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> Brexit and Trump-won were both driven by engines of disinformation.

Is that true or are you a victim of disinformation yourself? How do you know they would have lost had it not been for "engines of disinformation"? I'm not saying there wasn't disinformation used to promote them, but did they win because of it or despite it?
> Then make that possible. I live in Japan, I choose the hospital/clinic/doctor that I see, for everything.

I don’t believe you will be choosing which hospital you go to if you’re unconscious, or facing a serious acute medical concern placing you in desperation. Coincidentally, those tend to be the times when costs also skyrocket.

—

The issue with treating healthcare like a free market is that some people just won’t get healthcare. Free markets aren’t going to build a hospital in a small enough town because the cost can’t be justified.

Your point that the US outranks most other countries is perhaps true for some things, but completely false for baseline measures such as infant mortality, life expectancy, cost per capita, etc. As a country the US can sometimes pull ahead on specialized care in part because of a prevalence of supporting technology compared to other countries, and I’ll grant that. But our system is hardly “better” than other developed nations on almost any objective measure.
I think this problem is almost nonexistent in Ruby.

If you're inlining your block as a literal do-end block on the call site, it's just a matter of knowing what kind of data you're calling the block-taking method on. So blocks are kinda different.

If you're designing a more intricate piece of code to be used repeatedly by a 'map' or 'reduce' (like in the example), nothing is preventing you from defining a lambda instead of proc. And nothing is preventing you from designing your library so that it exposes only arity-checking lambdas to the outside.

But it's also quite usual to define callbacks as plain old methods (e.g. Rails before and after actions).
Methods can be easily used as a block by getting the actual Method object first with the 'method' method, then using the & syntax to automatically convert them to a proc (e.g. map(&method(:foobar)) which again, converts them to arity-checking lambdas.
The OP should read about senescent cells & how they relate to cancer & metastasis.

Maybe there are trials ongoing to prevent relapses in some higher tech sort of way.

Best of luck.
I agree. I started my notes on this under the heading "callbacks" but ended up under "functions". The article could be titled "Pass arrow functions and partials, not objects you don't control."
How do I join? I was not a robinhood client but their clear manipulation of the stock prices caused my positions to be obliterated.
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You are right. People are affected very differently by lockdown, and that creates (almost by definition) divergent viewpoints. The whole thing is exasperated by isolation from one another, making opposing viewpoints seem even more alien than usual. News and social media amplify the most obnoxious versions of any position, and we don't have normal contact with normal people to bring us back to earth.

That said, covid is being exploited, politically, by some very shady actors. We're already at a boiling point with social media's takeover of politics. We already failed to notice the dead canaries in more politically unstable countries. The arab spring, Myanmar. The hardest part is discerning the emergent malign effects of this from coordinated attacks... for which cambridge analytica is now emblematic.

It's quite literally a rage machine, and it is dangerous. The legitimate discussion have been hijacked. The point of many anti-lockdown movements, especially at this point, is the "movement" itself. Lockdown is going to go away. These movements are not.
And yet tons of people are migrating to states like Idaho from states where marijuana is legal.
On the whole lockdown.

If we had culled the over 65s in March, the economy could function just fine, hospitals would be mostly empty, and while younger people would get covid and might even need hospital treatment, it would be a very low level. The IFR for 45-65s is 1 in 300, for 25-45s it's 1 in 3000, and 15-25s 1 in 30,000.

But that would be a barbaric approach.

The main beneficierays of lockdowns are the over 65s, who as a generation

1) Have the most wealth

2) Have no income

The main losers of lockdowns are the younger people who have

1) Very little wealth

2) Years of income to pay

The cost of lockdowns should therefore come from the beneficiaries, the ones who are the wealthiest, can afford it, and who benefit the most

The cost of lockdowns will actually come from government spending though, which is primarilly funded by income related tax
That's true in general but I'd be very surprised if an inhaled rather than injected vaccine that didn't use any adjuvants or live virus was going to cause a serious problem.
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I always considered Chromium to be a sort of castrated Chrome, now it's even more apparent than ever.
Wow, I didn't know that story.

Their idea wasn't really right, so I'm not sure why you are saying that. In fact, it seems to me their idea was absolutely and totally wrong, now and then. Its not at all what oil companies are doing.

Tesla has clearly shown that a charging network doesn't make nearly enough money to subsidies cars. In fact the opposite is true, car sales finance the charging network.

Battery swapping, out-side of a single luxury brand in China has also seen very little adoption. So that part of the idea was also wrong.

