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> In the EU, land crossings were re-manned on many borders and during the main lockdown (which is now mostly over) passenger travel on many land borders was stopped.

Which was one of most nonsensical measure and it is real shame that EC did not prevented that. It caused real problems for people living near borders and working in neighboring state, and for cargo transit.

Covid-19 prevalence was not homogenous inside each country and inter-country neighboring areas/districts were often more similar than far-away intra-country areas. Therefore, any movement restriction would make more sense on more fine-grained level, but doing it on country level is just political tool to mobilize nationalistic support.
The fix for unpreparedness is not the free market, it is preparedness. Less regulation would not have fixed the issue. No country in the earth managed to curtail this pandemic using less regulation. Making the medical industry work more efficiently didn't help any country. What worked was the public sphere imposing non-pharmaceutical interventions, and distributing massive amounts of tests, in that order.

None of those problems can be fixed by less government.
The Bible does give genealogies of Jesus that are only a few generations long from the very first man to the time of the Roman Empire. Logically speaking then either the age of the earth is very short or some people in the last lived thousands of years.
I'm not arguing for unrestricted spending, but a couple trillion to avoid economic collapse, borrowed at effectively 0% interest, seems like a deal worth taking.

Would it be better to let the city burn down today because we're worried about a water shortage in 100 years?
I'm not sure how much of a security issue there is. What's the threat model exactly? Terminated employees still having access because you don't have SSO? Sure I guess but if there is security sensitive data being posted in any chat app (approved or not) then you've got major problems.
If the complications are a serious problem, as you claim, then I have a few follow up questions:

1) You're making some significant claims, and should therefore have significant data and evidence to back up your claims. Over 3 million people in the US have tested positive for covid. What percentage of them needed to have a limb amputated? That should be easily verifiable. What percentage of them had a blood clot and serious damage? What percentage of them currently have persistent long term damage? If you're making the claim that these things are such a serious problem, you should have data that backs up how common the problem is, and how bad it is.

2) How different are the complications from the normal complications that the flu/pneumonia/etc. can give? Tens of thousands of people get the flu, have complications, and die every year. Tens of thousands of elderly people get the flu, and have long-term damage for the rest of their life. As a society we don't care about that at all. Are you saying covid does more damage, or has more complications? If so, where's the evidence comparing the level of damage/complications?

It's my theory at the moment that this "complication" talk is just another viral "meme" that's mostly driven/spread by people just repeating what other people said, which spreads like wildfire, but never has any actual data backing it up. Of course there are people that have had serious complications. But there's people that have had serious complications from every disease. And it says nothing about how common it is. For example, if 0.00001% of people that get covid have to have a limb amputated, yeah that's horrible, and yeah it'd be great if we could just snap our fingers and make that not happen, but is it really something to focus on?
What is "regular" flu? There are many strains in circulation, including those that caused past pandemics. We have vaccines and acquired immunity, so it's been some time since the last truly deadly flu epidemic, but the flu should not be dismissed so lightly.

And why wouldn't I include 1918 in a list of flu pandemics that killed over a million people?
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I wouldn't expect there to be law given that the government as never responded to a pandemic in the way that it has now. Your argument that it is temporary may be persuasive, but I wonder if that disappears if the shutdown order is long enough that it results in the business failing.

Your point of the hurricane is not persuasive, in that situation, the hurricane does the damage, the government order is ancillary. Here, the shut down order is more of a direct cause in the business harm.
> The Fed bought the bonds on the open market

That was facing a situation with no bids on many issuances from AAA to C rated CUSIPs.

And true, you don't negotiate the price of a can of Coke, but if people stopped buying Coke in masses, stores would be incentivized to lower their prices just so it can clear the shelves…

~46% of the IG market is rated BBB (which was the situation before the covid19 btw), where the overall market is trading over par by about 14% on average spells doom for anyone buying the IG market now and holding to maturity… unless you can sell at higher prices to the greater fool: FRBNY leveraging future tax payer money from the treasury lol

The situation is even worse with WMT senior unsecureds[0]: you have walmart paper coming due in 2040 trading at +150 that yields 5.625 from par (100), whose gonna wanna get in and hold those bags now to maturity? Nobody but FRBNY leveraging future tax payer money from the treasury lol

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They can't be a World Health Organisation if they do admit Taiwan, either.

