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> Creepy Coincidence #1

Asymptomatic spreaders are common for virus. Most people (~95%) that get the polio virus has no symptoms or very mild symptoms. It makes very difficult to control outbreaks if you don't vaccine a the people that meet the known case, but also the people that meet them and perhaps another ring of contacts. (I think that smallpox have no asymptomatic cases. It depends on the virus.)

> Creepy Coincidence #2

The problems with conjunctivitis, headaches, gastrointestinal problems are common to a lot of virus. Fever is what you body do when there is a virus somewhere, and conjunctivitis is what your body do when there is a virus in the eyes. Most of these symptoms are generic. Also, the virus may have a mild symptoms most of the time and very strong unrelated symptoms in a few times. Take a look again at polio or for another unrelated case take a look at shingles.

The other problems in your list are direct consequences of the virus. In some case you can get a secondary bacterial infection in the lungs. But with HIV the problem is that it destroy the immune system and then you get plenty of secondary infections.

> Creepy Coincidence #3

Mass confusion and hysteria. I agree, but I don't think it is particularly relater to Covid-19. Perhaps you should compare it to the last pandemic, like polio before the vaccine.

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In general, I think it would be a good exercise to try to find the same types of connections between HIV and Covid-19 but using instead Polio and Covid-19, or HIV and Polio.
Actually they are taking advantage of WebAssembly and ported some of the original C++ and Objective-C code to it.
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I found this site very helpful:

https://rt.live/
You are mixing facts. Ethanol absorbs water, but it does not turn into varnish over time, that is the gas. Ethanol that absorbs water separates out from gasoline but it is still liquid fuel that flows just fine. (it burns fine too, but you will have a hard time starting the engine on that mix)
> has never worked in these search engines

I would expect there to be an e-commerce site or blog post somewhere containing a page with the exact title "shirts without stripes" and I'd expect it to be the first match.
> Those are the times to focus on the poor and lift people up.

Which political party are we talking about here? This has never been a tenant of the modern Republican platform. They've tried to oppose every remotely reasonable education, healthcare and economic policy over the past 30 years.

You see the tax breaks as a mistake, but wealthy Republican donors got exactly what they wanted. There's no "oops" about this, it was intentional from the start. Rich bailouts for their rich friends. Not that the Dems are much better...
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Very cool ideas. I'm surprised that the article didn't mention R1C1 mode [0], which seems to be a big step towards the "intensional" view of a formula.

0. https://bettersolutions.com/excel/formulas/cell-references-a....
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Because of storage costs and uncertainties, it wasn't only the saudi-russia fallout that caused this - demand has literally flatlined comparatively due to lockdowns everywhere.
Indeed, it will be very interesting to see how this plays out over time, but there does seem to be a consistent correlation. This might enable us to target responses and resources more effectively.
Apple probably expected most users genuinely wanting to make a phone call would hold their iphone 4s a certain way. Turns out expectations don't always match reality.
> this sets up a relationship where now the company can use the employee's employment as a form of hostage.

Well, at least in this occasion there is an external factor at play. So the hostage situation is not premeditated as much as when a company uses the hostages as leverage when negotiating tax break.
LBJ was a scourge on the nation. You would be suprised how many people from Texas despise him. There is a well documented trail of bodies his political career left and its likely he was involved in the JFK assasination.
I can almost see the left slipper looking kinda like a head of a turtle
I would be fucked on my first expense report. "Why did you fly out of Charlotte, NC if you live in Seattle, WA?"
Apple 1983 ad. Vs Apple 1997 ad.
You still haven't answered the question...
As a heuristic (as in a psychological shortcut, not necessarily a generally-correct rule of thumb), I'm guessing one just assumes that it's always less expensive in the long run to crush the insurgency. Because you assume that's a one time expense, whereas feeding the people requires accepting permanently higher operating costs.
That blog post is misquoting a version of Gresham's law that's not actually true.

For 'bad money' to drive out 'good money', you need some force that compels sellers to accepts 'bad money' the same way they accept 'good money'. Because otherwise sellers will natural only accept the bad money with a discount or even refuse outright.

You can see that in action in many black markets around the world, where people use American dollars because their local currency is 'bad'.

Wikipedia has a lot of detail and background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law

> Those examples show that in the absence of effective legal tender laws, Gresham's Law works in reverse. If given the choice of what money to accept, people will transact with money they believe to be of highest long-term value. However, if not given the choice and required to accept all money, good and bad, they will tend to keep the money of greater perceived value in their possession and to pass on the bad money to someone else.

