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And what if the polices were wrong? I have looked at the data and came to the conclusion that the danger from covid is tiny (to see how low - check qatar - probably the country with most extensive testing) and preventing is totally not worth it the sacrifices and damage to society.

Qatar has 44000 cases per 1m pop and 69 deaths per 1m.

That is not much higher than flu.
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As the saying goes, the first trillion is the hardest. This year proved to me beyond any doubts that I understand nothing about the markets, the fact the world's largest (publicly traded) company raised 125% in a single year boggles my mind (not even related to the COVID drop).
Thanks truly for the clarification. It's a relief to know your downvote wasn't because I communicated badly.
FWIW, we have an LG smart TV and I've never seen ads on it because our standard use case is a) turning it on and b) immediately pressing the built in Prime/Netflix button. I barely even know what the home screen looks like.
Most other similar societies around the world do not allow this, yet PIs and process servers still exist.
There is an upside for kids 5 and older here.

My daughter has to take this standardized map test in Connecticut. It is all computer based. If you are not comfortable using the computer, you do not do well on the test.

The teacher uses this online problems site IXL to help them get use to answering the questions on the computer. This was also really helpful when everyone had to do school remotely.

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> Edit: based on some of the replies, it looks like it boils down to a sense of entitlement: people wanting to stick to their routines without a care of putting others at risk.

You asked why people would want specific equipment. You didn't ask whether the tradeoffs involved are worth it. The replies here mostly answer the question you asked, not the one you're pivoting to.
I recently moved from Workflowy to org-mode after being recommended by someone here and it has been a fantastic experience. Henrik's Doom Emacs distribution has really made the transition easy with its amazing out-of-the-box usability.

There is one minor feature from Workflowy that I miss though, which is is the ability to "zoom" into a headline. You can narrow subtrees, but its level won't be adjusted. I tried to use some horizontal scroll hackery but couldn't get it to play well when you're switching buffers. I'm not sure how to save those narrowed buffers across sessions either.

But in any case I definitely will stay with org-mode for quite a long time, it truly is a powerful piece of software.
I haven't used it in embedded (I didn't notice that ESP32 had a Erlang VM, so I got ESP8266 for my experimental stuff, because it was cheaper), but I would guess supervision is nice. Binary pattern matching is also very nice and probably useful in an embedded context, although the readme says binaries are poorly supported in AtomVM.

If AtomVM supports hotloading, that's always nice.
This! So many people attribute this "failed attempt" to bad parenting or stunted development and fail to realize it is only the natural progression of development.

Children (and adults) learn from their interactions with items, be it technology or not. Attempting to use "touchscreen behaviors" on something that isn't a touch interface is just another learning moment. They're attempting to use their knowledge and experiences to explore the world around them, as each generation did before us.

We're just more connected than we ever were, so this behavior is now more noticeable due to that connectivity and sharing.
I recently saw a post on social media which said "Jesus died because all lives matter". I guess the implication was that Jesus died to make it possible for us all to go to heaven.

And, because God could have easily prevented Jesus from being crucified but didn't it means that that was God's will.

But that made me think. If God is all-powerful, why couldn't he just let (good) people to Heaven without letting Jesus die?

In effect God had to (temporarily) kill Jesus to make it possible for all good people to get to heaven. Why would he have to do that, if he truly is all-powerful? Shouldn't it be the easiest thing for an all-powerful being to let good people into heaven, without having to have someone suffer the terrible torture of crucifixion?

Does that make sense to theologians?
My oldest (7) is logged into my Google account for Youtube.

He subscribes to Minecraft and Fortnite Youtubers all the time.

Periodically I will unsubscribe him to *most of those video game channels. And in turn, subscribe him to a few Science channels. He's recently gotten into soccer, so I subscribed him to a couple of beginner-howto soccer channels as well.

His Youtube recommendations are now more science oriented and he seems to enjoy them. He doesn't seem to notice, yet.

You can manage your channel subscriptions here:

https://www.youtube.com/feed/channels
>Is the real point here that sometimes bad rules remain in place until some external event forces a change? Doesn't sound so profound.

The author's example shows the very glaring case focused on: a rule totally disconnected from security. He was told "no remote work for contractors." One would assume any reasons for this rule (valid or not) would also be reflected in reality. In this case, maybe only regular employees had filled the legal paperwork and passed whatever security checks.

But the rule disappeared in less than a day. So it only existed on paper and punishment. I doubt the security concerns disappeared or were fixed in less a day.

These kind of rules, when exposed, can have a big impact on how well people follow other rules. I should know: I started ignoring a bunch (and sometimes later learned the risks I pooh-poohed).
I think this is pretty spot on. I'd like to think many of us are similar to home builders. We have all the standard supplies/tools at our disposal. The blueprints are quite similar to other homes because that's what our users expect, something familiar.
Reddit is a PoS platform owned by a company most of us revile.
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Lowered launch costs can't compare with the expedience of ground-based experiments.

