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Yeeeeeah dude. Anything in realm of Dozzy is awesome. Check out Wata Igarashi for a polished spacey sound. I also like the funky techno with detroit and hip hop vibes of the Zenker Brothers.

Best techno party ever is No Way Back during Movement in Detroit. Most likely featuring one of the above.

Of course I still like more semi-mainstream techno stuff, Ben Klock and Dettmann. And then even more mainstream, I love Prydz's polished big progressive and big tech sound.
Maybe we were too callous just allowing the ordinary flu to run rampant, and we should consider in future doing things like masking up when a flu season is expected, so as to stop the disease from killing thousands of old people. And also possibly consider going for full eradication rather than harm reduction. Can flu jabs be made more effective, and multi-strain, using mRNA vaccine technology? That's a genuinely new tool in the toolbox.
The key is 18,000 ships.

We don't have enough missiles to destroy a screen that large. (This is not a well-known strategy, since it's the first time in history a country had this "capability.")
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> Before covid hospitals, and doctors, didn't test for the flu viruses. Maybe in severe cases?

This is simply false.

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/patients/providers-switchin...

> In 2018, providers completed between 35 million and 40 million flu tests in the U.S., including RIDTs that use immunoassay technology and molecular tests, flu testing company executives said.

Anecdotally, my kids' pediatrician does them any time flu-like symptoms are present. Same for strep tests. Both have rapid, in-practice tests that require just a swab.
> "Intuitively, with some survey measure of 0 to 10, maximum polarization would be 50% of respondents responding 0 and 50% of respondents responding 10. Minimum polarization would be 100% of respondents giving the same answer (regardless of what that answer is)."

A world where 50% of people live at the North Pole, 50% at the South Pole and nobody at the equator, is polarized. So is a world where 90% of people live at the North Pole, 10% at the South Pole and nobody at the equator. Seems like "polarization" is about how many people live somewhere in between, rather than whether the groups at the poles are balanced or not.

Or even, that there exist places between the poles where people could be, even if they aren't. A world where 100% are at the North Pole, the South Pole exists but nobody is there, and between them is only water, is still polarized. The only place you can be, or go, is the two extreme positions. If the survey says "do you LOVE Politician X or HATE them?" and I can't be indifferent to them or mildly in favour or slightly against, it's a polarizing survey, isn't it?
Citations needed for all of this?
We were talking about the presentation of "fundamentals" in the courses on Computer Science, right? The fork/exec design is highly non-trivial and so should probably deserve more discussion, with examples of alternative designs and design considerations, than mere "that's how new processes are created, nothing special here, let's move on".
I agree.

Just wanted to note that there are systems which are not tax-paid and still avoid the problems that you have in the US.

E.g. in Switzerland health insurance is private, but the variables that can be used to determine the price are regulated. The employers cannot directly provide health insurance as a benefit (some provide a cash supplement, but that's effectively a higher salary). This way big companies don't get preferential treatment. You can be a freelancer and have the exact same health insurance as people in big tech.
I don't want government or employers to provide benefits. I want people to keep their money and decide what is best for themselves. I don't believe the government or my employer has my best interest at heart, nor are they equipped to cater to my unique family needs..
Being an independent contractor does not mean being independent of rules

WWE wrestlers are independent contractors yet are instructed to perform certain moves and even deliberately lose matches
> This should not come as a surprise, and it was largely predictable from the outset....the flu has a base reproduction number (R0) less than 2....Covid has an R0 in the vicinity of 2.5....In the meantime, public health measures like masking and distancing will work against both viruses....there's really no need for conspiracy theorizing.

Assuming that this is due to "masking and distancing" and the small difference in R0 is crude thinking. It's unlikely to be anything of the sort.

First, R0 is not a fixed constant. It varies by context and location, and we've seen influenza decline everywhere.

Second, R0 is an estimated value. There are big error bars on all of these estimates -- the overlap is far greater than the 0.5 you're using to claim causality.

Third, rhinovirus has not gone away (estimated R0 < 2). Nor has adenovirus (estimated R0 ~2.3) [1,2]

There's something far more interesting going on here, it is surprising, and it isn't a "conspiracy theory" to talk about it. It's science.

(FWIW, my current favored hypothesis is that the closure of schools, and possibly travel, significantly affected the spread of flu. Unlike Covid, kids are a significant vector of spread for influenza. It's one of those little facts about Covid that is...politically incorrect...to acknowledge right now. But I am speculating, and there are problems with this theory as well.)

[1] https://syndromictrends.com/metric/panel/rp/percent_positivi...

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.04.20020404v...
I feel I could flip the question around, why is it a bad thing that users can use other sources to retrieve and download apps? This is already the default line of thinking with a PC.

