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I actually agree with everything you said, but I still haven’t found the basis for the tremendously costly actions taken.

As we can see, NYC did not particularly flatten their curve, and they did not see excess deaths due to lack of available care. They already hit the endpoint prevalence that you would see with the flu in a very bad year.

It’s not clear how much further SARS-CoV-2 would go naturally — the S curve doesn’t ever go to 100%. But more importantly, without a vaccine, which we won’t see for 12-18 months, we are going to find out exactly how high the S curve goes.

We have a small degree of control over exactly when that happens by burning extremely large amounts of money. So, when do you want it to happen? Now, while flu is at its nadir, or after spending $10 trillion dollars perhaps we can see the final surge during the peak of the next flu season?

The fact is that there isn’t actually a known treatment for COVID, and even with treating the symptoms (invasive ventilation) 80% of people in the ICU will die. This isn’t a disease for which “flattening the curve” makes particular sense. That would require there actually be an effective treatment.
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That is very cool. Alas, most of the other hardware engineers I work with can hardly write C, let alone Haskell, so I very much doubt I'll ever be able to use this at my job. But I like to see that there is innovation in this space and that people are trying new things.
This is kind of depressing for me. I've failed interviews at Amazon, MS, Google and Netflix. I studied a bunch and managed to get 5/5 on all but one section of the TripleByte test.
Macro can’t always save micro.

If Bezos borrows $70B against $100B in stock, then the market crashes 30% in a week, and the fed pours money in to save it, it’s too late for Bezos, all his shares are already in his brokers hands.

The myth of the fed bailing out public stocks is pretty silly when we’ve just suffered through a 30% drop in a week, and a decade ago lost over 50% in under a year.
Using 'unsafe' isn't about improving performance, though it may be required to enable some performance improvements. It allows you to use constructs that the Rust safety checking infrastructure can't reason about. Memory used as a DMA target (ubiquitous in database engines) is an example.
And if I could combine the flavor of a Granny Smith with the texture of a Pink Lady, I could. :)
Agreed. Considering their size the innovation output of these companies is really low. Google still hasn’t found anything besides selling ads and total surveillance and Apple mainly makes things thinner.
Or, you know, test the vaccine the same way we test the flu vaccine every year, which takes a few months, and doesn't require abandoning basic medical ethics.

There are actually steps we can take to speed this up without abandoning medical ethics. It certainly makes sense to have the first human trials be on medical workers, because it has the highest chance of producing benefit for them, and the results will be clearer in populations with a higher infection rate.

But we're not talking about those because you guys would rather talk about injecting people with coronavirus based on a poor understanding of both risk and medical ethics.
Oh, nice, I was completely unaware of this feature. I must have missed it because it's only available inside private or group DMs, not channels!
>30.2% of US GDP

How much further can they go?

26 million or so recent unemployment applications and the stock market is not off much from recent all time highs.

This is more concerning than the initial falling knife mid-March.
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According to the website, they are designed to run cooler and with lower power, which may negatively affect the performance in relation to the more common Blue ones.
Unity, Unreal, Godot, Game Maker etc are all so popular these days it’s easy to lose sight of how you can make a game with a “custom engine”.

“Make games, not engines” is fine advice in general but you can make an engine for your specific game without making that engine look like Unity. You don’t need a sophisticated custom level editor, you can just use something off the shelf like Tiled. You don’t need an extension language (like C# or Lua), you can just do the whole engine + game in one project, with one language.

You might also have a valuable mental toolkit that is squandered when using an existing engine. I can’t count all the times I’ve said, “I know how to implement that, but not in Unity.” My mental model of how objects are drawn to the screen consists entirely of buffers and shader program invocations. There are also plenty of games that just don’t benefit from some of the core features of engines, like physics, and need to roll their own anyway.

Some games have fairly custom needs and aren’t a good match for existing engines (like No Man’s Sky or Minecraft) and some games (especially 2D games) have very simple needs and an engine doesn’t provide as much of an edge over something like a framework (e.g. MonoGame) or platform abstraction library (e.g. SDL).

Or in short, “custom engine” does not automatically mean “half-baked alternative to Unity”. Just how it’s totally fine to make your next web app backend without using a high-level framework, and it’s totally fine to make your next frontend without React. If anything, it’s easier than ever to make a frontend without React, just like it’s easier than ever to make a game without Unity.
Hmmm.

From plant to combine/harvester, to wagon, to bin, to truck, to elevator, to railcar/barge, to mill, to bag should be an approximate path. I'd say that someone peeing on the bag is most likely to be a problem and you'd notice that. In all other cases, a single person peeing on a couple tons of grain isn't very likely to matter. The ground up dead rats probably affect it more.

