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Under 0.35% which is several times greater than the next comparable (the flu), and greater for more than 30% of the population due to age and pre-existing condition. Very few people dont have a personal stake in keeping the people they love alive (parents, spouses, children, siblings, friends, lovers, etc.)

The panic makes more sense if you consider the overwhelming majority of people are looking not just at their own age and pre existing condition but also realizing the people who enrich their lives are also at risk.
Which is why it had the individual mandate to prevent people from doing that.
Yeah with this they can in theory lead the dog through a whole building where it'd be really hard with just a radio and camera. They'll have to train the dog for any new signals but they can just replicate the laser pointer plus voice commands they're using now in the AR headset.
You cutting the last part of the sentence sums up a lot too.
I just love facts like this: Although Spain is hardly an intellectual superpower, it translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past thousand years.

The links to the UN report seems to check out, but on the other hand I've heart that publishing is not a very lucrative business in Arabia and most translations are fan translations
If you start from when Morris worm got released into UNIX world, there will be plenty to chose from.
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The printing press becomes a practical invention only once:

1) You have something to print on

2) You have content worth printing

The introduction of paper to Europe and the Latin translations in Toledo and Sicily (cities in former Islamic territories) are the answer to 1 and 2.

Paper is cheap, scalable, durable and portable. Pre-paper technology such as papyrus, parchments, tablets and carvings have issues in those regards.

Greek literature from Archimedes, Aristotle, Apollonius, Euclid, Diocles, Galen, Hippocrates, Ptolomy, and many others, was reintroduced to the West through those translations.
Well if you look at the ancestry and lineage, they evolved from the class of single button tools .. more related to a toaster than a two button or three button work machine ;)
Sun was not that kind of a lawsuit people. Eric Schmidt knew that.

They only got screwed when Oracle bought Sun.
Obamacare didn't make healthcare more expensive. It just distributed the cost differently.
Even less cool sub-story is the way briliant people serving as soldiers are considered disposable on behalf of their government in the name of violence created by that government.
While I agree that Cheney was probably more powerful than a normal VP, you really need to keep in mind that the movie Vice is still fictionalized, with its own narrative and interpretation of events to push that may or may not have anything to do with reality.

That you call it a "telling report" suggests you might also want to revisit your perspective on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Forgot about this one already?

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1978/ceremony-speech...
Python is a high bar to beat though, since no one understands beating Python as beating some hypothetical Python-only numerical library, it's beating mature precompiled C/C++/Fortran libraries with a small overhead in Python. And there are very few dynamic languages that can even compete on this level (without needing the FFI), and even static languages will have trouble dealing with the level of optimization that went on those libraries.

But everything has compromises, and in Julia case is the JIT lag from aggressively optimizing compilation, making it a slow language for simple do once tasks (which is the part that is usually written in Python) and a fast language for when runtime performance is the most important (which is the part done by the libraries in C/C++/Fortran), making it slower in some situations. Though new releases are attacking this issue, including the ability to not optimize this do once tasks (like plotting) and improving pre-compiling.

But as for now, the ability to not have black boxes and not being required to twist my code to a particular style in order to not be prohibitive slow makes up for the slow startup (plus using Revise.jl to automatically compile code in a REPL, and keep the session alive for all my programming routine makes it not that much of a deal during development).
Not sure about the United States but in my parts of the world (Eastern Europe) it has also transformed into a social- and political-differentiating issue, i.e. people of a certain social status and of certain political views tend to over-emphasise the seriousness of the virus and to paint the other side in all sorts of unflattering colours because, supposedly, this latter side doesn't take the virus as serious as they do.

I happen to share the social- and political-views of the first part of people I talked about, but I've started to very largely diverge when it came to how the virus should be handled. In late January - early February this year I certainly thought that the fatality rate would be around 3-4% (especially after the first images coming out of Wuhan), but as the disaster in Northern Italy and then Spain was unfolding and we were starting to learn more about it I started to think that that number would be more close to 1-2%.

