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It is not just unrelated to central point, it is unrelated to completely anything. Even domestic violence aside. And I still find the way HN started to bring up old Greeks lately all the time completely obnoxious (which is my another central point).

> It seems, uh, strange to fail to notice Marx's influence in particular given what happened in the 20th century and what continues to happen in China. Furthermore, the idea of the government as an instrument of violence used by the ruling class (which is so common these days, on HN too) is clearly straight out of Marx.

This is not even mentioning class warfare, biggest issue right now in China is that genocide they have. The origin of "class warfare" expression is not relevant to anything, that is just later attempt to move discussion toward different topic.

Second, they had "estates". Three estates system in French and four estates system in Russia. Those had different legal code, different rights, different justice system, different duties to people based on which group they were born into. We can completely avoid the word "class" or "class warfare". The violence between them did happened. They did thought about them as about groups and even legalized that.

We can talk about John Brown and slavery and still have group of slaveholders against slaves. He interpreted it as a war, but no one called it class war. In practical terms, as socioeconomic group of people being dominated or killed by other group of people, we really do not have to wait for Marx to start figuring this out. We can talk about French revolution and old regime, we can talk about slavery, we can talk about estates.

Even freaking Greeks had groups of people, which I will not call classes, dominating other groups of people doing a lot of violence to them. And we can see that even tho opinions of their slaves or women or non-citizen males are unavailable to us.
I wish we had data for how many square kilometre of land do all these solar farms take.
That is the message often repeated by China.

This article is well written with credible verified sources and screenshots. China has been pushing this narrative the this article lays out all the evidence:

China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid...

> In March, Chinese state media began describing the strategy of “herd immunity”—allowing the coronavirus to spread among the young and healthy—as a violation of “human rights,” an Orwellian formulation given that lockdowns are essentially a blanket suspension of rights.

> Initially, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also opted for herd immunity. But on March 13, suspicious accounts began storming his Twitter feed and likening his plan to genocide. This language almost never appears in Johnson’s feed before March 12, and several of the accounts were hardly active before then. Britain locked down on March 23.

Please read and share.
Judging from the few comments here, I doubt the article has been read. Absurd that the US averages DAILY more deaths than South Korea has had throughout the entire course of the pandemic.
Pandoc is great though I struggle with latex. Is there an easier way to go from md to pdf with your own template?
Man is this article weak and bloated.

It needs pages and pages to make two points:

1: Going for herd immunity has caused more infections and deaths in countries that tried.

2: We are not sure if once infected people will stay immune.

The first point is completely nonsensical. Of course more people are infected when you allow more people to be infected. That idea of this approach is that you come out ahead in the long run.

The second is a valid point.
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It has been working well so far. There's the old saying "don't fix it if it ain't broken." I think there's plenty of arguments to make that it is broken, but there are plenty to say it isn't. There are different views on this held by different people and different countries. Some would say break it up so it isn't too big to fail. Others say it is the size that allows it to do so well. Unfortunately the nature of the conversation is extremely complex and often these discussions turn reductionist.
This is also true of mobile games. In-app advertising is so lucrative for popular games that it has mostly replaced microtransactions, and yet every ad is for some other mobile game. It makes the whole thing feel like some kind of pyramid scheme.
Thanks for the clarification.

I'm split on such issues. On one hand, it's tiring to keep putting out fires. On the other hand, I feel the answer one gets depends too heavily on what "side" of the Internet the search algorithm placed you, so it's not only OP's fault that he didn't get the right answer yet.
The issue with that is that I'd be at a 5 digit number of cards by now, certainly wouldn't keep all of those around, and so I'd stop revising old knowledge.
That is such a terribly written article.

From what I could piece together the court didn't rule "Men can be fired for taking paternity leave" it ruled that men are not protected under Title VII pregnancy discrimination laws.

He can still sue under FMLA discrimination which the judge didn't rule on, likely because his lawyers didn't bring up the correct technical arguments.
I kinda sorta feel like basic public health precautions that public health experts and epidemiologist are calling for could......... also.... be.... an.... option............
As much as i like pandoc, i hate how many Haskell dependencies it has on archlinux. And the distro is not to blame here. They do it right. In that sense pandoc might be an excellent tool, but for me it's also a reason to think twice whenever you want to use haskell in production. Because apparently, this is a haskell ecosystem issue.
I'd add a couple more factors:

- More people working from home, both given the type of job they do and the trust by bosses (as opposed to France or Italy where a government suggestion to WFH means almost nothing to the bosses)

- Less people per household

- People might just literally keep their space more
Herd immunity can be achieved in two ways. Roughly, "everyone gets it" or "vaccine." If herd immunity doesn't stick, then a vaccine will not be our savior and we better start thinking in terms of what a new normal looks like. And we need to think of this new normal in terms of basically forever.
That might be a type of usefulness that some of us could do without.
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I don't want to detract from companies doing good work, but ad tech and social media taking up so much of society's resource capital is a tragedy in my eyes. So much human effort spent on technology and software designed specifically to sell you widgets.
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Worldometer currently shows the rate of new infections worldwide increasing sharply.

