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Why the heck have we still banned children from getting the vaccine? This article doesn't address this 1 time, and this is IMO the most important issue related to covid today.

Quite frankly, I don't care if anti-vaxers get COVID (there is some nuance to this, but basically true).

There is only 1 large group in the US that is banned entirely getting a vaccine, and that is children. We need to find a way to un-ban this thing now. Vaccines are safe & effective.

Just let doctors and parents make their own decisions about giving children vaccines. I have 3 children, 6, 5, and 2. Covid is about half as dangerous as drowning for them. Sure, that isn't a ton, and not as much as the elderly, but I worry about them drowning! I would give all of them a smaller dose right now without hesitation. But I can't have that option, because the government has banned it.

We keep making the same mistake. "Lets ban vaccines for a long time, run tests, and let people die so that people have confidence in the vaccines." Then, here we are, with like half the country turned anti-vaxer. Banning vaccines is a complete and utter disaster from a policy perspective.
>But all I remember from that TV debate is that his main argument tactic on TV was effectively interrupting all the time by saying "wtf", "people will die because of you"

Which was an apporpriate tactic given that the United Kingdom was one of the hardest hit countries in Europe and the entire world. Visible anger in the face of complete and abject failure of an expert class and in the face of a rapidly worsening pandemic was an entirely reasonable reaction and the situation was indeed obvious to anyone who didn't have his head up his own ass. You might remember all of this happened against the backdrop of a government that was willing to 'let the bodies pile up' to 'keep the economy going'.

The absolute veneration of "civility" as if being civil actually is worth anything in the face of tens of thousands dying as a result of hesistancy is mad. Any sane person should have been ragiung.
>>Symptoms were present in 385 (89%) participants at diagnosis and 81 (19%) were initially hospitalized.

The US hospitalization rate is (2,297,764 hospitalized / 33,604,986 tested positive) 6.8% so the study is a cohort of extra-sick folks.

Also consider the selection bias of those who want to tell the surveyor about it. I've been thinking about how to correct for this in cohort studies, like perhaps ask people if they are vegan.
Not “long Covid” but my sense of smelling/tasting is still not the same after 6+ months.

I had mild symptoms, but my sense of smelling and tasting were totally gone for a few weeks. After a few weeks it turned almost back to 80% only intense smells (like gasoline, garlic and diapers :shrug:) were filtered out. Since ~3 months these things stink intensely with an indescribable way… (I guess the diapers always did ;)) Additionally very neutral tasting stuff like cucumber and paprika stink too..

Curious to hear if anyone totally “recovered” from similar symptoms and if so, how they did it.

Edit: seems like loss of smell/taste like symptoms is also called “long covid”
I don't think I've ever seen it called out, but I always assumed it's "Secure" in the sense it hasn't been modified by a script.

But that's 100% a guess on my part.
The experience you're describing doesn't disqualify supplements, you say you've taken "25 [random] pills", this is not what I'm advocating. There are various supplements, be it vitamins or plant extracts, that have definite medicinal effects. It should go without saying, really.

For illustration, just go on pubmed and search for "nigella sativa" (black seed oil).
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I'm no chemist, but, wild guess, you might actually make things worse by favoring decomposition into methane instead of CO2.

I would think that a proper solution would require figuring out how to get all that carbon into a chemical form that is chemically stable and won't biodegrade. The ideal looks a whole lot like coal, I'd guess?
All fossil fuels were eventually living biomass. I don’t see any reason we wouldn’t “resuscitate” that biomass back into living organisms. It would take a long time for the living biomass to be re-interred into fossil fuels.
When I was still at school, I had occasion to tour the local sewage treatment facility as a field trip. They had equipment to power all the buildings on site with captured methane, but did not use it, because it was cheaper to just buy electricity from the grid supplier than it was to operate and maintain the generator with free methane fuel. (The methane was still burned.)
Would you agree that we can conclude that the incidence of burnout is high amongst software developers? The "real" level may be 83% or 93% or 43% but it seems fair to conclude that it is indeed some larger than desirable number that merits a larger and more robust study.

That is the value of a study of this size. The ability to quickly determine if there is any "there" there. The headline is sensationalistic but such is the nature of publish or perish science today.
My Krav instructor was a sheriff's deputy for 20+ years and teaches Krav to law enforcement. From what he's said, the curriculum for them is slanted toward weapon disarms, choke hold escapes, take downs, etc., so Krav can be and most definitely is taught to law enforcement.

