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Hey, I'm Brendan - a UX/UI & product designer working remotely.

I have over 7+ years of experience designing and developing sites and UI/UX for small business owners and startups. Websites, web applications, and mobile apps.

From SaaS B2B startups to B2C applications to small business websites - I've been blessed to have worked with many wonderful entrepreneurs and clients over the past years.

I'm available for:

• UX/UI & Product Designer Partner - I work as a partner of your team (through Slack or Skype) to design and guide the direction of your new or current digital product.

• UX/UI Redesign & Modern Refresh - Your current UX is poor and needs a complete or partial revamp. I can pinpoint issues and give it a modern design facelift.

• Design Sprints & Prototyping - I can help turn that idea in your head into a fully-designed product using my design sprint process.

Email: hi@brendanho.com
Short, daily lessons makes sense. Email is what makes it a not-so-great medium for me. Will do!
> doesn't mean it's universally safe

_Table salt_ is not safe. Eat 100 grams of it and you will die. This does, however, mean that it's not as "dangerous" as the mainstream press wants you to believe. It's a 50 year old drug used all over the world. If it was "deadly", we'd know it by now.

CDC itself recommends taking it _as a prophylaxis_ when heading to the areas where malaria might be present: https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/travelers/drugs.html
Huh?

If you take away BGP, there is no Internet!

No other protocol in existence/use today can scale the way BGP has.
Parts of your comment aren't making much sense to me. Could you define the following terms?

"breadth-first associative intelligence"

"open cognitive loops"
There was once I time where I could type maybe 5 random words from a song and get it as the top hit.

Now there are times where I can’t remember the song title, but I can type a few lines of lyrics verbatim plus include the musician’s name and get only random, unrelated links.
Sort of like Batman and the Joker?
A group of elites/privilege/whatever competing within a specific domain.

Even if you lose, you're still in the group and get certain privileges.

Keeping the wealth in the group is key.

I'm not a Bernie Bro, but he's not a bad example in this case - he represents interests outside the monied/corporate group, which although it competes across Democrat/Republican political lines, shows class solidarity when people want to, say, regulate Wall Street more, or enact universal healthcare which would hurt the bottom line of healthcare companies.

I'm sure my explanation above has its flaws but I hope it shares the gist of what I was trying to express.
I'm a fan of this review, and of Derek Lowe in general. I especially like the way he explains effect size and also the reasons why we have to be cautious when looking at promising drugs.

Another take, by James Hamblin at the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/hydroxych...

This is written for a more general audience, and is not shy about taking on the more political aspects, including the clashing agendas of the people promoting HCQ and those urging a more skeptical approach.
Filler content is the cost of ad supported content sites.

Pay for a Cooks Illustrates or NYT Cooking subscription and all these problems go away.
Eric Weinstein also has a podcast of his own, the most recent episode of which features his original lecture detailing the Geometric Unity model he discussed on Rogan (though even the dumbed-down version flies right over my head): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7rd04KzLcg

> He has a particular kind of breadth-first associative intelligence that can cause listeners to become almost hypnotized by all the open cognitive loops his conversation creates

Well said. Eric is also gaining a reputation for coining labels, the best known being the "Intellectual Dark Web", alongside lesser-known acronyms like EGO (Embedded Growth Obligation), GIN (Gated Institutional Narrative), and DISC (Distributed Idea Suppression Complex).
That's exactly why you're seeing this new generation of startups who are building high-fidelity content through their own work and crowd-sourcing (like AskFinny for personal finance), because you can't trust Google any more--full of affiliate-led promotions.
As an anaesthesiologist, I’m fully aware of the published death rates. You will see that they vary from 50 to 95%. The former appears achievable.
> other tools (e.g. Zoom) allow feeds of both the presenter and their slides/screen

So does Jitsi, which the author used for this particular talk.

It just sounds like he has a personal preference for how he prefers to attend video conferences and decided to use his own experience to push others into following it, even though, as you correctly pointed out, he has no idea whether the audience actually prefers it.
Isn't that weird? My group is similarly all over the map like that. One of my friends has been traveling the world non-stop for years now, it's interesting to see all of the places he's been to (although now he's been to most countries multiple times). I'm into software too; a couple of my friends who use it are too, but some of the others aren't.
> or you can try what works now

If you don't do studies, how else do you know if it works? Or what dosage? Or when to administer? Or downsides?
If you have an ad blocker.

Target sells ad space to random 3rd parties.
Trader Joes seems to follow a bunch of procedures that makes me feel safer. They limit the number of people controlled by staff at entry. They space out those waiting in line and at the counter. They given you sanitizer for the cart and hands. If you are especially concerned, speak to the manager of the store. They are willing to bag things up for you to pay and pickup. Atleast our store manager was nice enough to offer but in the end I felt comfortable to shop by myself. Also wear a mask when you go and use sanitizer when you return to the car.

