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I think, UBI is great, but I think you really need a guaranteed baseline -- for people on hard times. Which is to say it should be whatever the base poverty line is. I think about $32,000.

But at that rate it should definitely replace all other programs save medical.

I also think VAT plus land ownership tax should be where the bulk should come from. Possibly also a rent-holder's tax for foreign national-owned properties that might be 10%/year of value. It should be household based too. Like perhaps 2,000 for first adult, 1k per adult in house, 500 per child.

To be really ideal it needs to give people the freedom to 'choose' work as something to get 'more' reward. This would put supply of jobs above demand, and drive up wages too. Some would choose to focus on side projects, or art, science, studies, college, etc... Some might just play games all day, but who knows maybe they become e-sports athletes and earn thousands doing that.

I think also though, single payer should come before UBI, not after. I think that should be first since people are dying because of that. I'd like to see states start trying to implement that on their own, maybe it works out great and other states copy them.
You can even go further than undoing the damage by looking at transformative justice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_justice https://savethekidsgroup.org/defining-transformative-justice...
> Like, if I want an EKG, why can't I just walk in to a place and get it done at a reasonable price? And without a doctor's approval?

You're also paying for interpretation of your EKG at the same time. There are plenty of places happy to sell you home BP/HR/EKG monitoring kits, but you have to remember that you are paying for a doctor's time and clinical expertise when getting them in a hospital. It's not like a single EKG will tell you all that much about your heart anyway.
Your first item is just a dumb misunderstanding of basic terminology. Recombinant doesn't necessarily mean man-made. It literally just means anything involving a combination of different DNA, whether that occurs naturally or artificially.

The second item is true but completely unrelated.

The third item was thoroughly debunked by a hundred real scientists the day it was posted. The paper had never passed peer review, and was retracted by the authors from the preprint server it was posted on the next day.

You should stop talking to your friend, who is an idiot. Frankly, this post is embarrassing, and you were right to use an alt.
This is awesome!

I typed in 'jazz' and got a page on Charlie Parker's saxophone, a King Super 20. It has 8 very high quality and nicely composed photos that you can download in TIFF format, some up to ~300MB in size. Each photo has a detailed description in text, as well as the dimensions of what's seen in the shot, info on when/where it was made and by whom and lots more! What a great project.

https://www.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2019.10.1a-g

E: One of the images has already been added to the Wikipedia entry for Charlie Parker a couple of hours ago. How cool is this data set.
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Wow, that's one polarized vote…
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Not so - there are many areas where the EU is involved: every EU citizen gets the same access to healthcare in each country as their own citizens, that's one of the rules of membership. Coordinated health research just to name another area...
There was a study[1] released by China CDC that tracked 44,000 patients to 11 Feb. They found zero deaths under age 9, with 416 cases. The study doesn't load for me, so here's the wayback link[2].

[1] http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200221051245/http://weekly.chi...
One way for example would be store all events you want to write to ElasticSearch to a Queue (like rabbit, Kafka, etc) then have a set of workers/importers (this can even be logstash with input from queue and output ES) that read the events from that queue and store them in ES.

This way your system becomes a sync, and your system above is not affected if ES becomes slow writing or goes down for a reason. Your events will remain stored in the queue waiting to be processed.
You should learn to use big and famous python libraries which are relevant in your field (and neighbouring fields). This could be scipy/numpy/matplotlib, pandas, but also something regarding user interfaces, such as PyQt, or web libraries (why not learn Django, Flask), or database libraries.

For the science-related libraries, there are excellent and extensive tutorials and courses in the web. I would prefer actual experience over text book knowledge.

If you want to earn some money, these libraries are used by a lot of data research intensive companies; you could do some freelancing (even remote) or an internship.

If you like OSS, study the source and the open tickets of the relevant libs. Enroll in the developer mailing list, if applicable. Get into touch, there will be work which you can do.

Happy studying!
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There should be one _obvious_ way to do things. Not _one_ way to do things.

The operator is better than the dict unpacking-repacking trick, and will become the obvious way to do it.
You say you have an basic understanding of Python but it's hard for me to say what your level is.

That being said, what I would do is try to follow the resources out there and whenever you get stuck on concepts to google them:
https://www.google.com/search?q=python+economics&oq=python+e...

