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> The threat from the virus is not only immediate risk to the individual, it is also further transmissions increasing the risk of creating new breakthrough variants

> Tolerating disease spread and threats to vulnerable populations when vaccines are available that are practically risk-free (or the risk being magnitudes smaller than the payoff) is ridiculous

Those are very different justifications with very different policy implications, it is best not to conflate the two.

If breakthrough variants was the major concern (and it should have been) vaccine rollout should have been fast in addition to very high percentages, and vaccinated/unvaccinated population mix should have been minimized with policy. Anything less gives the perfect arena for evolutionary algorithm to learn its way around the vaccine immunity.

Second issue is the fading immunity of current vaccines in comparison to natural immunity. Vaccines got disproportionate attention and funding at the expense of covid treatment bets, which would have helped with developing higher natural immunity levels. To what degree conflicts of interests due to EUA play in this, we don’t know. But once booster shots enter the “mandatory” territory, that will cause an additional drop in compliance. How many boosters can we really mandate, for how many years?
Do you mean the animation should be faster when you open a new one? If so, good to know -- that'll be a simple tweak. I'm sure I should put more effort into the landing page overall... the reality is that so far I've spent nearly all my time trying to make the core app robust but intuitive.
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You're setting the same trap as those viral math problems people share on Facebook:

6÷2(1+2) = ?

We could argue about what the _right_ answer is to that equation, but I call it a trap because it's intentionally confusing and devoid of any context (or the ability to ask a follow up question). There isn't really a situation where you would see that equation and not know the intended way to interpret it... just like your question.

There are a couple of ways that context _could_ be provided though:

I'm writing an automated task that should run once per month, I don't necessarily care what day of the month it runs though since it just cleans up some temp files. If today happens to be Feb 28th, and I say run today, then every month after, I would expect it to run Feb 28th, March 28th, April 28th...

I'm writing an 'end of month' task that needs to run at the end of every month for some bookkeeping reason. If today happens to be Feb 28th, and I say run today, then every month after, I would expect it to run Feb 28th, March 31th, April 30th...

In both of these situations I would program accordingly. Computers don't understand context, that's the job of the human programming it.
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idk about niche interests, but I’m looking for like minded people in-person.

I’ve never really found anyone that thinks like me. Everyone I’ve known is either too mature or too immature, too “weird” or too “normal”. i have trouble making friends because im not interested in hanging out with them and vice versa.

I don’t think it’s something you can help with, but i wonder how many other people feel like i do. Moreover, how are people finding their friends these days?
> Your gut is probably telling you something.

There are many times I have regretted not listening to my gut, something feeling "off". OP's story had obvious red flags but in all situations, paying attention to how your body (or "gut") feels is always a good idea.
> a bunch of first-and-second-tier non-Ivies, includes UCSD, Washington, Waterloo, Purdue, Chicago, UTexas, UCLA, and a lot of others.

You are putting schools of vastly different calibers in the same bucket there.
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Present-day reactors, a long time. Small modular reactors built in factories or shipyards could be pretty quick. Some of those designs are MSRs like China's reactor.
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That's an incredibly unhelpful attitude.

More importantly, though, depression and anxiety can be symptoms of other ailments as well as side effects of medications (medications targeting non-mental health issues or targeting mental health issues). It's almost always worth going to a primary care provider to get a real diagnosis as it can short-circuit the recovery process if a physical cause can be identified (like thyroid conditions, side effects from birth control medications for women, and others). If these aren't factors, at least they've been ruled out.
Flooding is a big one to avoid, as it comes in many forms.

Direct flooding may be easish to avoid because of flood plain maps, although changes in the environment elsewhere may change flood risks and may not always be reflected in the flood maps. Paying attention to elevation and sloping/drainage is important. If your house is even with the street, and your street floods, your house did too; if your house is up a couple or ten feet above the street, there's a lot more water needed to flood. If your house is below the street, your driveway is an invitation for water coming down the street into your house.

But beyond that, if you're on or near a significant hill, landslide as a result of flooding or saturation is an issue to consider.

Trees + flooding + wind often equals fallen trees; you want some room around your house for those to fall without hitting your house, if possible.

Consider the paths utilities takes and roads take as well. Flooded roads can become impassible by car. Aboveground utilities are impacted by tree falls, but underground utilities are difficult and time consuming to repair if land movement or rushing water cause trouble.
...that they’re really darn low either way! Not zero, and with very bad consequences if you win the lottery, but if you’re vaccinated (or younger than 12) you should be more concerned about the flu!
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though regrettable, were within the boundaries of operational limits

Bullshit. That's the equivalent of the police force or government investigating themselves and finding no wrongdoing.

The law is just a bunch of sentences in books. Its the fair application and enforcement of it that makes it worth anything.

He's being charged for material intervention in the theft of classified information.

zealously, because:

Assange has published a zillion things many of which were damaging to the US and he's not being charged over them.

- because he easily couldn't be. It doesn't mean that they're not out to get him for that. They definitely are, they're pursuing it via alternative routes.
Can't argue with the data - agreed on the average. Not to say there aren't brilliant fund managers and pensions that are able to identify them.

