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Hi, i have a Thinkpad L450 and when i was looking at switching to Ubuntu on my laptop, i saw that it had worse batery life than windows,i don't remember how much,maybe 10-15%?Do you have any experience on that?Battery life is pretty important for when i take my laptop on courses(not anymore eh)
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"No clear evidence" uncovered in a "preliminary investigation" was a completely true statement. They never ever said "okay, this definitely isn't transmissible, everybody can ignore it". They said in the early stages that it was too soon to be sure. All the other tweets from this period are saying the same thing: something might be coming, so countries should prepare.
No, in fact I think Bill Gates has fronted the money to develop several candidate vaccines fully to shorten the time to widespread introduction as much as possible.

Likely all of them would be developed anyway as some might end up failing (either during testing or during mfr) and I imagine demand is going to be high.
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Pressure sales are an automatic 'no'.

Saves so much time and energy, and you rarely if ever actually miss out on anything good.
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The concept of a universal port was perfectly fine, it's just the implementation that is flawed.

And before USB-C and Thunderbolt, "Just because a cable looks like it'll fit" DID mean it will work, at least for what an end-user would have been likely to face.
That's because you need to know that there are ~20 million veterans and ~1.87 million elementary school teachers, i.e. you need to know the base rate if I'm reversing the calculations properly.

Another flaw of averages is apparent when you realize that the average person has less than two eyes.
YouTube also delists from search results content that details non-strawman evidence against the Apollo moon landings and videos of rockets appearing to hit the firmament, among many others. You can still find those videos with the same search terms by searching YouTube with Yandex or with a direct URL.

They also have unclear "hate speech" guidelines where they will remove videos and ban channels without specifying why.

The point is, this behavior is consistent with YouTube.
Professional can go up to 500GB, Plus only goes to 20GB, but that's set manually in their dashboard.
Not all advertising, especially in the broad sense of the word, is bad. Arguably, most of it is.

http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
It's almost like there should probably be some oversight on one of the most powerful entities on the planet to stop these anti-competitive practices.
What are you talking about? There is no checkmark. Just the text https://fally.ro/screenshots/chrome_q9YExThjo9.png
Cities are relatively broke. See the NYC budget: https://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/understandingthebudget....

I know some would zoom in on those pensions, but those are basically social safety net / 401k investment replacements. And the 18% wouldn't make or break large projects. Building is more expensive than ever for many reasons, which include permits and lawsuits, but also labor cost.

Efforts to raise taxes are usually thwarted by threats of business and wealthy citizens fleeing.
Lasik is 100% elective, and nobody needs it done immediately to save their lives or relieve their suffering. It's a cosmetic procedure - like liposuction - one that you can shop around for until you find the right provider.

You can't compare it to the type of non-elective or emergency procedures performed in other areas of health care, or treatments for severe chronic conditions. You can't even compare it to routine doctors' visits which are often put off by uninsured people due to the costs, allowing minor conditions to develop into more severe (expensive) ones.
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Hm, true a bit, but also children are not so naive .. and those who are, would not read that text and just click and fill out until they get again, what they want.
This is exactly the reason why there are specific limitations on so called "Haustürgeschäfte" (sales made on the perch of your own home) in German and European law. For example you get a reasonable time period to rethink those sales without any charges.
That data currently exists, although I’m not sure how definitive it is. A study was conducted where infected monkeys were exposed, which triggered detectable antibodies, and then exposed again. The monkeys did not show signs of the virus upon secondary exposure. I believe the biggest open question is the longevity of those antibodies and whether or not the virus mutates rapidly enough to eventually make the antibodies ineffective. Information comes from this video: https://youtu.be/kgzFAdYwYLM
There is a great deal of complexity here.

On the broader topic, breaking up Youtube, Facebook and the like is entirely desirable but would probably be pointless unfortunately. Increases in copyright zeal make a new competitor to YouTube impossible and the network effect guarantees both theirs and Faceebook's dominance. In light of this, I imagine the only solution is to legislatively guarantee an uncensored platform on essentially the same logic that requires net-neutrality.

But I point out that "uncensored" is entirely ambiguous. For better or worse, the vast mass of people want and expect it with the percentage very dependent on the particular item. From archaic restrictions on "dirty" words over radio waves through to displays of sex to recruiting terrorists to national secrets to doxing individuals to child pornography.

For right or wrong, somewhere, the public, legislators and each individual decides to draw a line. In addition, for short periods of crisis or certain locations or certain influencers, the line can move. The often misused example of yelling fire in a theater comes to mind but a national leader harmfully using false announcements to raise the value of stock he owns would be an example. More relevant would be the South African leader who zealously told his people AIDS can only come from drug abuse.