Seem like 'Better Place' was literally getting everything thing possible wrong.
Do you have a quote for this? This is the first I’m hearing of it and a simple search online doesn’t pull anything up.
Saving is an interesting viewpoint given

1. Excess deaths are high after lockdown measures

2. These deaths are no longer explained by covid 19 death counts

I know tons of people who have relapsed, regressed, and are just generally unwell at this point. .3% of my Facebook friends have made a suicide attempt since lockdowns began.

The longer this goes on, the more dramatic these incidents are going to become.
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> genuinely-held concerns about the costs vs benefits

Very few of them are honestly saying "we should accept another few hundred thousand dead in order to keep the restaurants open". They're just lying about the costs.
> Brexit and Trump-won were both driven by engines of disinformation.

If by disinformation you mean leftist disinformation, then we can agree on that.

Both were rational decisions by half the populations.

Eurocrats are odious, and lower-income Americans need a wall.

Stop pretending you speak for half the population - that's what elitism is, and when have American elitists ever been right about anything?
Glad to see an an article pointing out the writing on the wall and not yet censored by the ministry of Truth. Unfortunately timing is everything.

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

~ George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Who also seems to be a graphics artist with beautiful 3d animations of the heist.
Not everything is attributable to Trump... Had friends priced out of NJ (high cost blue state) moved to DC area (lower cost , for now, state).
Many things can't be said publicly. But here, publicly, I can say that AWS is certainly the lesser of two evils, in relation to choosing your IT Infrastructure provider. Doesn't mean you have to be 100% running on AWS; but there's almost always a decent double digit percentage of workloads that you can wisely move to AWS.
This hard right party managed to get a vaccine program started while the left wing EU were quibbling over details.

Thank God for hard right parties.
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Well, if you’re talking homemade vaccines, depending on your age and underlying conditions it could easily be that.
So when I look up `toReadableNumber(num, base = 10)` in the current library documentation and pass it binary 11001010, in your codebase I get '11,001,010' instead of 202.
Yep that‘s it. Most of the javascript world is very open to beginners and not that worried about being strictly technically correct, when it doesn‘t really matter. A callback is pretty much any function that you pass as an argument.
It‘s still not as much a programming language community as it is a website making community.
That train has left the station long ago. Killing EV was something feasible 20 years ago. Today the amount of investment and capability of the players involved is on a whole different level.

The oil companies couldn't stop Tesla or VW if they tried.
Trump's 4 year term is a convincing argument that people realised they'd been lied to. As is the rolling up of the people who stormed the capitol over disinformation.
You'll notice, I hope, from my comments that I've never said retribution wasn't an element. What I've been arguing is that it isn't and shouldn't be the principal component in modern justice.

An anecdote that frames my thinking: the most recent crime I've suffered was when I've been assaulted on the street - bikejacked, in fact, pulled off my motorcycle at a stop light by one hoodlum, kicked in the head (though helmeted), while another rode off on my bike. In the moment, there's anger at the perpetrators. But more than that, I feel pity; pity that their lives are so empty that the only way they see to get their kicks is to do this kind of thing.

They should suffer consequences (i.e. a deterrent), sure, but I don't really want retribution. Revenge wouldn't have brought back my bike (I'd put months of work into that bike, getting it back on the road, but when the bike was recovered it had been crashed into a parked car). It certainly wouldn't have made me feel safer on the road; if anything, it would have made the us (well paid) vs them (aimless, hopeless poor youth) dichotomy worse, not better.

As it turned out, the London police are much worse than the hoodlums. Didn't get a line-up of faces until more than 4 months after the fact, long after any hope of remembering anything. I have a lot more anger at the police than I do at those hoodlums.

I want that kind of crime to no longer be a risk. That requires a systematic solution, not a point fix of retribution, which I don't want - I don't and didn't want those kids' lives ruined. They'll just do even worse things.

I can imagine different crimes where retribution and revenge might play a larger part in the emotions of the victim. I think those crimes are a small minority of total crime, and even then justice is and needs to be rational, not emotional. Revenge, as a reaction, overreacts. Justice needs to be balanced. So I'm not sure it can be a principal component even for that minority of crime.

Turn the other cheek; violence begets violence; etc. But some people seem to use the word "justice" and mean "revenge".
How is the EU left wing? Most governments in the EU are conservative and so is the head of the EC.
A few years ago there was a somehow public trend saying there was an epidemic of over diagnosis. People would have more medical exams like colonoscopy and would get treatment over the simplest signs and the effects were not good.

I don't know how true it is, but it may explain why docs in general refuse to go too early on exams.
I think you're being a bit melodramatic.