IOW, there are bigger things to worry about.
Is @LBRY-Digest run by your team or someone who's a fan? It's promoting garbage like this https://lbry.tv/@LBRY-Digest:a/WHO-Wuhan-Health-Organization...

If it's not official you should clamp down on account naming because it sure seems like it's official.
> Otherwise you could say that just about any American middle class family is wealthy — just look at the entire world’s population

Any middle class American is wealthy by the world's standard. The quality of life provided by middle class America is the life of the 1%. To not see this is to not understand how most of the world lives, and the challenges people face from being less lucky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU
Still super interesting. My (completely flawed) intuition was that the blood would be fried useless by any dosage enough to kill bacteria!
You don't even have to go that far. If it takes an expert to tell the difference then it stands to reason that the average person will never really taste the benefit above the average level.

I guess this is why it's called "a matter of taste". Anecdote: I can't stand vinegar in anything. So it's really interesting to see someone insist that I should use it because it makes this or that better.

Experts have to judge based (also) on objective criteria. You don't, you just like it more or less.
Thanks, I suspected it was some sort of artifact.
I get what you're saying, but I think facts suggest that this isn't downside with significant impact. Populations seem to grow just fine in all sexually reproducing species as long as conditions are ok.

Even some of the poorest countries have very high fertility rates, as high as 6-7 births per female, so availability of women is not an issue.
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Oh, wow... I can't believe I forgot to add that site! I literally used it last night and that photo is of me and my friends.
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I did something similar, but just got a MacMini which is to rather old but quite powerful, has a lot of RAM and it is more enjoyable to work on with the setup I have (keyboard, mouse, monitor).

I still use MBP for travelling but not when at home.
IIRC, your eyes actually irradiate a significant chunk of your blood per minute. One of the trade-offs of wearing sunglasses is that you cut off this process.

Unclear how large of an effect is has, probably less than removing blood and irradiating it, since that process doesn’t have to balance against eye damage.
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"It teaches you that the best values are at the extremes of real estate: you want to be either a luxury condo owner or a slum lord.”

I thought the best properties in Monopoly where the opposite of this? It's my understanding that the best properties in Monopoly are orange followed by green then either red or yellow. Mostly the middle of the road properties. Orange is the best because it's approximately a 7 roll away from jail.
I'd say our military budget is a good target for trimming. Even a fraction of it could be applied to infrastructure projects.
Any recommendations for better learning resources?
Keep in mind that in high cost of living areas, such as the Bay area, all housing is essentially jumbo mortgages.

If jumbo loans are not available or hard to obtain, this means that people who do lose their jobs face an illiquid market and don't have the option to sell their house to avoid default, and thus end up on the street.
I would of thought the Purples would have been one of the least bad places for SMR in consumer drives, since it's pretty much just all sequential load.

On the other hand, the Black with SMR is just shocking, considering that's their "performance" line.
Considering the expected value of your publicly traded stocks at 0 is not good advice. If you actually believe that, then it would make sense to trade all of your holdings for a dollar.
AIDS isn't really a relevant comparison to COVID-19
It does note that "only 5–7% of blood volume needs to be treated with UV to produce the optimum benefit", so you'd be left with enough functional blood.

It's certainly interesting, but it's gonna be misused as a "see Trump was right!" bludgeon today by people who skip the conclusion ("use for drug-resistant bacterial sepsis").
Not to excuse people, who provide no metrics or benchmarks for their "performance optimisations", I want to acknowledge that benchmarking is hard.

I hope something like NixOS will enable people to write and publish "reproducible" (in quotes because precise numbers are impossible) benchmarks by enabling you to setup your OS, user space and compilation flags exactly like in the benchmark.
Thanks! I am glad you liked it! Release for macos will be soon! Most probably within a week at max! The reason i haven't been able to release for mac yet is because it would require a mac to package this! I am working on a work around to get this packaged for mac! Do visit the repo in a few days!
As a canadian, I disagree with how strict you’re describing the issue to be. There are a fair amount of big and well established companies that are not going to penalize you for lacking the five years and connections. With that said, they’re almost all in Toronto, but that’s a different issue ..
What a shit headline, and such irony when I click the link and see a giant banner declaring that "explanatory journalism has never been more important."

The article starts from the premise that raw spectrum is the way to measure significance of WiFi standard revisions to sell ax as a bigger enhancement over the previous standard than when n or ac hit the market. Then a few paragraphs later The Verge to hedge down into "Will this make Wi-Fi faster? Sort of" and "the new airwaves should help bump your speed up."

So, the "biggest upgrade" in 20 years is better throughput for the handful of RF environments where the bottleneck isn't already the uplink? Cool.
"The WHO is just as trustworthy as Trump" doesn't really seem like a big vote of confidence for the organization. This comeback only makes sense if everything is a purely partisan divide and anyone who is against WHO must be pro-trump.
Sigh, this keeps getting downvoted...

