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I haven't tried them yet, but to my understanding this is a key selling feature of AirPods.

Any chance anyone knows how successful these are at noise cancellation (without the use of music to drown out said noise)?
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How Dangerous Are the New Covid Variants?
Nice post, but what does that have to do with the Human Genome Project?
I'm always surspised that we're still arguing about this.

Look at the excess mortality in Belgium:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...

Supposedly, that's with the percentage of Covid cases still in the single digits. It seems obvious that if you do not get a handle on this, your healthcare system will be overwhelmed eventually. No sane person wants to see that happen, hence the drastic measures...
What you call "enemy" is, in this case, simply a fully independent nation. That is, one free to have goals and strategies that put its interest first. What you call "allies" are subordinate nations, free to pursue their own interest as long as it doesn't conflict with the interest of the US. The US are a perfectly independent nation. So is China.
Maybe try some screenshots that imply the target use cases?

IE:

Why would I use this when I have a profile on LinkedIn?

Why would I use this when I could just put a resume up on my website?
There are better and worse parts in each system. Not everyone is in solitary confinement or 22hr per day in cell. The worst parts of all 3 are bad.
Yes. To abuse mathematical language, the first-order effects of the exorbitant privilege are very positive for the US. Some negative second-order effects are arguable (strategic capacity / robustness); some are reminiscent of your typical third-world lobbying for a kind of state capitalism. Then, this has beneficiaries and losers.

"Good jobs" in particular is such specious rhetoric.
If GitHub isn't synonymous with open source, what is?
I am pretty confident that negentropy has inherent value. Relative to a particular person or entity on short timescales it may have negative economic value but averaged over all possible economic transactions it's almost always the case that available energy can be transformed into something that someone/something wants.

You just have to look at natural ecosystems to see the reality of this; almost anywhere there's an energy gradient creating a niche there's some lifeform taking advantage of the situation.
There was an interesting comment made on the recent "Bio Eats World" episode [0] that genetic tests are not aligned with health care reimbursement cycles.

Jorge Conda [0] cited two reasons that genome sequencing (Different from 23andMe's GWAS, for example). First he cited the high upfront cost to buy the machines (Usually meaning you need to be a big hospital). The second fact was a bit more interesting, which is that doing one expensive test (Genome sequencing) which then your health care provider could do cheap queries against ("Which other users have your symptoms and similar mutations in key genes" for example) does not align with the current billing model.

I think that's the "What's next". Finding a way to effectively bring genomic care to the general population, to allow for better research into genetic conditions. If you're interested in how "big" this can be, here's a case where "This American Life" covered how just a few genetic differences was the difference between an olympic athlete and a muscular dystrophy patient [2].

There's also the bio-terrorism and pandemic response angle, which is why the DoD is investing in third-generation sequencing systems where portability has finally become more of a priority.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knome
[1] https://a16z.com/bio-eats-world-podcast/ (About 13 minutes in)
[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/muscular-dystrophy-patien...
Donald Knuth also has two nice chapters in "Digital Typography".
Watch Tesla's Full Self-Driving navigate from SF to LA with (almost) no help
Hardware manufacturers have a ton of additional labor needed to produce things. The engineers can't all be paid 200k+ or they'll bleed the company dry. The highest margins are realized in markets with the lowest overhead. That's where everybody shifted to.
I thought these technologies are still early and in the research phase. That would make sense for them to operate in stealth mode. Tesla sells vehicles to the public (and let's be real, Elon is a big PR department). Are these companies producing useful products currently? It seems that you're implying that they are and that we (me) aren't aware of them, so I'm curious if you could expand on this and enlighten us. I do know investors are dumping a ton of money into bio-tech, just not aware of products that are being sold.
>Last year I have built three products right from ideation, branding, design, development and launch.

What's the outcome? If you've done it for companies, you can ask for recommendation "letters of recommendation". They're written by your clients clearly state the impact and outcomes you produced for their business. They're useful to include in the package you send to future clients.

>- Does companies need a person like me? I mean they might want to experiment on a new product idea. Instead of hiring or allocating a team for it. I can help them build their MVP in the quickest way possible for a reasonable amount of money.