In the U.S. we just surpassed our record of new infections per day set back in July, with an upward slope that's going to continue to who knows where.

There are some places that have Covid-19 reasonably under control, but on average we're in the worst of it right now as far as we know. (The peak in spring might possibly have been worse, we just didn't have adequate testing at the time to know for sure. But right now we know cases are on the rise, and it's not just large population centers but rural areas too.)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I used opentimestamps.org to timestamp my last apartment lease after signing and before emailing it to an out-of-country landlord who I'd never met; he then signed it and time-stamped his copy before sending me a copy. That way, in case if a dispute, we both had time-stamped proof neither party had changed any lease terms before signing--- as anyone (he, I, or a court) could compare the wording and verify he didn't change what I signed before he signed. His local agent in my city didn't have signing authority for him.
Yeah, the article completely disputes this point. I suggest you read the section titled "How high is the threshold for SARS-CoV-2?"
Fellow resident - I’ve been home with all three of my kids whole of last week because runny nose.

Pre-schools and schools are super strict. It’s tough times as a parent, kids have runny noses in the autumn/winter...

I’m 100% WFH anyways because this is the general recommendation - if you can stay home.
I doubt these can be maintained indefinitely, hence herd immunity whether we like it or not.
Because its not a low-fatality disease.... Can't believe we still have to go over this
Can we stop referring to herd immunity through natural inoculation as "herd immunity?" Herd immunity includes vaccination and has for a long time been part of the argument for vaccines. It seems weird that we've made this paradigm shift which I find potentially dangerous and at best disingenuous. It also makes population wide immunity conversations difficult because people are using the same term with pre-covid and post-covid meaning.

Edit: I should also note that this article uses both terms which makes it difficult to read and confusing.
Heard Immunity only works without a vaccine if immunity lasts more than a couple of months

For the best cases you need ~40%/50% of people with immunity that lasts for months. (And this is a recent revised best case)

Now if you check the serological analysis of even hard hit places and you see there's still a way to go until those 50%. And it is suspected infection induced immunity goes away more quickly than we need it to.
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I arrive late so maybe someone mentioned this already: https://www.deutsche-boerse.com/dbg-en/media/press-releases/...

(Frankfurt Stock Exchange uses a blockchain as a ledger for securities lending)
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Mathematics is English.

OK, not English specifically - what I mean is that mathematics is not a bunch of abstract squiggle notation on paper, it’s a series of sentences written in a natural language. The abstract squiggles are shorthand for those sentences.

Some might say the squiggles are more precise than the natural language words. Not true. The notation really is just a shorthand for the words, and mathematics is the study of words that have precise meanings.

Now, don’t get me wrong, notation is great and can help make connections that would otherwise be obscured by wordy prose - but it is not primal.

So, to become better at expressing mathematics, you need to rediscover the connection between the notation and the underlying sentences that they represent.

Take the following “statement”:

a = b & b = c => a = c

Translate it into:

“If a number a is equal to another number b, and b is equal to another number c, then a is equal to c”

Note that this wasn’t even a rote translation - I added in the premise that the variables are numbers. This is the kind of information which can get forgotten or assumed in notation, which could make it harder for an uninitiated reader to follow. Of course, you may also need to remind the reader what a number is and what the “equals” relation means... knowing what to assume about your audience’s level of knowledge is part of the art.

The “connective tissue” between the symbols is the language of logic. Words like “if”, “then”, “and”, “or”, “not”, and “implies”. These are the words that allow you to form statements with precise meaning, and you can improve your use of them by improving your language skills, not just your mathematical skills.

Now, I’m not advocating for writing everything out in long form, because some notation is just too good and too expressive to pass up. The point is to remember that mathematics is a form of writing, intended to be read by other humans, that they will be reading it through the lens of natural language, and that all the rules of good writing still apply to mathematics exposition.

Introduce your topic. Motivate your definitions. Clearly and precisely lay out your reasoning. State your assumptions. Emphasise important points. Give illuminating examples. Explain your thinking. Avoid trying to demonstrate your own cleverness. Summarize your conclusions.

