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In a Common Law system, which the US has by design, the system formally admits that laws must be interpreted, that they can't say absolutely everything which needs to be said, and that precedent is an important part of that interpretation.

For example: Point to where the US Constitution says you have a right to privacy. Not a right to be free from "unreasonable search and seizure", but a right to be private. It isn't in there. If that means the Founders intended all medical documents to be public, then the Founders were wrong and need to be ignored on this issue; more likely, however, the Founders never felt the need to state the obvious, leaving it to the courts in case it ever came up.

Which it did. Griswold v. Connecticut was decided on the basis of a right to privacy, and that basis is what Roe v. Wade is founded on. Did the Court "amend the Constitution" by deciding that Americans have a right to privacy in medical matters? Was that something it should not have done? Modern morality would say the Court did the right thing, and privacy is an essential human right which any government worthy of the name must recognize.
May be it's more fair to count for the months of COVID, March-July. So normal deaths would have been 42,000 during this period but COVID roughly added 10%. While this is still high and non-trivial amount, the fascinating thing is that almost everyone thought they will turn into Wuhan with dead bodies on roads and overflowing hospitals. For virus spread, soft lockdown was considered inconsequential back in March and any country doing nothing but hard lockdown was despised. In US, many people criticized for not having China style lockdown. In my view, Sweden has definitely done something that is worthy of study. I think it will be unfair to go back and say, yeah, soft down was all you needed in retrospect to devalue their achievement and what everyone thought was rather risky bet.
Read USA law and constitutions. It is given in the law he can do this way before his presidency. And read up what happens on the other side to understand what really is "dictatorship" by changing laws to suit. Proportional system looks great on paper but consistently produce "proportional" government that can't act strongly due to political parties in-fighting. There is reason vast majority of people whether American or not accept the concept of manifest destiny. None ever accorded to GB, France, Spanish, Portugal, Italian or Germany even during their height of military superiority.
I’d happily reboot (though preferably not use a separate image entirely, nor a separate machine) to a get 5-10% speed increase when gaming.

If I can’t do that and I have to choose between fast/insecure or slow/secure I’ll take my chances with fast/insecure. I’ll rather give up doing anything sensitive on my machine than give up 5% perf.
Maybe we just rely too much on what we have achieved scientifically, and we have to embrace our guts and live out lives more freely.
> can you run kubernetes in nestybox ? entirely within the container ?

> if you can do this (and build a great experience around it), you have a winner.

Genuine question. I'm not that familiar with Kubernetes. Can you explain the pain this solves? What is this winning at?
> Alcohol makes people violent and out of control, more so than any other drug.

No, PCP is known to make users violent beyond what alcohol would do. And increased alcohol consumption correlates with less ability to act violently, because at some point the drinker is going to be unable to move, while PCP does not degrade one's motor skills.
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Why the 'wimpy' Y chromosome hasn't evolved out of existence
I was not aware of platform support (probably because two of my systems are FreeBSD and linux-musl, which nobody made a binary dist for). I stand corrected. Thank you.
He's just being subtle and putting it short of Apple's usual marketing speak - "We chose not to sell Data" perhaps as a goodwill to his former company.

Btw,

>they're not known for shipping consumer experiences

IMO, difference is not in selling 'consumer experiences' but selling 'consumer aspirations', which you rightly pointed out is not for many.
u can learn it in 2 months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGD6KQ6bRS8
I drive an electric car charged by solar panels on my house.
As much as people like to complain about JIRA and Confluence, the very essence of corporateness, Atlassian is a great company for both customers and employees. Also, I have 'known' Mike Cannon-Brooks since twenty years ago when he was active in developer forums, good dude then, too. So nice to see engineer driven companies succeed and not forget the little guys.
You mean bikes and public transport, right? Or are you just being sarcastic?
That isn't the lynchpin of the article. Did you actually read it to the end? That graph is a throwaway at the top which it explicitly says immediately after, isn't the focus of the article.

The article is about false positive rates on the PCR test.

Germany went into a form of lockdown, but so did the UK, and the UK saw relatively high excess deaths. There has been a lot of analysis of the data on this, and lockdown duration/start/severity doesn't correlate with outcomes in any obvious way.
>Because I believe it's the latter, and if you ban it, the hate campaigns don't vanish, they just start using other mediums.

While true that it may not be a source per se, Facebook enables those ideas whereas they would normally (at least, in the past) be relegated to the darkest corners of the web.

Take QAnon for example. The source is 8kun, which is accessible only through Tor and consisting of incel and white supremacist communities. Do you think the majority of people posting this material are getting it from the source in this case?
I believe that depends on the company. Facebook? Sure, I think I saw an article about that for Facebook. Other places? Maybe not.

