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Ah but its not tech unless you're ignoring all but the most dominant market force
I think the NPR using this headline is actively malicious. It's clickbait because it enrages both the people who believe the CDC hasn't done nearly enough (and Lewis is in that camp), and those that think the CDC has done way too much for a fabricated overly-exaggerated virus.
I see two problems with what you've said.

Firstly - the long-term effects of Covid aren't fully known. What is known is... bad. There are plenty of people - young people - who have permanently lost lung function, or struggling with CFS now. It can really mess you up and make your quality of life worse, forever. I don't think it's irrational to be scared of that, and I think your off-the-cuff assertion that the ravages of lockdown are more dangerous is questionable.

Secondly - as long as the virus circulates, we have a serious problem. Going out and doing whatever because you're not worried about yourself is a supremely selfish act, even if you're correct in your assessment. Not only because you might give the virus to someone else who might fare poorly, but because this kind of transmission is why we have a problem. We could end this virus in weeks if we all somehow mustered the collective will to stay home and isolate properly, all at the same time. But we don't. Don't blame people for trying to do their part.
A CCP-linked account mocked India's Covid crisis on social media. It backfired
I am certain the GP comment means "The EU does not have the [politically corrupted] United States CDC."
>This began well after they entered the market and upset the dominance of established players.

I still find it unlikely that it is an isolated incident, but that decade is also when they started to pass the mentioned 10%.

>But this is ultimately sophomoric economic thinking.

Your attempt to explain why the competition may be unable to compete is "they're just better." Beyond that, you just say smaller is better, which is the point of my argument.
I do think that's true for a lot of Russian oligarchs, but I'm not sure you can paint with such a wide brush on Putin himself. Not out of any altruism, but because he sees Russia itself as part of his wealth and wants it to be looked after well in that context.
PDF has serious limitations, so for many use cases that's a completely sensible position.
can't compare with charm, but a lot better than web, I believe
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Assuming that a Java debugger can convert a breakpoint to its corresponding source line, it must maintain some sort of source<->assembly mapping that transforms over time to do that lookup. As long as you record those changes, namely the introduction or destruction of any branches that Intel PT would record, the same underlying approach should work. The primary complexities there would be making sure those JIT records are ordered correctly with respect to branches in the actual program, and if the JIT deletes the original program text as that might require actually reversing the execution and JIT history to recover the instructions at the time of recording. This would require adding some instrumentation to the JIT to record branches that were inserted or deleted, but that seems like something that can be implemented as a post-processing step at a relatively minor performance cost, so it seems quite doable. If there are no deletions then you could just use the final JIT state for the source<->assembly mapping. Is there something that I am missing beyond glossing over the potential difficulties of engaging with a giant code base that might not be amenable to changes?

As for an interpreter I have not really thought about it too hard. It might be harder than I was originally considering because I was thinking in the context of a full data trace which would just let you re-run the program + interpreter. With just an instruction trace you might need a lot more support from the interpreter. Alternatively, you might be able to do it if the interpreter internals properly separate out handling for the interpreted instructions and you could use that to reverse engineer what the interpreted program executed. Though that would probably require a fair bit of language/interpreter-specific work. Also, given the expected relative execution speeds of probably ~10x, it would probably not be so great since you get so much less execution per unit of storage.
Which health officials claimed acknowledging the virus was xenophobic? And it turns out celebrating in the streets is basically completely safe.
WebRTC + networking is frustrating. IMO it is a leaky abstraction. There was a hope that ICE+TURN would work everywhere and users would never need to worry. That isn't true so we need to do a better job educating developers about what/why things went wrong.

I am working on a Open Source book that includes a WebRTC networking chapter[0]. Would love your opinions/feedback if this would have actually been helpful when learning this stuff!

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It is likely because of the 'culture of gaming'. The system has been in place ever since I remember which is at least 25+ years. The treasury sends a letter to verify "hayati" which translates roughly to "alive and well". Treasury also asks pensioners to update their picture periodically (every 3 years or so) so that when the pensioner shows up, they can match them with their picture on file. I know this because my mom has been a pensioner after my dad's demise ever since I remember.
I am almost 100% paperless with my affairs and nearly every single day I receive a mailbox solely filled with marketing mail.
> and many other health officials who claimed that acknowledging the virus was xenophobic.

Can you source this? I would be absolutely shocked if any public health officials of note said that even acknowledging the virus was xenophobic.
...don't have the CDC. The post is highlighting the failures of the US Centers for Disease Control. GP is showing that other countries failed in similar ways, despite not having the same organization.
Have recently tried both, my guess is the "sane table + view design the end-users are nearly support-free" is key. Superset is way way more complicated and hard to understand IMO.
Slightly off topic but I just realized that not only does optimized code = less processor cycles but less cycles = less power used.

This brings two rhetorical questions, How much more effective compute would we have if all code running today were perfectly optimized, and how much less energy would be needed under the same circumstances?