On the YouTube issue, for right or wrong, they drew the line in a place some would not. I would guess because they view such messaging as unusually fatal in the short term and they don't want to be a part of it. And that they could not find any simple judgement criterion that would do what they want without doing too much and yet be palatable world wide. If we legally require them to carry every upload regardless of content then it will lift all their burdens. But it will certainly create very real problems for others.

My point is that the issue is far more complex than bumper sticker sized answers.
And that’s part of the problem, a loose confederation of states with a weak central government morphed over the past 200 years into a president who has such unbelievable powers and a federal government who claims total authority over the states. It wasn’t meant to be like that.
The paper in question: "ON AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN METHOD OF DIAGNOSING PREGNANCY AND DETERMINING FOETAL SEX", Ghalioungui et al 1963 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1034829/

I'm mostly surprised that they cite two previous experiments by Manger (1933, "Untersuchungen zum Problem der Geschlects diagnose aus Schwangerenhamn" https://www.gwern.net/docs/biology/1933-manger.pdf ) and Hoffmann (1934, "Versuche zur Schwangerschaftsdiagnose aus dem Harn" https://www.gwern.net/docs/biology/1934-hoffmann.pdf ). Who knew? Truly an example of Cowen's second law.
Not a fan of the patronizing tone the author uses to describe ancient Egypt. Reeks of chronological snobbery.
I get what you're saying, but I get irate at people who don't answer calls from unknown numbers. Spam or soliciting? Hang up and block caller. It doesn't take more than 5 seconds.

I've been in situations when I don't have access to my cell phone and I need help from friends, so I call from a stranger's cellphone. I never get an answer. I have to text them from the stranger's phone (and see their text messages), wait for them to see the message, then accept the call. It's incredibly frustrating.
So you're saying that the Republic of China Armed Forces belong to an entity called "Taiwan"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_Armed_Forces

"Taiwan" passports say "Republic of China" on them.

My passport stamps from when I entered Taiwan say "Republic of China".

Taiwan is just _one_ of the islands that the ROC controls. Calling the ROC "Taiwan" muddies the conversation and helps the PRC narrative that "Taiwan is a province of China".

The ROC has been a de facto independent country since 1912 when it was founded. The existence of the PRC since 1949 has not changed that.
Completely different. ISPs are often a government granted monopoly. You can't just up and start one to compete, so it makes sense that they must be neutral. It's not a free market.

Anyone can start a YouTube clone, and if enough people disagree with YouTube's policies, they'll come use the clone. That's the free market of ideas.

See: Reddit/Voat
The comments on that article are something else!
App stores are the same thing since most companies with app stores have their own apps. They can decide when the right time is to build their own version of something that's popular and promote it in their app store.
We still dont know if the antibodies confer any sort of short / long term immunity at all. For all we know we could get the virus, fight it off and get it again. Rinse and repeat. While all data is useful there is still so much we don't know that hampers us from putting this data to use.

General lack of testing though is going to severely hamper our response to this. Overall unfortunately the federal government has failed to rise to the occasion.
Individuals or the Team?
>the lockdown is not about stopping the virus in its tracks. It is about spreading it out over a period of time.

It's unclear what the lockdown is about at all since the government messaging has been incoherent. Many countries have (so far) succesfully contained the virus without herd immunity through contact tracing, and the US government has been making vague comments about pursuing something along those lines despite not doing anything to increase testing volumes to the levels necessary for contact tracing.
That would have HUGE ramifications to the provider side of things and would likely increase costs.

Right now, insurers typically reimburse higher for larger practices (due to volume), but smaller rural providers can have amazing leverage as well because they are the only game in town. Generally, the smaller providers would get reimbursed less.

If you force insurers to have only one "price", then they are going to set their reimbursement rates for the largest customers which would also apply to the smaller customers (so they'd get a bump).
In that case they should return book results also, which are usually the highest quality.
> there are certainly treatments that have helped some number of people

This is simply an unsupported false assertion.

Name one treatment that is used for a person with a positive covid test that would be in any respect different from someone with the same symptoms and no test.
Another factor couldd be where the virus load lands - in the lung or the throat.
You could call me a serious amateur and I have done two very cheap set ups similar to what the article describes.

First Setup: Windowless bathroom

What I learned from this is that you need a really rock solid bench or counter to put your enlarger on or very small vibrations from focusing or triggering the timer might cause blur in the printed image. Monorail designs like the one in the article are very prone to this already.

Second setup: A basement

I went to an art supply store with a flashlight and inspected each piece of cardboard they sold until I found one that the light did not shine through (Elemer's, I think). I cut these to the size of my windows and then used electrical tape to make a light tight seal. Electrical tape is just terrible for this but it blocks the light. I had a nice bench for the enlarger and a table for the trays. There was a utility sink already installed that I used to rinse my prints and film. This was way better than a bathroom, but it was not dark enough to change film because of the pilot light on the hot water heater.