Some things work really well in space, some do not. Low-cost launch will revolutionize some experiments, but not all.

Building radio experiments like SKA, big telescopes like TMT, or starting up innovative low-budget instruments like Dragonfly is still impossible with low-cost launch. In the latter case, until a graduate student with a screwdriver can make daily adjustments to an on-orbit instrument, we will lose the earliest-stage R&D capability.

Finally, it is essential for our future generations to see a dark and unfettered sky with the human eyeball. That perpetual perspective, for 7,500,000,000 people, is inaccessible with launch vehicles.
Exercising your options is a taxable event even if the shares you're buying are illiquid.
>Pretty expensive too!

Dumbbells are going for > $2-3/lb on various websites right now, which is insane. Adjustable dumbbells are going for > $10/lb, which is over twice their usual sticker price.

Gyms could lease out their equipment right now and make a killing.
Downvoting because it's none of your business. Honest question - and if you choose to downvote me I'd ask you extend me the same courtesy you asked for - how is a gymgoer endangering you, if you are staying 6ft from all others, wearing a mask, washing your hands and not touching your face?
Sounds like Facebook doesn't know how to make money with Oculus unless they require people to log into Facebook to use it.
If we allow lies to be spoken in our presence, we are complicit.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?10449-1/doublespeak
What makes you think that laws prohibiting alcohol to minors aren't useful? Those laws don't have to completely eliminate alcohol consumption by minors to be successful, they just have to make it less likely to happen. My gut feeling is that alcohol consumption among teenagers would be higher if it wasn't banned, though I don't have any data to back my claim.
> A better question would be whether the expected value of all future cash flows has doubled.

In real dollars, or nominal dollars?
So TVs technically work today without wifi? That should be doable for most privacy-conscious people. Sick some literal tinfoil on the back of the TV where the antenna is to weaken the range, or block the TV requests on the network level for the more technically inclined using pi-hole. (Even as I type this, I am realising how insane it is that buying a TV is so hostile to the end customer!!) Hopefully my old dumb TV and dumb projector lasts for many more years...

I have an older Kindle, you can simply turn on airplane mode permanently and sync only using Calibre on your PC. So it's not as user-hostile as newer TVs.
I too turn off the menu and toolbar in Emacs, and I'm not saying the setup in the article sounds good to me for that or any editor. But to give you an example of why I think it's an important point, I would absolutely love to be able to issue commands by speech, for example, for things I don't use very often, or just never remember what I've bound them to (or even for stuff I don't remember the name for). Some people _have_ this setup, I've just never invested the time. But it's possible because fundamentally Emacs is a platform first and an editor second. I doubt it would be a very popular platform without the ability to make keybindings, but you nevertheless you could still build useful apps on top of it, and I find that quite interesting.
This. The last couple months has done more damage than good to me. I'm that type of person who'll lose muscle quickly if stops working out for mote than 2 weeks. I also played a couple games of volleyball and tennis, and I'm so clumsy I'm embarrassed I lost control of my body. Meanwhile, thr local gyms havr silly rules to restrict people's access...
"You are correct, tricking your mind doesn't trick your insulin...normally"

If you thought I was correct you should have written: "You are correct, tricking the mind often tricks insulin response also."

I wish you well with this endeavor; it will be a win-win for all involved if it tastes good and is healthy from a metabolic standpoint. But in my view it remains to be seen.
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It's so interesting how people try to rationalize modern valuations by connecting them to some other metric (P/E, growth, etc.).

None of that is true.

Stock price presents demand for the stock. Demand is emotional. The stock market represent (rich) people's feelings.

I want to own a piece of Apple, because a bunch of others want a piece of Apple.

Tesla's stock is exhibit A for this.

If there was a direct correlation between some metric and stock price, every trade would be automated.
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It's not just gyms. It's underground bars, hair salons, hot stone yoga joints, and all kinds of things.

While the hair salons were closed, my wife's hairdresser was texting her every three days to get her into her underground makeshift totally illegal hair place.

And slightly realated, quarantines don't work when people aren't actually quarantined. There was an article in the newspaper last week or the week before about all the people from California driving into Nevada to get their hair done.

Just what the world needs: People who make poor health decision driving around the country.
I just "finished" my first Gemini after using the hell out of it for two years straight until it finally gave up on me - it had missing keycaps, the obligatory cracked screen, dents & scratches for the last few months of its life, but still would not give up on me - until it finally went out few weeks ago.

