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> Your family member's instinct that his risks may be higher from the vaccine might be entirely in line with the reality.

Based on the VAERS data, this is probably the case for anyone under the age of 60.

It is definitely the case for anyone under the age of 30.

But everyone gets similarly bludgeoned with population-level data to convince them to make an individual-level decision. If you want to call them selfish, go for it. But they're not stupid.
If you’re interested in a good starting place for carbon removal ideas, I highly recommend the Carbon Farming Solution: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-carbon-farming-solu...
Lots of similar questions here, good answers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWpFCjh0Fk (Sabine Hossenfelder)
If you ever try to follow what a holodeck can and can't do, you easily see that few of our technology predictions can even hold a candle to it. There's some finger-waggling in-universe to explain away the discrepancy, but the ‘fact’ is that a holodeck would create matter with which you can interact, out of thin air, and expand this volume of matter seemingly for kilometers around, while purportedly being located in a room. VR is but a feeble emulation of holodeck's glory.
You're not really comparing features to features if you're comparing to a boring 5000mAh brick with wired charging.

Closest I can find is probably the Anker Qi magnetic brick:
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Magnetic-Wireless-Portable-Powe...

5000mAh, only 5W Qi charging, and $45.

Again, not defending the Apple tax here, but it's not as far fetched as it sounds.
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One thing we've lost in the transition to two-earner families with the expectation that everyone has a career is exactly what's coming up in this thread:

1) People derive a lot of meaning from their interactions with other people.

2) For most people (at least, most people reading blogs like this) today, that meaning comes from employment, from the exchange of time for money in the service of others.

But pre-television, and in many parts of the world still today, people gather socially for many reasons other than the strict definition of work above.

The rat in the race doesn't know what to do when the race is over, because all the other rats are still in the race, and he's never been outside before.

The list in this post is about how to make the outside world look like the race you just left: Do things! Find people to do them with! Get out of your comfort zone!

These are mechanisms for people without strong social and community ties to fill their time.

I would encourage anyone in this situation to consider what aspects of their prior race-like lives they would like to lose first, and to find communities they would like to belong to. Some of those many be activity-oriented, and there's nothing wrong with that, but they don't have to be interesting activities.
I suppose I view causation as a direct link. Not a secondary/tertiary side effect. I do agree with the sentiment of what you're saying and it makes sense in a "common sense"/hearsay type way but this is citing academic research which has a different burden of proof for determining causation.
When the conclusion is, literally, that there is correlation between these two variables over which people have control, how can you say it's "meaningless"? It's some evidence of what seems like an obvious hypothesis: sleep is healthy and exercise is healthy; if you do more of one and less of the other it should even out in some manner. They looked at the data and saw that this appears to be the case.

The "correlation is not causation" crowd who show up in every scientific article being discussed is the worst kind of pseudo-intellectualism. The authors of the paper went out of their way to say it.
FWIW, this is what CouchDB has done from Day 1 and it _always_ seemed like one of the most magical and surprising things tool or platform providers would suddenly realize and then LOVE about using the DB.

There was nothing fancy about it, you could just listen to an endpoint and it was a stream of the append only log of events occuring in the DB to the point that you could literally use it to feed a replicated master or slave (or backup).

I imagine your use-case is a bit more nuanced, but I sure do love that model.
If 'fixed' includes zero, I don't think it's that few. There are quite a few who (try to) live of their savings. Not all are worry-free rich.
The point is that as long as telemetry is delivered over the internet, it is also tracking. There is absolutely no difference whatsoever unless your telemetry is delivered via Tor or some other mathematically proven means of nearly-anonymous transport.
> in Osaka at the beginning of November 2019

On what basis do you believe this was covid-19 and not some other disease?
Doing the equivalent of putting your money in Fort Knox kind of kills the appeal of "money you carry in your head".
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Yeah I agree that false positives are a risk with monitoring 4xx rate. I've never seen a satisfactory "bulletproof" way to monitor 4xx rate, it's inherently difficult and simultaneously important to monitor.

It's easy in retrospect to say "oh that was a waste of time because it was just bots" but you don't know that until you investigate. I ask myself "if I see elevated 4xx's, at what point do I start to care if they're caused by a bug?" and set monitor thresholds somewhere around there.
I've got an Apple Smart Battery Case[1] for my iPhone 11, which is a similar idea, and the extra battery life can definitely be handy. Doing it with a swappable battery is a neat twist though - I haven't seen that done before.

[1] I picked up a cheap used one - they're rather expensive at full price (£129). It can charge my iPhone from 10% to 60% though, so it's current capacity roughly matches its design capacity.
Elections are not statistical tests. Number of people dead are not statistical tests. You said "When we get into "total population" statistics, we kinda leave the realm of statistics lol." That is false. There are many questions that statistics is best suited to answer even if an entire population has been surveyed. Often the term population is poorly defined, and is much wider than the simple base case.

