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I’ve spent time a lot of people that live much better than me in what are considered third world countries, including overall quality of life, who make far less than I do. There are countries where money goes much further and family holds much greater value when compared to work than US culture (and laws) generally produces. They see friends and family for meals many times a week, their health care is affordable, and their jobs are more secure. It would be thought of as a cultural taboo to value work over family, whereas the majority of US employers see placing family over work as a fireable offense. Yes we have more paper wealth, but if we have to work longer hours and are spending it all on utilities, healthcare, and vastly overpriced housing, does it really matter?

Edit: This applies to countries with relatively reasonable populations with respect to their resources. This does not apply to places like China and India where there is a huge population to support.
I think the temptation is to assume that the president is at least of average intelligence. Unfortunately this leads to this strange apologist behaviour when he says something fricking stupid.
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Is this specific Mar 2020 onward economic crisis being caused by usury?
> Would you accept such nonsense from your plumber, or your dentist, or your electrician?

This would be a reasonable comparison if 90% of software developers could reliably produce bug-free code. This would be a (maybe less) reasonable comparison if 75% of software developers could reliably produce bug-free code. This would be a middling comparison if 50% of software developers could reliably produce bug-free code. This is a completely unreasonable comparison given that there have been 0 software developers ever, in the history of software, who have been able to reliably produce bug-free code. So yes, software development is orders of magnitude more difficult than plumbing, dentistry or electrician(-ing?). If you think it isn't, please feel free to jump in and prove all of us wrong.
I agree, I also think there is some weirdness going on with the 'we can presume it has infinite memory'. There seems to be many assumptions of different strength all waved with that same phrase, depending on the system in question.
Code review also isn't great at catching the kinds of edge cases that lead to many production bugs. Even tests only help you so much, because if you forget about input X or state Y or api result Z while writing the code, you're likely to forget about it when writing tests too. This is why bugs are more or less inevitable in systems beyond a certain level of complexity that are being actively worked on, and why engineers who think very carefully about anything that could go wrong will produce far fewer bugs than sloppy engineers who try to use process as a safety net.
In my case it is my significant other which had trouble adapting to Italian food. I took over the kitchen anyway :-), and I'm learning how to cook Turkish food, which is as wonderful as the Italian food.
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> is meiosis and mitosis the only two way to reproduce?

Well, from a high-level view the only way a cell can make more cells is to divide, and if it divides it either makes a copy of its genetic material first, or gives half of it to each daughter cell. So in that sense, they're the only two ways possible.

From a more detailed view, I wonder if the machinery of meiosis is evolutionarily the same in every sexually-reproducing species, or if it has evolved more than once. My guess is only once, because it has a specific sequence of events which is always the same.
I do like that! I have been telling people that I'm content with relationships existing in chapters. Not everyone needs to be a follow on social media. Lets praise the utility and companionship of the time it was applicable. And maybe there is a cameo appearance in another chapter.
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I've been selecting top-noch english speaking instructors from Argentina so as to charge 25USD per lesson per hour because of the cost advantage of that country.

I'm building this to let anyone to start taking yoga lessons, on one to one bases so as to have social pressure from the instructor while doing it from home (a 1/3 of the price of what a regular yoga private lesson).

I've focused on Adwords so far, an that has worked.

How do you think I should communicate this to get people to start taking lessons online? How do we get people to try this during the quarantine?

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Not everyone owns a smartphone, how can they enforce this? High tech fascism is a double-edged sword, this is certainly a good time to be a hacker.
> Any reasonably good programmer can get a job at a FANG company with three months of serious study

Do we seriously believe there are so many FAANG jobs available that "any reasonably good programmer" who wants one can have one, just for the price of a bit of "serious study"? I don't think so. Google et al may be big, but they're not that big or growing that fast.

A great deal of the demand for engineers does not come with anything like FAANG-level prospects.
You're talking about iMessage. Messages uses iMessage AND SMS so it is a tool I can communicate with everyone without them needing to install anything or have any kind of account.

The ubiquity and integration with the OS is unlike anything anywhere else. Every time I've tried to use Linux/Windows/Android it's the killer feature that brings me back.
I don't understand why the WD Red 2-6 TB range was specifically assigned to SMR, not the smaller or larger drives in that line.