Lastly there are many people on nextdoor in your community that will help out with shopping as a good gesture. You just reimburse them the cost of what they bought for you.
The last time I checked (long ago, when no IntelliJ frorks like PyCharm etc existed) Idea' code autocompletion was a way more smart than that of Eclipse. Also the screen space is less bloated with IntelliJ.
Hmm? Newegg is a Microcenter alternative if you live too far away.
In case you didn't click. The video is unsurprisingly Fox News. A disinformation machine. It just got very real. They aren't protecting anyone's interests at this point and they can get many people killed, including the same oligarchs that benefit by it.
Looks like the C19 dosages are comparable to the standard arthritis dosages?
Isn't this just a flip flop?
I once made a single-transistor latch by accident. It acted as a single bit of memory and retained its value for weeks until I got bored with the project.

I had been making magnetic snap-together circuits, so I had a bunch of small PCBs with simple 2- and 3-pin footprints and holes that I soldered neodymium disc magnets into.

I put a big TO-220 N-fet on one of them, and stuck it to a laminated whiteboard so that the magnets stuck without shorting together, then I hooked it up to an LED as a simple high-side switch.

When I bent the transistor so that its metal plane rested against the magnetic whiteboard, its gate would latch after briefly tapping either V+ or ground to the magnet which was connected to the pin. When the transistor's metal plane was perpendicular to the board, it didn't latch. Disconnecting and reconnecting the LED didn't perturb the 'saved' value, and neither did removing power overnight. And the same thing happened with a similar P-fet connected as a low-side switch.

It probably wasn't a "real" latch; it was a very over-sized transistor with low gate capacitance, and I didn't try it with something like a 3904. I think it might have had something to do with the principles behind nonvolatile ferroelectric RAM, but I never did get to the bottom of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectric_RAM
I just went and checked because I was excited to set this up. Navy Federal has email, SMS and OTP through their app. USAA has email, SMS and OTP through their app or Symantec VIP. I wish either one would allow the use of U2F or TOTP.
Definitely start with Khan academy for pretty much everything up to calculus (or even including it). Then Linear algebra—as usual, I highly recommend Boyd’s text: https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/ as it’s very approachable and practical, and then going on to statistics and probability.

You’ll need linear algebra and probability to formalize most concepts in economic theory among many other fields, but both are incredibly practical and will be useful throughout.
Is it being used as a treatment for those already on a ventilator? My impression is that it is being used as a way to help prevent patients from getting to the point of needing a ventilator.
(NHC, EIDD-1931) has broad spectrum antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2
"a very strong protections of speech"

I grew up in Canada, then moved to the US for 5 years before returning home to Canada. It always killed me when my US coworkers said teh same thing about "free speech" as i watched censored TV shows in the US which are not that way back in Canada.

I think "free speech" on the US side is highly overrarted and if you look into it more seriously you will find many nations which are at least at the US level. Some higher, like Canada, which doesnt have the "7 words you cant say on TV" restriction.
> Zoom displays the speaker and shared content at the same time, so no disembodied voice.

So does Jitsi, which the author used for his talk.
Fear vs. Data
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I think we can all intuitively see the distinction in risk tolerance between table salt consumption and HCQ consumption.
> Overall, I find remote lecturing an emotionally challenging and less rewarding activity than a physical lecture

I guess that's the main reason why we don't have remote lecture yet
This is because these companies use APIs to establish trust for numbers which do so using a combination of proprietary telco data, machine learning models, and reports from customers. voip numbers like twilio and google voice are a surprisingly large source of fraud, so often the recommendation returned is to block based on how risk adverse the company is.

This method is highly effective at reducing fraud at the cost of penalizing a minority of legitimate users who actually do have to use Google voice / etc.

It should be noted though that factors like why is this number being looked up are considered too, ie: OTP is less risky than say account creation at a bank.
Is it possible to corner the market on a generic drug that is produced across the world?
Some major stores (Target, Safeway, Raleys, etc) are doing it but the wait times are long. Might find some smaller stores with less of a wait.
You can cherry-pick different opinions from all over the spectrum. For example, Tucker Carlson took the virus pretty seriously early on, but he was one of the only voices on Fox News to do so. Views on the left have been more mixed.

At least that's been my observation, but I don't watch TV news; I just read about what's on it. I've been getting my news from WaPo and WSJ, both of which took the virus seriously from the beginning.
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Sourcehut is very, very different. I'd like to know how this is working for devs.
My completely anecdotal experience with the Hydroxychloroquine story is that researchers keep pooh-poohing it and people in the field keep having success with it.