I tried to do without a keyboard for two days, but I just can't do it, and got myself a new unit from Planet.

I guess I'm an old-skool kind of user, my primary app is termux + openssh for doing my mail and irc remotely, but the keyboard is good enough to do the occasional sysadmin and coding work - and that's not something you'd typically do on a blackberry.

I highly recommend this device. It has its flaws, but it's unike any other device available at this time.
Yeah this part is something that annoys me but lots of the Unity team is working on macbooks, even though it's only a relevant platform for iOS as far as the end user is concerned.
How could there not be a monopoly on public safety? The state and the government should have the final word on all things public safety related. Trusting private corporations or companies with public safety is insane.

It's sad and hilarious that Americans truly believe that the government, who is accountable to the electorate, should be somehow disabused of those role simply because it doesn't work as well as they'd like.

You know, instead of reforming it or fixing the problems we have.

The Libertarian "let the free market work" is just complete garbage and history has shown time and time again this doesn't work and will never work.
Sorry but this line

> (and a lot of times, it's cheaper outside of Amazon).

is not true. Amazon does not let sellers list products on amazon for a higher price than than what they list on the sellers website. It's 100% against TOS and they will shut down your listing if it's your first offense and will permaban you from selling if you continue to do so.
Find what you like and then deep dive into that genre. Learn the history about it, look up the producers, the stories behind the albums, the songwriters, the studios that they were recorded at even.

A lot of historical context can be built from that. And you also find more artists that way. Also if you really want to get into it, look up the instruments that are influential in the process of the albums you find. For example, J Dilla's MPC was one of the most important tools of the 90s Neo-Soul and Hip Hop scene (it's actually in the Smithsonian). But other producers have mastered it and its decedents... like Araab Musik, Pete Rock, or Kanye.

If you want to be a person who respects all different genres of music, look into the history of genres as you explore them and find the most influential albums in that genre (usually this correlates to albums sells for "popular" music, influential is usually tied to the network of artists someone has influenced, worked with, produced for, etc).

Hopefully that helps. I'm a huge music buff, so I'd be happy to discuss.
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The basic problem with that idea is black holes are too small. The amount of low temperature radiation that one could dump into them would be insufficient.
Reddit is busy building a Trumpian wall around itself. You can't export images easily; you can't get a link to shareable videos. You can't browse on a browser on a mobile device, they just simply won't let you.

On the content side: moderators are becoming more and more authoritarian: they hand out bans if you don't toe "their" line. Diversity of opinion is frowned upon.

It's a dumpster fire.
And these days MSFT, FB, AAPL, AMZN and GOOG have about 20% of capitalization of SP500. I'm sure there are a lot of mega funds who have exposure to these stocks and they do not want them to fall (until they can dump on someone else I guess).
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Similar question a couple of hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210008
I believe it's what we call a 'bubble'
Why not have mandatory public webcams in everyone's homes?

Two reasons; privacy is axiomatically a human right (since it's an axiom you can unilaterally disagree, just as with any other human right), and caused harm arguments that the information is available in a way that can cause your physical harm (when you cannot escape a stalker, or a general class of invasive people if you're a celebrity or piss off qanon).
Why do essential workers all have to be valued on an equal basis as firefighters, doctors, etc? How are you measuring value?
Its likely you're getting down voted for being a snitch. Normally, I'd down vote you for this (as people down vote my posts which disagree with their opinions regardless of facts presented), but I take great joy in seeing how many down votes I can get ruffling feathers. Others aren't like me.
> You don't have to go if you don't want to.

Are you implying that the people going to these speakeasy gyms are then self-quarantining and not interacting with people who did not go to the gym? Because if not, then this is a non sequitur of a response.

> Surely your indignation would be better directed at employers, schools and others who are requiring in-person attendance.

Except OP is not about employers, schools and others.
Simple book rec: This is Your Brain on Music.
“The slow one now will later be fast cause the times they are a changing” -Bob Dylan

It is apparent that Apple has been successful financially and has reached new heights but I don’t think this can continue for much longer.

We are hanging on longer and longer to the iPhone and the services (namely Apple Music when compared to Spotify) Apple offers are less exciting than their competition. AirPods have become and ubiquitous sign of the technological times where people buy on brand and not on quality or functionality (plus they’re ugly imo).

Where does Apple go from here? They can’t keep making iPhones and pissing developers off forever. They must either rise to a new zenith from a pure business standpoint (new products, cannibalize the old) or in several years time people will begin really thinking critically and realizing that while the Apple brand is “superior” that the technology is not.

I tell you all this typing on my iPhone X... I’ve owned iPhones since 2010. But they times are a changing.
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You should start drinking heavy. It's more legal and essential.
I hope they don't do it. If this happens I probably won't Reddit anymore. Apollo is not only the best Reddit client I've ever used, but is actually the most well-crafted iOS app I ever had the pleasure to use.
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Lifting stones has been a thing since at least ancient Greece.

