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The biggest gaslighting of this whole affair has been the political adherence to clearly insane propositions like forcing everyone to wear masks (questionable in any case) but allowing cloth masks (which do, at best, ~nothing, unlike actual rated masks, so definitely pointless) or quarantining billions of young people who accumulate less than 25 micromorts of mortality from covid contraction in the name of adding (on expectation) a few life-months for geriatrics who are not contributing to society and are about to keel over anyway.

The unnecessary manmade destruction of utility over the last year is nearly unprecedented, perhaps the most devastating since WW2.
I started to use Chrome on phone because it worked well with many tabs.
And I am in process of moving from Firefox on desktop to one of the Chromium based browsers because the upcoming Firefox redesign is the final straw in the long line of Firefox usability destruction by Mozillas "designers"
I’ll give this a try with my wife. We struggle with this.

The requirement to log in is a huge deterrent though - why not just use a UUID or something based on the phone?

Also, I don’t know if you can scrape a small synopsis and include it, along with the genre, underneath the film? I had no idea what the first 30-40 films that came up for me were.
>If you aren't bothered to do it manually then it can't be a big benefit for you...

Wealthfront has economies of scale to write a program to perform tax loss harvesting automatically. Just because it's not worthwhile for me to do it manually myself doesn't make it not worthwhile for a program to do it automatically. Wealthfront does daily tax loss harvesting on individual stocks. That would be a tremendous amount of work for me to do manually.

That said, I don't know whether Wealthfront's benefit outweighs their 0.25% fee.

I guess what we really need is a well-regarded open source program that hooks into brokerage's API and does this advanced tax loss harvesting.
>Even if this were true, doing nothing to control the spread among under-65-year-olds would result in absolutely enormous numbers of cases over a fairly short period of time.

I don't think this is something you can claim without backing. I fail to see significant logic/empirical observations that make it seem futile to you that stopping the spread to a subset of the population is significantly harder than for the whole population.

>Do you really expect that the large majority of people over 65 could be protected effectively when the considerable majority of under-65 people to whom they are exposed (caregivers, food providers, relatives, etc) get covid?

Exposing the not-at-risk population would likely increase the short-term risk (all measures constant) but decrease the long-term risk to people over 65. Having a smaller population to focus on protecting would likely make their protection easier.

Even if you were right in that you would have more casualties from selective locking down (which I am unconvinced), would the increased death toil justify the freedom being messed with for the whole population?
All it would take is one multimillionaire/billionaire to look at philanthropy through a different lens for this to become a reality.

What we need is a social movement with funding for Adblock work and outreach. The entire advertising industry is a house of cards waiting to fall. Someone with a grudge and the money to back such a movement could singlehandedly wipe out the revenue of places like Google, Facebook, and most of traditional and print media in a year or two. A couple million in investment could wipe hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue out.
>inhibit parties and gatherings

[citation needed] - anecdotally all of the people I heard of that partied before still party after, either on the weekends eariler or they stay over.

>another major cause of spread.

[citation needed] - The "activities and events", which includes legal events, is 285 out of 11 158 in the sum of outbreaks collected by Quebec public health. "Other environments", which is where they put clusters that they can't identify is even lower at 46 out of 11 158. All other categories are verified using hard data, and one couldn't lie to classify the cluster somewhere else. So no, this isn't a data issue : https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coron...

By far the dominating sources of infection are work and school, and it's not even close. Followed then are places of commerce.

What curfews actually do though, is force much higher concentrations of people indoors and in public transit, which strongly contributes to the infections in work, "other establishments", and legal "activities and events". Which has a big impact on infection, unlike the other factors.

Politicians had many other tools they chose to relax or not to use right as they enforced the curfew. For example, restrictions on schools were relaxed, a major driver of infection - places like gyms and so on were opened, which already infected hundreds of people, rapid tests were not used in outbreak environments, schools were not outfited with basic ventilation (even just an air purifier would help!), contact tracing is in a horrible state, etc...

Most of all, the politicians could actually release the data behind their decisions, going a long way to increase goodwill and compliance, but chose not to.

They chose the curfew because it would placate those who asked for stricter restrictions and get people to disagree with them, because it would be flashy and hard to ignore, because once restricted to Montreal it wouldn't cause issues to their voterbase, and because it's very easy to implement and doesn't hurt businesses with which the current government is incredibly cozy.
Any websites which irritatingly change the page title back and forth to "You have 1 message waiting" (or anything else, really) get immediately added to my blocklist.
Ben Bernanke ran the Federal Reserve for a couple terms. So he controlled the US money system. When things get hard for the economy, like they did when he worked there around 2000, a solution is to "print money", which is basically the government deflating currency by creating more USD. Much like they're doing now with stimulus checks and "printing" trillions of dollars that didn't exist. It can keep the economy moving, but someone will eventually be footing that bill. So this project, called Bernanke, is kind of a joke name about how it's printing money at someone else's expense.
I wish this wasn’t being downvoted into oblivion. The first paragraph in particular aligns precisely with my experience.
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> I'm very happy the stores impose stringent rules.