I don't use Python often though so you'd better lean on someone else for good resources on Python itself.
Looking at CDC's response so far:

1. Testing only 400 cases across the whole country.

2. Defective test kits which will only be fixed until Mid March

3. Hawaii now asking ask Japan(which by itself is doing a horrible job at handling the situation) for test kits because they have none, and test 0 people so far.

Doesn't seem first world to me honestly. Might have South Korea gives them some lessons as how to deal with the pandemic situation. Maybe they are transparent and honest, but I really don't want to understand much more about how little they can do.

I am watching the development almost hourly everyday and so far CDC is only giving me more reasons to panic.
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I'd say it still applies, even when reading a textbook going through the exercises is crucial
Whenever I play poker with friends this is my experience too. I don't do anything really fancy at all, I basically just follow very simple guidelines anyone can look up on the Internet. I just wait for good cards, permit worse cards the further down I am in the betting chain, raise or fold instead of calling most of the time, and I bet agressively when I have really good cards to get the most value. I win because my opponents have no idea of what they’re doing, and even if you would point out an obvious misplay they wouldn’t even agree.

Most people who play casually have some romantic ideas about poker from spy movies, where it's about bluffing. Bluffing only works if people actually believe you have good cards, people won't believe you have good cards if you play with mediocre or bad cards every hand.

I am by no means good enough to beat a person who is good at the game that could profile my playing style, do the mental math faster than me and who can tell the difference between whether or not I have analysis paralysis or bluffing.
Fun but not really useful. I bloody wish someone would implement Paint.Net (which is the most practical + intuitive picture editor ever IMHO) in JavaScript. It's cross-platform Mono clone, Pinta, is tolerable but not nearly as good.
No we don't, not unless you want the plants to starve.
The problem is that the front-end is 100x harder to test than the back-end. Webpagetest, and others, have a really hard time measuring single-page app front-end performance. The front-end is just such a huge patchwork of...stuff...that it is almost impossible to create generic tests, let alone automate them. Otherwise I agree, the front-end performance often contributes more to the UX than the back-end performance. But it's wise to start with the low hanging fruit and test those things that are simple to test. In my book, REST API end points is a good place to begin. Easy to test, easy to automate the testing.
No one can answer that for you, you need to test it out your self. Depends on size of documents, number of keys, volume of reads, etc etc. Spin up 1 instance and test it out ;)
WebAssembly in the kernel faster-than-native reminds me of the comedic talk by Gary Bernhardt, "The Birth & Death of JavaScript" [1]. Great foresight

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
The amazing thing about stratospheric aerosol injection is that fully negating the effect of global warming would cost less than $5 billion per year.[1] That's less than 0.01% of world GDP. That's cheap enough for a single major country to unilaterally take on itself.

In contrast going fully carbon neutral would cost the economy at least 100 times that amount. And even then it would still result in some amount of warming between 1.5-3 C. Plus require multilateral commitment from nearly every country.

To me the calculus seems to strongly favor forgetting about carbon mitigation completely. Instead just focusing on immediately starting aerosol injections. The tech already exists and is ready to be deployed. Starting sooner will give us time to get better at using it, and discover any potential pitfalls.

Then in 100 or 200 years, we can switch over to more advanced geoengineering that fully and permanently scrubs carbon out of the atmosphere. Aerosol injection would act as a stopgap measure until the carbon-scrubbing is cost-effective.

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d
Good points, agreed.
Why? Spreading out the venues over the whole of Europe seems to be a good strategy (not intentional, of course) for an event like an epidemic. Less concentration of fans and teams that way.
Prescribing blood tests might already save doctors time. Most of the time when I'm sick the doctor just asks broad questions and takes a blood samples... and I'm told to come back tomorrow when the results are back from the lab.
Do you have examples of other epidemics where it was impossible to fit a quadratic? I've seen this argument a lot, but I've never seen anyone attempt to analyze how hard it actually is. I suspect that any data with positive first and second derivatives is pretty easy to fit closely to a quadratic.
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HIV is an incredibly manageable disease these days. The day to day effects are on a similar scale to Diabetes ie take regular medication and watch for specific symptoms that could imply it worsening.

Otherwise there relatively little day to day impact other than the stigma.

I should caveat that I'm referring to countries with a modern and available health system.
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I read about this and I found it surprising.
You wouldn't need to take Jon Stewart's approach though. I'd be fine if the ridiculing comes from another party that the journalist gives room to. Ask a consumer advocate what they think of PayPal's statement, or ask an infosec professional.

