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> private investment (i.e. capitalism)

I think this definition is the root of our disagreement. Private investment doesn't necessarily equate to capitalism. Even feudal lords spent their own money on their own property, but that doesn't mean they were operating in capitalist economies. It stretches the definition of capitalism to the point of basically irrelevance to use it to refer to literally anything done for personal profit.

Wikipedia has a pretty good definition of capitalism:

"Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, a price system, private property and the recognition of property rights, voluntary exchange and wage labor."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

Notably, "competitive markets" and "recognition of property rights" are exactly the issues the article brings up with Amazon: there is little competition, and Amazon has (thus far) been able to steal intellectual property with impunity. This article is not exactly a takedown of capitalism! Its complaint is that Amazon is violating central characteristics of capitalism, and that it would prefer Amazon to not violate them.

I think your other point re: firms requiring profit motive and thus competition being impossible, is a little bit of a strawman. No one said perfect competition is something that markets have at a single point in time: just that monopolies without any option for competition are antithetical to a functional capitalist economy, and that capitalist markets are defined by the ability for firms to compete with each other. I think most economists would agree with me on that point.
I'm thinking more the other way around. All the vaccines practically prevent hospitalization/death. But the AZ one is coin flip odds for symptoms, however minor. But even minor symptoms from COVID can have medium term damage (loss of smell/taste/lung capacity) that may not be recoverable.

If you're part of the elderly high risk group, long term isn't that much longer anyway. It's the people with most of their life ahead of them that has to pick between the long term damage of COVID vs the unknown potential of long term effects from mRNA/adenovirus.
> Interesting parallel between the immune system and machine learning - they both need to train and curriculum training (vaccination) is more efficient.

It's almost like machine learning is a form of learning, right? :-D
> onto the robots basic balancing control system.

I don't think "basic" is the right word.
in the findings for AZ, there is 1 reported death. So this means particapnt got the virus outside and vaccine didn't work right?
You're right on most points, so let me justify why I believe it's worth trying.

First, the possibility space of politics/economy is enormous. Presuming European countries are the ones you're talking to which couldn't bear this year's economical help, that's a useful data point, but EU countries share a lot in common: developed, industrialized, capitalist, democratic, old society, efficient etc. That by itself doesn't exhaust all the possible configurations. One could imagine countries that retain the same desirable or unavoidable properties (democracy, old age), but differs significantly in others (simple tax laws?).

Until we determine whether implementing UBI would work from all reasonably reachable configurations, it's still worth evaluating.

There have been semi-successful UBI-like ambitions IMO, when we look at the idea of "bullshit jobs". While they exist in the West, the most interesting example is Soviet countries, where citizens were given the most pointless jobs, which would give them enough money to survive. Perhaps it's not the most successful thing ever, but it's worth noting this didn't cause an immediate collapse of the system.

Treating coronavirus help as a data point is also dangerous. The results are confounded because of how the world economy was affected by the lockdowns.
Good work! My first 240x240 display was a Palm Treo 750 and 320x240 apps were unusable because 80 pixels were out of sight, haha

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I love Purism with that stance. There are a handful of other companies that I consider "sustainable businesses", based on proper ethics and values and following humane practices. They are hard to come by, and often struggle to get enough revenue. I would like to do ever more biz with these type of companies, prefer and consume their products to the other BS.

Where can I find lists, directories and such that keep track of these sustainable businesses? Any good resources around?
They clarified their rules -- before they just said "2%", but they switched to "an average of 2% over some period". It's not like they switched to an inflation target of 20%. Having inflation be below 2% for long periods of time is not something that ever came up before 2008, and the Fed is promising that they won't remove stimulus too soon.

I don't agree that companies failing in a recession is "natural". I guess COVID is natural, but a restaurant business that goes under because their customers are temporarily afraid of dying is not a result of being poorly run, but of bad luck. I also don't agree that there is too much risk taking -- rather I think there is too little. High interest rates on government debt rewards lazy investors who don't want to work to find good investments.
a map is a set indexed only on a subset of the fields of your type.

This maps directly to the relational model, where a table (or relation) being a set of tuples is the fundamental concept: for your typical programming language set the uniqueness constraint (and key), would be comprised by all the columns, while for a map it would only be comprised by a subset (just one at the limit), while the remaining columns would be the mapped type.

Set operations (union, intersection, difference) do make sense for maps as well in fact.

