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> Biden is however the establishment.

Ok so are anti-establishment politicians in the US targetted? Such as someone from who wants to deconstruct the establishment like Sanders? Oh he's treated with relative respect and allowed to campaign? Oh ok... so that's unlike China and Russia then?
> YouTube is not a legitimate source for medical/drug information.

It is not a source, and never was a legitimate source of anything, but a media of communication. I am not sure why people mix the two up. If doctors in one part of their world can share their observations with doctors all over the world, it has tremendous value.

Now it seems that doctors can only share their observations with W.H.O and any inference should come from the top, which they could delay citing sorry "no research" for an arbitrarly long time..
If the trickiness is from the tracker paradigm, the way I got into it was to take existing projects and study them one track (column) at a time. You can find a bunch at https://modarchive.org/. Not sure if Renoise is compatible with historical tracker files, but there are links at that site to apps that do.
The typical student aspiring to get into an elite college is aiming to get over 750 in reading and math. In my year getting one question wrong on math would reduce your score to 770.

Things are a bit less competitive on the subject tests. A couple questions wrong was still sufficient to get an 800 on Math level II my year.
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Both the articles you cite mainly complain about lack of data, but they both predate the study posted here. The NY Times is 3 months old. This study may or may not be good, but neither article address that question.
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>Xofluza, Relenza, and Tamiflu

None of them are as effective as Ivermectin (allegedly). It is only logical that efficacy is also important.
Yea: School boards, teachers, administrators to some degree. Sorry, it was a little awkwardly phrased.

> Someone who is 40 years old today is right on the cusp of being a millennial.

This doesn't fit the data. The median age of a teacher in the US is 41[1], which means that less than half of all teachers are millennials. By contrast, 72% of teachers are women.

I'm having more trouble pulling up the sources I've seen with crosstabs on approval of wokeness[2] by gender and age, but I know it's quite gender-skewed (as well as age-skewed).

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass1112_2013314_t1s...

[2] The definition I'm using here is leftism with an identitarian focus, that opposes Enlightenment liberalism's aspiration towards transcending ethnic tribalism. I again mean this neutrally, with no comment on whether this worldview is more legitimate than the alternative.
> Yet another reason why C was a mistake.

No, it allowed creation of the software at the time, when there may not have been an alternative language or environment.

Having said that, it sounds like a format descriptor was misused, and if you do that badly enough, a lot of languages will misbehave.
> these kids are not broken.

> we are calling it "merit"

It sounds like you’re arguing about who deserves the prestige of going to Lowell rather than who actually benefits and contributes to the experience of attending classes at Lowell, which is the most populous school in San Francisco and has fairly large class sizes and tough grading.

Instead of pretending that all students are equally prepared for class or that every teacher is prepared to serve every kind of student at the same time, reformers should try to figure out exactly what the students such as the ones in the article need for motivation. It doesn’t mean that they lack "merit" or that people who don’t want to go to a competitive college are bad people. It’s ok to acknowledge that different people have different needs.
It's not as easy to fix as it seems at first glance. Imagine I put up $1 million, and you are a chef, and we go into business together. You get 20% of the restaurant company for being the brains of the operation. In 10 years we sell it for $2 million. You get $400k. I get $1.6 million. Should my gain be capital gains? What about yours?

Some folks feel that all human labor and human capital should be taxed as income.

Others think it would be distasteful if on the successful exit outlined above, the chef had to pay higher tax on his 20% ownership than the capital provider ie said folks think that everyone should pay the same tax rate on the sale of the business.

Others think that in my example the chef has brought capital to the table in the form of skills/knowledge learned, ie human capital. So, everyone is getting taxed on capital in the same way. The chef gets his monthly salary taxed as income, which is payment for labor.

None of these positions are obviously flawed. It's pick your poison. Creating a tax system isn't easy.
A world-famous scientific authority (and co-author of the paper in question) being banned from Twitter because her professional opinion doesn't match the allowed narrative? With 3.8 million dead (and counting) How is this not substantive and relevant to the discussion?
Some places have great soil for agriculture but not enough water.

Some places have plenty of water but not so great soil.

You can have a globally more productive society if you arrange to bring the good soil and the abundant water together.