The thing is: look how much we love convenience! Instead of having two devices (a decent phone and a much better separate camera, both rarely updated) we prefer to constantly upgrade the phone to have a better camera.

But a lot of the times you know you will be making photos in advance. If you go on holiday or you have an anniversary, etc. there's not that much planning required or bother to bring the proper separate (compact) camera.

It's really amazing.
"Firstly UBI is clearly an example of the well-known phenomenon called “hormesis” or “biphasic dose response’."

They're saying that the benefits are not due to any germicidal effects, but in response to the oxidative stress it imposes, which is generally considered to be detrimental at higher levels.

To put it perhaps over-simply, it exercises the blood.
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3. Can you easily differentiate your sentence from a teenagers instagram post?
One interesting fact I learned the other day:

IBM did 140 billion in stock buy backs in the last decade.

They have a 100 Billion dollar market cap.

I think that is a bit of what we have going on right now. A system propped up by injected cash, which works for now because everyone plays along. Most of this injected money goes into the pockets of the rich, who are the ones holding the assets that the FED is bailing out. Modern extreme economic inequality is a function of monetary policy, not political policy.
The biggest problem for me is that everyone plays by their own house rules.
And for fun, I recommend Existential Comics: https://existentialcomics.com/philosopher/Aristotle
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So now Trump is an idiot-savant? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/health/sunlight-coronavir...
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tasty tomatoes are nigh impossible to store fresh. i think i've heard a story about a lab or some other enterprise working on storeable, transportable, tasty tomatoes. first couple companies to get there certainly have my money.
Yep, received 5 of a product instead of one.

It wasn't anything expensive, but it looked like it didn't get split out of the bulk packaging it was likely received in (barcode for single item was applied to bundle of 5).
Conversely, if the instruction set was the main factor, you'd expect Qualcomm and Samsung also to have ARM processors with a similar power to performance advantage over Intel chips.

The reality is just that Apple is ahead in chip design at the moment.
Does everyone need a Discord account to join the call?

The big benefit (for me) of Zoom is that I can send a link to anyone and they don't need an account. Asking someone to sign up for a Board Game Arena account AND Discord would be too much.
A game usually is defined as a set of rules and actions so that when you are playing the game no matter how many players play that game that you can get into some kind of win condition.

Looking at what other people have posted "paying off your house" or "filling the museum" in Animal Crossing are more like achievements that you can perform but they aren't necessarily a win condition.

A similar game that is more of a toy than really a game is the Stanley Parable. Sure you can get the Achievements in it but there is no real win condition at all. It doesn't even penalize you for not doing a task and instead figuring out the endings is what makes it fun.
> but hardly anyone speaks to references.

I'd be surprised if this were universal. I've been the reference for several people and had references checked for every job that I've had.

I can totally understand why a company wouldn't check references (bias, mainly), but HR is full of a lot of cargo cult superstitions.
From the article, which I found relevant wrt. COVID:

> These observations led to application of UBI in patients suffering from pneumonia. In a series of 75 cases in which the diagnoses of pneumonia were confirmed by X-rays, all patients responded well to UBI showing a rapid decrease in temperature, disappearance of cyanosis (often within 3–5 min), cessation of delirium if present, a marked reduction in pulse rate and a rapid resolution of pulmonary consolidation. A shortening of the time of hospitalizations and accelerated convalescence was regularly observed.

Of course I have no idea how this generalizes to the pneumonia you get from coronavirus...
You might be interested in https://github.com/holmgr/cargo-sweep
It seems to me that centralizing means that if the service goes down, your entire chain is down.

Decentralizing on the other hand makes it possible to replace individual links.

If GitHub goes down you can switch to Gitlab. But you can't do that if you're using GitHub for git and issues and CI and static sites, etc.
Been there. Hold tight, things get better. What worked for me:

- Tell the interviewer you needed some time off and that you're fine now.

- Don't mention depression.

- Don't trash-talk past jobs regardless of merit.

Remember, life is not fair. Don't overexpose yourself if you don't need to.
To me, it sounds like it brings code synthesis into the kernel, sort of a realization of Massalin's Synthesis kernel ideas.
Yes. Judging from the HN discussion of a very similar list a week ago, a loud minority confuses “not Turing complete” with “sandboxed”. Hence lots of discussions about security that seem to miss the point.
With the Green Egg, you’re paying for a brand name for sure. The Kamado is definitely not cheap, but it’s typically around half the price.
Just bear in mind that Russell was very biased in favor of Analytic philosophy, so you're not going to get much from him on the Continentals.

Like many other Analytics, he seriously misreads Nietzsche, and he doesn't even mention Heidegger, Husserl, Sartre, or Foucault.