Most people will not be taking advantage of this option; many won't download outside the IOS store, and many companies won't make a new storefront to get around 30%. because hosting a storefront is expensive. Fortnite took themselves off Google play and they likely lost a lot of sales. But that's on them to decide.

Why is it a bad thing to give a dev a choice of hosting powers? If you don't, they find loopholes that inconvenience the user regardless. e.g. you cannot sign up for Spotify or Netflix through your IOS device.
I understand your point and kind of agree but you should also keep in mind that Rust is a relatively young language. I would treat these as growing pains.
In any of the places I've lived, I've never been to a doctor with suspected flu and not been given a flu test of some sort. Sure, I've gone in with something and been told "this is almost definitely not the flu so we won't test" but every doctor my family has seen over the years has done flu tests when suspected.
You're being a bit too clever. The term 'techno' is attributed to Kraftwerk who were hugely influential for all forms of electronic music after them. It is strange to only mention them briefly later on, and present it as the history of techno.
You said no that’s not what it means then you went on to imply just that. You are disconnected from your own communication
I don't see that claim made anywhere, unless you're referring to "the cheesemaking process".
> US Labor Secretary is a product of union politics

The man heading state labor policy is a "product" of the labor movement. Is that supposed to be a scandal?

> easier for the AFL/CIO and Teamsters to unionize them

Good.
In the most recent email chain where they banned UMN, GKH said that they were going to have to complain to the university again. From what I understand, the IRB review was initiated by the researchers themselves after receiving backlash from the original paper.
I got a cold about two weeks ago and I'm only now almost recovered. I work at a hospital so got a COVID test to be safe, even though I'm fully vaccinated. They ran a respiratory panel as well. They called me with the results and I almost had to change my pants because they informed me I had "Coronavirus OC43.... which is essentially the common cold".
I disagree. There are jobs that are reasonable under the construct of "independent contractor". The issue is that the classification has been grossly abused to the point where the majority of people who employers attempt to classify that way really shouldn't be eligible.

I have real independent contractors in my family, they might work 2 hours each for 50 different customers in a year. They do their job exactly how they want to. It's not like it makes sense for any one of their customers to provide benefits of any kind. This is the kind of stuff this classification was meant for.
Besides fork() and spawn() there's another option which is to create an empty process, configure it as needed, then start it. IMO this is what simple, orthogonal primitives looks like. This generally isn't possible in Unix but AFAIK it's possible in Mach.
It is bad faith or sheer ignorance to think this isn't a hard question. Consider that even people spending their own money on their own housing often can't define their own parameters, which is why touring houses is a thing. Now scale this out to the population of a country and creating a single bar of "decent housing" is incredibly hard.

And then that's just talking about the structure. What about the location - if a person's entire support system is in one location but the available free housing is 75 miles away and they don't have a car, that isn't decent. This comes up all the time re the affordability of the Bay Area where locals get priced out, someone says "just move to stockton" and the resident feels it's not fair (or "decent") to have to leave where they were born and raised.

You could link location to workplace I suppose but then that would create massive downward pressure on wages since people would be willing to sacrifice pay in order to live where they prefer. This sounds like a net negative.

This question is only hard if you haven't thought about it for more than like 2 seconds.
>> Was there nobody in the whole group who had reservations?

Based on my experience (not at UMN), reservations expressed by juniors are dismissed and the seniors keep their reservations to themselves, lest they also be dismissed.
Abuse is only one among several other arguments presented for ethical vegetarianism. For example see https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol19/iss1/1/
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but then you probably don't have much to recycle if it combusts eh?
My kid doesn't mind, he says he doesn't need feedback.

On the other hand, mobile screens have multitouch and drag/swipe actions, and that's a real complaint when he's using a controller with physical buttons.
Em nope? There was a case brought by the farmers to try and outlaw this labelling but the case is still ongoing, if not thrown out already ...

Maybe it’s the case in Your Country but it’s far from being a pan European thing.
Been meaning to resurrect my old vic20 system just so I can wait in anticipation of my "game" to load from the cassette tape. Nostalgia is a helluva of a good drug.
I'm curious, which brand was it? Can you find a picture of the packaging? I'm morbidly curious to see what this alleged train wreck looks like. I've honestly never noticed a brand that I thought was hard to identify. They usually prominently feature language like "alternative" or "-style shreds" or whatever.

I'm not even sure why one of these companies would try to make the nature of the product well-hidden. Their goal isn't to trick people who eat dairy, it's to sell a product to people who are looking to avoid dairy. Why would a company actively hide from their target market?
HN also often suffers the same fate as other social networking sites, where comments that don't align with masses get downvoted
> There's pretty convincing evidence that even human brains tend to make decisions first then rationalize them after.

