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No. It beats active traders most of the time. Many active traders vastly outperform it -- by over 2X before compounding -- over 20+ year periods, and not by luck. julian robertson, warren buffet, and ~100 of their proteges, as examples. Basically anytime a new understanding of markets which introduces the potential for profit is developed, there's a period of at least a decade or two when small funds can generate extremely outsized returns before it's arbitraged away. Just like in business.

Recommended reading: More Money Than God.
Not sure. Could you explain what happened to the India-HK flight?
[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/scores-test-positi...
1) from what I've read (years ago), legalizing prostitution increases demand, and increases trafficking.

(And increases legal occurrences too of course)

It seems to me you were assuming / guessing. Lots of things are counter intuitive though
But msys2 does exactly the same without a VM
This looks cool. It reminds me a lot of Primitive Pictures[0], coincidentally also written in Go, which supports other shapes besides triangles as well.

[0]: https://github.com/fogleman/primitive
I understand its importance. Everyone knows bitcoin and this is a valuable property of the currency. I'm just frustrated the market doesn't value good technology more. There are far better coins out there that deserve more attention. We're all still talking about bitcoin when the market should've moved on ages ago.
Among the unemployed doctors in countries with a large public sector of health care, there has been little interest in venturing out as private entrepreneurs. Instead, the medical profession is interested in protecting the position of doctors as employees in the public sector, which can secure their position in the division of labour in health care better than the private sector.

It can't be helped if an industry is socialised to the extent that professionals are dependant on the state. At that point the mechanics of supply and demand are affected by interference.
It's always the printer driver.
Year of the Linux desktop!

Microsoft has finally embraced the Linux desktop, maybe next they extend it?
Ireland encourages remote work to repopulate rural areas
the active record pattern, as it is commonly used, does not set you up well to lift individual components out of a monolith.
Fixed price projects are really really hard. You will almost always end with arguments what is in scope and what isn't. You'll always have stuff in the proposal that turns out to be a lot of work, or unnecessary, but if it's in the contract the client will demand you do it.

With hourly projects, you don't have that issue. When the client makes unreasonable demands, you just tell them how much time it would take.

My recommendation would be to provide detailed estimates to the client, that show how much work every part of the project is. Include a few optional parts. When requirements change during the project (as they always do), then you can say, well, we could just skip this optional part and do whatever the client wants instead. This way the client is happy (they still have the same price) and you are happy (you don't have to work more hours than you expected).
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But the attack vector appears to be "people needing to publish a paper". Like.. what? They should be thanked for being a threat?
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"Who Owns the Customer" has been a criticism of the App Store for years. For apps, I've often been on Apple's side. I hate being messaged because I bought a PDF reader or a time-wasting platformer game. I understand both benign and corrosive reasons to "engage" with customers.

I feel quite a bit more sympathy for subscription podcasts. I doubt large podcasts like This American Life or The Daily would have great reasons, but I can see the standard two dudes and a microphone who often to live shows to supplement their income. Usually, the fans are a more engaged group, too.
There is no built in occlusion system. So I would say no.
Your suspicion may be right, the actual maybe off by a large factor. Sero survey whose results were available early February statistically indicated about 270 million exposures (as indicated by presence of antibodies) till February [1] (assuming a population of 1300 million).

[1] https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/trends/over-21-indians-a...
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No a referral system, is "you can invite others to play, everyone else has to wait"

"You can only benefit, after you get others to invest" is almost a textbook definition of a pyramid scheme.
India is relatively young country - that might explain the low death rate. It would be interesting to see statistics by age groups compared to countries like Italy.
While we finite beings might pause to contemplate and appreciate the numbers, I doubt we can ever really grok the spans of lightyears and voids out there...
What about a farmer with a "fixed" mortgage on his farm who can no longer afford paying it since grain prices fell by 50%? (Which is something that actually happened to millions of people). There is hardly anything worse that can happen to a modern debt based economy than significant deflation.

Claiming that the great depression or the long depression that preceded it were not exacerbated by the governments inability or unwillingness to artificially inflate the money supply is delusional. The deflation rate was above was 9% in 19931, 10% in 1932 this continued until 1934 which when prices started rising again, however 38 and 39 again had negative inflation.

The period preceding the great depression was not inflationary either, inflation in 1921 & 1922 was -10% and -6.15% and the rest of the years had relatively low inflation. In fact the Dollar's value only fell back to what it was in 1920 in 1946.
First you say

> Face masks ... don’t work to slow transmission whatsoever

and when pushed on it, you imply that this is true because there’s been no trial on it, which is not how implication works.

