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I really hope you are wrong on this last one but the way the virus is being so disgustingly politicized leads me to believe you might be right.
How many similar headlines have I read since 1980... lol.

I do want it to happen, but my faith is shaken after 35 years of waiting.
I've looked at the findings from France (although I'm not a doctor, I can still look at the numbers and try to make sense of them). It does seem that people on ACE inhibitor blood pressure medication have worse outcomes than almost any other group. Which is relevant to me, since I've been taking lisinopril (an ACE inhibitor) for the past 5 years. The "official" medical recommendation is to continue taking it, but I'm pretty certain at this point that the official recommendations are more or less full of shit when it comes to C19. It's not their lungs that are on the line. If I get any symptoms, I'll stop taking it as a precaution, my blood pressure issues weren't that bad to begin with.
I'm not sure this is true. Simply because I'm not aware of a technology that has a 0 CO2eq lifetime emission. Production, yes (nuclear, renewables), but lifetime, no. It would be a HUGE step in the right direction and have dramatically reduced our load (20% of global) on the climate problem (probably influenced other countries too). But I want to be accurate here. (I know I'm splitting hairs here)
I doubt it. Just like nothing was done until the virus started killing people not will be done until climate change starts to really kick in.
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You can always start with "more than 50% of shares held by $ETHNICITY", and if you notice that you have an effect you can slowly lower the limit to allow fewer and fewer $ETHNICITY shareholders.
It’s not $4,500 for “you”, it’s $4,500 for a specific line of business that experiences higher losses.
The sad thing is that if people have the self-awareness to ask themselves these questions, they're already ahead of the game. People can't remind themselves to be self-aware and skeptical like that if they're not already. Unfortunately, they either are or they aren't.
Echo cancellation works in Firefox, we are landing a fix for chrome this week. It turned out to be quite involved to do spatialized audio and echo cancellation:

https://github.com/mozilla/hubs/pull/2361
They used to have a family account, but they removed it. I'm not sure why.
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side note - thanks for bringing up IQ2. I love the debate format!
Part of the problem is determining the threshold and keeping the crowd size below it. If nobody else is at the basketball court then sure, it’s safe. But the basketball court is empty because a lot of people who would love to play are staying away and respecting the closure. Why shouldn’t they get to be the one person at it?

Some sort of queuing or permitting system could work in theory but it’d be difficult to enforce.
In general, I think there should be a high burden for most folks on whether custom code should be permitted in these cases. I have absolutely seen the same, and this almost always comes after someone makes a reasonable decision to go with COTS, followed by new folks in the role abandoning that rationale for that commitment and companies not knowing how to tell customers "no" or even more importantly "We don't solve that problem, but we're happy to support ways for our system to work with something you procure or build that _does_ solve that problem."
I understand where you're coming from.

I think in all those circumstances, the delicacy of the delivery, disavowance of unearned authority, and presence of actionable advice makes the difference between "appropriate" and "inappropriate". I would not be in the slightest bit offended if someone at a party said to me "Listen, I'm no dermatologist, but that mole you said wasn't there last month looks a hell of a lot like one my co-worker had, and it turned out he had skin cancer. Couldn't hurt to get it checked out." Broadly, that tone was what I was trying to achieve.

While I don't disagree there's a negative effect from a "false positive", I think it's likely very small. The worst you'll likely do is offend someone. And while your Pascal's wager analogy is astute, I don't think the same objections quite apply - this case is a much more straightforward one of "high probability of very low harm, vs low probability of very high good", closer to buying a lottery ticket than Pascal's dubious infinities. Precisely calculating the expected return isn't possible, so you have to apply your best estimates.

My post did in fact contain actionable advice - "call your loved ones" - which has the useful benefit of working for many psychological issues besides schizophrenia, and also just being a nice thing to do generally. It was the best advice I could come up with. However, I can see now that in this instance I could probably have achieved the same result by giving the advice without the "diagnosis".
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I don’t know about you but I find it very concerning that mods of major subreddits like r/worldnews and r/coronavirus are censoring comments like:

> “Yeah but you can’t trust any of those numbers coming out of China. It’s gotta be way worse than they’re letting on”
Thanks for your answer. I'll like to point out that 3 is slightly eased off if the two viruses are already able to jump to humans. In this case, it could be the SARS coronavirus and the pangolin virus whose receptor proteins are similar to ncov19. Then all that is required is for the two viruses to jump over and then recombine. Definitely a possibility.

