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Your assumption is everyone will follow that rules which is how we know now is not true. There always will be deniers and rule breakers, so even a very rigorous policy will not work as intended to stop the spread completely. Even not every country will follow those rules - look at today's Switzerland where ski resorts are open right now and full with tourists from neighboring countries.
It wont get confiscated if they just rent it out or sell it, it just prevents them from creating artificial scarcity by sitting on perfectly fine homes hoping prices will go up in the future.
Please note that the website dw.com that is hosting this article is basically a German government website.

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

DW (Deutsche Welle) is a German state-owned broadcaster. They are not paid by our mandatory monthly broadcasting fee, but directly by the government with taxpayer money.

Now tell me, why does the German taxpayer finance a news agency that tells the world about the death of a French designer? They also do car tests. Isn't this the greatest waste of taxpayer money that you can think of?
I have always gone back to play with PicoLisp, and I like it very much, but it requires a POSIX system and unfortunately I am on Windows. I can run it in WSL2 but switching systems breaks my workflow. I am guessing this is PicoLisp written to run LLVM-IR, but the page only has the default PicoLips intro. text.
I like clean, elegant, expressive code, just like everyone else.

I don't particularly care for the attitude that because something can be used to write horribly unmaintainable messes, it must necessarily be bad and have few practical applications.

No, if you get horrid unmaintainable messes it's because you're either inexperienced or a bad programmer, you may be able to hide that in layers and layers of corporate Java that adheres to every guideline, but the second anyone tries to touch it, you'll be found out anyway. I'm going to take a wild guess that you're also imbued with a similarly low opinion of PHP based on that (insightful if somewhat one-sided and flawed) article that guy wrote.

In my opinion, the flexibility and elegance you can get out of exploiting, not abusing or misusing, the dynamic nature of JS, is the main appeal of the language, it's really damn fast to get stuff done, and even done in a nice and safe way, provided you have some idea what you're doing.

There are terrible things that you can do in JS, and those are terrible even in the context of JS, but, what is a terrible thing to do in one language may be just fine(tm) in another, so trying to force some Java or C++ ideas onto any other language is just not a good way of going about things. Every language must be considered on its own.

What is reasonable to do when writing machine code may not be reasonable in assembler, and what is reasonable in assembler may not be reasonable in C and up you go.
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Hyper inflation is the result of exhausting your countries' production capacity. This is generally a temporary phenomenon because the supply side can always eventually catch up because the demand side is funding it. In economies where it is a permanent problem it is because either the economy is prevented from expanding production (think of preventing new housing in San Francisco or excessively low unemployment) or because there is too much demand for products (generally through printing more money despite the low unemployment or debt).

Well, if we assume that your country is unable to introduce more money into the economy through no fault of its own (well that's never true) you can still fix the problem by investing into more production capacity and education. The unemployment in Zimbabwe is relatively low at around 5% so any additional money it prints will turn into inflation. If you were to follow MMT you would stop introducing more money because that is the core argument in MMT: print until inflation is back on track. Inflation is already on track in Zimbabwe.

The thing is, once you are in this situation you are almost set up to fall into the pit of success. All you need to do is invest into businesses, expand production capacity through automation and also invest into education. Follow the Chinese model by creating special economic zones where foreign investors can easily do business. Follow the German model of vocational training to solve the education problem. These problems are far less intractable than what first world countries are suffering through.
What should one do in their 20s to avoid regrets in their 30s and 40s?
> They most certainly did try to pursue herd immunity, but didn't message it publically.

The email published by The Guardian don't support this. He is mainly discussing the impact of keeping school open balancing the potential death in the elderly population against the immunity boost.

The official message from Sweden has always been they were trying to keep the virus manageable while minimizing the impact on society. This seems to have resulted in more deaths that their direct neighbors (but less than other countries in Europe). History will be able to judge with the full data.

As an aside, The Guardian coverage on coronavirus is generally awful. They usually deeply misrepresent/misunderstand what's happening in France for example.
Node is absolutely excellent server side, and if you have something where you want it to be much faster, and slower to develop, go with C or C++, there are libraries out there for writing webservices, or go another route and write your critical parts as native node modules, against V8.
Nice, very nice. All of it. Long live C.