You then also try and suggest the presence of an unfalsifiable hypothesis which you don’t try and explain, and seems suggestive that you don’t know what the term means?
God's sorry to side track but I have been looking for someone who has tried this game.

It looked so good I was going to pledge today but my PC died last night.

Do you think they will actually get there? I loved the idea and what I had seen.
you know what they say, curiosity killed the cat
Since the message might have motivated some to sell their Bitcoin it could have modified the past though to cause the plague.

After all for a zoonotic disease to jump over to humans you need the right person at the right time meeting the right bat.
Thanks! One main difference from Primitive is that Primitive's shapes can overlap, while Triangula generates a triangulation.
This is like the original product hunt.
It appears less than 8% of gold's annual production is for industrial use [1]. If you remove the "store of value" demand from its price, then the residual value is peanuts.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...

It's like saying, "Bitcoin has residual value because you could always sell the GPU mining equipment"
What would be the point? Of course people can miss things in code review. Yet the Linux developer base and user base has decided that generally an open submission policy has benefits that outweigh the risks.

Should every city park with a "no alcohol" policy conduct red teams on whether it's possible to smuggle alcohol in? Should police departments conduct red teams to see if people can get away with speeding?
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Is the internet working?
Gold's market value has nothing to do with the fact that it is also has some uses as an actual metal. The vast majority of it will always be kept in a vault.
I 100% agree that the conversation should shift to how we can get more particulate masks into people's hands. That said, N95 masks are not the gold standard many people claim they are.

N99 and P100 masks typically include a gasket which improves the seal dramatically. They also come with the bonus of filtering substantially more fine particles. Given than the size of the aerosols in question are less than 5 microns and that the ratings are in relation to 0.1 microns, getting a higher rating is probably a good idea.

Even better still is a silicone mask which is trivial to leak test by covering the filter cartridge inlets (negative pressure) or exhaust valve (positive pressure).
PAPRs (powered air purifiying respirators) would be far more effective and efficient, especially on a long-term basis. People who are at risk of becoming severely ill from a respiratory infection (i.e. Pneumovax 23 recipients), especially in the developed world, should be able to have their national/public/private health insurance pay for a PAPR. After the pandemic, this really should be the case. There are also more compact, more convenient, and better designed PAPRs coming out, such as the Optrel Swiss Air [1] and the CleanSpace Halo [2]. Most PAPRs do not require fit tests to ensure the seal, while N95/N99/P100 masks do. The PAPRs I list can easily be adapted, either formally or informally, to have source control (covering of the exhaust valves).

[1] Optrel Swiss Air: https://industrial.optrel.com/fileadmin/optrel/redaktion/pdf...

[2] CleanSpace Halo: https://cleanspacetechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/...
fast, great features and a lot of addons
I'm curious why there hasn't been a push for this.
> Yet there is a national standard for how one writes formal documents.

Citation needed, please. Could you link me to the formally defined national grammar for American English, please? Who is the body that maintains this formal standard? Is it NIST, or ANSI, or an ISO standard?

There is, in fact, no formal English standard that defines what is "correct". I'm not conflating "colloquially correct" with "formally correct". I am fundamentally disagreeing with you that a concept such as "formally correct" exists for language.

I am a descriptivist. You sound like you are a prescriptivist. We may just have to agree to disagree on this point.
Dear internet stranger, do you have any credible citations to back up your claims about the effectiveness of masks?
WaitASecond...are you saying that this was an experiment to find out how the maintainers would react to being experimented on? ;)
or repo men...

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/09/17/license-plate-scan-drn-p...

For $20, a Digital Recognition Network (DRN) customer can look up any license plate in the United States. If there is a match, the program will show the last time one of the company's cameras captured the plate, including a photo and information about when and where the photo was taken. The company sells the data to businesses, such as auto lenders, insurance carriers, repossession agents, and private investigators, but it can also be accessed by law enforcement. With more than 9 billion license plate scans in its database, it's a vast tracking tool that holds a massive amount of power. Vice recently looked deeper into the company and detailed how it works.
If you’re clever I believe you can get pretty far in this space. But it won’t be easy. Defining an MVP with an MMO is harder than probably any other application .
On boats with extra solar, running a dump load when batteries are full often happens by producing fresh water (desalination) or heating up water. If useful dump loads are available (pumped water?) then it's a good idea but bitcoin mining is better than nothing I guess.

However having bitcoin mining as defacto dump load would probably demotivate work needed toward creating useful dump loads. I'm also wondering what incentives bitcoin as dump load would have in less wealthy regions where purchase power is no match to compete with BTC mining.

Think of a world where most electricity is unaffordable to people, being wasted to hash some coins instead, because it's more "efficient" from a monetary standpoint.
True.

