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Nothing. Timelines for Covid-19 vaccine are already compressed. Even this data is just preliminary from Phase III.

Limiting factor is safety and testing for safety.

They started trials with two people, one gets vaccine one gets placebo. They look for side effects then add more and more people while constantly observing those vaccinated for side effects.

Vaccines are not inherently safe, they are safe because they have gone trough huge amount of volunteer testing. If there are unwanted side-effects, vaccine is withdrawn. Since vaccines work with the immune system, you must look for autoimmune reactions, neurological symptoms etc. Some of them can emerge weeks or months later. With new mRNA vaccines there are even more unknowns.

Emergency authorization they seek means taking calculated risk. With covid-19 epidemic taking that risk is acceptable.
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When they repeatedly used the word “emulation” instead of translation in the article I knew they hadn’t done their homework.
You could also use PastePals, a copy/paste buffer-based social network @gklitt and I made for the Stupid Shit Hackathon: www.pastepals.club/
How is that different from how you think I read it?

The “Spanish flu” is the name of the 1918 outbreak of H1N1. There was also a major H1N1 outbreak in 2009.
Anecdotal evidence warning:

Basically it's trained to feed you what it thinks you want to see. From my experience, it doesn't matter how many different channels you are subscribed to, it looks at metrics from the last hour or so of watch time and recommends based on that information. You end up silo'd in a small set of refined options based on every video you watch.

The best way to get a fresh perspective on Youtube is to logout or go to the trending page ... otherwise you're sitting in an echo chamber of only things you agree with... which isn't that interesting
Replace Python/Django with Java/Kotlin/SpringBoot and you pretty much have my preferred project stack, which also organically grew due to being exposed to these platform tools in my day job.

Kubernetes/Terraform and friends are really useful as a solo-dev if, and only if you have the required experience with them.
And yet, the reviewers’ real world tests show that the unlabeled graph wasn’t a lie.

Here’s a labeled graph from Anandtech, scroll down to “Apple vs Intel Top Performance”

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

Apple’s unlabeled graph wasn’t a lie. Early reviewers confirm that the performance from a fanless, body-temperature laptop with 15+ hours of battery life is downright mind blowing. There is nothing else like it on the market.

Marketing only gets you so far. This product speaks for itself.
> but most of the people I've met in the IC care deeply about the rule of law and making the world safe for all of us.

I don't mean to twist your words, but that's what all suppliers of State power want. It doesn't make the outcomes good or moral, it doesn't mean the will of the population is actually adhered to. "Making the world safe for all of us" is a simple paradox of Asimov-level complexity and outcome.
There's a difference between bullying and people posting things that some others don't agree with. I understand that some will blur the line but there is a difference. Bullying is "Insulting with threats". When someone says, "I believe X" or "I believe X because of Y" there are no threats or insulting going on.
You forgot IoT.
Reputation, maybe, but in my experience people are FAR more likely to bully others online when it can't splash back on to the real world
> Source 2 would still be a nice jump for CS:GO, but the team just doesn't have the resources at present to get this all done

That is surprising. I had assumed that CS:GO was an incredibly steady cash cow. IIRC, CS:GO pioneered the digital collectibles + loot box market, and has somewhere between 600k to 1.1M+ active players during any given day. https://steamcharts.com/app/730

The trading market also seems particularly active and Valve takes a cut of each transaction of their digital goods. It's an attractive model. There are dedicated companies that have sprung up around it and seem to prosper.

Other indirect indicators seem to be green as well. Back when it was a phenomenon, it sold at least 25M+ units before it was made free-to-play. This is on par with Minecraft. The installed player base is in the hundreds of millions. It's essentially a giant social network with multiple monetization opportunities.

I am struggling to see how this wouldn't be profitable.

Surely, Valve must make enough in a month to hire 50+ people and give them 18 to 24 months to re-write the engine?
But does Python scale for back end applications?
Before everyone calls this insane and reactionary, please do remember that Facebook has teams of employees who actively court favor with local politicians and help them craft social media campaigns for election / re-election. There is a LOT hidden behind the curtain.

This isn’t like your mom telling you that you’re not allowed to go on MySpace.
I think its cool to see extreme measures like this. There are so many books, articles, videos, and podcasts out there now espousing the perils of social media but when it comes to solutions they all wind up with the same measured response of "everything in moderation, including moderation. just be careful. turn off notifications!"

Just nuke the fuckers from your life and you're be so much better for it.
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So there is no tether printing scam in the first place? (If there was a scam, I'd love to understand how it works)
> Until people refuse to smoke illegal marijuana en mass, the markets are effectively the same.

Which will only happen when it's legalized, which is exactly my point.
This is a textbook example of an authoritarian government banning media outlets that allow criticism.