Given a powerful enough language, you can generalize your sets and maps with multiple uniqueness constraints and secondary indices. See boost.multindex for example.

edit: and BTW, most STL implementations use the same underlying implementation for std::set and std::map which has a set-like interface with the ability to specify the key mapping function.
Nice to see a true idealist from the 1990s/2000s who has really helped.

These days the first step for a non-code "contributor" is to draft bylaws and CoCs, get some fake "president" title in the project and proceed to suppress and feel superior to high performers.

Unfortunately, often the high performers aren't aware of their worth (there is a pg article that touches the subject) and give the power to those who do not deserve it.
Weird that you make up your own source and counter it as if the person you were replying to had used it, then go on about how they use sleazy debating tactics. I think there's a proverb about a kettle that might apply.

Here

https://www.freetheslaves.net/where-we-work/congo/

and here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_the_Democ...

Both talk about people being forced to mine. Not they're poor and need to eat. Debt bondage, bogus criminal charges then sent to the mines to work as prisoners, or just straight up forced to at gun point by militias/gangs. You know, actual forced labour.
DW has information related to a lot of different areas, including arts and culture. It's a free unbiased news source. It's not just "a news agency that tells the world about the death of a French designer". You should check it out.
Thanks for the encouraging comments!

The saved links section is probably not well-worded. It shows links you have bookmarked within the app for further filtering. You can bookmark a link by clicking on the black bookmark icon at the bottom of the link.

I've been thinking about a similar public boards feature, and I certainly think it would be useful to implement something like that.

Interesting to hear your viewpoint on this, it seems like most people are content with the tools they're using. Do you think something like a webclipper would help the project? This would allow you to add links directly as you are on the page, eliminating the process of actually copy-pasting it. I think this would make the process easier and actually make SeeLink more seamless to use.
Multiple sources in German/Berlin Media. Take for instance this piece:

https://m.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/zu-wenig-rueckmeldung-zu-we...

As far as I was able to connect the pieces the organization was a total disaster. Mobile teams going into nursing homes do not vaccinate the people working there. These people should have come to the center, but could not because the were working at that time. Other elderly people (not living in nursing homes) should have come to the center but did not receive the invitation in time.

This kind of utter incompetence is, sadly, quite typical in Berlin.
You'll have to drop all historical and societal context for that.

Get X peas per kilo of body weight, a piece of a cloth to wrap yourself and you're good to go...
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Do you even remember what it was like trying to find your way around a foreign city before google maps? They mapped the world and provided it as a service for free.
Haha, I'm not sure it should be doing that though :)
Obligatory “can it run DOOM?”
I built, deployed and scaled a fun machine learning app with a small budget
I'm not sure what kind of issues you've faced with.
According to documentation, you can set "#statusbox" as the hx-target and it works.

https://htmx.org/docs/#targets
>U.S cardholders may opt out of Visa

So is the rest of the world not covered by this data collection effort or are they just denied the opportunity to opt out at all?
This statement could definitely use a source
It's straightforward to use a set type as a mapping type, so long as it provides three things:

* Comparisons don't have to use all members of the type e.g. if I have two Employee objects then I'm allowed to create a comparison function that only compares their employee IDs and ignores the name fields (perhaps because the name ought to be derived from employee ID). (I know this article is not about C++, but as a reference point this has always been possible in C++'s STL.)

* Comparisons don't need a full-blown instance of the contained type e.g. in our employee example, the set can make use of a comparison function between int and Employee without having to construct an Employee with that ID. (This has been possible in C++ since C++11, and is often called heterogeneous lookup.)

* The last point is a bit fiddly: Either the set type allows mutation of the objects so long as the parts relevant to comparison don't change, or you only wanted to store const values anyway. I mention this because in C++ if you have a std::set<Foo> then you can't mutate the Foo elements at all, even if it has no effect on the comparison of the elements with other elements. (Unless there are const methods that actually mutate it... yuck!)

So long as you have those three things, you can have a set of (key, value) pairs where the comparitor only compares keys, and bingo you have a mapping type.
Is your C# application source code available somewhere else I can see?
And this is a very good example of what I said.

US only ever managed to use staged coups to unseat civil governments, and failed miserably with tougher targets like real totalitarian regimes.

The only notable exception I think was Noriega, who was a joke of a dictator, and possibly even put in power with American help in the first place.
Researchers achieve sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation
sample results: https://app.gazerecorder.com/Study/?demo
Reminds me of the fellow who tried forcing it to think traffic was bad by dragging a cart full of cell phones down the road slowly
"Eloquent Javascript" might also be a candidate for this list but it is only available to read online:
https://eloquentjavascript.net
> From 21 days after the first dose, there were ten cases hospitalised for COVID-19, all in the control arm; two were classified as severe COVID-19, including one death.