I find the wet market theory full of such improbabilities too. How is ncov19 relatively close to two known viruses, 1) the sars like bat virus it was 96% similar to, and 2) the pangolin virus with which it has resembling receptor proteins. Seems a lot of coincidence for these two to combine, both of which can jump to humans, and 300 meters from a leading Coronavirus research lab.

I know I'm just repeating the conspiracy theory, but just explaining my position. The virus was found initially at the wet market, and there is no proof of its origin being there. Plus it seems perfectly feasible for it come out of the lab and not be a deliberately engineered virus, atleast not one using the 2019 paper's chimera virus techniques.
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That's right! Unless one of those plants was in New Orleans or Houston and suffered a Fukishima type meltdown due to flooding. Or somewhere in the midwest where one suffered a Fukishima type disaster from a tornado. Or if one of the thousands of trucks and rail cars that would be required to ship nuclear waste to centralized storage locations crashed or derailed and irradiated a massive area.

The fact is that nuclear energy carries real and tangible risks along with its benefits. Unfortunately many of the most ardent supporters of nuclear power downplay (or deny completely) the tangible and serious risks which only serves to increase skepticism among an already skeptical public.
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Government funding for academia is not "subsidy".

About the charitable donations - you have a point there, but the fact these resources are given rather taken is a problem.
One of them leaked it to the press. So no.
Ok, let $ETHNICITY = white Americans.
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Love the idea, couple ideas.

1. Restrict it to 3-4 people max in each elevator.
2. Add in audio and close the room in 1 minute.
Of course everything touches c. But it's mostly all open source stuff that is maintained by a large community of coders and is mostly underlying dependencies.

When you are developing software, you just want that stuff to work. You don't want to have to dig around in the internals to figure things out.

That's why scripting languages have become so popular.
Germans idea of Italian food differs across Germany, I think. Munich, which is far south (so closer to Italy) and has a lot of Italian people has enormously good Italian food. Coffee is also almost synonymous with Espresso/Cappuccino/Latte Macchiato, and "ciao" is one of the most common ways to say "bye" in Munich (and I never knew otherwise).
My experience traveling has been that very few countries have as much variation of cuisine as the US, even considering the amount of 'american-ization' of dishes you'll see.

Alpha cities and regional / global capitals certainly do, but your average Midwestern city seems to have much more variation than a random middle-sized European city from what experienced abroad (with the caveat that obviously individual European countries are much more different from each other than US states are).
You’re technically right (the best kind of right!) but so is he when he says nuclear approaches 100% CO2.
Maybe solar+storage could get even closer close?
Oh really? There was a huge debate on Chinese social media about peer review and academic research? LOL okay and on the 4th of June 1989 Chinese students had tea at Tiananmen square. Its not even that people like you are ignorant, you're just a piece of shit asshole who's happy to be pimped out.
It probably has happened. I don't think we've had a post-1980s designed nuclear reactor fail miserably yet.

Nuclear remains the safest and cleanest form of power we know about. It was competitive on cheapness last time I checked but the trend favours renewables AFAIK.
You don't "tighten the publish review" by submitting the research papers to government body for approval.
Wisconsin is, outside of Madison and Milwaukee socially very conservative. Those same social conservatives were union Democrats. Unions got hit hard the last 30 years, so those union dems are now voting their conservative social feelings. It will only get more red over time.
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We were unable to build more nuclear power twenty years ago for the same reason we can't do it now, and it's never too late: it's only against someone's interests
Is there another paper on how to read "How to Read a Paper"?
Coal and nuclear are already on life support at this point.
Nuclear and coal needs a 50 year lifespan to hit current cost estimates. Meanwhile power plants are being shut down early because operating costs are already to high let alone construction costs.

This is a worldwide economic situation, with many players hedging their bets but that’s about it.
Which will be first, a renaissance of nuclear fission reactors, or fusion power plants?

Or both equally impossible?
Welfare is not UBI. UBI is for everyone (universal).
This kind of witch-hunt logic belongs in the dark ages. Persecuting potential experts on the situation based on vague assumptions and rumors. Awful.
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Sick. Thank you for this.
No is claiming that Chisel code is always bug free. Just like no is claiming Haskell code is bug free. However the point they are making is that these languages are way better in statically catching a whole host of bugs. They also allow certain properties to be expressed in the type system which is essentially having a proof that that invariant holds now matter what.
One person officially died from Fukushima radiation, and it was a person who worked in the plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
There's a restaurant called Awash on Court St in Brooklyn that's also delicious. Slightly more modern style but still terrific food and very chill. Ghenet on 4th Ave is probably my favorite though.