There certainly is a need, although projects don't die for lack of good design or front-end generally, but for failing to nail down the problems, jumping directly to solutions, and not getting the scope right. Basically, it's cool that you are a strong designer and a strong front-end developer, but I think these will amplify your ability to help them nail down the problem and scope of the product or prototype.

>- If so will they be willing to pay like $50k-$75k for 2-3 months of work?

Companies are willing to pay that and more, but it depends what they're paying that for. If you're selling outcomes, peace of mind, and make problems disappear, then if you don't make that at first, you will if you deliver. It pays to deliver. Repeat business with large organizations is pretty good once you're reliable.

Caveat emptor: we make custom, turn-key, machine learning products for large enterprise. The front-end/webapp is included in the package, it has never been the whole package. YMMI.

>- Have anyone doing this already? How we name these roles? Contract MVP Builders?

Consultant? There are many scenarios: one scenario is the client organization doesn't have someone to do it, in which you can fit right in. One other scenario is the client organization does have people who can do it, but they're in way over their heads with a lot of work, and you'll either be augmenting that team or you'll work in your corner with interactions depending on your mission and how what you're building interacts with what's existing.

>How can we approach this?

Do you have a company? Here's a mini-blueprint[0].

- [0]: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...
There's a lot of mental gymnastics people will do to not admit the only reason why anyone ever outsources anything: the labor is cheaper.

Postage & Logistics are already robust industries in the UK.
Looks great! Could you share details about your stack? Would live to learn more about it.
Thanks! Ah yeah, sounds like it could have been a weird connection and failed to load the rest of the page.
>Most tech companies are not in right to work states, so I'd have to go along with the contract.

Most tech companies are located in California, which is a right to work state.
That masks are scientifically shown to do anything. They are more superstition at this point. You can look at numbers between regions with high mask usage and low mask usage and there's literally no correlation.

Meanwhile they are contributing massive amounts of plastic waste, textile waste, and provide a placebo while also providing alienation between individuals.

The larger factor that correlates is population density. Low population areas around the US rarely impose mass mandates and they also don't have high numbers.

Lastly, hypothesis: people who are convinced of the merits of a masks are also likely to murder the people in the other room in the Stanly Milgram experiments.
Why would I want a measure that is more damaging than the virus ?
> Contractors still have employers, you know.

This is true for vendors, but direct 1099 contractors are self employed.
> You bring up a good point, however, which is that we _could_ use open source, non-centralized alternatives for many of the online products we consume, but we choose not to, and so we increasingly become slaves to corporations that actively seek to narrow our choices.

That doesn't happen for no reason. The vast majority of open source products I've used have terrible usability. I simply don't want to use them. I don't want to be beholden to corporations and walled gardens, but for me, the existing alternatives are worse in too many ways.
> people with retirement portfolios and paid-off houses

That's definitely not everyone.
Waiting for the working from your toilet piece to come out
Disagree strongly. An IFR of 0.6% when considered across the entire population is indeed cause for much more alarm than one of 0.02%. It is very relevant.

0.6% of the population in the USA, for instance, would mean about 2 million people would be killed by uncontrolled and massive COVID-19 spread.

Focusing down to small subgroups would only be relevant if you have a magic wand and could, for instance, seal off all over-60 year olds from human society for a year.

P.S. the paper you cited is by John Ioannidis. He has become notorious in 2020 attempting to prove Covid-19 isn’t very dangerous. Worth consideration as this version has managed to pass peer review, but keep in mind it’s outside the mainstream of opinion. IMO, the 0.2% estimate is pretty clearly low and I’ve read a good debunking of that specific paper in the past. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1316511734115385344.html
2 days to determine what the Moderna vaccine should be from a computer. Building the vaccine, bio-reacting it to scale and testing across appropriate populations took a considerable amount of time. Health regulations are in place for a reason, to protect the public not to protect incumbents. Sometimes I am sure it does, other times it makes sure poor products don't go into the public market.
Which open source solutions never go down?
The other unions are even harder to get into. At least occasionally a casting director will insist on a non-SAG actor. Many of the other unions are effectively impossible to get into except via their apprenticeship programs. Similar to the physician cartel ...
The difference is primarily the fact that the crap content promoted by ads pays Facebook's bills.
A year or so ago I was looking into a bunch of FB bot accounts that were used for commercial spam purposes, and at the time many of those fake sockpuppets were also systematically forwarding 5G conspiracy theories among multiple other things - these things seemed so unrelated that my best guess was that this particular network of accounts was just used to boost whoever was paying with many unrelated paying customers.