Have a look at https://web.archive.org/web/20130317073119/http://eh.net/enc... as well.
Why not? YT view counter is famous for being stuck on some low value like "300" when thousands of people are watching. It just isn't something worth updating in real time.
This is literally the same reason that every nonunion shop gives. They usually couch it familial language, and paint the union (i.e. the workers they're employing) as an outside agitator.
I've absolutely done the following:

Walk out of office door. Lock office door. Immediately panic that I've just locked my keys in the office. Unlock door. Search a surprisingly long time for said keys. Sigh disappointely when I realize what just happened.
The government can’t invent jobs that bring in more revenue than they cost though. If everyone does unsustainable jobs with printed money, you’ll have hyperinflation and then collapse.

> If they fail, they fail, and the government can scoop up the workers

This is a government forced failure. That’s a great way to turn every small business owner (a huge part of the middle class) against the pandemic containment efforts and the government in general.
Interestingly, various Greek tyrants were known for intentionally diversifying their cities in an attempt to break the solidarity of a population that might otherwise rise against them.

Thucydides noted: "A crowd like that are hardly likely to respond unanimously to any proposal or to organize themselves for joint action"

I've also read the "conspiracy theory" that racial division is pushed in an attempt to disrupt solidarity based on economic class.
I wish I could find a news source for this, but english newspapers suck in their coverage. I was actually in Kuwait as this happened, so I know it's 100% true. I spent that day being driven around at 130 mph in some guys's new porsche 911 turbo s. Energy industry is wild.
Lines like "kept the party going" make me think of David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" and sound right on brand for a cruise line.

Having read that titular essay, I have no desire to ever go on a cruise.
> It seems strange to want to eliminate someone else's best employment opportunity simply because it isn't up to your standards.

"simply because it isn't up to your standards" is the reason for all labor laws - OSHA, child labor, etc.

We shouldn't treat those born in poverty differently than those born into wealth - and it seems like a tiny step to require cruise ships to treat their workers well.
Not everyone is allowed to trade, there are rules if you don't have ability to accept oil they make it hard to get a contract that doesn't sell automatically. (not impossible, but a mistake guns up their processes so they have procedures to avoid it)
I'm also just an outsider, but I'd imagine there's risks and costs also involved in stopping/starting production that have to be considered.

Shutting off oil fields probably isn't as simple as turning a tap. It's likely a complicated process that could potentially harm a site's future production. There might be problems or it might take months to get things operating again...
.. more likely, the youtube view counting algorithm doesn't include embedded views.
There are some test cases included in MATPOWER that are around that size and may be imported. I only embedded small test cases in the application to keep the download size down.

I imagine this app being quite useful to lecturers teaching Power Engineering at Universities. Being able to just send students a link and not requiring them to install complex libraries, deal with licenses or restricted trial versions and them not having to use a particular OS or CPU architecture should help get them started quickly.

https://github.com/MATPOWER/matpower/tree/master/data
Since I was a teenager, if someone energetically asserts a statement is “true” or “false,” I drop the true or false and evaluate the statement. In essence, their only communication to me is, ‘I think this is important!’ Often, why they think it’s important is more pressing than whether the statement is true.
It's representative of a real pattern in queries, albeit maybe not the most common one. You'd most likely see this sort of query as a followup. The user types in [shirts], gets a bunch of results, some with stripes and some without, and wants to only see the results without. So they modify their query from [shirts] to [shirts without stripes].

And since most search applications are basically just finding you the results with the most keyword matches, with a little bit of extra magic thrown in, the above is basically what you see.

These queries are basically the equivalent of optical illusions in cognitive psychology when studying the visual system -- seeing how the systems break tells you a lot about how they work.

Have you ever seen shirt dresses in your dress shirt queries, or vice versa? The search application isn't caring enough about bigrams and compound words.

Have you ever seen bowls in your bowling queries or fish in your fishing queries? The search application is over-stemming.

Natural language search is a real pain on any general purpose search application, particularly ones that have to deal with titles. The obvious simple fix to this query is to rewrite [x without y] to [x -y], but then when someone goes to search for [a day without rain] or [a year without summer], you are going to totally break those queries.
IANAGeneticist but afaik it is known that there was interbreeding between modern humans and neanderthals and there are populations in Europe and Middle East with genetically discernible neanderthal ancestry, still your observation that they "look like a Neanderthal" is probably affected by confirmation bias.
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I live by a trail and run 5-8 miles whenever the weather is nice.

But inside my home... I have a pull up bar in a doorframe, a bench with some dumbbells, and an ab wheel.