Often times, there's plenty of places that are _totally_ within commuting distance, but really aren't. Do you think Facebook would lower someone's wages for living in Davis rather than Palo Alto or San Jose?
What about the photos of people happily seating in groups in restaurants and even attending sports events? I never seen anyone in those photos with masks. Also, I believe schools were kept open at least before summer vacations? I am not living there but very curious about how the life was during COVID period there.
Except where I live they also put stop signs on the thoroughfares. Some places just have messed up traffic.
I watched this video the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGbgDf4HCHU

It's Sir Roger Penrose & Dr. Stuart Hameroff talking about the physics of consciousness - for the first time I think a truly compelling idea of what consciousness is in a scientific way that could potentially be empirically measured. They mention the use of psychedelics to create more "conscious moments" - and funnily enough in this piece, Bill Atkinson talks about pockets of consciousness.

I wonder if there is really an argument to say that A) We have conscious beings on Earth due to some kind of quantum effect in our space (that is we really are just the bi-product of the quantum process in our universe) and B) Psychedelics can make humans more in-tune to quantum effects that give rise to consciousness - but as to your point I agree you don't need them for brilliant ideas.
Tropa de Elite (2007) - One of few films with a genuine right wing (not Neocon Globalist Corporatist) perspective.

A Swedish Love Story (1970) - The innocence of youth vs. the cynical defeat of adulthood. Don't let the world corrupt your soul!

Apocalypse Now (1979) (must watch the Redux cut!) - The heart of man behind all the artifice and words.

In the Mood for Love (2000) - Dignity and beauty despite everything.
> The NSA cannot legally do so (usually, exceptions exist), or utilise the information specifically in a court of law.

So that's been incorrect for over 20 years. The NSA can and does spy on US citizens. You can watch documentaries online about the switch in directors around 20 years ago. The new director said he didn't personally give a.f. about any previous restrictions, which bent a lot of civil servants out of shape. A lot of this was 911-related, but it's far beyond that.

Snowden's xkeyscore documents are essentially the outing of that.

Also, when the NSA cared about fig leaves, they said that the only email they stored was emails to or from a foreign address. You can see what a sieve that is - so at best they scanned all email, and at worst they kept all of it "just in case."
I know people who live next to a busy highway. They are scientifically proven to die a few years before their high income peers living in a nice secluded villa.
Not all animals are equal.
Why is the comment from godsplan1 downvoted to death?
In think the point of the excerpt was both sober and drunk states (whatever you call it neurologically) are needed to make a sound decision.
Apple has fallen way behind in software/apps, and maybe they’re ok with it. The hardware and OS are good, and some staple apps for creators are good. But at everything else they seem really lethargic or absent. For example, as a web developer Apple has had zero impact on my tooling and knowledge. But their laptop is nice and I have one, which may be good enough for them.
Check the charts I shared. They did explode initially, with far higher rates than similar countries, and they have taken much longer than similar countries to bring their death rates down. The earlier poster suggesting over 5000 more dead as a direct result of the policy is borne out by all cause mortality comparisons with similar countries.

Now possibly all these countries will be able to keep their low rates, but I'm concerned about the future: number of cases is on the rise again in Europe as a whole and increases in deaths will probably follow within the next month. I think we're still a way from being able to make a final reckoning.

The do-not-lock down case is mainly that we won't be able to control it until there's a vaccine, so lock down or no, total deaths will be similar. This isn't bourne out by the figures. Countries that allowed a larger spike initially have had much higher mortality rates (e.g. Compare the UK and Germany with now similar infection rates but very different mortality rates). Flattening the curve genuinely does seem to save lives.

The UK was keen to play the herd immunity game until they realised just how many people that would kill.
>Meiotic Executioner Genes Protect the Y from Extinction

https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/fulltext/S0168-9525(20)...
And Rome became a Christian empire and the story that remained was what we know today.
>some vegans need to constantly talk about their veganism as a way of suppressing their own uncertainty about their decision.

I met up with some friends in a park recently. It was hot so I suggested ice cream and one vegan dude I'm not that close with comes with me to get it. As we are walking back I notice he is eating an ice cream which is weird cos he's vegan. Without me prompting he says

"Oh damn, I forgot I was vegan"

Then he goes on a monlogue about how he's been feeling so good since he became vegan and he thinks it's great but he sounds totally unconvincing. Like he doesn't believe himself. Later he pulls some pre made vegan food out of his bag and slowly starts eating it. Turns out his girlfriend packed it for him. I talk to some friends about it later on and they inform me that he regularly cheats and pretends to himself it was an accident. Dude is probably malnourished and under the thumb of his vegan girlfriend. It's kind of sad.
I wish there’s a similar list for modern math.
I find it both amusing and ridiculous that you have to go to such great lengths to be able to type a good swear word on the iphone.
In which countries?

