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> And it wasn’t optimally transmissible among humans for the better part of last year. Rather, new, more efficient variants have evolved around the world. To name one example, the highly transmissible variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported in India (B.1.617.2, or Delta) has mutations in the nucleotides encoding its furin cleavage site that appear to make the virus better at infecting cells.

My (very limited) understanding is that when a virus jumps species it is usually pretty “unoptimized” for the new host species and spends a bit of time evolving into something more fit for survival in the new host, and that this is a bit different than a single mutation way down the line during the pandemic increasing transmissibility. Maybe to be more succinct, the pro-lab leak argument isn’t that it was perfectly optimized for transmissibility in humans, but that it was already highly optimized, which is unusual.

Wouldn’t we have likely seen signs of this virus long before we did in the case of a natural origin, before it became so efficient at transmission among humans? Isn’t this what happened with the first SARS virus?
The problem comes in when their parents die and they have no path to supporting themselves. Not everyone has an inheritance to look forward to.

Living at home and working isn’t really a problem, but entering the labor force at 40+ is not going to go well.
I've used that recipe for years! I only just recently learned he was behind it this whole time.
For anyone believing amazon's claim that servicing vendor complaints of copycats/trademark infringers was a "hard" problem

I give you exhibit A.

Its not hard. Amazon is just not interested in fixing it
>Monetary inflation also fuels cheap loans that inflate these assets and get people into long term debt obligations

You're forgetting something extremely important here. It's the savings that are fueling cheap loans. Those savings force the Fed to lower interest rates. It's not the Fed that is making this decision, it's the market collectively deciding that depositing money and lending it out is the best use of their money and those savings have to go somewhere.

Before 2008 those savings were flooding into mortgage bonds and banks ran out of mortgages to sell so they just took subprime mortgages and got the rating agencies to lie for them. All for that sweet sweet commission.
Good luck with that on mobile.
I managed mixed in-office and WFH teams before the pandemic.

There was a stark productivity drop every summer when kids were out on summer break. This includes parents with dedicated home offices who had been WFH for many years.

The effect was so predictable that we planned for lower velocity during summer months. It was also common practice for WFH employees to spend more time in the office for more focus during summer months if they lived close enough.

That’s not to say that kids are the biggest WFH productivity killer. IMO the people who struggled most were the young people who thought they could travel around and work remotely because it doesn’t matter where they’re working from. It turns out it’s plainly obvious that they don’t get much work done when they’re away from home. But that’s another story.
I had the same life till my 26th. I then stopped watching television, threw all games away and started studying computer science. I am so happy about that move. I am 40 now. Own multiple IT businesses and have a happy family.
Game/TV addiction is really dangerous. You don't have to be a depressed person to fall into it.
Would make a great write up. Interested in the details around what was changed in the company to support this hybrid approach. Also breakdown of devs first time WFH.

From my experience, office->hybrid doesn’t work well as the the staff don’t have the same level of support and processes don’t change to adjust to the change. My first year of WFH (nearly 7 years ago now) was a pretty rough adjustment even though I wanted to do it (glad I stuck with it).

Like most things in life, “Is WFH is more productive?”, “it depends”. Props for doing the experiment and sharing details.
I was trying to get on Zoopla (and, I think, Rightmove) two nights ago for over an hour after midnight and the site continued to tell me it was down for maintenance, and to wait again until the non-night owls were up in the morning. Pretty sure their market cap is ten, if not eleven, figures.
What about farm vehicles?
Nothing is perfect 100% of the time and it can take a few tries to sort out what you need or want in a relationship, along with what you are or aren't willing to tolerate.
Buybacks are effectively identical to dividends so that end it would be accomplished
> ... more students from families in the top 1 percent of income earners than from the bottom 60 percent

These institutions exist for the purpose of making money. Why would anyone be surprised they have rich customers to extract money from?

I'm sure if you look at the top hospitals in the USA the vast majority of their customers are insanely rich.

That's not a coincidence, it's by design. These things exist to make as much money as possible.

Ivy League Cartels are not the problem. For profit institutions that should not be are the problem.
Anyone wondering how "easy" it is to obtain a token may be interested in the setup instructions for slack-term[0]. As for token expiration.. I've been logged into slack-term using the same token for weeks if not months, without needing to reauthenticate. I assume it refreshes.

[0]: https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term/wiki#running-sla...

Also free plug for slack-term, I guess. :)

TL;DR: socially engineer an EA employee with a link like https://slack.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=32165416946541.1...

and if they are half asleep they just might auth you.