It's unbelievable that anyone can hate Facebook so much that they side with authoritarian regimes.
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If i had done this i would miss the covid19 pandemic in france. In france in the begining it was always : "It's nothing, it will never come in france, it's just a common
influenza nothing important. Even when china contained a whole town ...

By passing one hour per day to read news i was able to predict the containment in france and to prepare myself and my familly ...
How do you graph your measprements?
>Shouldn't you rather continue working to make sure that if such a destiny awaits you, you have enough money to at least buy yourself some comfort?

Until when? How much is "enough"? Life is uncertain. Take Michael J. Fox, for instance.

I mean, this is the plan for a ton of people who go to California, particularly in the software world: "I'll work really hard for <major company> and put away a lot of money, then I'll move to a small place and work on what I really want to do, and live happily ever after."

How many people actually achieve this? It's harder than you think.
Wasn't just gossip. It was propaganda, too. We are in the golden age of propaganda due to the pervasiveness or our communications technology and the alert/addictive nature of the communications technology.
Thanks for that. If you can share, what do you think could be done at the higher level to prevent this?
The info-dump was one of the few enjoyable parts of the book.
A couple of years ago I was on a flight from Paris to Newark. Having had left Ireland behind us already (after maybe 2 hours of flight time), the pilot told us that the air condition in the crew rest wasn't working, so the crew was unable to get proper sleep. Unable to fix it in flight, but not an outright emergency, they had to turn around and we went right back to Paris.

That's how I learned about this magical place's existence, and that you aren't allowed to make a 8.5h flight when it's broken, even if the rest of the plane is perfectly fine.
Oh, you mean overall why do they fucking suck so hardcore?

That's also an easy two-part answer, look at their CEO and former CEO. Kraznich or however you spell his name, never knew a time (as CEO) when Intel wasn't top dog (and I'm not talking about 6 months of AMD being on top with Athlon 64), so he's never been hungry. In fact, his "dismissal" from Intel for hashtagMeeEeEToOoO is nonsense. They had been dating for years, before the anti-frat policy was put into place, and their relationship was cleared by HR; Brian got axed because someone had to take the fall for 10nm sucking so much donkey dick.

The new guy isn't even an engineer, he's an MBA. Anything Intel does under his leadership will be solely the result of everyone but him. Contrast this with AMD, where Dr. Lisa Su is an amazing engineer and also a brilliant businesslady.

Part two is culture. Intel is full of arrogant jackasses who are in denial about how awesome they are. Turns out AMD and Apple have legitimate badasses designing their chips, but they also have managers that aren't causing unnecessary conflict between different teams. This same shit happened to Microsoft years ago too, by the way... turns out causing a lot of conflict on your teams in the name of 'dA cReAm riSing To ThE Top!' is a fucking idiotic management style, which should have been obvious to these sub-geniuses if they'd spend more time in their biology classes - humans are a collaborative species.
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The 787 just started flying my predominate route (MIA-LHR) right before COVID so I haven't had a chance to fly on it yet. I've been on the 747-400 for years (decades it feels like) and know a little about the cabin crew rest area for that model. Unlike the 787, the 747 crew rest has bunk beds and the flight crew rest is in the cockpit where the old engineer's station used to be (who's been replace by more advanced engine computers).

There is usually 2 business class seats reserved for flight crew. I had a memorable flight one Christmas where I was bumped but the captain gave up his rest seat for me (the spouse of one of the working cabin crew).

When it comes to airline union contracts any and everything is negotiable, so rest areas and crew seats may simply not exist if things continue the way they are going.
One fantastic multi-paradigm-from-the-start language that often gets missed out is Mozart/Oz - http://mozart2.org . This language is used in the awesome book "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" by Peter van Roy and Seif Haridi - https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html
>but the media - and especially social media - are not directed by a uniform actor with intentions.

There are 6 corporations that control the vast majority of the news media you consume. The idea that it is unfathomable that they would work together to push their narrative is utter nonsense.

https://techstartups.com/2020/09/18/6-corporations-control-9...
He’s fine, I gave him permission.
You'd enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion... ; published in 1841, but covering events of previous centuries. It covers everything from stock bubbles to catchphrase memes that appeared in London and everyone was saying for a few months before they were forgotten.
While you are right, the growing cancel culture changes this dynamic and makes it potentially risky to offend someone else. If I say the wrong thing that would have been acceptable to say two decades ago, I could have my career ruined and my family put at risk of doxxing. This makes my personal (in)sensitivity irrelevant, the overton window is still restricted and causes social pressures.
Forums, email chains, IRC, Usenet, etc. there's several things that make it more potent and spread faster now.

