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Elected officials represent all the constituents in their district, not just the citizens.

Are you mad that the census counts children too? They don't vote either. Would you favor the census skipping children? Should the census count people who don't regularly vote? How about felons denied the right to vote? People judged too mentally incompetent to vote? Just who all are you willing to not count?
Thermal IR doesn’t pick those up.
Neat. Looks pretty similar to the ODROID H2+. Some differences I see: the Odyssey has soldered-on RAM and eMMC, the extra M.2 slot, fewer USB3 ports, and 1 GbE rather than 2.5 GbE. I think they're similar in price (once you add the missing RAM and storage to the ODROID H2+).

Is 110x110mm a standard form factor? Are there cases available that could fit one or two 3.5" HDDs?
Most farm implements are dangerous even when under normal operating conditions. Farmers must be self reliant and able to repair there equipment or else the farm can fail. And a failed farm can take years to come back - if ever.
Free speech is a human right and was a cornerstone of the democrat party I used to proudly vote for. Now I'm a pariah for standing up for free speech. Censors are cowards and their day of reckoning is here.
The figures are overly optimistic here.
As a sailor, i'm certain that no one is crossing the Atlantic in 12 days at 10kts.
The fastest cruiser- performance catamarans in the annual ARC Rally, sailing with the tradewinds from east to west are taking 12 days at 15kts daily average. (50% faster boat speed than this ship). And they are very experienced sailors with expert weather guidance.

And the winds when coming from americas back to europe are often against you, which is likely to make the trip 50% longer. (Tacking longer distances)

When you take the upper c02 level forecast for this ship, and assume a more realistic 20-25 days for this ship.. suddently the c02 savings are only around 50 to 60%
> Will use both to lowball you or reject you when comparing with other candidates.

But if they do, I wouldn’t want to work there anyway :/
> I learned more in the first six months ... around the 3-year mark, my learning curve had flattened entirely ... I stayed that extra year due to loyalty to my colleagues ...

>companies do what's best for their business, and you should not feel bad for doing the same.

These two quotes struck me hard. After I left school, I was appreciated at work, I felt great about myself, and I was learned a lot in the first 3 months. I stayed 3 months more to give back, 6 more months because they could not find someone to replace me, and then a year longer because I got promoted (more learning now?). I stayed another 4 years in the industry with much higher pay than all of my classmates ... but now I was not learning anything, just working, just filling someone else's ineptitude.

The work was not worth it! My education was. And not realizing that cost me dearly.

Never think the work you are doing is worth more than your own education. And never think the pay you are getting makes it a better job than a chance to learn a whole lot more.
Article 1 Clause 3 requires enumeration of all free persons.
The initial headline of the article stated that the infection fatality rate for people under 70 is 0.3%.

'threshold you'd accept' isn't a response to my comment, which expressly rejects the idea that there are only 2 options. Some mitigations are only justified by very high levels of risk. Others are justified by much lower levels of risk.
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(1) Is generic and not entirely true. Long term effects are indeed present but only in those genetically predisposed. Doesn't apply to the majority.

(2) Actually we didn't. My wife works in a small city hospital. They only have 4 beds with respirators and almost never had more than 2-3 people at a time there. The city is being locked down the second time because we have 5 infected in 20k. We also had in the region of 20 (real) COVID deaths since March. All over 80.

There is no complete picture as all hospitals and clinics have a financial incentive to declare COVID deaths as opposed to anything else. Some do keep internal unofficial stats but even those are rare.
It's alarming to see white supremacists arguments being made on Hacker News.
> The island nation of Japan has defeated Covid.

That's not even true. Japan's case numbers and reported deaths clearly show COVID-19 hasn't gone away, and cases and deaths are rising right now: https://covidly.com/graph?country=Japan&state=#new

Quite likely they're in a steady, slow, march towards herd immunity, just like almost everywhere else.
The only danger is to the companies profit margin.
Why buy new when you can just fix old?

I 100% agree with your comment.
The Master System and the Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) were huge in South America where I grew up. They were also a lot cheaper than SNES and more widely available.
> Are you mad that the census counts children too?

This is a good point.

Should a district be penalized because their constituents chose to have more kids per family unit than others? Their voting power would go down in the interim, wouldn't it?

Thanks for raising the argument - it does a good job of showing why tying the census to voting power is meaningless.
So the Falcon isn't fast because of its engines, but because it's got a really great navigational computer.
The article strongly applies even for non-monetary career goals.

And it is an article focusing on your career, not any life goals outside of that.
>> Someone needs to write ...

And skip “comfortable” in the title.
> a happy position with a great work life balance that encourages and enables you to both improve yourself and - particularly - your non-worklife

Any advice for scoring this on my personal OKRs? I’m vacillating between 0.6 and 0.7 for this quarter, and I’m circling back with the other members of my household this afternoon.
> How would moderation even work for audio/video conferences?