In the case of J&J blood clots, there's billions of additional people who could take the J&J vaccine. 15/21 million people who took he J&J vaccine got blood clots. But if you want to know what percentage of "people who take the J&J vaccine get blood clots" that's not the same thing. The population includes an infinite number of people.
This is really wonderful, thank you so much for implementing and open sourcing it!
Seems to apply to both:

> The 2021 limit for contributions to Roth and traditional IRAs is $6,000

https://www.investopedia.com/roth-and-traditional-ira-contri...
Bing's image search still lets you view the image or copy the image url directly from the search result.
>according to historic data.

How applicable is that today? QE has tanked rate of return on bonds/savings accounts to below inflation. In many european countries interest rates on savings accounts are zero or even negative.
They halted it because they have a choice now, not because the vaccine is worse than COVID. Did you read the article? Probably not because you’re spouting the same nonsense as antivaxers. Look at the stats and remember this is a pandemic: Your choice affects others. The reality is that you’re just selfish.

Edit: Rereading some articles about the stop reminded me that the stop was a political decision more than anything. In short they’d rather slow down vaccination a bit to avoid scaring the population with numbers they don’t understand and off of the vaccines altogether.

It was akin to “shooing the ghost away” so the kid stops being scared.
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Why would you need different templates for mobile/desktop? CSS is quite capable responding to any screen orientation.
It's like 12x the price per energy unit compared to other 3rd party battery packs from high quality brands like Anker.
2 typos on the frontpage:

- Spreadsheet should be spreadsheets

- Quickly onboard your people on any devices. Should be device.

I don't like the term "your people". They are not your people.
:wave:

I'm a Co-Founder at https://vantage.sh/ - thanks for posting this, Jeff!

I think the biggest call out here is that Vantage Cost Saving Recommendations are profiling not only things like AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances but we are also directly integrated with AWS Service APIs that allow us to surface higher-fidelity cost-savings measures on a per AWS service or resource basis. Over time, we will be adding to the suite of checks and recommendations.

Also, it's worth calling out that these recommendations are available to all users -- including users in our free tier.

I'm happy to answer any questions if folks have them.
> the approval of these two vaccines after a bunch of their own trials

Which two? If it is still the case, Pfizer and Moderna were not approved at all by the FDA. They were given emergency use authorization only by the agency. As I said before, the whole approval process takes years, unless they are authorized for emergency use, as it is the case with COVID-19 vaccines.

You have to realize that they did not have their own "bunch" of trials. It would have taken years to properly go through the process. We are studying them now, some time passed since first vaccinations, hence why there is emerging information about side-effects.
> the part where he instead diagnoses everyone with having been driven crazy [...] is not really thoughtful

I said you could expect "significant" depression if there's de facto (in some countries de jure) criminalizing of social activity.

I think you're the one who's not being thoughtful about characterizing arguments here.

I believe the policy is often misguided/short-sighted but I never said that, you're extrapolating that valid criticism of the policy would be a discredit for officials.
No greed here. Apple is making this so the argument that they get money for lightning cables is irrelevant. The phone uses lightning. It would be weird if the battery pack used something else.

You can make an argument that Apple should switch their phones to USB-C but they seem to be heading toward a cable-less solution instead. If they were to change to USB-C tons of people would scream that Apple were doing this just to sell new cables. That is exactly what happened when they switched from the 30-pin connector to lightning. I would like to see them switch on the Pro model phones, at least. That market is likely more ready to switch.
The first Python implementation is bad - removing the first element in each iteration is O(n), the C implementation gets this right by maintaining one index into each list instead of modifying the lists.
While it makes for impenetrable forest (scrub? Bush) when mature, you’d have to imagine that the acreage requires to sequester meaningful amounts of carbon would be absolutely vast. Bamboo just isn’t that dense.
Have you seen this strategy for Long Covid? https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-recover...
1 in 4 people are not Hypochondriacs. Medical research is used to the way people play up symptoms and this is well above the noise floor.
Another interesting tidbit: bamboo is actually a grass, not a tree.
There's a few "plant trees" or "terraform the sahara" comments in here.

For some context, if we planted trees wherever we could around the world we can only undo a decades worth of emissions[0].

Not only that but it would still take a century for the trees to reach maturity.

Our use of technology threw nature out of balance and we need to use technology to get the balance back again.

[0] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6463/eaaz0388.ful...
If you're using HTTP use websockets or server-sent events, not long polling. Long polling is obsolete.
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For once, I disagree with Ars Technica.

