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The core problem of all of these things is basic financial inequality. Powerful corporations, whose views represent those of powerful individuals, can marshal absurd quantities of resources at a high level of coordination, neither of which can be matched by the less powerful. (This also applies to governmental bodies, which often function like corporations.)

Issues like astroturfing are just expressions of this imbalance of power.

You have to solve for the gross imbalance of power if you want to solve for anything else.
One quarter per base pair, one half per whole genome.

The same proofreading machinery which lowers its mutation rate, though, allows recombination when multiple infection happens. I would argue that gives this coronavirus a mutational advantage over influenza making up some of the difference in base pair mutation rate:

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

The reason why we haven't seen a true escape mutation is more to do with the fact that you need mutations at up to 20 epitopes on the spike protein to collectively arise, and one mutation alone won't do it, which is likely to eventually be costly to the virus and it would prefer to maintain the same fitness levels and spread in the totally naive population (at the same time though the mutations in spike which come at a fitness advantage that have been seen are worrisome because it means the virus still has room to move on the spike protein without negatively impacting fitness). It won't encounter enough selection pressure to achieve escape mutations until you start to see >70% of the population vaxxed or recovered. Influenza itself can takes several years to mutate and come back which you can see by the waxing and waning of 2009 H1N1, which has not been epidemic every year, so we wouldn't have expected an escape mutation by now even on paper.
Cynically, the unsubscribe button is so phishing operations spamming every possible permutation of {<plausible name>, <separator>}@<popular_service>.com can confirm they hit a real email address and spam it out to all the various constant contact subscribers that pay them for leads.
The United States Postal Service would be a great "trust provider" (managed PKI, signing personal certificates for individuals and busnesses, etc). They already do it inasmuch as many government agencies (the BMV in my state, for example) accept addressed official correspondence as proof of residency.
Has any major organization started or entered the semiconductor fab space in the past year? From speaking with industry analysts, my understanding is we could spin up additional capacity. The issue is that most everyone fears the shortage will be over after the Covid supply chain disruptions, and therefore any new investments will not recoup their necessarily long payback periods.

This is a very different calculus than a WW2 type scenario. Fully mobilized, the government would almost certainly pay up for microchip capacity today, regardless of the long-term payback residual.

If there was evidence of deep-pocketed firms trying and failing to get into semiconductor fab in 2020, I'd change my opinion. Like if Google or Amazon were trying to open their own fab plants, but were failing, then I might suspect that a WW2 fully mobilized war effort would run into difficulties. But as far as I can tell, the issue is that nobody wants to jump into the fab business, regardless of the temporarily higher profits over the next 2-4 quarters.
So it's kind of like the Year of Linux On The Desktop?
My project DivestOS supports bootloader locking, verified boot, and OTA updates for many more legacy devices.

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If you're just going to use off-chain centralised exchanges with a relational database backend anyway, what's the point of bitcoin?

You could do the same with dollars.
Agreed...It's also wonderful to consider possible alternative outcomes: A free self-care hypnosis stream for hackers, a long outdated corporate announcement stream from the 1980s that's been continuously upgraded over the years by amused IT consultants, a forgotten stream from an open mic in the conference room, or maybe even an image data stream from a webcam on the roof...
Unfortunately, I did mean monopoly profits. In a non-monopoly situation, competition exists which forces market participants to constantly reduce costs and compete on quality or price. Eventually, a single or few participants will be left standing as the others fail and the the remaining ones engage in a process of buying their supplies and workers at discount prices. This is not an environment that supports long term thinking.

There might be an exception here and there, but there will be some structural reason why long term planning is possible (such as competition not being able to step on each others toes). It's not true in the general case.
I like the UI, quite slick. One thing I really care about note taking apps is how easy it is take my data out. Do you provide an API?
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This made me think about the Huawei devices that ship without Google Play Services. But, looking at the list of supported devices, I could not see any new Huawei phones. I wonder what the reason for this lack of support could be... Is it because of locked bootloaders?
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They unfortunately don't make USB 5¼ inch floppy drives. But maybe with this board, one could make the Pi into a bridge between USB and a 5¼ inch drive.
Typeclass instance = Adaptor/Decorator in OOP terms, automatically derived (and wrapped in) for you by the compiler.

You want to fold over Options? Make a FoldableOption class implementing Foldable<Option> and pass "new FoldableOption(myOptionValue)" to whatever places you need. Haskell does pretty much the same (unless they moved away from dictionary passing).
I know this is a loaded term, but I find it interesting that globalization plays a key role here. I would be surprised if the economics of click farms made sense without involving third-world employees generated ad revenue in first-world denominations.

