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I keep seeing an argument put forward that we should mandate getting vaccinated (and feel righteous about it!) to prevent the rise of a new scary variant that might bypass the vaccines.

This argument, of course, is made by innumerate people who do not realize that the number of US holdouts is utterly dwarfed by the number of people who want a vaccine but can't get it no matter what. If we are worried about a new scary variant slowly burbling away in the lungs of the unvaccinated, preparing to jump out and get us good vaccinated folk, should we not be focusing our energy on... I donno, actually trying to help people who want it get vaccinated instead of forcing people who are reluctant? My $0.02 from a fully vaccinated person who still thinks people should be able to make their own decisions about their bodily autonomy.
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> he always held that there is a process for changing the Constitution.

during the time Scalia was on the US Supreme Court (1986-2016), there was 1 amendment to the US constitution (27th) that was took 202 years for approvals. since I don't think he could be considered naive, it is almost certain he was disingenuous.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03911-8

“When the materials point at the sky, the infrared rays can pass straight through the atmosphere and into space. That effectively links the materials to an inexhaustible heat sink, into which they can keep dumping heat without it coming back.”

I agree with jbay808 on the impracticality, but note that in context, I am responding to the question of whether it would be harder to remove the heat than to generate it. Both obviously quickly become impracticable if we expect exponential increases.
So let's give the risks here the benefit of the doubt and assume the odds of dying from the vaccine are 1 in a million. Given that we've administered >1B doses, that would mean >1000 people have died from the vaccine. This clearly isn't the case. Any argument that the death rate will increase long term just shows a clear misunderstanding of the immune response. But that aside, let's still give it one in a million.

The one-year chances of dying in a car crash are ~20 in a million [1]. I assume then that if the vaccine "risk" concerns you, you've clearly given up driving, right?

A quick search suggest that US has had ~35M cases of Covid-19 and ~615K deaths. Deaths in particular is likely underreported but we'll go with the official figures.

That puts the odds of dying from Covid-19 at ~2%, which is of course 20,000 in a million. The vaccine isn't perfect but recent data shows that almost all severe cases (including death) occur in the unvaccinated population, even when there's a breakthrough infection of someone vaccinated.

This is the problem many including myself have when anyone raises the specter of "risks" because even if you assume the worst case scenario of getting the vaccine, not getting it is literally thousands of times more likely to kill you.

And that would be fine I guess if that only applied to you but it doesn't. The unvaccinated pose a health risk to everyone around them.

The anti-vaxxer position just completely defies logic. Worse, defying logic seems to be a badge of honor for some.

[1]: https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit...
> Eliminating the 4th amendment or mandating clear walls sure would make the cops' job easier. But no one thinks that's even a remotely good idea.

Yet.
I think others have done far too good a job debunking this obvious misunderstanding for me to add much on that front thus I'd like instead to ask a different question.

Tog insists that professional users discard the evidence of their own decades of experience using a computer in favor of the results of his stopwatch but not only declines to show his exact results and methods but declines to even conduct an experiment which looks even slightly like a professional computer using completing a task preferring a nonsensical exercise that appears designed to be automated for even greater savings. Why then after the writer discredits their ability to understand the topic 32 years ago are we still discussing their words.

It's hardly necessary to touch much on his ideas about hierarchies of complexity or perceptible time as he only needs to venture outside his own area of expertise into new and exciting theories about neurology and perception to support the otherwise forlorn and unproven theory that using the mouse was inherently faster in the first place.

If you ever in the course of your programming find the need to formulate new theories of quantum physics to explain why everyone else is wrong and you are correct you may want to step back and consider whether you have departed from the beaten path or perhaps from reality.

So why are we still wasting bandwidth on him?

Incidentally this reply was composed in Emacs. I sadly have a bad habit of misspelling words that spell check has alas done little to alleviate. Each time I misspelled a word instead of taking my hands off of the keyboard I hit a hotkey to go back to the first misspelled word tracking backwards from cursor. Most of the time the first suggestion was correct and I merely hit Enter. Once I had mangled it so badly that I had to hit a few characters to set it once again upon the right track. So 95% of the time 2 keystrokes, rarely 4 to correct misspellings after which I could continue typing from wherever I left off.