Being stuck with C++ I did something in reverse - ported C-style ("intrusive") containers to ++, making them a bit safer to use, but keeping the syntax nearly the same.

https://github.com/apankrat/notes/tree/master/intrusive-cont...
The early 2000s were peak Micro$oft hate time. You had to at least pretend to hate Microsoft if you wanted to have any technical credibility.
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Frustratingly high in my case, apparently. The good news is that Google often allows you to easily verify that fact. The bad news is that Google often allows you to easily verify that fact.
Associating these accounts using data like IP address, cookies, etc. etc., over time, is core technology for Google and probably happens automatically. Whether they use it to prioritize Maps suggestions I don't know.
Yes, I cannot prove anything with certainty. But the symptoms are very distinctive to me (quite different from a 'flu, for example), and like I said, I experienced virtually identical symptoms and progression both times. So, personally, I'm highly convinced I've had Covid twice.
Hasn't it been proven that showering money on an economy only helps to address isolated disruptions where the system's design prevents it from recovering quickly on its own?

Why do we think UBI is necessary, when there are European countries such as Norway and Switzerland with near-zero unemployment and below-average inequality spanning decades (these two are very different countries, so I don't think we can attribute their success to some specific advantage no one else has).

Imo the countries/people advocating UBI just don't want to come to terms with the reality that their institutions and particularly their culture needs to change in order to tackle the problems that they think UBI will magically solve.
Google Maps data for most parts of Russia are very inaccurate. Even in cities there are ghost roads, missing roads, missing buildings and so on. Sometimes it's very annoying because some taxi operators use google data and some places just cannot be addressed because they are missing in the database.
I contribute to the linux kernel and one key part of it is its extensive documentation - one of the patches I made was to correct some invalid offsets there - there is so much that can be done there that isn't code.

If even the kernel which is pretty specific low-level stuff can benefit from that then more-so pretty much any other open source project, and extremely value for it! Good technical descriptions are surprisingly hard to find.
You have to keep in mind that there are lots of individual mRNA molecules in each vaccine. So an error won't affect all of them, but only a tiny fraction of the total vaccine. The error rate overall should be similar or lower than the error rate for any other mRNA and the viral RNA. The mRNA in the vaccine is not produced chemically, but with an enzyme (polymerase) like mRNA in cells.
Belgium is going to investigate smaller doses to go faster too.

It looks really promising, but investigation is required.
It’s to point out that people are basing their bias in reality.

Articles are mostly a jumping off point for conversation, some people just go by the headline or the comments on the page.
I just remember that it crashed if you tried to modify a string literal, which IIRC is undefined. And that it was very diligent about scope.

If you had signed integer over/underflow it wrote insulting error messages.
This. If you use Google Maps with biking it is even worse, with really inefficient turns and shortcuts
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> perhaps the best way is to topple inefficient slave societies through full-spectrum competition, from military to economic. This pressure incentivizes efficient human resource utilization.

Isn’t that what’s already happening though? One might even say that this neoliberalist take is precisely what brought about the current situation. For producers in the market to be competitive, they must (over)optimize for profit. One of the best ways to do that is by reducing cost. One of the best ways to reduce cost is by employing cheaper labor (“efficient human resource utilization”, you said), and to do that, tech companies must outsource to manufacturers located in poor countries with weak state institutions where the transacting parties can get away with slavery.
Apple USB-C controllers are essentially implementing a standard API (USB), but adding proprietary additions on top.

I think the only thing to do is require open implementations and open standards.
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I see that you are unaware of the large collection of programming language improvements accumulated in recent decades, which I will guess is because your favored language mostly does not implement them.
Don’t wait until retirement to start enjoying life
Yes, the unemployment rate was around 1.5%-2%.
Has anyone tried to run Linux on that Apple adapter?
At the cost of how many lives? And if the vaccine is successful how would that harm buy-in? If not then it's a failed experiment (though obviously the PR impact could be rather negative!)

I think it's pretty clear from the past year that we need different tools and approaches to dealing with pandemics. One part is clearly faster vaccine development (mRNA seems very promising for this) and pre-emptive vaccine development, another might be permitting very much informed consent take up early on.
Because if they were outright for free speech, their position would be even more offensive and unacceptable for the pro-woke than it already is (“oh, so you support the nazis?!”)
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Normal companies forward wrongly addressed requests to the correct department.
> Which is also true of Australia [...]

No, not really. If you look at Australia's parliament, you'll see that even though Labor and Liberal are the biggest party, they 'only' make up 60% of the seats. That's not really good, but it's a far cry from Canada's 82% (or the US's 99%)

> I would suggest you look at the actual examples in the wild

That's a very good suggestion. I actually already did that and I can assure you not using FPTP results in much more and smaller parties.