Since it is way easier to transport water than to transport soil (there is no soil equivalent to the pipeline or the aqueduct) that is generally the direction we've went.
Shenzhen is home to a lot of startups. some of them become unicorns, many of them you'll never hear about unless you're ij that specific market because they're B2B or get rebadged in Western markets. But there's a tooon of startups in every domain there. Basically most of the ebike market for example will use a lot of components from Shenzhen startups, and so do most electronics and a lot of software and e-commerce.
OK I could have worded that better, but I certainly did not want to get into a flamewar. I think there is a well visible point there still.
>Many of these video game groups write root-kit style DRM mechanisms for a living; given the (shady) history & experience at the task, it's not a far leap to assume that one of these groups would irresponsibly combine the efforts, if given enough legal ambiguity and a long enough paper-trail to make legal harassment separated from the major group.

from the sound of the article, the malware sounds extremely unsophisticated, though. It edits your hostname, sends your ip and what you downloaded to some php script, and that's it. it doesn't even persistently install itself in any way. Basically anyone could put something like this together without much skill required. Not even disputing this wouldn't come from some sort of ip-based adjacent company, but I doubt it would be written by the same people who write DRM software
By what metric? About 25% of the military budget is in salaries, and a professional military has to be paid whether or not they're in combat.
Been using Renoise for about 9 years now, and I absolutely love it!

Post your renoise-made music here!

this is me: https://soundcloud.com/flipbit03/ibu-kid
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You're assuming that the author was writing with mathematical precision. Dictionaries rarely are.

Here's an alternative definition from Merriam Webster:

> a belief concerning death, the end of the world, or the ultimate destiny of humankind
I don't know where you are in the US, but this won't fix the problem instantly. Even across public schools, there are competitive ones, and there are non-competitive ones. There are high schools where 25% of the class goes to top colleges, and there are high schools where most don't go to college at all. The presence of the 'good' high school drives up property values too.

There are still huge discrepancies across public schools.
What do you mean by having an "intact career"? Did leaving too early harm your career, and if yes, how so?
There is also a problem of HoTT and equality reflection incompatibility[1].

[1] https://www2.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/~streicher/barc_corr...
Everyone was green at one time, grasshopper.
I do it with uMatrix. I usually go up to the "all sites" level and enable most everything before going through a credit card payment flow, for this reason.

Security is only part of my motivation, though, and not the main part -- I mostly do it because it protects me by default from all the pop-up type crap that so many websites foist on you. Yes, it's a pain to un-break sites sometimes. But I resent it less than going through the equivalent pain in "privacy settings" popups, wriggling chat widgets, "ate you sure you don't want to sign up for our newsletter?" nags, etc. Websites are already broken; as long as that's true, I'd rather be in control of why.
Makes private school look like a good deal. I seriously didn't know it was that high.
> Sure, but which technology should USA reproduce. Just chips, and then be late on everything else?

For ICs:

Design, Fabs and Packaging should all be looked at from a national security standpoint. IMHO it needs to be viable to compete with foreign fabs. Whether that looks like subsidies, tax breaks/credits, or guaranteed minimum volumes... Those each are different policy decisions that have pros and cons.

We also need to consider the larger electronics manufacturing supply chain:

PCB manufacturing, contract manufacturing, pick and place/automation, etc. are all extremely important and should have similar thought put into it. Today it isn't reasonable for most people to do a significant electronic manufacturing run in the US because we essentially pushed it all overseas in the 80s and 90's. There just simply aren't enough CMs and PCB houses to do large runs in the US and its the same chicken and egg problem that you have with IC fabs: You can't do it in the US because there isn't enough volume to get good pricing and there isn't a decent pricing because the PCB houses are focused on low volume runs.

Ironically, when we pushed all that stuff overseas, the major reasons were because of costs (primarily) and environmental impact. At the time, many electronics had a non-insignificant amount of hand assembly and it was stupid cheap for labor in China. Coupled with the fact that companies in China just did not give a fuck about the environment, there were literally no downsides.

Today, things have changed a ton. First, almost everything is surface mount and is well suited to automated pick and place machines. Second, PCBs have become easier to manufacture/design and there are new technologies that could make this even better. Third, with things like ROHS and all the lead free/environmental requirements, many of the advantages of going to a country that doesn't care about the environment isn't as beneficial, because the requirements are for the end products, not the process.

It really wouldn't take a massive amount of government encouragement to really bring back most of this stuff, I think though there is the big issue that there just aren't that many direct jobs created. Most of the money is going to get sunk into machines that make things and sure, there will be people who mind the machines, but you just don't need that many people for these automated processes. Lets just say that spending $50 million on roads produces a lot more jobs than spending $50m in a PCB house. The flip side is that while the $50m on a road might help transport several billion dollars worth of goods over its lifetime, a PCB house focusing on specific types of PCBs could/will enable companies generate billions of dollars worth of profits on the goods manufactured.
Sounds like the iOS stocks app. Just junk robo-articles it pulls in.
Another thing I've learned over many years: If someone is using insults then they are out of ideas.
It’s such an obvious class of bug that any decent compiler complains if you do the equivalent of

printf(theStr);

rather than

printf(“%s”, theStr);

Still this bug regularly crops up all over the place, making the % character risky when naming any shared resource.
Stuff like this drives the push for things like vouchers. I’m lucky to be able to send my kids to a good private school. We chose it after a tour and discussion with the headmaster about exactly how it operates.