Better wages in those countries would likely eliminate fraud like this. It's essentially an arbitrage opportunity to buy first-world denominated "attention currency" at third world click farm worker attention prices.
Does that literally ever happen?

The citationable things come later because a student decided to write a paper for their race studies class, which is just as meta as us just telling you what our experience is.

These things aren't science, but maybe someone can articulate it better for you.
given XML is a "first class citizen" datatype on Microsoft SQLServer 2012 ( used on my day job ) yes, i am kind of forced to use xquery...
Briefly, that a thread cannot escape a scope. All threads must be joined before leaving the scope.

Some resources:

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Structured+Concur...

https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part2....

https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...
> This idea that we are so sure of everything is pervasive

I think this is a common misconception made mostly by people who distrust science as a whole, but not really broadly held. I don't know anyone who understands an area of science at any depth who holds such a view.

The really broad problem is that in science there are things we have very high confidence in, and there are things we have very little confidence in but are the best working models currently - and everything in between. However, communication about where the confidence lies is often poorly done. Many observers who mostly hear about things through the lay press have no good tools to differentiate between "some person with a Ph.D said Y once" and "the vast majority of experts in this field are confident that X".

You are quite right that real experts have a healthy feel for what they don't know - and often humility - but those are often very different things from those that worry people outside the field. All of those same experts could happily give you a list of things they and their colleagues have very good confidence in. It's almost always the right thing to do to accept these and move on.

On the flip side any scientist will tell you there is small but real value at the margins for someone plugging away at a "crazy" theory. They are almost always wrong, but occasionally it turns up something really interesting. The trick is not to involve more people or too much resources, as these are long bets that will mostly fail.
If you are into prose told as poetry, as in long stories written as poems, Vikram Seth's "The Golden Gate" is a very approachable work.
If you use Safari on desktop, you can enable WebGL 2.0 if you turn on the Develop menu in settings, then enable it in the experimental features Develop menu.
The Benefits of VoIP When Working from Home
A single dose of Moderna or Pfizer is 80% effective:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/cdc-study-shows-single-dose-...
As if Foucault has had any major influence. He's literally one among thousands of philosophers and by far not the most popular one. I'm working in a philosophy institute and of all 60+ researchers there is but one postdoc who takes Foucault as a basis of his own theorizing.
I'm curious about how she feels about developing these technologies. Does she feel that they will be used mostly for good? I see this and only see adtechs and governments wet dream. I wonder what her perspective on the ethics of her work is
One voter quote I'll never forget sums this up: “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shu...
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I did not know that images get proxied. Either way, I use gmail with images turned off by default and I rarely enable images for specific senders.
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Why now? Why creativity is so relevant in the 21st century
It's unfortunate that you've been downvoted as this is a worthwhile discussion to have.

I think the short answer is that we simply don't know yet which one is "better", especially since there are so many dimensions for what can make one vaccine better than the others:

- dosing schedule

- logistical constraints like refrigeration, shelf life

- rate of severe side effects (like allergic reactions)

- rate of mild side effects (like the severe cold symptoms I got from the J&J shot)

- duration of immunity

- effectiveness against emerging variants

- effectiveness at preventing hospitalization vs severe disease vs transmission vs infection altogether

We just don't have data to fairly compare the vaccines on all these dimensions.

The answer from a public health perspective is to get as many shots in as many arms as fast as possible, as long as they have low rates of severe side effects and are reasonably effective. However I agree that it sows distrust to not be honest & upfront about the fact that it's highly unlikely that all vaccines are actually equal, and that we simply don't have the data to know exactly how they differ. That could easily be followed up with a "once we figure out which ones are actually better we'll give additional vaccines and/or booster shots to those that drew the short straw".

Pretending they are all equal is only going to further erode trust when we inevitably figure out how they're not actually equal.
> Which is unfortunate because music doesn't tend to encompass all the different forms that poetry possesses

I mean, can't it? Yeah, most music seems to be pretty restricted in lyrical form, but it'd be interesting to see more freeform lyrical styles.

The closest thing in my mind would be something like jazz fusion or progressive rock.
I've been doing everything in my power to avoid perl since the early 90's. It's a garbage language. It thrived in spite of itself. Its obtuseness is fetishized. Its users have Stockholm Syndrome. I don't know what else to say. Bracing for downvotes.
A couple of things need to be balanced, I think, as I'm doing just that with PriceUnlock (https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/)

PriceUnlock will help SaaS owners finds the perfect pricing for their product, with more upside and less downside when trying new prices. Besides, it helps you stop leaving money on the table.

