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> All the external things that money buys tend to not provide lasting happiness, and there you are stuck with yourself. We all die.

I think this varies. I've had my fair share of purchases that made no difference and I'd probably not repeat if given the opportunity. But I also have a good number of purchases that made a significant difference in the quality of my life.

Honestly, I LOVE (love, love love) being a homeowner. Cheaper than rent and I can customize to my hearts content.

Spent 40k on a porch 3 years ago, and I don't really have any regrets - We knew we wanted it, we knew it would make a lot of things easier (pet care, laundry, chest freezer access) and it's a great spot to just sit and enjoy myself.

Plus, it's on a house I intend to own until I die - not because I plan to live here forever, but because I bought an affordable place where the numbers for renting it work with my mortgage. So for now, my wife and I will enjoy it, in 5 years we'll either still be enjoying it or it will be adding to the monthly rent the place can pull.

We're in the middle of spending about 55k on a bathroom remodel with a similar expected return - We get to enjoy it now, and if we decide at some point it's not working for us or we're no longer happy here, it becomes revenue generating.

The flip side of this was my car - I just didn't care at all about what I was driving as long as it could get me from point A to point B with minimal hassle. I have coworkers & family who don't understand why I'm still driving a crappy 94 mazda protege. Doesn't matter how many times I tell them I don't care.

Similar for the lawn - I grew up in a nice neighborhood, and I got to see first hand exactly how expensive lawn care is and how little time most folks actually spent in their yard. Its like a nightmare of keeping up with the joneses - So we bought in a place with no HOA, and we ripped up most of the grass and have put in beds and paths in the front instead.

Some of the neighbors judge us (or complain openly, to our faces) about how the yard looks, but fuck em. Its not their yard, and I'm not spending the time and money to make other folks happy.

And really - I think that's the crux of the issue. If you're doing something because someone else might judge you if you don't, or because someone else did something similar and you want to show off too... then you're probably doing it for the wrong reasons.
Yeah instead of “unit of insulin” he meant “vial of insulin”.

A standard vial of insulin is 10 mL. Generally speaking, the most common concentration of insulin is 100 units per milliliter. So, typically, a standard vial of insulin contains 1,000 units of insulin.
And for the same cash commitment you could have bought 2 - 3 multifamily homes in sane real estate markets that produce $60k - $80k (or more!) net income (rents less management and taxes). You would have diversified your portfolio, lived "free" (i.e. the net is likely about the same as or more than total annual rent in a decent home in the bay area), appreciated somewhat, and positioned yourself for handsome tax deferrals or savings due to depreciation and other strategies.
Which is too simplistic. The UK, the US and the EU depend on their local manufacturing capacity. That capacity is limited, regardless initial delivery schedules were sufficient for herd immunity in the EU around June/July with a significant surplus in Q3/4. That surplus was slated to be shared with developing countries.

Solid plan, solid procurement strategy. But after that procurement, nothing. No coordination of national campaigns with manufacturers, no planning on local and regional level, no operational procurement plan. And the list goes on.
Why is empathy important? I would love to be able to help people without feeling overwhelmed with their issues. Can one just learn to listen and respond accordingly?
True, the EU even waived its right to sue because delivery delays.

"And as POLITICO reported last week, the non-redacted version of the contract shows that the EU also waived its right to sue AstraZeneca in the event of delivery delays."

Quote from this article: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-...
Doesn't Germany have a lot of manufacturing? I thought it was what they were known for.

China's final assembly companies are not the only kind of manufacturing and not the most worthwhile part of it, although Shenzhen is certainly good at electronics.
With them dropping the lowest license tier, you better start using all the features...
We have been Enterprise users since 2015, but are evaluating our options.
> about becoming a more senior business leader is that I feel like I'm changing as a person. I feel like the way I think about problems and people is changing.

Dunno, but this might be the sort of perspective you're seeking: there's a book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes about the culture of managers at large corporations. And a series of posts on it -- I'd start with the one near the top that's just quotes from the book, to see if it's you're after: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/kNANcHLNtJt5qeuSS
This isn't really accurate, though. In most cases there is a large margin of error built into the 4% "safe withdrawal rate" - and that is that the investments "on average" do much better than 4% (easily 5-7% after inflation, in many cases much higher) and that you end up with much more than what you need to withdraw 4%.

The notable exception is called a "sequence of returns risk" (SORR) where either something bad happens in the first few years draining a really large portion of your original savings (more than $10k) and/or the market undergoes a recession during the first few years, and if you withdrew the full 4% from your investments while their value was markedly depressed, you would never recover (without additional income). In my opinion, a proper retirement strategy should account for SORR; some padding (i.e. the wants portion of your budget you can reduce during a lean year), reverse-glide strategy where you can draw from cash/bonds instead of equities in case of depressed value equities, etc. In many cases, this scenario happens so early in retirement that anyone retiring at a younger age has relatively good prospects of rejoining the work force to get to the other side, and then will likely be very well prepared for a second retirement with a decreased likelihood of yet another bad sequence of returns occurring before their nest egg has grown well beyond 25 times annual expenses.