I also suspect that, in general, Indian people are exposed to more pathogens on a daily basis compared to developed countries. It might be due to factors such as lax regulation in food and restaurant sectors (street food is highly popular among the young and old, and its generally not too hygienic).

There might be more faster and stronger immunological responses due to this increased exposure.
Did you check whether those studies do this conflation? Were they epidemiological studies (which cannot prove causality), or double-blind randomized studies (which can)?
i know indians who had corona before and also who already got the first vaccine shot but got it still with strong symptoms in this current wave. everything points to mutants being more resistant and also the first wave partial immunity to already go away in big parts of the population. this is extremely worrisome. worst case: when the world just has some decent vaccine coverage later in the year we start all over again with a completely new epidemic.
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> The easiest non-hype example I can think of right now is identity. If you literally own your identity then you're in control.

You can do this using government issued certificates. In Spain you send them a CSR and then attend an appointment with a clerk who checks your passport/national ID. Afterwards they send out the certificate.

It's used for online authentication and signing scanned documents. Overall a good system.

You don't have the ability to trade them like NFTs, but that makes no sense for identities.
That seems like a cognitive bias.
Honestly, I do not expect most youtube "content creators" to get paid for making those videos. I only want those who are in it for the passion to make videos.

Will it result in vastly lesser free content to watch? Yes. I don't see a problem with that. I did not have Youtube growing up, I am sure we will survive without it. Maybe we will spend time on more productive things, than watching pewdiepie reacting to memes.
Football (soccer) is by far the best game for just playing in my opinion. Two jumpers on the ground for goalposts and an open space is all you really need. It is easy to learn, fun to play, and very cheap.

It is just that the professional game is pathetic, and I don't watch it for that reason.
Aren't we too focused on PCR-test results? The article is talking about infections but most of the times this means positive results of PCR-tests.

A PCR-test only shows if you carry RNA of the virus. Not if you are sick of that virus, not if you are contagious.

The following scenario is true and happens often: Someone gets infected by Covid-19 but the body does break down the virus and the person does not get sick and was never contagious.
A month later the same person is infected by the Rhino-virus and this time it is causing a cold.
The person is tested and the PCR-test shows a positive result for covid-19. Which is true from a month earlier.

Since the article says that they estimate 50% of the population came in contact with the virus in Januari, it is to be expected that there are a lot positive tests. But the article is unclear about what this means for the healthcare system. Do a lot of people get sick, or is there just a lot of focus on positive tests?

As far as I know the only way to identify covid-19 with a PCR-test is a positive test and to know in wich order of symptoms occurred.
Thanks for posting it in the front-page thread! I think it really does a good job of breaking down how blatant this is.
There is no RCT that shows cloth masks work any better than no mask. You’re relying on mechanistic studies at best (or crappy associative studies).

Masks incur costs; at a minimum you must admit they alter risk appraisal if nothing else.

Anyway, nobody in this thread has addressed the point that masks don’t even work in theory if aerosol transmission is the dominant transmission mode. That’s before accounting for the incredible cross contamination and misuse of masks that you see in the community.
"you need to just look up the documentation of your dependencies and their dependencies"

Exactly, which seems directly opposed to the Ruby ethos of happy developers.

I do appreciate the magic of having stuff like 5.bytes or 8.days, but I don't see the reason for having runtime imports or at least warnings that you're using modules required elsewhere.
As an outside person - Why can’t Google support services for longer, and hire more engineers for fixing up stuff? There surely is enough budget?
There's no reason to believe this team will do anything.

Look at the guys LinkedIn and you'll see the graphic designer is a really bad graphic designer, look at the game itself, it's just an asset flip, they have no artists, the demo videos show no game play, but they're happy to show how you can chase your clout on their wall.

This project looks like Theranos, more than Star Citizen or WeWork.

Star Citizen was founded by the guy who made Wing Commander, he has a history with a product that actually was successful, It looks like they merely bit more off than they could chew, for example they released a road map for their road map, which reeks of middle management problems more than it being an outright scam.

WeWork had a viable product it's just impossible for them to monopolize on it so they were quickly beaten by their competition.

Saying "we believe in the team" just shows the people who a-okayed this were easily manipulated by scam artists, or are in on the scam themselves.
I read it in the news here https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/longcovid-101.... (German unfortunately and no link to the original research...)