I basically stick to the same routine I was doing at the gym, with the exception of more running.
(As a sighted person) I watch all my videos or podcasts at 2x. Depending on how new or dense the content is, I might have to occasionally dial it back, but I think I do fairly well at 2x (usually, this is only the case if I'm distracted or the slides are going by too quickly as well). Often I can even up it to 3x.
Never thought Masahiro Sakurai would be on HN. `/sarcasm`

Most of the online multiplayer games aren't friendly, including my reference above (Super Smash Bros series).
My preference is for a quiet space too. I moved my machine into the nearby laundry room and only have an HDMI & USB cable coming into the room. I'm lucky my house orientation allows for this. Next house I buy I'll try to replicate the 100% silence I now enjoy.
Because Youtube uses some measure of actually played video time to count a view. Depending on how it is implemented, downloads likly do not trigger that (since data loaded doesn't mean it was watched)
I think there is a lot of lobbying for tax avoidance. But maybe that's just my perception of govts using democracy as a banner while in reality policy is much more influenced by lobby effort than voters sentiment.
Oil prices drop below $5
Looks like the author is generating span elements with random absolute positioning
For the glider checks, I've switched to printed checklists. I made a small plastified sheet for it.

I like it more than the mnemonic, because I'm able to put more things, reorganize to make more sense, use more straightforward words… without being constrained to fit an acronym.
At least this is relatively innocuous. Until recently if you did a Google Image Search for "person" or "people", it only showed white men.
In rural places in the US, it's terrible for television. Several years ago, it was mandated that TV stations switch from analogue to digital.

Now instead of getting a little static and being able to understand 100% of what is said and shown over the air; it's now 10% recognizable video 90% visual blocks, and 0% audio.
Someone cold contacted you on LinkedIn, without a referral or network intro, and made a vague proposal to give you $1000? I would proceed with caution. Scams are increasingly common on LinkedIn lately, and this raises a few too good to be true warning flags.

If this proceeds to a 1 hour call, you need to decide some boundaries up front. Don't let the other person talk you into revealing sensitive information about current or past employers. Don't make any verbal commitments to deliver something to the client. If it comes to it, always come back to explaining that you can send over a proposal after the call. If the person continues to press for private information and/or verbal commitments, don't hesitate to put your foot down.

Finally, be wary of payment delays. A common tactic is to ask for more and more work while you wait for payment that never arrives. Some companies pay bills on 30, 60, or even 90 day terms, which leaves a huge window of opportunity for scammers to extract a lot of free work from people they never intend to pay out. If this drags on, you can request partial payment up front for continuation work or you can insist that the company pay down some of their balance before they can bill more hours to you.
QE still is recognized as a liability on the balance sheet and funds have to be raised and repaid via treasury bonds. That’s actually quite a long ways away from arbitrary printing.
> The only US flagged ships are ships that transit between two US ports.

And that's only because of some really archaic, protectionist laws that are driving up logistics costs for American businesses and keep freight off the waters and on the roads.
Laravel is still awesome and VueJS is really popular with Laravel devs right now (afaik). Vue is super easy to work with and there's a ton of documentation and examples for integrating it with Laravel. If I were in your position, I'd go with that stack.
Rawtherapee/Darktable + Hugin rounds out photography well.
Windows had that subsystem (osxss.exe) but for OS/2 1.x only.
That may be true, but even if unionization ends up not working out it clearly should be the right of workers to choose to unionize if they want to without management interference.
This is still 100% true today, especially in the US south.
Give is certainly a noun. As in, “the mechanism has some give.”

> the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.

Whether it makes sense to pluralize it.. well, no. But hey.
Facebook will take down some posts promoting anti-stay-at-home protests
> usually they can skate by with some platitudes about local control but when actually on a witness stand it doesn't hold up.

Maybe I'm missing the portion you're looking at, but all I'm seeing this says is that the plaintiffs argued it was about race, and the defendants didn't have good evidence as to their reasoning why they did it. To my eyes, and based on a lot of the information presented in the article, it is just as likely (if not more so) that it was about class. I sincerely doubt that district wanted to invite the poor white students from the full district any more than the poor black ones.

What that means is that this attempted change, which would have been racist in outcome if possibly not intent, was defeated by viewing it as racist as intent. Was that a good thing? Maybe? I guess it depends on what else they did.

How do you rectify the actual problem, when you assume it's people not liking others with different skin colors? You vilify those people and try to punish them or change them or wait for them to die or by marginalized, none of which seem to work very well. But if they weren't actually racist, and it was more a problem of class and poverty, there are other solutions, because in addition to trying to change the people you can also try to help those in poverty.