Also, you can't talk about Ethiopian cuisine without mentioning that they were the first culture to drink coffee.
You don't need blockchain. You just need a few big players willing to set up a payment system with tiny transaction fees specifically for email.

Heck, the big players, like Gmail, could just let you put say $5 down and then send 5,000 emails at a time (since you'd get it back when they were opened).
>Even if this isn't a bio-weapon, it actually would be pretty effective as one assuming you already had the vaccine, which no one does.

Not even close, not even a little close. With proper containment COVID-19 is easily contained. This isn't that great, especially when you look at countries who are handling this well: Taiwan. Bioweapons are notorious for being quick and lethal. As per the CDC on bioterrorism:

>When the potential agents are reviewed for these characteristics, anthrax and smallpox are the two with greatest potential for mass casualties and civil disruption

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/5/4/99-0411_article#r6

If you give me a normal amount of resources and competent public health professionals COVID-19 does not scare me. It's CFR is below 1% with adequate protocols (Standard, honestly).

China is so interconnected to the rest of the world, especially the US, the worst thing for them is to shut down both their and the US economy. Why would they test a weapon that disrupts the entire globe when you could have a weapon that has a narrow focus of a small region?
Yes, Donald Davies goes on the same plinth. Baran was taught in our networks lectures in the early eighties. I worked with other NPL staff on OSI systems in the later eighties, nice people.
Those industries you mentioned may be more likely to have fraudulent transactions. In that case it makes sense not work with them then.

You should have every right to deny service to them and the law supports you on that.
> ecologists want to reduce our nuclear capacity more and more

How can a person having some idea about ecology ever advocate opening coal plants and closing nuclear ones?
Why? If you are making money when you sleep the chances that you are using machines to make money is quite large. I am doing that and I don't have any slaves working for me.

If you can't see the slave analogy being what is nonsensical here then nothing I can say or do is going to convince you. So I guess by your definition you are either a slave or a slave owner. Oh well.
The whole way the regulatory system was changed basically made making new designs impossible.

In the 60s literally 100s of nuclear reactors were build and tested. Many with pretty small budget, and amazing innovation were achieved. But then the government started to turn against nuclear, defended all but a few projects, made access to nuclear material basically impossible, put in a regulatory system that made it 99.9999999% impossible for any new reactor to be ever licensed.

I do not think it is to late, nuclear is still the most efficient method based on a first principle analysis. The question is just can we develop a commercial product.
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It's the same story- I'll need to watch this version to compare the adaptations. The Russian adaptation is unique in a few ways:
1) I'm not sure how,but in times of heavy propaganda and censorship, these films got green light.The concepts they show were absolutely crazy at the time.I never really understood how soviet machine allowed this to be made to start with.
2) The film became an absolute cultural phenomenon that influenced generations. Some of the phrases used by lead characters continue to be used in wider context even today( I.e. "why do you need money? You've got no imagination!)
https://youtu.be/P8t2dbJ7YXY (1:44:00 the scene where they arrive to the town of gullibles.There's English subtitles option)
When a panel of lawyers is asked if someone can be sued, the answer is always yes.
Would be nice if we can host a meeting and pre-select the locations in the background. I think this can be an excellent solution for virtual meetups during the pandemic - much better than Zoom or chat rooms.
Oh,the monorail! What a great episode. Nowadays they go around offering hyperloop technology to naïve city councillors..
That doesn't make sense at all.

Just because a business is large doesn't mean they are high margin or have infinite money.

If McDonald's had to pay $9000/day in arbitration for every one of their billions of customers, they would spend more than their market cap in a few minutes.

The whole point is that these companies have to pay for arbitration for each customer, rather than e.g. a single class action law suit. So unless you make over $9000 per day off your customers, you're going to lose big time.
Clever of them to hide pi in there eh?
Nuclear energy actually had the most extreme growth adoption curve of every energy source ever. Even faster then the adoption of coal or oil in the centuries before.

It was totally crazy, but then form basically one year to the next, it totally flat lined. You can guess when that was.
Ah, fair enough. Re-reading my comment, I once more failed to remove ambiguity. My bad.

For clarity, we SHOULD use `let` with beginners, and any such pre-existing concept whenever possible. There's a time to reinvent some wheels I guess, but while first learning to drive certainly isn't it.

