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Well, hopefully there is a free market where those who went through the horror of having the disease can sell their blood to at least recoup some of the hospitalization and missed work costs and ensure optimal allocation of this "hot commodity" they went through so much to posses.

Oh wait, they can’t - the government, in its infinite wisdom, made sure they are protected from themselves and cannot be taken advantage of...

Get ready for shortages then.
Boeing and Lockheed Martin got a billion dollars (together, so half a billion each) from the Air Force to develop Delta IV and Atlas V.

Then ULA got monopolist prices ($400 million for a Delta IV Heavy launch!) for years and a sweet billion dollars per year for maintaining the capability even if no launches happen that year.

Falcon 1 was developed using private money.

Falcon 9 and Dragon 1 were developed using 396 million of government money from NASA COTS program, and about a billion dollars of private money (for upgrades and reusability).

Falcon Heavy was developed using half a billion of private money.
> only with the higher demand they can now sell a whole lot more of them

But they can only sell what they have in stock, which is adjusted to normal times. In the disaster they simply sell out. GP is saying the high prices in a disaster are an incentive to make various investments which won't pay off in normal times.
Not really a solved problem. Even if you set your editor to display 1 tab as 2 columns, another person may set their editor to display 1 tab as >2 columns. So even using tabs, a project has to set rules for tab width.
Yeah, thanks, we do have Apple hardware. It's about CI and build automation (or the lack thereof on Mac OS). For example, we can't re-image /reset a Mac into a pristine state easily after manually switching of SIP for CI, but must still end-user test the final product, can't justify the effort to adapt to yearly updates for relatively niche target, can't reasonably save working XCode setups, must test things on current Safari (so have a clean/up-to-date Apple machine around), etc.
Without even trying to lookup the authors and their backgrounds (if I was into betting) I would bet a sizable wager that the core group responsible for this come from extremely large companies (or my second guess would be a consultancy who caters to large companies).

In my entire career I have never seen more confusion and misunderstanding about how to use frameworks than I have when working for companies listed on major stock indexes with multi-billion USD market caps.
Thank you for your answer, that is pretty interesting!
I love how they have a cute logo for the Flame malware nestled between Facebook and GE.
It’s as much a democracy as we want it to be. We have to force leaders to listen to the people sometimes.
Pieter Levels (levelsio) of Nomadlist famously gets mocked for using a single index.php and sqlite but does 5 figure MRR. https://nomadlist.com/open

He used to get a lot of flack for it and i never understood why since you use whatever gets the job done. Too many people doing the "gatekeeper" thing.
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History is full of lies told by those who won wars.
As I understand the reason is that you can pay for a commercial licens to SQLite, meaning DRH has to keep track of contributer agreement. Having signed contributer agreement for any minor PR would be a major hassel.

Edit: well apparently that basically the text you linked to.
On gmail there's always the 'report spam' button. I usually avoid that though as it's not very nice to the sender.
Let’s not forget the agents provocateurs

https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1266146369905070080?s=...
White supremacist nonsense.
So you suggest that all libraries outside frameworks are incomplete and buggy? Can’t really agree with you!
> These frameworks taught me how a web app should be structured (models, views, controllers, services, migrations, middleware).

Well, that's how they could be structured. There are many other ways. MVC is only one option among many, and it has its drawbacks too.

Your application doesn't need logging until you have a problem that is solved by logging. It's possible that you never have such a problem. If that's so, then building a logging subsystem is a waste of time.

> I don't get many of the concepts involved with building a microservice (circuit breakers, service discovery, etc)

This is because you haven't really learned how to think about solving a problem with code, but have instead learned to apply a framework to any problem. If you try solving the actual problem you have first, which involves really understanding it, then you'll probably find that the framework solution is vastly overspecced for your particular situation. Because the framework has to cater for a much wider range of situations than yours. If you write your own solution to the problem, it will (almost by definition, and assuming you write decent code) be a smaller, tighter, faster and more appropriate solution than the framework solution.
South African here. Fact is most of our country is malaria free, the cities etc especially so. It’s only in the hottest, most humid part of the Bush that you will get the mosquitos, and then generally in summer.

When I travelled to Kenya last year my wife and I took malaria medication, we would do the same if going to a malaria area in SA in summer.
Sigh... Amazon needs to let prices rise. The market elastic goods is dictated purely by second and third order consequences.

When prices go up, people realize there's more money to be made. More sellers/manufacturers enter the marketplace in response, increasing the overall supply pool and eventually causing a price crash.