Is it especially price competitive?
I assumed this would be for people who test positive for infection and are on a two week quarantine. But this is apparently for the general public? That seems like a gargantuan overreach and completely unnecessary. Lockdowns are certainly imperfect and there are plenty of bad actors, but they are still very effective despite the flaws. If it ain't broke, don't fix it with compulsory government tracking of all citizens.
The third one is not too bad to test programmatically, if you write a test harness that spins up a mixed version system.
First job friends are my closest work friends, especially since most of us relocated for work. It's kind of closer to friends you made in college, because it's a transition period to bond over.
Proponents: "Don't worry, that secondary bacterial bloodstream infection due to vascular access will also be cured by this machine"
Should theories have a control group
I agree. I think it just looks bad.
I'm probably biased here due to the length of my career; at this point, my resume is extensive and speaks for itself. References may be more important if you've got less experience.
That's still not comforting. People can see if you're wearing your wristband or not; unlike a phone.

This disease has leaders treating human beings like we're gears in a machine; or machines that can be turned on and off. >25million unemployed Americans who are burning through months of savings, with unpaid bills and rent and mortgage due, begs to differ.

Humanity cannot be turned off an put in storage. Maybe in the EU there is relief and good social welfare systems. In a lot of the world, there isn't. And then the media blasts protestors as right wing gun waving people who want haircuts. Some of them might be sure, but some of them have also been in food bank lines for hours and are wondering how they are going to survive without an income for another month.

We are suffering form two diseases. The first one is the virus killing people. The second one is ever measure without forethought leading to the suffering of the poor, increasing poverty and eroding our basic civil liberties.

This disease has shown our leaders don't see us as people. They claim they care about our lives, but they only really care that people are alive.
It looks like it was just the 1T black. Still... would have never suspected they would SMR in the black line. Truth be told.. it was the last think I expected in the red.
Honestly I suspect he just saw a news article about UV sterilisation of a room or something and got confused. And Dunning-Kruger did the rest.

Like, confusion over this is not uncommon; elderly people trying to ingest disinfectants, say, is A Thing, and weird health claims for UV/sunbed aren’t new. It’s just that most senile people don’t really have the platform to promote it.
No pain no gain. If the US and SV opportunities aren't a type of gain that's compelling to you then of course you dont need to worry about it. But if they are, then you need to make your own luck by making those sacrifices. Things about family ties and wants and stress are all part of the work you put in to make your own luck.

Being American is a pretty great gig, for all the stuff you keep hearing on the news. There's a reason silicon valley is silicon valley, New York is New York, and so on. Theres a lot of luck that comes from being here. My parents left behind their entire support network in india to set out on their own, navigated the complex immigration process (granted, easier 20-30 years ago than now), and made those sacrifices, and it more than paid off. And I got lucky by just getting to be born here. Things like "you dont want to move outside your country " are completely valid, and part of why american immigration works is because immigration is such a hard thing for people to do (leaving everything behind) that it self selects for the people willing to make those sacrifices.

The one valid one you mention is the difficulty of immigrating. That can be a straight up barrier in the way of a motivated person that would be a useful addition to this country and should be removed. This is the country of immigrants. We should keep that part of our culture alive.
Wow, Instagram has really gone over to the dark side. They haven't just broken the back button, they have entirely disabled it. There is no way to escape that site other than typing in a new URL or going to your browser history.
It's a 71 year old book. The omniscience of the state has vastly expanded further than anything George Orwell imagines, no matter which age you happened to become aware of it. Time for a new colloquialism.
The makers of Lysol also had to issue an official statement:

As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route).

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/business/lysol-disinfectant-t...

I keep thinking of this recent Ted Chiang quote:

If your goal is to dramatize the threat posed by an unknown virus, there’s no advantage in depicting the officials responding as incompetent, because that minimizes the threat; it leads the reader to conclude that the virus wouldn’t be dangerous if competent people were on the job. A pandemic story like that would be similar to what’s known as an “idiot plot,” a plot that would be resolved very quickly if your protagonist weren’t an idiot. What we’re living through is only partly a disaster novel; it’s also—and perhaps mostly—a grotesque political satire.

https://electricliterature.com/ted-chiang-explains-the-disas...
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Start with something of broad interest first, rather than a niche. It's easier to find customers this way. If you have expertise in the niche, you likely know the fundamentals well. Teach those fundamentals.

Don't worry too much about production quality. The value is in the message. Many people fall in the trap of obsession on the production and get demotivated by the lack of progress. Just think of this as a recorded live talk. Prepare some slides, think about what you're going to say, and record.

The most difficult part is marketing. It helps to have an audience. People prefer learning from someone they feel they already know a little bit.
Tangenting a bit. It saddens me to no end that this happens just after the unemployment rate for African Americans hit record lows. I'm not a SJW by any means, but it's so frustrating to see a whole class of historically mistreated people get punched in the gut the minute they start to get a good toehold.
This is very kind, he has no concept of what he's talking about. The man is a bullshitter, and not a great one.