I like other disciplines/styles and plan to study BJJ and Muay Thai later on. I just don't think it's valid to say no tournaments = untested. After all:

- US Military using Krav >= competitions/tournaments

- IDF using Krav >= competitions/tournaments

- Law Enforcement using Krav >= competitions/tournaments

Right?

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There are about 2.2 teratonnes of CO2 in the atmosphere. There should be about 1.5 Tt. That's ~700 billion tonnes of CO2 to remove, or about $25tn at your quoted price. Not impossible, but certainly not cheap.
I don't really have a horse in this race because I've made my millions and long since quit the FAANG shit, but this is absolutely not a myth. Perhaps you've never worked at a FAANG, or perhaps we've confused being impactful for being promotable.
This seems a bit low, do you have a source? While I haven't worked with the Qi standard directly, I've used 200 kHz inductive power transfer in other contexts, and efficiency numbers in my experience are in the 75% - 85% range for well-aligned coils. The total efficiency will be a bit less than this (moving charge in and out of a battery is pretty good, but not 100%), but I'd be surprised to see 5W transfer with a total efficiency much less than 70%.
I think the Stripe API stuff you did was fine, but you really did your best work as a concepts of mathematics TA.
soda stream is a lot cheaper than buying bottled sparkling water, and you can make a very good analog to your favorite mineral water / soda / energy drink for even cheaper if you buy the right additives online. They did do a good job of making their luxury version waste most of the CO2 tank because it's impossible to make a good airtight seal.

you can homebrew your own though, and use a much larger/cheaper CO2 source than what they sell at grocery stores, which I'll probably be doing soon.
Well, let's not go nuts. It is almost certainly the worst newspaper in the world, read only by the racist tubs of lard seen capering around Wembley at the weekend. But censorship is even worse.
Factoring in activities in support of work (commute, dress), it's more than 50% of one's waking hours during the week.
> even if the R rate is only marginally higher.

R is an exponent. Small changes in an exponent lead to huge differences in the result.
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Simply pointing out that 6 deaths is atypical (it's going to go well above 50, it's that today alone [0]).

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730019/why-not-use-doub...

Personally, as a general rule I use integer's and convert for display only (as mentioned in the above SO post). This removes the accuracy issue and works in every programming language that is in common use today (at least that I know of). I even do this in Postgres (and other DB's) which keeps everything consistent and removes the chance a driver between the DB and client jacks up the decimal conversion.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Bamboo has to be one of the fastest growing therefore carbon sucking plants, right?
I... Thanks! I wish I could upvote this 10 million times.
There’s nothing in there that’s an attack, but wow, you are an asshole. There is a good faith engagement and persuasion in there, and you respond with this?

Fuck off, you’re what’s wrong with society.
> Vastly, Deeply incorrect.

Sorry to be trite, but can you provide any evidence that there are legitimate economies transacting in Bitcoin?

As far as I can tell, Stephen is passionate because he recognizes various problems with Bitcoin: ecological damage, pyramid schemes, gambling, money laundering, ransomware, etc., and he doesn't see any actual economies benefitting from it that could overshadow all the negatives. Your comment seems to be more like gaslighting, trying to make him feel crazy while he's trying to make things right.
Why do we have to reduce emissions to zero? I prefer freeing up carbon from the ground as long as it’s not causing greenhouse heating.
Does Chrome have better site isolation?
At this point I think it’s pretty clear that you have an unstated ideological problem with this policy, because your complaints about it are not coherent. How exactly does paid leave decrease the wage of familial bread winners? And how in the world is paying parents to spend time with their children making normal families “suffer”?

It’s kind of funny that your core argument is that parental leave makes parents poorer, when the exact opposite appears to be true in the cases you decry. The state is back stopping the cost of parental leave in the countries you cited, which actually makes this an indirect transfer of money from the state to parents, not the other way around. Those without children are helping to pay for a benefit that only parents will reap, which is the exact opposite of what you propose.

Also, read your sources more carefully, the link you provided is very much pro the polices you’re decrying.
Thank you for your suggestion to “set up a personal demo… to address my concerns”. I’d prefer that you don’t flag credible critical comments regarding your service and answer them in the open. The comment that you’ve flagged contained links to screenshots that prove 1) you use scam mechanics; 2) your service does not work as advertised (if works at all).