Sure, what they're doing right now appears not to be nefarious. But they're putting language into their user agreements that opens the door for them to be nefarious in the future with no warning or recourse.
My point is that I'm not sure even how I would "address" these issues that you are insisting Linux Desktop evangelist "stop excusing". That is, 1) I'm not getting paid to work on Linux DEs or have the time (right now) to volunteer, and 2) I don't think you could get 10 people in a room to agree how a DE should behave. Like, what would I change to what? I've consumed plenty of blog posts complaining about UI inconsistencies on Windows, macOS, or Linux, but these all still seem like preferences with no single "correct" answer as to how a GUI should be.

Even taking the one concrete example you provided in this thread, Apple's App Store is incredibly popular -- in fact in the US it has a 56% marketshare [1] -- so why would a Linux OS moving toward what you prefer would increase adaption? I really see no actual evidence of this; as in the example you give is literally the most popular way to do it. That said, I don't even think it matters either way. I've grown cynical enough by now to realize that humans are a lot more complicated, markets more monopolistic, and purchasing habits are better explained by market researchers than developers (or even HCI researchers!)

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
I don't see any of this covered in the second or third article (apart from a comment in the second article that provides some additional interesting details on this hypothesis).

There may be a generational effect at play, causing the symptoms to be more pronounced in the offspring of the high margarine cohort. Certain interventions effect second and third generation offspring. You can induce sterility in the third generation by an intervention in the first generation for example.

That being said, canola oils and soybean oil are more used than ever.
Giraffes are great
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When a study has unsurmountable limitations, which make it impossible to usefully reason about the "results" of the study, is being frank about those limitations more useful to society than not publishing the study?

To me the obvious answer is "no, you toss it in the bin, or better yet you think for awhile and don't perform the useless study", but opinions can differ here.
Freedom Mobile and it's owned spectrum is likely to be acquired by Rogers as part of the Shaw Rogers merger.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-shaw-1.5968419
> I got CoVid in Osaka at the beginning of November 2019.

Impossible, cases did not appear in Wuhan until mid-late November. You must have had some other flu/virus.
I do wonder if this is proportional to your symptoms/proportional to other ailments.

For instance, is someone with Covid (who was on the verge of needing oxygen) more likely to have long term symptoms than someone the same age who got the flu/pneumonia (and was also on the verge of needing oxygen).

In other words - is there something unique about Covid? Or is that any disease that sets you back has serious long-term consequences, and Covid is just statistically much more likely to do that than the flu, for example.
Shameless self promotion but I'm working on an extension to help filter out crud. I'm only in day 2 of dev work but I plan to have controls to select which categories you want removed so you never have to see political, angry, or controversial content on reddit (or any other major social media or news site):

http://healthy.surf/
Flagged this because it is 1 minute after you submitted it and the cert shows as valid, so either they fixed it quite fast or this may just be your own issue.
> you can trachea crush if you want to force a submission (ezekiel).

Damn had no idea Ezekiel is possible in no-gi, something to practice now. Thanks!
It may be 24% of time, but it's something like 70% of my energy. Add chores on top of that and there's barely any energy left for discretionary activities.
Sorry you're correct - Feb 13, 2020.
As a side note - For someone not totally an expert in AWS it’s sometimes difficult to choose between SQS, SNS, EventBridge and the list of other related technologies.
Is it possible to have an asymptomatic primary infection and still suffer long covid? Antigen tests where negative but ever since last fall I feel weird symptoms that I never had for any length of time. Stuff like trouble spelling, complete lack of concentration, difficulties comprehending things when trying to actively learn and a general feeling of confusion and exhaustion. I tend to just assume a general state of exhaustion or slight burnout after a pretty intense year. Reading long-covid experiences makes me wonder tough.

Edit: spelling…
Well it does have both the highest incarceration rate and highest absolute number of people incarcerated in the world.
Ahem.. Not OP, but Canadian ex-treeplanter here, and I've planted 1.2M trees. I have many friends who've planted more, a couple probably up into the 10M+ range.

It seems insane that we aren't looking at trees more seriously. Here we have a self-reproducing, exponential, solar powered, organic, low-tech, carbon capture system. We don't even have to plant them, we can simply allocate land and let them do their thing on their own if we're patient for natural succession. Or we can accelerate the process by planting select species, thinning etc.

We should also be setting aside more of the remaining old-growth forests to protect them from being logged, as these forests represent a standing carbon sink (aside all of the other ecological benefits of protecting old-growth forest).