APL, haha gotcha. Way to zero-in on the edgest perfect case! It indubitably shows how a "short" form is not necessarily cognitively "light", which has everything to do with familiarity in my book— a sizeable body of knowledge already internalized, already abstracted into a symbol or form— e.g. "let x", or a function whatever the abbreviation, the logical construct if... then... else, etc.

Indeed should I speak to you in "objects you know" as a basis for language, chances are translation is possible between my ideas and those fundamental bricks of yours— some arragement thereof, that encodes whatever I want to convey. This is where/how actual pedagogy begins for me (totally layman perception, no formal training whatsoever).

But failing the basic math background, these concepts fall back one-step removed from cognitive ease. I find it's extremely useful to speak in whatever domain language fits the student's background. Meet them halfway there so to speak, if I can help it.
The lab needs to admit there was an accident, or an independent group of inspectors need to visit the lab to collect samples, review evidence, and make such a judgement.

Neither of these are actually going to happen. The conspiracy nuts probably prefer it that way.
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If you don't think the GPU drivers are complex, then look at the perf difference between nouveau and the nvidia proprietary driver. Those guys are also working on the bleeding edge of optimization. Sure you could write a working driver in short order, but its not going to perform the same.
Most of the SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, and SSE4.2 (there is no SSE5 in any released processor) instructions are not particularly feasible to be used by automatic vectorization, being mostly horizontal vector optimizations or some oddball instructions that are pretty task-specific (hi, PCMPESTRI). You might see them come up in SLP vectorization, but my last experience with LLVM's SLP vectorizer is that it does a poor job of taking advantage of these kinds of instructions anyways.

For hot kernels (say, memcpy), it is definitely the case that many projects have implementations of several different varieties of these, and use the version best suited for your current architecture. See https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=tree;f=sysdeps/x86... for the different variants of common functions in glibc.
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I just watched the Chernobyl HBO series, and I couldn’t help but notice the parallels between that disaster and COVID-19, at least in the US.

Those who lead governments are inherently motivated by self-preservation first and foremost, meaning that when something really bad happens, the inclination is to minimize the perception of a problem without considering the cost.

That inclination cost thousands of lives in Ukraine in 1986, and will cost thousands of lives around the world now because leaders didn’t listen to the experts early on. Not to mention the constant war on science and intellectualism that has been permeating American politics for years.

This is the price we pay to live in the political environment we have.
I understand the point. I still maintain any totalitarian communist regime is going to spread absurd propaganda in such a situation pretty much no matter what.

The lab escape theory is certainly completely plausible. But it becomes no more or less plausible just because there's "US military conspiracy" propaganda spread by the government.

They easily could've done that to counter all of the accusations hurled at them by US citizens that it's an intentional bioweapon, or due to Trump calling it "the Chinese virus" and constantly trying to associate it with them, or to pull attention away from themselves due to the outbreak starting there and just generally to reduce embarrassment and spread confusion that they hope will improve their reputation, or even specifically because of posts like yours.

If you assume for the sake of argument that the lab hypothetically isn't responsible, but lots of people think it is, this would be one way to provide such a distraction. It would as well if the lab were in fact responsible, but that definitely doesn't mean that's proof the lab is responsible. They have a ton of possible reasons for why they would want to spread this propaganda.

The hypothesis that "they're more likely to spread propaganda about the US military causing it if their lab caused it" carries a ton of implicit assumptions which may or may not be true. It's reasonable to speculate about and discuss, but it alone is evidence of nothing. If there were some leaked document saying something like "hey, since our lab fucked up let's distract people by accusing the US", then it'd be a different story.

Of course, China's government promoting and spreading absurd conspiracy theories needs to be condemned no matter what, but an analysis of the true root cause of the outbreak needs to be totally impartial and objective.
You wouldn't use traditional credit cards for micropayments. You'd need a dedicated micropayment processor just for emails that is significantly cheaper (like .01 cents per transaction).

The microprocessor would have an incentive to create anti-fraud systems. Perhaps you can't send email until 30 days after you pay or something like that.

It would be a place of innovation.

It could even start with the big players, like Gmail and Hotmail, allowing big senders to put down deposits.

In a dystopian world, it would be implemented by Gmail/Hotmail/etc. and they would allow free emails amongst themselves and then charge other senders. That's honestly how it would probably go down in the real world.
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