This is already an issue on platforms like Twitch. All Twitch streamers are required by the Twitch ToS to moderate their chats and the streamers face bans if they fail to do so.

Everyone keeps talking about "breaking" the Internet but let's consider what would actually change. Let's say that I am unable to moderate my chat because it is overrun with malicious actors. What are my options? I can completely turn off chat for one. I could restrict chat to a manageable vetted subset of chatters that I am comfortable allowing to post with minimal moderation.

In fact, as a streamer I cannot possibly read hundreds or thousands of messages per second. At that point the very idea there is "real time communication" going on is a myth anyway. Every streamer has a way of limiting this deluge of input and moderation is how they are handling it.

> Loosing most, one to many, real time communication would be throwing out a considerable amount of value.

This is where I feel everyone here is taking things too far. You don't lose communication - you become responsible for the communication you allow to be made pubic.
Personally, I agree. I was just trying to put your comment/critique in the context of the article.

For me, connecting to an overall mission/purpose is more important and provides the discipline and motivation to continue when the job isn’t hitting on all the cylinders outlined in the article.

It all comes down to what you want to optimize for. The article seems to make a case to optimize for self actualization. Your comment about exiting before an IPO being a mistake seems to elude that one should optimize for maximum financial gain. Neither of those are my particular priority, but to each their own
One anecdote: I had a very cushy position at a post-IPO startup that was taking off. My initial RSUs had appreciated by 5x by the time I left. Every time they vested I took the money off the table.

My colleagues loved me, I got great performance reviews, but I didn't feel like I was learning or growing. I was severely burnt out after working on a couple projects that exploded due to organizational problems. I went through 3 managers in a year because of reorgs and departures. Ultimately I left that job because I tortured myself - what was I doing, what value did I add? How would I get a job after this when my skills were out of date?

Meanwhile the company's stock has tripled since I left. Even if I had sold every time my stock vested I would be a millionaire by now. I grew up poor, and the security of having that money in the bank would be life-changing. Instead I'm at a new startup where I'm not any happier, but I also don't get a million dollars.
The problem with this is the diesel powered boat delivers, on average, 1,142 cars per day. The wind powered ship, being slower and with a slightly lower capacity, delivers 583 cars per day. Therefore, to deliver the same number of cars, you need two of the wind powered ships.

This extra 35,000 ton ship will be offset by saving 100 tons of CO2 per day (120 tons created by the diesel, minus ~20 tons created by the two sail ships). Is this worth it? How much CO2 does it take to build a 35,000 ton ship? And then of course the cost of a ship vs. diesel fuel.

Plus I presume the sail ships are now dependent on weather, which introduces logistical problems.

I suspect that coating the top of the diesel ship with solar panels and using the energy to supplement or replace the diesel engines might be a better use of resources?
Obligatory reference to Raymond Smullyan's seminal To Mock A Mockingbird [1], one of my favorite books and a great introduction to the lambda calculus. I guess the resemblance to actual bird language is more than just passing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird
I’ve yet to work somewhere that has instilled faith in their internal transfer process. It’s rife with subjective and/or closed door requirements and “deals” like your current manager having to agree to the transfer.
How Much Money Do Communications Majors Make?
Why freelancers fear a Biden presidency may put them out of work
A big part of why Census doesn't operate better is the Republicans chronically underfund it. This entire census cycle was the Trump Administration's responsibility. If Census lacks the tools and capabilities to execute it, it's on them.
Big time. This is a different disease based on different age brackets.

Under 48 there basically similar chance of dying as the flu.

National health policy should not be based on personal outcomes.
Probably?

I don't know.

I did a course on React and React-Native and some people told me they got a dev job with these courses. So I guess they weren't a ponzi scheme, haha.
Though less serious, my wife has a similar problem with Amazon. She tried to review a product (first review for a very long time) and was greeted with this message:

"! We apologize but Amazon has noticed some unusual reviewing activity on this account. As a result, all reviews submitted by this account have been removed and this account will no longer be able to contribute reviews and other content on Amazon. If you would like to learn more, please see our community guidelines. To contact us about this decision, please email reviews - help@amazon.co.uk."

The 'community guidelines' link goes to a page with what the rules are, but doesn't say what rules have been broken.

We emailed Amazon, using the email address in the post and got this reply:

"I relayed your information to the team trained to handle this scenario regarding your inability to post reviews. They are not able to provide an exact date or time when they expect this issue to be resolved.
For more information about our policies, please see our Community Guidelines (http://www.amazon.co.uk/review-guidelines)
We appreciate your patience in this matter.

Warmest regards,"

'Warmest Regards'? Really - you just told me she's locked out and it's gonna stay like that for the foreseeable future. :(
There actually is a word. It's "feral". Some animals have been engineered to the point of helplessness but not all of them. Feral pigs are actually very hardy and aggressive.
It seems obvious to me the census is intended to count everyone living there, legally or otherwise. So tourists wouldn’t count.
This is a different disease based on age brackets.