The teachers as a group research and plan curriculum. They coordinate across grade levels and determine how to roll out changes in the most effective way possible for students and parents as well. They rolled out common core math over 5 years with great success well before it was forced on public schools.

In other words, they let the people who have studied to be professional educators make decisions about the best way to…educate. There’s no school board, no state level involvement, no federal disruption every time there’s an election.

And it’s fantastic. I see this work and my first instinct is that EVERYONE should have an option like this, not just the people who can afford it.

For that reason, I support some type of voucher program that could achieve these goals. Yet for some reason in the US this is a political hot button, which doesn’t make any sense to me. Currently, the only people who have all the options are people who can afford them out of pocket. Everybody else is stuck with either public school or home school and home school is on the rise.
There's plenty of work of more value than pumping gas that would give people a living wage and put a lot more back into the economy. Right now it's a drain on the economy, albeit miniscule compare to the whole. Either way, it drives up prices and costs of operation. A jobs program should at least have some benefit beyond being an indirect tax on everyone. Otherwise we might as well just take the same people and pay them to dig holes they fill in the next day while letting people buying gas get through the process a little faster without having to wait for a spare attendant at a busy station. It's always frustrating to pull up to a station with 12 pumps and just 1 or 2 attendants on a busy day as a dozen cars lined up behind the ones at the pumps. Then have to wait 10 minutes just to get the pump started in your own car.

And all I can think about are the two attendants running back & forth trying to get as many pumps going as they can, running ragged for a completely bogus reason. Then sometimes the attendants don't even try and the wait is longer, yet those are making the more rational choice of not driving themselves crazy making shit money for a worthless task.
I would like this translated into normal English. This is the basis of the argument of why posts disappear from the article, and I don't understand what the author is trying to say at all:

> One of the challenges of the pandemic period is the degree to which science has become intertwined with politics. Arguments about the efficacy of mask use or ventilators, or the viability of repurposed drugs like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, or even the pandemic’s origins, were quashed from the jump in the American commercial press, which committed itself to a regime of simplified insta-takes made opposite to Donald Trump’s comments. With a few exceptions, Internet censors generally tracked with this conventional wisdom, which had the effect of moving conspiracy theories and real scientific debates alike far underground.
Totally random story:

I was one of the beta testers for BSDI, in 1990 (long before Linux or FreeBSD). They sent me QIC-40 tapes that I used on my fancy new 386/33 with a SCSI tape system that I bought just for this purpose. The problem was, I kept getting weird data corruption - compiling anything would spit out random errors that obviously weren't in the source files.

After a few months of this, I gave up and installed OS/2 instead (from floppy!). It failed on install with a cryptic error message. I called OS/2 support, gave them the error code, and they asked "Do you have different speed memory modules installed?" Bingo, that was it. I never did install OS/2, but the install process was invaluable.

I didn't end up using BSDI much. Most of my work was on the CSC department's Pyramid timesharing system, so I just used a terminal on Windows (3.x). RIP polyslo.calpoly.edu.
First heard about consteval. This is cool, but every time C++ adds new and obscure features like this I cannot stop feeling helpless. Rust-like macros are fine, and old languages like Java have linter checks that provides type safety to the format string [1].

Aren't these enough? Apparently no.

There could be a world where people stick with this kind of "pragmatic" solution and stay away from without doing spec-puzzle-solving. C++ is not that world and I've accepted that, but let's make sure the other side holds the majority vote.

[1] https://errorprone.info/bugpattern/FormatString
Short of an amazing breakthrough in automation, this is basically inevitable. If you think about it in terms of labour values (I know, but stick with it) the West basically gets to do unequal exchange, the average westerner consumes a lot more labour-hours than they actually work.

Now the reason for that is that behind every hour of work of an average westerner there's a lot more capital helping, and more educational capital too. But if developing countries do get closer, then inevitably prices will start rising.

Not all industries can benefit so much from added capital. Those that can, and the service economy, are done in developped countries. Those that can't, are done in developing countries. If the two equalize, then the inequality in labour hours will equalize and westerners will either have to work more or consume less of products that are made in developing countries.
I'm not an expert on education, or on public policy.

