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Averages don't matter. Most people walk away from car accidents unhurt. Still, seatbelts are mandatory.

We choose a level of precautions (cost) according to the risk. Which is what bugs me about the non-mask crowd cause it costs NOTHING.

Having yourself injected with a newly developed substance is a different thing.

Let's face facts, the long-term effects are unknowable - you trade that for the short-term protection.
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I'm not discouraging people from "taking vaccines" in general. My 2 year old daughter is fully vaccinated. I'm just indicating that in the current scenario, where the vaccines on offer haven't undergone any longitudinal trails is extremely unusual and the usual calculus where people may weigh up the balance of risk does not apply.
Yeah like letting a craftsman use your backyard shed as a woodshop for a few weeks.
The reason why extreme cases are showcased, is because it fits a certain narrative. We all know what that narrative is - that Covid prevention should take precedence over everything else.

The fact that the prevention is worse than the disease, in terms of economic hardship, depression, deprivation of education, etc; the fact that prevention measures hit poor people and minorities much more than rich people (who can move around and educate their kids in private schools that largerly do not shut down) - these are all inconvenient facts.

At least be honest - say you know lockdowns are horrible for many people that even if they got the disease would be fine (save for the extreme anecdotes!) but we still decide to impose them.

Really hard to have an honest conversation based on facts these days.
No, I was talking about the risk to you and everyone around you.
Political support for lockdowns etc will surely drop hard once significant parts of the high risk population are vaccinated and intensive care utilization goes down (support was eroding even before vaccine news hit). We'll then see a heavy third wave challenging the immune systems of those who didn't qualify for early vaccination.

Currently we don't even know wether the vaccines can cause herd immunity effects or not. It's perfectly possible that they just reduce heavy sickness infections into symptomless spreader infections. The tests didn't check for that (you can't do daily PCR on a test population of ten thousands). If that was the case the vaccines would still be a great improvement, but the third wave during partial vaccination would be particularly nasty if the vaccinated are not firewalls but stopovers.
There's some pictures here - https://sogdians.si.edu/sidebars/the-castle-on-mount-mugh-an...

It's interesting to think that these documents were written long before paper even arrived in Europe.
This seems odd because there clearly time dilation effects between two observers even when they are not accelerating but merely have a large difference in relative constant speed.

You seem to be saying that there has to be constant acceleration between observers for this effect to take place.
This is not the Silk Road your looking for <waves hand>
His brother funded both the New York dinosaur and Smithsonian human evolution exhibits, both of them excellently done, and featuring evolution front and center.

I note, however, that the Smithsonian put their climate change exhibit immediately outside of their human origins exhibit with his name. I've always wondered if that was some kind of dig.
> They've failed to address the growing inability to normal people to have financial security and a reasonable quality of life.

But that's not a goal of Libertarianism. If anything, it if that problem were addressed, it would be an indication of Libertarianism's failure to meet its Social Darwinist objectives.
> Get it in my veins

Works better in a muscle...
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> If GitHub were fighting for the developer they would have funded the attorney, right?

By expressively taking the side of the accused (such as paying their attorney), Github could have opened themselves to being liable for whatever youtube-dl does.

Having the EFF as an independent party sidesteps that issue.
1. Learn how to fast for extended periods of time
2. Go vegan
3. Live long and prosper
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I'm saying it's not because it has stuff like text editor, games even email client built-in (need confirmation never seriously used emacs), if it's only a scripting + text UI engine and offering all other apps as optional plugins then I'd agree it's "doing one thing".
I'm geniunly curious why this got down-voted. Would you mind posting why?
Exactly this.

The most common and pervasive misconceptions about nutrition use the extremely simplistic view of it, believing that in the end all matters is that you end up with N grams of say sugar.

The effects on the body of consuming an apple versus the equivalent two table spoons of raw sugar are not even remotely similar.
> Even after a repository has been taken down due to what appears to be a valid claim, we will ensure that repository owners can export their issues and PRs and other repository data that do not contain the alleged circumvention code, where legally possible.

So they have the ability to export issues and PRs already, but it isn't exposed to users?
Trump had all the risk factors but recovered quickly, although this is just a single datapoint and he had the best care in the world.
If you're in the US: https://www.gocupper.com/ (No affiliation.)

I drink espresso so I'm biased towards certain beans. What you drink, how you drink, and ofc what your tastes are will drastically change what you like. I can tell you, if you don't use a burr grinder it can be hard to tell the difference between most high end beans, even for filter coffee, so there is more to it than just getting the world's best beans.