Most of the summer I thought that the fatality rate would be 1%, and then in early August I saw a recent study carried out in Sweden bringing that number down to 0.4%-0.6%. In the last couple of weeks I've started seeing even lower numbers (between 0.3% - 0.4%), which, if I'm not mistaken, would make this virus 3 or 4 times more deadly compared to the normal flu (which afaik has a 0.1% death rate) which is not great, but which is also not catastrophic.

Now, I've tried having this exact conversation with a couple of my friends just yesterday and it did not go well at all, they were accusing me of being anti-mask and of not taking the virus seriously enough. Apparently the bare numbers don't work even on educated people.
The latter seems unlikely to me. If we stigmatized or outlawed geopay, the net effect would be rising wages across the board because companies would not want to be locked out of hiring good people in HCOL areas. That or the cities would empty out and the relative income needed to live well would flatten. Either way, a win for society.
Well I hope they release the 5700X soon. I was excited for Zen 3, but their price bump and lack of a middle ground option left me conflicted whether I should shell out more money for a 5800X or get a last gen CPU.
Bring in coup attempt number 5.
They no longer use that as a file prefix, rather.
I'm a superfan of "Why is this interesting?"

https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/

It's a daily newsletter that's a sort of potpourri of interesting topics. They're pretty digestible, and they make it a point to avoid current events/politics. The writing is also very high quality.
> I would imagine Apple doing this with FaceTime soon.

What's this claim based on? Last I looked into FaceTime tech, they didn't do anything special - their quality comes from use of H.265 and the fact that iOS devices have good quality HW encoding blocks which provide good compression at low bandwidths.

FaceTime stream is usually also low motion / change so it's possible to achieve very good compression even with basic quality. Although they still don't quite match the quality of AV1 powered Google Duo on very poor connections.
The USA as a whole is already at ~10-15% and the rate of infections increased since late summer, and we are not even in flu season
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I verified a _lot_ at school. Simple stuff, sure, but it's the method which matters, not the thing you verify. I guess it may depend on the education systems, but seeing it as an 'indoctrination system' is just dishonest, given that by _definition_ you want to change the minds of the children. There is no --or so little-- spontaneous learning when you reach something more complicated than the basic action/immediate consequence a toddler uses.
So we both agree that geographic proximity alone is not a good factor to compare by? Good.

It then makes sense to compare Sweden against all other European countries instead of just those few neighboring countries.
CDC and healthcare in general are not scientific institutions.
Are you deliberately missing the point? You follow a logical chain of building up a roughly coherent view of the world. Not as good as following the kind of thorough reasoning that goes into a research paper (since you always have access to "the right answer") but better than most alternatives that can be mass-produced at that level.
So far...

The prize going to political leaders has been a mixed bag. Aung San Suu Kyi didn't turn out, for a recent example. The Arafat/Rabin choice seems poor in retrospect, but ATT it would have seemed like a similar choice to Begin/Sadaat a few years earlier. The latter peace did work out.

None of these people were pure white snow. All four were aggressive, militaristic nationalists for all their life. They all made peace though, or tried.

These are the kinds of choices that make the Peace Prize actually active. Politicians seek recognition, usually. I think venerating them for peacefulness does actually motivate. Trump wants one, for example. If an opportunity was there, I think he might have actually taken it just to get the prize.
Maybe WinRT won't get much respect, but it is also getting first class support for Rust, alongside .NET, C++ and Python.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2020/04/30/rust-w...
I've heard a lot about Rust's "safety" things. But what are they? How does it compare with modern C++?
The panic was never over the case or infection fatality rates. The panic is because of asymptomatic spreaders.

If a strain of influenza suddenly spiked to higher fatality rates, less drastic measures could contain it because it's usually obvious when you are contagious with influenza.

Also, as someone who had SARS-COV-2 and didn't die, it was fucking awful and I fully blame the complete failure of US leadership for the current fiasco.
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> We would soon learn the difference between knowing and believing.

Well said, and it's not always so easy. Skepticism and critical thinking are in very short supply, that is true, and we should all try to verify as much as possible.

But really, most things cannot be verified by you, personally. We do stand on the shoulders of giants, and you will not be able to verify centuries of scientific progress all on your own, from first principles.

