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Don’t forget there are lifestyle factors that can effect your immune response. You’ll typically fight off a cold except for that one time when it catches you tired, or stressed ...
You can't reduce things to one dimension, I agree, but I disagree that left vs right is unimportant. When largely liberal city people migrate into largely conservative places, there's gonna be some conflict. Not to mention a lot of these tech workers are liberal and have money, so they'll be empowered to support changes that the locals may not be on board with but also may not have the means to combat effectively.
More people get well paying jobs, fewer people are overworked, and we pay less overtime? Sounds like killing three birds with one stone.

Inefficiencies like this should be the enemy of both political parties. They’re why Republicans complain about Government inefficiency and waste, and they’re holding progressives back from accomplishing everything they’d like the government to do.

This feels like it’s basically a matter of labor NIMBYs enriching themselves at the general public’s expense.
> Bezos could give a 105,000$ bonus to each of his employees and still be as rich as before the pandemic

That’s insane. I can’t even comprehend how big an amount of money that is. But instead amazon nickel and dimes their workforce. What a time to be alive.
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Regardless of what you think of the response, facts from now trump facts from five months ago. The point of citing the Time article was to show that they continue to have imported cases on a regular basis (fact), and that they prevent these from spreading by strict border controls (fact), not to provide commentary on the quality of their overall response.

Taiwan is a tiny island, with relatively little international travel (compared to the US, China, etc). If they have no cases internally, and they seal the borders before those cases are introduced, then almost nothing else matters. Small, isolated, island countries can do this -- but even then (i.e. New Zealand) one mistake will mean rapid endemic spread. So sure, as long as Taiwan continues to effectively isolate itself from the outside world, they can probably carry on. But they're not going to: they're already talking about re-establishing travel with the rest of Asia.

It's virtually impossible for a country like the US to do the same thing Taiwan did. Even if we could seal the borders like Taiwan, our population is about 13 times larger, we have large land borders with other countries, and a proportionally large number of expatriate residents with right-of-return. Even with our bans on international travelers, the US has had 6.6 million foreign arrivals in 2020 [1]. Effectively 25% of the entire population of Taiwan has arrived in the US in 2020. And that's just non-citizens.

[1] https://www.trade.gov/visitor-arrivals-program-i-94-data
Does anyone else find it weird when a business like this uses the .org domain? Not to distract from the main discussion, just curious what people think on here.
The biggest trick the media has played on the working class is framing everything in a "right vs left" lens.

There does not seem to be any resistance to this indoctrination.
If an obvious lie can consistently fool 80% of the players in among us (details below) then I can imagine deepfakes will fool just as many people despite how obvious it is. By obvious I mean almost 100% of the time it's a lie and people fall for it

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I played maybe a hundred games of among us (they can be very short). The game is about one or more imposters trying to murder the rest of the crew but you'll have to be discreet and get/find people alone so you don't get voted off. When a body is found a meeting happens and you can lie (text chat)

One problem is you don't want to accuse someone when you're an imposter because you immediately become suspicious. Most games will tell you if you voted off an imposter or not so they'll know you're lieing right away once game tells them they voted a non imposter. Most of the time you want to accuse noone, play dumb and act like you're everyeone else and saw nothing.

I lost count when a guy doesn't accuse anyone for 20+seconds, get accused then claims the guy who found the body is an imposter and all these things he did that are suspicious. (why didn't you say it right away?!). Like 90+% of the time the guy being accused is the imposter who waited so he can feel the situation out. It's extremely obvious but maybe 70% of the time literally every player but me and the guy reporting the body is fooled. Which is far too many players at a far too high fool rate. It's so painful because it's so obvious. 90+% of the time in that scenario the reporting guy is telling the truth.
A vote in the US matters significantly more or less depending on what state you live in. California has approximately 40 million people living in it and yet it still has only 2 senators which means that in California 1 senator represents 20 million people. Wyoming has approximately 600,000 people and still gets two senators meaning that 1 senator represents 300,000 people. Given that senators are needed to pass laws, your vote has significantly more weight if you live in Wyoming than if you live in California. What this means is that even though republicans have a majority in the senate they represent a minority of the American population. I mean even the president was voted into office with fewer votes than their opponent.

Contrast this with countries that use proportional representation which means everyone's vote basically means more or less the same as anyone else's vote.

The US is currently ranked 25th in the world by "democracy ranking"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
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Absolutely not, in fact it's tightly moderated. Hence 8chan (or whatever it is called now)
I agree with invoicing everyone. Invoicing a client from your own business also helps distinguish you from being an employee, should that ever come into question.
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In June, they promised that the first Apple Silicon Mac would be released by the end of the year. It's unlikely that they will have a fourth fall/winter event.
> Integrating into the monitor's electronics makes no sense.