As far as high end beans go there are three primary categories:

- nutty

- chocolatey

- fruity

Often times nutty beans will be called chocolatey, because chocolate is considered a higher grade, but there is a difference. If you want to play with it, a fun goal is to find the best beans for your setup from each category. Chocolatey beans can be fun to explore with sweet 'n condensed milk sometimes as well, just for the fun of it. Nutty beans you usually can't taste unless you're using an espresso machine. It's typically subtle. Fruity is the kind of beans you'll typically find in a high end café in an urban area and can be quite good when brewing pour over. However, they can be high in acid, but a high end fruity bean will have low acid. Those are rare and tend to be reserved for espresso.

Years ago before Blue Bottle got bought arguably their best tasting beans was their decaf. I think they wanted to show to the world decaf can taste good. I guess it wasn't making money, because the first thing that changed when they got bought was the decaf switched to something not very good tasting. Since then I've been slowly going through decaf espresso beans all over the world trying to find something as good. I've found good beans, but nothing as good.
I try to remember how it felt when I also didn't understand that concept, and talk about how it felt before and after making those connections.

Also, context and audience matters. If you write an explanatory blog post, the people who visit will mostly be searching for an explanation on that topic and won't feel offended when you assume they don't already know it. Give the same explanation at a conference, and you might get a very different reaction.
Maine in the summer is a magical place, but you really need a boat to experience it. There are great little islands/towns all over. If you end up on an island with only one restaurant, it makes it real easy to decide where to eat. Dodging all the lobster buoys is a real challenge to navigation, but eating lobster every day is worth it. If you see and island on the map with "haven" in the name, be sure to check it out.
I beg you to at least talk to your doctor before making decisions about whether or not a medication is safe.
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A vaccine is "nothing" more than a way to tell your body what it needs to fight before it actually has to fight it. Whether that's via mRNA, DNA, dead virus, live virus, whatever. The method used to do that is less important than your body getting the message. If the vaccine causes decades-long effects, so will the virus itself. We're damned either way.
Seriously... I use Trello for small project management because of it's simplicity. I wish it had stayed fully detached from Atlassian.
The user just buys a computer and buys or install an OS on it (or gets on with an OS pre-installed).

They do get their pick of OS, but they don't get to decide what the OS allows, beyond what's available as a configuration.

They can tinker with the OS settings (where available) or even code if they have it, but most users don't have the knowledge or time to do so, even if their OS of choice is FOSS.
Would they? They've not for Netflix, nor (to my knowledge) does youtube-dl support even the videos on youtube that you have to pay to watch.
Since you're Australian, please explain something to me. Australia has been calling for decoupling with China for a while now. Now that China gives you what you want, why is it a problem?
This has to be a false statement. Some sites blacklist subnets they believe to belong to VPN services, that's true. No web site has the information to know the difference between a tunneled packet and a non-tunneled packet. They could try looking at MTU but then they'd block all sorts of "legitimate" traffic due to use of PPPoE and so on inside ISP networks.
I assume the nVidia experience is not recent? They’ve ramped up Linux efforts significantly. Even if despite officially embracing nouveau they’re still a bit toxic, in practice it should be expected to work fine (though see below, and apparently there were some issues with 5.9 specifically).

As for Kickstarter projects with proprietary drivers targeting only Windows and/or OS X, well, yeah...

You’re right that with proprietary closed-sourced drivers one has to be prepared to be a bit cautious or conservative when upgrading the kernel. Though unlike Windows there’s no real reason to always be on the most recent version (critical kernel security issues are rare).

Running a 4.x kernel is still considered bueno.
That's a really useful comment - thanks!
Sadly, as said elsewhere in the thread, many (but not all!) modern fruit varieties have been selected for sugar content.

However, some fruits and vegetables are particularly important for their fiber content even if you can't get rid of the fructose.

Things like inulin or resistant starch are very important to avoid having too many Bacteroides and too few Bifidobacterium, which is one of the big differences in westernized human guts vs more traditional ones.
It’s what VPN’s are for. The purpose of a VPN is not to give you a false sense of security by routing traffic onto the public web through a 3rd party.
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For sure; that's why people reiterate the 99%+ metric. This isn't a cataclysmic virus that will wipe out life on earth, but it will tax health care systems far beyond what they're capable of handling. It will devastate economies, lock downs or not, globally.

It's far to easy to dismiss the effects if we see it "only" hurts <1% of people; which is why people feel the need to constantly reinforce the negative impacts.
People foraging berries in Swedden place themselves in the same places as bears sometimes. I had seen a video showing a real "bear attack" and is very interesting. They have lots of close encounters each year.