All I know is that based on the aggregate of information I've seen thus far, if I come down with Coronavirus, I want to be prescribed that stuff.
Yeah, I'm a huge fan too. And this is a great summary and perspective.
Linking to wikipedia articles about logical fallacies isn't a debate tactic.
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This and Hasura are excellent. What's on the more sophisticated end of the scale? Is there anything that will generate user/company role systems and bake those into the generated API? Generate client side SDK's from the API?

FWIW I just reproduced an API that took me 3 days to build (while learning Django rest framework) in about 5 minutes.

My time would have been much better spend modeling the domain. As a happy benefit apibakery taught me a bit about DRF permissions I didn't know.

It feels like we're finally getting back to the 90's level RAD tools like NeXT enterprise object framework, and Delphi.
Robinhood for checking/direct deposit/ATM access and small DIY investments, Wealthfront for retirement accounts and savings/emergency fund, Apple Card for payments. Beautiful interfaces, non-SMS 2FA on all, fantastic customer service. I do this and I can’t think of anything else I’d need. The only fee I pay here is Wealthfront’s 0.25% management fee, but I don’t mind since it’s such a great service.
> Peter Navarro

An economist with zero medical background who from media reports is fighting against Fauci on this issue.

Any hint of a cure will be taken by people as a reason to ignore social distancing and stay at home rules. Which will directly cause an uptick in cases and deaths. Hence we need to be very, very sure that any cure is a real one.
but that's not what he's building, he's making the "gated D latch" from your reference - something that's much more useful in real-world circuits than the minimal 2 transistor flop that you call out
any links to anyone who both has this deep understanding and teaches it?
Now try to estimate the risk of _not_ consuming HCQ when you have C19 symptoms. Armchair virology and statistical studies are fun right up until the moment you get dry cough and shortness of breath.
I lived in New York for a good chunk of Foursquare's life, and while it was magical, at least half of the population hated the concept, for good reason. Every woman I knew who had used it was terrified by the privacy and safety risks engendered by making their location public. The ones who did check in somewhere would typically only do it as or after they'd left. The "magical power" to see through walls that Dennis touted was a nightmare for women, who already deal with constant harassment and stalkers in the city. Which was a shame, because it really could feel magical to meet up with friends because of where you'd checked in.

For a while, Foursquare also had the most reliable review data – or at least its users tastes better aligned with mine. It was refreshing to get useful content about a restaurant without reading through paragraphs of self-indulgent drivel on Yelp. But after the launch of Swarm, the reviews more or less rotted over time.

The founders of Foursquare got to take a lot of money off the table in a relatively early round, ($8M each? Series C?), which is something I'd love to get the present perspective on from investors and employees who were there along the way.
Can you cite American clinical testimonials for HCQ? HCQ trials appear not to be controversial: they're being tried widely. Who's saying it's working?
My understanding from the situation has been that banks don't care because in a checking/savings account, it's your money getting stolen, not theirs.

For credit cards with awful security, they don't care because the money they get from making it easy to sign up and use their services is far, far greater than the costs of dealing with fraud.

How accurate is this hypothesis of mine? It really can't be an education thing because I'm sure these companies have great engineers working there, both at the lower ranks and (at least sometimes) in upper management.
Quantifying the Quarantine and the Pivot to Gamification
I wonder why the issue of being able to waive away your rights - forced arbitration, non-competes, severance packages etc. never come up at the presidential campaign stage.

Seems like this is pervasive enough to affect pretty much everyone. Or am I misunderstanding something here ?
Although everyone wants to scapegoat AirBnB, interest rates have been historically low for almost 12 years. Reduced interest rates result in increased asset values, especially real estate when long term debt becomes cheaper.

I'm not supporting everything AirBnB does, but blaming them for housing/rental prices seems pretty ludicrous to me. We've experienced real estate bubbles since we started urbanizing.
An even more interesting exercise would be to implement a DDR5 driver circuit for the 1 bit of RAM. Typical DDR5 interfaces take hundreds to thousands lines of Verilot/VHDL so quite a few transistors will be needed.
Given the widespread shortages of the drug, you could operate on a 'rising tide lifts all boats' model here and if you're one of only 3 large scale suppliers you know that you and your competitors will all be selling more product.

I don't think it makes sense as a reasoning for boosting HCQ, though, and there are more obvious reasons why he'd promote it. If you want to make money this isn't how you do it.
Quinine used to come from the bark of a tree - that bark is available as a nutritional supplement. It's also is used to make the bitter taste of Tonic Water.
because of shit like this: https://www.post-gazette.com/uncategorized/2006/03/31/Philly...
There was a post about this doing the rounds yesterday. Annoyingly it was posted on Medium and has since been removed, but a copy of it, along with some interesting discussion, can be found here:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/04/05/wuhan-f...

The hypothesis is that the virus is somehow attacking the hemoglobin, stopping it from being able to carry oxygen AND releasing a toxic form of iron, both of which eventually cause organ failure.

