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Why are patented drugs or medical devices your metric for a good health system. Those just sound like ways for people to profit from a sick population. If we had better health outcomes for citizens, I would cite that.
Wikipedia's mobile site was originally running completely separate software (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering/...).

My guess is that it was easier to set up that way at the time, and then the configuration was kept when a mobile version was integrated into MediaWiki itself.

There are plans to merge the domains (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214998), although they are vague and stalled.
I run my furnace for 5 months out of the year. Total yearly cost for nat gas is about $600. And my house is a really drafty 1950's era one. So the max that insulation could save me is $600, that's it.

A heat pump and solar installation needed heat my house in the winter would cost about $12000. But actually the heat pump would only run as I mentioned above for 5 months out of the year. So really just to offset the energy, $6000.

Economically high performance insulation systems lose to solar panels.

That wasn't true 10 years ago. But it's true now. And it'll get worse going forward.
Usually I read the NYT with JavaScript disabled, but while that does display the text, it doesn't show the illustrations and fonts...
Real world example of the culture I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iyriT8W6-8
Dixie Mission: the first US effort to establish official relations with the CCP
Excellent news but there's a translation error or misunderstanding in this article.

> The scientists are using yeast as a receptor-binding domain.

I think they must mean they're using yeast as the protein expression medium and encode the receptor binding domain of the spike protein (along with the rest of the spike?) with yeast-y promoters and base sequence preferences. I guess there's nothing on the spike protein that needs to be glycosylated so non-mammal cell culture works.
> Their govt made a lot of mistakes, but this doesn't seem to be one of them.

The FEDERAL government did made this mistake. Repeatedly: https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/veja-10-vezes-em-que-bolsona...
This is an interesting choice. Any language or framework has to make a dozen or more choices between doing something in a way that's compatible but compromising, or bespoke but... bespoke. It's always a painful choice in my experience. This one is particularly bold, though.
> If only the first strand is expensive in a fiber deployment, why duplicate work by not installing residential fiber at the same time?

Because 5G is expected to be more profitable than fiber and deploying fiber would require more CAPEX.
And you should really look at the confidence intervals on those point estimates
> World Bank puts Cuba's public health statistics largely on par with the United States, at about one-tenth the per-capita cost.

The average Cuban makes in the neighborhood of $30 a month. Cuban doctors make about $70 a month. US doctors make something around $30,000 a month.

As it turns out, it is much easier to have a cheap medical system when you pay basically nothing for labor. However, this is a feature of a system which is otherwise rather unenviable.
This is quite subjective. One Californian (or Australian, or whatever) sparkling wine producer could set a trend with a new, memorable name, and become more exclusive.
> Any protocol designed for the TCP transport must have been designed to work in concert TCP mechanics, not fight, or try to workaround it.

There is a reality of running code on other peoples hardware: they impose limitations on network traffic that you cannot change. Example: Home-grade routers do NAT, but have table limitations which make it hard to have multiple connections. The connections get dropped, and users complain, not realizing it was due to them having bought a cheap router. Other actors in the network path between the client and the server impose their own limitations, making it hard to have multiple connections. (corporate firewalls being another big one).

HTTP/2 is a compromise, admitting that it is not possible to go fix or replace all this hardware. I worked on a few HTTP/2 implementations, and the complexity it incurs is significantly less than the alternatives.
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My local Dollar Tree has excellent food - sure, no fresh vegetables but there are staples plus name brands that costs 2x-5x at the local grocery stores and other stuff that's not even available at other stores (specifics off the top of my head - Zapp's Voodoo Heat chips, I've never seen them anywhere else besides the dollar store).

Obviously the stock is somewhat inconsistent.
I don't know if you lose much learning power or if you just lose interest. I've been through so many Java frameworks that I just can't see the value in learning another one. I also cannot muster the patience to wade through Oracle documentation anymore.

But I've taken a liking to Rust, I've learnt a lot of maths and I've also read up on networking.
Sorry that you want all the Jews in Israel to die, but some of us think they have a right to live. Hamas, the "Palestinian" "government," thinks all Jews everywhere should die. In contrast Israel has Arabs in government.

You can call it a blockade, but Israeli Jews would simply be killed in the scenario you're advocating for. All of them. You are very literally advocating genocide of the Jews. Fuck you.

This website gets more anti semitic and further Left everyday.

BDS is a genocidal position. If you're going to take that position, at least be honest about your hatred of Jews.
The embargo has been in place for quite some time. I think Cuba has figured out how to deal with it by now.
The expression "socialised medicine" sounds way better when you call it public health system.
The most major difference being that I have come to associate apps installed via F-droid with quality, while I associate anything produced by the "Big players" with bloatware and trash.