I know it's not the complete solution and that we need all the cards on the table, but I fear that in our appetite for high tech fixes, we're overlooking this simple biological solution.
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No it doesn't? Ever heard of Accept or Lang headers? Or cookies for that matter? Dynamic content?
Complex bureaucracy is not because of anti-business sentiment, it is a business model.
This system is kept because it probably sustains a whole economy of intermediaries (either doing legal, grey-area or illegal/bribery work) and the key public machine figures responsible to make it leaner get some benefit out of it.
The FLCCC have published the I-RECOVER Protocol for treating Long COVID:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-recover...

https://youtu.be/ZCYM2HW2Ayw?t=321
Idk, cells are commodity priced, so currently I think you just have to bite the bullet and shell out a couple hundred bucks if you want to build a battery.

Used cells are also an option, and there's some really good ones out there.

Anyway Li-ion and LiFePO4 cells are going to seem cheap once solid-state cells hit the market.
I was responsible for Stripe's API abstractions, including webhooks and /events, for a number of years. Some interesting tidbits:

Many large customers eventually had some issue with webhooks that required intervention. Stripe retries webhooks that fail for up to 3 days: I remember $large_customer coming back from a 3 day weekend and discovering that they had pushed bad code and failed to process some webhooks. We'd often get requests to retry all failed webhooks in a time period. The best customers would have infrastructure to do this themselves off of /v1/events, though this was unfortunately rare.

The biggest challenges with webhooks:

- Delivery: some customer timing out connections for 30s causing the queues to get backed up (Stripe was much smaller back then).

- Versioning: synchronous API requests can use a version specified in the request, but webhooks, by virtue of rendering the object and showing its changed values (there was a `previous_attributes` hash), need to be rendered to a specific version. This made upgrading API versions hard for customers.

There was constant discussion about building some non-webhook pathway for events, but they all have challenges and webhooks + /v1/events were both simple enough for smaller customers and workable for larger customers.
NAC is illegal in the USA now. Thank you FDA.
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It really comes down to the latency and throughput requirements. Projects are architected differently for different latency expectation and different throughput expectation.

In event processing there's a continuum of expected latencies from batch processing to realtime. Batch processing is typically running reports over large volume of events (good for throughput). Hadoop is a good example. On the other end, sub-second realtime report is possible with Heron/Storm. Spark is kind of in the middle with hybrid mini-batching. Reportedly Twitter has used Heron/Storm to track word counts in all the tweets to find trending topics, where the latency between a new tweet coming in to the word counts updated over the whole network is in 100s milliseconds.
I had the same symptoms that I had the second time. The second time was confirmed by PCR-test.

But, of course, it could have been an equivalent disease with the same symptoms: fever, mental-fog, sore-throat.

It is just the timing, the fact that Osaka is visited by many Chinese nationals and the feeling was so similar that makes me quite sure that it was covid-19.
This is a shallow dismissal and isn't contributing anything of value to the conversation.

Further it disregards the multitude of commenters experiences with "self-reported symptoms."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was about to say this also -- I haven't been to the gym for over a year and haven't done any real weight training or group exercise for this whole time in lockdown. It would be hard for me to separate the effect of that from long COVID, curious how the study is controlling for this factor.
This used to be the case for the Tour de France. That is, it used to have no stages with night cycling allowed. I think one reason was that contestants would put their bikes into vans and drive at night while the judges couldn’t see them.
This seems like another instance of the never ending war of push vs pull
Maybe because typical Li-Ion 18650 cells are significantly cheaper per Wh than LiFePO4?
What's the downside for those people who choose to wear a mask outdoors?

Perhaps they just came from somewhere indoors and want to have an extra barrier to protect them from unconsciously touching their face.

The reason doesn't really matter.
Well sure, that’s how it works in most Western cities—the cost and service vary, of course. Never seen the jail time threat though.
Someone has to maintain an always-running listener for `/events`. If a server does that, and triggers client calls, we call that webhooks. If a client does that, and triggers internal functions, it's what the op describes. I think that for APIs, `/events` should indeed be the fundamental feature, and "webhooks" should be a nice-to-have service on top of `/events`, for those who don't want to maintain a local subscriber.
As a sidenote, does anyone know whether something like an "optimal" Qi charging wattage exist, as in highest efficiency? Power lost due to resistance increases with current squared. Therefore I would imagine charging <5W would be best for high efficiency. However, Qi is based on quickly alternating magnetic fields. Does the circuitry involved make Qi charging inefficient once the power gets low enough? Or is Qi charging at 0.1W preferable over 2.5W?
no, the savings vehicle at many workplaces is called a 401(k) (named after the section of the tax code that describes it). When you leave a job that offered the 401(k) you can take the money that was in it and transfer it to your IRA. This process is called a "rollover". 401(k)s have much higher contribution limits, can have money added to it by the employer (usually via matching contributions) and sometimes have methods to add after tax money to them.