* THE THINGS*

1. You can "scratch and claw", as Jason Cohen (founder of WPEngine) puts it. He talks more about this in the YT link below and he also puts out this idea of 150 customers, not "1000 true fans". I highly highly recommend watching the video, regardless of going VC/bootstrapped. He also talks about 2 other ways besides scratching and clawing

https://youtu.be/otbnC2zE2rw?t=420

2. Building in public is an upward trend these days. Basically you share as many milestones/ups/downs about your journey of building it. This can be a trap as well: it only works if your audience is A) interested in you sharing that, B) probably hackers/builders etc.

I asked PG about this and he pretty much summed it up: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1375038728519974912

3. As I'm building PriceUnlock, you'll also notice that I'm collecting emails (the ol' way) to get people's interest. I don't want to make a mailing list, I want to build my product, so I'll aim to be better doing the second rather than the first. But it doesn't hurt to, as Rob Walling did with Drip, launch with some MRR hopefully... or at least with some interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLay7kksLtc

4. The usual set of things hackers do when they launch their thing: ProductHunt, Betalist, etc. Don't forget to join my subreddit on https://www.reddit.com/r/saas if that's what you're building (SaaS is v popular these days, so anyone reading this is invited!)

5. This pretty much ties to point 1, but the scratching and clawing is just another way to put the age-old adage: help (the relevant set of) people so you get their attention, use that attention as 'free advertising' for your product. It doesn't get any better than this as it's not intrusive and at least it's a win-zero-sum-game, at best a win-win. That's how I built my main company into 5M+ users and that's what I can preach

that said....

6. Deep down inside I thought what Jason Fried of Basecamp put best here. I'll let him say it: https://world.hey.com/jason/validation-is-a-mirage-273c0969
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Does continuing to be the same person involve becoming radically different?
Czechoslovakias were often referred to as "Czechs".
Go figure.
For meetup.com specifically, maybe, but there are plenty of facebook groups around hobbies that aren't specifically "meetup" oriented. You could look for organizations specifically in your area, and chances are they'll have a facebook group, facebook page for events, or a meetup account.

I also don't see this as an issue. If you want to meet people, that's a great way to do so. I've done it across America and in Korea, and I have made many friends from it.
I think an allow-based DNS RPZ policy could potentially address this. If you could define the names that clients ought to talk to. It maybe a moving target, but worth trying.

https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-vixie-dnsop-dns-rpz-00.html

https://lists.redbarn.org/pipermail/dnsfirewalls/2013-March/...
Why? Kids that return to the nest. Grandparents that come to help. Grandparents that need help. Being able to rent out your property for additional income.

I live in DC and there was a flurry of activity, with neighbors forming housing cooperatives, getting together to build up. It's possible. At least, it used to be. You talk about upzoning as if it's sensible & straightforward, & tiny home or additional separate dwelling units are weird, but they're what's in reach for a lot of people.

I'd love to see a resurgence of coop housing developments. There's so many older row houses around here, way under-developed, and I think of how much value those folks are sitting on, if only they could work with each other, & find funding & trustworthy developers to do the job. In addition to construction costs, everyone's got to go find somewhere to live for a year while the place gets redeveloped, which is costly & disruptive. Another advantage to tiny houses &c.
Yes, and it's often referred to as 'gentle density'.

The idea is to build relatively dense housing, but at a human scale - mostly 3-5 storeys. Combined with narrow streets that support walking and cycling, this creates enough density to support a 'real' city centre with shops, restaurants, offices and so on.

I think these videos convey the idea well:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKIVX968PQ

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOdQsZa15o

Of course, this is not to say that you _can't_ build other kinds of housing. But many cities are badly balanced.
Yeah. I worked infra at a few EU Universities, and while firing someone in that environment is pretty difficult, you still get the "old boys club" that will absolutely not let you do anything.

The problem was never users/faculty. It was other people doing IT there for longer who would not accept anything they were unfamiliar with, and treated "their" hardware as if it was their own children. It led to a sort of balkanization of infrastructure that was extremely difficult to break, and you often had to spend way more of the budget to come up with convoluted solutions so you didn't touch their ancient setups rather than just making the whole thing homogenous and centrally managed.

As a result, depending on what you were working on, you could have to deal with wildly different AWS/Azure/GCP platforms, or on-prem hardware that could range from independent(!) OpenStack installs to ancient Debian machines that might not even be supported anymore. Sometimes people negotiate licensing completely separately, where you could have unused licenses available but it's not communicated so it's bought again by someone else. Some places even had random servers running inside people's offices connected via Wi-Fi.

There's a reason I got out of that line of work. I'm frankly surprised universities aren't a larger target.
It's good day to announce this. People are taking all announcements today very seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v53EUMNSdQs