Letting the PR speech stand by itself without large red arrows pointing at the absurdity gives it way too much power imho.
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Are the effect of the coronavirus on the stock market could be opportunity for investing?

The SP500 went down 8% this past 4 days. I'm wondering if that will go lower those next days.

I have a bit amount of money on the side, I didn't know where to invest. Would now be a good opportunity to lump sum all the money, or would you Dollar Cost Average?

Anyone else with the same dilemma, and would have more arguments?
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"The event coincides precisely with a catastrophic decline in carbon dioxide levels, which fell from 3500 ppm in the early Eocene to 650 ppm during this event."
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no you re not. everyone who can do that should demand it. and not just for the corona, but for reclaiming back your time, and also, occam's razor
I was in Busan, south korea, a few years back and they have lockers all over the beach. So practical!
Or say the US. In 2009 pandemic, the influenza A H1N1 pdm-09 originated from Mexico, spread to the US, and then to the world.
This is illustrated with the deck Affinity. It sweeps beginner players consistently even if the pilot keeps making mistakes but once you meet tougher opposition all of the options the deck presents become overwhelming and you know that you need to maximize the value of every play to beat a good opponent, especially if they have boarded in counters for your deck.
Yes, the goal I had in mind was to "show off" your upvotes once the cycle is over and not encourage more of them. Similar to Product Hunt's badges [1] which also follows a more strict 1-day product launch cycle.

[1] https://blog.producthunt.com/new-feature-add-a-product-hunt-...
don't call it tax, call it carbon dividend and give the collected money away to citizens.
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In this particular case, the ISPs db entry could simply be "customer visited either wikipedia.org or minjiexin.com", and that would be practically as good as before DoH.

Or the ISPs database could simply be of IP addresses connected to, and the purchaser of that database could apply identification based on which other IPs were connected to around a similar time.

If it's your argument that mapping IPs to "websites visited" is not 100% accurate, then of course you're correct... So what we need to do is figure out how accurate it is. Because if the answer to that question is 95%, then the whole value proposition of DoH flys out of the window. Why massively centralise DNS to just make a tiny dent in the problem?

If the answer to that question is 5% rather than 95%, then I guess that would mean we've centralised the web so far already behind gatekeepers like Cloudflare+Google+AWS+Microsoft, that it doesn't really matter if we go and centralise DNS for web usage in the same way, as the web is already fucked.
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Current browser situation looks like a giant skyscraper of the rich anti-privacy monopolist surrounded by 2-3 decrepit hovels of pro-privacy or neutral competitors. As of today all of the hovels except for one are burned down to the ground and bulldozed over. Promoting Brave is essentially the same as painting logo "privacy" on the back entrance to the skyscraper while pouring gasoline on the last remaining competitor hovel. If Firefox will die, there will be zero privacy in the internet left, because these Chrome mods with fancy icons are powerless against real "owner" of the Chrome codebase and all future changes in it.
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> Knowing that the one who is possibly the most respected person in the field of computer science has an opinion that goes against the current trends gives us perspective.

Computer science is not software engineering. You also don't get physicists and mathematicians determine engineering best practices for precisely the same reason.

For example, the reference to Shanley's design principle is not only wrong in it's core (aerospace engineering instead of civil engineering) it also completely misses the underlying design requirements and constraints. More precisely, aerospace pays a premium for weight, thus design requirements emphasize the need to optimize structural systems wrt structural weight. This design choice favours operational economy at the expense of production costs, maintainability, robustness, and simplifying analysis.

None of this applies to software development, or even civil engineering structures.

Appeals to authority are a dangerous fallacy.
Not wise, IMO. Look how quickly things blew up in Korea and Italy, and Japan seems to be in denial.
> Cloudflare does not block or filter content through the Cloudflare Resolver for Firefox. As part of its agreement with Mozilla, Cloudflare is providing only direct DNS resolution. If Cloudflare were to receive written requests from law enforcement and government agencies to block access to domains or content through the Cloudflare resolver for Firefox, Cloudflare would, in consultation with Mozilla, exhaust our legal remedies before complying with such a request. We also commit to documenting any government request to block access in our semi-annual transparency report, unless legally prohibited from doing so.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv...
I expect they would be allowed. The US also allows international observers for its elections as well.
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This event lasted for "800,000 years", based in the article.
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Turns out, reddit has been more reliable with its curated rumour streams. Google et al, heavily censored search results. (Also, what happened to google flu trends?). For those with knowledge and critical ability to examine every claim, it's good to consider every source.
The authoritarianism is a red herring IMO. The real issue is economic incentives trumping everything else. For example in Japan if you test positive the hospital gets quarantined losing tons of money. In the US, you can end up payong huge medical bills. The fear is the same.