Sometimes I found that I didn't like a particular paragraph and wished to rewrite it. This can be accomplished in Emacs evil mode with cip meaning change in paragraph. This erases the current paragraph cursor is in regardless of where in the paragraph you are in other times I just wanted to rewrite part of a sentence in normal mode capital C deletes onward from point and leaves you in insert to continue typing.
I'm not American, but from the American news I watch a significant % of the population doesn't have the ability to get government ID.

If they can't get that, how are they going to get vaccinated and maintain those records?
>Prior to 2008 most Americans did not believe the 2nd included an implicit right of self-defense

Only gun nutters believe in the right to self defense?

Who has the right to keep and bear arms? Does the constitution say that the "right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed?" If you bear arms are you no longer entitled to self defense?

Do you know who the militia is in the United States? Are you aware every able bodied male citizen between 17 and 45 are considered militia [1]?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246
It's really not. I have a friend who is a radio dj. She has a very different sounding voice in that role. Hell many people I know have a 'phone voice' they use with everyone but those that are closest to them. This is just an extreme example of it. This woman has done plenty of crimes, trying to turn this voice thing into a symptom of some perceived neurological/psychological condition seems pointless.
Yes, but the at-risk who don't want to be vaccinated are soaking up enormous resources, including hospital beds and doctors and nurses that should be attending people with other health emergencies. Moreover they're a breeding ground for variants that can evade the vaccine. And beyond that, even if they only kill each other, how is that okay?
You would need to reverse engineer what the frameworks are supposed to do and provide new implementations. (You can see all their external APIs) This is what Google did with Java on Android. The courts currently view this as legal (Google v Oracle).
>> this seems to perversely incentivize having kids for no real reason

In Canada mat/pat leave is unemployment insurance, which you pay for on every pay cheque. Even if it was "free money" nobody is having kids to get a few months off work.
> More than just profitability, can they make a dent in our carbon problem? The scale of our carbon problem is on the order of 30 billion tons of CO2, of which maybe 1 billion tons are due to lime production. Heimdal is currently at the scale of 1 ton per year - nine orders of magnitude away from making a difference. Assuming continuous Silicon Valley ridiculous growth rates of 50% year over year, they will take 50 years to grow to a point where they are actually making a dent in our carbon problem. I wish them good luck.

They don't need to do it all alone. If this idea is solid, a lot of different companies and nations could be doing this.

I'm excited for China to have carbon-neutral cement. If they do, it will probably be of their own making and not tied to this company growth.
"Contemporary western institutions are incompetent" - I'm not sure that's a fair or complete way of framing the issue.

There was a story on NPR couple days ago(?) talking about the challenge of getting shots in arms in some of these third world places - and how we've delivered many shots that may expire because the infrastructure to get them where they need to go is not a thing.. sure you can blame gen xyz in the west but in situations like that if I was going to point to incompetent it wouldn't be on the west side.

The covid response imho is more about desire/motivation - there is a large group of motivated noisy folks sure, but there are many people / groups who are not very motivated to vaccine with a survival rate of 99% or whatever number is accepted / wont get me labeled as an anti-vax grandma killing disinfo person.

I am not a doctor or claiming this is accurate, and sure it's 'out of context - the suffering is more than death' all that - I'm just pointing out that the motivation is low and one of the reasons why.

surely the large groups of you-must-vax-panic people could deliver a dozen hoover dams today, and I'm sure they'll all be on board for more apollos.

"Even if we wanted to "come down on COVID" we couldn't," - I agree generally wit this part.. but not because a golden era has passed - it's because the larger group of folks around would rather stay open / not locked down and keep on keeping on.. (which does keep an economy rolling for future appollos - haha - (speaking lightly / not a mean or whatever voice!).)

(not taking a political side with this btw, just counter-pointing the golden era is with the old people and today's mass of western power is not incompetent - although certainly we are more diverse in our reasoning for not getting some things done - new hoover dams would be hard to build more because of environmental worries, ethnic justice impacts and the like, not because we are less smart, or less willing to spent future generations money)

unless you are inferring that today's insinuations are incompetent because they are held back by environmental and similar concerns that our grandparents did not worry about, but that's not the feel I got from reading that blurb.
Sure there are (for some definition of "most important parts). Take a look at GNUstep for a start. Some MacOS frameworks like WebKit are also open sourced from Apple itself.