That is assuming those rules are fair to a degree, not Anti Competitive and they do impose it for the quality and security as they say they do. All of which I will strongly support. But they dont. ScreenShots isn't even the tip of the Iceberg.
None of the three things you mentioned matter that much? Don’t hear of serious companies dying because of those scenarios much.

The Alibaba fine also comes with an iron fist playing puppeteer.
C'mon, Bill.
Ops usually understand infrastructure, and QA usually not so much. The overall mindset is a little bit different, i.e. QA tries hard to break it, and Ops tries hard to keep it running. And the required skills might also be different (distinct sets of tools, techniques, certifications, etc.)

But I can see that it might be useful to have it all together... (DevOps, QAOps)
I know a business owner who just pays the penalty. It's actually better for his workers in Massachusetts, since they get state-subsidized healthcare that is better than what he could get for the cost of the penalty.

So, consider doing that. Taking the $4000 penalty from the $7800 you currently pay, that leaves $3800 that can be split between you and the worker. (split it as needed to attract and keep talent)

Depending on the state you are in, the workers needing insurance might do better having some portion of that $3800 than having the insurance you can get for them. You may even have workers who get insurance from elsewhere, such as a parent or spouse, and they'd much prefer a portion of the $3800 saved.
The Bernoullis were Swiss (and Dutch and Belgian, depending on how you want to count it.)
I wonder if exercising at night has even better impacts. My jogs are usually sometime between 10pm-midnight. I recently mixed it up and went for a run in the late morning and it felt like I had lead feet...def impacted my
body differently.
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Quite honestly I have my doubts FAANG selects for "top" candidates anyway. Unless you define "top candidate" as "those FAANG selects".
Please don't put words in my mouth.

I didn't ever say that any policy had no effects except the curfew.

>Schools have been opened in many places in the world, and are generally not considered to be superspreading locations

You are simply wrong on this point. Quebec contact tracing data shows "Education" to be the #2 category for source of infection in the last two months : https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coron...

>The original closures in January had a radically positive effect in reducing spread, and there were many more measures in place than merely curfew.

I never disputed the good effects of the closures in January. I disputed the impact of the curfew solely. You will alos notice in the data after January that the category of infection sources that fell the most is actually "Living and care environemnts", which is where healthcare is placed - a major driver of infection that was eliminated via vaccination.
Not exactly what you’re asking but dnscrypt-proxy has IP based block lists. You list IPs and then any domain that resolves to one of those IPs is blocked. Works when companies setup domains that actually resolve to some 3rd party data tracker.

Actually blocking IPs as you’ve said is a harder problem sadly.
NNDM is heavily retail driven, it's been a fan favorite for a year. Their institutional ownership is only 10%[1]. It's similar to IBIO, NKLA, etc, where there's some attention from funds but retail hype on social media is driving it up.

ARKK has been buying NNDM, yes, but:

- they're not passive. they're active.

- they only own 5% of the stock. almost any public stock will have at least 5% owned by some fund, so it's not notable and doesn't disprove the notion that it's retail driven.

- ARKK are known to pile into retail frenzy stocks, so that correlation is going to exist often.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/nndm/instituti...
Please stop posting like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26689206.

Also, please stop posting unsubstantive comments generally, and please follow the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), including the second-last one.
this whole thing reads: don't hire top talent, hire special talent, to us, whatever. The latter sounds even harder than the former. It's hard to see your own weakness, it's rarer to have people to fill an exact particular gap at that particular point in time.

Maybe do away with the mindset of people as off-the-shelf products and think about them more as raw resources and focus more on upskilling. Universities are hopeless on this so the responsibility must fall on to someone.
This dysfunction is apparent even externally, considering they have never had a cohesive long-term vision for a single product line.
> There's something about the Firefox's scrolling behaviour that I find really annoying.
Old versions didn't enable fractional scrolling by default. On Debian 9 XFCE, GTK3 apps and chromium both had it baked in.