Examples:

- Ireland (STV)

- Northern Ireland Assembly (STV)

- Papua New Guinea (IRV)

> The recent push for FPTP

Do you mean 'against FPTP'? Because I can assure you that I'm not pushing for FPTP at all.
I have just tried it under Wine 5.5 and it works nicely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappeared_(Northern_Ireland)
It's unfortunately the case that if you are open to being wrong, and even actively explore these opposing views you often do lose something.

Snake oil with big promises and outright dismissal of even strong criticism seems to attract more attention.

(And here is one example, because I do actually agree with you, but tend to do this "argue against myself" thing too.)
It is true results are not yet posted to ClinicalTrials.gov.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368728 (Pfizer, >40000 participants)

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04470427 (Moderna, 30000 participants)
That fact in itself is a data point however.
The difference is: was it reworked to make it sustainable and recurrent, or to make it work this one time?

That it failed in the current political landscape doesn't mean that it will fail in every case, and you haven't presented any evidence ruling it out. Thus "There is no possibility of making it sustainable in the not-universal form" is an unfounded claim.
Yes and zOS is the most popular OS for mainframes.
I remember when our public health officials told us not to wear masks. Those same public health officials (Fauci) are now in interviews expressing disbelief and shock that people would choose not to wear masks - calling them science deniers even. My biggest takeaway from the epidemic is that government officials not only think it's ok to lie to the people in the name of the greater good, they also think gaslighting us is the appropriate way to deal with our skepticism towards them.
How exactly can it be made sustainable in recurrent and universal form, if a low one time not-universal payment nearly crushed the country? Believe me, we really tried to make it work more than one time and for more people. I say we because it required massive amounts of charity on top of the governmental aid.
There are no neutral actions, though.
Hmm, this one is surprisingly dangerous under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. VISA is certainly a financial institution and as such this site is a protected site. And this likely falls under
"knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;"

Act of DOS could be considered damage, not to even metion opt-out from revenue source...
He was also in the middle of a controversy in France because he "killed" a village, by buying and not using many houses. Even a movie was made about this.
I tend to think of bureaucracies as a mechanism for outsourcing the "real-life" parts of a project I care less about. The marketing, the litigation-responding, the budgeting. The cost is you sometimes have to deal with this. Sometimes it's still worth it. Whether or not it's toxic depends on whether or not you wanted them to take credit for it, or whether it was a surprise.

Not every "idea" that crosses one's mind is worth taking credit for. They are not that great to begin with.
That was alledgedly how the Technical University of Denmark was started by Hans Christian Ørsted after he praised government officials of "their" idea of a polytechnical learning institution.
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I once worked at a place where I would constantly suggest switching to GoLang to solve some performance scaling issues.

I recently got a call from a recruiter asking me if I was interested in a job programming in Go...
I think calling other "big fat liars" is a sad approach to a discourse. I don't know who the "people" you refer to are, so unless you specify that, I can't comment on it. I can't remember making a claim like that

In fact reducing national debt through taxation is an effective way of reducing inflation. Reducing national debt does not mean the economy will fail.

The economy is not a binary system ("success", "fail"), so the more interesting question to me, is whether Sweden's economy would have done better if they had chosen a different economic policy
This seems like a feature to me
The developer in me doesn’t disagree, but it does lead to a significant amount of inbound leads that would have been lost otherwise (We tested it).

Our market is marketers though, not technical people - if it were, I suspect the results would differ.
Thank you. I knew this at some level but this (amazing) animation of HIV got me on a track of thinking that the viruses have a mechanism for exiting the cell without destroying it:

https://vimeo.com/260291607
I built a Tinder-like matchmaking app where users log in with their Facebook account and the app then auto-matches users by their FB likes. I thought taking the hassle out of swiping could give my app an edge over Tinder.

It was working fine for a week or so before Facebook caught up and revoked my API keys (effectively killing the app). They didn't give any reason besides some vague recommendation to review their Terms of Service. A few months later at their F8 developer conference they announced they'll be launching their own matchmaking service which will work pretty the same way I built my app.

Moral of the story: never trust big tech.

P.S. I open sourced the app a few years ago: https://bitbucket.org/stonepillarstudios/workspace/projects/...
Feel free to fork & revive.
This is a great point thank you.
But a guy in India can’t deliver your parcel in Santa Cruz.
I don't claim to have all the answers. But not having a confirmation is not the same as having a refutation.