It's a request, not a demand. And this project's maintainer is being more upfront than other projects.
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Servu is still being used in the wild??? 1998 called and wants its tech back.
They are, bizarrely, hard-right these days; they pivoted straight round the horseshoe in the mid-90s. Claire Fox is now a baroness, which tells you exactly how revolutionary or communist she is.
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Those were the dayze.
In retrospect they should have called it the toiletpaper effect.
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Very cool you have Ruby gems.. gonna try it
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In the UK the older generation also voted for Brexit; so I am still surprised no one in politics made the argument for “let them then die during COVID as they didn’t seem to think about youth when they were voting for Brexit”.
And yet for decades serious CLI tools are being written in POSIX shell, Bash, Zsh, Awk, Tcl, Perl, Ruby, Python, and no one really complained about speed until now, when hardware is so fast, finally people are starting to notice slow startup times??? C'mon. Python is not Java.
That does not entitle them to lie to us without consequense.
At the end you can download a PDF. I must say I prefer that over the slow web page.

To be honest I always leave a page immediately if it's way too fancy, especially when stuff starts moving and fading, I simply hate it.
Same here, page up/down almost works, but misses text, gave up.
That's pretty much it, but it fuzzes the code rather than data.
You're right midcaps are unfavored and cheap. They are in fewer indices and funds tend not to benchmark against midcaps.

But I don't think this has anything to do with cash piles at large cap firms.
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Ahh, I bet this tech will be first used to add one more layer for Big Brother surveillance, and maybe if there is something else to be squeezed from it will be used for medical purposes as the article envision. Hold on to your horses because it's gonna get worse first without knowing if will ever be better after.
It's interesting that, under the given assumptions, you can put such tight bounds on the frequency of origination of grabby aliens.

The assumption that seems most unlikely is that civilizations will simply stop expanding when they encounter another one. Even if most civilizations would stop, a single aggressive one would quickly dominate. Especially under the assumption that they can expand at a large fraction of the speed of light, a defender would have little ability to organize a defense before being overrun.
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Electronic noses are a recurrent thought of mine. Aplications would be countless. Now, the prospect of using mice noses and then scan their brains as a shortcut feels wrong, like, animal slavery wrong. I know, these are lab mices, and we are eating millions of animals everyday, and so on, still, can't avoid the feeling. Imagine the device; air flows to a chamber filled with electrode implanted mice, the software analizes the signal and prints, in paper, a results reports. Rick & Morty league.
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There's money in it. An entire alternate world where you can say what you like without regard to the facts on the ground.
Why don't you use cURL then? cURL is written in C, which sure is teh performance you're looking for.
He never said it.

> "As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life," Mr Obama said.
>But he added that in terms of its impact on the individual consumer "I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol".
Actually, that's what I use inline types in kotlin for.

So username, password are distinct from string and objectid might be backed by an int, but is distinct from int.

Obviously, once compiled, there's no overhead, it's a zero cost abstraction. But an incredibly useful one.
Once the cutting has started the company is unlikely to have set the morale/team/event budget large enough to support go kart outings. That or the entire years budget would be gone at once.
If you understand logic, at the level which you claim, then you should know that "logically consistent" has no correspondence with "correct".

An "intelligent, logically consistent argument", as you say, can be plainly wrong or irrelevant.

The underlying claim that "Asian" and "redhead" are exactly analogous seems dubious to me and I disagree with that, although I can agree that it is also unfortunate that the word "redhead" is banned by this filter.
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From the description it sounds like this will effectively be an SBC in a laptop case. Is anyone aware of such a thing? I would certainly be keen on a laptop "enclosure" for an SBC.

EDIT: found a bunch here, but they feel a bit clunky to my eyes: https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/the-best-raspberry-pi...
How do you feel about adding arguments to a "single object as named arguments that is destructured in function declaration"? I can also always come up with something that breaks, but seems pretty safe.

add({a:2, b:4})

function add({a, b}) {
return a + b
}

function _add({a, b, multiplier = 1}) {
return a+b*multiplier
}

challenge: come up with a breaking use that does not involve something having a property named "multiplier"
For any Python users, there's a library that automates mutation testing by parsing the AST: https://github.com/EvanKepner/mutatest
Ask HN: C++17/C++20 example projects with good style?
Hi HN!

I'm reading A tour of C++ (for the second time). I'm also busy working on my application. What I'm noticing is that I have no clue about code style, build systems or anything else outside of that book. If I don't know about it, you can bet that it is hacked together.

I'm mentioning both C++ versions because I've noticed that C++20 features aren't complete, and some features are not well received either (e.g. modules). So I'm doubting if I should learn C++20 for now.

