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> It's not a question of if it's a question of when.

That's a good point and Apple's phones failed much, much sooner than any other phones. Thus the reason we don't hear of the others.
Sorry for seeing this late. Basically, iTerm allows you to send Escape sequences and even Vim special characters.

Here's a screenshot http://snid.es/d156c6b7deea

In mine, under profiles/keys, I've set ⌘s to [17~

This is essentially F6, which I then bind in vim to

nnoremap <F6> :w<CR>
imap <F6> <Esc>:w<CR>

I do this with a lot of ⌘ or otherwise unbindable settings (again, this only effects iterm2). This is how you can get iterm2 to pick up any keybinding and send it to vim as something else.
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Strategic alliance with Canada’s pension plans?
Simple, supply and demand. Plenty of biology students and not enough growth in the industry. Biotech and healthcare have a ton of regulatory capture, gatekeeping, and barriers of entry that you do not really have any good companies to choose from. Other than your traditional pharma giants, there are not many alternatives. Theranos was supposed to be biology's Google, its unicorn trailblazer. Unfortunately it did not work out. YC's Gingko looks good on paper but it is no exponential growth machine.
Oh yeah, if it's that big a cash cow, you can be sure that Google's not facing a cash crunch.
Thanks for this! And I never respond to customer satisfaction surveys.
>No business fails because it does not generate revenue; they only fail when they do not generate CREDIT

You get remarkably little credit if it isn't secured either by assets or a proven revenue stream. (Or you pay enormous interests rates to offset the risk)
Thanks for sharing the journal articles.

According to [1], on January 31, 2020 US had 6 cases of Covid-19. And according to several news sites, as of March 2, 2020, there are 101 cases.

If I did the math correctly, that seems to be doubling about every four days or so, which lines up with the doubling period mentioned.
> Instead of confronting racial and socioeconomic biases in our hiring process, we've decided to deflect blame to a consulting firm who will in turn blame it on a mysterious 'cultural fit' algorithm

Seriously though, article does a bang up job ignoring all of the potential problems with systems like this
I like that Piketty is super aggressive with some of the ideas and I generally support the idea that a baseline is set for everyone that is some kind of equalizer (even though it will never be perfect) that covers income/health/education. However, creating a practical wealth tax seems a bit tricky especially in terms of assessing wealth.
You are basically relying on the cashiers poor memory to stop them from recognizing you. If you live in a small town, or even just an efficient city that sees you going to the same store often, people will recognize you.
Wasn't expecting to see this here. I created this article about 10 years ago, when I was a lot more active on Wikipedia. Every time I remember this article I keep expecting it to get deleted sooner or later, but somehow it's made it this long. Mostly a matter of finding and adding enough references that mention the phrase I guess. (Some of the recent additions don't…)

One thing I'll point out is that the effect as originally described is about things that always existed in their place of origin, but became more popular / accepted (improved in reputation) after gaining a warm reception/prestige elsewhere. (The examples here of things popularly associated with X culture despite not originating in place X are interesting too, though!)

Edit: Sorry for a tangential aside, but I just looked into the history of this article, and IMO it's representative of many Wikipedia articles (and not how either the general public or Wikipedia regulars think articles get written):

• Here are the first 3 years, where basically things were cleaned up and a couple of examples added, but the article was still substantially in its original (poor) form: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pizza_effect&type...

• Then a single edit by another user substantially “refactored” it and cleaned it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=585383004&oldid=58...

• Another 6 years where nothing much changes fundamentally, except for a few additional examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=943600315&oldid=58...

The article has 102 revisions, and all of them have contributed to its present form… who would we say “wrote” it? See the late Aaron Swartz's “Who Writes Wikipedia?” at http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
No, they didn't. Apple never gave a choice. If you want an Apple iPhone you get what Apple wants you to have.

The non-Apple choice is ... well, we all know the trade-offs there.
But this... is not driving a car. Not even close!