'Here's a word I barely listened to and have no conceptual backing for, what if that word? We're doing great '
Benefit of the doubt for Trump: He is actually just trying to maintain a positive attitude about there being a solution.

Cynical response to Trump: He only half listens to the people around him, and genuinely believes he knows better than everyone in the world.

Not sure which of those it actually is, but I'm sure it's one of the two.
If I were to make a service today, I would probably start with Actix, or maybe Warp. I don't think that this problem has really been solved yet. I've taken a few cracks at it myself over the years and am still not 100% happy, I dunno.

The last time I wrote something I just used raw hyper. I didn't need complex routing though, if I did, that would have been an absolute pain. It was also a read-only service so I didn't need auth or a lot of other stuff that's needed in every real app.
yeah I have no clue why you're being downvoted. Everyone else on this thread has confused iMessage and Messages.
> To see people like that so unsure of the world in which they have an immense amount of influence over deeply undercuts their image of being these brilliant and visionary leaders.

This is a beautiful sentence. It is often touted, "If you don't like the culture you live in, change it". The response of most people is that they don't have the influence to change it, and it's better to just bare it until they can move on. The examples of Zuck, Thiel, and others who do have this influence, but choose to invest in fallback plans rather than throwing everything into making the needed changes says a lot about the mentality that breeds success in the US.
What seems like a paradox to me is how he can be so smart at playing crowds, working the political system, etc. He beat a Clinton in a race for president - that's no mean feat.

But then he does things like this that reveal he's actually a bit on the dumb side. I don't think there's any other way to square that.
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In wich country did you decide to move? Some have more troubles than others during this period depending on sector.

For example, most companies in Germany/Europe working in the automotive sector froze hiring since nobody is buying cars anymore.
Trump is going to unintentionally kill off a lot votes for him
Yes, it is being automatically de-referenced.
It was dead for about 10 minutes after I posted it, I think it tripped up some spam/troll filter for new accounts. It's fine now though, but I can't edit the original comment and remove the last line.
Sorry, but I didn't understand what red and green buttons you mean
Given that one only needs to recirculate 5-7% of the blood and expose it to UV C, could we not shrink this age-old device into something portable? I don't know anything about phlebotomy or the implications of liquid pressure in the body, but it seems like if you can administer a syringe you can draw blood, UV it, and put it back in as well.
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I've worked as a structural engineer (EIT) before. There are some situations where structures are complex (earthquake modelling and really large bridges) but honestly software is way, way more complex than structures. I'm not saying I agree with the contributed article (I think people should be sorry for bugs they missed, at least to a point) but I have some empathy for the fact that even seasoned developers let bugs in despite all the tests, and lints, and monitoring, and best practices. Sometimes you just don't anticipate something and nobody else around you did either. It's a more complex domain than the forces in the physical world, and unlike the physical world in most cases, the same mistake goes to everyone. One electrician screws up one time and one house burns down to the ground. One software engineer screws up one time and well everyone's shit breaks at the same time.
In my area of the US, a good percentage of the majority crop (corn) goes to produce alcohol to burn as fuel. So we pour poisons and fertilizer on the land and burn huge amounts of petroleum to produce a seriously inefficient crop to supplement an energy source that doesn't need supplementing. Just to give farmers something to do and to keep the CEOs of the chemical companies in yachts and private jets.

This kind of reminds me of the Soviet whaling program that almost wiped out entire species of whales for no reason other than the 5 year plan said that they needed to continue whaling.
I wonder if a simpler model could be done. When donating plasma your blood is cycled through some machine that removes the plasma and then your red blood cells are pumped back into your body. It's about the same as donating blood as far as pain/invasiveness. While it would take some doing, it seems pumping your blood around a UV light source has GOT to be simpler than removing the plasma. Yes, you still have to make the machine, but intuitively it doesn't seem super complicated.
No. For me, in 16.04 everything was perfect, 18.04 started breaking things
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You have those rights as a human not as an IG user.

As IG user you have only one right, to say "yes" to any changes they want and to obey to the algorithm of banning and censoring. You don't have any right if you can't enforce it. They can ban end censor your opinion and can enforce this right, you can't do anything about it. You are the product they're selling after all and they care about you in terms of as much revenue you can generate on this particular platform (macro picture of user retention).
"If other people have deliveries, I'm less likely to get sick and die."