Them's fighting words to a NEC C651Q owner.
[benchmarks needed]
We regularly¹ have unclean merges at my company, and I consider my coworkers competent, and well above "the bar". The biggest problem we have with clean merges is that nearly every CI system & code review tool out there doesn't test the final product — the merge commit — until after it is merged. GitHub follows this flow by default, and usually even with more CI tooling on the side. Something like bors-ng is what one has to adopt. (And we're struggling to do this for our monorepo due to other points the article touches on.)

While it is possible (if difficult) in git, some VCS systems struggle even harder with this: Perforce and derivatives, for example, simply can't, by design, perform atomic test & commit.

¹like once a month, or so, over the whole company
I am not saying I need to make an account or that twitter should be treated as a utility. But I cannot control my government.
San Diego is right in the range that you are describing. Average highs in August are ~75. I'm biased though since I lived in San Diego for a couple of years and have never lived in or near San Francisco. Inland is much hotter in San Diego though.

https://www.weather-us.com/en/california-usa/san-diego-clima...
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While I wouldn’t be surprised if the average corruption was higher in the USA, I would be very surprised if the standard deviation of corruption was lower in Europe.

For all that Americans say how diverse a nation the USA is, the EU alone [0] is a mixture of Common Law states and Roman Law states, where the laws are written in 24 languages that collectively use 3 character sets. Heck, despite the Euro it still has 10 non-Euro currencies in use.

[0] I’ve seen “Europe” used to mean “the EU” in the same way I’ve seen “America” used to mean “the USA”; and while the EU is definitely not a country, it is about the same size as the USA.
Worth to make note of the fact that the forum post that was linked to by the parent comment to yours, about being able to run Linux Chrome on FreeBSD, was actually posted today. So it might be promising? But at the same time, the post also states that it relies on a few workarounds that are likely to interfere with other things on the system. So probably one should not get their hopes up too high just yet either.
most famously, gitlab has always done this. others do also and with covid many have announced they would, including such giants as facebook.

your perspective on value is wrong. you aren't paid for the value you bring. in capitalistic society you are paid at replacement cost. this is why unions are so important in some industries (mostly semi-skilled), to stop the next guy for agreeing to work at a lower standard.

now, if you have a lower cost of living, having moved "away", 1/ your net purchasing power is the same, so why would you complain, and 2/ your equivalent replacement cost is lower.

i don't understand your last bit about increasing housing prices. if you are paid less when you move away, how are housing prices pushed up? isn't it the opposite? if you bring your high salary with you, that pushes up housing prices.
note that ceqa covers more than just trees and fields. it includes views, soundscapes, air quality, and more, which is why it's so productive when used to slow or deny development. the variety of potential challenges is staggering.

that wouldn't be such a big deal if reviews took days rather than years, but bureaucracies aren't designed to handle unbounded variety. that makes the process excruciatingly slow and expensive (bureaucrats are risk averse so are loathe to take responsibility in more than small chunks at a time).
You can't actually give all your money to a non-profit and then spend it on yourself, so that won't work.

I mean, you can, but if you get caught, which you almost certainly will, you will go to jail.

Source: Ask any CPA.
It stems from fundamental difference in how civil law and common law think about contracts. In civil law, a contract is typically only valid to the extent both parties signed in good faith and have a similar understanding of the ins and outs. It's my understanding that in common law, contracts are essentially creating law.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the exec.start command would be for systemd-based Ubuntu.
Basic colorectal cancer screenings cost around $100, but like all health care there is considerable variance in what people pay. You are implying that we should test all people for all possible problems which is simply not practical and probably not even possible. Testing is instead based on health condition and history.

The specific details of why this money would be a waste that could be better spent elsewhere are in the report which is a good read: http://sciencenordic.com/should-colon-cancer-screening-start...
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The article points out that this doesn't maintain privacy:

> I discovered that, even though the ID was unique to my FB-app, it was still possible to go to facebook.com/{id} and be redirected to the user’s FB-profile.
Moving from Intel to ARM is a reason to stay with Mac if you ask me. Intel has been holding computing back with their inefficient architecture, and anything that drives innovation away from x86 is a good thing in my mind.

Much as I dislike some of Apple's practices I think making ARM more mainstream is a trend I want to see continue.
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On the issue of scripts, the matter was more fluid some generations ago. Different people would adopt different scripts in different circumstances, and it was the British push for standardization that settled the matter.

For example, when the British took Sindh, they found that officials of the erstwhile Nawab administration used the Persian script, while merchants used the Khudabadi landa script. Women and priests, however, largely used the Devanagari script. The British adopted the Persian script for Sindhi since the clerks they absorbed used it.

A similar story played out with Marathi. From the time of the Marathas till as late as the 1920s, Marathi was written formally in the Modi (ie, twisted) script. The British pushed for the adoption of the Devanagari script, since it would simplify logistics at printing presses.
Of course, but when processing an arbitrary email address, which will almost always be not on your site, you MUST treat the left hand side as case-sensitive (unless you have knowledge about that email domain).
The idea that the conservatives on the court are "originalists" is a complete farce. Kavanaugh just wrote an opinion last week that it is critical that election results must be called by TV networks on the night of the election. This is of course despite the fact that (a) there is no such law, (b) none of the founding fathers could have ever imagined TV networks calling elections day-of, (c) and election results are routinely not known for many days/weeks after an election. This bizarre opinion is just one of countless that disproves the "originalism" myth.