Fractional scrolling is what lets you move just a pixel at a time with your trackpoint or trackpad scrolling. Maybe it has been patched since then, but at the time firefox needed a tweak. Afterwards trackpoint scrolling felt more precise than my W10 thinkpads.
If only they could make the WebPage or WebApp installing on Home Screen as easy as pressing a link. ( Which has all sort of other implications )

Otherwise modern day Web Browsing on Smartphone is mentally incompatible with Apps usage.
Most of us, I guess. But we don't launch those products to millions of users before we loose interest in them.
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>'Gaslight of Science' I think is better exemplified by those denying COVID or vaccines.

The Quebec governmnent's refusal to publish public health guidance on decisions that experts think are ineffective while insisting that they are based on evidence definitely qualifies as gaslighting science.

>It's partly a social signal. I live in Quebec and the notion of 'curfew' has a very eerie and ominous 'feel' like nothing ever in my life.

It was also a strong social signal to everyone I know that the handling of the crisis was aestheticized and politicized as there was no evidence of it's efficacy. Certainly for some it had a chilling effect, for many it led to a complete loss of trust in a government that was already playing fast and loose with rigor and trustworthiness.
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If you’re hiring junior engineers, you can’t pick them for talents because they don’t have any. You hire them expecting to be negative for a little bit and learn on the job. If you don’t do this you’ll run out of senior engineers.

On the other hand, if you can work with them it’s good to get people who will contribute things outside the job description.
> Is this really true and known empirically? Could the body be better at accessing calories in some foods and not others?

Of course, 2000cal worth of HFCS is gonna have a different biological impact than 2000 cal worth of kale. CICO is a gross over-simplification.
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>iOS is the minority OS in every single market it operates in.

iOS is the majority in US and Japan, nearly half in many other countries. Not Minority in most Developed market.
I think public health estimated actual infection rates are 5x the reported case counts. Where are cases easy to measure? In schools and work where you can easily know who was there. Where are they hard to measure? In informal social gatherings among rule breakers.

You’re looking only at the extreme case. Hardcore parties will still party. But regular people who just want to have a dinner party of ten, won’t. There is no data on overall gathering changes (no one tracks that), but you have to assume casual gatherings drop off. And anecdotally I know people are cancelling plans.

As it gets brighter late at night I think the argument against curfew will be stronger. People do go outside on late summer nights and that is safe.

I agree with you on ventilation, and rapid tests etc. If I were in charge I’d do that and not a curfew. But Arruda doesn’t believe in aerosols or rapid tests. So I understand why the politicians reach for the tool they can actually use.

As for data: there’s an easy way to settle this. Find infection per capita in quebec vs ontario vs bc before the first curfew, and after. It’s the only major difference. I think Quebec’s relative numbers improved post curfew, but I don’t have good time series on hand. Know of any?

I know the curfew is psychologically brutal! I’m merely arguing it probably works, too.

Also I’m from New Brunswick originally and there in the Edmundston region they have the same policies as the rest of New Brunswick, except that people disobey the rules and have private parties. They’ve had constant outbreaks, but it doesn’t show in the stats because those people don’t go for tests and they don’t share full info with contact tracers. Public Health officials have described the rule breaking in their briefings. We know it is the case as New Brunswick doesn’t normally have local cases so the virus only enters by rule breaking.
When these types of conversations come around, I'm always a little concerned and disappointed that more people don't hold/verbalize this or a similar attitude. Instead there's a weird amount of armchair moral confidence that I can't understand.

Especially when there are clear politics, we seem to be asking "What makes those people the way they are?" and not "What would it take for me to become one of those people?"
The small amout of time I spent with JavaFX was productive, I wish it was more popular. It was a viable alternative to QT for cross platform desktop GUI apps, but I do get a feeling that its future is uncertain with it getting unbundled from the Oracle JDK. I don't really get why AWT and Swing get to be first class citizens of "core" Java while JavaFX which is the best approach to build GUIs in Java cannot be.
I cycle a moderate amount (~100km/week spread over 2-3 rides, typically in the 30-80km range), but drastically prefer starting early (generally pre-food, unless it's going to be a longer ~70km+ ride - in that case I know that I'll have to eat or I'll crash part way through). Feels far better.
FAANG doesn’t have a single interview process - it’s pretty different at Apple Netflix Google as far as I know. Are there shared features they’re thought to have?
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Don't most extremely wealthy people around the world already do this? Look at all them who ran and hid in New Zealand within the past year.
Maybes there's something in having to be brilliant in general but idk about this blanket statement. At least when I have had engineers turned manager as my manager, a lot of the time they seem to not be able to turn off the engineering. There's always something to tweak or be hands on with or experiment, except its not code they are messing with, but people. Our team structure, meetings, lets measure stuff, change our process etc.. and it ends up being a distracting drain. Engineers don't seem to be able to not mess with things. But maybe that goes with brilliant? Brilliant engineers know when to tweak and not to.

