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Of course you can always be better. The question is whether you should flip the table with a radical experiment when you’re already number one. You don’t hear of many sports teams doing this. Businesses that try it risk a shareholder revolt.
Text is information dense but allows skimming. Audio (and video) are linear. One minute is a short audio or video message. It's a very very very long text. Good luck.
I don't know where you're from, but here in WA we do have clear criteria. What changed is that we realized that we aren't capable of testing people. Everyone expected tests to be easy to create and widely available well before now.
I'm currently working on deduping and threading conversations across different mediums.
I agree with your sentiment and I would go one level deeper down the rabbit hole. A lot of what we've been led to believe were blatant lies. Just look at the way people are talking about reopening. There's all this talk of vaccines and testing. Those aren't going to be real solutions. A vaccine is a year away. Closing everything for a year+ would be the end of civilization. As far as testing... think about the scale of testing we would need. You'd have to basically isolate everyone, test them, and then keep the infected isolated. And you'd have to do that over a very short period of time, like a few days. We're not delivering 300+ million tests in a few days. It's not happening. Testing is useful. It's not going to be some panacea of perfection, or even particularly "good." The hard truth is we're going to eat a lot of deaths from this. And none of the experts can possibly know what is the exact right recipe to minimize deaths, either from covid or economic disaster. Any state/country/whatever that gets better results will have done so totally by luck and their solution might not have worked elsewhere for a myriad of reasons. It's all false confidence.

Just look at Remdesivir, or however it's spelled. The news corps are pushing that as a possible treatment. Except guess what? It doesn't seem to reduce your chances of dying. Worth noting, pharma companies are major advertisers for news networks. It's all been bullshit.
It's a very early version. Zork development began arund June 1977, so this is just six month in.

I believe the officially final version is from 1981, and is the one Bob Supnik distributes. Macsyma developer Eric Swenson made off with a 1979 version, but it's virtually identical. I'm not aware of any more preserved versions beyond these three.
AMD and Intel do not use the same node designs.
I agree with you, but my point is: other than their internal problems, wouldn't a aggregator suffer the same faith?
We need to prepare for the mental health impact of coronavirus on kids
Quantity before quality, essentially.
Interesting thought
Having a bee house (for mason bees) has worked very well for us. Harvesting the cocoons in fall helps prevent concentration and spread of parasites, so I find the split-and-drilled layered wooden blocks work very well and pay for themselves over time.

I've heard some same the solid drilled wood, though cost-effective, can make the problem worse (they call them "bee tombs" though I suspect it's a bit hyperbolic).

Agree with stinos about coarse bird mesh and using non-treated wood, but it hasn't been a problem for us.
He already did. He promoted "Dlive".
I am never impressed by my own style, but I do forget very quickly all the corner cases that the code had to deal with, so I am always impressed that “that guy” thought about those details that are completely outside of my radar!
i certainly didn't suggest the systemic fix was trivial, and that the equilibrium we've reached around news and advertising isn't cogent and compelling.

but as individuals, we each have the capacity to center ourselves emotionally, clear our heads, and think critically about the coercive messages we're being fed. we have that power, and it is effective.
A deal like this would likely be worth half a million at least. Perhaps even a couple billion.
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These are great pieces. Enjoy scrolling through them.
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Unsafe work environment, may put the employer into OSHA compliance failures territory. Also there may be some local COVID-19 laws in place offering additional protections/mandates for employers to follow.

That said it may be difficult to prove. Employee should demand answers to their concerns about work place safety, and the employer should answer them properly. This doesn't look like it was done. The employer knee-jerkingly firing the employee the next business day after being informed the employee was not abandoning their post for no reason also doesn't look good. They knew why he was not there, and I wonder if they made any attempt to reassure or reiterate their COVID-19 safety plan, and what the expectations of staff are. If the employee was not satisfied with the answer or application of the answer, then they should file a complaint with local employment board and OSHA, and possibly speak with a lawyer if they feel they are under threat of retaliation for reporting genuine work place safety concerns.
> But there were thousands of empty covid-specific beds open in that state. Why where they not sending patients to these field hospitals?

There is a somewhat similar situation in the UK, where hospitals are dealing with a lot of COVID patients, but the 'Nightingale' hospitals, our equivalent of these field hospitals, are mostly empty.

Something i have heard, but do not have a source for, is that the Nightingale hospitals were built on the assumption that COVID patients just needed a bed and a ventilator, but it turns out that COVID causes multiple organ failure, treating which needs a wider range of facilities, and can progress very quickly from respiratory symptoms to that, so they aren't actually much use.
That escalated quickly!

