for everyone.

If you actually read the article you'd see that this is an increase of 75 people beyond the existing 800+ people [1], in the pre-vaccination world 500 thousand cases were reported a year, 48000 requiring hospitalization, 1000 with encephalitis, and 450 deaths[2]. This was with a population of around ~200 million, vs 329 million now[3], so this increases to 750k infections, 72k hospitalization, and 675 deaths (better hospital care may reduce this).

So you're saying 30k adverse events (which is a gross exaggeration, as the events apply only to children <7 years old, and the side effects while bad are still better than death, but based on [4] this is around 3.5k not small but < 6x the number of fatalities)

Note this is assuming a 1 in 10k rate of adverse side effects, a subject of which of debate - antivaxxers claim higher, others saying only about 67% of adverse reactions following vaccination are attributable to the measles component [5]. For measles the rate of encephalitis is 1 in 1000,

Minor additional note, per [5], the most common of the really bad adverse responses is seizures, but the seizures have no long term side effects (as opposed to long term neurological damage from actually getting measles). The minor adverse reactions all last 2-3 days, Thrombocytopenia (whatever that is) is usually benign and transient.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/measles/downloads/measlesdataandstatssli...

[3] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population...

[4] https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/101-child-popul...

[5] https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/tools/MMR_vacc...
Fungi aren't animals. They also don't have a central nervous system and they don't feel pain.
also in most cases not killing the organism by eating a mushroom.
Apple allows you just as much control as every other product. If you were to break all of the security controls you could do whatever you want including adding a new App Store just like Cydia did.

The question is whether Apple should make it easy for you to do this. And there is no legal basis for that.
> Or would an experienced nurse be able to figure out the difference between bacterial and viral?

Pfft. Doctors will give out antibiotics to treat viral infections just to shut people up. E.g. somebody goes to the doctor for the flu and demands antibiotics.
Any good resources for learning about make files that you can recommend?
C++'s templates (code!) in headers can cause a lot of pain on the compilation front. A simple #include <boost> can add many seconds to your compile.
It is a critical system. Part of the problem is that AOA sensors and MCAS were never considered critical before the software changes made for the 737 MAX and uprating them to critical was overlooked (which would have forced a lot more testing of them).

There is no established requirement that says software can't be used to correct for pitch up on acceleration. The software just has to work properly.
"It’s weird because..."

What's weird? That we have food stamps for those who are temporarily (at least that's how it's supposed to be) in a bind, yet not everyone uses food stamps? Why do you think that is?

Does everyone love medicare? Every doctor I've talked to hates it. It doesn't pay on time, it pays below market rates, it sometimes just doesn't pay at all, it doesn't let the doctors choose what care they think is best, etc. Doctors tell me that the rest of us are all subsidizing medicare patients right now, that if they could get away without seeing any medicare patients they would. How is that going to work out when we are all on medicare?
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There are quite a few posts about this on HN, including this one 11 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19811715
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Right, good point.
> First, there's a popular belief amongst their readership (for whatever reason) that this is not the case and that Google actively works against sites like these.

Breitbart in particular has run a long series of articles featuring leaked discussions from within Google where there are calls internally to remove or penalize Breitbart from organic listings, and deactivate their AdWords.

They also discussed censorship on Facebook and Twitter amoung others.

They run these under the umbrella “Masters of the Universe”:

https://www.breitbart.com/masters-of-the-universe/
Of course, there's no good reason why compiling the compiler should be relevant to typical applications. I'm glad GCC doesn't drop optimizations for fast numerical Fortran that surely won't speed up the compiler.
Yes, Argo is very "SDN" under the covers :)

The data plane runs on our x86 fleet and its control plane is driven by custom route computation and propagation systems (discussed a little more in the post). We're excited to talk more about the technical underpinnings of Argo in the future.
WSJ is not progressive.
His dissents in the Garza v Hargan case kind of did.
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In universal healthcare systems, the government negotiates prices of treatments and drugs -- so there are very few treatments that cost so much that you can't be covered by public (or private) insurance.

Obviously people will still get sick and die, that's unfortunately part of the human condition. But I reject the argument that life-saving treatments being impossible to afford by ordinary people is something we should accept.
It seems though that they now surface "authoritative" sites over clear user intent in their search.