It requires governments to sort this shit out, not an organisation who is focussed on health.
Economics aside, there may be mental health wins for keeping a different mix as they have. Or losses, too — it’s really too early to say one way or another imho.
Of course. Everyone knows COBOL is the new Clojure ;)

I like how this is showing how few people click on links before commenting.
The Spanish flu had absolutely massive economic effects that would have undoubtedly led to a massive crisis if it wasn't for a minor event called World War One.

And the places that recovered economically the quickest are those that locked down more and earlier.
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I’ve personally done the following:

1. Buy a large ticket item (e.g. furniture).
2. See an ad on Amazon for a different/nicer/better/faster shipped version.
3. Buy it.
4. Cancel the old order.

Is that a common pattern? No idea. But it’s not crazy to me that it happens often enough that it’s worth it to Amazon to show similar items to people who already bought them.
Children seem far more vulnerable to the flu than the coronavirus, so I don’t understand your argument.
> They are the experts, not you anymore. Your job now is to clear the path to their success.

This is an excellent concept and an important one to really get. I go out of my way to never use the phrase “my team.” It’s not my team, it’s all of ours. I’m a member of it, too.

It’s my job to make sure they succeed. So instead of “my team” I always say, “the team I support” to reinforce that.
To be fair, all of Google's language guidelines revolve around making code easy to maintain, which means easy to read. Most of the other language guides also include such arbitrary restrictions that seem to go against the spirit of the language.
Boring, unchanging syntax is a plus.
And just evaporating it down should be a suitable concentration step, if not just electroplating the silver out of solution with a graphite anode or something like that.
Indeed. I wish folks would stop pushing linked-in on the rest of us. They've proven themselves a bad actor, over and over, and should be left to wither.
I agree. Just like other old things that are still around, old art seems good due to survivorship bias. There has been lots of terrible art made in all media since the beginning of civilization.
It's nice to see that such a simple process can lead to such good results.
Before vaccines the flu killed over a million people worldwide every single year.
It's your boss not being fooled by your gaming and not promoting you.

Its not something you report.

Like taking a long lunch break.

People aren't blind, they can see what you are doing, people will talk about it behind your back.

Goodharts law relies on a mythical assumption everyone in the organisation is just out to scam it.

It's all measured in real life. If people are evil and out to game metrics why won't they just game the system when there are no metrics?

A good version of Goodharts law might be, people will work towards metrics so some times it's worth tweaking metrics to reduce incorrect outcomes, but sometimes worrying about the inefficiency is worse than the inefficiency itself.
I think it should be possible, but should be very obvious to the user when an app is doing this (and should require extra permission to be granted).

Consider that I might want to record an encounter with law enforcement on the sly, and also want to keep my phone locked to make it harder to tamper with if it's seized.

Regardless, an app like Firefox should not be doing this, or even offer it as an option. There are certainly legitimate use cases even for Firefox, but I think with a web browser there's too much possibility for abuse and security/privacy issues to make it worth it.
history of the word "cromulent": https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-crom...
Most programming languages support unlimited nesting (of parentheses, code blocks, etc.), so wouldn't they require at least a pushdown automaton?
> The other day I had a visitor from security come in and scrub all my addons off of my Firefox installation because they hadn't been vetted through IT.

They can't do that remotely?
> I've mostly switched over to Julia except for some legacy Python ML projects, and can confidently say there's no reason at all to start a new project in Python.

What is the alternative to pytorch?
He's got the channel back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mRpj4jQ6Zg

However, if I was in the same situation I would seriously consider moving elsewhere, or at least keeping my stuff in more than one place just in case.
> The point of the law changes is that it becomes the website's responsibility to act properly, and ensure real opt-in.

Yet they still don't. They just manipulate the user into clicking yes without reading, again. I couldn't even find how to deny "the Oath" no matter how hard I tried.
This is the I-have-a-black-friend excuse that tends to elicit slightly shameful laughter from the audience these days. I didn't know people still used it.

In any case: it: your college does not single-handedly represent all Black people. Assuming that he does is the same basic mechanism as pointing at one red-haired criminal to support your theory of higher criminality among redheads.