Future:

My plans are on hold at the moment, however, I now have a basement with a great room for a dark room with nearby access to water and sewer. I'm planning to go the whole nine yards this time and install a dark room sink plus dedicated lighting and ventilation. Not exactly a $100 project though.
This is why Apple stopped describing their portables as “laptops” some time in the early 2000s. They didn’t want the legal risk of somebody burning themselves after it was implied to be safe to use on their lap.
The problem isn’t letting people decide for themselves. It’s the fact that when it comes to some things, even a small minority “deciding stupid” can destroy the commons eg endanger lots of lives.
Isn’t there a saying that’s something like, “your right to swing your arms ends where my nose begins”?
See my edit. I'm 100% pro-ROC and 100% anti-PRC. Calling the ROC and its other non-Taiwan holdings "Taiwan" helps the PRC with their "Taiwan is a province of China" narrative. First time I, a stringent anti-communist, have ever been called a PRC shill. There's zero chance I'd be allowed to enter the PRC if they can see my internet posting history.
Fair enough, I respect your decision not to engage.

I also appreciate that you empathized with my POV.

To clarify, the point I was making wasn't "liars, cranks and con artists don't exist, and no one gets to decide otherwise."

It was "liars, cranks and con artists do exist, and we need to empower people to decide which is which by letting them practise."

Thank you for this conversation, I for one learned a lot.
And parts of the US are ahead of Italy and Germany.
They also said people who went to the grocery store 7x as much were 7x as likely to be infected which is what I think this person was replying to.
At this point, we should really throw away the current phone system and use an authenticated model. There should also be laws forcing the phone companies to not allow this. I get at least 2 spam/scam calls a day and there is no hope that it will reduce.
Well .... I did reset the password, created a temp gmail account, reassigned the contact email to the new email address then deleted the gmail account (I didn't want to mess with his content) .....

But facebook never forgets, even though I deleted my email address from the account I continue to get spam emails from facebook wondering why I've stopped using 'my' account and encouraging me to come back into the fold
Coil: $5/mo, Content creators get a proportional cut of that amount according to what is browsed with the browser extension enabled or the Puma browser, and Private: No Tracking

> Coil sends payments via the Interledger Protocol, which allows any currency to be used for sending and receiving.

https://github.com/coilhq

It looks like the Web Monetization API is not yet listed on the
Website Monetization Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website_monetization

Quoting from earlier this week:

> Web Monetization API (ILP: Interledger Protocol)

>> A JavaScript browser API which allows the creation of a payment stream from the user agent to the website.

>> Web Monetization is being proposed as a #W3C standard at the Web Platform Incubator Community Group.

> https://webmonetization.org/

> Interledger: Web Monetization API https://interledger.org/rfcs/0028-web-monetization/
at that point it should probably no longer be called a tip... sounds like a different form of compensation
I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs in my code
This is going to inject a distortion on medical innovation in a time of crisis. Manipulative in the worst possible way. The moment they start censoring they become editors and not a platform.
One final comment on this thread for me:

I don't think people are saying "Amazon is useless" or "Amazon is going to go out of business".

They are bloated with Chinese knock-offs. No name brands that are all the same thing with a different sticker and a bribe to offer a 5-star review. Listings are manipulated to get max reviews. There is so much wrong with trying to find consistent brands and any quality.

That said, if you want knock-off stuff that may work as well as you expect for the price, it's not bad. When the pandemic isn't here, you have quick shipping on everything. And certainly, many other stores have inferior navigation to Amazon.

One more time: No one is saying Amazon is going anywhere or that it sucks for everything. For the goal of looking for non-Chinese crap, though, it has regressed significantly.
aarch32 decode is far less complex than x86 and aarch64 is even less complex than that.
On the power consumption side, decoders definitely make a difference. They use tons of power and a huge number of instructions means having a huge, power-hungry instruction decode cache.

In addition, complex instruction decoding requires more decode stages. This isn't a trivial cost. Intel can shave off several stages if they have a decode cache hit and that's not including the ones that are required regardless (even the simple Jaguar core by AMD has 7+ decode stages possible). Whenever you have a branch miss, you get penalized. Fewer necessary decode stages reduces that penalty.
Even with the CARES act, Amazon employees can't just quit their jobs and choose to collect unemployment instead. People who quit their jobs aren't eligible for unemployment.