In the USA the case graph and death graph looks quite different. Just use the Google charts to quickly see:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=usa%20covid%20deaths

In Spain the death graph lagged the cases graph by only a few days in the first wave. In the second wave of cases (positive tests) they're now experiencing, deaths haven't gone up at all, as apparently the patients are now younger and recover quicker.

Can you show some graphs and working for this claim that death graphs are basically just lagged versions of the case graph? Also why would deaths follow cases by a month when infection-to-death is supposedly about 18 days.
We've had the better part of a hundred years to fix this if we wanted to. The main reason nobody's doing anything about pollution deaths is that it mainly affects poor people. It also mainly affects people in poorer "non-western" countries, with the Western Pacific and the South-East Asia regions dwarfing all other regions. (2012) [1]

[1]: https://www.who.int/airpollution/data/AAP_BoD_results_March2...
Biology seems easier because we can actually understand questions biologists can't answer, and easily invent our own. Not so, physics.

But that is also exactly why biology is harder.
Their account was banned. dang explains why they were banned in a reply to a previous comment.
I'm anxious to see what kind of macro trends arise from this, if it's still a popular policy post-pandemic. I'd predict that most industry jobs being remote by default would inevitably lead to a race to the bottom for wages, due to positions being far more competitive and able to effectively outsource to the lowest COL areas. For example, NPR has already experienced this[1] with its internship program this fall - after going remote, it led to a 10x increase in the number of applicants.
[1] https://current.org/2020/08/how-to-find-a-pubmedia-job-in-a-...
The simple answer is that Covid-19 is equally threatening to rich and poor anywhere in the world, while death from pollution is a highly localized problem, both in terms of geography and socio-economic position. This obviously doesn't take into account the danger of climate change or other dangers caused by the same pollution that we simply overlook.
GP's point is fair though. Many developed economies are spending literally hundreds of billions of dollars tackling COVID. Have we done proper cost/benefit analyses to verify whether that money could save or improve more lives in other areas?
"But I don't think I've ever spent time to learn a particular word - it's almost always enough to hear it in context once, and maybe get a chance to actually use it yourself once or twice, and you'll probably remember it for life."

I'd strongly bet against this. If it were true, SAT and similar vocabulary tests would be trivial to anybody who has taken high school English, and I think it is not the case that most people perceive the SAT to be trivial.
I am similarly confused, Is Richard's paradox really a paradox, since the 'diagonalized' mapping of texts to reals is not the same as the implied 'meaning-based' one?

'meaning-based' mapping is not bijective - both texts 'pi' and 'the number pi' map to the same real.

On the other hand the 'diagonalization' mapping doesn't care about the new real: texts which describe how to obtain it are already assigned to an arbitrary real.
> She has a manager who (apparently) has a low tolerance for risk. He probably got to where he is by spinning situations so that it's not his fault.

We're talking about Matt Cutts here who took what was likely a massive pay cut to work for the government after a long career at Google. Neither does this inference seem credible, nor does the characterization of him as "idiot manager" in the article

https://www.google.com/amp/s/searchengineland.com/matt-cutts...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cutts
The point is that other jurisdictions get away with using way fewer stop signs than in North America, while having much safer roads.
Ah, my favorite is autocorrect changing `its` to `it's`. Makes my grammatically correct sentences incorrect :-)
>Drinking culture is an annoying peer-pressure thing that builds comraderie, but takes up a lot of time.

It takes less time than building it naturally in an office environment, hence why it's popular.
While we are at it, let's make sure that any toilet flush goes directly back into one's water supply and disposal of waste and trash takes place in the household's garden.
Are you financially independent? Then stop working, get into a PhD programm this is usually training for research.
Yeah. This connects with how Mac apps can be open, but not have windows. That’s pretty uncommon, or even impossible, on Windows. At least, it was when I last used Win regularly (XP!!).

It’s an extension of the desktop metaphor. In a Mac, the distinction between an open app and a closed one is fuzzier than on Windows. In a Mac, you have A Mac and it helps you do things, and the Mac tends to the applications for you. In Windows, you have a computer with an OS that hosts applications that help you do things. The distinction is irrelevant when considered from the hardware outward, but is subtly but powerfully different when considered from the user inwards.
Any wiki software suffers from the problem that only a small percentage of the company uses it. It's essentially a tax on the most productive people. If someone asks you for the same thing 8x, you will write it down and share it via a wiki.

I've spend years trying to solve the problem - how do you get the average person writing more at work? What I've come up with resembles a company "journal", but helps you automate any routine communication or update (daily standup, weekly update, retros, etc).