Outside of the very worst-hit parts of the world, going shopping while taking precautions does not seem to be capable of raising the transmission rate to unacceptable levels. We're not trying to prevent every and all infection, only to keep the rate of new infections at a sustainable level.
This was not clear :O Would be good to clarify in your original post.
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The “R for Data Science” book by Hadley Wickham (creator of tidyverse, and I believe he is chief data scientist at R Studio) is hands down one of the best introductions to data exploration and analysis.
I go into detail in another post (search for make games, not engines) but the original meaning behind the phrase wasn't "do not make engines" (at the time it was originally posted you pretty much had to make your own engine) but "focus on your game's features when making your engine". It was meant as an advice to avoid feature creep in the engines people were making.

Essentially another way to say KISS.
What about a charity like Give Directly? It provides one-time large cash non-restricted grants to individuals in some of the world's poorest communities.

It's hard for the people just barely getting by to also fight for better governance. Giving a small 'leg up' can help communities get better faster.
His cause of fighting infectious disease? His foundation has a lot of experience and expertise in this subject. It would be a tradegy for it not to apply that in this epidemic.
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I’m not sure why anyone would assume that at this point.
I could maybe, I guess, giving these to people temporarily if they actually test positive and are legally required to stay at home AND there was a problem with compliance with that order. But assigning them to broad swaths of the population would be completely unacceptable. The way that stuff like this is just being casually proposed and accepted is really alarming to me.
The President appears to be unaware that the States of Florida abd California have been doing large randomized trials of the impact of UV radiation on disinfecting the outside of the human body for a number of decades now. However, the CDC has expressed concern that the UV radiation may have unacceptably elevated side effects, such as skin cancer. Commercially developed irradiation devices for external sterlization using UV radiation have been similarly frowned upon.

The President also appears to be unaware that Europe conducted very large scale randomized trials in 1915 through 1918 to assess the beneficial impacts of application of common household disinfection agents applied to the skin or internally by inhalation and ingestion.These products were not found to be particularly efficacious in mitigating the 1918 flu epidemic. Comparison of the test subjects with civilian control groups indicated that there were numerous undesirable side effects such as death, blindness, severe respiratory damage, and numerous other deleterious effects. The side effects were sufficiently extreme that the nations signed treaties agreeing not to conduct such mass disinfection experiments again with these products.
I’m not sure what your last paragraph has to do with the first three.

A main purpose of buying a stock is to receive dividend payments. Buybacks are just a tax efficient dividend.

The latest craze to make paying dividends sound evil is just strange.
These are specialized sites - I'm wondering if there's an aggregate site like HN for well educated commenters.

We need a healthy ecosystem of sites like HN.
The biggest flaw with this one is the lack of an undo button.

Interacting with stacks of cards is sometimes weird, and the physics get wonky, especially with hex tiles that snap to the board, but still don't align properly.

It works better the less objects are involved.

Playing "Wingspan", putting a card below another with eggs on top is dangerous.

Don't even try to play "Dominant Species".
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Part of what allows a company to have insane cashflow is issuing corporate bonds at artificially low prices because the Treasury is manipulated by the Fed.
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I think the value is being able to say there were multiple people who didn't catch a bug, so the original coder was acting reasonably.
Unfortunately US work visa for people from my country is not so easy. Though I've been applying at companies in EU, the visa process is much simpler.
The same story. I was mac os addict for a long time since 2010 MacBook air and 2012 MacBook pro. They were amazing machines with stable *nix based OS.

But since that time Apple more focused on phones, desktop OS didn't get much better. The only thing they are doing is more and more cloud integration to lock you in the Apple ecosystem. I got tired of that.

Now I prefer to use Regolith Linux, because it's much better for the development to have a Linux system with proper package management, without messing with the brew.

The distro is insanely fast, and you can almost forget about a mouse with i3. It also is really minimalistic, and default settings are really good. I didn't have any urge to change anything.

And it works really great on Thinkpad laptops which have an amazing keyboard. For home, I am using NUC Hades Canyon with last-get desktop i7 processor which a bought for 300$ and you know what, it's at least 2 times fast comparing 2019 MacBook Pro 15'. RIP mac mini. All drivers installed out of the box, even wifi and external sound card works without any notch.
Terrible, sorry about that. Only on desktop though. On mobile works fine.
Pretty sure I've had wine that cheap in France and it was perfectly OK.
Construction loans are a completely different animal. You're getting part of the money up-front before a single board is nailed down. It makes sense that they will monitor progress and costs.