Does rationalize here mean "deduce that a supporting argument would exist", or does it mean "actually determine what that argument is"?

Like imagine if the brain is solving an approximate (or different) problem first, deducing that there's a solution that's very likely to be feasible for the original problem, then working out all the details afterward. Is that rationalizing after the fact or before the fact?
Should people be able to agree to work for less than minimum wage? Who is impacted by this, who ultimately bears the cost?
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No one is proposing that so it doesn't matter.
>Why can't it just be treated as a food in itself?

Exactly. Maybe the main problem is that it's hard to market 'Soylent Yellow'.

If I were to become a vegetarian, I think I'd just buy a bunch of Indian cookbooks and stay away from IncrediblyMeatyPlantBasedBurger(tm).
And that really is a priority discussion.

Universal healthcare, say Medicare for All style, does not have to mean higher taxes. And it would make a big difference to gig workers and the ones working for the likes of Walmart.

A very high percentage of Walmart employees need government assistance due to their income not actually being enough to pay the laborer what their labor costs them to deliver.

At a minimum, labor needs to exist reasonably and show up for work. Healthcare is a part of that, right along with the basics.

All of us are subsidizing labor for a few of us to put profit, or more peak profit in the bank.

The priority discussion boils down to what makes the most sense for the nation.

Do we cut back on the military industrial complex?

Maybe we decide subsidizing labor makes sense. That would also mean not shaming and blaming people who seek and obtain help from the government. Doing that is baked in right now, in that no matter what those people do, a large percentage of them will need help.

Or, we simply change nothing and yes, taxes are higher, but the national spend is lower overall. Many of us will benefit.

We could prioritize it so employers are more on the hook in various ways. Some of them will not be viable. Even if they all are, we may not have enough jobs. Government could be an employer to make sure everyone has a work opportunity that pays enough to exist and show up for work.

There are many options. Not all mean higher taxes, but all that discussion means a national priority talk also has to happen.

If we do nothing, our priority is not having people make it, exist reasonably and show up for work.

Predictably, lots of people are not making it, may do crime, are homeless, may not have health care, maybe will show up for work, if they can get it.

If our priority becomes about people existing reasonably and showing up for work, we will see that, but will have higher taxes, or back off some other things we currently make a priority.
While I have two myself, I am the first to say it: Children are disease carrying vermin
The flames may go out from lack of oxygen, but that doesn't mean that the internal thermal runaway has halted.

There are two processes going on in a flaming lithium battery - the internal exothermic runaway, which heats up the electrolyte and various other things enough to gas and escape, and then the combustion of those gasses in atmospheric oxygen.

The vacuum chamber will terminate the flaming combustion part, as there isn't any oxygen left to burn the gasses with (leaving a rather more toxic cocktail of stuff including HF in many cases), but it won't do a thing for the internal runaway.

To stop that, you've got two options: Cool the pack sufficiently to get everything below the exothermic point, or wait for it to run out of stuff to react.

Also, I've no interest in "just trying" lithium pack runaways. I've rebuilt a number of lithium packs for people over the years, and I've tried very, very hard (and so far successfully) to avoid that sort of thing.
Thank you for the kind words. I'll try to answer what I can!

In regards to the customers needing an ops pipeline to create images, that isn't necessary to use Release. We have our own build infrastructure, running on Docker Buildx so we can take your code, turn it into container images and deploy it without you needing to have anything set up yourself aside from a working Dockerfile.

But there may be customers who do already have their own pipeline setup running tests and creating images so we did create an external API for shipping those images to us [1]. Creating full fledged integrations with other service providers is something we've thought of exploring, but for now it would be possible to create an environment via a POST call with the image information and a bit of pre-setup to make sure we can pull the images from where you've stored them.

What you describe in (b) is definitely possible right now. The `git push` will send the webhook to us, we'll create the image and automatically deploy the environment. What you describe in (a) is also something we think is important. We have an integration with LaunchDarkly [2] that has pre and post deployment hooks so building out features around those type of hooks for different use cases is something we want to lean into. Another example in the (b) category is our Instant Datasets [3] which gives you an RDS instance with pre-filled data to be used for say a sales demo or a QA validation.

[1] - https://docs.releasehub.com/api-documentation/release-api/cr...
[2] - https://docs.releasehub.com/integrations/integrations-overvi...
[3] - https://docs.releasehub.com/reference-guide/instant-datasets
I am with you except they are absolutely allowed on consoles. Just look at the modern FIFA and NBA2K games. They are some of the worst free to play (that you pay $60 for!) experiences ever created. Consoles also had the EA Star Wars battlefront games that were fairly exploitative.
I look forward to the day when the standard practice is to test for every common respiratory pathogen at once when someone has cold/flu symptoms. The technology exists now for personalized, data-driven medicine to take off.