A female bear is startled and charges towards the people, the researcher keep his ground and the bear makes an arc to avoid crossing paths.

Moose is the biggest killer in the area with difference. They are really dangerous when involved in car crashes because they have very tall legs, so in an accident the animal is pushed trough the windshield inside the car. Then, the struggling moose trying to break free, typically will hit repeatedly the driver in the head and torso with his legs
We had it in our family few weeks ago. Total 6 persons got it. Thankfully for most was very mild, including me. One person had a bit prolonged cough/cold for 5-6 days.
I hope you never get near the levers of power
It is needed to get the r_o low enough that herd immunity is achieved at a lower % of population threshold (there is a clever mathematical proof showing why you don't need 100% exposure for this to happen)
Most likely they just applied common sense which goes for any release of any major software, don't upgrade on day 1, especially in a professional environment where you need the equipment to work most of the time.
I have a couple of things to say here that might clear things up!

> I thought that time is like a film, where nothing moves except the observer.

We are not merely observers of the universe - we are part of it. When we change where (or when) we are in the universe, we change the universe itself.

> Also, I never understood the grandfather paradox.

Instead of the "go back in time and kill your grandfather" idea, lets keep the scale smaller. Let's go back in time 1 minute, and then smash our time machine. Now, there are two "me"s in this timeline. But energy and matter can't be created out of thin air! Maybe it took a lot of energy to send me back, but that was in the future, and that future is gone, now that our time machine is smashed. We could very well send gold bars back a minute, and double our money!

The way you typically resolve this paradox is through keeping infinite timelines. In our example, there's a timeline where we disappeared off the face of the earth, and a timeline where there are two "me"s. They each continue independently. But if there is only a single timeline, we can do all sorts of paradoxical things.

> If I travel in the past and change something, wouldn't the change propagate in time at the speed of light?

The speed of light is measured in meters per second. Time is measured in seconds. I'm not sure I'm clear on what your suggested propagation looks like.
i’m not comparing them but you could say the same for the flu. as there are many people who die from it.

it’s all a matter of where you draw the line of risk/reward
> It is true that this system can be used to program arbitrary logic, it can however become a bit clunky when trying to code imperative logic that works with inplace references and mutable data structures. Nevertheless it is a very powerful domain tool for working in scientific computing and the number of functions related to technical domains that are surfaced in the language represents decades of meticulous expert domain expertise.

Can you explain this more? Why is (i.e.) the Wolfram Programming Language best thought of as a "domain" tool, and not a general purpose programming language? Why couldn't someone build an extraordinarily complex piece of software (say with millions of lines of code) under term-rewriting paradigm (like Wolfram) in a domain that has nothing to do with traditional mathematics/scientific computing?

BTW, my favorite Wolfram fact is that it is the most concise programming language on the Rosetta: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/11/which-programmi...
I could be wrong, I haven't had enough coffee yet.

Say you constructed a pantograph where the ratio of the "inner" point to the "outer" point was ... um ... log(5)? for a decimal scale? ( I think you could make a binary scale but I can't think what the ratio would be log2(1)? )

Anyway, you'd start with the pantograph's base and outer point at the ends of your ruler, mark off the inner point, and then repeat on each sub interval, and then again recursively until you ran out of room.

Like I said, I could be wrong about this.
> That's funny because I found the opposite to be true if it's a single bishop / knight endgame.

No matter what you found, it has been statistically proved that a Bishop (against a Knight), and especially a Bishop pair is stronger than a Knight/Knight or Knight/Bishop .
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Traditionally there is some manual work to do in updating ppas to point to the new release but apparently assistance also exists for the lazy

https://askubuntu.com/questions/42895/is-there-a-tool-to-upd...

You can also set RELEASE_UPGRADER_ALLOW_THIRD_PARTY=1 before running the updater to allow third party repos to remain enabled during upgrade.
Keep in mind that most people on HN are white and middle/upper income with good health insurance, so I'm not sure you'll get a good representative sample here. This disease is exacerbating existing differences in health and healthcare access. Black Americans are twice as likely to die from this than white, and have higher risk of infection as well.
Space Karen ... rather apt indeed :).
>> In basketball, it is quite easy to prove that some people are simply unable to ever be a great basketball player

There's a simple cure for this: Height classes

You can still be a GREAT basketball player if you were only 5 foot 6 inches tall. Is the best 5'-6" basketball player in the world, not great? They just can't compete against the physically taller players. What if you made a league exclusively for players in between 5 and 6 feet tall?

