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>Legality is, in general, a matter of fact. The legality or constitutionality of a matter is determined in the courts

This makes absolutely no sense. If it is a matter of fact, it should be independently provable not require courts to decide.

Legality is supposed to be the public's opinion of the morality of an action, but in reality it is the ruling class' opinion of how the action impacts them.

An employee knowingly assisting their company commit immoral acts should try to stop them, though a concern about you or your families well-being is a legitimate reason to just try and walk away. Don't delude yourself into thinking tools will be used legally so it is acceptable.
I just point out that the government already mandates we wear clothing in public and a mask is basically just a shirt for your face.

Not wearing a mask during covid == indecent exposure in my book.
https://www.studioxolo.com :)
By that logic, you also can’t trust a US based company because of the US military intelligence community, which makes a Microsoft-run TikTok no more or less safe than a ByteDance-run one.

Which gets us back to square one about comparing the danger of each.
I shudder to think how much that latter cost the US taxpayer.
They have a strong social conformity rate in Japan and their numbers are rising too. Masks are just kind of effective.
This is akin to the CCP's modus operandi, also known as mafia tactics. I really don't like fighting fire with fire, it sets a terrible precedent.
It’s not just a deterrent. It also serves as a warning. If I am in the house, I want to know someone is breaking in. I have a lot of mixed feelings about gun laws, but I am definitely an advocate for anyone being able to have a gun in their home to protect themselves - even though I don’t own one.

I would also like to know if someone broke in my home if I am not there.

Yes, I am well aware of the statistics about gun ownership in the home, suicides, accidental shootings, etc.
While the title might be correct, I feel this is a misleading article.

First, about the conclusions of the JAMA paper, the Forbes article says: The authors conclude it is likely that young children, while not as prone to suffering from Covid-19 infection, still drive its spread—just as they do with several other respiratory diseases.

Note the use of "likely".

But the JAMA article itself actually says: Thus, young children can potentially be important drivers of SARS-CoV-2 spread in the general population, as has been demonstrated with respiratory syncytial virus, where children with high viral loads are more likely to transmit.

Unless the JAMA authors say elsewhere that young children are "likely" to be driving the spread of Covid-19, the switch from "potentially" to "likely" is misleading.

Next, regarding the Trento preprint, the Forbes article says: The researchers found that although young children had a somewhat lower risk of infection than adults and were less likely to become ill, children age 14 and younger transmit the virus more efficiently to other children and adults than adults themselves.

The implication of "somewhat lower risk" implies that the likelihood of transmission is sufficiently greater to offset the lower risk that young children are to become symptomatically infected. But Table 2 of the preprint shows that while the transmission risk of children less than 14 was indeed double that of other groups, only 1% of the tracked subjects were children less than 14. While it's not clear that the sampling is entirely random, unless children are extremely systematically underrepresented, it seems likely that percentage of contagious young children (no breakdown was given for "young children") must be very small, and that "somewhat less likely" is an egregious understatement.

I applaud the Forbes article for including clear links to the underlying papers, though! And I'd hope that these are honest errors that the author might try to address, rather than any intentional attempts to mislead.
TRUE! Except this is the US government acting in the interests of the US government, you see?
The ones on this website say they are £3,800 each for a 2019+ 911 Turbo (992).

https://www.design911.com/Porsche/Porsche-992--911--2019--/9...
No reverse transcription. Just amplification by extending a primer using DNA polymerase (rtPCR -- reverse transcription PCR -- of RNA does do an initial reverse transcriptase step.) The PCR process is also used in modern DNA sequencing, but that is not what a PCR machine does.

And a non-qPCR machine does not detect the sequence -- it just produces enough of it by amplification so that it can be detected using other methods.
Wow, I so much have the opposite experience of you

> Let’s say I get a text, my phone is on the night stand. I just look at it and it already unlocks, no reaching.

My phone is on the table while I'm working. In order for it to see my face I have to pick it up and aim it at my face. With touch id I could just put my finger on top without having to pick it up. So much faster and more convenient.

I find that quite often face id is slow or fails, even if it only fails one out of 30 times that's still one a day and when it does it's frustrating as hell. Something that should take 0.5 seconds ends up taking 10-15. I know that sounds trivial but by the time the phone has unlocked, whatever I was planning to do is often forgotten because of the distraction of trying to get face id to work and then having to manually unlock.

And of course now with mask wearing it basically might as well not exist.
Your description of abstract things sounds like a dressed-up version of something fairly mundane. (This isn't to say that your description is deficient, but rather that the concept is ultimately fairly mundane.) So I gathered three essential features of instrinsic intentionality: (1) does not exist independently, (2) exist in the intellect, (3) exist in the things that instantiate them.