Yes, I have a difficult time understanding why your service finds 168 “links” on data broker sites for a bogus name search. If your service performs a real time scan of data broker sites, it should find 0 profiles when it searches for a bogus name. Please answer a simple question why this is not the case.

Some proofs once again:
https://postimg.cc/rD93R2TG (Search results for non-existing name and city on data brokers sites)
https://postimg.cc/BXpdLb2s (Non-existing profile on addresses.com Optery dashboard report links to)

It doesn’t matter when I created my HN account and how many comments I have. What matters is you wrote blatant lies on your site: “Our dashboard provides dynamically generated custom deep links you can click through to view your profile”. Even if some links are real, the majority are not. Sad.
I have long felt there is a startup opportunity for a service that receives webhooks and lets you subscribe via message queue.
Right, but "closing borders" is dramatically easier when you're an island. You have formal ports of entry, your infrastructure is set up such that you have a cargo ship unloading at a port and then someone else drives the cargo to its destination. Consider, for example, goods produced in Poland and delivered to central Germany--there's no neat handoff between different delivery personnel at the border, unlike at a shipping port. Further, consider how many millions of people live on one side of a European, Asian, or American border and work on another side--how many Australians commute outside of Australia in their daily commutes or vice versa?
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Sadly, no, 18650's cost the same for half the capacity. Likely because they're in high demand right now and car manufacturers have hogged up the best of them.

Hence, LiFePO4, heavier, lower voltage, less capacity, but also safer tbh.
At the time coal deposits formed the bacteria that broke down lingin and cellulose hadn't yet evolved, so just burying trees wouldn't work today as they would decay. You could probably burn the wood to produce charcoal (burning it in a low oxygen environment), and the bury that, but just cutting down a forest and burying it won't work.
They have had a special logic AGAINST Facebook for a long time now, via Facebook containers
It's a common writing style as of late, set down a premise and solve that premise decisively.

Now, if that premise isn't based in reality, or if it's already been solved some other way, discredit it without giving it too much air time.

A one liner about kafka being cumbersome and then building your own solution, warts and all, doesn't need to exist in the same thought if you've made the reader mentally disregard it as a possible solution.
IMHO #3 is fundamentally flawed as I just can't imagine browsers improving to a point where you couldn't cross reference such "fixed" entropy budges to clearly identify the user.

The only IMHO reasonable technical solution is to reduce entropy as much as possible, even below any arbitrary set entropy limit.

Through in the end I think the right way is a outright (law based) ban of micro targeting and collecting of anything but strongly, transparently and decentralized anonymized metrics.

Also I don't seen Google fully pulling through, e.g. one area where chrome is massively worse then Firefox wrt. entropy is the canvas (at least last time I checked). It's an area where there are known reliable ways to strongly hinder fingerprinting of the canvas. But I don't see Google using them as it would be in conflict with Flutter Web rendering animations in the canvas (which inherently has problems and is technically sub-par compared to how the browser could render web animations (and does in case of Firefox)).
Yeah the ability to swap was what made it so great. I haven't found anything else with the same capability.
if you got more than four paragraphs down you would read

> If you are one of these people, congratulations. You’ve already got the answers you need. Although you may be retiring FROM something, you’re also very clear on what you’re retiring TO. You can stop reading right now.
You've got like 4-5 major upstream distros though
Dried up wooden building material is pretty stable and a fairly common (even commercialized) suggestion for a carbon sink. If you let it rot/burn, then no, it is not a carbon sink.
What’s the issue with that? This will be discovered as soon as the endpoint tries to send an event, right? At which point the client will see that the connection has been closed, reconnect, and receive the event.
You probably wouldn't want to test 69°C anyway.
The main problem is that we've released so much, so fast, that there really isn't a productive place for it to go. The other problem is that humanity keeps expanding and there's not much free space left for nature preserves. If you wanted to plant a new rainforest, where would you possibly put it? We're already cutting down swathes of existing ones just to feed and house our expanding populations. So sadly, most of that extra carbon just remains in the air.
No idea why you're getting downvoted