I like Russell, though. He's clear and eloquent, writing well on the subjects he does appreciate and understand.
Somewhat related to this: although I like to imagine I'm still young (hah!), dynamic and open, I'm quite set in my ways and conservative with software (Debian is my distro of choice on any computer). There's two particular areas where I've tried to learn newfangled stuff over the past few years: deep learning frameworks (because I find the field interesting) and Docker (because it does seem very practical in some circumstances). I feel exhausted by how hard it can be to find good information on either one! Everything I need is usually out there, but it's buried in pages upon pages of google hits that are short recipes or "tutorials" that involve sequencing a bunch of runes without communicating any understanding of what's going on.

Does anyone have a good strategy when approaching such hyped up topics (not in particular the aforementioned ones) where almost all sources seem to focus on "just getting it working" and lowering the barrier to entry? I don't mean to promote gatekeeping here, it's just that I personally can't learn from the "just do this then this" style.
England has London, Scottish cities aren't on the same scale.

There also appears to be a pretty huge immigrant/racial skew in ICU and death cases for unclear reasons, conjectured to be vitamin D related. This is likely also skewing Sweden vs their neighbours, given Sweden's enormous migrant intake.
I've stumbled across your page some time ago and forgot to bookmarket it, thank you for sharing it.

Always wanted to build something like the RPG Maker for the web myself, but never found the time to do it.
Your product looks wonderful and I'm a bit jealous.
"Otherwise you could say that just about any American middle class family is wealthy" Comparatively correct in the global sense.

Nothing bad can come from putting things (yourself?) into a global human perspective. Considering how much chance is involved with where we are born, a middle class person/family in the US is quite wealthy by default.

I wonder how many take pause on any regular basis just to acknowledge and appreciate the relative wealth that they were lucky to be born into?
I think it was all bound to this - power issues make weird quirks throughout the system.
Does UV light from sitting in the sun reach the blood vessels near the surface of the skin?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix

> [...] found a 6.6-fold increased risk among children and youths, resulting in 3.6 additional cases of narcolepsy per 100,000 vaccinated subjects. [...]
Setting aside the issue that this can't really be used on SARS-CoV-2 at all, being accidentally correct doesn't make you a savant.
1. Part of current knowledge are the facts that a) we don't know the long-term effects, and b) those long-term effects might be horrific.

2. It's apparently not obvious, because people on this thread seem to not have thought of it, and when I pointed it out, they've argued vehemently against it.
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> Its like buying La Ferrari which all experts praise, when all you need is to drive 80kmh to next town.

Any car driver can easily appreciate the difference between a Ferrari and, say, a Ford. You can't say the same about wine.

Now, since you're making a utilitarian argument here - what is the point of becoming a sommelier when all it does is make you so sensitive to the taste of wine that you need to spend hundreds of dollars for "a really good one"?

On the surface, this sounds like a huge waste of time and money to me. Perhaps having such a fine taste is pure bliss. My suspicion though is that sommeliers are just bullshitters that use their knowledge of expensive produce to get into the company of wealthy people - and earn a decent living.
> Funny thing regarding biases in political leaning is that it's all based around context

Or it just highlights the complete uselessness of the right-left dichotomy.
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I made the similar dataclasses_serialization library. It doesn't require a special decorator on your classes, and is extensible for custom classes, and custom serialization methods (JSON and BSON provided by default).

https://github.com/madman-bob/python-dataclasses-serializati...
Nowadays strings are stored in a "string pool" anyway, so if you have a string that can be turned into a factor (i.e. with few unique variants), you probably don't need to.
My point is that another set of pop exists that is not possible to test using the grocery store method.
Sounds like you need a side project! I have had one for years and it's great. I'm in charge and can make sure I use modern technologies and techniques.

I wrote about some of the benefits here: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/08/02/personal-proje...
Wow, that matches my experience - but I thought I had just developed a more refined taste. Golden and Red are almost and completely inedible to me, respectively.
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Nothing. I am not saying they weren't geniuses. I am merely pointing out that there is insufficient evidence for a definite conclusion either way.

Cf. Shakespeare. Yes, he was a genius, but not nearly so much of a genius as many people often claim, because a lot of people confuse "Shakespeare is our earliest surviving recorded source for a lot of features of the English language" for "Shakespeare single-handedly invented half of the English language", which is absurd.

And the great minds of the European Enlightenment may also have been genuinely great... but they are also nearly all rich men with patrons and leisure time, and the means to preserve their thoughts in writing. Our view on their history is much clearer than our view of the ancient Greeks, but there's still no telling exactly how much influence there was from their surrounding unrecorded culture, or how many important ideas would've been independently proposed by others if others had the same access to publication and historical preservation.
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