Given this definition there are a universe of potential abstracta due to the many possible ways to categorize objects and their dynamics. Abstracta are essentially "objects of categorization" that relate different objects by their similarity along a particular set of dimensions. Chairs belong to the category "chair" due to sharing some particular set of features, for example. The abstract object (concept) here is chair, which is instantiated by every instance of chair; the relation between abstract and particular is two-way. Minds are relevant because they are the kinds of things that identify such categorizations of objects along a set of criteria, thus abstracta "exist in the intellect".

You know where else these abstracta exist? In unsupervised machine learning algorithms. An algorithm that automatically categorizes images based on whatever relevant features it discovers has the power of categorization which presumably is the characteristic property of abstracta. Thus the abstracta also exists within the computer system running the ML algorithm. But this abstracta seems to satisfy your criteria for intrinsic intentionality (if we don't beg the question against computer systems). The relation between the ML system and the abstracta are independent of a human to fix the reference. Yes, the algorithm was created by a person, but he did not specify what relations are formed and does not fix reference for the concepts discovered by the algorithm and the things in the world. This is analogous to evolution creating within us the capacity to independently discover abstract concepts.

(Just to preempt a reference to Searle's Chinese room argument, I believe his argument is fatally flawed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23182928)
I respect it! But SEO is related to how google finds you, not other people. Word of mouth marketing is going to be effective for finding your first users though. :)
> it's definitely not the end of the world. spend a little money on some adapters, change some habits, and it's not really a huge inconvenience.

Or just buy a phone that has a headphone jack, and not limit your options. You can still use bluetooth audio on a phone with an aux port if you want. But there are still lots of decent phone choices that have DO an aux port, eg the new pixel 4a we're talking about, no need to limit yourself.

If I don't have to buy adaptors (one for my desk at home, one for my backpack, one for my desk at work, one for my car, one for the first trip when I forget to take one...) I've saved $50-100.
All of these complaints can be levelled at literally any programming language that isn't as entrenched as its competition, and indeed would have been levelled at Python when it was young as well.

> In Julia, it's all very fragmented. LibPQ is immature, DataFrames.jl is nice, ??? (what pdf conversion tool?), images.jl (300 stars), qr code generator?

A quick google search yielded this [0], [1] which seems like they'd do the job..

Personally I think judging the quality of the ecosystem on the number of stars a package has is short-sighted and gives only a skin-deep view.

> error messages are all over the place, everything falls apart as the immature dependencies change and error messages don't help at all.

When was the last time you used Julia? Because I've found the error messages personally far superior to Pythons errors, even in deep stack traces I find it easy to pinpoint the exact bit of functionality that has failed, why and understand what to do to fix it.

> I am sure someone is going to nitpick my comment and provide a way to do it in Julia, but that's missing the point. The point is Python is miles ahead of what it does. In production systems, robustness + maturity matters.

Python is mature _for now_, but this gap is gradually closing, and I've come across more than my fair-share of python packages that are abandoned, heavily reliant on magic, poorly written etc. The size of the ecosystem is not necessarily representative of it's value or worth.

> When we put a python repo together, I am rewarded by an endless supply of developers that I can hire and immediately work on it

This feels to me like the equivalent of "I'm looking for _React_ JS devs" - the knowledge and competency you have as a programmer should be able to be applied to new frameworks and languages, and I'd personally gladly hire someone who says "I'll learn the languages and tools I need to in order to apply my skills" instead of someone who says "oh it's not language + framework I won't/can't apply my skills", because the former is almost certainly going to be a much better programmer.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53074626/how-to-generate...
[1] https://github.com/jverzani/Mustache.jl
In my country (Malaysia), the loan moratorium was ~6 months by government decree, as was electricity & broadband bills. I reckon this was only possible since government-controled funds are the largest shareholders of the companies involved.

It's still not enough. I'm thinking service providers all need a new "bare essentials" tier, whereby delinquent customers can keep the service relationship on minimalist when they are desperate.

This is preferable to cutting the service and restarting later with bad credit.
It might or might not be easier for people to start by reading the Wikipedia page about this system that maps digits to sounds (which has a huge history and fanbase):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system

The linked article is an introduction to the system and the author has included some Python tools to help you learn and use it.
We’re also the top result when you google eg “How to train yolov4” and several of the top terms for training efficientdet. Hopefully we will be a great source of info on all computer vision models someday. Our mission is to make these things easier for people to use and understand.

Regardless of what you think about its name, YOLOv5 a great model for a lot of use cases. And hundreds of our customers are using it in production and are very satisfied with its performance. Just as many are using YOLOv4. And EfficientDet. And MobileNet SSD v2.