On that note, construction workers do severely damaging work every day (not being sarcastic, they mess up their bodies for people who will haggle to the last cent). Show them more respect.
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I agree, but that's not a reason to downvote. Try to discuss instead.
I'm not a fitness buff because I hate working out. I'm not overweight (perhaps slightly underweight) and it's hard to convince myself on any given day to do a thing I hate doing because it can't feel like a "win" until 3 ~ 12 months from now.

I got excited about this concept reading OP's description, but the video makes it look like it's resistance band exercise for the arms, and nothing beyond that.

I guess my ideal version of this would involve full body weight exercise somehow or lifting heavy objects.

I'm not sure 20 ~ 60 minutes of extending arms with resistance bands is safe or effective. We didn't really evolve to work our muscles that way. Then again I guess we didn't evolve to cycle either.
> why do you need specific indoor gym equipment?

He answered your question directly and then you change the goalposts. Clearly you hold the opinion that gyms should remain closed, and that's fine, but why even ask the question?
They're not constructing a complex threat model and deciding that the hedonic value of gym attendance outweighs the disease risk. They're just going to the gym because they decided they'd like to. The article's parallel to alcohol prohibition is exactly on point; there was a famous policy where the government ordered industrial alcohol to include increasingly strong poisions, but consumers kept on drinking it anyway, because they weren't doing a risk-benefit analysis in the first place.
While they’re at it, they should setup some speakeasy urgent care clinics for when they give themselves covid.
GRiSP runs on an RTOS using POSIX compatability. So baremetal-ish? Still you can apparently program RTOS tasks and control them from Erlang land. :-) Also Nerves supports the GRiSP board itself not the RTOS; pretty sure Nerves runs it using Linux IIRC.
"Essential" is exactly it. I'm happy to take 2-4 weeks off the gym (switching to apartment calisthenics) to help flatten the curve, but once it drags on to months I'd have no moral qualms with joining an underground gym. Thankfully in my area gyms re-opened June 1st and looks like they're staying open.
Thanks for flagging! It's comforting to know I'm not the only one. I'll chime in on that thread.
It might be better to think of it as creating an environment where you are not surrounded by warm objects radiating at you. So it should not matter where you are in the space or how large it is. The effect should be the same.
Interacting with other people is a two-way street. If you are afraid someone across from you might have been to one of these gyms, then walk away from them.
These records sure doesn’t play in their favor when it comes to investigations of being harmful to the competitive environment.

One could ask the questions:

Should any single (non-state?) entity be this large?

Is it overall better to have innovation and production concentrated like this or would society benefit from increased plurality?

I don’t know, but numbers like these sure makes me wonder
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Pedantically, retention is the most effective KPI for predictable monetisation plans.
Exactly what I thought. A few years ago, I was in a hotel where one family gave their kids tablets to watch movies during breakfast. I can hardly imagine that this practice is beneficial for the kids development.
I've lost 2+ inches on my arms, chest and legs after 20 years of working out fairly consistently. I was the strongest I had ever been just before COVID-19 hit. I'm not super-depressed about it quite yet, because the gym had become a bit of a crutch for avoiding dealing with problems in my life.

But after so many months off, I'm reaching the point where the lost gains might not be recoverable. I have to decide sometime soon whether to get back into the gym or give it up permanently.

It's not a total loss since I've been doing handyman work for my boss and 50 incline pushups 2-3 times per week. I'm in generally good health and my face is thinner. Still stinks though.

I bought a used weight bench and plan to use it soon. And I'm still paying my gym membership, only $20/mo for life at a converted Gold's Gym. But we get such a boost in the first 6 weeks of n00b gains after a break that I feel it's better to go all-in rather than dabble.

Oh and to answer your question: pumping iron is a hack. My girlfriend does kickboxing, and it's a tremendously physical exercise revolving around burpies and other crossfit-style functional training. It's really good. But, I feel that weightlifting provides a much higher bang for the buck because it takes advantage of 2 to 5 day overcompensation cycles in the body so that gains continue indefinitely. So my intensity under the bar over an hour and a half period never even reaches the intensity of her warmup. Yet I put on perhaps 2 to 4 times as much muscle as I would cross training, for 1/2 to 1/4 the effort, which works out to about a 4 to 16 times better return on investment (an order of magnitude better result).

I pump iron because I'm lazy, is what I'm saying.
I saw an engineering services company I know of post a new job position for a "care coordinator" to babysit their employees kids, at work, while the employees work. My first thought was, isn't that a daycare? How is it different in the eyes of the law?
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