And all of this applies doubly for oral presentation instead of written.
They can not comply if they wish, M$ just doesn't wish it.
Plus this is clearly out of scope.
I used to shoot with a Nikon D70s and a D300 and I didn't feel limited but all of a sudden with my Sony a7m2 the "small" PDAF area feels super limiting, even though I think nothing has changed.

Though the AF algorithm seems to have a hard time focusing to infinity at times... I'm saving my bucks for an a7r4.

Also not mentioned often is the fact that many cameras have back focus/front focus problems, whereas the combination of PDAF and contrast AF that mirrorless cameras have basically eliminates this problem.
I live under the conviction that exactly the social denunciation of nuclear energy is the key to understanding our current situation.
We are riding industrial progress brought about by coal and oil, but we failed to hitch the developmental next train by not going full in on nuclear as it became possible. In essence we have an unsustainable industrial society that has scaled beyond the limits of its base energy source. As unpopular as my view may be, neither solar nor wind or any other Sun-derived energy source belong to the post-fossil era.
Just ignore the remaining card count and go by time instead. Getting the remaining count to 0 does nothing. Redefine success as "I set out to do Anki for 10 minutes and I did!".
If one already trusts a centralized party, why bother with a blockchain? A regular database would be cheaper & simpler.
And Epic has no rights to the fruits of Apple's labor, as fruity as they may be.

Epic could've let people sign up via the Web, like everyone else who wants to circumvent Apple's rip-off, right?
> Couldn't javascript be just another language to replace bash?

Technically the answer should be "yes", but given the event-driven nature of javascript and a shell script's very specialized design goals (launch processes, control the runtime environment, provide a workable REPL, etc) then it wouldn't be an improvement over any of the current shell scripting languages.

As a general-purpose scripting language... That's an entirely different matter, and the answer is definitely yes. In fact, node.js and deno already do just that.
This article trots out Sweden as some cautionary tale, and does the same old tired comparison of a single cause of death across it's Nordic neighbours. And since Sweden's numbers for this single cause of death are worse than its neighbours, it's covid19 strategy is some sort of abysmal failure.

And yet, 2020 is currently on track to be the third least deadly year ever in recorded history in Sweden.

And yet, the total all-cause mortality rate in Sweden for 2020 is on track to be lower than its neighbour Denmark, higher than Norway, and about the same as Finland.

Because the most infurating thing about everyone's obsession about covid19 death numbers is that people seem to have forgotten just how many people die every year from other causes. And there's very little debate about how much suffering and death that the lockdowns themselves are causing. There's no balance, no compromise, no trade-off, no proportions, only a myopic staring contest at a single cause of death across countries.
I know it’s hard to get software projects done on time. In this case it’s even harder NOT to be on time.
Well I read the whole thing, and... it is just open psychological warfare at this point. Not even a mention of variation in susceptibility. Nothing about how at least 60% of people are not threatened by the virus in the first place, and we could have been finding and inoculating those people for the better part of a year now.

This is not an exaggeration or an emotional outburst: The folks pushing deadly propaganda based on these garbage models are war criminals.
You must or they can take M$ to court, which M$ would crush RIAA.
Collecting and accounting for tax is far far more inefficient than buying electronic tbills.

And they pay interest to the holder...

The point is, the money isn't keeping out of the economy. It's loaned to the government who spends it.
Deaths are mostly holding steady or gradually rising at about a thousand a day in the U.S., but it usually takes a few weeks for an increase in the number of cases to be reflected in the death statistics.

In general, therapeutics are better than they were at the start. Fewer infected people need ventilators and fewer of them are dying. I don't know what the details are, but apparently doctors are learning what works and what doesn't.
I'm going to guess you didn't read the article.
So far, I've only heard of 3 documented cases of reinfection.
For Japanese I just downloaded a deck with 10 000 words, adapted the display a bit for myself (scraped pronunciations from the web, removed useless info to make them more minimalistic) and just started learning. When I read a book and found a word I wanted to learn it was almost always already in the list, and just needed to be moved to the front of new cards.
> Without a vaccine, the only option is herd immunity, regardless of lockdowns.

We already have evidence that reinfection can occur within 6 months. And the reinfection can be worse than the original. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/10/14/im...

Now, not everybody will get reinfected. And maybe these people wiped out their infection by latching onto a different protein. And one was immunocompromised. etc.

However, reinfection by coronavirii is the general norm, not the exception.

The fact that reinfections can occur on a short (6 months) timescale puts a really big pin in the "herd immunity" balloon.
The (small) difference with Google is that you can have a Google account without requiring any other services - just having a Google account doesn’t mean that you have to use email.

Facebook forces the use of its social network, and you can’t create an email without a profile. If you are inactive you can get banned.
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> Long-term damage is fortunately a myth. people may need more than a few weeks to recover, but ultimately they do.