"Epidemiologische Studien zeigen, dass etwa zehn Prozent der ambulanten Patienten nach sechs Monaten unter Long Covid leiden. Von diesen Patienten sind wiederum zehn Prozent vom chronischen Fatigue-Syndrom betroffen, schätzen Wissenschaftler. "

At least the cited scientist is easy to Google, so you could ask her directly for the studies: https://solvecfs.org/carmen-scheibenbogen/
CS department security research is near universally not held to be in the scope of IRBs. This isn't entirely bad: the IRB process that projects are subjected to is so broken that it would be a sin to bring that mess on any other things.

But it means the regularly 'security' research does ethically questionable stuff.

IRBs exist because of legal risk. If parties harmed by unethical computer science research do not litigate (or bring criminal complaints, as applicable) the university practices will not substantially change.
Could be because of the new double mutation variant that was recently identified.

‘Double Mutant’ Covid Variant: Here’s What We Know As Israel Reports Vaccine Efficacy Against Variant First Detected In India

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2021/04/20/double-...

Another variant that is reason to be concerned is the one from Tanzania.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-26/most-muta...
I live in California. I see maybe 95% cloth masks in public.
> i've always wondered if there could be a cryptographic solution to this. issuing decryption keys to governments seems rife for abuse, but some sort of multi-party situation where governmental and non-governmental entities have to cooperate (with actual multiparty key material) to perform a decryption authorized by warrants- with said non-governmental agencies acting as a check on usage of those warrants, their frequency and the eventual publication of their usage could be an interesting approach.

I would be willing to consider a solution where you need to have agreement from the UN Security council (maybe just the permanent members) in order to decrypt whatever you want. If you can get those countries to agree, it's probably important.
How is having a inherently deflationary currency a positive thing though? That's the worse attribute a currency can have unless your goal is to maximize wealth inequality...
At this point - but these centres were revealed to the world (by journalists who are now kicked from the country) fully built and also full of inmates.
I've had btrfsck segfault on my a couple times
Where are the studies that your base your assumption upon?
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With the context you've added now, I might agree. Existing projects would be a pain to rename all files compared to adding a single line to the package.json .

About new projects, I'd have to read more about this new extension, for some reason it feels like a temporary solution that'll just get merged to the normal js extension in a future release.
In some circles it has completely replaced SMS. While it has chating features, the normal message sms use case also takes place within whatsapp in these circles/countries.
The examples are still for a trivial case of joining one thing to many things. What about joining one thing to many things that join to many things that join to one thing that joins to many things that join to many things that join to many things?
I heard once a person has been vaccinated, for the next 24 hours, chances of others around that person getting infected rises. This might have contributed to the surge in cases.
I prefer fixed price projects because I don't have to keep timesheets and justify to the client why work that they think is simple took longer than they thought it should. The problem with fixed price is that you need a very solid specification and contract. If you don't clients will scope creep on you. The other difficulty with fixed price is that you have to estimate the effort accurately. I have had to swallow my pride and complete fixed price projects for lousy hourly rate because I under-estimated. But with time I got better at estimating and very assertive about specifications and contracts. Best to have a schedule of progress payments and deliverables. It can really hurt if you work on a project of a couple of months and then the client refuses to pay. I have had that problem too.

With all the cons of fixed price, I won't go back to hourly rates. I just can't stand the nit picking timesheet stuff. Seems that every client has a brother-in-law's nephew who programs faster and for less money. But why they don't give him the gig is always met with lots of hand-waving.
Was customer satisfaction a performance goal?
You can pick and choose data if it helps your beliefs. EVERY state is doing this. Every state government is afraid to let he public know the real numbers. Same story in my state not ruled by "the one party".
Are we just glossing over the 48% listed for jewelry which is a huge market?

I'm not sure your analogy of GPU mining hardware makes sense to me. You can have Bitcoin without having GPUs. Just like you can have gold without having a mining operation.

So if Bitcoin crashes to some hypothetical value tied to consumability, you're left with nothing. Whereas gold is still something you could sell for industrial and fashion use.

I don't think there's a good analogy between cryptocurrency and gold because they're not very similar at all unless people only narrow the scope to long term holdings and ignore risk/speculation.
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Didn't realize this was a product segment, thanks! Do you have a recommendation by any chance? Seems to be a lot of participants in this space, but not really sure which one is the most legit.
Clickbait. There is no Machine Learning behind this.
>Claiming you are going to make a huge MMO when you are an inexperienced game developer is pretty common.

Yea its so common its basically a meme that the first question a beginner asks when they join /r/gamedev or another gamedev community is "How do I make an MMO?"
How? What is the reason for this?
I try to buy as many books as possible as paperback.
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There has been a large push for N95 masks in Germany. They are now mandatory when doing grocery shopping.
You're allowed to use a "surgical mask" instead, however. I think those offer few less protection to the wearer.