The computer gains could only be used in networks where unused compute can be scheduled / sold to other tasks. The energy gains could only be reaped if processors had proper low power modes they could fall into or some other method of conservation.
> if you were a judge and we're presented with a range of offenders wearing tshirts with "two genders", "satan church", "flat earth" and "vaccine hoax" logos, you'd selectively label them as political, religious, unscientific and "dangerous disinformation" and issue sentences accordingly?

No, I would label them all as "political" except the satan church one. Because the satan church tshirt you mentioned doesn't make any kind of a statement aside from signaling belonging to or support of a religious group.

However, if the satan church tshirt made an additional statement (after "satan church") like "abortions should be legal", I would count it as a political statement as well.

"Flat earth" is just as much of a political statement as "Spherical earth" is (science and validity aside). You can get fired for either without much legal repercussions for the employer. Whether you get fired or not for wearing that tshirt is fully up to how your boss feels about it.

To put it simply, "protected class/speech" doesn't mean that you can wrap any statement inside of it and you are protected from getting fired. Especially if that statement you wrapped inside goes directly against another protected class (e.g., if you had a christian church tshirt that said "islam is a fake religion"), then I bet you are gonna get fired extremely fast, and saying "religion is a protected class" won't help you much there.
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I was excited to come across this today on Audible and held off buying it for these same reasons. Several points in that description - politicized for the masses - were right then wrong then right again, and blamed based on voting patterns.

Pandemics are complex, nature does what it wants, and blaming one politician for what everyone else was doing doesn’t help.
In the United States, the Democratic Party controlled the House of Representatives from 1955 to 1995 (and the Senate for all but 6 of those years), yet it was hardly a one party state.

My mental model for Singapore is that the People's Action Party (ruling party) is kind of like a BigCorp, and the other minor parties are like startups. Whenever one of the minor parties starts to do a little too well, the PAP does an "acquisition" of some of their platform. And thus society progresses without ever changing ruling parties.

A vote for the PAP is a vote to maintain the well-run technocratic status quo, and a vote for a minor party is a vote to tell the PAP about some policies you'd like them to adopt.

There is a legitimate debate to be had about district lines that might influence the fairness of the elections (gerrymandering), but many modern democracies have this issue.
Streaming, webrtc, chat, file storage and upload, torrenting, file conversion, proxying, web crawling, backups, sync...

There is more to the web than crud.
> I don't write code that requires Glib, but last I remember, there are explicit (lesser-known) flags that give complete static independence :P

I wouldn't mind if there was some quick way of doing this. I would like to statically link a bunch of commandline utilies that I'd like to just copy in my home folder on various servers without installing them globally.

Granted, I'm not a C developer so I just searched for answers on statically linking, but I never was able to easily create these binaries (with a few exceptions). If I recall correctly I had to individually compile dependencies to be able to statically link to those as well (and a bunch of C_FLAGS/LD_LIBRARY_PATH/INCLUDE_PATH env vars sprinkled everywhere to wire all those up).

If someone has a bash script gcc-static-link that I can use as a wrapper around gcc I'd be more than happy to hear about it :)
This is on point. I run a dev focused SaaS and it has become clear that any metric we get from the frontend are severely skewed. Probably due to add blockers etc. Heck, I even use them myself.

We now record key metrics just through our backend. No tracking, no cookies, just aggregate numbers.
Do you think Warren Buffett doesn't understand crypto from the standpoint of finance?
Was Michael Lewis personally calling Trump's response racist and xenophobic? If not, then what does that have to do with what Michael Lewis has to say now?
Yes, you're right - my bad!
The list puts the US at 1.8%. The minimum I’ve found is 0.2%. Most countries seem to hover around 1-2%. There are countries with 9+%. How did you come to your conclusion?
You mention these memories in the context of having the internet available so we don't forget. And yet you don't provide any links to the source material you post?
Yes Canada just surpassed the USA cases per capita (in Alberta). I think personally it is incorrect to attribute case numbers to political leanings or even figureheads. How can we argue that one candidate is more "science" than the other? Where is the experimental control group or null hypothesis? Is it unethical to have a placebo group here? I would argue weakly, yes. But there is actually a group who didn't want to lock down at all! And the opposite group who will refuse to allow them to even be a control group.
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We store the end-to-end encrypted file so that the link continues to work after you close the tab. Sometimes the recipient isn't online when you send the link and we want it to still work in that case.

We're considering a "P2P only" option that doesn't send anything to the cloud. Since files are end-to-end encrypted, it doesn't matter from a privacy perspective, but it does help to save bandwidth (and cost for us) if you know you don't need the files stored.
Working with Dates in SQL
If Biden's tax policy passes QSBS will make early-stage VC a LOT more attractive
Which is not the CDC relevant here. (and ECDC is pretty much irrelevant in general, since each country has its own health authorities that matter way more)
Who was suggesting they would be?