And all retirement plans should be flexible - some years where you might spend a bit less than the target, but have room to change that, particularly if your invested assets grow beyond the original necessary funds.
Project Pockit, a modular ARM computer runnig Linux
Isn't the EVP the strongest block in the EU parliament right now?
Especially considering Contagion was filmed close to 10 years ago...
would love to see Sean Connery impersonating Mike Myers
If it was within a few weeks of the outbreak, then it wasn't likely the cause. As seen in other countries, the # of cases takes a while to ramp up, and it wouldn't go from a release to a couple thousand deaths in such a short time span.
> if you can even get them in a timely fashion

This. Not just materials but parts because of supply chain backups. Oh, and general worker rates. I just had to replace a hot water heater. Big box stores had prices listed (~$1300 but no stock). Plumber wanted to charge $4k for the equipment and installation. Luckily I knew someone who had wholesale accounts, called all over the state, and found one. Then I did the install in ~2 hours. Dealing with that for an entire house, sounds like a terrible experience.
The poor sailor was a bit more hardcore though. Fascinating story
This is a very short list of rejections. In my opinion, anyone who wants to have a successful career these days ought to expect at least an order of magnitude more rejections than this over the course of their career.
Ones good at math and likely to move in a few years?

Buying a house has really high transaction costs. ~6% commission, plus more in fees and taxes. And then once you have the house, you've taken on all the maintenance and price risk. That can make sense if you're staying a long time and want the benefits of ownership. But plenty of people with high-flying jobs know that they may move soon enough that the math doesn't work out.

Personally, I could afford to buy a house, but I never have. I like the freedom, and I really like never having to worry about maintenance, taxes, renovations, and the like.
If the Chinese government had taken this virus seriously from the beginning the world wouldn't be in this situation.
> We can wait another couple of months before our holidays to Blackpool and Stalyvegas

Speak for yourself. I'm not being glib. Compassion is wearing thin. There are anti-lockdown protests all over the UK and EU. There is a limit to how much more the ordinary citizen can endure. If that means that some people have to risk death then perhaps, as awful as it sounds, that may be for the best. They're the ones who should stay at home.

And yes, I do have elderly relatives who are at risk.
cool. i agree, we need to git gud at public health. that notwithstanding, we should also know if this virus was made or not, if we can know, because if it was, that needs to be addressed from a public health policy perspective. imho, natch.
Speculating: since dang is HN's main moderator, there might be some tools built into either HN or HN search that help with those types of lists, possibly related to dupe detection.
A distinction without a difference, since the same people lead both organizations.
Looking forward to the day that Evercrypt[1] becomes a production-ready replacement for libcrypto.

[1] https://hacl-star.github.io/HaclValeEverCrypt.html
I'm not suggesting that either fluid was the pathway by which the virus jumped to humans, nor do I know how it happened, only that evidence suggests researchers interact closely with the animals.

And I am not ready to dismiss the theory but I am always open to hearing evidence to exclude the theory.
Not sure about WWI events but from what I understand WWII did not pose immediate danger to the US and there was no pressing need for them to decide. From what I understand they were even happy to trade with the Germany. Once Pearl Harbor happened it changed the picture.
Synology with Dahua cameras.

https://ipcamtalk.com is the place to go for good info.
Everyone who gets vaccinated is contributing, because you're all preventing the spread. Once it's not spreading, then it might be OK to hold off on shots so that the elderly can get them, but for now as many people should get it as possible.

The US, despite actually doing very well at vaccine distribution, should probably have switched to the one shot for everyone model.
This is one of the advantages of an HMO. In an HMO it’s medical staff making these calls, not random administrators second guessing medical professionals.
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Honestly this is not relevant. My comment was not "what i think happened", it was "your argument is tilted crap". The action allegedly taken is not evidence of guilt, is all I was saying.
What about that article convinced you? All I saw was some concern about safety protocols 2 years before the outbreak, some content free insinuations, and a whole lot of "we don't have any evidence."

It's not a crazy theory by any means, but, if it happened, then there's evidence. So, where is the evidence? Literally, where is there any actual evidence it happened?
Maintain a constant state of suspicious alertness until March 25th.
What you’re saying is all possible. But there’s no evidence to support leak from a lab, and there is a lot of evidence supporting the natural spillover hypothesis. As such, the latter interpretation is more likely to be correct.