But how does it follow that regulations should restrict a pension's choices?
My naive assumption is that regulations (appropriate or not) is what prevented this from getting off the ground.
In America, welfare is designed in such a way in which it actually prevents the jobless from wanting to enter the workforce. They actually make more by panhandling and collecting welfare than simply getting an entry level job. The jobless understand this basic economic tactic well, so they end up permanently living off welfare and not trying to get a job. The government does not want to fix welfare to actually work (for example, with a negative income tax instead) because it would result in the firing and unemployment of many government welfare office workers.
Author here: You’re correct, it’s an editing error. There’s another where I do ifconfig on the mini, but I pasted from the nas. I’ll correct the post.
Why do homeless people in the US concentrate in a few big cities with good weather?

In Denmark there are fewer of them and they are more spread out and you can also find them in rural areas.
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Yeah. But wearing a helmet isn't cool, so...
I would disagree about lithium ion batteries being more dangerous - gasoline is far more energy dense for one. A slower release is actually a good thing for safety compared to the alternative, a very fast intense one. Besides, just a single mode of failure is not an apt comparison.

- You cannot create a fuel air bomb by throwing lithium ion batteries into your basement and igniting it when the concentration is correct.
- You cannot suffer carbon monoxide poisoning from lithium ion batteries.
> they are cooled with more power than they are heated

I'd argue that they're being cooled with equal power, otherwise they could freeze infinitely which is physically impossible.
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More unvaccinated people -> more people getting covid -> more chances for mutation into variants

It's really that simple. We want as few active infections as possible globally so that existing vaccinations can work for the variants they were made in mind with. Otherwise we will be at the disadvantage in a perpetual arms race trying to quickly stamp out the global "fires" of new variants.
The logical implementation seems fairly easy to imagine to me.

You do ant-like pheromone tracking for movement by all peasants of the world. (Each cell keeps a tracker, which gets incremented by passing peasants and decays over time).

Upon sufficient pheromone build up, your walking tile upgrades. Perhaps in the form of grass -> well-trodden -> dirt road -> gravel road -> stone road. Simple model of decay would be to simply downgrade back down the list. More complex might be that stone/gravel degrade into some special state to maintain permanence (dirt roads goes back to grass, but stone roads turn to grassy stone or whatever).

Your peasant/wagon/etc pathfind accordingly, getting speedboosts (or losses) by road type — and in your example, by road type + local weather (modeled separately)

You could also have different pheremone types producing different artifacts. Human pheremone only produces dirt roads at max, but wagon and tamed horse pheremone jump from grass->road with sufficient buildup. Wild animals only build up to well-trodden paths.
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Why isn't this pervert in jail!

Cuomo got into trouble and will resign/be impeached - so should Joe Biden.

Arrest Joe Biden Now!
Tensile strength is equally important when you have strong winds.
> I understand the need for the elite to be brain surgeons, but for a vast majority of professions, the filtering for elite is not conducive to a healthy village.

Filtering for surgeons really is:

- Who can afford a completely unrelated undergrad before even applying to med school

- Who can afford to fly and meet with hospitals for residency spots

- Who can be the most sleep deprived during residency (completely useless)

> Leetcode is fine, but the trend I’m hearing is that it is getting more and more absurd and somewhat becoming our version of the same gate-keeping that makes finance, law, politics, etc bad.

Really, it's possible to bypass leetcoding by just taking a good algorithm and data structure class.
sure

> UK regulators also fast-tracked approvals for drone testing, which made the country an ideal testbed for drone flights and paved the way for Amazon to gain regulatory approval elsewhere.
As long as one is viewing humans solely as harmful disease vectors, obese people also take up substantial space in hospitals and cause further obesity through social contagion. However, we don't mandate that restaurants prohibit serving sugary drinks to those with BMI over 30. People with various STIs also do everything in your list, but that is addressed through awareness of safer practices, in some cases voluntary vaccination and PrEP, and research into better treatments, not through banning extramarital sex or shutting down locations where people meet for sexual activity. People who participate in injury-prone sports and activities also take up disproportionate hospital space, but the US passed the ACA in part to require medical coverage for people regardless of their lifestyle.

The reasoning for restricting behavior based on people's Covid risk (including vaccination status) is exactly the same as in the scenarios above.

People vaccinated against Covid can choose today to live a normal life, confident in the vaccine's protection against their serious illness or hospitalization, without scapegoating those not vaccinated for the entirely predictable seasonal and variant spread of Covid, or forcing struggling small businesses to hire bouncers to check the medical papers of every customer.
> The most convincing one was a version of "what if in 20 years they're running those ads like they did for mesothelioma?"

That argument is equally valid against doing almost anything, not just getting the vaccine.
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> Traditionally, the optimal virus is going to get more contagious, but far less deadly; a disease that kills its host rapidly generally burns itself out

The Spanish flu mutated into a more deadly variant, half-way through that pandemic. It went on to kill more people than World War I.
>it's better than holding a wad of cash on your body.