I'd also argue that it's only an accessory if the product either came with it or is complete without it. The iPad has $100 cases and so on, but I've never really felt the need for one It also had a $30 charger, but it came with one. An extra would be accessory, and without it the product wouldn't really work.
Huh? There are at least a dozen rental car pickup and return lots in the suburbs of NW Austin - most of them Enterprise, but several other brands as well. In general, I never wait more than 10-20 minutes to pick up a rental, and have never had limited pickup/dropoff times. (To be fair, this is mostly when one of our cars is in the shop - I haven't done it for holiday trips.) Seriously, picking up a rental car, at least in my suburbs, is easier and quicker than going to the grocery store.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
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I once asked a med student why pagers continued to see use in a medical setting over mobile phones.

The response: doctors could use a phone to receive urgent notifications but the lower delivery guarantee for messages meant that they wouldn't be covered by their hospital's malpractice insurance for cases arising from late or non receipt of messages.

Not sure if true but could be a strong incentive to ignore security complaints.
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I had to look up whatever became of CompuServe and Prodigy. Interestingly enough, it looks like Prodigy was acquired by Yahoo in 2001 and CompuServe was acquired by AOL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe
this mindset is also exactly how good organizing in the workplace happens
> Any improvement to lifespan will necessarily improve healthy lifespan.

Will it? I don't see why it necessarily will do so.

And even if it does... if it gives you 10 more healthy years, and then 20 more bedridden years, for a net gain of 30 years, is that really a gain? Or do the 20 bedridden years make the 10 healthy years not worth it?
I guess "all" that's needed for write would be a webdav server with support for
PATCH x-update-range? :)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5789

https://sabre.io/dav/http-patch/

Unfortunately, solid, stand-alone webdav servers are harder to come by than decent http2/1.1 servers.
Here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2019/03/19/47-percent-o...

And this is 2 years ago so I assume it's even higher now. It's a lot more than I expected for sure. They only count consumers though.. Perhaps companies don't always allow it, but I always use uBlock at work.
Michael Lewis takes the most obtuse and dry topics and sensationalizes them to be very digestible exciting stories

I cant wait to read this one
There may be some nuance I'm missing, but in fact the US currently has this requirement.

> Effective January 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will require all air passengers two years of age and over entering the United States (including U.S. citizens and Legal Permanent Residents) to present a negative COVID-19 test, taken within three (3) calendar days of departure , or proof of recovery from the virus within the last 90 days.

There are exemptions for emergencies and such, but otherwise it seems entirely possible to require people to get a negative COVID test.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
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On MacOS you can also drag-and-drop a file from Finder onto your terminal and it will type out the full path for you.
Just wanted to say I loved your course on martingales approx 7 years ago at Dauphine, maybe it was already in TeXmacs :)
Given you are talking about evidence vs memory, you should probably cite... anything you’re claiming here.
Unrelated but have you seen our friend TedPetrou recently? He seems to have gone quiet.
It looks like the wizard is about to drop the test tubes, he is not really holding them.
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Google speech recognition API => export function
If Gary is still around and wants to sell official prints I (and I’m sure many others) would buy one!

Edit: looks like Unitech Software actually holds the copyright
https://qns.com/2020/02/mayor-dines-in-flushing-to-encourage...
While long continuous rule likely indicates being less than fully democratic, it doesn't per se mean it is.

Japan's LDP was in power for 38 years straight and only was kicked out of office by an economic downturn and corruption scandal (which Singapore has tended to avoid better). It then returned to power again for the next 15 years.

That doesn't make Japan a dictatorship.
Data was the new oil, until the oil caught fire
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much of what people remember was actually referring to the Muslim ban that happened at the same time.

https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/13120-2

And you are correct, people from both parties played down the virus well into March. Mardi Gras wasn’t canceled at the end of February.

These people simply didn’t know how dangerous the Coronavirus was.
It's very unlikely that swapping Google Analytics for an alternative will be an acceptable solution to a performance issue. Clients like GA. It's "industry standard", it plays well with other marketing tools, and people know it. Performance is understood to be important but not at the expense of understanding what users are doing. Website owners will readily drop a bit of perf in order to keep GA.
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yes and no - I trained on "larger than RAM datasets" intentionally, and subsequently took on projects that require "larger than RAM datasets". Two things happened on my way, companies led by Google invented and deployed datasets previously impossible e.g. BigTable, and secondly the equipment I worked on went from modest to mid-sized RAM (hard to define that). Granted that lots of very useful (and common?) tasks are not "larger than RAM datasets", and then have very different characteristics.. which is starting to sound like "Excel problems look like this, they always fit in RAM, they need partitions not indexes" and the like..

There is a blind-man-and-the-Elephant drift here, which is not terrible, but might need calling out to improve..
Something that helped me with productivity immensely was going to the doctor. After a long discussion about a variety of issues, I was diagnosed with ADHD, at 31. Sometimes this stuff is a result of a condition that can be managed via medication.
Needs an XKCD link!
I'm sorry, what policy are you talking about, exactly?

I'm having a hard time remembering Trump supporting any Covid restrictions whatsoever. He did not, for example, stop air travel from China or Italy at any point. And he was famously against extending Covid testing.