For instance, search for "has Infowars ever been correct" on Google and then Duck Duck Go. For Google, you will see results that have nothing to do with the clear intent of the query, such as Wikipedia and mainstream news articles trashing Infowars. For Duck, you will get several results that actually answer the question.

Since Google pioneered natural language processing for search queries, and these sorts of queries worked fine years ago, the only conclusion is that Google is actively burying certain results to manipulate the narrative. Why does their natural language search break all of a sudden when I want to find out something that is unpopular?
From below: A fungus is able to search through a maze and apparently remember the route. Is it sentient?
You are right, I am disagreeing on the basis of speculation based on my own experiences and preferences. I assumed you were making an argument from the same place? That said, you are right, we will likely never have the opportunity to test this particular preference.

So, from the place of my personal experience: I am sucker like everyone else, and prefer stores that tell me a per-unit price that I can compare like-to-like brands, often to the point of irrationality. I will also grant that I could have a backlash on this if it makes the receipts unduly long, which is a reason for me to prefer RiteAid over CVS. Plenty of reasons not to like this. I just don't personally believe that drawing attention to price would be a reason for me to stop shopping at a place, although it would (hopefully) alter my buying habits within said store.
It's funny you say that. I've been having discussions with people who are making the claim that Uber & Lyft have an unfair pricing advantage because VCs are subsidizing them, and because they have ignored local licensing rules.
Sounds like fear-based decision making there. If things are that bad, that difficult to get right, then the government isn't going to save you. Sorry. The good news, whether you choose to believe it or not, is that things are not that bad. We can do this.
They should do so. Breitbart isn't really a news site; if you wanted to dignify it, you'd compare it to Salon, which also doesn't belong in news summaries on Google.
Putting aside who offers the best content entirely, that simply doesn't logically follow.

You can observe that an objective unbiased media source in any realm with a biased and obfuscated view of reality would do less well relative to one that catered to that biased and obfuscated view of reality, which is why media sources even in the modern age are localised and tailored to the audiences which they are aimed at, prejudices, unfounded beliefs and all like MEMRI in the middle east, christian fundamentalist media like WND, etc. If you expand the scope of enquiry to all of possible human history you can very easily imagine that the media sources which would and have historically done best in the more ignorant periods thereof are obscenely biased and not at all "the best content".

If you think that BBC / NY times / WaPo ad et al are not guilty of the exact same kind of thing merely from a different perspective, well that's quaint and charming, but simply completely inaccurate. Nobody has the full story, everybody is wrong, and putting together the puzzle pieces on any issue requires extensive survey of a broad variety of perspectives and sources, and even then, you're going to fall victim to your own biases and simply become another part of the tapestry to boot.

There is no winning. There's just losing less badly.
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Ok, added. Thanks!
Googling 'Amazon working conditions' produces a variety of reports.

Regular ambulance call-outs. Timed toilet breaks. Top floors at very high temperatures in summer. Workers doing heavy lifting complaining of back pain. Mandatory overtime of 60 hours a week. Performance targets calibrated for the young and healthy meaning pregnant women get fired for underperforming. Firing people for taking sick leave, even with a doctor's note. Wasting doctors' time by forcing employees to get doctors' notes for trivial ailments. Firing workers automatically without human intervention.

All of these would be unusual in a white-collar job; the biggest complaint I have at work is when the free bean-to-cup coffee machine breaks down and only instant coffee is on offer.
These guys sold their company to Google!
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I'm asking mainly in the context of learning new stuff. I'm studying machine learning/data science-y type stuff right now, and although Jupyter notebooks are amazing for this, I also can't beat the convenience of sketching out a graph, diagram or equation in a notebook.

I usually prefer to centralise my notes rather than have them in two places, so it's something I've been thinking about recently.

How do you organise your note taking life?
It's standard for a "channel to market" to hide the customer.

If my product is being sold in any retail store e.g. Best Buy then I typically don't have access to the customer's contact details that may be collected at the checkout. It's up to me to capture that information when a user uses my product.
6 year staggered appointments. So 3 justices terms are up every 2 years. Means one president doesn't get to completely stack the court, but each has a fair impact on it, and we aren't stuck with judges with outdated ideologies forever (unless people vote for it).
San Francisco is undergoing exactly such a crime wave. The new apartment buildings are just glass and steel, with no redeeming features whatsoever. Compare these new buildings to the Flood Building or the Hobart Building, and you'll shed a tear or two.
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Thanks, was mostly just curious as I like Church's and Popeye's hot and sometimes think I wouldn't mind more kick... it's definitely not wet though, which is what I gather from this. Will keep it in mind next time I'm out in the South-East.

edit: I'm not sure how wide it can/will spread since I know too many people who cringe at what I would call "medium" hot.
There should be a difference. If I show my pressure vessel fits the standard the court can accept that under the assumption that the standard is good. Or I can go back to first principals of engineering and show the court that my vessel is correct.
You can return to Europe where your ancestors are presumably from and return America back to the Native Americans.
Stopping millions of people from travelling is about as ludicrous as that.