National health policy should not be based on personal outcomes.
I don't think we use version tracking, templates are not really used (but they should be!) and search could be better.

We basically use confluence like a wiki, but it's abnormally hard to put info into it.
As others say, this is way too much to say "meh", but I do think it needs a rethink of the lockdown strategies.

Lockdowns kill people; people with cancer, people who need surgeries, people who lose income to support themselves. Clearly, so does Covid, and we need to balance it.

Can we do better, as societies, if we aggressively protecting old and vulnerable people, and let fitter people continue with their lives? This can avoid the economic collapse of lockdowns, bring about some degree of herd immunity, and yes, trading some lives saved by lockdown for lives saved by "normality".

Suppose 70% of the society is under 50, and has a IFR of 0.1%. Take UK (65mn people), and suppose everyone in that group gets it. That would lead to 45k fatalities (very close to what was already experienced), plus herd immunity, and lack of economic collapse. It's clearly not so simple, but it's start.

I'm in no position to question the research, but I spoke once to a professor of respiratory diseases at UCL, who quoted that mild Covid cases often do not register in antibody testing (for reasons unclear), so I wonder if even the 0.3% is an overestimate.
I've been wanting to get a parrot for a while. How often do parrots end up speaking like colorful, foul-mouthed sailors [1]? Seems charming, honestly.

[1] https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/09/zoo-separates-foul-mouthe...
Yeah, fuck the economy, who needs food and shelter?
Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?
I've been working as a programmer for almost 20 years now. I have experience with the JVM and the Node.js platforms and what's necessary to keep them operational: containerization, cloud computing, databases, etc.

I think I've reached an upper bound as a grunt programmer. I tried management as a new direction but it didn't work out, I just can't do it, it makes my life miserable. I noticed however, that I have a unique ability: I really like talking to people (including business folks), wrapping my head around their problems and figuring out robust solutions for them including all the models, documentation and preliminary implementations (POC/MVP). I'm also good at sharing the knowledge (right now I'm working as a tech trainer).

I did this a few times as part of some contract work and everybody was very happy with it but I don't know how to scale this into a consulting business. What I want to keep doing is getting projects from 0 to POC/MVP state. I can help putting together teams, figuring out the architecture, and concrete solutions / algorithms, but if I keep doing the grunt work instead, it won't pay that well. So to sum it all up I can apply my skills in an area that has higher returns, but I don't really know how to get there.

What should I do to achieve this? What makes this harder is that I'm not living in the USA (I live in Hungary, Europe).

Edit: I quit my day job half a year ago. I was thinking about a sabbatical, but people from my network started to appear and now I'm swamped with work. What my goal is to streamline all this and turn regular grunt programming into a specialized format where the ROI is much better.

I also have a business partner who has similar ideas but a different skill set, and I'm trying to shape this into something that's more effective.

I already have a blog, a GitHub portfolio, and I'm regularly talking on meetups, but you are right, I need to focus on this much more, thanks for this tip!
I didn't get the 40 tons of fuel makes 120 tons of CO2.
The optimum fuel/air ratio is 14.5:1 for a diesel fuel.
Is bunker C fuel burnt at 3:1 ratio? Sounds wrong.
Can you share the password so we can try it out?
Put your family members in the parking lot and follow up offline.
There are features in the frequency ranges of bird calls that suggest this. Alarm calls are usually on frequencies that have better propagation (this also depends on the habitat that birds occupy - ground living birds have much lower frequency calls because the sound spreads better close to the ground. Calls that go to chicks tend to be on higher, less propagating frequencies. On the other side, the calls that hunting birds make tend to look like an all frequency sweep - possibly they are trying to get a response from other species to locate them.
> Presumption of innocence is none of the concern in #MeToo situations.

You're conflating public opinion and the justice system.

> In fact our Ministry of Equality affirms that presenting a defense in justice is a problem of further bullying the victim, who shouldn’t be challenged in the process.

It doesn't seem to go against the presumption of innocence. You may not know but in rape cases, the victim and the alleged rapist are sometimes questioned at the same time, side by side, which can be quite traumatic.

> from people who were presumed innocent several times.

Being presumed innocent and being found not guilty are not the same thing. Everyone, even the worst of the worst, is assumed innocent.
Starting in January 2020, marine fuel’s sulfur content was reduced 7 fold, from a max of 3.5% before to 0.5% now, out in the blue waters. Within 100 miles of the US coast, the limit has been 0.1% since 2015.

https://www.epa.gov/diesel-fuel-standards/diesel-fuel-standa...
Also, doesn’t ‘feral’ mean exactly that?

1 (of animals and plants) existing in a wild or uncultivated state, esp. after being domestic or cultivated.