The disadvantaged group of any discrimination also isn't itself exempt from actively perpetuating that structure. It's almost a cliché, for example, that female leaders sometimes act extremely aggressive, especially with female employees, in an overzealous effort to fit in, or to dispel any notions of nepotism.
Nether Earth on the Spectrum might qualify too. It had many of the elements: map and resource control, combat, building and directing units with the possibility of either microing individual ones or giving them goals, all in real time. I've spent many hours playing that game and always thought that it was something special.
Except that in this case the Ayn Rand institute, having such low profits and cash reserves, isn't taking something they paid for. They are taking much more than they paid for, even though they didn't have to.

If you follow the philosophy that as long as you do not have the power to change your material circumstances that you should follow your interests, your philosophy is no more useful than nihilism.
I want to learn the wonderful field of phrenology of course. :)

But seriously, I've seen that claim previously, but never pointing to original source (unless the article was deleted?). I didn't carefully read the articles you provided, so sorry if it is in there somewhere.
ECDC has primarily the "power" to coordinate data exchange between member states, and afaik no authority to force lower-level health authorities or healthcare providers to do anything, unless member states were to explicitly adopt their suggestions as binding in local law.

The mess that's going on with ECB is an IMHO quite special situation (which also is an odd example for "already starting to penalize for violating policies". There is no "starting to", obviously EU law has enforcement tools - although the court itself can't use them)
Thank you for this really helpful comment. It's like an encyclopedia's worth of bash information in one go--much appreciated.
If anything economics seems like the smarter field when compared to the open source community because the focus is on resource evaluation, allocation, and returns. Open source could probably use more talent but the missing lynchpin is obviously a reward structure. The techno-optimism of the 80s and 90s doesn't scale, we need licensing structures that entitle the parties doing the unprofitable stuff to a share of the profits their work produces. Resisting commercialization has weakened the community not made it stronger, open source can still be free without being free labor.
I understand an app losing access to the camera in the background is a security feature. But, it is also really annoying when you want the person to see you while you’re doing something else on your screen.

One feature that’s been in the iPad for a few years and coming to the iPhone in the fall is picture in picture where a video call doesn’t take up the entire screen and as long as PIP is enabled, you can have your video call minimized and do something else.
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At least as I'm interpreting it, the substance of the assumption you proposed is not problematic in the slightest. (And I also suspect, but cannot demonstrate, that you are correct.) But specific the words you used to express it bring connotations that you may or may not have intended.

There's a certain perception out there that languages that are primarily used by non-programmers are mostly useful for writing non-programs.

A lot of people who program but don't have "software developer" on their business cards may not realize it, but calling themselves non-programmers invokes certain biases about the values that they bring to the table when choosing a programming language among people who do have "software developer" on their business cards.
I guess it's because cover the cost of the data plan, so after the first 3 years you have to start paying for it yourself. Tough but fair, imho.
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haha, word. legit made me laugh.

will try to dial it back. commas have always been my kryptonite.

thanks for the feedback.

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> You could say "if it cost $1b to save this life, we should do it".

This a common, yet unrealistic, hypothetical. In reality, of course, death is inevitable regardless of the economic costs. Past a certain point everybody, so far, has died. The amount of things that we can do in order to prevent any given death doesn't scale with the economic cost, past a certain (quite low) point. Spending 1B on a person won't get you 1000 times better 'medical stuff' than spending 1 million; therefore, a trade-off of e.g. one life for 1B vs 1000 lives for 1m is illusory.

In practice all societies have limited resources. My position is, however, that those limited resources, in the case of an acute health crisis, should be focused as much as possible on mitigating that crisis, without having primary concern for the economic costs.
Videos under 10 minutes can only have 1 ad (I'm not sure but I think it's only short ads too) so you get less revenue per video. The algorithm also favors longer videos because more watch time means the video is more likely to be recommended to viewers. But there are rumours that being over 10 minutes specifically is what matters most to the YouTube algo.
How do you expect to deal with the licences? In particular, if the normal library has a GPL licence.
For embedded systems and game development I definitely understand automata applications (from experience) but web development has me curious. Are you writing transpilers or perhaps something else (I also try to avoid web dev, so there's that).
That's a really good point, it would definitely escalate aggressive drivers.