STL;SDR: EA probably permit employees to authenticate with non-official apps/clients, which they probably won't be permitting anymore.
This feature is certain to be abused & should really not exist despite the good it may do in specific cases
You're making a huge leap by assuming this is because such a subject isn't politically correct or whatever. There's many more likely explanations:

• You have phrased the search in a way that people expressing that view wouldn't be likely to use, yet is similar to how people holding contrary views would express theirs. I think that's the case here. If you search for “gender does not exist” or so, you may get the results you want.

• Google's results are customised based on what they think you would be interested in.

• Content from one side of a contentious topic may be less popular online and/or not linked to as many authoritative sites, and thus have a lower PageRank.
I think you meant that although it's easy to trivialize what an electrician does, in practice there's actually a lot of skill and experience in it. (I could be wrong, although it's always funny to see how what was probably an off-hand comment causes people to go down such a rabbit hole).
I haven't been diagnosed and don't know where to start. One of my teachers had suggested in early grade school that I had a "developmental disability" but my parents resisted and prevented me from being assessed and prevented me from being in the special needs program. Partially because they didn't really believe in the concept and partially because they feared that it would negatively affect my social development.

I struggled throughout school, struggled even harder throughout university (it took me _many_ years to graduate) and am currently floundering in my job.

I have had the exact same experience with my taxes/laundry/reports but I have no family doctor and no way to get one. Besides a GP, the mental health options for such things in my city are limited to minors and adults in assisted living situations.
Smug tech bros high-fiving each other. What's new?
This feature is certain to be abused & really should not exist despite the good it may do in specific cases
As a 26 year old finishing up a Comp Sci degree, I'm in a similar camp. I mean I'd rate myself as a 5-6 straight up average. I get matches and have gone on several dates. What I've noticed is most men don't do profiles right at all. They show themselves off in what they do, not what's attractive. Also nobody every acknowledges that selfies are bad. I mean these are just little tips I've learned honing a profile over the course of a couple years.

But, thinking of dating like a resume, as well as making dates feel like interviews has made relationships nothing but a chore nowadays. It feels wholly like a business relationship without any contractual guarantees between the parties.
I had always thought it a strange coincidence that in Japanese, sunday is 'sun day' and monday is 'moon day'.

At least in japanese, the other days of the week are also associated with celestial bodies, tuesday 'fire day', wednesday 'water day', thursday 'wood day', friday 'gold day', and saturday 'dirt day'.

mars: fire planet

mercury: water planet

jupiter: wood planet

venus: gold planet

saturn: dirt planet

If you're familiar with any romance language, the days of the week associate correctly with the names of the planets (martis, mercurii, jovis); and in english the rough translations into anglo-saxon/norse gods applies (tyr/tiw, thor, freija)

Apparently it's unlikely to be an accident, but it's a very ancient connection, via the chinese, who have in more recent times ditched the system.
> "Part of what's happening with ideas like this, and the reason Internet identity has been such a tar pit for the last 20 years, is that there isn't one single service model for identity. Internet identity evangelists tend to overlook the fact that people have multiple identities on purpose."

Urbit's approach seems pretty good for this? They use Ethereum to manage ID ownership/transfer, but they generate pseudonymous IDs by default (the user can decide if they want to connect them to their real name). They also have a small, but non-zero cost making them not really economically viable for mass spam - people hold on to them and develop reputation with them. There's a lot to like about that model (I think it solves a lot of these issues while also not having the IDs entirely owned by one company).
Or planned cities without private land ownership? The city can sell short term leases, but allow the leases to expire when it's time to re-zone.
> but its still requires hand holding, and to my knowledge there is no way to "throttle" the migration like you can with GH-OST

eh? you only do a basebackup and than you can begin the logical replication. at some point you than you do a failover?

chtitux basically described the process which is extremly simple.
The answer's probably a lot simpler than you think. Dropshipping is hot these days for the "I'm an internet entrepreneur" crowd and the "How To Dropship Guides for $19.99" are all pushing Facebook ads and buying from AliExpress. The readers likely don't even know that there are alternatives: they're just following a script.

The rapid churn when people realize it's harder to make money than it seems means that there is always a new set of people pushing whatever crap is hot that week.
I think some kinds of video games provide this more than others, at least for some definitions of achievement. If somebody spends their free time painting happy trees but never sells any paintings, I personally would not say achievements are fake. The painter sets their own objective and judge success by their own personal standards, but that doesn't make their achievements fake, right? And if they decide to depict things using lego instead of paint, is that fundamentally different? It's a different form of craft, but I don't consider building sculptures out of lego to be faker than doing the same from clay.

Some video games are essentially the same as that. For instance, creative-mode minecraft seems to be arts and crafts as much as it is a game.
I prefer any grouping that describes me using attributes that actually belong to me. "Human", "Dark skinned person", "Engineer", etc

I'm not a "Black Person". I get that's the term that people use (and I won't be offended if someone uses it to refer to me), but it's inaccurate and I wish we'd stop using it.