The lesson from WW2 should have been that people are all the same when pushed to extremes. This includes the people who make up the communist party leadership in China and every moral philosoher in the west as well.

My armchair belief is that China has ended up absorbing at a global scale, all of capitalism’s externalities. It is an integral part of the world that gives us many things we take for granted like cheap iphones and many others. We do NOT have the convenience to look away and scapegoat one aspect without taking into consideration the whole.

This ended up kinda ranty but every time coronavirus is used to bring up something whose purpose is to draw an “us vs them” line between the world and China I want to throw something.
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This one quote sum it well: "A capture of ships by horsemen is an extremely rare feat in military history"
I block all ads and js with Firefox right now, how is that any different if not worse?

No one is being compensated there at all and the site itself often can't even gather 1st party analytics.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

Vivaldi generates revenue from partner deals with search engines and default bookmarks.
Interesting data points from today's presser with Dr. Bruce Aylward of WHO[1]:

"Aylward pointed to an analysis from Guangdong province suggesting that, at least there, most of the infections were coming to the attention of health authorities.

When the virus started to spread in Guangdong — the province where the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak began — worried people flooded fever clinics to be tested. Of 320,000 tests performed, just under 0.5% were positive for the virus at the peak of transmission there, he said — which suggests that only 1 case out of 200 was being missed.

Transmission of the virus has subsided in Guangdong, and the number of positive tests at the fever clinics has declined; now only about 1 in 5,000 people tested at the fever clinics is positive for the virus, he said."

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/25/new-data-from-china-butt...
Photosynthesis manages to convert about 1% of the sunlight into chemical energy. I wouldn't call that efficient. The big benefit of plants is of course that they're relatively low maintenance. You still need to cut them down and turn them into charcoal if you want to capture that carbon for good.

Now look at the gigatons of coal we already dug out of the soil and burnt. That's a lot of forests you need to plant, cut down, and turn into charcoal. It might be doable, but it certainly won't be cheap or easy.
This is great news, especially for Selenium users. Helium is a great tool.
My favourite thing is trains and buses heated to 30C (85F) because it's "winter", so that you nearly have heatstroke even if you strip down to just a shirt and whatever pants you are wearing.
Yeah sure, this happens to me as well. I just woke up at 3:30 today, squeezed a few oranges and played the guitar for an hour like it was the middle of the day.
And if for some reason I'm home alone for more than a couple of few days I'll revert to my schedule of sleeping early in the morning.

But my point still stands, I can adhere to my new schedule pretty effortlessly when the situation is right.
Which makes me personally question how much of being a night person is nurture.

Most of the night persons I've encountered have a pretty consistent schedule of staying up at night, which isn't what should be happening if they fit the profile of the kind of person that the linked study examines.
A person like that should have, when situations allow, no schedule because they function on a non-24-hour cycle.
The term has been weirdly adopted by the dev community in a way that kinda makes sense if you squint a little but has always created a dissonance in my brain due to my maths background.

But since we’re here! For those who don’t know the word from outside of the dev sphere, in maths it refers to having 2 way mappings between 2 structures. You can do it between totally seemingly unrelated parts of maths (you just need to show how to map between them). As a result, anything you’ve proved in one space holds true in the other. It can be useful if you have an intuition and understanding of one of the spaces but not the other.

I’m trying to think of a nice example but I haven’t thought about this type of maths for a couple of decades now. Answers on a postcard please!
Same in Switzerland. Prices for services are fixed, and mandatory basic insurance won't pay more. Doctors and private hospitals are free to do their own thing, as long as their clients (or their additional insurance) are willing to pay the difference. I think only hospitals are in public hand, but they still have to go via the insurances for payment.
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Well from what we've seen in Japan and South Korea, that seems to be far from guaranteed. Those countries had all the warnings they needed, and knew much more about the virus than the earlier days, yet they still failed to contain the initially small outbreaks.
True, centralization is a downside. But the alternative is having no privacy from government agencies. Even if you somehow believe your ISP won't be subject to these hypothetical interception orders that CloudFlare would be subject to (why?), there are plenty of points to tap in between your ISP and the website you're visiting.