I don’t know of a verb form, but perhaps that reflects the fact that it doesn’t require human agency to occur; animals just go/become feral (and, as you say, humans can also take active steps to help reintroduce them to the wild).
Money quote:

> Infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 1.63%, corrected values from 0.00% to 1.54%. Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27% (corrected 0.23%): the rate was 0.09% in locations with COVID-19 population mortality rates less than the global average (< 118 deaths/million), 0.20% in locations with 118–500 COVID-19 deaths/million people and 0.57% in locations with > 500 COVID-19 deaths/million people. In people < 70 years, infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 0.31% with crude and corrected medians of 0.05%.

These ranges are so broad as to be meaningless.
Here's another recent meta-study (preprint) on the same topic: Assessing the Age Specificity of Infection Fatality Rates for COVID-19: Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Public Policy Implications https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v...

Abstract: This paper assesses the age specificity of the infection fatality rate (IFR) for COVID-19 using results from 29 seroprevalence studies as well as five countries that have engaged in comprehensive tracing of COVID-19 cases. The estimated IFR is close to zero for children and younger adults but rises exponentially with age, reaching 0.4% at age 55, 1.4% at age 65, 4.6% at age 75, and 15% at age 85. We find that differences in the age structure of the population and the age-specific prevalence of COVID-19 explain nearly 90% of the geographical variation in population IFR. Consequently, protecting vulnerable age groups could substantially reduce the incidence of mortality.

I think those results are in the same ballpark as what Ioannidis calculates. This isn't good news, really, not for middle-aged-adults anyway.

IFR(age) = 0.1 x 10^((age-82)/20)
So, can someone tell me again what fatality rate defines a pandemic?
Consider however that a modern sailship needs a thermal engine for practical and safety reasons: you want to be able to avoid storms, calm periods or inconvenient winds that can make you drift hundreds of miles from your original destination, all of these big problems during the Age of Sail.

This is in fact why we abandoned sailing ships for merchant fleets: they run on the Sun's free nuclear fusion energy, but they are very inconvenient! So a modern sail ship will need to use its engine, and therefore I'm not sure they would be cleaner than a nuclear fission ship.
No, I'm not.

It's a bit of a grey area, I guess.

For me it's good because it's flexible work. Also, I'm payed to learn about new technology, which is nice.
Extreme poverty is expected increased by 150 million people world wide bc of Covid.

I'd wager there's a lot of people whose kids are running around a shantytown shoeless who would agree that this is acceptble levels of risk.
> National health policy should not be based on personal outcomes.

I'm not sure I understand what that even means. What should national health policy be based on?
I wrote a whole reply echoing another reply about how this article isn’t about maximizing money or status (though most of these articles are about that), that this article is just about staying competitive. But then I really thought about what you wrote and I think you’re saying that is besides the point, if you have good work life balance and really value that then it’s essentially maybe ok to give up some competitive edge.
Here I will caution you, that is a trap which I think the article is trying to get at. I am one of those people who stayed too long at a job where I was losing my competitive edge because I felt like I had a great work-life balance! And work was fun! But one day I realized I’m actually being asked to eat a lot of crap so to speak that I hadn’t really noticed before and once I started to look for the exit it was obvious it was going to be harder than it should be because I had stagnated.
Moral of my story (and this article), is stay competitive, you don’t have to crush it, but don’t lean back too far either.
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I felt like the article was more about optimizing your net self than optimizing your net worth. Subjects like complacency, (over) loyalty, learning are focused around making sure one is taking the opportunity to actualize, grow.

The question of why & for what is a good one, & we see various forms of these doubts throughout comments here. I think everyone ultimately had to do some personal development, define their own arch of progress that they are shooting for, build their own personal mythology that pushes them forward, or not (exist & be merry). The named dimensions, accomplishment, growth, impact, challenge, community seem like good things to keep an eye on to assess whether we are chasing better versions of ourselves, no matter what end goal orientation you want, be it mastery or merely money.
Not sure about that. Normal sails "bend" away from the wind and thus have a much stronger lift. This concept's sails are "beant" outwards and would lose much of the wind's force. This source [1] states that "The futuristic sails are like airplane wigs using the same level of aerodynamic technology" which would imply that they absolutely do not "work just like normal sails".

[1] https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/swedish-collabora...
Back in February when the first fatality rates were reported, I did a calculation for total worldwide deaths assuming that we'd fail to stop the spread of COVID (like most prior pandemics) and it'd eventually reach herd immunity levels on par with prior uncontrolled pandemics. The number I came up with was ~30 million deaths (1% fatality rate, with 40% of the world infected).

While that sounds like a lot, that's still less than half the number of people who die every year normally (~1%). My reaction to that number was "tragic, but civilization will survive this just fine". Since then things have only improved, at least from a medical perspective.