And this becomes even harder when you approach the softer parts of human knowledge such as economics or very recent discoveries that aren't fully settled. Most people are easily tricked by politicians and other evil actors simply because most things cannot be known for sure (immigration? interest rates? carbon taxes?), and the best one can do is to have educated guesses. And educated guess require education, which most have not.

So I don't see how you can live without trusting most of what you are said or living partially outside society. I guess a compromise between our point of views is the good old adage "trust, but verify".
An infection fatality rate of 0.35% means 500,000 deaths if half of Americans are infected. Not the end of civilization, but certainly something to take seriously.

The single worst aspect to America's Covid response was that what should have been a medical or scientific debate became politicized.
If one person in the world is scanning, yes. Ten persons => 1 packet every 30 seconds. 100 000 persons => 1 packet every 3ms. Suddenly doesn't look that innocent, right?
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Why the heck shouldn't you love your job if you want to? Love isn't something you have a finite supply of that you have to dole out sparingly. Loving your job or your city or your dog or whatever else doesn't "use up" love that you then no longer have available to give to your friends or family or devalue it or whatever. Love is something that you generate more of as you give it away.

My wife is a musician, I used to be a musician, I have a lot of friends in the arts of one kind or another. You can be damn sure they love their jobs (because basically noone goes into most kinds of artistic careers thinking they will make any sort of living over and above the barest kind of subsistance).
Yes, common lisp has certainly had multiple dispatch for decades. I think what makes Julia interesting is that the Dispatch Ratio and reuse is significantly higher in Julia than in other languages with multiple dispatch. Some of that is certainly attributable to the ways in which Julia differs from a lisp.

See Sec 6.2 "Julia: dynamism and performance reconciled by design" in https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3276490.
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In another comment I mentioned the USPTO's part-time program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24729649

I can say unequivocally that at the USPTO as a patent examiner you would not be expected to squeeze 5 days of work into however many days you work per week. You work a certain number of "production" hours and you are expected to get a certain amount of "count" per production hour. So, as the number of production hours you have decreases, your count expectations decrease proportionally as well.
The Bloomberg website is 100% a vanity/halo project that makes Bloomberg (the man) and Bloomberg (the company) seem relevant. The terminal business is such a cash cow that they can easily afford to bankroll journalism to maintain their brand and mindshare.
I've also switched to part time IC this year, and it has been much better for my mental health.

The ability to work on side projects or pursue hobbies with the extra time is definitely worth it for me over the extra pay.
Facebook is election meddling specifically against Trump. While it may seem ok just to defeat Trump. FB controlling our elections means we no longer have democracy. We have technocracy. Aka techno-fascism. Zuck is a super-rich (wealthier than trump) selfish prick like Trump. Zuck is no friend of humanity and helped china control its people. He is anti-hongkong freedom.
If you use tokenized versions of things, don't most of the 5 benefits listed previously break down?

If you have an entity selling some tokens representing GOOG on some blockchain, then this entity can (will) be regulated, is a central point of failure, and so on. This problem of interfacing a blockchain with the real world seems like a common theme that's swept under the rug, and I've never seen a convincing answer. What am I missing?
In a perfect world, any random person would have the ability to independently verify any scientific claim they cared to. But as you imply, our world is far from perfect. Many scientific facts require heavy training and/or expensive equipment to verify that most people just don't have. But the cool thing is that IF you did have the skills and gear (and patience, free time, assistants, etc.), you absolutely can image a virus particle, or measure the mass of an electron (not all that complicated, it turns out!), or take your own observations of the motion of the planets and re-derive Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

> My point is that no one is personally verifying science. On an individual level we cannot be sure that these are not stories and hearsay.

You should hang out with more scientists. It turns out they count as "someone"!

> Science, as we do it, ie based on trust and without personal verification, is absolutely equivalent to religion. A comforting, explanatory story is provided and we believe we 'know' what is happening. Scientists are our priests and we take their pronouncements as gospel, without questioning them.