Floyd Mayweather is a great boxer. But if there weren't weight classes in boxing, and you put him in the ring with some journeyman heavyweight, he'd lose. He's just too small to win.

It's the same thing.
We understand that covid is causing scarring on the lungs heart and kidneys and other organs, in some cases. This would reduce function of those organs, and that reduction may not impact people until they are older. That's why it's too soon to declare it for covid in any individual case. Vaccines work differently, if they caused such scarring for example, it would be accompanied by a bunch of other symptoms which would have been spotted and tested. As a result you can't point to something like I have for covid and make the same argument. Yet, we do understand the vaccine protects us from covid, so we can make an argument about it being a net positive overall.
(2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625232
Hahahah. Oh poor sweet summer child. He thought he "owned" the games. What did he think this was, GoG?
GitHub's users are developers, not the general user.
Hey, looks really interesting. Would love to see benchmarks that are open source so we all can check it out in more detail.

Seems like a lot of questions on here are just: how much better is the performance and why?, so maybe showing is better than telling.

Best of luck!
Unfortunately it seems difficult to discover how long they’ve been a member: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24902985
They could theoretically have donated $2MM at $50K a year if they had joined back around the time when Bill Gates was railing about ‘theft’ of his BASIC (and others were replacing it with a superior ‘@copyleft all wrongs reserved’ one) ~45 year ago.

(Edit: of course cash is only one form of value.)
I don't think they have started yet, but such trials are planned in the UK.

There's no easy blanket "unethical" ruling from on high. Obviously this isn't a risk-free thing to volunteer for, but it isn't risk free for nurses to go to work either, and thankfully, they still do.
There are mRNA ebola vaccine candidates I think, but both that are approved are rDNA vaccines.
You had like 120 years to create a version of socialism that didn't suck, or didn't degenerate into a form of oligarchy under whatever guise du jour you please. I'd call it a failed experiment by now. You know why?

Because "true socialism" (like your true Scotsman) requires ideal übermenschen on all levels everywhere. This is not how the humankind works. Humankind is full of flawed, sometimes outright malicious people, and you have to deal with that.

Most versions of socialism at some point came up with a need to breed ideal happy socialist people that won't keep breaking their paradise all the time. And until this Übermensch is born, they chose to break and bend the rest into behaving, like bonsai trees. Of course, Dear Leader and their team is exempted from being broken or bent, and many others aspire to become like them. This is how every socialist rule to date grew into a totalitarian oligarchy.

Thank you but no thank you. I'd better choose a form of government that adapts to and deals with people as they are, and doesn't try to force them into some better version according to their understanding.
I don’t think the parent has said that, though.

All they’ve said is we shouldn’t draw conclusions yet about long-term COVID damage. No mention of vaccines.
Even without COVID obese people are disadvantaged in about every aspect of life.

They die much younger than otherwise fit & healthy people. The extra layers of fat mean that their heart has to pump much harder than for a healthy person, essentially putting fat people at a much higher risk of several heart diseases as the heart muscle gets weaker much faster with age.

The extra layers of fat also have other negative side effects like putting more strain on blood vessels and increasing the risk of blood clots, strokes and many other secondary issues. There are literally so many health issues directly linked to obesity that I can't understand why so many people in developed countries care so little about their weight.

It's particularly surprising because physical exercise doesn't cost anything and healthy food is extremely cheap if one can be bothered to learn how to cook. I've been raised on extremely cheap but healthy food. We would buy 10kg of rice which was cheaper than a single Big Mac menu and cheap vegetables which could be cooked up with rice and a sauce. People claim that eating healthy is difficult when you're not rich but I can say from 1st hand experience that this is an ignorant statement to make. Buying prime grass fed beef is expensive, but that is not healthy. Eating beef or lamb 5x a week is actually unhealthy. Vegetables and rice is cheap everywhere.
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I'm late on this discussion but as Google has made Youtube their platform for music streaming, their only platform for music streaming, this can be used to download all music from there no? (not even talking about movies)
Kind of sucks for them, seems like this is a major threat to that service in eyes of their content providers (record labels)
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No, because for herd immunity to set in, far too few people have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies simultaneously (even if we let COVID-19 run rampant). That, in a nutshell, is the main reason why the “herd immunity”-based mitigation strategies are being dismissed by the vast majority of immunologists and epidemiologists. In fact, “natural” herd immunity (without the help of vaccines) might never have eradicated a single disease — at best, it leads to a temporary reduction in numbers.

The “standard example” for natural herd immunity eradicating a disease is the black plague, but most experts now believe that herd immunity isn’t actually responsible for its disappearance from Europe.
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