> Nobody cares what color your skin is.

I sincerely wish that were true.
COVID-19 is a special case. I think Google has intervened there to ensure that official sources are favoured due to concerns about the impact of misinformation in a pandemic specifically. This is not a common Google practice so far as I know.
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I hear you.

From what I've seen / experienced, I think middle management at BigCo is closest to what you describe. If you play your cards right and manage things well, it's much more about who you hire and what you communicate than hours worked.
Also, what is this “has become” language for? It implies that the this elite group is more self-reinforcing than it used to be, but there’s no evidence for that. Harvard’s 1940s admission rate of 85% was certainly not a more meritocratic time.

The ratio you ask for is almost certainly decreasing over time, not increasing, right?
> "I have to document this project but no matter how much I want to just do it, I nevertheless continually find myself on imgur or Facebook or Hacker News or some random other website reading up about how switched-reluctance motors or Monte Carlo tree search or whatever works."

This is why I learned more about grain bins and low-head dams this week than I did the tool I was supposed to be building.
You seem to have this assumption that the only expression and development of interests comes through taking courses. I have a degree in CS, yet care much more that my partner shares my non-technical interests than my technical ones, cause I can talk shop all day long at work already...
I managed mixed WFH teams before COVID. It was widely understood that WFH was a productivity obstacle long before quarantines. We usually gave it as a perk to high performing employees who had already proven their ability to get things done and self-manage, or for exceptional employees who couldn’t or wouldn’t relocate near an office.

The idea that WFH is no different than in-office work didn’t really become popular until COVID.

Offices and in-person communication are unmatched for collaboration and communication efficiency. Any company doing work that requires significant collaboration (most tech companies of size) pays a price for WFH. For many companies that overhead is fine if accounted for and managed, but it’s still a price.
I think one of the bigger issues in general with the US is that our infrastructure is older. This is a natural effect of being first movers on a range of technologies.

For example, I remember travelling to Europe and South America and having better mobile phone services and features than the US. The reason at the time is that we were stuck with a massive investment that was made in the early days of cell phones. Other parts of the world, where deployment was what I might call phase 2, had the ability to take advantage of next generation ideas and technology.

I would imagine the same is true of oil pipeline technology. I don't know any more about oil transportation than you do. Yet, I think I might be correct in making the assumption that older (50+ years?) pipelines exist in the US and it it these that might lead to the conclusion that we don't build them well. The facts, however, could be precisely the opposite to this conclusion: We built them very well. They survived 50+ years without issues. And now they are starting to show their age and need extensive repairs or replacement.

This is where I think politics might get in the way. I think you actually want brand new, high tech pipelines. They are likely far better for the environment across a range of criteria.

By turning oil and energy into a political mess we can't make the right decisions, which might very well be to build new high-tech pipelines and replace the old ones.

The oil economy isn't going away for a long time, 100+ years. Transportation fuel is only one variable in the vast array of benefits we derive from fuel. Look around your house, everything you own depends of oil. It would be hard to identify items in modern life that would be possible without oil and oil derivatives.

Here's the fallacy committed by those equating oil with bad things for humanity or the planet. We would literally have to go back to pre-industrial revolution humanity in order to be able to truly get to a post-oil society. Now imagine the damage eight billion people would do to the environment if we could not rely on oil and derivatives. We would burn down every forest on the planet. We would deplete every single farmable patch of soil of nutrients. We would destroy ecosystems at an unimaginable rate. A post-oil society cannot support eight billion people on this planet without doing unimaginable damage all ecosystems we touch.

We need to do all we can to make cleaner use of oil and derivatives. It isn't going away. And having a war against the very infrastructure that makes it safer is truly not intelligent.
But who raises the next generation under that scenario? Immigrants, of course, but what does that say about what American society has become?

This is not a “replacement” screed, by the way, but quite the opposite. If your culture requires constant immigration to survive, that means it’s unsustainable in the steady state. Like, it would be bad if everyone adopted your culture. Your culture is the panda of cultures.
Slowdive and Beach House both have pages on Bandcamp. They're pretty popular though so sorry if you already knew this.
Blanket statements like these come from privilege. That a supposedly vanishingly small amount of people use crypto to transact and safeguard the fruits of their labor is irrelevant because, well, I know I exist.

To me, the value Bitcoin brings to the table is much, much greater than the one from countries that enforce unjust embargoes and overthrow governments only to replace them with even worse dictators... and also pollute the planet.

Also, specifically on the second article you linked: it references the first and even mentions why such runaway growth necessitated by that argument wouldn't happen.