Almost without exception, the more apps from "Big players'" stores I install, the more laggy and trash my experience on mobile becomes, until I am forced to buy a flagship.
This is exactly the same way my PC experience had become prior to migrating to Linux. Now, I get to be in control of my computer, and honestly, if people would shift their attention from "it doesn't compare to 'insert hacked together proprietary trash X' " to, "who actually owns my data and computing devices?", we would immediately see a turnaround of this experience. The catch22 has always been, nobody is using the software on Linux enough for enough people to be submitting feedback, while simultaneously, not enough people believe Linux is worth moving to.

Those people still left supporting these corporations immediately jump to the same argument as always, while these "big players" find and innovate unique ways of slipping ever more propaganda directly onto your machine, all while you are stuck staring at the newest trash filter added to photoshop.

Quite honestly **** you good sir, how dare you **** on the effort of the Open Source community by even pretending for a second that you are not representing the opinion of the very corporations that would see these communities extinguished if it added so much as a cent to their quarterly profits.

Seriously, don't even try to represent what qualifies as software in today's world with what used to be "good" software.

There does not exist a program in today's world that isn't a bunch of hacked together trash, sticky-taped together by countless shortcuts, all in an effort to ship in time for the next deadline.
> One of the best things about international economy is that not every country needs to invest in their own $anything if they can import it from the best, especially for cheaper.

In general, yes, but vaccine is one of those things that you do NOT want to rely on someone else, and every country would prefer to be able to produce their own, even if it's more expensive. This pandemic has clearly shown that when shit hits the fan, every country will prioritize their own citizen first, which is perfectly understandable.
If you can afford it: Sandler sales training. They're not the only solution, but they're very good and (at least in the past) part of your fee includes lifetime access to go back and retake the training, freshen up your skills, etc. (I'm not affiliated, but I did go through their training; it made me the best salesperson in my circle of small-consulting-shop friends and colleagues.)

If you can't afford it? Read The Challenger Sale, a data-backed look at the most effective techniques.
It is ahead in development but way behind in providing that healthcare to it's citizens.

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortalit...

Life expectancy in Cuba is higher than that of the US (72.5 vs. 71.9). Health workers have eliminated polio, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and diphtheria. Malnutrition incidence amount 1-15 years olds is 0.7% compared with 5% in the US[0]

[0]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2315760/#:~:text=Life%20expe....
"And no new letters have been added to English or French lately."

Counterpoint: €
So send them my fingerprints and dna?
Update: https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-miami-area-condo-c...

> Just one month after an engineering report warned of "major structural damage" that required immediate repair, a Surfside, Fla. official assured residents of Chaplain Towers South that their building was sound.

> The engineering report was dated Oct. 8, 2018. At a Nov. 15 board meeting of the Champlain Tower South Condominium Association, a building official from the town of Surfside, Ross Prieto, appeared to discuss that report. "Structural engineer report was reviewed by Mr. Prieto," the meeting minutes say. "It appears the building is in very good shape."

> The inspector's comments directly conflicted with an engineering report from five weeks earlier, which warned that failed waterproofing in a concrete structural slab needed to be replaced "in the near future."
They are very useful as black market currencies. Black markets are an escape hatch for bad governance and that is all they will ever be. Good governance will win in the end.
Lest you think mine was a shallow, knee-jerk analysis, this is my area of subject matter expertise. I get all the nuances, but I just felt like defending library authors, whom he unjustly threw under the bus, because that stuff is really hard. Like really hard.

Also, if you are using libraries written by grad students, then you probably need to find better libraries. All of the major battle-hardened ones like BLAS, LAPACK, CUDNN, TF, FFTW, etc., have had major big brains looking at them for years. Decades in some cases.
> You made it sound like child's play, and yet how many countries have been able to produce their own COVID vaccine and use it for their own people?

Most of the countries that bothered to start vaccine development projects, also have successful vaccines, am I right? As far as I know, only France and Australia launched projects but didn't get there.
Boeing was my first job out of college (BS in Aero Eng but I was hired as a software dev). I worked there for a few years in both commercial aviation and defense projects. I've since moved out of the aerospace industry entirely in favor of tech.

Boeing is a huge company and I saw just a small slice of it at my time there. So with that caveat, in my opinion the root cause of Boeing's problems are mismanagement. Mismanagement flows down from the top of the organization and impacts everything they do.