Means they didn't get the vaccine at all.
Hiding the comments under a button was mostly because I wanted to limit to the maximum the number of request going to the mastodon server. But this has also the nice side effect of only loading them, if you need them.
I'm sad to hear that you automatically label people you disagree with as "shitty people" and they "deserve shitty treatment". It eliminates the possibility for dialogue, empathy and learning

You essentially block yourself of improving yourself by realising you might be wrong about something

It sounds to me like you think of a national economy as a household budget. Taxes are income and welfare is expenses, you take loans from banks, which have interest and needs to be paid back or you get punished

It's a nice and simple explanation, which also happens to be 100% wrong

Government debt have no interest and there's no creditor who needs to be paid back. Whenever the Swedish government prints 100 crowns, it goes 100 crowns more into debt

Whenever it gets 100 crowns in through taxes it resolves 100 crowns of debt

National debt is not the same as private debt. They're two completely different things, that unfortunately have kind of similar names

National debt is simply the amount of the national currency in circulation. To be "debt free", Sweden would have to remove every single crown from circulation, which obviously is not a good idea for the economy

Additionally - the government does not use taxes to fund spending. Swedish crowns are essentially worthless to the Swedish government, because they own the money printing press and could make infinite money if they wanted to

If parents setup a system for their kids, where they get small paper notes for doing chores, which can be traded in for the daily WiFi password, the notes have no value for the parents and the WiFi would work without the kids paying chore notes, but they're still useful because they facilitate the "doing of chores" and have value to the kids because of the "WiFi tax"

In other words the purpose of taxes is to create demand for the currency to match the supply the government is creating by printing more money. By having a demand for the currency, the government can use it to pay people to do "chores" it wants done by simply turning on the money printer, then collecting taxes at a later date
Wow. You’re sharing you personal anecdote based on symptoms (not a confirm diagnosis) and claiming we should be changing our global approach to Covid?

Don’t do that please.
I think the article focuses on the 12 chord blues progression to show how the rules can turn I-IV-I-V into something which could be considered jazz, by introducing sevenths and substitutions.

And since it's a generative grammar, it also needs a starting point...
Prolonging the 2nd dose interval increases the level of antibodies elicited after the 2nd dose.

Dose Interval --> 28 days after dose 1 --> 28 days after dose 2

<6 weeks --> 8,734.08 --> 22,222.73

6-8 weeks --> 7,295.54 --> 24,363.10

9-11 weeks --> 7,492.98 --> 34,754.10

≥12 weeks --> 8,618.17 --> 63,181.59

from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approv...
The idea behind using Mastodon was to explicitly don't depends on another close source project and not depends on another silo. Your solution looks like it will be closed source and a silo.
Nationally License cops like we license Nurses.
We are not shouting at the sky that much. All there is, is our satellite and terrestrial broadcasts. These are not intended to reach far beyond the earth and are encoded in a quite arbitrary way that is designed for easy implementation, not reverse-engineering. Interference and interstellar distances will likely distort them beyond recognition, unless you already know what you are looking for. There were some attempts at intentional broadcasting, but it's really not the main avenue of research (look for Active SETI). We are mostly listening at this point.

We are like an Uncontacted Tribe with technology. Even if we managed to decode a signal (not really feasible as many encoding schemes utilize quite arbitrary formulas and mapping tables), we would still not understand the language. Humans are pretty bad at figuring out languages without some sort of rosetta stone. Even if we understood their language, we might not be able to comprehend it, or comprehend it in fallacious ways, because of missing context. To compare, do our dramas, thrillers, TV shows, horror movies, porn (unfortunately often including children), and Youtube videos really portray an accurate picture of Human life and culture? We are ourselves quite bad at understanding other human cultures, past and present, and often rely on stereotypes...
Have you looked at https://github.com/akngs/ecogwiki ?

You might get some good ideas from there, it was a sort of similar python wiki like project that were made for App Engine, it has backlinks, it used json schema extensively (maybe too extensively).
Having given some thoughts, your potential business success depends on convincing the clients to not buy a tape drive, and addressing the above concerns. Smart pricing can address the former, but the latter needs more brainstorming.

Some of the issues you need to address:

- Trust. How can someone trust you with potentially proprietary / copyrighted data?

- Speed. Is it faster to copy the data to a tape locally, then to transfer to you?

- Reliability. How can the client be sure that you have made a successful backup?