And as for legislating from the bench, few are more guilty of that than Alito and Thomas.
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Prop 15 and Prop 19 are on the ballot. I think those would reduce market distortions if they pass.
It's not a business. It's a stale content marketing effort ran by one of the incumbents in the space who leveraged it as a means to promote themselves in front of their competitors.
What is your experience with the DVR series of SD cards?

https://carcamcentral.com/guide/recommended-microsd-cards-fo...

I know there are other power down issues with SD cards and corruption well. I think in a class setting I would have important files replicated to an NFS server, with at least hourly snapshots.
As I understand it, the intent of the law is to prevent non-financial people from losing thousands or more on random scams (e.g. ICOs, actual snake-oil, etc.)

The result of the law is... less clear.
Exactly. Unix was the original programmer’s workbench and still is.

Programming should mostly happen between the ears. I do most of my work thinking and writing notes, diagrams, and pseudocode on paper.
I don't consider what I'm currently doing "tech". I think of that much more in the startup game, VC funding, and FAANG.

Generally I'm filling a consulting role. Mainly in the product development/launch phases. I will do a small number of Project Roadmapping/Architecture's every year and then PM those.

I find big problems and then help solve them. As my career has progressed, I worry less about the buckets that it falls into.
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Well, Apple is moving towards increasingly locked down systems. For example, it is very difficult if not impossible to install Linux on the most recent Macbooks. Previously when Apple stopped supporting a Mac, you could install Linux on it. I suspect with the ARM systems going forward, that will become even more difficult.

In other words, it is not just about better performance. It is also about Apple removing your freedoms with your own hardware in the name of 'security'. (I am not saying that there isn't increased security, but at what price?)
> A number of journalists have decided the technology is entirely confusing and deceitful.

It's not the journalists I'm worried about. It's the advertisers.

> Deepfakes are just the next wave of photoshop. People don't use photoshop to steal elections and win court cases. They use it to make memes. It's the same deal with deepfakes.

You say that now. By 2024 we'll be getting served political ads depicting "Person who looks like my cousin" in a riot, "Child that looks so much like mine" being shoved into the backdoor of a pizza parlor, or "Sad sack that looks like me" standing in an unemployment line. Fairly certain we all signed away the permission to use our likenesses in the various TOS.

It's also going to be a whole new vein for bullying, e.g. "Goofus hates Gallant. Most kids hate Gallant. Goofus posts low-grade deepfakes of Gallant dying and committing acts of self-harm. The bodies and the hair don't match at all since the source GIFs are from movies and tv, but it's definitely Gallant's face. Goofus gets a short term dopamine burst from his fake internet points as his peers pluslike and cross-post. One day Gallant decides, 'maybe they're right'"

I know it sounds like panicky, theatric, Black Mirror script stuff, but there are no missing pieces to keep either of these from being a button click away. It just might not be quite cheap enough yet.
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Surprised they haven't ditched the caps-lock if a good chunk of their target market is kids. Most Chromebooks have done away with this and it seems to have helped my kids ability to log in
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Things like the Delta “gogo in-flight entertainment” do store their movies on the plane, but people will want to watch their Netflix/Prime/etc content on the plane as well.
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This limit is for less financially savvy people (those who are not an Accredited Investor per the SEC) to invest money into startups. The idea is to put an upper limit on funding from mom and pop to reduce the potential harm - think the ICO bubble of 2018. During the bubble, it was almost impossible to invest in a SEC compliant ICO as an unaccredited US investor and a lot of that was due to this limit existing and putting an upper limit ($1M) on money invested by the less financially savvy. Overseas, ICOs boomed due to the lack of international regulation and there were a lot of outright scams and pump and dumps happening which US investors were pretty much barred from investing in due to SEC regulations.
Yeah nothing screams high standards of living like driving a gigantic 4x4 (hint: those are pretty useless in most European cities) and the size of the portions at Taco Bell.

As for the housing... you can buy a cheap big house in bumfuck nowhere or a smaller place in the city. I guess just like in the US.
I dom‘t think so, it can even backfire big time since when data is collected based on consent the user can always retract their consent and demand all data tracked under consent to be deleted. I bet every single company would struggle to meet users´ rights under GDPR if they would be enacted more commonly or even on a regular basis.
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Hi there! I started and ran Seattle Subway - I’m a bit of a transit nerd, and would love to chat about this.

The MTA is planning on a 100 year horizon. It is ALWAYS cheaper to build capacity now than to retrofit later, even inflation adjusted. If you’d like to challenge their methodology, first go read the planning report!
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You, and the paper forms, are incorrect. In fact, on such forms, you should use the proper case for your email address, otherwise you are entering an incorrect address, which may be fraud.