Nope.[1] And I don't care if long-haulers are a small percentage. Explain to me why you or I should take the tiniest bit of risk of becoming a statistic, instead of wearing a mask. You talk as though even a few weeks of suffering is nothing, compared to the agony of wearing a mask in public.

There's no heroism in contracting a disease. We're not fighting a war. There's no point being "brave". Getting corona isn't like falling on a grenade to save your buddies.

> Whereas herd immunity is inevitable. Either we reach it naturally or we wait for a working vaccine.

There are already documented cases of reinfection,[2] so everyone has to either contract corona or get the vaccine, in order to protect those vulnerable to reinfection. Waiting for a vaccine will cost far fewer lives.

> That is clearly better than forcing everyone to isolate themselves for months.

Or the alternative: wear a mask, socialize outdoors or in well-ventilated areas. Strictly isolate the truly vulnerable.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6

2. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4
> Yeah, the article completely disputes this point.

No, the article explicitly says "Estimates of the threshold for SARS-CoV-2 range from 10% to 70% or even more", and then it sort of handwaves away any studies showing lower numbers, and highlights the ones showing the higher numbers.

That is pretty much the definition of the jury being out on the matter.
Being event-driven and simple and hot reloadable and forgiving does make it well suited for the task at hand.

You should really think about why javascript is the de facto standard for web scripting. Other alternatives have appeared but even the likes of Google, which control the entire web stack and can pretty much dictate what the world uses, decided against it.
Interesting take that because X and Y are issues, we should ignore an upcoming disaster that impacts the entire planet and somehow any serious concern means we've been "propagandized".

The only serious Corona virus pandemic is today, in 2020, not in 2003. Unsurprisingly, the people leading the charge to stifle measures aimed at preventing climate change also happen to be the very ones who stated that COVID 19 is a hoax, a conspiracy (first the US Democratic Party was blamed responsible for the hoax) – but soon it became the Chinese virus, and now they have no solution other than to encourage people from stop testing altogether and to stop wearing masks altogether.

Mind boggling.
This is very interesting. Can you point to some article/data?
I've been considering purchasing a VR headset recently.

I'd never have thought I'd need to create a Facebook account to use Oculus. At least I know what one brand I won't waste time looking into.
The tour of the modern Lloyd building is an activity I would quite recommend, but it is quite difficult to be eligible:

https://www.lloyds.com/about-lloyds/uk-building-services/our...
This isn’t simply because of how Git works. You can configure Git to look in multiple places for repo objects. For whatever reason, the GitHub devs either didn’t know this, or they didn’t want to implement their forking and pull request systems this way.

As someone else mentioned, this may be an intentional design to make it simpler to implement pulling down remote PRs from the destination repo.
I don't think the person you're replying to is saying something that implies they didn't read the article. The article uses the term in two ways, which makes it disingenuous.

> Will herd immunity work?

Many researchers say pursuing herd immunity is a bad idea. “Attempting to reach herd immunity via targeted infections is simply ludicrous,” Andersen says. “In the US, probably one to two million people would die.”

Then they basically answer no. At the end of the article they quote Andersen again

> “There’s no magic wand we can use here,” Andersen says. “We have to face reality — never before have we reached herd immunity via natural infection with a novel virus, and SARS-CoV-2 is unfortunately no different.” Vaccination is the only ethical path to herd immunity, he says.
I'm hoping the EFF helps them out with this case. They've tweeted in support of them[0] and its not unheard of for them to provide counsel for projects in these circumstances.

[0]: https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1319787243184123904
What we really need is a decentralised git forge using something like ActivityPub. We cannot keep relying on companies to host open content for us.
Isn’t it? As far as I know, if you aren’t over 60 with a pre-existing co-morbidity, your chances of fatality is virtually non-existent. The subset of the population that is actually fatally vulnerable is a well understood extreme minority. Why not take precautions with only that set of folks? Imposing widespread restrictions on the general population seems redundant given the circumstances.
> 50% Inheritance tax would do wonders in the US.

The US is already at 40%. The Feds want 40% of anything over $11.58 million when you die.

Going to 50% isn't going to do wonders.

If you wanted to severely adjust the wealth inequality caused by the extreme wealth of the top 0.01%, you'd want a 80% or 90% rate.

Increasingly the US Senate is rich enough it'd never be allowed to become law.
But by keeping those things together you're essentially cheating. You won't be able to remember these things in isolation as well. Also if it's easy for you to remember the rank of the matrix, but not the subspaces, you will be asked about the rank too often, since you connected it to subspaces.
The strain visualization is very cool, and presents an interesting insight into activation energy, and the way proteins fold.