Here's just one example, off the top of my head: There is no "psychological safety" in the workplace. I wasn't aware of this term at the time, but it's crystal-clear with the benefit of hindsight and a decade more working experience. There is no good way to fix irrational or ineffective processes; or at least, I've never seen it happen. What I did see, several times, is course changes and "new approaches" that result in whole departments (dozens of engineers) getting pink slips. So as a result there was inherent mistrust of change, because "we're going to stop doing X and start doing Y" meant "everyone currently doing X needs to scramble to find a new project before the hammer drops". It is impossible to build a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence in such an environment.

Again, this is just one example. There's probably hundreds, thousands, more. It's mismanagement all the way down.
> given that the rest of the world probably has produced 5 effective vaccines between them.

China alone has 7.

There's 18 vaccines already authorized for use in various places around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#List_of_autho...
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The opt-in feature you mention was for a disagree alert for the plane’s angle of attack sensors.

But, MCAS was only ever using a single angle of attack sensor as its source of truth, so if there was a fault in that single sensor, MCAS could activate at normal attitudes.

But the real problem was that Boeing hadn’t documented MCAS, to avoid the requirement for pilots to obtain type certification for the MAX (so any existing 737 pilot could to fly it without additional training - and it wasn’t just Southwest objecting to this training), and to avoid a full FAA certification process for the MAX.

So on an MCAS activation, even if they had had an AoA alert, pilots would not know how to instinctively deal with it. (I don’t doubt an AOA disagree alert would give invaluable information allowing the pilots to rule out most failures, which when only a few thousand feet high would maybe have saved both planes.)

On the previous day to the Lion 610 crash, the incident aircraft suffered an MCAS activation and fortunately a pilot in the jump seat realised what was happening and what was needed to deactivate it.

It seems being sat behind the trim wheels (so he could see they were moving) and not wrestling to keep the plane in the sky at the same time was needed for that to happen. It must have been terrifying.
People will always be a problem but when the platform manifestly does sleazy things over and over again, it's the platform.
I suggest you start browsing https://old.reddit.com/r/sales

Maybe start selling something that fits your schedule. This is a skill you learn by doing rather than by reading. Do note that selling has a lot to do with how you think of yourself. Best of luck
Why not use built in Sidecar?
Have you seen Richard W. Stevens book TCP/IP Illustrated? Specifically volume 2 'the Implementation', which is, I think what you're looking for (albeit slightly dated).
> I don't understand how anyone can casually express such vulgar celebration of the state, knowing the misery that it inflicts on the most vulnerable in society, with money as its chief method of lifelong emotional torment.

Power goes both ways. States created more prosperity and misery than anything else.
I was reading about the mRNA approach recently and wondered why not just inject the spike protein itself? Why have our body make the protein instead? Does anyone here know? It's interesting to see that both approaches yield such good results, and the end result, triggering immune response to the spike, seems about the same.
Nah, not really, don’t believe those numbers, I’m from there, I know this is just political BS. Family and friends (some of them fully vaccinated) still struggle with COVID.
All the science cuba used to develop the vaccine is american or european.
Well, those are just what my friends and peers generally use. I frequently use zoom with cameras turned off.
If this brilliance can be translated to understanding in other fields, which usually it can. This requires studying, which firms simply tries to avoid.

I am a software engineer now, but my major was mechanical engineering, I can barely remember any of my coursework, but I understand how physics work in general, and a small bonus on how to disect a system. Nobody can know everything in today's world and that's why common engineering/sense training is so important IMO.
If the US didn't subsidize all the other countries, you'd see a much different picture. It's easy to provide better healthcare, when someone else is paying for all R&D and manufacturing.
Yes, this is definitely something we have in mind. Mostly because the user base starts to be quite big with a lot of feature requests, and bug fixes to be done. And currently we are only like 2/3 devs working on our spare time, it would be great to be able to have someone working on this full time.

However, we have to handle this carefully, because we don't want to charge the average retail trader, that's the whole motto of the project :)
For the Israeli sympathizers:
The west put you in the middle east as a military base after the fall of the ottoman empire, not out of care for your lives. Colonizing the middle east with Jews and not re-integrating them in Europe was a form of cleansing. Two birds with one stone given what is happening in Palestine.
It is a 3-dose protein vaccine. [1]

"The second of these candidates and the fourth from Cuba uses yeast as a receptor binding domain protein and alumina as an adjuvant." [2]

I suspect there is a translation issue here. I would hope this means they are recombinantly expressing some portion of the RBD in yeast, not that they are using yeast as a vector.

[1]
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/world/americas/cuba-vacci...