This is a grossly false equivalency. The thing with any scientific claim is that you could independently verify it; in practice, verifying modern scientific claims tends to cost tons of time and money, but nothing in principle prevents you.
Exect that "Gender" in relationship to any animal or conversation is used interchangeably with sex. While Gender-identity is the new age belief that your "Gender-identity" or gender for short, is a preference you can change (With or without sex change operations depending on your political view). The obfuscation of the word itself is a problem in discussions. I find it distastefull how people can 'identify as' male/female black/white. they are immutable characteristics that no one chose for. If you believe that humans can be tribal and racist but should rise above superficial judgement and look at the content of their character then wether or not you personally identify as certain characteristics should be a moot point.
There is a big difference between something being able to be tested to see if it is actually true and something that is impossible to test.

Want to understand and test the veracity of some theories on electricity, gravity, medicine, etc, you can ! And a lot of those can be even tested at home with simple experiment. You can sometimes even find something new, or that one theory is wrong.

Want to test if god exists ? If heaven or hell exists ? If following some rules will grant you access to heaven ? You can't. There is no experiment that you can replicate that will prove any of those claims. You can try to find your own, in many way is is also scientific, but there is many religions and people have been trying to prove many of those theories for eons without any advancement.

Comparing science and the belief in scientific theories as similar to a religious faith is just wrong if you stop and think about it for more than 5 minutes.
It won't be cheaper than my employer paying for an office. That's what I'm comparing to.
What do you mean we’ve always been allowed to discriminate? I disagree; being “allowed” is what’s legal, that’s different from what’s socially acceptable. Discrimination by race in employment hiring has been illegal by law explicitly for 50 years and implicitly for 150 years. Yes many people have discriminated by race anyway and gotten away with it. Some still are. A major goal of affirmative actions are to try to get what’s socially acceptably wrong to move toward what’s legal and ethically right.
I did give examples. My own children are going through high school here in the UK right now, they are 15 and 17 and both study physics and chemistry. They spend a significant portion of their science education performing experiments themselves in labs, that's exactly what lab work is for - to test the things you are being taught. Maybe it's different in the US, if you are American, but did you really not do experiments in science class at school? Did your teachers really not explain how to apply the scientific method practically? Anyone can test the theories of basic mechanics, gases and electricity with household objects and surely must do this at school right?

I happened to go on to do Physics at University, although I transferred and eventually graduated in Computer Science. Of course the work you do there is more advanced, but it builds on the basic principles of investigation, verification and experimentation started at school. About 95,000 students study physical science subjects University level here in the UK every year.
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That's the kind of argument that could make sense in a vacuum, but does not apply at all in practice.

Sure, _in theory_, I would be glad to know enough, to have enough time and to have enough money to verify every scientific theory since the dawn of times. In practice, it's been totally not scalable for a single person for about 500 years. _Careful trust_, with verification systems in place, is then the second best choice we can make.

The difference with religion lies in the fact that you do _not_ have to blindly accept everything. If you doubt a specific scientific theory, then by all means, put it to the test! But no, you won't be able to do that for science as a whole, not because "we're whining children who like conformting stories" but simply because of the blunt fact that our time here is limited.
So, how long until we mount a suppressed weapon so the dog can sneak up and do sentry elimination?
If it's never powered down then it should be fine. I've seen a computer in telecom center with a disk spinning for almost 20 years. One day power failure occurred and UPS failed to kick in, disk stopped and when the power came back it failed to spin up again.
I think you are wrong in general, though I am not an American and won't pretend I know about the US protests in portland or elsewhere...

Why do I think you're wrong?

The purvue of the FBI needs to be a lot more specific than any crime in the US. We've seen more than enough times that such a wide purvue leaves them ripe for abuse (look up their treatment of MLK).

The only practical way for this to happen is for the FBI to actively justify their decisions on what and who to investigate. "Why are these people being investigated?" is a very fair question to ask and one the FBI should happily answer.

The only alternative to this is that whoever is in charge (POTUS) gets to decide with no oversight, no checks or balances, and no accountability.

We've had that in the past. It didn't end well.

Respectfully "it's their job to do this" is a really bad defense, it's the opening line to basically every abuse of power and likely will be part of the defense for all future ones.

If the FBI have a good reason to spend time on this, they can tell us and I'll happily support it. If they don't, they need to stop. But either way, they should not get a blank cheque to use a huge budget and enhanced police powers without having to answer to "we the people".

This should be an apolitical position, whether you're right or left, extreme or centrist.