I've had situations where I rode past someone (they were stopped in traffic), then they passed me again down the road (this repeated a couple of times) and every time I rolled past them, they'd descend further into apoplectic rage, I can't imagine flashing lights is going to help.
It wouldn't surprise me. They've been designing custom hardware for some time. Look at the Pluto switch and the "can we make something even more high performance" or "we can make it simpler, cheaper, more specialized and save some watts" (which in turn saves on power for computing and power for cooling costs).

At the scale that Google is at, it really wouldn't surprise me if they were working on their own silicon to solve the problems that exist at that scale.
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I'm particular about:
If I run a command and its arguments is wrong, it should output error and help messages to STDERR. But if I run a command with --help argument, it should output help messages to STDOUT.
The fact that it was free was important in its popularity as well, where PUBG still retails for $15 USD today (on sale)
Australia had a very, very tight lock down on aged care homes, and yet very nearly 50% (62/106) of the COVID deaths in Australia were in these homes.

It turns out to be pretty much impossible to keep out of aged care if there is community spread.
Anywhere I can read on that?
Common-sense is not particular to Europeans.

The wishy-washy recent re-definition of atheism as "without belief" was given modern impetus by Anthony Flew (who later converted to deism) in the late 1970s and popularised by the "New Atheists" - especially as an internet debating tactic - in the early part of this century.
> This feels like a prime example of why applying for programming jobs as a new-grad is so frustrating.

Or how when you've a decade or two of experience and self-directed learning but no fancy degree. Apply to any coveted job and resume is in the first group sent straight to the trash.

It's as if we have no idea how to hire developers. ;-)
Hey Resident Sleeper

Thanks a lot for the feedback. Could you let me know what Country you are in? I've changed the pricing of the Indian market as I understand it better, I'll be happy to dramatically reduce the pricing for other countries where the US/EU pricing does not work.
Don't you think that the iterated convolution process in neural networks is, in a measure, able to overlook this kind of 'visual trickery' ?
I can imagine that the network is not able to perform well if you change the color profile of the input when you trained on another one, but small texture attenuations, diminished chroma components, etc. may not be as important when the image is downsampled and split a huge number of times (wondering)
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You should be sure.

Violence and extreme social distress, public humiliation sessions, public beatings were meted out rather liberally. A specifically pernicious aspect of Mao's strategam was turning generation against generation. These are the defining characteristics of Chinese Communist Party's Cultural Revolution.
In Ubik by Philip K Dick, the door of his apartment won't open unless he pays it five cents each time. Life imitates art.

“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
We know that having people vouch for you goes a much longer way than self-reported accomplishments on a resume. I keep wondering why isn't there a platform where your specific accomplishments in a job are validated by your former co-workers? Effectively, a peer-validated resume. Not LI style testimonials but more specific like say "yes, Jack worked on this feature and did a great job!"
> Regardless, an app like Firefox should not be doing this, or even offer it as an option.

Why shouldn't I be able to use a website called imgettingpulledover.com on Firefox instead of an app to do the same thing that you just described?

EDIT: posted this before the edit, edited version makes sense.
ARI has posted their view on this: https://newideal.aynrand.org/we-took-ppp-funds-and-would-do-...
The question isn’t “do they do it on a regular basis” it’s “do people do it often enough that the expected value of showing that product is higher than something else.”

> The only logical conclusion is that it's cheaper for them (in the short term, at least) not to update their ad/recommendation algorithm to take into account the nature of large one-time purchases.

Is that really the only logical conclusion? I’d think that “I don’t know people’s buying behavior on Amazon well enough to understand why this happens” should at least be a possible explanation.
These...don't seem that hard? I mean I just took a class on Theory of Computation but I did pretty poorly in it and stopped paying attention when we switched to online. Most of these seem to be CFG/RE questions with fairly simple answers. I'd expect some more challenging stuff with constructions from a graduate entrance exam.
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https://newideal.aynrand.org/we-took-ppp-funds-and-would-do-...
Have you tried iterate (wrt the loop sucks problem)
Genuine question, why is your comment capitalized like this? I assume english is your first language since it seems naturally written, and it's likely not dictated because no program would correctly write "GetArtemis". So how did it end up like that? Weird autocorrect?
The bit at the end isn't POSIX sh, either. Fixed version:

if [ $# -eq 0 ] || [ "$1" = "-h" ]; then
help
exit 1
fi

Relevant spec bits:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/t...