So at least some part of the visible "anti-5G crowd" is not actual people but just paid astroturfed propaganda, though I struggle to imagine who would be paying for that and why.
NOIDS is an outbreak detection program. The idea is if a primary care doctor suspects someone has something important and unexpected, like Cholera or Polio, they can let the disease control authorities know so they they can be on the lookout for outbreaks. It's an early warning system.

During a giant epidemic, no primary care doctor is detecting a new covid outbreak and reporting that up the chain as though thats new information - not when people are told to get tested outside primary
care and aren't allowed to come into primary care with covid symptoms and tens of thousands are testing positive each day and have known covid cases. There's just no reason to do that. So NOIDS numbers are meaningless for Covid. But if covid recedes, then the system is in place for detecting future outbreaks.
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That’s awesome. Are yoga mats dissipative? Is this like a poor man’s ESD mat (figuratively speaking, not trying to imply that you’re poor)?
So there's also a generational divide. This isn't a good thing.
This [1] is a useful summary of statistics comparing the current situation to that of Spring and earlier years. It’s interesting to see that the total number of hospitalised people and deaths are broadly in line with previous years, but the portion tagged as COVID is increasing. There’s lots of discussion around the issues with PCR testing (e.g. picking up old virus fragments & false positives). Difficult to know what to believe but there seems to be a lack of studies/data to back up the accuracy, and the NHS have recently switched to using Lateral Flow devices for regular staff testing due to the volume of asymptomatic staff being require to isolate.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7cUVU6o28QeIil__fQyqntQcYK...
I expect Bitcoin to affect monetary systems in a way similar to how FOSS changed software.

My opinion is neither of those is a religion. The development of Bitcoin in particular sounds more like following the scientific method to me, but you're entitled to your own interpretation.
Can you provide source for these numbers?
It depends, but probably not.
The main benefit would be transportation/logistics, but intercontinental freight shipping is pretty cheap and fast (especially China -> USA).
Assuming equivalent machine costs (Chinese firms can potentially get government backed deals from to local & international vendors), equivalent financing (subsidized loans are common in China), equivalent operating costs (rent in the US is ridiculously expensive), equivalent labor costs (you still need skilled technicians to operate, maintain & repair the machines, and China has a much larger pool of labor), and equivalent access to input materials (the supply chain is mostly in China/East Asia, so it is often cheaper and faster to source components in Asia than in North America), then yes it would make sense from a cost perspective to reshore operations to the USA. Given that none of these conditions are met, and given that American firms are ideologically committed to their balance sheet it seems unlikely that there is much will to make any changes here.
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So if I trade fifty $100 cars for a $5,000 car, my income need to be taxed also? How does that work?

What if I transfer from a Bitcoin wallet to another Bitcoin wallet?
Tesla made half a million electric cars in 2020
I was about to comment the same. The parent saying “not just the elites have benefited” is ignorant.

https://money.com/stock-ownership-10-percent-richest/
In [0] it states that 2020 is an average year in deaths, but only writes exact numbers for different quarters. In [1] it shows averages for the previous years in numbers summing while years up.

I’m getting HTTP error 500 (iOS safari from a Swedish domestic IP) when going to the statistics database - idk if it’s just me or if they deployed something buggy recently. Can therefore only find articles atm, but they are still from the government statistics bureau source.

The first paragraph of [0] says “Den ökande spridningen av coronaviruset i samhället syns ännu inte i antalet dödsfall i Sverige, visar preliminär statistik från SCB” which is English is “The growing spread of Coronavirus in the community is not yet showing any change in the number of deaths in Sweden, shows preliminary statistics from the (government) central bureau of statistics” and I think that states it rather clear.

I do believe you argue in good faith though and welcome corrections - although I still believe in principle it is not right to hinder free people from living free.
Gathering is a basic human right:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

There is no reason stated. There is no exception for "virus." Human rights laws were not written for fair weather. They were written for crisis and disaster.
Old comment, but worth a reply.

> Your starting point is a lot on individual virtue, and bad apples crowding out the good. I don't disagree that some researches are better and some are worse, but I think that any "cure" is going to be gamed and worse than the disease.