Hm, then what exactly are Waymo cars doing on public roads? Seemed pretty close to self-driving to me.
Reinventing wheels, probably.
You should consider reading the scientific study that this entire thread is about.

> In this article, a risk assessment model previously developed in general form was used to estimate the effectiveness of different types of protective equipment in reducing the rate of infection in an influenza outbreak. It was found that a 50% compliance in donning the device resulted in a significant (at least 50% prevalence and 20% cumulative incidence) reduction in risk for fitted and unfitted N95 respirators, high-filtration surgical masks, and both low-filtration and high-filtration pediatric masks. An 80% compliance rate essentially eliminated the influenza outbreak.

It's not the only study.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190903134732.h...

> Summary: The study reported 'no significant difference in the effectiveness' of medical masks vs. N95 respirators for prevention of influenza or other viral respiratory illness.
Makes me wonder, I'd assumed that Waymo employees get Alphabet stock, do y'all think this is inaccurate?
Unless this changed recently (which it may well have), Waymo "stock" is just a special performance scheme that converts to Alphabet stock based on waymo, not alphabet, performance.
Multi-threading and Junctions auto-threading are NOT the same thing.

Calling it auto-threading has lead many people to the wrong conclusion.

(It is possible that auto-threading may be done multi-threaded in the future, but it doesn't do it currently.)
This argument fails to account for the insane amounts of wealth that djia Nasdaq are gaining from global growth. I would like to see these numbers compared with global gdp vs the total government spending of all nations.

I also question how the switch from products to services has influenced the numbers. I don't know how gdp is calculated but it seems non trivial to value goods to services in a why that truely communicates the expansion/value of the economy.

Further more, markets look to the future. Let's say an asteroid passes by with all the energy and materials we would ever need and we could harvest then for free, would the market grow by all the value of the minerals in that asteroid?
The yield efficiency increase on corn alone made it possible to support such large populations.

Maybe that was his point, matbe we dont need this many humans. But who are we to make a decision. God left this place for us to advance.
I can only answer this as someone who's looked into Haxe for a couple of years now versus someone who has actually made an application/game/website with it, but from what I can tell, it's really the 'good at most things, great at non' option for easy interactive, multi-platform development.

What you may not know, is that HaXe started off as an alternative to using Actionscript to build flash/flash-like projects, without having to use Adobe products directly. When the bell started ringing for everyone to get out of the Flash pool (helped a lot by Apple not including it in IOS), they sort of pivoted to being the open source version to Flash (OpenFL), which they used HaXe to build. (One of the things going in their favor was that they were one of the 1st tech stack that tried to do what flash did in a compiled language that included mobile and web targets, besides desktop. The only other ones I can think of that tried was Java and a bunch of 'compiled' js and html files into executables.)

Once they realized that they could just change the target of what they were cross-compiling to, they started adding other targets as well (started with swf and actionscript, then went Javascript, Java, PHP, C, Ruby and who knows what else). People started adding other things to it, such as IDE, game engines, and even Adobe themselves are re-purposing Adobe Animator to target OpenFL. And it grew from there.

Where I usually get confused and leave it all alone is that there is so much churn in that area, that it's hard for me to even begin pick a stack to work with. Apache Flex competes in a lot of what HaXe does, same as Apache FlexJS, Apache Cordova, Cocos2d, Dart/Flutter, Monogame, and so much more in the same area. It got to the point where even Unity and Unreal engine provides much of the same features, pretty much for free until you've hit a certain monetary limit (I think both are around 250k to 1mil, USD).

So, to answer your question again after I've bored you, the catch is that it's one of many (and I do mean many) options for you to choose if you're trying to target many platforms from one code base. It's decent on most all of them, and was one of the firsts to succeed, but depending on your particular needs, may not be the overall best choice for you.
> However, creating a practical wealth tax seems a bit tricky especially in terms of assessing wealth.