As an example of how this works in practice, the disassembler/decompiler Hopper has both MacOS and Linux versions that are compiled from the same code.

Now, how successful they'll be extending the open source frameworks to made this useful in compiling non-trivial software that wasn't written with "dual compatibility" is a fair question, but the starting pieces are there, and patching the compilers and creating a copy of MacOS's filesystem layout would go a long way in making it easier to compile MacOS software on FreeBSD/GNUstep.

And in any event, so far as doing it legally, I don't see why this would be any less legal than Wine's recreation of the Win32 API/libraries. Only difference is Apple might be more litigious than Microsoft, but Microsoft doesn't exactly lie down to software theft...
I wish there was an extended version of this
We used to joke about this: "Five Tens", or you still end up working 40 hours a week for 80% pay
By the same token, the fact that Fugitive Slave Acts were passed back in the day would indicate that centralization isn't any more viable.
Congratulations on your launch. I'm don't have technical background to understand the nitty gritty, but reading through all the comments itself is an immense learning on the topic.Good luck.
If anyone hasen't seen Badlands, you should.

I used to think it was the charisma of Martin Sheen that made the movie, but have changed my mind over the years.

It's beautifully filmed.

It's hard watching Kit do some of the bad things he did though.

Watching it I felt like I lived in that midwestern town. I could almost feel the heat, and such. I belive it was Texas?

Martin Sheen also did a movie with Linda Blair called "Sweet Hostage". It not the masterpiece of Badlands, but a good movie. I haven't seen on tv for years though. I thought it was good?
Thinking about this more, maybe we should literally go so far as doing a last call for vaccines. Okay, if you want them, we'll only have them for another month and then we're sending all our supply to Mexico or whatever! Far more likely to actually use them that way, and it'll get those who are holding out for no real reason to step up and get them.
Other companies seem even less interested in fighting government surveillance so I don't see how weakening Apple will help anything.
I also found out the hard way -- I was initially excited to adopt SQLite everywhere because I had heard so many good things about it (which are in fact true), but its dynamic typing/type-affinity based design made it difficult to use as a data store especially for analytics work.

I mean, you can still use it, but you have to do your own type checking/coercion in code -- basically you have to re-implement a subset of a type handling system -- which you'd get for free in a full SQL db. You also have to standardize certain types like DATEs because SQLite has no native date type -- the 3 ways to implement dates in SQLite are ISO 8601 strings, Julian and UNIX epochs, and you can convert between them, but you lose some performance on joins and aggregations.

It's best to think of SQLite as its own data structure/file format which happens to have a SQL engine on top of it, rather than an actual database format. In fact the docs makes a case for SQLite as an application file format [1].

For analytics work however, I'm finding DuckDB (https://duckdb.org) to be quite amazing. It is SQLite-ish (i.e. also an embedded database), but has a columnar query engine, can read parquet files, and has native types (including date!). It also runs in-process in Python and queries Pandas dataframes using a more optimized query engine than Pandas itself. Side: Many of the main contributors work at CWI Amsterdam, the Dutch institute where Guido van Rossum conceived Python.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
Why not both? I assume your talking internationally about those that desire the vaccine, and domestically in the US for those who are reluctant. Can't we donate vaccines overseas while still pushing those who are here to get the vaccine?
Speaking as a foreigner who immigrated to the US, I don't see Americans as a single nation. Maybe that was the case at some point in the past, but there are too many cultural divisions by now that transcend compatriotism.
So this may be very unpopular and controversial. I think as great as paid paternity/maternity leaves are for parents, it's a somewhat an indirect penalty against people who don't have children during their tenure. Those people are literally expected to work more hours and days for the same level of pay and responsibility, and if someone has multiple kids during their career it can really add up vs. someone who choose to not have kids.

I don't have an answer for it because I think giving time off to new parents are super important, but in the name of fairness, maybe X months per Y years "paid leave time" should be universally granted to all employees?
Correct, that's currently the case. Users can use QR code backup/restore functionality if enabled by the developer to switch between iOS and Android. That would have to be done app-by-app. We're working on our own cloud backup system to automate this.

I think such transitions between smartphone OSs already entail significant credential transfer issues, since saved passwords also do not automatically move between OSs.