I'm working on my second billion!!!

(I gave up on my first.)
Of course not, don't be so naive as to expect rights in us.
We literally have to talk about goals as they come up. It's not that complicated. It makes no sense to keep saying "flatten the curve" as a goal once we achieve that goal, and it makes no sense to say "wait for it to burn out" during a period of skyrocketing growth.

Once we get over the exponential growth, we then have to wait for it to drop. Otherwise we'd just go right back to exponential growth.

All you people acting like "oh, the curve flattened, now we can go back to normal" are the kind of people that caused three massive spikes in the 1918 flu.

We're very likely to have a second spike that is way worse than the first because of this attitude.
Yes I guess we should update the site. When we started it was less than 20 kB (compressed), seems we have almost doubled in size! We added some functionality and additional languages over time, I will check the bundle though to see what takes up so much space, seems high to me as well. We’re developing this pro bono right now and don’t intend to monetize it, hence it does not always get the attention it might deserve.
After making a rare popular post (32K hits in a few hours) I moved my static site (a gohugo.io effort) to AWS Lightsail. For less than a fistful of dollars per month it’s someone else’s problem. I keep page size down (it’s text heavy) and so far I haven’t needed any CDN.

If I’m having trouble viewing a page on someone’s hammered server I either look in Google’s cache or use links/elinks to grab the text (usually what I’m interested in).
Which numbers were wrong, and when? You can actually see a leveling off of the deaths and hospitalizations in CO within the 2 weeks following the initial stay-at-home order. I would take any numbers regarding "infections" with a grain of salt because those are so susceptible to the number of people able and willing to get tested, and how those test results are reported back up to the state. Every state seems to have differences in that approach.
I'm very skeptical of projecting back 21th century feminism to tens of thousands of years ago. If you look at bears/wolves/elephants or any other mammals in the wild, you don't see females taken advantage of or in secondary roles. I see no reason to believe early humans were worse, unless I am looking very hard to find a victim where there isn't any.
Wow, looks interesting, thanks for the link. Please share if you integrate it!
That's for the fabrication system, not the office around it. Fans are designed around chemical and physical issues, not biological.
We have spent 1/10000 of the money spent on this crisis for field hospitals.
Thanks for mentioning this, I thought the same until I saw your comment. Not the best design.
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please explain.
IME this is very common and in some situations can be beneficial for everyone involved. The company hiring the consultants get the flexibility of being able to quickly hire you/fire you if needed, rather than going through a lengthy recruiting/hiring/firing process. They pay the premium for it, but it can be worth it.

Then the consulting agency obviously makes a nice profit off of it.

And then the consultant themselves can usually benefit from it as well, because typically they get a higher wage than the average employee to begin with, and also it becomes a very easy conversation to have with the company "just hire me as a FTE instead of paying the consulting company. My salary is currently $50/hr, you're paying them $150/hr for my work. Instead you can just pay me $100/hr, and we both benefit." I've seen a lot of consultant -> FTE transitions happen like that.

That only does work if the company is actually looking for a long-term FTE, though. Like I mentioned above, a lot of the time the company is paying the premium in the first place is so that they can quickly and easily drop you off their payroll if needed. They lose out on that by bringing you on as FTE.
I'm not sure how much I agree with this. On the one hand, yes, you'll have fewer arrests on drug charges, but you'll still have (or maybe have more of) crimes related to drug use, such as theft and assault. Addicts looking for cash for a fix drop much of their moral compass.
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very unfortunate news given that I have zero trust in zoom. To be honest, i've never found a unique use for keybase in the past years that my account was active and was always disappointed with the quality of their desktop and iphone applications.

later today or tomorrow when I have free time, I will be deleting my keybase account.
A particularly ridiculous version of this is "spreading" in debate, where you speak extremely fast so that your opponent has difficulty addressing all your points.

Wired video with some interviews: https://youtu.be/0FPsEwWT6K0

And a transcribed video from a highly-prepped debate: https://youtu.be/JhzwSlK4uEc
Things are usually not blocked when they’re not that popular or well known.

In the Keybase case I think it was just obscure enough to avoid the censors.
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> Before the virus, I was at my mother's, and I admit that watching TV again (in europe) was not that bad. I'm starting to think that getting the news from the internet is now equally bad than watching TV.

I think TV ads are inherently less annoying than most web ads because, perhaps counterintuitively, they stop you from watching your show while the ad plays.