Working on increasing vaccination rates is certainly a lot more reasonable.
Unflyable or unstable isn't nearly the same thing as uncertifiable. People have flown a whole lot of time in uncertifiable aircraft (see the whole experimental aircraft sector) but transport category aircraft are supposed to exhibit as full proof as possible behaviour.

I bet you it flies again with MCAS. I'll also bet it flies with barely a few hours of conversion training and that there aren't any accidents directly related to the updated MCAS system.
It sounds like something insurance should be addressing. If insurers covered such industry-wide machinery failures in a DRM-ridden automated world, they would be incentivized to fight on the farmer's behalf in preventing the outcome.
It can react to its environment. That's not the argument.
The "rules" are it isn't an animal.
This was my first comment, but the heart of the exploitation here is that the regulatory burden being placed on the worker IS the exploitation, because the related cost is hidden. Removing the regulatory burden is not the right solution to the exploitation.
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It's gut feel, but I've heard a lot of similar stories from people I know.

Good degrees: medical (nursing, nutrition, etc), computer science, most engineering degrees, math.

Bad degrees: most of the liberal arts degrees. English, theatre, journalism etc.

These are broad generalizations, obviously. There are people with "bad" degrees who make a good living. There are people with "good" degrees who are struggling. But when I see people complaining that they have huge amounts of debt and are unemployed or underemployed, it's almost universally people who have the degrees I labeled bad.

Some of the issue seems to be just a general lack of planning - they decide to pursue a degree in X, but don't really have a plan for what kind of job they want. Some of the issue seems to be a stubbornness to accept that maybe the thing they got a degree in (often their "passion" - a concept that needs to die) may not be the thing they build a career on. Someone who got a degree in theatre because they really loved being in plays in high school, for example (an actual example I saw recently in a Humans of New York post). They probably need to accept that theatre is a hobby (at least for them), and pursue a career in something else.

An actual example from someone I know who went through this process with her daughter: The daughter had decided she wanted to go to an out of state school and major in journalism, and then move to some specific city to work when she was done with school. Her mother sat her down and they ran the numbers on what the school would cost vs what her parents could help her with financially, what the average person with a journalism degree makes out of college, and what the cost of living was in the city she wanted to live in was. The numbers didn't add up. The college was expensive and would have left her with lots of debt, the journalism degree didn't leave her with very many choices in terms of careers, and the cost of living in the city she wanted to live in was pretty high. So, they talked it through and the daughter ended up doing two years of community college (much cheaper) before going to a less expensive in-state school, she got a degree in english (yes, I labeled it a bad degree - it's probably not in this case), and opted to live in a cheaper city once she'd graduated (she's still in college). This is the activity that's missing from most college-bound kids lives.
> " but snake oil only exists where a real, functioning product doesn't"

I have no idea where you could have gotten that impression. Snake oil can exist whenever the consumer is unable to distinguish real products from snake oil. Marketing is absolutely one of the industries in which snake oil abounds, and there is no reason whatsoever that it doesn't exist in the niche of political advertising.
It's always been kind of amazing to me that people will get all upset over a building but that often changes with time. Same thing with a piece of art. Locally here there was a most controversial design for a parking garage. People just hated it but now its almost adored.

https://foursquare.com/v/the-habitrail-parking-garage/4eb994...

Same thing with the new Broad Art Museum by the late architect Zaha Hadid. Totally looks out of place in a Big 10 college town. Yet inside the light is the most fantastic of any art museum I've ever visited in the world.

https://www.archdaily.com/293358/eli-edythe-broad-art-museum...

Course sometimes something is built with zero redeeming value. I'd wager that something built from concrete can be beautiful.
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Zero Hedge is a conspiracy blog published by anonymous authors. If people are clicking it in search results more frequently than actual news sites, that is in itself a problem.
It's ridiculous to think that Apple will be a monopoly in the future.