It seems straightforward to employ those versed in valuing various stores of wealth for the implementation of a wealth tax. Certainly, some assets might be more difficult to value than others (art, antiques, exotic vehicles, certain business ventures), but a value can be determined nonetheless. Real estate? Financial instruments? Effortless and automatable.
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‘Greasy’ pizza deserves its own category, comparing an amazingly greasy slice of meat topped pizza with a spicy sauce to NYC pizza or American ‘Neapolitan’ pizza via New Haven ala Sally’s (it’s better than Pepe’s, fight me) is like comparing sushi to ramen. All of it can be great!
Even if it was 100% ineffective (and I think it's pretty obvious that it had a non-zero effect), that wouldn't even matter. They still tried to win by spreading lies.

Murder and attempted murder are both crimes.
Not sure who downvoted you, but thanks for sharing this important snippet of history. Without pioneers (who often don't get it fully right), there'd no discoveries or progress.
So VPN in to a subnet where only a bastion host is exposed effectively?
viruses

We don't want to get sick. Individual cars keep us away from people who would cough and sneeze on us.

Shutting down mass transit would really slow down virus outbreaks.
A little history: I got an /24 in the early 90s, it was how you got on the internet back then, you sent an email to a well known email address and they sent you back a class C, no money changed hands, you couldn't get anything smaller. Also almost no one had firewalls, your subnet was open to the world.

Last month I got an out of the blue offer for the class C I registered for a startup I worked for about the same time ~3k I'm still the technical contact, the company is long gone, a drawer in a filing cabinet in a lawyer's repository somewhere, it's probably the company's largest asset now
How would you know?

Most of us laugh at a question like that on an application and move on. It's not worth the effort. You have no idea what candidates you never even see because of those ridiculous questions on an applications.
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Have you done a literature review? Have you searched for quantum effects and cognition in the literature?
Hopefully the WfH grass is greener for you! In my experience WfH companies have employees that are checked out, and collaboration is much more rare.

I think if WfH was really better, companies like Google and Apple would have different policies. Real estate in Cali ain’t cheap!
Its difficult to tell because the US hasn't been doing as much testing as other countries. You can look at the curves for various countries at https://covid.bio/ Most countries that haven't initiated large scale quarantines have a doubling period of between 1.5 and 5 days
Sure, in some situations that's true, but the original statement made it seem like all cancer treatment decisions are just "guesses". That's absolutely not true.
Both Waymo and Cruise have received California’s approval to remove the safety driver. Both can go tens of thousands of miles without driver intervention from the safety driver. Sounds like it’s right around the corner for level 4. Throw in remote drivers for the extremely rare scenarios where the car can’t figure it out. It’s less than 5 years away for city driving in the major city areas that have lidar maps. 10 years for nationwide.
Edit: see below. My math was a bit off.
nothing like the most pretentious tech community on the web "discovering" stuff like this. lol
Maybe buy a few temperature guns and point them at people's foreheads before they enter?
If you still actually have the IPs they are worth way more than $3k for a /24 in the grey market.
> For instance, the successful applicant might have to get up early to start a shift on time or deal with a higher workload when the weather is bad. How do they feel about that and how would they go about it? [...]

> A scoring system is agreed with each client in advance, so that the algorithm can determine how well a candidate has answered a given question. The tool might also deduct a few points should the candidate respond very slowly to questions, for example.

I don't think this is a sophisticated tool. And that's even without questioning the premise that cultural fit as it's generally practiced is a good thing (far from clear).
That's really interesting! Always good to see unique new fusions.
I just can’t agree with your experience, but am willing to believe that you certainly feel that way. I will say that hands down, the best meal I have ever had in Italy was a spit roasted half hen and crispy potato chunks on a paper plate from the random corner store by the Hotel Pink Floyd near Tremini in Rome. That experience was certainly not what most people think of when they think Italian food.
I think the point is, if it becomes endemic, people should self-quarantine even in the absence of a positive test.

That's what my employer is doing now. If you're sick, work from home for 2 weeks. Don't come in.
Good move
...and the consolidations continue...