One thing for sure, a big change will require a long ramp up, or a big shock.
What's the relation in chord progressions between Jazz and Blues? I only read the article quickly so it might be mentioned, but it's odd that the title says "Jazz" and mostly deals with the progressions known as "12 bar blues". A straight 12-bar blues progression would be recognized as "blues" by any listener, so presumably there is something that makes such a progression sound more like jazz than blues. But what is it? Is it through the number of tweaks added, such as more "jazzy" chords like 9/11/13 chords? Is there something else that distinguishes jazz from blues in a 12 bar progression?

Edit: I found an explanation here:
https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/71149/how-can-you-...
Another thing to consider : more and more single-use items also have processors and electronics in them. At what point will disposable electronics have more processing power than, say, the Apollo flight computer?

A couple of examples that I've noticed :

There's a sports good store near here where they attach some form of RFID tag to each item (including individual protein bars), to automate the scanning. That means these are RFID tags intended to be scanned exactly once.

There's also the case of "digital" pregnancy tests, which consist of a regular paper pregnancy test, a processor to read out the results, and an e-ink display to show the results. All of this is included in the single-use disposable predictor stick.
This will sadly ring so many Spaniard bells. I was told, upon giving my first job's two week notice, that I'd never find a better job and that I was wasting a lifetime opportunity.

But that's because employers know mobility is close to none when no one wants to risk moving, so they're emboldened by the asymmetric relation. Fun fact: this was a large consulting company with its own union, aside from the national and local ones. Never heard or saw any of their doings.
I had similar problem few days ago. No threat for life but serious threat for my car - the route suggested was full of very deep holes.

I've just tried to suggest a change, but as it happens often with Google documentation - the description of what to click matches nothing (there's no menu item labelled with the phrase from documentation - I use Polish version).

Edit: found it, but docs are misleading.
In a different universe, I think Microsoft [..] builds “AWS” and “Chrome” around the IIS/IE combination. With reason to abandon the Wintel cash cow, IE may not have been so distastefully bad.

Instead, we would have TCP/IP replaced my Microsoft QUIC(tm), accompanied by a 40,000-page specification riddled with "just to what IIS does" explanations, thereby ensuring no other browser could ever emerge.
You don't! I appreciate the question.

The quick and fuzzy answer is: whatever the community wants it to be :)

My current view follows. In a nutshell:

* The Agora is meant to be a goal-oriented social network specializing in problem solving.

* The first goal of the Agora is to build itself.

* The second goal of the Agora is whatever you (the community) want it to be.

* The Agora seeks to complement and enrich the internet and existing social networks instead of "taking over".

From https://flancia.org/agora:

"You can think of the Agora as a convention based social network; an optional, user-controlled annotation layer that can be applied over any internet platform which supports user-generated content.

I think one of the best possible uses for such a network would be to use it to pro-socially maintain a distributed knowledge graph tailored specifically to the goal of solving problems: those of its users and society at large.

Its users, as a cooperative group, could by default take a naive but rational approach to problem solving:

For each problem in the set P of all problems:
Describe it as thoroughly as possible.
Maintain a set of known or argued possible solutions, S(P).
For each solution in S(P):
Describe it as thoroughly as possible.
Maintain a set of resources (people, time, attention, money) needed to implement it, R(S).

Individual users could also declare their views on the state of the world explicitly: they define which subsets of P, S and R they agree with, in the sense that they believe they are feasible, true, interesting.

Users that agree on their defined subsets can then efficiently collaborate on solutions as they become available by pooling of resources.

We apply some good old recursivity and seed the Agora with the problem of how to build itself. That is, how to build a system that allows participating users and entities to collaborate optimally in the face of adversity (such as biases, irrationality and even actual ill intent)1.

The Agora should be built on a federated protocol to limit the harmfulness of diasporas. Groups might temporarily diverge in their views enough to want to run separate Agoras, but different Agoras should be able to cooperate on problems and solutions for which there is enough ideological alignment, and eventually merge."
I guess it all depends on your definition of "collapse". I would describe a situation where hospitals are overloaded to the point where they have to choose who gets to live and who has to die a collapse.

Sources in English are harder to come by about this, but for example in spring when Stockholm's ICU beds were at full capacity it is implicit that people with better prognosis had to be prioritized. Seniors with severe cases of corona were instead given morphine and sent to die in care homes:

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/skarp-kritik-eft...

Nothing like this happened in Sweden's neighboring countries with more cautious COVID approach because ICU beds so far never reached full capacity. In a modern Nordic welfare state denying a dying person of care that could save their life is not only a complete failure of the health care system but also a crisis of moral values. I am not sure the Swedish public is yet ready to even admit the latter crisis.