The overwhelming trend is towards Apple losing share as Chinese phone manufacturers start to increasingly capture the middle market.
Modernists and their apologists are like flat-earthers. All criticism can be chalked up to your ignorance of the secrets that only they are willing to confront.
The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act was signed into law over 20 years ago and should make this a non-issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Good_Samaritan_Ac...
So if one state offers free health care for all, how do they avoid the freeload problem? When I lived in Washington near the Oregon border, we Washingtonions loved shopping sales tax free in Oregon. What prevents us all from going to Vermont as soon as we get cancer and overwhelming their system?
Eh... Uber gave me a job offer in October 2019 claiming an internal valuation of $120B. I found it to be completely unjustified and passed on the job, but I'm certain many others bought it hook, line, and sinker.

There were some really incredulous claims around the TAM of Uber Eats (and other efforts) that were proven outrageous in the S-1 filing.
That wasn’t meant as an endorsement of Breitbart, to be sure. But parent raised the question of why people think this, and trust in media is a crucial point these days.

Breitbart articles discussing Google censorship aren’t radical alt-right preaching. You can strongly believe that Google is making informed and conscientious decisions about censorship and rankings on their platform, and then read a different perspective on Breitbart to understand the other viewpoint.

For example, in response to a question as to why when doing an image search on Google for “idiot” that Trump is the result (Currently he is 3 of the top 10 results. I mean, that is pretty funny actually) Sundar Pichai swore to Congress that Google does not manually intervene on any search result. Is that really credible?

Maybe it’s a little hard to quantify what is a “real” news site anymore. Some people assume this is self-evident, but I am skeptical of everything I read.

I sometimes find it entertaining to see what slant opinionated news sites will put on a story and compare it against the MSM.
Do you have a blog or YT channel or something where you discuss these issues more? I’d love to follow you.
I'm sure both the developers and the consumers will still choose to use the sideloaded app depending on the app. Look at how Fortnite on Android skipped the entire Google Play Store because they can provide the entire infrastructure themselves anyways.

Or apps that get denied from the Apple App Store. Emulators come to mind, but also the recent Steam Link app is still not allowed on the App Store.
I don't disagree. That's why I said you can file your taxes as an employee. Presumably, since he kept the position, he was paid a living wage in cash flow terms. Filing taxes as an employee forces the IRS to investigate, and expend their resources, rather than your own. If they do find misclassification, they will inflict punishment on the company and force them to reclassify any other contractors.

I'm not sure what else you can ask the state for without severely limiting the economy -- any investigation by the state is going to take time and there will be ambiguity. But, if your work was directed explicitly (such as being told you had to do it), you are pretty much guaranteed you are an employee. The IRS is really nice and they will act on your behalf.
Hey, CTO of Parse.ly here. Might be surprising, but news sites get their traffic from 5 broad categories: (1) search engines (mostly Google in US); (2) social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.); (3) editorial & recirculation (homepage promotion, article-to-article promotion); (4) direct, text, & email, which covers things like WhatsApp and manually shared email links; and (5) the long tail ("other"), which covers things like Google News, Flipboard, blogs, and site-to-site links.

These 5 categories are roughly equally split in aggregate traffic -- somewhere between 15-25% per category. You're right that certain kinds of sites, like e-commerce, are heavily weighted toward search -- but this is not broadly or necessarily true for the whole "content universe" of news, information, & entertainment sites, including blogs and so on.

Our data reveal all sorts of interesting patterns that go against mainstream assumptions about how people read/watch content online. For example, a measly 1% of traffic to content publishers comes from Twitter, even though Twitter certainly seems like it drives way more than 1% of the conversation, especially in certain categories of content. I wrote about that phenomenon here:

https://twitter.com/amontalenti/status/1126913440746962944

If you care to go deeper, one of our data analysts, Kelsey, did a nice deep dive on the different kinds of traffic sources that resonate with different content categories here:

https://blog.parse.ly/post/8329/the-14-top-referrer-sources-...
Where did I say anything about depression or about seeing a therapist?
Thanos? j/k :)
I empathize very strongly with you. At a past gig I was in an almost similar position.
I hear you, it is often hard to decipher intentions online - anyhow, I answered my own question using the power of Google: https://skepticalscience.com/mauna-loa-volcano-co2-measureme...