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Even if you know for certain that someone is an anti-vaxxer, disregarding their opinion/question by accusing them of sealioning is a fallacy.

Someone is not a "bad-faith" actor for asking precisely the questions that are hard to answer, even if they're using those questions to support a wrong idea.

If you don't have time to answer their questions, don't answer them. If you do have time, you have a good opportunity to expose the falsehood of their ideology. But don't use ad-hominems like "sealioning".

Sure, there are some stupid questions, or questions that come with a false premise, but that's not the same as discounting good questions because they come from an anti-vaxxer.
Yeah, maybe you're right
No, I think the alternative here is asking vaccinologists.
I do this if my attempt to unsubscribe fails at all.
Incredibly well put!
For corporations on corporate computers fine, but this is Google tracking personal accounts.
> From the viewpoint of a healthy young person, the risk/reward ratio of taking a vaccine is bad.

Absolutely false. The disease can and does have severe and sometimes long-lasting impacts on young healthy people. The mRNA vaccines don't have any impact worse than a sore arm.

And we aren't getting to a herd immunity level of vaccination if young people are unvaccinated.
>Do scientists have to gather up every possible reverse transcription gene in the known universe and test them?

For sure there could be a more practical way, but even if that's the only option well ... science is rigorous, man. Hence why we still have the theory of evolution and the theory of relativity. If you don't like it and wish to go back to "just believing" ... well, good luck, we won't miss you.
How likely do you suppose it is that trite dietary advice will improve the life of someone who just expressed disdain for trite dietary advice?
Collecting a ransom in physical cash is extremely risky for criminals! Law enforcement knows where you are at a specific time.

I have never heard of ransomware that predated cryptocurrency; could you share a link to an article?
I don’t think there’s any central storage for ICVPs today. As far as I know the records are just held by whoever normally holds your health records - the WHO trusts centres to only certify responsibly.
Ok, while Linus so righteously describes the basic molecular biology of RNA, here are some of the less insane questions that he doesn't address:

1) After an injection of mRNA (inside of lipid nanoparticles, if I understand correctly) into the body, which cells will the mRNA enter?

2) The mRNA will cause the synthesis of the spike protein that will be displayed on the surface of these cells and initiate the immune response. Since the cells expressing the spike protein will be treated as infected by the immune system, will it result in the death of these cells? If so – and depending on the answer to the previous question — is this cell death dangerous at all?

3) Following question 2, what are the chances of the development of an autoimmune response?

4) Why do some vaccine recipients seem to develop thrombotic events?

5) Is there a reason to believe that the spike protein itself has cytotoxic properties? If so, is there a reason to believe that the spike protein expressed by the cells transfected with the mRNA can get detached from their membranes and enter the bloodstream? If yes, is there any danger to that?

Edit: I've phrased these questions in the most neutral language of a basic medical immunology textbook, yet, judging by the instant downvotes, I managed to upset someone. I'm not siding with the author of the email to the Linux kernel discussion list; I am merely wondering how much precisely is known about the mechanism of action of mRNA vaccines beyond the basic overview that Linus outlined.
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Original paper without paywall https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.09546.pdf
NREL has a great report on this [1]. The median degradation is 0.5%, average Si 0.7%, but in their report it could be as high as 4%. Typically, they are quite fast at the start then slow down as the panel ages. Because they assess the degradation with a 0.5% number and 1.0% is more typical the bell curve moves up. The expectation is P99 [2] which is the question "What is the chance that we see calculated yields exceeds 99% probability?" depends heavily on how the calculation was done in the first place.

Some other points mentioned that, wild fires reduces the yields with 6% and hail storms damage the PV systems. Interesting work! Value proposition for PV is lowered by climate change impacts.

[1] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51664.pdf
[2] https://solargis.com/blog/best-practices/how-to-calculate-p9...
We can worry about that without saying, "These substances would not be found in our kitchen." It's either false or misleading.

I'm guessing these quotes are taken so far out of context that they've become meaningless. It's possible the speaker was referring to something specific with "these substances", but we'll never know by reading the article.
Just to clarify the “messenger” thing: mRNA is called like that because it delivers the message (i.e. the instructions to produce a protein) between the genome and the ribosome. The denomination is also useful to distinguish it from other, usually non-coding (meaning “not blueprints for proteins”) types of RNA.
Sure, until the vaccination rate falls below the herd immunity threshold, whereupon outbreaks pretty much immediately occur. This has been seen repeatedly with measles, for example, as it is highly transmissible and it doesn’t take much of a drop in vaccination rates to make outbreaks likely.