- Advertising. Did you reach your target base to make them aware of your product and address all their concern to make them consider it?
As a swede, I want to correct you. There has been a ton of outright mis-information about my country and how it handled the coronavirus so I don't blame anyone for not knowing. The poor journalism that has been conducted is to blame and the resulting mis-information.

Misinformation 1: Swedens healthcare system did not collapse on itself. Fact: In the region where most people got sick (Stockholm) the military was called in to set up an emergency hospital. This was never used because the hospitals in Stockholm managed without it.

Misinformation 2: Sweden imposed no lock-down. While technically-kinda correct that we did not lock people in their homes, quite quickly it became illegal with public events of 50 or more people. (mid-late March I think).

Misinformation 3: Sweden "remained largely the same after the virus". Goodness sake, no. Anyone that claims this hasn't talked to a single swede.

Misinformation 4: Swedens strategy was to achieve herd immunity. No. In spring this question was asked at almost every press conference with FHM (ministry of public health). The strategy from the beginning was to preserve the overall health of Swedes as good as possible. During the open questions with FHM they have repeatedly brought up and said that the goal was not to achieve herd immunity. This stuff is complex and poor journalists don't like complex answers. As far as I remember, the reason for this "milder" strategy focused on spreading accurate and correct information about the virus was because FHM (correctly) predicted that we would have to live with the virus for a very long time. They decided that the best way to protect people over a period of possibly several years was by arming them with
information on how to protect themselves and others (social distance, wash your hands, work from home if you can).

The real issues that caused Sweden to have such high rates of death compared to similar countries like Denmark and Norway are more complex and has to do with lack of information for those caring for the elderly, poor equipment (and especially reserves with unusable equipment), and other systemic failures when it comes to elderly care.

Those in care homes were especially vulnerable because they are both older and come into contect with a lot of people. I believe the Swedish healthcare system failed to protect these people, and that is a major contributor to the high death toll.
This is in the case of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Not the Pfizer.
This is patently false and a rather strange claim.

Sovereign nations do indebt themselves through banks and financial markets in general, most often through the issuance of bonds, which can be defined as highly tradeable loans.

This is why sovereign debt is given a rating by credit agencies and why interest rates on debt freely vary based on the perceived risk by creditors. This also means that it can become difficult for a country to borrow at all (hence organizations like the IMF sometimes stepping in)

There is no magic.

However you spend money, inflation is created by an excess supply, not least when money is printed to cover debts (an effective devaluation). This is actually what happened in Zimbabwe.
Ironically I know plenty of M$ haters that nowadays are MS certified consultants and partner shops.
What pricing? Just get the open source version, install it on a local machine - or on any available server - and get going:

https://grafana.com/get

You do not need to use the hosted offering in that case.
> It is actually not even a complicated plan but it is staggering how many people are putting cloth over their eyes.

These are changes that are happening on a timescale much larger than the average lifespan of a cloud-based product/system. I think people building things in the cloud know it, or at least feel it, and so just don't care about long-term - because in the long term they expect to be rich and/or doing something else. In the meantime, ooh cheap compute, billable as opex - let's build everything on it!
rand() produces linear distributon, which is uniform. Do I understand properly that rand() + rand() would return normal distribution, so #2, for which you can determine the non uniformity?

What would be a proper first step to harden API for timing attacks?
And 16 deaths in a similar case in Belgium
I agree, it shouldn’t, but it really undermines their credibility.

At the end of the day, these are all still political animals.

We still don’t have readily available N95 masks for ‘normal’ prices from reputable vendors.
The key take-home about this vaccine is it is a more traditional approach using an adenovirus vector, which doesn't have the cold chain logistical constraints of the pfizer vaccine. This means it will be possible to vaccinate in the community away from the cold storage found in large teaching hospitals, and also means that this vaccine can be supplied to parts of the world where it wouldn't otherwise be possible. Apart from a non-selfish point of view that the world should be protected from this virus, I also wonder how important it will be to control the virus in a global scale to reduce the chance of further mutations that may cause another pandemic in the near future.
> You were clearly against the people defending themselves in your original reply

No, don't twist my words: I'm against the culture of pushing the burden of defending oneself onto the victim. Because it's literally victim blaming.

I'm also against punishing the victim in case they defend themselves, because it's also victim blaming.

This is nothing new. Most legal systems treat adults crime victims with a similar principle.
Kaggle data breach exposes private competition data raising “cheating” concerns
Kaggle, an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners has been exposing private competition data in a breach due to a misconfigured API.