For example, there were cases as early as December 2019 that did not come from Wuhan. Wuhan was no doubt a key early hotspot.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market...

There has been rigorous scholarship done on this question. I recommend reading it given your interest in the subject.
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The Netherlands/EU can ban exports of certain items, they can even nationalize factories if they wanted to.

At this point I think it would be the best that they did, pay AZ/pfizer/moderna royalties but just use the military in a WW2 style effort to produce as many dosages possible.
I host my content on other services because I have a full time job, a family, and interests outside of tech. Even though I can do it all myself, what's the point? I get paid well into 6 figures for my tech job. What are the odds my blog will start generating that kind of revenue? Basically zero. And I can talk about things I actually do create on my blog, even if my blog is hosted on substack or medium. I just can't point to my actual blog hosting itself as something I created. But that's fine, because it isn't even a particularly interesting problem to solve. I'd be fairly unimpressed if someone was doing general purpose programming for a couple of years and couldn't throw together a barebones blog.
Here's why I dismiss it anyway:

Regardless of what happened inside a lab, or how it got out, it's how we responded to it that ultimately matters. What did we learn from it? How are we prepared to deal with another outbreak in the future? ARE we prepared to deal with another outbreak in the future? If so, how long are we prepared to do so before we let our guards down?

The people who are most interested in where it came from instead of how we handled it are those who are politically motivated to disregard safety in general. They need a boogeyman to deflect blame onto for their ridiculous dereliction of duty.

I refuse to allow them to do so.
> I'm convinced that short release cycle and feature 'bloat' are related. I simply don't want Rust to become the new C++ (which is the feeling of a lot of people).

Most of the problems with C++ come from the long release cycle and cause the bloat you're talking about. C++ rushes out unfinished features (see std::visit for a great example) to make a release window resulting in unfinished half working features that are horrible to use full of footguns.
I'm tired of this shelf stocker narrative (or more general, the "some people simply have no chance whatsoever"). I think most people don't remain shelf stockers forever. In my country, it is often pupils who do it, or retired people who make some extra bucks. I don't think anybody expects shelf stocking to be their life long career. And even if you were to do shelf stocking all your life, I don't think it means you can't do anything about your financial situation. Same goes for most other low wage jobs. All the "income equality" charts tend to omit the age distribution, a lot of it may simply be older people earning more because they had more time to acquire skills and progress in their careers.

I can perhaps agree that there is no single rule that everybody in the world could follow to become financially independent, like your "rent housing out to other people" example. Nevertheless, in most environments, there is something people can do. If you just have a house you yourself can live in, it also saves you a lot of money.

At the very least, most people have to retire eventually. And many manage to do so, too. As a last resort, perhaps try to have children who can take care of you.
I'd say this is about in the middle as far as the level of risk on my bucket list items.
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That would be because the FDA insisted on a US run phase 3 trial (which is fine) but that only began around the time the UK approved Oxford/AZ as AZ had first tried to use their UK/SA study for US approvals
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All of the cultural items can be had by renting here, too, as my family does, and deploying the rest of the capital in ways that aren't financially illiterate. The decision to buy in the bay area, for the vast majority of people, is damaging to their financial health.
I think you have mismanaged your expectations.
Again, this is simply not true. Yes, the UK signed one particular contract on Aug 28, so one day after the EU with AZ. However, the UK had a binding contract with AZ since May.

"However, the key lies in an earlier agreement that AstraZeneca made back in May with the U.K., which was a binding deal establishing “the development of a dedicated supply chain for the U.K.,” an AstraZeneca spokesperson said."

Quote is from this article: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-...
Problems like these, availability of goods and distribution, are usually not solved by throwing money at them.
I think the point of FI is to lower consumption. As long as your total consumption matches your total production over your lifetime, it's sustainable. The level of consumption described in this post (30k/y) is at or below the median level of consumption, so it is certainly attainable for many people, even if they can't achieve it as quickly as the OP).
My entire staff prefers Thunderbird to Outlook, including the ones who would in no way be considered "aficionados". They have a choice to use either, and out of 35 people none of them choose to use Outlook.
> Like, so what?

Compensation for damage inflicted, for one thing? If a country is inept at handling deadly viruses, tries to handle them anyway and in result causes millions of deaths and trillions of dollars worth of financial loss, they should be liable for the damage they've done?
so..`yholio` Rants asside what is your valuable contribution to the library or creating a new impecable one? I'm acutally glad we have such powerfull library available for free and using open source code so we can audit it and find bugs
It does, and the benefit is that anyone with an email address can already be approached via Deltachat, because all it does is send and receive email through the Autocrypt protocol, which gracefully degrades with clients that don't support it.
The open question is: are there cases even before those, and outside Wuhan?
I'm sure it was safer than it looked, but holy smokes, I'd worry so much about breaking through the crust there.
> Why are we still doing this the hard way?