I know someone who works for a company who produces such tests at the same cost as a single test today, but often insurance companies and providers don't know how to bill for them, so you see stories in the news about "irresponsible doctors who should never have ordered 20 tests" that were really a single test billed incorrectly.
You specifically asked “where are all the boogeymen?” and the answer was “On Twitter” but that wasn’t good enough for you?
There's a weird methodology quirk here. Looking at the data, words like "violence" seem to directly decrease the overall happiness score. Which is weird, because use of that word doesn't necessarily indicate that someone is feeling less happy.

Mentioning negative events therefore seems to directly decrease the happiness score, so a conclusion like yours is almost tautological -- when a negative event happens, people talk about it, so the algorithm infers that people are unhappy.
What does it do on Google's app store? If they are still playing by google's rules, why would they take themselves off Apple's store? is Apple's data more valuable than Google's?

These kinds of theoreticals have likely already been addressed with Apple's biggest competitor. Androids aren't known to be virus ridden privacy compromising devices. At least, no more than any device with communication antennas installed.
You have funcs to make public/private key pairs. Funcs to sign things. You can make your own PKI in the usual manner. You could then pin on specific keys in your chain of signatures if you want.

Why you would, i dont know. Its a terrible idea like most use cases for js client side crypto, but you could if you wanted to. Then again, cert pinning is a mostly terrible idea in the context of TLS too.
> It's also worth noting that many contractors live paycheck-to-paycheck, and even though they know they should be withholding 30% for tax, in practice they have bills to pay first.

I find it kind of dishonest to call this "living paycheck-to-paycheck" while ignoring tax with-holding. That is not "paycheck-to-paycheck" as much as "not being paid enough to live".
I learned recently that tapes are also quite common in the pro video world, as backup media and as a way to deliver projects!

For instance, this is the Discovery Channel's delivery tech specs: https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_file.cfm?doc_id=12...

From page 27:

"Production partners must deliver graphics masters on LTO-5 data tapes formatted using the Linear Tape File Systems (LTFS). [...] The network will not accept graphics masters on other types of media."
I always heard that food price fluctuations were dicated mostly by weather events and fuel prices.
A lot of those don't apply to the likes of uber and doordash though. An uber driver can't choose where the work gets done because the where is part of the gig itself. The how as well, as that's basically part of the task. Seems to be we're fundamentally trying to force an old classification to a new set of jobs.
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What is “cheese”? Is a Kraft American Single “cheese”? What about Cheese Whiz?

Certainly there’s a lot of debate about “cheese” even before getting into vegan
Your objective is terrible. The ability to eat as much animal products as you desire is synonymous with living in a first world country. A future where we can no longer do that is backwards.
"Enough income to afford decent housing and food, healthcare, etc."

And how do you define those? I've heard people on here complain that $200k isn't enough for a good life with a family. Yet I make less than half that and pay all the bills for my family. Clearly standard of living and cost of living can have a huge fluctuations on location and what one thinks they are entitled to under a decent life.

For example, a studio apartment in a bad school district might be decent for a single person with no kids. Yet that likely would not meet the definition of decent for a family of 4. Unless, that was a step up from wherever you were living before (maybe on the street). Some people might say they have to eat out or have steaks to have decent food. But others might just want a discount grocery story with freash fruits and veggies with off-brand staples to meet their criteria of decent.

It all depends on people's expectations and needs.
Maybe give it another try, at least in some contexts. These days it's gotten into fast food, and IMO? I can tell the difference between an Impossible Whopper and a regular one, but both are about as good to me. I wouldn't miss it if the regular one went away.
> a social network highlighting our more positive nature (Think Instagram, and TikTok for contrast)

How so?
Thoughts on digital advertising in a privacy first world
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The article does not call cheese (or beer) processed. That adjective is applied exclusively to the vegan cheese substitutes.
Just read page one and two and I already LOVE the conversational style of writing from the author. Who the hell decided we should write textbooks in such a dry and formal way (this has been my experience). Maybe the textbooks fail me because the author is not able to translate their excitement into text (I have ADD, so there's that too)? Of course it's also due the nature of the copyright/IP system, together with the hierarchies inherent to capitalism. The competition between workers selling their labor works to the advantage of employers/capitalists.

Anyway, learning is basically just a long conversation where we learn about the feedback loops about whatever concept or system we are trying to understand and interact with. For me this author's style (and others like him) works a million times better to do that in an intuitive way.