I don't think that there will be any cure, just a change in available resources that changes the number of projects that get funding. Of course people will game it, but the people who dole out the cash will be more selective if there is less cash to dole.

>> but the largest will be that as funding becomes a scarce resource, a higher curation of both researchers and topics will come into effect

> Do you have any evidence of this? I disagree in the strongest of terms. By my reckoning, curation, preventation, and other "forsight-drive" work is persistently undervalue by our society and economy. The nastiness that will accompany shrinking funding as research groups fight for short-term survival will only make that worse.

There isn't any evidence of events that haven't occured yet. There is logical and historical support, as hundreds of years of economics have shown that market systems tend to optimize around the scarcest resources.

>> but the largest decrease in research will be those that are bullshit

> Why would those who are the best at gaming incentives now loose that skill?

They wouldn't lose that skill, but as there will be fewer research projects funded, more scrutiny will go into which projects get the funding. Sure, some will still game the system, but it will require more work, and more luck, so proportionally fewer will get funded.

>> It's been happening for years, centuries, as a basic economic cycle, and looks something like this: _/T\_/T\_/T\

> So after centuries of Byzantine decline, there is new group of lean and mean Greek Constantinopolitan bureaucrats?

Now you're just being silly... You're saying that the Institution of research will fall, rather than self correct? We'll just give up on scientific research and just... Hang out or something?

> I dunno what history you are reading, but the good actors never outlive the broken system and get the last laugh in mine.

It depends on the system. There have been years with drought, but people haven't given up on farming. Systems only fail when they are unsupported or unnecessary, and Institutional research is neither of those.
Grandma, do you see that on the left? oh it's not there? Oh, never mind. Every change kills the time value of habit.
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I don't think I'm missing that point.

Once the technical debt is so deep that bankruptcy seems like a good option, digging out is also not a great option. It's certainly possible now if it wasn't then; people like Michael Feathers have done great work charting paths out of an accumulation of garbage code. But at the time of JWZ's resignation letter, Martin Fowler's book Refactoring had been out for all of 3 months.

In particular, Netscape was faced with a choice: they could either do a total rewrite quickly, or take much longer to do a slow rewrite while still pushing forward, but at a much reduced development speed. That's fine if you're some large enterprise in a stable field with a solid revenue stream. But a startup competing in the then-fast-evolving world of the Internet? Competing against the monopolistic giant of Microsoft, who was desperate to dominate the space?

There's little reason to think a slow cleanup would have been any better than a fast rewrite for Netscape. Especially if their solution involved open-sourcing things, which a) requires a non-awful code base, and b) reduces the pace of refactoring and cleanup. So I think it's fair to say that either way Netscape was killed by technical debt.
The one solution with PLANED downtime.
This plan has been in effect in most of California for a long time. I had to spend 45 minutes negotiating with them to get rid of this cap for my account. Otherwise the official option is to pay an extra flat fee every month to avoid the cap.
> So why would he pardon Assange, who was not even accused of a crime?

What do you mean why? To prevent literally what is happening right now, and to make it impossible for any US government agency to ever prosecute either Assange or Snowden.

Thats why! Because he is subject to an extradition request. All of that could have been prevented, with a pardon.

This is Kafkaesque levels of reasoning here. Literally what was predicted was going to happen, did indeed happen.

And every justification for "Well, why would you pardon someone who is not being arrested", is literally proven wrong, because this is what ended up happening! The current state of Assange is the proof and the reason why everyone who was arguing against a pardon were wrong.

> Obama repeatedly stated he would not pardon anyone not convicted of a crime

Yes, because he wanted those people to be sent to jail. Because of the efforts that he was doing to get them sent to jail. Thats why. Obama could have stopped all this stuff from happening, but he didn't. Thats the evidence.
It's exactly my point. Outside of Apple, all the biggest tech firms are 100% reliant on a form of income that is, at best, partially fraudulent. More realistically, almost entirely so.
I share the lament of the GP comment. It seems like it would better if there was hardware engineering and engineers weren't paid 200k+. That the market has shifted seems like a failure of the economic system.
Not sure which outage was bigger and affected more services, but 2020 and seems like 2021 would be the same for aws like for all of us and multi cloud will be a must
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