For starters the internet is less balkanized, social media platforms are magnitudes larger than the largest forums ever were so an idea can just spread faster and further than before. Email chains could approximate the reach but other factors meant they were less potent and also I think people had fewer emails known in their address books than they generally have friends on social media though I don't have any numbers to back up that gut feeling. Although things are just randomly shared outside of social nets by social media algorithms so that would also help it jump outside of limited social groups too.

Next the medium is just inherently more engaging now that photo and video are first class citizens on the major platforms, they're way more attention grabbing and engaging than a wall of text could hope to be.

Also I think fundamentally there's an imbalance between how easy it is to lie and to debunk a lie and how much each of those will spread. A lie is exciting/angering and people will spread it much faster than the 800 word debunk that explains just how full of crap the lie was (and often how the person spreading it is using it as a trojan horse for other shittier ideas). "Everything you know about X is wrong" spreads faster than "No most of what you knew was basically right and here's the history of X," it's shocking and new vs familiar and old.

Finally I think there's a fair amount of blame on the structure of *feeds and the algorithms that place things on them. It optimizes for salacious, shocking content that gets people to share it because that's what the algorithm selects for (roughly), things that keep users on the site so more ad impressions can be served. Add to that bad actors willing to lie and twist the truth to make money and a decade or so of Darwinian corporate evolution and you've got a pretty nasty combo.
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>If he moved on to better laptop(s) why would he want to come back now?

Because this is the best one regarding size/perfomance/silence (the 3 things he cares for) now...

>And is Boot Camp still a thing... wouldn't that do the trick and allow you to boot directly into Linux?

Boot Camp was the Windows drivers and setup program. It's not available in M1. And for Linux you need drivers for the graphics and other stuff. It will happen, just not now...
I have read it‘s a bigger problem and a source for islamism, especially for the 2nd or 3rd generation of descendents of immigrants: When Germans still see you as Turkish, but Turks see you as German, it makes sense to a) be angry and b) search for some other identity.
Maybe I misunderstood, sorry if I am. Are you saying that you're family made greater than 196k and that you were not wealthy? If so I'd say you are out of touch. That is ridiculously wealthy for the majority of humans alive. You're view might be skewed by seeing the ultra rich at Yale as your classmates. Which all goes back to the original point, these ivy league schools favor the rich
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I push for those, but some people lost some data because at point OneDrive just decided it would incorporate someone's desktop folder (seriously, why?!). And occasionally it errors with cryptic error messages like "can't open document" no further info. People fear it and I understand them actually. It must really be flawless, mess up 3 hours of work for someone and it will take years before you can try and pry them away from email-only again.
I did a quick google search as there was scant detail in the actual article itself.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/17/solomon-island...

Some things that stood out to me:

> Facebook has also been cited as a factor in riots that gripped the capital, Honiara, in 2019. The social media platform was alight with anti-government rhetoric in the days after Sogavare’s election and was used by rioters to organise and congregate.

> But observers say China has influenced the government’s decision. Facebook has been, officially at least, banned in China for more than a decade.
> In September 2019 Solomon Islands switched from recognising Taiwan to instead embrace diplomatic relations with Beijing. The Solomons are home to a significant Chinese population and Beijing’s influence in the Melanesian archipelago – with the exception of Malaita, the most populous island and which remains loyal to Taiwan – has been steadily growing.

The guardian also has a link to a solomon times article:

https://www.solomontimes.com/news/solomon-islands-cabinet-pa...

> Minister Agovaka told Solomon Times Online (STO) that this temporary ban was made because of the controversial issues raised via Facebook.
> “Abusive languages against Ministers, Prime Minister, character assasination, defamation of character, all these are issues of concerns”, Agovaka says.
Probably true, but not the bit I was interested in or what makes the building special.
Given Twitter's track record on APIs, there is every reason to dismiss this solution.
I have mine turning down every night to save energy
Same thing all over humanity: Scottish when losing the race, British when winning..
Between the nasty, dry bleed air and this, yet another reason to hate the A340.
You could try CBD oil, it helps me a lot to fall asleep. For the first time in years I sleep like a baby. I take around 10 drops sublingually. I know it's an overdose, but who cares, if it helps...
Yes, but governments are or should be accountable to the state, which imposes rules thereby verified and rattified by civil society and their representatives.

Second point, though weaker on its own merit, is that the State's primary objective is to improve the commonwealth by acting as proxy to the collective effort, regulating compromise etc which are paternalistic without a doubt.