I am not a doctor, but if this hypothesis is true, it could explain why the death rate for those who end up on a ventilator is so high. If your immune system doesn’t fight the infection off fast enough, eventually your blood becomes incapable of carrying oxygen. At this point, a ventilator won’t help you, you would need a blood transfusion containing healthy hemoglobin.

The tone of the post was that we are currently fighting the wrong disease - treating Covid-19 like we would treat pneumonia, when it is actually something unique.
What kind of demented, clickbait article is this?
Every epidemiologist of the world was aware a pandemy would have come.
And, guess what? We WERE prepared. It's being managed, it hurts, yes, but it hasn't turned into a zombie apocalypse with millions of victims.
- from Italy
DoorDash seems to have looked at Uber's many PR problems over the last many years and said, "Hold my beer".
My wife placed our first Amazon Fresh order last week and received it the next day, as expected. Worked great - on time, well-packed, and it was nice to be able to see when the driver was 6 stops away.

One other option you might try - if you don't have any relatives nearby that can help, community groups on Facebook and church groups in your area may be delivering groceries to residents in need. Get on a couple of neighborhood/church mailing lists and see what's available.
Regression to the mean is a huge problem with anecdotes. Some people get better. It may be due to some treatment, or they may just get better. This is why we have structured studies.
This drug is not administered to everyone though. It's only been tested and verified for people with I believe lupus and malaria. So we don't know the implications of rolling it out to millions of people worldwide.

That's why you do clinical trials.
Any drug with a high efficacy should be seen in small sample sizes.

E.g. As a sample size of one, I know that consuming alcohol has a relaxing effect. And that's highly testable, one I wouldn't mind participating in.

If n=11 and there was no deviation from the normal expectation, it's possible that there was some undetectable effect, but it's far more likely there was no effect.
What would help me is more illustration of the line between kayfabe and decency.

It seems like the line is "The audience is misled about the actual social norms". When olympic wrestlers refuse to stab each other, it is not kayfabe because the audience doesn't expect that. The Christmas Truce and various anti-latrine-bombing truces were kayfabe because the audience was British and German high command and these were done behind their backs.

If thats the right interpretation, then in this example:

> Perhaps confusing battles between "freshwater" Chicago macro economists and Ivy league "Saltwater" theorists could be best understood as happening within a single "orthodox promotion" given that both groups suffered no injury from failing (equally) to predict the recent financial crisis.

What injury would the audience expect?

Who even is "the audience"?
It’s a decades-old generic drug that multiple companies produce. Literally anyone with the means to do so can make it. There’s not a lot of money to be made with a drug that costs $5 for a course of treatment. You might have a point if he was pimping some brand new drug that cost $5000 a month.
Based on my experience, the standard dosage for rheumatoid arthritis is 400 mg/day vs 600 mg/day for COVID-19. To start with, anyway. I opted for 200 mg/day, and my rheumatologist concurred.
"this is the most accurate test of credibility we're ever likely to have"

I doubt it. Getting one random prediction right doesn't confer credibility. Getting several right becomes more interesting.
That's not even enough. We need their own words, coming from their own mouths, to be available online forever (compiled and meticulously categorized). If I tell someone that a news anchor has a terrible history of stating falsehoods, why should they believe me? I need to have a URL where I can go to obtain ALL of an individual's public statements about things, and rigorous details as to why the things they said were false.

Ideally it would be available via a decentralized source.

AND ideally a crowd-sourced platform so anyone can contribute.

Also we need the government to define different TYPES of news. Opinion-based and fact-based. Fact-based obviously will be held to extremely high standards, but the hope would be they would be rewarded for it in the market.
A good Bayesian should be able to make confident decisions based on information available at the moment...

No.

A good Bayesian should be able to come to decisions like, "I am 70% confident that Osama bin Laden is in that compound." While the Bayesian next says, "I am only 50% confident that Osama bin Laden is in that compound." With both knowing that there is a difference of opinion, but no disagreement on basic facts or reasoning method.

It is very rare for a good Bayesian to be absolutely confident of any prediction. And if you are often so confident, you're probably not thinking very well. I mean that quite literally - the process of analyzing probabilities well requires being able to make the case both for what you think will happen, and what you think won't. Because only then can you start putting probabilities on the key assumptions.

For example, a leader can be absolutely confident that shelter-in-place is the best decision based on the available information, while acknowledging that there is missing information that would drastically change this assessment.

Really?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22750790 is a discussion that I was in recently about whether on a cost benefit analysis it is better to crash the economy by shutting things down, or to keep things open and let lots of people die.

The decision wasn't nearly as clear in the end as I would have expected it to be. (That all options are horrible was clear. But we knew that.)
Taking Chloroquine too soon might promote viral infection by inhibiting the anti-viral response. https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016635421...

CQ is for patients who have uncontrolled inflammation in response to the virus, not to be taken as a prophylactic.