They’re tools, not sports teams. It’s kind of weird that they’ve developed fanbases.
Yeah, I was looking at used prices, but I can't tell if your link is for the pair, or just for one.
I mean game engines are pretty bad at that, that's why I asked
No more or less safe to who?

It's the US Government doing this. The US Government probably doesn't view itself as a threat.
The linked article talks about usage by the military
That's still a non-sequitur.

As an counter-example, it's possible to write conformant C++ without using any features that aren't also in C: I am, objectively, not using C++ to the fullest if I'm restricting myself to functions instead of methods, char pointers instead of std::string, statically allocated arrays or pointers instead of vectors, and so on, thereby ignoring 90% of the spec.

If I'm not using constexpr, for example, then I'm using one of less feature provided by the language. Constexpr, like all other modern C++ features not present in "old" C++, was invented to serve a purpose, and without it, you have to reach for more blunt, possibly more verbose and less expressive tools. In other words, many new features (such as ranges) increase expressiveness in a quantifiable manner. I may not need, for the specific program that I'm writing, the full range of features, and may not need constexpr. But that wasn't the question.

Again, I'm not asking about egregious use of features of features' sake. I'm asking about examples of projects that use in a positive and not superfluous terms modern features of C++.

It's not an absurd question, and your response is just obtuse (and unhelpful!).
Reminds me how in 2015 I built a web server in Godot. It's very limited, uses busy polling to listen for new connections, but nothing else was available at the time (IDK about current Godot). https://github.com/KOBUGE-Games/godot-httpd/blob/master/http...

Where there's a will, there's a way :).
The game industry as a whole was pretty fucked when I left. I remember doing the 40hr+1.5x overtime calculation and realizing that if I wasn't salaried I'd be making $4/hr with the mandatory hours we were working(70-90 hrs/week).

I tossed 2 months of PTO to leave that industry(yay Washington laws) and made up the difference in the first 2.5 paychecks of the new gig.

Be careful of industries that over-index on "passion" and don't compensate people accordingly. Last I checked that industry was still built on chewing through new faces every ~3 years or so. Taking care of your people makes business sense and I wish more companies got that.
Who's the target audience of this thread: the readers/applicants or the posting companies?

If it's the former, caveat applicant warnings should absolutely be on-topic.

If it's the latter, I can see why you cater to the suppression of useful information.
Giving an IQ test for a job is illegal.
When I was teaching college math classes, there were people who tried to argue for more partial credit after exams. Not to get into specifics but most of the requests came from the same demographic. If I as an instructor hadn't watched out for this and set a universal, and uniformly applied policy (and if I had an agreeable enough personality), then I would have consistently made the scores of this group higher. Would you say this is fair? Should math grades reflect whether someone has that "it doesn't hurt to ask"-attitude?
While you're right that depleted uranium specifically isn't covered, it's interesting to me that you focus on the legal status as opposed to the horrific effects of the weapon on the civilian population. There's also a pretty strong case that it falls under existing laws prohibiting superfluous injuries or unnecessary suffering.

https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-use-of-depleted-uranium-mu...
Probably something to do with the "status games" definition of friendship from Impro. Friendly ribbing in a faux-antagonistic relationship may also come off as really healthy-looking, comfortable, and pleasant, for similar reasons, namely that you can't do that safely with people you aren't on good and (at least in some confined sense) equal terms with. So from the outside it's like vicariously being part of the everyday intimacy of a friendship.
Its becoming more of a problem as aftermarket LEDs get more popular. The xenon kits were only installed by people who wanted to be 'cool', but LEDs are getting installed by people who want to save money or effort in replacing their halogen headlamp bulbs.

What is worse about the LEDs is that they are sold as "compatible" to various vehicles, when that means they will work mechanically/electrically, but not optically (some actually try to put LEDs in the same spot as the filament). All of the units I've seen cause the car headlamp to put out light at higher angles than a halogen bulb will, causing more glare for opposing traffic.
well, clearly you believe on a car, the part of the spec that says 'axles: 2' is a feature. along with everything else in the spec.
I think this is what The Great Gatsby was about. It is also possible to spend nearly (same O() but maybe different constant factor) as much on t-shirt and shorts as an Armani suit. Plus the fit of the clothes matter almost more than the brand. But I think the biggest difference is that people who grow up rich often have this ineffable sense of ease with the world.
Pandemics of this size in the past destroyed economies as people decided to hide, so you're going to get that damage no matter what. By getting it under control, the damage is minimized as many countries that followed best practices has shown.

Those countries that tried to do what you suggest are the ones with the longest economic downturns.