Speculation: conflation of his reasonable and factual statement with the ostensibly similar far-right talking point that the cure (social distancing) is worse than the disease.
Are you going to expose your Kafka brokers directly to your integration partners? Are they going to use the Kafka client library and wire protocol to send you data? That’s the thing about webhooks, HTTP is universal and if you’re comfortable exposing anything externally, it’s going to be a web service.
How are Americans using Backblaze for multi-terabyte backups? comcast/xfinity has a 1TB/month bandwidth cap (unless you pay for the unlimited tier). The main thing that's held me back from getting a cloud backup solution is not knowing how I would feasibly backup my ~10TB of data.
But wait, why would I plug in a cable to the battery instead of directly to the phone to achieve faster phone charging? I suppose if I only had a 5 watt charger on hand? But if that is the case, why does it not charge at 15 watts when not plugged in?
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I don't think my estimate of the cost of FTP maintenance would be as high as yours. Why do you think FTP would still be such a cost at this stage?
> By doing so, in addition to reducing the environmental impact of our experiments...

How does reducing the cost of individual experiments reduce the total environmental impact? Won't more efficient experiments (measured as experiments/Watt-hour or experiments/$) just trigger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox as more people take advantage of the lower cost?
> how do they separate the out the effect of the de facto criminalization of social activity, an innate human behavior ingrained in our DNA after millions of years of evolution?

Presumably you can tease that out to some degree by comparing to folks who didn't have COVID.
Only 5W? What makes Apple's 5W better (no, it's not 15W when portable)?

But yeah, OK, you can attach it with magnets to the back, that's worth double the cost. Oh wait, make that triple, since you need the case.

I better stop now, shitting on Apple was a favorite pasttime of mine.

I mean, as someone looking to manufacture and sell a premium product, I'm pretty happy with it, people will pay anything for imaginary benefits.
not really illegal. seems to be sold on iherb
I have a 2010 BMW 335, which is twin turbocharged. It is on electric water pump #3 in less than 100k miles. My mechanic tells me not to worry about coolant change intervals because these water pumps will never last that long anyway.

The electric pump is great from a performance/efficiency perspective because the car can make choices about coolant temp irrespective of engine speed. It's a horrible device from a reliability perspective though. I have already been stranded by it once.

My turbos are "fine". But I know they will fail in the next 30k miles. In talking to my mechanic the prices fluctuate quite a bit, so I am going to start keeping an eye out and just buy a pair to have on hand when mine finally let go.
I think I'm semi-retired at this point. It's taken over a year to get to the "What will make me happy?" stage. Initially I kept thinking that I needed to spend my downtime learning new technologies that would be marketable. Now I'm starting to let go of that idea and it's feeling better, though I'm still a bit afraid that maybe I'll fall through the cracks and not be employable again - but that's probably fine at this point in my life. There are a lot of ways you have to change your thinking as you transition to a retired or just less-work-focused state. Our culture causes us to invest a lot of our identity in work and I'm finding that it's taking a while to shift my thinking.
I do have screenshots and "solid" evidence that the account is from a developer from the same consulting firm, but I think it's a very hard case to defend.

I agree that trashing their name all over the internet is the easiest, but I don't think a lot of people will see it and I won't get anything in return other than (some) immediate satisfaction. The positive side is that at least for the few that might see it, I'm warning them of the dangers of trusting third parties...
Websockets can cause issues especially if you're not closing sockets properly, or have too much activity on a small server etc... Livewire for instance accounts for this by just polling every 2 seconds for changes, this is much more performant than keeping 10000 sockets open if people leave open the page/app but don't actually do anything...

Straight long-polling should be avoided, but intermittent polling is a good solution for performance when you don't want to use all your socket bandwidth.
I'm fairly certain I've had it as well. I had coworkers who were confirmed to have had it, and I got sick. This was back before testing was widely available. I've since tested negative for active infection (last June), and been vaccinated (March 2021).

I have almost no endurance. A trip to the store shopping for groceries, and getting them back in the house, and put away, is about all I can do for a day.

The long term consequences of Covid are just starting to be recognized. I wonder how many people are going to end up on disability.
Indian contractors always associated to me with mediocrity bordering with fraud.

You get what you paying.

Quite often indian "consultant" is a middleman (or few) doing nothing but frontending the cheapest guy in town to do something just enough to not getting fired.

Chasing them or thrashing them is unproductive. You're not be seeing a dime.

They'll change their name by lunch time and will screw the next sucker.
In the 1980's and 1990's there was a stigma about people with AIDS and people didn't want to touch them or be near them.

When Princess Diana visited some people with AIDS and literally just shook their hand - it was a huge deal.

It went far beyond the hard medical issues of fluid exchange.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-39490507