EDIT: Before some tries to gotcha me with the same old tired memes or accuses me of building up the typical "oh, but X uses more power than the entire crypto system" strawman argument, what I'm trying to say is: value is relative. If you have a comfortable life and live in a reasonably free country, Bitcoin is very likely to have negative value to you, as its cons outweigh its pros. But that's not going to be the same for the rest of the world, and blanket bans on things are reductionist and hardly ever get anywhere good, especially when you should be looking at why such thing exists.
Also the mathematical term "surjection", a mapping that is "over" its codomain, so covers all of it.
I agree with you in that I prefer written material most of the time, but for food I actually prefer video over text. Mostly because it allows me to see and get a feel for the workflow, the timings and such that are impossible to get across from just a recipe. Especially for baking videos have been great because when it says “should be tacky to the touch but not sticky” it’s always “how sticky is sticky, what is tacky, how do I know what it feels like etc” and seeing a baker doing it helps immensely. Once I’ve gotten a good grasp for the process though I far prefer using a recipe.
My view is that if the only reason you are doing something is because of the insurance implications, then you've surely made the wrong decision.

Nobody's interests are less aligned with your own than an insurance company's. There are lots of legitimate reasons to hire an electrician, but making decisions solely based on what someone who wants you to perpetually give them money whole finding reasons to never give it back is never good practice.
I was just thinking about using the pgp word list (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list) to create highly phonetically distinctive email addresses. Too bad they wouldn't generally be meaningful.
If we are in a simulation and this simulation obeys similar constraints to our computational models, we can test hypotheses on the basis of information theory. Or possibly find error-correction codes encoded in string theory as some quantum physicists have suggested.
I don't think you get it. Young men today grow up almost entirely in female-dominated spaces. That is not normal historically. In fact it would be strange if it didn't lead to any pathologies.
Does your company help make remote work easier? I guess I could understand that if you took a group used to an office and then forced them to be remote there would be some struggles. I think effective remote work has a bit of a learning curve and needs some investment up front. I think you would need to believe the potential is there and worth chasing.
Staying at home and playing video games/yield farm is the most incentivised activity right now. This liberal-moral capitalism breaks my heart sometimes lol. Reap what you sow!
The only thing I need (and is sorely missing from Restic) is that the metadata be kept separate from the actual data. That way I can store the data in AWS S3 Deep Glacier at a cost of nothing per year, and still do incremental backups. Currently the architecture of Restic for instance requires all data to be quickly and cheaply accessible; which makes it impossible for this.

I have terabytes of data that I'd be happy to dump encrypted and compressed in Deep Glacier and happy to pay $500 to retrieve if I were to mess up my hard drives, but otherwise don't want to pay for the costs of normal S3.

Does Kopia separate metadata from the actual encrypted/compressed blobs?
I responded to a guy who argued that he wouldn't date a girl without a similar degree to his own, I am arguing against that position not for it.
I think he has leaned into the "best/perfect" as an SEO trick, and his audience tends to treat him as gospel - but his recipes are amazingly flexible and there is not a lick of pretense. I still use his trick for how to fake a smoke ring when making sous-vide brisket.
Workarounds exist, like for every other example I mentioned. I am mostly referring to the commonly used dependency graph.
I paid a gas plumber full rates to in effect remind me where the tap is for the fill line for my boiler.

Over time a boiler that isn't meaningfully "leaking" will still gradually lose internal pressure. Once the pressure inside the boiler is less than outside the boiler even when the water inside is hotter, that's not good. Eventually the system won't work and shuts down for safety, but before that it'll make a lot of noise while running. There's a pressure meter so you can see what's wrong if you don't understand boilers. My meter said about 0.4 bar. So that's too low, now I just needed to re-pressurize it.

The regulations here say that, to avoid mistakes resulting in stagnant water flowing back from a boiler tank into the fresh water system, the two mustn't be permanently connected. So there'd logically be an input, you connect a temporary hose, re-pressurize.

In practice, nobody does that, the installers will run a permanent line, in defiance of the rules, and use a tap, now you can re-pressurize by turning the tap.

Except, many years after moving in and setting up I'd forgotten where that tap could be. It wasn't where I expected to find it, and I could not think there else they'd have put it. So after sleeping on it and still not remembering I called a plumber. Not an emergency plumber, but still plumbers aren't cheap.

The plumber also couldn't immediately find it, it wasn't where he first looked either. But I can't actually tell how much time he spent "pretending" to look versus how long it really took him to discover it. Because it's embarrassing right? Even if the customer is up-front about the nature of the task, "It's under the kitchen sink - behind this panel, here" (yes, that's where it actually is) doesn't feel like a real job worth £80 or whatever it was.