You should read about pandemics of the past.

And as very solid evidence from experts, the famous IGM economists poll of most of the world's top economists covered this exact question [1], which I'll repeat:

"Abandoning severe lockdowns at a time when the likelihood of a resurgence in infections remains high will lead to greater total economic damage than sustaining the lockdowns to eliminate the resurgence risk"

100% of them selected Strongly Agree (41%) or Agree (39%) or Uncertain (14%), not a single vote on any part of the Disagree spectrum, which is nearly unheard of for a question in economics, and these responses were also rated highly confident. Check other questions and polls to see how rare this strong of a response is.

Shortsighted action ignorant of the history of economics almost always makes things worse.

Have a good day.

[1] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/policy-for-the-covid-19-cr...
Yikes, just noticed that your first two paid plans have branding. I find that objectionable. If I am a paying customer why am I being forced to advertise as well? I wonder if I am alone in that thinking. I have never priced a SaaS but as a customer that puts me off. Otherwise it looks pretty cool.
> I've seen people turn up to social events with what is very clearly to an insider the 'wrong type' of suit (wrong fabric, wrong cut, buttoned incorrectly, wrong shirt, wrong tie, wrong type of shoes)

I’ve been on one side of this, making half-conscious assumptions about other guests based on subtle sartorial faux-pas I’d have a tough time articulating, but this made me realize that I could just as easily be on the other side, and probably have been.
>You see arguments all the time that start with "CCP is evil, X is Chinese, therefore...", which would basically justify any and every action against all Chinese entities.

You know they're running concentration camps directly comparable to Nazi Germany right? Like they're mid-genocide right now.

Yes any and every action against all Chinese entities is justified. Total economic blockade is the least the rest of the world should be doing.
That's a pretty funny thought.

Even a Mersenne twister won't be enough to represent 10^20,000+ states that'd be needed to complete just one maze run.

At a minimum, you need a PRNG with 100,000+ bits... or a 12.5kB+ state machine for your PRNG before you had a decent chance of one NPC finishing the maze. I don't think any modern PRNG has such state (most states cap out at 64-bits or 128-bits these days, because there's no feasible simulation that'd use all those RNGs. Mersenne Twister was probably the last "old style" PRNG algorithm that tried to make a huge cycle-length with a large-state).
Any industry with more people passionate about getting into it then there are jobs develops a whole host of pathologies from overwork and low pay to influence cliques, nepotism, the "casting couch," etc.
The laserlights, like ones marketed by BMW, are not shining the laser outward into the world - they use them to warm up phosphor which in turn produces “regular” light.
In a sense, it’s somewhat akin to an old school incandescent bulb, but using much less energy. In US, laserlights are reduced power due to regulations
Saying whataboutism is simply trolling and not a form of argument. Claiming a country does X implies that what it's doing is somehow an outlier, and that "good" countries don't use such tactics. Nobody is refuting the points about China, however those have to be seen in context of what other countries, such as US are doing. When it's not in any way abnormal behaviour then singling out China is just pure hypocrisy, and it's a disingenuous argument.

The context of discussion here is the parent comment asking whether there are recent examples of US actions that even compare in scale or scope. So, it's a little weird to screech about whataboutism when those examples are provided.

Meanwhile, it would take multiple books to list all of the known US atrocities, so I just picked a small sample there.
I've gone back and forth on the topic, between protecting my calendar, which seem to do little good because people don't care, and deciding I would just say "no" if I don't want to go, which doesn't seem to fly well in my organization's mentality.

Overall I think whether blacklist or whitelist, these are just mechanisms to help reduce a systemic problem. Whitelisting works ok if your problem is scattered work time (hell to the craze for 45m meetings that leave you with 15m of useless time in between). Blacklist works as a defense mechanism when your calendar gets abused. But overall it would be better that the systemic problem gets fixed in the first place. So overall these address mostly the planning part of meetings, not the other part of the iceberg which is the usefulness altogether.

However, on that topic, on a conceptual level, I really like approaches of companies like basecamp or what's described in emergency remote[1]: replace meeting with tools. But I don't believe it's always the efficient way to get to decisions, when you need a meeting, planning can be collaborative (eg [2] scheduler which just iteratively asks people for their preference until finding a slot that works) rather than dictated by the organizers.

[1] https://www.emergencyremote.com/emergencyremote
[2]
More data, but still confusion over how much children spread SARS-CoV-2
> There is no way to prove beyond doubt that ByteDance isn't having their data watched by the CCP

Is there a way to prove after Snowden that there is no direct data pipe between Microsoft data centers and NSA
Have any details around the slimmer separate compilation you mentioned?