Not taking a vaccine if you’re young and healthy is a purely selfish move. Not taking a vaccine should be reserved for only those people who cannot take a vaccine: those who are far too young, or who are immunocompromised. Everyone else should vaccinate to protect the truly vulnerable.
And Hippa concerns, this status will likely be resold as well.
1) It's pretty clear then that you don't have much experience with planning at level beyond a few people if you've never heard the term KPI come up in software

2) Agile still comes with meetings
Intel likes cruft. They keep adding extensions (sometimes stupid) to keep adding value for niche applications. That also forces AMD to try to keep up.

RISC V is extensible and Intel would undoubtedly patent some extensions of their own, trying embrace/extend/patent on an otherwise open standard.

Still might be cool as the base ISA is solid and the existing vector option is already superior. I'd love to see what Intel or AMD teams could do with it.
What if it was more than a month? What if it was.. permanent?
Finally, a Millennial Ponzi scheme!
> You're advocating for a position as "a guy in a room"

No they aren't. They just said they want to WFH.
Yup, that's the same reason SoMa is at such risk
I’m having a hard time believing you’ve met worse than a 10:1 ratio, with respect to interest in vaccines, of “bad actors” to “good actors”.

Here are some links to polls about American views on vaccines. It seems unlikely you’re running into this ratio without some major biasing factor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/02/09/he...

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/03/05/growing-share...

(I’ll admit the numbers in September from the Pew poll are surprising to me)

Granted, you’re further assuming the person asks questions about vaccines. In your description it seems to me that we’re already far away from scientific thinking as a society if the way we can confirm someone is anti-science is by whether they exhibit symptoms of any kind of curiosity. This sounds like what the previous commenter is talking about.

Maybe you’re saying, “people who spread doubt in the form of a disingenuous question frequently do so in a particular social environment I’m a part of.”
Anti-vaxers would have spread the same thing regardless of government info and prediction rate.
There's long established precedent that schools and colleges are allowed to require proof of vaccination.

The idea isn't remotely new, and is nothing so odious as critics claim
This feels like a pretty large business opportunity. Completely agree.
I can't agree anough with this approach.
I don't know what your experience has been, but I would wager good money that nearly every anti-vaccine person I have encountered has nearly zero capacity to have their opinion changed by properly formatted scientific evidence and experts presented in a rational, logical way. They are firmly set in their bubble of conspiracy theory rhetoric. You could literally bring an expert panel of eight virologists and epidemiologists in front of them, face to face, and they would still stick to their position. In summary, a real waste of time.

For some of them, their entire method of operation is to waste your time, troll, and gain acclaim from their own hardcore fan base by doing so.

I'm sorry to say that I have no time and effort left on my part for anything other than low effort mockery and derision of people engaging in infowars/hardcore conspiracy theory stuff.
It's a bit disingenuous of you to state that anti-vax people "don't care". Have you actually engaged with any of them? They probably care a lot more than you and me about this stuff, they've just gone to the wrong conclusions.

Also, you generally support Linus curtailing his asshole behavior, but you want to make an exception for anti-vax people? Why? You want them to burrow down harder into their anti-science bunkers? Why? Is that going to make the world a better place somehow? Do _you_ care?
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Is that the same as what Fastmail is already doing by not loading images at all and showing this warning message instead, with a link to "Load images"?

> Remote images blocked to protect your privacy.
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> That's not true across many of the languages I use, dict.pop returns a key error in python for instance.

Yeah, sorry. I should have been more clear. This behavior is common in Lisps, which is what I’m used to. It’s less common in mainstream languages. With Elixir it may be Clojure-inspired.

> By having a version that raises the standard library is basically saying not having a key is the error state.

Not necessarily, it’s saying you can choose whether it should be an error or not. Notably other functions that error don’t give you the option of specifying a default. That’s the difference here. Nil is returned because it’s passed in, it’s the default argument for the “default value” parameter.
Looking from a intellectual curiosity perspective, I wonder if taking the vaccine/getting sick can have a epigenetic effect.
Thanks for asking.

Honestly I would like to be in the office as little as possible. I get knowing a person face to face has value, but having a fixed schedule of this would feel artificial and more draining.
I'm in Canada. I don't like the policy of one dose for everyone first. I believe the right thing to do is to vaccinate the most vulnerable groups with two shots first. So, what I'm doing is waiting until second doses are being offered to my age group before signing up for my first dose. I'm not anti-vax by any means, but that doesn't mean I think the government is doing a superlative job either.
My favorite part:

Go 1.17 implements a new way of passing function arguments and results using registers instead of the stack. This work is enabled for Linux, MacOS, and Windows on the 64-bit x86 architecture... For a representative set of Go packages and programs, benchmarking has shown performance improvements of about 5%, and a typical reduction in binary size of about 2%.
from your link, "Apple doesn’t detail its current ad revenue, and analyst Samik Chatterjee seems to imply that the number could only be reached by including some form of advertising within or around Apple TV+" and "Apple’s most recent earnings report revealed that it earned $12.51B from Services in calendar Q3/fiscal Q4, though there is no breakdown on how much of this comes from ad revenue."

so it seems that the current revenue is a guess and the projection is a guess.
They use treated sewage.
Compare this to the stock market. Think of a share of AAPL, for a moment, as being the combination of two things: the ownership of a tiny sliver of Apple, and a bet that Apple will increase in size.