Would love any/all feedback on the idea, here's the website (https://www.friday.app/). You can use it as an individual, team, or with the entire org.
It affects the performance of the car which means it has less sales potential.
Yes, doing QFT rigorously is hard because of path integrals. It's possible to do QM rigorously, as the "rigged Hilbert spaces" formalism suffices.
Wind down a second window.
What on earth is this? Are you serious?
Long term consequences are where it's at. This article talks none of it. Let's hope that Sweden doesn't have heart failure and ground glass lungs for the next decades at high rates. Such a gamble from one doctor.
Yeah, nice story, but Google kills products without offering any alternative. There is no master plan at Google regarding non-search products. Just pure incompetency.
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> if you fire a gun and drop a bullet from the same height they both reach the ground at the same time

This is incorrect if you consider drag.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/153026/will-a-bu...
I love the option to view cached versions of websites. This is a nice project. Thank you, Mcovalt.
What I see from the first chart I shared is that at 140 days Sweden still has not got its death rate down to the level the other nordics achieved at 80 days.

https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=swe&areas=nor&are...
I'm concerned by the promo picture on that website[1], that mask really doesn't look tight, and it only has one strap. There's a reason most N95 masks have two straps[2] and that's because a tight fit is essential for filtering particles in the surrounding air. Even a small gap between your skin and the mask will mess with the negative pressure expected to happen within the mask to force the surrounding air to pass through the filter when you breathe in (which, in the case of [2] is the entire mask).

They might not look pretty but for anyone looking for a cheap and reliable mask, just get a regular N95 mask from a hardware store, it's used by carpenters etc. all the time to block particles and it works well for most car/truck pollutants. Of course it won't filter gases or whatever else cars emit that may damage your health.

[1]: https://respro.info/images/v3_product_background/_ProductBac...
[2]: http://wasip.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/W795110-P
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There’s plenty of air pollution in the countryside too from eg muck spreading or turning industrial compost heaps. It’s not really clear how bad they are
Its really simple: Silicon Valley makes the US a shitton of money and keeps the US a superpower.

You will not get Americans to give it up. You will not get any US politician to slay the golden goose.
A conscious decision not to have children can have the same effect
I thought that was odd, too. My best guess is that he’s emphasizing “known” as in notorious. Apple is “that company that ships experiences” whereas google is that company that records you while you use their apps or whatever.
Yes you are correct during the worst part of corona my experience is not the same as the doctor from the article. Many people strictly kept away from places with large amount of people close together. A lot of employers changed to work from home. My employer says we will continue WFH until end of year. That said people still socialised, though outside and in smaller groups.

In the end our high mortality rate can't be overlooked. We need to change our strategy for future similar pandemics. That said, I think the most interesting stats to look at when deciding what we should have done differently is the breakdown of deaths per age-group. Less than 100 deaths are among people younger than 50. So almost all of our ~6000 deaths were among the elderly. That is what needs to change. Next time we need to be quicker at protecting the old. Otherwise our strategy could have worked, the rest seem to be able to build up their defences to the virus.
Disposable N95 masks work fine. They're about five bucks.
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To your point 3:

https://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/27/trump-cites...

« “CNN did a poll recently where President Obama and I are statistically tied,” Trump told reporters Wednesday morning upon arriving in New Hampshire. “If you would like, I can send it to you. Call up CNN.”

CNN didn’t conduct such a survey.»
this is really cool, now I can filter by topics I really care about, well done!
I worry when I see movies like Star Wars which preach believe your instincts (aka trust the "force"). In reality vast majority of our instincts are either flatout wrong and works only in very narrow situations. In fact, virtually every scientific law is a statement of how our instinct was so wrong. Does Sun rotates around Earth? Is Earth flat? Can an object move endlessly when applied a force? Can two objects of different mass hit the surface at same time? Science is essentially a bandaid to fix our instincts. Vast majority of people will fail at basic probability questions. This is why there are so few people who finally managed to become quantum physicists. They had to break pretty much every single instinct about how world works. So I've always looked at Star Wars's "May the force be with you" slogan with dose of irony. If force is actually with you, you are probably not using your mammalian instincts :).
It would only work if exhaust filters were mandatory for all cars, since the environment is "free" to ruin for anyone it doesn't make economical sense to install an exhaust filter unless you're legally obliged.
But is it the equivalent of lynching? Since premeditated execution by cop is in several ways worse, and in most ways about the same, I would say yes.
I had to figure out what previous comment you mean; for anyone similarly lost, see the account's previous comments, there is only one other.

Interesting, I would have expected to show the commenter an [you are banned] error or similar instead of just not showing the comment to others.

Edit: Thanks for explaining!
Ballentine's book is a modern textbook that relies on that (as opposed to Shankar which you mentioned)
This is not true at all. Many people go to stellar PhD programs from not so famous state schools.