But that doesn't seem fair, yes brilliant people will always be good, you can't count on having brilliant people
How this is actually going to go -- people will find out in x months/years that it's fairly easy to create a cohort of 1, if you do enough filtering. The only issue is that now it's ostensibly outside of the scope of GDPR.

It's already happened with facebook targeting[0], imagine how much more specific the information at Google is.

[0]: https://medium.com/@MichaelH_3009/sniper-targeting-on-facebo...
Sundar worked as an engineer, management consultant and product manager before moving up the management ranks at Google. So labeling him as a PM isn't accurate.
Wont making it as a PWA circumvent the app store restrictions?
market cap = book value + discounted future cash flows = share price * number of outstanding shares

When you do a buyback, the book value drops (company loses cash), but the discounted future cash flows remains unchanged. The number of outstanding shares also drops.

The net result is the stock price increases as a company accumulates cash and uses it for buybacks because the number of outstanding shares drops.

Another way of thinking about it is that it's the same as dividends, but the dividend only goes to the sellers of the stock during a buyback.
Good mindset for big corp, not so for small biz. Waiting for someone to upskill and gain momentum for 6-12 months means a lost lump sum of money that can kill your business.
Yes, America has more school inequality than other countries (although it’s not the only one, Oxford and Tokyo U also exist). Part of this is because they’re so good they suppress top international schools from forming in other countries. But also they teach in English and I assume it’s harder for international students to attend a French or Chinese school.
This is very accurate. I always describe fines as "bimodal" in how they're considered by companies

a) big enough that they could significantly damage a company's bottom line
b) small enough that they are considered to be "the cost of doing business" and factored into the risk of a decision just like supply chain issues, SLA violations, or delivery date violations (e.g. having to pay when one doesn't deliver a product on time)

Only fines in category a) actually work. I really wish countries would issue more of these types of fines
Will look into it - thank you for the tip!
Institutional Ownership % doesn't mean squat as far as trading activity goes. You and I could trade 1 share back and forth a billion times a day, and it wouldn't have any impact on institutional ownership %.

The vast majority of trade activity recently is from ARK. You can see this by looking at the link I showed and compare the strong correlation in rising stock prices and ARK buying. Alternatively any retail investors that jumped in, likely did so from news of ARK buying.
Care to name some examples? I mean... the broad arc of the policy choices have been correct, right? Stay home. Wear a mask. That stuff works. We thought it worked last April and we were right. There's some genuine argument about the efficacy of specific facilities, like schools. But that's stuff at the margin.

I guess I don't see any good candidates for the "drastic policy decisions" based on "biased studies from massive corporations"... Really most of what the world did was pretty textbook disease control stuff. What is it you mean?
A friend here in NZ just installed starlink, has roughly the same experience as others - most of us here have gigabit fibre to the home, he lives just enough out of town that he's replacing marginal VDSL
I remember pitching my SO 'Where is my wife, app', and she jokingly refused by saying that I know where she she is: "Target". I found that amusing given that she shares her location with all the other apps she uses.
Hughes and viasat idle at about 30W and peak at 70W. Both are capable of 100/15 speeds.
anyone willing to put a static value on criminal activity misses the point.

the value of the fine should be greater than the payout for the activity. If it isn't the fine only represents a back-step in profits and doesn't really serve to drive away the activity in any meaningful way.
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Whoa. You are from planet earth, right?

If you are a FB employee or shareholder you should probably disclose that if you're going to make such a comment
It would be great if the stringent rules filtered out the garbage apps (the fraudulent apps, the ad-heavy apps, the apps with overtly fake reviews, etc) which feature prominently in app store search results. As such, these “stringent rules” feel like quality theater.
> meanwhile average guy with interesting hobbies and a good career/future will get nothing as I found out in college

You're missing out on life if you decide to stop trying because of your college experience.
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It's always hard to argue that we should do less when it comes to saving lives, but perhaps a better way to look is whether we're focused on the right thing.

In 2019, heart disease killed 18.6 million people whereas Covid has taken 2.9 million lives. Heart disease is also a major factor in severe Covid cases. Couldn't we save more lives if we took all this governmental effort that we are putting towards tiered business closures and mask mandates and instead focused it on national, maybe even mandatory exercise programs?

On average, people were about 6x more likely to die of heart disease than covid over this last year, yet we take comparatively little if any action.
It's actually 8/16 bit in 200 lines of C.
Most likely due to Berkson’s paradox. Short NBA players are just as good as tall NBA players but that doesn’t mean height isn’t good in basketball.
Thank you! If you look at my history, I've posted exactly what you described and got 2 upvotes.

Storytelling is absolutely the way