The first part, buying a little slice of the company, requires Apple's participation. The speculation part, however, doesn't. I could write a webapp that simulates the stock market, declare that it contains X "shares" of Apple at Y price, and people could speculate on them, much as they do in the real stock market, all without Apple knowing or caring.

That is, of course, exactly what Bitclout is: it replicates the "bet this company will do well" part of the stock market, without the "own a little slice of this company" part. But for people, rather than companies.

I draw this analogy in order to try to answer the question: is Bitclout really stupid? And it seems like the counter-intuitive answer is, maybe not totally. These days it seems like investors don't really care about the ownership conferred by stock. I mean, they do for a small startup or LLC, but for blue chip stocks with no dividend, the "ownership" part is kind of vestigial; they're just vehicles for speculation.

So what would happen if you made your own "stock market" app, where people could speculate on "shares" of stock that don't include any actual ownership? Would it work? It seems like it might. There are certainly problems: for one, there's no moat - nothing stops 100 developers from making 100 more such speculation sites. For another, they wouldn't be rational; my Apple "stock" might go up when the real AAPL stock goes down, for one reason or another. But the real stock market seems kind of irrational at times too.

Not sure where I'm going with this; Bitclout still seems stupid to me, but less so than when I started typing this...
is it on fire?
It usually comes along with the virus, but there's some in our body as well [1]. Whether they work on the same mRNA targets or not is an open question.

[1]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2016.0000...
In Argentina, silos have been mostly replaced by silo bags with grain inside. Like this one: https://agroverdad.com.ar/2019/04/como-lograr-en-8-pasos-un-...
It depends if you classify highly processed fine ground, bleached, and sieved flour as a "real food"

Same goes for the sugars.

The hydrogenated fats.

Those "flours", sugars, and fats make up the bulk of that food.

The hippies were right: Eat food, mostly plants, mostly raw, and make it taste nice.
No different to paying your US taxes to fund the same thing.
You want to try Farmacias Sucre out here for vaccines (I think they were the only ones I could find who did the yellow fever one), although maybe the best way to take it would be seeing a doctor to get a prescription after checking your antibody levels. Most pharmacies here have a general practitioner in there who maybe even owns the place for consultation... just look for the person in the white jacket. Chances are their English is fine. Also looks like Clinica Biblica has it for only about 88$, they're alright:

https://alivioexpress.com/inicio/esp/detalle-producto.php?pr...
I like your idealism, but there are plenty of tactics that would make even the most knowledgeable person look like a fool, because knowledge and oratory skills are completely separate: my favorite example is the gish gallop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

This is why good journalists do not invite a "flat earther" and a "nasa scientists" when discussing, e.g., climate change. Because those organizing debates have a responsibility to ensure the debate is based on facts, not on oratory skills.
I mean, reading the discussion/conclusion via google translate, this seems to be a study on metabolism of the vaccine? Open to being fact-checked, but this doesn't seem related.

In any case, the only statement I found on health effects in the discussion/conclusion was "No toxic findings indicating liver damage were found in the rat repeated-dose toxicity test ( M2.6.6.3 )." but I don't speak Japanese and I'm sure using Google Translate is a very ineffective way of parsing research.
When they are studied as a prophylactic or at early stage, they really prove out. I think that trial you referenced was in late stage severe cases, almost feels like they gamed that design to fail.
Or just like those offshore scammers who have a million different avenues (like gift card numbers), or just a wire transfer to an offshore account.
Did you try spacy's most similar method? It's written in cython so is presumably quite fast as well. Thanks for the rust implementation though, I will most likely use this.
I agree, and that's why I try to answer questions with friendly answers. It wasn't so much that I was advocating for dismissing the question, I was just trying to explain why experts have gotten really, really tired, and might do so.

(Also: My local county facebook group has no shortage of very vindictive, angry, and seeming inexhaustible anti-vaxxers.)
> Verifying their e-mail address would be useless as attacker would already know the e-mail.

In this scenario, no. We're talking about an attacker who is iterating over the ID space of a URL shortener in order to find a password-reset link that had been URL-shortened.

If that link only contains a token and not the user's email address then the attacker doesn't know the email, and asking them to provide their email on the password reset page would at least make it marginally less bad to url-shorten links containing password reset tokens. (But it's still a bad idea)
You could always hire a bunch of shadowrunners to destroy your competitor's computer system, but I don't know what that has to do with ransomware.