If I'm watching a TV show on say Hulu and an ad comes on the show is completely replaced by the ad and a little countdown timer appears in the upper left corner telling me how long until the show resumes.

I glance at the timer and then find something else to do for that amount of time. I might pick up my iPad and work on a New York Times crossword puzzle until the ad finishes, or if the weather is good dash outside to toss some peanuts to the squirrels. As long as the ad break came at some natural scene transition in the show this is not very distracting.

On a web site the ad is there with the site content. If it's animated or has audio it distracts while you try to read the content. Often it keeps on doing this for the entire time you are reading the content.

If an ad is visible while you are reading content, I think it really needs to be completely static, or at least static until you actually click it or at least hover over it.
It shows the ability of humans to preserve and propagate animal species when there is an incentive to do so. No need to worry about cows going extinct.
Hindsight is 20/20. Could you or anyone have said this a few months ago?

EDIT: let me make it clear what I'm saying/implying. Saying stuff about opportunity cost means that you think that this wasn't necessary. Given the fears of overrunning hospitals, I can't see anyone being able to justify not doing this except in hindsight.
community leader here, we have 500 or so people on the network, I can give my reasons.

IRC vs Slack:

No brainer, Slack is a hosted application that can change its client on a whim. Bot functions are nice but moderation tools are severely limited and the client is very heavy.

IRC vs Discord:

Similar to Slack in nearly all regards, however it's better at being what slack was supposed to be I think. It definitely is "eating my lunch" compared to Slack. But the same rules apply, it's very heavy and you have no control of the client.

IRC vs XMPP:

XMPP is great. The clients for it are relatively good, the protocol, while XML-y is good, but the bot tools are not very good, and federating is hard given the XEP fiasco.

Additionally, most existing clients treat XMPP as a IM platform and do not focus on chatrooms.

Why IRC then:

Well, the truth of it is that if you're sitting on a wired, stable connection then IRC as a text based instant messaging chatroom system is really good. It has no "frills" like emoji responses or threading. No avatars, nor does it force your client to render anything in a specific way. You're free to use what you want.

If you want inline images, there's a client that does that.

If you want to have a persistent presence, searchable backlog then there's bouncers, or a managed service that does that[0].

If you want a terminal experience that is lean and stripped, or a big fat client that grabs gravatar emails from nickserv registered accounts to display them as avatars, it's possible, anything is possible. And that possibility also exudes the hacker culture.

IRC also does not require an account of any kind, this can lead to some measures of abuse, but due to the very good (though, admittedly hard to use) moderation tools you can have many different ways of managing the community, from shadow banning people, to muting channels, to invitation only channels or passwords- all the way to channel or network level blocks on usernames/IPs.

Also: nostalgia and I've configured the client how I like it[1]

[0]: irccloud.com

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1782/
> > The role of government is to protect the weak from the strong, and in order to do that, unfortunately, government has to be strong.

> Have you read about the history of the US? Segregation? Laws against interracial marriage? “Sodomy” laws to persecute homosexuality? The Mulliford Act?

Government often does terrible things outside their role, a fact which I clearly acknowledged as a problem in my post.

> Historically the US has only “protected” the majority. The same is true today if you look where the “War on Drugs” is taking place compared to “treating drug addiction like a disease” is taking place.

The US is also one of the worst examples of a government.

I think if you look at where addiction is being treated as a disease in other parts of the world, you'll find that those places have pretty powerful governments.

> “Powerful corporations” can’t take away your liberty or your property.

They can't take your liberty away because government says kidnapping is illegal. Corporations absolutely take away people's liberty when it's legal to do so: corporate prisons, mercenary corps, etc. In the past, when slavery was legal, it was corporations who obtained, sold, and often kept slaves.

I would argue that buying up all the property, paying you a pittance, and forcing you to pay rent, so that you can't obtain property in the first place, isn't meaningfully different from taking away your property.
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> And as always, dark mode is welcome.

I don't get this infatuation with dark mode, beyond it looking cool. People claim it helps with eye strain, but a brighter background constricts your pupils, improving focus.
Hedging is NPV + risk management, right?

Policy makers should adopt some of the modeling tricks from Wall St. and Silicon Valley. Manage risk. Assess sure things and long shots, feed in the parameters, then allocate resources appropriately.

We need better financial instruments, novel forms of insurance, put a price on resilience, to counterbalance the drive towards lean efficiency. So that key suppliers can maintain capacity without assuming all of the risk, for instance.
Why would a detail like that be fictional?