There are a few exceptions under the CARES act if you can't work because of something directly related to COVID, e.g., if you're a parent who has to take care of children because schools are closed. Being afraid you might catch the coronavirus at work is not a valid reason and would not make you eligible for unemployment payments.
This was my thought exactly. Some of my friends in the Bay area got COVID-19 (confirmed positive tests) after quarantining for over two weeks at home and taking all of the precautions. The only place they had been was the grocery store, so they suspect that they got it there.
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ocw/pluginfile.php/437863/mod...
voters of the US overwhelmingly support universal healthcare and a majority supports medicare for all. it's not the voters. it's the politicians who are bought and who deceive voters into thinking they are on their side, who tell lies about what things are possible because it hurts their donors.

Clyburn, the congressman from South Carolina whose endorsement arguably delivered Joe Biden a landslide victory, has received millions of dollars from big pharma [0]

[0] https://khn.org/news/democrats-taking-key-leadership-jobs-ha...
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no, there’s still IP which plays a role and different vaccines have different pros and cons and logistically it might also be easier to scale multi different vaccines to the demands of the world population than a single one.
Medicare does a better job of "negotiating" because they aren't really negotiating. The gov't simply passes a bill that says "Medicare will pay $X" and providers are left to either accept it or not take Medicare patients.
“Every day is Saturday” on YouTube, as traffic to “authoritative” sources surges
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Do they just wait around to let you take your time to go back and call to verify?
Yeah, that is still an issue. You can offer compensation to incentivize participation. And you can pre-select your sample (instead of random door-to-door) and require multiple follow ups with the selected persons to reduce nonresponse bias.

You can also do a separate phone survey in addition to surveying the test participants. Questions like "Do you think you have had COVID?" and "How many times per week do you leave the house?". If the responses for the test participants vary significantly from the phone survey participants, you can try and weight your data accordingly.
It’s a dark pattern to pull people on to the platform who wouldn’t do the work for the tipless comp alone. “Surge pricing” that can be revoked by the buyer at will. At least Uber doesn’t let riders renig on the surge fee.
Not having a dedicated work area like a home office or just a desk and office chair in a corner of the living room (this is my solution) sounds like a nightmare to me.
I'm in maybe a similar boat, except I've gotten exactly one thing that was later determined to be a fake (and AMZN refunded).
Hey, I am excited to announce that my native desktop client for the App Store Connect has passed the review in the Mac App Store.

This version is a one-time purchase and it’s called the Indie Edition.

The direct sale version named Team Edition is subscription based and can be downloaded from the official website: https://nativeconnect.app

If you’re an Apple developer, please check it out. Cheers!
That the 0.5% death rate in NYC is not higher is _because_ of the pause. We saw the death rates spike at the peak of the curve. We saw the hospitals near total collapse. We even have an example of what would happen if we didn't flatten the curve (Northern Italy). We have another counterexample of California that shows NY's pause was late.

I guess Sweden is the counter-counter example. I think the US would have needed to have built out a far different medical system to achieve what they have.

For a few days at the end of March and beginning of April, the hospitals came so, so close to collapsing. Just a few more days up the curve and we would have run out of beds. (In reality, we did run out of beds, as you can see stories of many turned away from hospitals in those dark days, but it wasn't quite a systematic collapse).

All of this happened, we were here to record it. Models are models, and we're in the early days of a deadly, virulent, confusing pandemic. But there is no doubt that our reactions and solidarity saved lives. The imperfect models helped us get there.

Now, there is a more reasonable question of where do we go from here. For urban metropolis like NYC, I think a slow re-open like Germany. We slightly open the spigit so that 20% becomes 40% becomes 60% (and hopefully immunity is immunity) and we achieve herd protection (at great cost).

And likely the less dense, the slower we'll need to go (depending on hospital saturation).

I certainly will cheer the scientists who took the best information they had at the time and worked with the leaders to make the best decisions they could. Yes, I will indeed hold them "accountable".
Tips from my experience:

1. If someone who calls you asks you for ANY sensitive personal info, just tell them that your policy is to not give any personal info to those who called you, but you’re happy to call the official number. That stops it right there

2. Use email aliases instead of your actual email when creating accounts with eg Amazon Web Services. An email alias is like me+somethinghere@gmail.com — this way the attacker can’t get the customer service rep to give them access to your account easily.

3. If you use your phone as a 2FA, be on the lookout for sim porting - that’s when they trick the rep into porting your phone number.

I had the third one happen, luckily I acted fast. The attackers couldn’t get into my G Suite email but they got into godaddy to port the domain and MX records to their servers. So they could receive email sent to me, and send email as me. They also changed my GoDaddy password. I had my phone as the 2FA at the time. Better to not have one at all, or use an authenticator app.

I called in and luckily GoDaddy restored my account. Too bad they had no tool to check what changed so I had to check every domain manually.

The attacker was too slow in that regard. But it was telling that I received an email with the subject “Test”. That’s what tipped me off.