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4654/rr-6
Not really, I’m from there and I can totally assure this is just political BS. Family and friends (some of them fully vaccinated) are still struggling with the virus.
Managers that only see Excel sheets and think software development is like factory work.
https://archive.is/B7Mgq
The same applies for Iceland. Nurses keep striking, doctors call for more funding, health care experts keep complaining about lack of facilities. Yet Iceland has one of the best health care system in the world.

Be it a capitalist country like Iceland or a socialist like Cuba, with enough funding and an educated workforce you can run a pretty successful healthcare system, despite the fact that it could be better. And perhaps that is precisely why the workers in a successful healthcare system complain. They are educated enough to know how it could be improved even further.
For whoever is (still) uninformed please read up on the current status of the platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_...
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in one web shop i worked with, developers who were fanaticslly using constructions "WHERE user LIKE '%$user%' "

we've had some really heated debates, but nobody would listen to me. and then one day DELETE happened where $user was empty. they spent half day restoring the database, but nobody made any conclusions and nothing changed...
Hey that could be. So yeah I didn't mean to imply the goods were different, just less selection. I mostly go to the ones in Oceanside and Keary Mesa, and the last one I visited in Japan was in Fujisawa early 2019. I haven't been to the one on Sawtelle in a while but I do seem to remember it being bigger than the ones in San Diego.
Wow, using physicians as a revenue stream sounds bad. Hope that doesn’t happen in my country where we pretty much constantly demonize Cuba.
> I really fail to understand the logic that may make someone to think a software engineer, however brilliant, can write software for a domain they don’t understand.

This misunderstanding arises out of necessity to compensate for the lack of understanding of the value of nontechnical roles.

It's heartbreaking for BAs, POs, PMs, and every other flavor of functionary when they realize that, after some* years of experience, the programmers understand the business just as well as they do. And the programmers have countless other invaluable skills that the functionary could never understand if he studied for a hundred years.

*This length of time is variable. Depending on the business domain, it could be anywhere between 1 and 10 years.
Effective is an important qualifier in my statement.

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-vaccines-questioned-af...

China may have 7, but are they as effective as they claim?
Couldn't agree more with this. I've learned so much these past couple of months. But having a more sustainable project with at least 1 full-time dev, would be very welcomy
This is all great when people make that a priority. But most people I know don’t really care about the openness of a platform so long as it works nicely.
> Turkish or Bulgarian feta are neither second-rate nor imitations.

They also have local names, which would be fine to use. People are not completely stupid. I mean, halloumi was unheard of here [some continental EU country] a couple of years ago, and now it’s quite popular. So people can learn new names.

We can understand that cava and prosecco are similar (to a first order approximation, please don’t bite). Same for raki and ouzo. Or port and madeira. There is nothing wrong with that.
There are scientific publications every year by cuban doctors that corroborate that data. None disputes the superiority of cuban health system
> anti-communist

This is a positive thing
I still remember those days but they were 7 years ago.
Natural immunity is way better than any vaccine. You don’t need a vaccine if you already have antibodies.
Just from observing dusty PC fans being turned up to higher speeds, I think the effectiveness would be limited. Most of the cleaning is accomplished from having air flow impact the surface at a different angle than usual, and at a much higher static pressure.
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I think people focus on Israel b/c it is the result of an invasion and expulsion of natives. Just like the US and all America....
People tend to think that internal matters of a country should not be addressed too much (like many of the countries you mentioned). It's hard to believe you dont understand such a simple concept and it's hard for me to not consider that part of your comment pure rethoric.

I agree on your comment on the ineffectiveness of embargos. Unfortunately the solution to the Israel problem is to not create Israel in the first place. At this point, the damage is done. That's why governments (looking at you US) should think more before deploying military (vietnam, iraq, afghanistan, .... )
>rather than merely apply mathema^H^H^H^^H^H^H^H logical operations within constraints.

This is what all programming and software engineering is - logical operations within constraints. Types make those constraints more explicit, and make them work for you rather than against you.

They make refactoring of large-scale systems more tractable and less painful, which is invaluable when requirements are shifting. And they can eliminate entire classes of errors, bugs, and security vulnerabilities at compile time, which is invaluable in a day and age when everything is getting hacked.

As type systems become increasingly sophisticated, those benefits become even more true. And when you take into account all the man hours spent on a system, not just in building the quick and dirty initial prototype, but in debugging it for production, and then maintaining it over a long period of time with eventually 100% turnover of the initial dev team, then types reduce time and effort spent too.

You should read the famous paper Out of the Tarpit. Type systems are one of the best solutions to the tarpit of complexity that large systems inevitably incur.

http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf
Common Lisp has a condition system and optional OOP so more incidental complexity than Clojure.