I see people on twitter and reddit bitch about having to learn calculus and never using it.

But you know? I don't remember how to use calculus at this moment either, but I remember concepts of it measuring infinitesimal increments of change, and how derivatives and integrations relate to rates of change.

I don't remember the mechanisms of all my teachings in school, but it made me appreciate bridges, combustion engines, biology and literature.

The honest question is: How do we determine when a child/teenager has no capacity or will to understand the beauty or utility of advanced learning, and what do we do with them?

Especially as automation takes over in the next 30 years and we have millions more out of work because we don't need taxis, truck drivers, farmers, or 60% of food service?
Both of these are parasites, though. Things that kill parasites don't necessarily kill viruses.

It shows that it's probably not that risky to take at certain doses, but it implies nothing about efficacy.
Just to put a number on that, my employer only allows foreign remote workers to be hired indirectly through a third-party staffing company, to avoid legal or tax issues associated with having direct employees in another country. The staffing company charges a fee of 40% (!) of the fully loaded compensation for this service. The fact that we're willing to pay that suggests to me that it isn't trivial to do in-house (or we're being very risk-averse, which is also possible).

On the plus side, this does mean that hiring a remote worker based in a foreign country can be solved with "just money", which is not true of U.S. immigration. If you want the problems to go away, you pay a staffing company 1.4x the compensation you want to pay the person, and the staffing company makes it happen.
You could also prefix it with a varint : in this case it would not require any extra byte compared to the NUL terminated string when the length of the string is less than 128 chars.
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I'm fairly certain that this was one of those so-called "jokes" you may have heard of.
Banning a book entails prohibiting private citizens / businesses from distributing it. Just because a government isn't funding the distribution of certain material doesn't mean it's banning that material.
> whose previous 3 spouses died

Employment is not marriage.

Hiring someone who has hopped jobs 3 times is more like dating someone who has dated 3 other people before you.
In my view, we would do better with our educational resources and reform efforts to completely ignore the elite colleges and let them take care of themselves. I would much rather figure out how to support and strengthen the education system from the bottom up, starting with the community colleges, trade schools, and regional public universities.
> [Genghis Khan] was born to a mother who had been kidnapped and [raped] by his father, a practice in which Genghis Khan himself would later engage.

> He and his men would kill the heads of other clans then force the survivors to join their united “super-clan.”

> Each time he conquered a new clan or people, Genghis Khan would [rape] the women, either to himself or to his head chiefs. This is how he acquired enough wives to father the number of sons necessary to provide the DNA lineage which we know today.

Standard infanticide practice for many primate species. Humans just scale better.

> Yet when it comes to the DNA of Genghis Khan and his descendants, we are fascinated at the possibilities and still seek the “bragging rights” of being a part of his incredible family legacy.

Being descended from a mass rapist isn't something to brag about. And let's not gloss over what those women went through.
I asked why Covid vaccines are absent from VAERS list of reportable AEFIs

https://vaers.hhs.gov/docs/VAERS_Table_of_Reportable_Events_...

And the person you are responding basically said that the new vaccines are so safe that it didn't have to be on that list.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513984

I don't mean this as a personal attack on that user, but It is really concerning how blind and apologetic some people are to the various things that can go wrong with a Vaccine.
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This is really interesting. Even though it's a trombone simulator, because of the way it is played, it really could be an instrument of its own. But I did learn a lot about trombone I didn't know before, so it does exactly what your text says you want it to.

I can imagine synth musicians coming up with all kinds of new sounds with that style of interface, but with switchable sound samples.
I didn’t realise how important politics were and how far some people will go to crush you if you think you are a threat.

I had a senior co-worker tell me some documentation I had written was terrible, when I asked what was wrong with it he replied “everything”.

Months later I found much the same document (as in 90% of it was copy pasted from mine) in our company wiki, under his name.

I /think/ (thankfully such a situation has n out come up since) I should have raised this with him and more senior managment immediately instead of just sighing and moving on from it.

I also echo sentiments about not leaving early enough - if the ship is on fire, be with the rats, not the captain.
Why do you say that?

No single approach results in the 'best' decisions, and I'm not sure what the "global economy" and the "United States' represents in this case - both are very large collections of various people and interests.

The U.S. does have a very strong emphasis on freedom, you know, and has done very well with the free market and free trade - no country, in aggregate, has gotten richer following any system in the history of the world. Truly.

I'm open to improvements that distribute benefits better, but what do you suggest would work better?
The mechanism has now been published in Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00430-5
Acceptance rates are meaningless because the denominator means nothing.
Very well put!

I really need to work on this too!
And raise similarly successful offspring.
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