Distilled to a simple form, it's like seeing a white shop owner turn away a black homeless person. You can assume racism, and ostracize the shop owner. Or you can assume classism, and do the same but also try to help the homeless person. I think in many cases racism is used as an easy way to "resolve" a problem without addressing it at all. It exists, but it's also intimately ties with class and poverty, and one of those is much more useful to address at this point than the other, but it also much less likely to be addressed.
Mostly the storage cost. Let's go extreme, say you managed to grab the contract at $0, which may actually happen today. Now you need to 1) Find transportation and storage 2) Sell it on the market as quickly as possible, at a reasonable cost.

Pretty tough TBH, unless someone is planning a war in Middle East and is grabbing up the contracts and you know about it...
So does this mean that without bids there are potentially many traders, not refiners or tank farms, holding those contracts still? That those traders will get stuck with taking delivery because they couldn't unload their contracts?
>GP didn't come across as ill-intended to me

oh really? so this bit implying OP is presumptuous isn't a personal attack?

>Give people context. Don't assume people know what you know.
> require the multi gigabyte widows linux subystem to be installed

It's Hyper-V, so you could just run Linux VM without the sugar coating.
It's worth noting that YouTube is optimising for the opposite: they want to prevent artificial view count inflation. Therefore, this behaviour (the view count not increasing when the videos are automatically accessed) would make sense.

If you're interested, an interesting measure for difficulty is how much companies charge to "buy youtube views" (e.g, $16 per 1000 views is ~8x the cost you'd pay for typical CAPTCHA solving).
Thank you! Really appreciate the link.

I'm really interested to see where this project goes, please keep me in the loop!
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> I'm a software developer, which translates to being somehow smart

Being a software developer doesn't make you intelligent. Way too many devs have kind of a god complex just because they can tell a finite state machine what to do. This is especially ridiculous because a large portion of devs are writing glorified CRUD web apps in some opinionated web framework.

There are many different layers to intelligence. Social intelligence is often dismissed but still very important to society.
Unionization isn't exclusively about pay. It's about workplace power and voice, the result of which is often higher pay but not exclusively or always. In the recent crisis having a union at Canada's major grocery chains meant they were able to demand a whole series of safety measures and accomodations (plexiglass shields, hazard pay, sick day flexibility etc.) that would have been far more difficult to obtain otherwise.

The origin of the modern union movement (as opposed to old guilds) has a lot to do with the demand for 8 hour days, weekends, and regulation of child labour -- not exclusively issues of renumeration.

Unfortunately part of the post-WWII settlement between labour and capital in the US and Canada had to do with giving up a lot of the shop floor power that unions had won during the 30s, the war, and immediately after it -- in exchange for compensation and job security. The AFL-CIO took a far more moderate political line, and clamped down on socialist and communist agitators within its organization. And when the right wing and austerity forces became more ascendant in the late 70s and into the 80s they were left with no real political tools to fight it with. Unionization, and compensation, declined. And unionization got its reputation as a bureaucratic and often corrupt practice as it failed to do much to help its workers.
As others have mentioned, you're looking for forward error correction, and there are better ways than sending duplicate packets, although they all do add redundancy in various ways.
Thank you. I was aware of the money laundering. What Danske Bank did is under investigation for being illegal under 'hvidvaskloven'. Let's see how that goes, but the company and its directors are expected to face consequences.

That case has nothing to do with a 'tax haven', unless a pattern is formed and the authorities turn a blind eye.

I didn't know about the Kommanditselskab company form. It does appear to have been abused, but I can see this is something the tax authorities are on the case with.

Link in Danish to a report from 2016:

https://www.ft.dk/samling/20151/almdel/SAU/bilag/165/1619506...

How possible it is to act as a tax have and how friendly a country is to be used like that is a spectrum. The Tax Justice Network report you linked puts Denmark very low on that ranking and tiny (their word) in volume.
Tax is closer to $1 [0]. Gas stations are supply restricted in the sense that their storage tanks are finite in size although it seems to me most of the price is because they can.

[0] https://www.ocregister.com/2019/04/16/californias-gas-taxes-...
Conversely, I can't fathom how people can enjoy long stretches of singleplayer.

I occasionally play a bit of Cities Skylines every few months, but if there isn't another human involved, games just can't hold my interest.

Where's the satisfaction/fun come from if you're just beating some silly algorithm?
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You linked to state sales tax on gas, but are there other burdens? Local sales tax, bond payments, other taxation for road maintenance, etc? I don’t live in CA, but just thinking your pump price may be encumbered by more than a sales tax.