Conversely, limiting prices rewards hoarders as they can justify their actions. It also rewards antisocial actors by constraining supply an increasing the amount of time they can be profitable. Finally it delays the onset of the price crash keeping prices high and making sure the poor can't afford said goods.

Also keep in mind stuff like hand sanitizer, lysol wipes, and tp all have replacements. Soap has been shown to be more effective than hand sanitizer, and bleach on a reusable rag is more effective effective than lysol... And for the last one I'll just let you figure it out ;)
Is any of your new stack open sourced?
Yep, it was consultancy working with large companies. :)
Library : driving a car yourself

Framework : taking a taxi (you do get where you want, but don't fully understand how).
In central Africa many people suffer from sickle cell anemia which grants immunity to malaria.
I learned a lot about useEffect thanks. I initially clicked for the visual explanation but ended up enjoying the written explanation more.

I think the problem with your visuals is the lack of depth in the colors. Especially because of the gradients, all the parts kind of blend together, so there’s no clear distinction between a parent component and its children for example. I think having clear distinct colored boxes with borders would help.
IMHO, frameworks also distill experience, documentation, community and spirit. It allowed me to switch languages and eco-systems easily, collaborate and talk to like minded people. I'd generally be uncomfortable working with teams who try to build everything from scratch. Ofcourse, it's our responsibility to manage technical debt, but it's easier to do that with frameworks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec...
> How does a standardized test benefit nonconformists?

Because it's an objective standard? You don't have to kiss your teacher's ass for good grades, you don't have to conform to extracurriculars to boost your standing, you don't have to frame your essay to win favors from the reader, etc. It's the only test that you don't depend on anyone else for.

> but nonconformists and smart people are not the same thing.

That's why he wrote "smart nonconformist kids". The intersection of smart kids and nonconformist kids.
Get a tuner app like you'd use to tune guitar then try singing something and check how close is your C, using a tuner as a cheat can shave years of agony compared to guessing.
This sounds like it is written by someone who has never started up a company or run a small business or a even lemonade stand in their life . This is equivalent to saying banks shouldn’t lend money to small businesses , businesses need money to survive, the guy having the money and one ready to work it are almost always not the same . it could be VC, the bank or your mom giving you the financing to start that lemonade stand.

Even if the assumption that founders put zero money of their own is true (as others have pointed out it is not, in vast majority of the cases) founders have enormous opportunity, emotional cost, lost salary and the financial hardship.
I suspect all you can argue nowadays is that it _did_ work. With housing costs increasing faster than inflation, forcing people to spend money on rent instead, which has no investment potential, I don't think it still works.
The ‘degrowth’ crowd have produced a slam dunk of wrongness
Well, I agree, so that's a start.

Nobody is suggesting that universities were perfect 30-40-50 years ago. But... the parents of millenials seemed to thoroughly enjoy college back then, so they couldn't have been run that badly.

On top of that, when I compare my undergrad experience, 20 years ago, to that of my nieces and nephews attending today (or cousins who attended 10 years before me), I fail to find substantive differences.

Sure, there is a general trend that cafeteria food has improved (or, at least, schools brag about it more), and dorms are a little fancier, but how does that justify the administrative bloat?
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> I truly love Swift, like god-damn is it my cup of tea

I also feel similarily strongly about the language itself, I find myself really productive in it. But for the kind of work I do I do need more portability that what it currently offers. I have my eye on Rust but it looks just a little too low level for what I want, general purpose-do everything language, focus on saftey, reasonable performance.
What is the simplest system we know that produces unexpected results? Conway's Game of Life comes to mind. Would there be a surprise if we just gently shake 1 billion 2x4 lego blocks?
It really only applies to plasma donations. Plasma donations outside of the Red Cross and other nonprofits are usually paid. This plasma is made into blood products (as in medicines that are approved by a government regulatory body), and is facilitated by plasma companies (almost always publicly traded companies on the stock market), who own these plasma donation centers which pay the donors. They also create the blood product and get the regulatory body approval (like via the FDA) for the medicine that they bring to market. Here is a website about it, but I would take it with a grain of salt as this is from the coalition of plasma companies themselves: https://www.donatingplasma.org/donation/plasma

How Blood-Plasma Companies Target the Poorest Americans: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/plasma-...

The plasma companies have experienced their share of scandals too: https://web.archive.org/web/20170401035608/http://taintedblo...

In more recent times: https://www.propublica.org/article/pharmaceutical-companies-...
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If everyone is vaccinated, immunity will expire at different times (and partial immunity is definitely a thing).

This means the disease will be much less contagious, and join the corpus of all other viruses out there that can cause serious disease, but it will be rare. For most people it will just be another variant of the common cold.