So do you know of any good example projects that show some good stylistic sense C++17/C++20? And I know that people code differently, but trust me, they aren't coding it like I am right now (e.g. .cpp files only, a hacked together build with Meson and benchmark code that have 10ms of test setup bias -- I just discovered that).
That’s why it wasn’t clever.
The browser is unlikely to be a target for writing games it is crippled as a medium for playing games, or as you put it in a "more clunky way".

> The younguns who were writing browser-based Flash games in 2004, are writing mobile games today, and the browser is not a popular gaming target anymore (with some exceptions here and there).

Don't those games have to be sold though app stores where Google and Apple take their 30% cut?

On the question of a "more clunky way", how come 10 years after Flash was banned, despite improvements in hardware performance, HTML/JS capabilities and development tools have not evolved to surpass Flash?

Could that be because the companies that control the apps stores are the same ones in charge of the HTML/JS standards, and even neglect to implement some of the standards when they might make games and animation development "less clunky"?
A great idea for a science-fiction novel.

Just imagine if that happened to become true one day. Some people would have to come up with secrets they exchange, as to make themselves unique to the other person, because there might be clones running around.
And all the art and music would either not exist or be somehow supported by society. Society would have to learn, that we need to support what we like, or else the makers of it could not live from it.
Would the system of money still work? Would we have different forms for economies unlike capitalism? How would greed work?
People believe in what it’s more comfortable to believe in. COVID being a hoax means that lockdown is unjustified and that also means all of their issues would go away: no sitting at home, going back to work.

It’s not about internal conflict, it’s about a pipe dream where it all goes away.

And on a practical level I would think many people would prefer a double-digit probability of dying from COVID while working rather than a few years spent in financial limbo due to lockdowns. So at this point COVID being a hoax becomes way less black-and-white: maybe it being a hoax is just a way to say that “I would rather take the risk, and the hoax here is that you are vastly overestimating the fear of death in population”

PS: I am not saying it’s a hoax, I am giving a reasonably plausible pattern of thought behind the mechanism justifying it being a hoax.
You could also look at this from another perspective: teach prisoners coding so we have another source of desperate and obedient just-barely-competent tech grunts to swamp our actual experts and turn them into babysitters and quality control while in turn driving down their wages.
No, actually 2-dimensional vectors and 2-dimensional complex numbers are completely distinct entities. The same is true about 3-dimensional vectors and quaternions and the same is true in higher dimensions.
The short explanation is that vectors describe additions (i.e. translations), while complex numbers (and their higher dimensional analogs) describe multiplications (i.e. scaling and rotations).

The nature of vectors, pseudovectors, complex numbers, quaternions etc. can be understood only in the context of the theory of geometric algebras.
For example, an element of a 2-dimensional geometric algebra has 4 components (2^2). 2 components form a vector and the other 2 form a complex number. Similarly, the 8 components of an element of a 3-dimensional geometric algebra are partitioned into a quaternion, a 3-dimensional vector and the last element, which is a pseudoscalar.

The confusion is increased by the fact that the word "vector" is used with 2 different meanings. The original, physical and etymological, meaning is that a vector is a translation of an affine space. This is almost always the meaning of "vector" in physics.
Many mathematicians also use the word "vector" for the elements of linear spaces a.k.a. vector spaces.

The "vectors" of the second meaning have only a subset of the properties of the "vectors" of the first meaning, i.e. only the properties that can be derived from the axioms of a vector space.
The complex numbers and the quaternions, octonions etc. are "vectors" in the second meaning, but they are not "vectors" in the first meaning, i.e. in the original physical meaning.
There was a cat named Oscar in the Steere House nursing home in Providence, RI, who was kind of a jerk. However, he had one incredible power. The advanced dementia ward where he lived had numerous sick patients. Sometimes, He would jump onto one of their beds. Sure enough, hours later, that patient would die. He had a remarkable record, over 20 cases in a row were predicted correctly.

It must've been smell, he sensed the deterioration from biochemical signals. Why he liked to be around death, I don't know, cats are strange!
At least one of the possible instigators, a financial advisor, is under investigation: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/gamestop-red...
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Will just "right wing" then be a good way to describe most EU governments, or "soft right wing"?
Not to be mixed with the Rust version of `cat` (but with wings): https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/
Heads up, I get a page titled "Divya's Page Landing Tests ..." When I reach your website through Google ads.

Very cool though. I would have loved this for my grandfather when he was still going places a few years ago.
Unless you can show that any such person exists, you're just making them up. Even if they do exist, what's wrong with being opposed to a government imposed dress code while also having your own personal preference for how you like people to dress?