Anyway, it lines up with the statistics: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44053904

> In England and Wales in 2016-17, there were 31 fatal shootings - or one for every 1.9 million people.

> In the US, in contrast, there were 11,000 murders or manslaughters involving a firearm or one death for every 30,000 people.
That’s because discovery on Twitch is almost non-existent. If you want to grow your Twitch channel start on YouTube, advertise your twitch channel there, and slowly try to convert people.
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> According to Snopes some parts of it can also be deemed as misinformation (like the picture framed as Biden groping Stephanie Carter).

It has the full, unedited video segment, and you can't even send that site in a direct message to a facebook friend. You're making a motte and bailey to try to defend one of the largest companies on earth directly interfering in what I can say to a single other person. Maintaining a community is one thing. This is quite another.
'Hasn't bothered' = not been sampled.
I have several pieces of code from 5+ years ago that I have zero idea how they work or how I came up with that approach.

Its proof that past me was much smarter than present me.
"Lines of evidence" and "twitter.com" do not belong in the same sentence. If there's something of substance in a tweet, link the substance.
What should it tell you about the two systems if the former continues to happen often with no real improvements while the latter happens rarely if ever and is immediately rectified?
Wow Dark lang seems pretty cool https://darklang.com/

It's like server-side ELM lang with a built-in IDE and DB adaptors.
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it's not. i've held the same position since early march, when lockdowns started being seriously discussed.
The UK doesn't really have SWAT. Ordinary people are most likely to see firearm officers with an MP5SF or similar, a black semi-automatic carbine, which a typical civilian probably mentally files as a "machine gun like in a movie" and its main purpose is to act as a visible deterrent and set them apart from "ordinary" unarmed police officers.

Many officers armed with the expectation they might need to actually shoot somebody, not just act as a deterrent have Glocks, because a pistol is the right tool for this job, and they may have also been trained to use a military-style shotgun. But that's about as far as it goes.

If the bad guys have a rocket launcher, in the UK the expectation is that this is now a problem for the Army, not some nutjob with a badge who thinks Judge Dredd is a role model rather than a satire.
Also factor in that the courts have upheld that police forces have "no duty to protect" per Lozito v. New York City [i].

It's pretty clear that policing in the US is broken.

[i] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree
It's amusing that YouTube will go so far to keep him, considering that PewDiePie's early videos are filled with misogyny and hatred, and he was almost single-handedly responsible for the adpocalypse three years ago.

Profits, at any cost.
Thanks for the reference to includeos. They do seem to have built something in the spirit of what I have been looking into.
Not saying you’re wrong, I do think there would be some of that but I am looking at a way to quantify it, especially since my friend is convinced that the lockdown is worse than the virus.

Here is something I found interesting:

Spain has a “hard lockdown” too. Their excess mortality has returned to a normal level according to momo: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

Now I realise that some people that would normally die are not (car accidents etc), but at the same time if the lockdown itself was causing significant mortality you wouldn’t expect the excess mortality to drop to normal levels, would you? You would expect a small offset from 0 unless the savings from car crashes are exactly the same compared to “lockdown deaths” - and if they are, and the lockdown is saving “extra” lives then is it not still worth it?

We have to wait and see for England to see if it falls back to normal or below normal levels.
Oh my god, nostalgia — I complete forgot about the “V Chip”. [1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-chip
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Everything is in the past tense without dates. When was this massive re-write? 2010? 2018?
Nothing personal, but I found it a bit ironic that your own criticism of the parent amounted to simply asserting "Not really" without addressing any specific points. You didn't say which experts you would have chosen, and why, and how you know that the author of the article has purposefully attempted to cherry pick specific people. Its one thing to simply dismiss someones work, its quite another to provide constructive criticism with actionable material.
That's true. On the other hand, if the desire to have one's own biological progeny is heritable, then the previous poster's point still stands. Given a mixed population of people who want to reproduce their own genomes and those who don't, over time the balance will shift to favor those who do.

Parents who don't care whether the children are theirs biologically will have a greater tendency to raise children regardless of biological relationship. That means they are more likely to expend their finite resources on other people's children. That increases the likelihood that other lineages will prosper and expand, and decreases the likelihood that their own will.

Therefore we should expect that, with the passage of generations, the desire to have one's own biological progeny will spread and come to dominate the population.

That is, if such inclinations are heritable--or if a heritable desire to have one's own children appears in the population at some point.
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