The vaccine will also be included in the annual vaccine cocktail for the elderly. So they will be
immune. Since elderly account for 90%+ of deaths the disease will then be much less scary with <0.01% mortality (which is higher than say, driving a car to work).
I've been bit by a "dead framework" before. We used kohana the php framework and soon it was dying. We were totally fucked haha. I guess I've been lucky since then, I haven't had the misfortune of picking a bad framework.

We use Phoenix with Elixir now, and I don't see Elixir dying anytime soon. With Nim, there's Jester, but I can definitely see that framework dying once Nim gets it's "one true batteries included web framework".

My point is, it's a gamble. Pray you don't fuck up.

I like this manifesto, and you should definitely try to build something without a framework. Database migrations, querying data, data processing, background jobs, it's pretty fun to write something right there up on the edge, your way.
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> Except that Japan has high population density, no significant lockdown, contact tracing that misses ~80% of the cases (estimating the total case count from their death count, using the IFR from serology elsewhere), and 7 deaths per million. So maybe it's the masks? The general culture of hygiene? The weather? Something else?

According to Worldometer Japan has tested ~284k people while New York and California have combined tested almost four million despite together having half the population of Japan. Last time I saw excess mortality statistics a few weeks ago they were lagging with several prefectures missing and bad normalization for aging and other factors.

Assuming the numbers are accurate, I'm more interested in how South Dakota and Wyoming are doing so much worse than Japan with such a low population density. I suspect the answer lies in the crumbling rural health infrastructure.

> There's a lot we don't know here. I wish people would admit and accept that, instead of turning this into yet another polarized political debate.

Mortality, population density, and basic division are not political and if by themselves they're polarizing, then we're too far gone already.
Do not dismiss any product CRUD app or not so lightly .

Building and selling any product ,getting an user base is very difficult.
Attracting people to work in your product is even more challenging as it is not cool.
Getting all of them working as an organization is no less difficult just because tech does not involve fancy R&D
The author seems to forget that not all startup can be sustained by customer revenue in the first few years (i.e. biotech or self driving car industry) Even very successful companies like google or snap wouldn’t be able to thrive without funding at the start.
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How old ? Is there any correlation with age ? mortality rate i mean
Identifying the antibodies involved with COVID-19 was a major step towards developing a vaccine.

However, if you get antibodies from somebody who had COVID-19, then it does not confer you immunity. Those antibodies do not give your body a memory effect that allows your body, on its own, to respond to the infection as a preventative measure for COVID-19.

What it does though, for people who are actively infected with COVID-19, is reduce the severity of the infection. The influx of antibodies are believed to "neutralize" the COVID-19 virus already present in the body, by binding to the virus itself.
Emergence is a concept or model, concepts/models are made possible by thought, thoughts are themselves an emergent phenomena

Round and round and round it goes where it stops nobody knows...
While I truly understand the point the author makes, I cannot accept that all founders are the wanna get rich type who think that raising money equals a successful company. I think he's biased by the history of the easy money era of the post 2008 recession to pre Coronavirus. I think now things are going to be different and raising money will not be as easy as it was in the 2010s.
Official raspberrypi.org blog post/announcement for anyone interested:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-...
Do you also have a source of unadulterated 130 year old rehydrating compound?
You have to do all those things, minus the load balancer, with Kubernetes. It’s only if you don’t run on-premise Kubernetes that really start to se benefits.

Honestly, as an ops guy, I would prefer to get up at 3AM do deal with a failed VM or load balancer, compared to dealing with any kind of failure in a Kubernetes cluster at 10AM.

I can understand wanting to be able to deploy to Kubernetes, it’s extremely flexible and relatively easy. But managing and debugging Kubernetes is still a nightmare, even just monitoring it correctly isn’t exactly easy.
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Which is particularly sad, as our lower income essential workers suffered through this the most, and we deprive them of a chance to at least get a payout...
Just in time supply chains are especially susceptible to demand shocks.
Your own house isn't an investment because you always need to live somewhere. Investments are things you can spend like index funds and bonds.
But they can be offset in the same way. You just plant trees. I don't see what difference it makes if the biomass is six months old or millions of years. What matters is the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

I just don't think the idea of a "life cycle" is meaningful here. It is similar to labelling something as "natural".
I have yet to run into a library that wasn't incomplete and buggy!

Of course, frameworks are also incomplete and buggy.
Seems like the best way now is for the reader to make notes to themselves and regularly check back to them and see how things changed, compared to where the hive mind was earlier.
You and rumanator don't know what you're talking about and you seem puritanical to boot.