I can't argue with that!
IDK depends if you drop acid before trusting them with your money I guess :D
Right, and the check against these laws becoming unjust is the constitution.
I saw videos of gyroscopic wheelchairs at the time, and they are as awesome today as I remembered them!

My skepticism was rather about Segway, the product, being useful as a mobility device, and recognised as such by European regulators.
Probably something about EOL, end-of-feed, CRLF-translation or something similar?

Netcat has plenty of (confusing) options, but there's usually a solution.
>If you're living in a shelter then you're not just less visble, you're also much better off.

Usually, but not universally. Even when shelter space is available in a city like LA, it is not always easy to convince people to stay there. Lots of shelters have problems ranging from crime to forcing draconian rules onto the people staying there. In a place with a relatively comfortable climate like Los Angeles, some people legitimately prefer to be on the street. Their personal agency matters and we can't just round them up to throw them in a shelter. We need to improve the shelters until they are the obvious choice over the street.
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I was actually suggested this book by someone on Hackernews and it was awesome for me- did more than meds and is pretty easy to follow: The Depression Cure by dr. Stephen Ilardi https://www.amazon.com/Depression-Cure-6-Step-Program-withou...

I still go back and reread certain sections when I feel like I'm struggling.
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I can't find it just now but I thought there was a followup study that looked only at operators familiar with the interface and in that case the results were overwhelmingly in favor of keyboarding (as most of us would expect).
Nope, wrong again. Go look at the game theory of taking a vaccine for a trivial example.

Suppose there are 100 people. Suppose a virus has a 10% chance of killing you and the vaccine has a 1% chance. Now give the vaccine to 99 people. Should the last person take the vaccine? The virus is gone. Their probability of dying from the virus is now 0% instead of 10%. But their probability of dying from the vaccine is still 1%.

Different people taking the vaccine at different times have different risk profiles.

That is just the hypothetical example. There are actual real life examples of this with Covid-19. Some Scandinavian country was giving the vaccine to the elderly. Apparently they were already fragile and taking the vaccine pushed them over the edge and killed them.

Now if you are one of those people should you take the vaccine or be forced to? Your best bet is actually to have everyone else take the vaccine and NOT take it yourself.

Some people say that this is an example of a tragedy of the commons and that the health community pushes everyone to take the vaccine even if it is NOT in their specific self interest to do so. Everyone wants to be last. No one wants to be first. What do you actually think these vaccine mandates are pushing?
I already supplied data from numerous independent studies that examine that exact question.

Are you saying you haven't actually read any of them?

Want more? Okay, fine, here's just one jurisdiction which provides a wealth of data and a variety of breakdowns, including percentage of hospitalizations by vaccination status (this is a jurisdiction where >60% of eligible people are fully vaccinated and >75% are partially vaccinated, so there's a wealth of data about vaccine effectiveness):

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...

> 92.1% of hospitalized cases (5,260/5,709) since Jan 1, 2021 were unvaccinated or diagnosed within two weeks from the first dose immunization date

I'll grant you that breakdown doesn't specifically break out Delta cases from non-VOC cases, but they also include a specific analysis of vaccine effectiveness versus Delta based on current data in the province:

> B.1.617 Variant [Partial] 57% (51 to 63%) [Complete] 85% (78 to 89%)

Now, this is a blended set of numbers across all vaccine types, and so represents the average effectiveness across Pfizer, Moderna, and AZ. So there's some nuance that's missing, here.

Regardless, even with just a single dose of a COVID vaccine the average effectiveness versus Delta of symptomatic illness is greater than 50%, which, as I previously noted, will absolutely put a significant dent in the R-value. And 85% is absolutely fantastic.

Alright, I showed you mine, now you show me yours.
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This looks cool, especially hint mode. Wondering what scroll mode adds though, compared to just using the existing Mac OS shortcuts (or Pg Up/Pg Dn)
The only hurdle was that the drones had to be so heavy to handle packages that it put them in a higher weight class subject to more rules. But other than that, the article mentions that the UK and the US regulatory bodies have both approved the project.
Im not sure. I know I passed every time.

Because I just did what they told me and went along with the program.

People need to remember the lessons from this time.
It is literally regulations that keep unproven aircraft grounded, yes
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> But yeah, I'm probably lying

Well, you've made false statements and promoted untrue things in this thread, so ... yah, I think I'll err on the side of not believing a goddamn thing you say.
> Tech careers "naturally" progress into management, whereas lawyerly one progress into seniority. Competitive, yet prestige based career starts.

> The 44 year old senior programmer probably has a less cushy path forward

If he's still a "senior programmer" at 44 and not Staff level engineer, it's indeed a rough path ahead.
Construction is an economic activity, not a hobby.

We generally do not structure our economic activity for maximum enjoyment on the part of the worker, but for lowest price and best quality to the consumer. To the extent that this translates into catering to the worker, it's by way of the increased efficiency allowing higher wages (though, as recent US experience shows, companies can also grab all the productivity gains for themselves).