I notice that the power of these new behemoths are a risk to SMEs. Kaseya/Datto/ITGlue/CWM/Automate/Sophos/BG/Sell... These all used to be of a size that could communicate and deal with small business. Far more focus weighted towards enterprise now.
On the other hand, one wonders if that curve measures not infection rates, but testing kit manufacturing output.
Nope. Waymo employees get Waymo stock.
So, when shit hits the fan you're going to bake cookies?
I mean, median pay in Seattle is $93K. Of course it's "paying off".
Thanks for this. As a chronically ill patient I've spent years struggling to understand why doctors get so uncomfortable and sometimes hostile when I pursue experimental treatments. Knowing that you go through the devastation of watching people do reckless and dangerous things helps me understand.
The 1.7m was pre-rewrite and the quote about using os libraries was post-rewrite; it doesn't prove they counted the libraries in the 1.7m metric but it does imply they bundled more before.
A simulation requires something else being simulated in order for it to be a simulation, otherwise it's just itself.
> Waymo is already doing rides without a safety driver to passengers who have signed their NDA. Which means they're confident of their behaviour on some really difficult problems, like pedestrians.

Unless the NDA is to keep customers from talking about when the remote safety monitor takes over.
> > Neither Signal nor SSH in their most common mode of use have a "PKI" in the sense you mean, which is my point.

> I assume then that you exchange the public keys of your Signal contacts over SMS. Over perhaps you scp them to a server you share with friends.

You are meant to verify your contacts' keys (aka "safety numbers") either in-person or otherwise out-of-band. The Signal server does not in any way sign or endorse the identity keys they serve to users (yes, they're delivered over TLS but that doesn't count).

Yes, Signal does do some best-effort verification of your phone number when you register a device but that's just to avoid DoS. SMS can be easily intercepted.
Agreed. Piketty is a total economic ignoramus and has absolutely zero clue about basics of macroeconomics.

Not sure why anyone takes that clown seriously.
This is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. A consultancy is basically using survey-type screening questions to bucket candidates, and another team seems to be doing some very basic text analysis to gauge team-type thinking. I was afraid this was going to be another ML debacle to "objectively" filter out people who don't fit the exact demographic mold the company already has.

That said, approaches like this tend to just lead to more gaming on both sides. Once survey questions become popular, the "right" answers get figured out, posted in how-to guides, and the screening quickly becomes worthless. To me, this says that hiring still sucks for everyone involved.
My theory is that the descendant generations from immigrants to America don't care to modify the family recipes at all, to keep traditions going, and there are generally not any outside influences to change this, so the food stays frozen in time from 100-200 years ago. Like, your Irish American neighbors are not going to weigh in with ideas on how to improve or evolve the squash strudel.

For what it's worth, Germans from the Bohemian/Sudetengau area make some dishes much the same as Czech. There's no substitute for bread dumplings with pork and sauerkraut! Or plum dumplings the one month in the year the right kind of plums are available. But when you get to other areas of Germany, they all have different ideas about how to make dumplings.
I just had a train of thought on how this would work with Tessaracts
> And yet, for the people using the app, it won’t look or feel much different.

Yikes. Okay, I know I'm maybe being a bit unfair here, but I'm sorry to say that this is one of the weakest engineering blog posts I've ever read. This seems to be a massive "let's end the craziness and finally pay our tech debt" effort. Good for them, but not something that excites me about working at Facebook.
At this stage it's Speed-density / Alpha-N only and I don't have any real plans at this point for adding MAF support I'm afraid.

The easiest way if you really want to keep the MAF would be to use a hardware based frequency to voltage converter and such devices do exist. Otherwise, any reason not to convert to MAP?
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> So now it’s more like .3-.7% chance you actually catch this and die

Speaking of people being bad at probabilities..

A .3-.7 chance of death is still VERY dangerous. Your odds of dying of a car crash in any given year is 1 in 10,000. Your odds of dying from Coronavirus is 1 in 333 (at your best estimate). Yes this is absolutely serious at a societal level, and yes, you can die from this.
Maybe it's because your monitor doesn't support it?
Excellent list. You have any favorites?
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