But hey, I guess you could use cryptocurrency to pay the runners.
Exactly. I don't see why a screen attached to the car is somehow superior to the native screen I've been using for years; just put it somewhere accessible. I've found that the CD player mounted phone holders are insanely convenient in almost every car.
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There are a lot of Status Page offerings out there, both OSS and SaaS (there's an awesome list here: https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages).

At Statsig we wanted something Open Source, as simple as possible, in pure html/js, and that could be hosted/updated entirely via GitHub's infra. We also want the ability to do more frequent updates from our own VMs (more than once every ~30 min, the GH Actions limit). None of those options fit these requirements, so we've built our own page.

Hope it's useful to someone else!
No driver, processing or configuration is required on the bridged machine. This is good for devices you can't install a driver on (smart TVs, networked printers, any other appliance). No configuration also means you don't have to risk your wifi password being stored/shared with third parties.
1. Waste of code reviewers' time

2. Waste of later coders' time when running git blame on a line when trying to figure out the purpose of code

3. Waste of later debuggers' time when they need to decide whether this error is the thing they're looking for, an unrelated error to bisect skip, or an unrelated error in possibly-related code that they need to manually fix and then re-test.
n=1

I use an intel nuc i3-7100U as a wifi to ethernet bridge for a Windows 10 machine (HP Elitedesk 8300 Core i5-3470). The nuc also serves as a htpc running libreelec.

Why? I tried 4 different USB WiFi dongles with different chipsets spanning ~11 years and each one would end up being the cause of intermittent blue screen of death. The dump file backtrace repeatedly pointed to the usb-wifi stack.
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You could try looking into the VS Code codebase [0]. I wouldn't say it's considered an 'ideal' codebase, but it's definitely a large and well-maintained one.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/
whereas I'm saying it's not an externality even in the absence of manipulation by specific regulations, which you apparently agree with given your second sentence.

I find that people have a tendency to be overly narrow in considering competition and declaring things monopolies. There are alternative ways to get tasks done that avoid relying on (and paying for) low-quality internet services if companies find it necessary.
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> A real concern is about safety of those vaccines as typically they require ~3 years of testing and a single fatality aborts their use.

Drug development is usually serialized because it's so expensive. Why produce a bunch of drugs if it's going to be thrown away? Operation warp speed said let's just throw money at the problem so we can parallelize as much as possible, knowing that if it doesn't work out (effective, safety) then we as a country just ate the cost of trying. My understanding is the clinical trial parts weren't any different than would normally be done.

AFAIK vaccine safety is usually determinable within a few months. That is to say, if anything bad happens, it'll happen soon and not years later. Because enough months had past with larger and larger groups looking ok, plus extreme effectiveness, then emergency authorization was passed.

You could say emergency authorization is alpha/beta. But that alpha/beta has now been rolled out to hundreds of million of people and the safety profiles haven't changed from the clinical trial modeling. And if the failure probability is all up front, and we've already passed those milestones, then are we really still in alpha/beta territory?

mRNA vaccines are also not a new technology. They've been used for years now.

> Would you give alpha version to people you love?

If the option is an alpha which is passing all the 'unit tests' so to speak, or let them get covid and have far higher risk of dying or permanent disability, I'd for sure choose the alpha.
Not at all. Why would it be?

I have a regular weekly 1:1 with each staff member (a while back I proposed making them bi-weekly but alas they insisted on maintaining this cadence... it's a lot more work for me, but it's what they need) to see how they're individually doing and to make sure they have what they need.

We also have a regular team checkin to update on overall company status, discuss issues, etc.

Through those mechanisms plus regular communication over Slack, email, ad hoc calls, etc, we stay connected and aligned.

Meanwhile, I stay in contact with my management colleagues so we're in sync laterally and all pulling in the same direction.

This isn't rocket science. It's not even that difficult. You just have to be a bit more intentional about staying in touch and connected with folks.

If anything it reinforces for me how important effective middle management is, as done well, it serves as vital glue to keep a remote workforce connected.

Now, I'm not gonna lie, when we first went full remote I was concerned that the 1:1's would be less effective, simply due to lack of body language, etc. But I'll freely admit I was wrong on that point. In fact, we hired and onboarded a new senior staff member during the pandemic and it went as well as any previous onboarding we've done. Though it's a bit strange realizing I've never actually spoken to him in person...

At this point I think I'd be comfortable going full remote, maybe with the odd in-person get-together just to celebrate successes and so forth. I suspect the only thing stopping us is some older school senior management who aren't yet comfortable with that idea.
The main users of my Plex server are not tech savvy. They are my parents/aunts/uncles/cousins/brothers in law/etc. I could consider other platforms but Plex works because it’s stupid simple for clients. That’s my number one requirement. Less support calls.