Private corporations exist for entirely different reasons though this probably wasn't always the case. In our world, corporations can make massive losses, have no working product, or be of such marginal value and yet be valued for billions by speculators in the free market. Its all random and irrational. States cannot operate like that.
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Do you need an external provider for this? We have been sending our transactional mails directy via our own backend, and so far we haven't had any issues with that. If you don't send tens of thousands of identical mails per day you should be fine.

You can use a worker and scheduling framework like Celery and Celerybeat to e.g. periodically go through your users and generate mails. The advantage is that it's much easier to integrate this with your backend and tie the mails to actual user actions. Just make sure to record which mails you have sent already to a given user to avoid sending the same stuff more than once.

But maybe don't take my advice on this, we're a really privacy-focused startup so we try to keep most of our customers' data in-house for security and privacy reasons, I know that there are a lot of people that will recommend to rely on external services for this (and they might be right in many circumstances).
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Awesome! Love that you can choose which ingredients it highlights for you.
Also SpaceX is much more open than about any old school space launch company - and some new ones! (Blue Origin is secretive on the Apple level.)
Yeah, as it turns out, making exceptional shit from the ground up is really really tough.

Hence the reason Google Fiber got laughed out of existence. Google thought everyone would just bend over backwards and laud their arrival. I guess they were shocked that it would require money and actual effort, like most difficult undertakings.
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It is a shame only authoritarian regimes dare enforce local laws regarding Facebook. There has to be some local shell company to sue?
Those people might go by the name "trolls". There is a slew of stuff the internet says about why trolls are behaving like this. Its actually really interesting to understand why people do such things.

About:
# I don't want police to involve. Maybe bother the guy to stop harrassing people online? Like give him the taste of his own medicine.

First of all: You probably fight against windmill.
Second of all: That's mostly what a troll is aiming for
Third: https://hbr.org/2020/06/youre-not-powerless-in-the-face-of-o...

Greets and don't let your fear determine your life!

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MacOS is not iOS because a Mac is not a phone. Craig Federeghi has spoken about the differences multiple times recently, repeatedly saying they aren’t changing MacOS to be more like iPadOS or iOS. They use the Mac too, and need its separate use case.

They got 20 hour battery life just by switching to Apple Silicon, they aren’t going to hobble Mac apps with any significant restrictions to try to eek out a few hours more.
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Canadian here, we have a 4 tier system.

The basic universal 'health system' aka very basic minimum health insurance mandatory by government solution is trash. It's true if you break your arm or need a flu shot they cover you.

If you have any expensive ailments you're going to be paying out of pocket. Cancer? My aunt was paying $10,000/month for chemo and that's like 1/3rd of her annual salary. Insanity.

Second tier you get a job your employer does give you health insurance. These are more often than not craptacular. 2 jobs ago the health insurance was that you had to pay 50% of the costs that they are being asked to pay. Most things weren't covered. No MRIs, nothing under that crappy health care.

Third tier my newer jobs, they were good. You had to pay 20% of most things but some things arent covered. You pay 100%. Current job is a bit better, public sector health insurance. You show that card and you pass lines. My coverage in the military let me jump lines like crazy. In the third tier you will only get a private hospital room if you are infectious.

The final tier are the people whose names are on plaques or wings in hospitals. Our hospitals basically dont function without rich people donating very large sums. Those people will jump any and all lines. They get private rooms. Rather nice large private rooms.
Fairly sure that was an issue as far back as the modem and MUD issue, just that it was happening to fewer people. I remember it being discussed (especially sexual harrasment) in https://www.amazon.co.uk/Surfing-Internet-J-C-Herz/dp/034910... (published 1996)
Yup. People in the West don't understand how much of an advantage social media has been in countries where media was always controlled by corrupt businessmen or politicians.

The fact that information about government's actions can spread to a large number of people, without any control from authorities is a first time in history for many. Organising protests without government censorship. Publishing investigations. Alerting the entire country to corruption as it happens.

It's really life-changing and unfortunately I don't think it will last. It's already routine when civil unrest happens to shut down internet. Facebook is a good one to censor but other networks take its place so creating Great Firewalls is next for many (somewhat rich) governments.
How does this work in practice? You wipe the OS and install Linux or Windows?

I'm not really kidding, any steps into Apple's ecosystem is dangerous given their poor track record on Customer Service, Privacy, hardware costs, hardware quality, security, and I'm going to stop and get back to work.

There are bigger problems to be solved, I don't think 1 expensive computer is going to change anything.
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My hot take on what's actually important when talking about moving away from Facebook: #DeleteFacebook isn't realistic. Facebook is designed to be hard to delete. They’ve been improving retention since 2007.

Criticising Facebook is good, BUT removing barriers to deleting it is crucial.

We need to build a Working Exit Door from Facebook.
Super interested to hear thoughts on the plan, what we've built so far, what you want to see next.