Scam artists who are really good at their craft milked investors of billions of dollars by selling them on self-driving, and some are desperate to see returns.
>but basically you're paying 4.5% interest on 7% appreciation, and not needing to pay rent, so you may get 4-5% real returns.

And it's down to 2.5% interest or even lower for 30 year fixed for some people.
The US is currently shipping AZ to Canada and Mexico
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That law doesn't exist.

Mostly all the virus cares about is increased transmission, particularly with this virus with a long presymptomatic transmission period, it can evolve to become more lethal if that increases transmission. What would not be selected for would be enhanced virulence that shortens the presymptomatic transmission period.

Short term the virus benefits by having higher viral loads and enhanced transmission and enhanced virulence, because it wants those higher viral loads in order to spread more. There's a limit because those higher viral loads are eventually what cause people to feel sick and stay home instead of attend superspreading events, so there's an optimum that its trying to find. As more and more people are immune though, there's probably selection pressure to make the most of whatever superspreading events occur at the expense of non-superspreading transmission. So more people get sick earlier and stay home, but the people who will try to push through a 101F fever the virus wants to have them infecting 100 people instead of 50.

Long term the virus is going to evolve to become less lethal though because eventually we're going to hit herd immunity at the point where it can't evolve along the same fitness function to spread epidemically. At that point it needs to make many more mutations to all its epitopes that might be recognized by antibodies and T-cell and achieve enough immune escape to raise its R0 above 1.0 again.

There's mutations which slide up and down the existing fitness curve (and some lucky mutations that might make the curve even better) but then there's mutations which are costly which are necessary due to the need for stealth and immune escape. Two different things.

Also we have the example of the 1918 pandemic where the later waves were more virulent and lethal than the first wave (but much later it evolved to become seasonal influenza). Got much worse, then got better.
I really like the lead time. It gives everyone time to prepare to patch ASAP when it is released without having the vulnerability available to attackers through diffing the binary.

On the other hand, it gives people that found the vulnerability independently a bit of extra time to exploit.
So both UK and US are bad guys since they're blocking all exports?
Molecular dating studies place a hard limit on index cases at October 2019. Anything earlier and the virus should have mutated more than it has.

Someone who broke into a Wuhan coronavirus research lab in summer 2019 and broke containment of our hypothetical SARS-CoV-2 precursor virus samples would have been infected too early for our timeline.
The somewhat accountable and transparent free republics spent like 200 years completely dicking over Africa & China to the tune of millions dead. Not really a position of moral superiority.
It's swiss-army chainsaw juggling with a kitchen-sink of unnecessary features, bloat, and poor coding hygiene.

C isn't the problem per se, it's the lack of quality, formal rigor, and testing that these slap-dash developers foist on the world. It's a steaming pile, and people wonder why it has security vulnerabilities over and over again. It's doing the same damn thing and expecting a different result: C maybe part of it, but its developers just aren't that great.
I am a maintainer for rustls (https://github.com/ctz/rustls).

What would your team need to be able to migrate to a different TLS stack that so far has proven to be safer, and passed its first security audit with flying colors? (https://github.com/ctz/rustls/blob/main/audit/TLS-01-report....)

(I am also currently available on part-time freelance basis, feel free to contact me if you need commercial support on your endeavour to structurally address your TLS security issues.)
As has been pointed out, it will happen again no matter what. The vectors of deadly disease occurring are huge. The response is the piece we can properly control.
The same reflexive denial happened on HN. Yet the lab leak theory has always been consistent with the situation. It's also always been the best fit to the behaviour we've seen from the various actors.
How else do you expect that national security agencies do their job? :^)
> But what can you do when you fly blond, with instruments and a compass.

I know it was a mis-type for blind, but I found that quite amusing - thanks :)
Yes, but the candidate was Weber. Von der Leyen didn't even run for parliament.

It was all a big deuce dropped on the parliament, really. The parliament is the only directly elected body in the EU, and the nations governments hate the idea that it could gain any kind of real power.
Very unlikely that they won’t exist anymore.

And whichever low number they are reduced to, they will start to grow again because there will be people willing to pay for their services.
I'd like my journalists to be constrained by the truth, and paid editors in the context of a "traditional" newspaper are one possible way to achieve that. However, if you believe the stats on this, trust for traditional news sources is at record lows.

I personally don't trust traditional news sources very much. Therefore, I'm open to trying something different. I've been a happy subscriber to a handful of Substack journalists for a few months now. It's too soon to say whether this will be a lasting improvement, but it's hard to do worse than the mainstream media.