If a rocket never fails, it means it's too heavy (overdesigned.) That's why Musk is ok with failures early on - he wants that data.

So whether a destructive test is intentional or not, it does provide data for the next iteration.

It's irrelevant if somebody "plans" or "hopes" for a new rocket to work tomorrow. It either works, or doesn't.
Pretty controversial of me to believe so, but what if those sectors aren't really for startups? I'd wager they're more accessible to well-established companies belonging in a horizontal industry beside those.
People typically email using email addresses, and text using phone numbers. They're both messaging identifiers that might be easily be repurposed for Signal.

There's no property of the latter that makes them a better choice than the former, but the existing ecosystem makes a disposable or role email address a much easier thing to obtain, and in general leaking an email address a far-less-damaging privacy violation than leaking a phone number, which can so easily be used to harass and directly track you.

In many parts of the world, disposable mobile numbers are very definitely not a practical thing. The correct starting point here is to use either an email or a telephone number as an external ID. It's still not perfect, but at least it's not a complete disaster any more.

Alas they've been 'working on it' for a very long time now, and are likely to fail because of this painfully slow progress.

Perhaps if they'd pissed around less with trivia like cryptographically secure stickers, they might have increased their chances of becoming a useful product before they end up surrendering the space to an inferior product which gains too much market share to overcome before they're even properly off the starting blocks.

I criticise Signal here because I like the design and hate their botched execution, not because I dislike the protocol. On the contrary, I dearly want something that competent to succeed, but fear we're rapidly losing the chance of that happening because they have launched a privacy-disaster product and most of the potential market will have seen that, dismissed it and forgotten about it before they pull their finger out and fix it.
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Golf clap.
That’s true. If this is the case, is it enough to do a good job in growing the business, in order to maintain control of it, or you can do something else to ensure that investors won’t pull the carpet from under your feet?
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3. It's not only happening to thugs. And even if it were, thugs should still have their rights.
No trouble, it is a system that can do many things and has many optional pieces. It is fundamentally a cloud native orchestration system.
> The alternative is to forgo raising money and creating a sustainable business from the beginning, growing linearly with the number of people that give you money for your product.

Assuming that it doesn't require money to build, which is dubious in many cases, but alright.

> Not only that, but because you don’t have the safety net of a pool of money, you are forced to find the fastest path to sustainable growth.

Sustainable growth? Or just the fastest path to growth at any non-monetary cost so you can make the next payroll? Sure it might be cash sustainable growth but could be unsustainable in other ways such as making ever higher promises to keep customers buying more, allowing all sorts of unscrupulous purchases of user data, or shipping software without any modicum of security.

> You now have no choice but to be ruthlessly focused on the things that impact your bottom line (i.e. pay the bills)

Or you end up cutting corners and compromising on the product just to get some cash in the door. A lot of ethical red lines become maybes when the bank account declines. I have a lot of friends in the startup space and they have amazing stories of suddenly cash short companies burning up their reputation just to get the next sale.

Crises don't lead to clearer decision making. A constant threat doesn't lead to clearer decision making. It leads to shorter-term thinking. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167299025001006

Would you do a better job for your company if they kept you one paycheck away from eviction? Or would you play politics, become a sycophant, hide errors you made, and be heavily focused on just making it to the next week no matter the cost?
I like what Jetbrain does for PyCharm:

- Great free-for-ever version that only misses advanced features to get you hooked (as no one would pay for an IDE before being able to get a good feel for it).

- Yearly subscription to the pro version with a heavy discount for people keeping the subscription multiple years.

- Canceling the subscription grants you a perpetual license to the current version.

Contrast that with what Adobe does for Lightroom:

- No free version, they know they're the industry leader.

- Subscription with no discount for loyal users.

- Canceling the subscription renders your data useless.
Do you know if your neck strain is due to horizontal or vertical movements?
On a few times I had to work with big monitors (>30"), I noticed that I placed/sized windows only at the center, and not all the way to the top. Looking up too much is not comfortable for my neck.
For the horizontal movement, I have no problem. But when my eyes are focused on the centre part, if I need to look at the extreme left/right, I need to refocus, which is slow/tiring.

My work setup is 2x24" monitors, and I really prefer 2 small ones instead of a bigger one. I can orient them so that all pixels are approximately at the same distance to my eyes.
Huawei builds up 2-year reserve of 'most important' US chips
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This book is fantastic. I think it is on the way to becoming, if it isn't already, "the" canonical book to check out when you start using TypeScript.
Also noteworthy: "Not to be left out, today we’ve released an early beta of our own 64-bit operating system image."