You'd have similar problems if you used "Sign in with Apple" for an app on an iOS device and then switched to Android.
Given the tone of the rest of the letter I don't think that statement can be taken at face value, it comes across much more like a backhanded jibe adding insult to injury
Is it plausible that the reason that the reason that the "Suggested" links show you commercial content is because someone other than Facebook has manipulated Facebook's algorithm (in a way analogous to SEO) rather than paying Facebook?

I've probably logged on to facebook fewer than 7 times, so I have very little experience with it, and so I wouldn't know.
User timr was presenting a study upthread that the odds of contagion are , as of right now, basically equal between vax and no vax.

This was based on the fact the same level of virus load was found in both populations that were infected.
It's starting to seem like lab leak makes much more sense than natural occurrence. The rate of mutation, species affected, speed of spread. This viral explosion does not seem compatible with natural virus evolution.
You ought read the article rather than post your own mindless prejudices and mental cliches

Hackernews styles itself of thoughtful discussion
Well, I (literally) can't argue with that, having just failed spectacularly at attempting to do so.
You can walk into any pharmacy and get vaccinated. We are long past demand exceeding supply. That's why vaccination rate graphs are plateauing and the numbers for 1-shot and fully vaccinated are converging.
Currently it’s actually the opposite in that the best restaurants are thriving because they ~doubled capacity by adding huge outdoor dining structures on the sidewalks that were previously not allowed. Note that it only impacts indoor dining not outdoor and that some restaurants, gyms, and venues has already begun to require of their own volition.
Yes, and wikipedia is not the study of epidemiology.

Epidemiology as a field did not publish papers or study the idea of "natural" herd immunity till last year when politicians started throwing the term around and a whole lot of researcher's scrambled to see whether this insanity had any merit.

Of which the answer is what we already knew just spelled out more specifically: no, this doesn't actually happen in the wild without vaccines, because it's literally just spreading the virus. Viruses burn themselves out after infecting basically everyone, provided immunity is long lasting.
You'd bet wrong 1.3 million traffic deaths in a year. double it to 2.6 m for 2 years.

In the 2 years of covid we have had 4.25 million deaths with still 90% us and 97% of the rest of the world left to catch it.

You only need a unmasked person to have an R value 1.64 times higher than a vaxed/masked for the proportional deaths to not reach parity even with 90% people vacinated.

That's completely ignoring the fact that driving is actually a productive activity with a goal. Where as most of the reasons people give for not wearing a mask are either easily debunked or work just as well as a retort to someone asking you "why are you continuously punching yourself?".
Reminds me of a CEO who proudly thought technically knowledgeable friends are good to get ideas from but not hire.
Slave states complained that the feds weren't doing enough to force the free states to abide by the fugitive slave laws, to give one example.
Generally, the landing page is not an MVP, it's just that: a landing page. It's a cheap and quick way to get at least some market validation before you start working on your actual product.

But depending on the product, It could be little more than a more elaborate form of customer interview (asking someone: would you pay for this? Does this sound like something you would use?), or it could be actually an effective sales page.

Let me try to give you a couple of examples to clarify: if your product is trying to solve a moderately big and complex problem, let's say personal finance, team project management, home security, etc. With a landing page that only contains a product mockup and asking for an email, you are effectively only gauging initial interest. The thing with this kind of feedback is that an explosive, huge amount of initial interest does tell you something meaningful (You are onto something, keep going!), but moderate or low amounts of feedback don't necessary tell you much about your product-market fit or predict success. It could be that the idea sounds initially interesting but your execution is poor, it could be that your product sounds really cool but fails to solve a definite problem in a definite way, or it could be that there is a real need for your product in the real world but your landing page/marketing copy sucks, resulting in poor email engagement. In this case, the landing page should be used as one tool among many to de-risk your startup early on, along with traditional market research, customer interviews, etc.

But let's say your product is an online programming course on Flutter, or an Indian food cooking guide. You want to know if there is a market for this. If you design your landing page in a way that promises delivery of the product very soon, even if you have not yet started working on it, then your customers are already in "show me where to send the money mode" and the feedback obtained from the landing page is actually meaningful. In this case, the gap between the landing page and making a sale is much smaller.

This is just my take on this, having thought about this specific issue some time ago.
Is the process going to get every decision right? No. And they will from time-to-time revisit arguments. Korematsu v. US was overturned by the subsequent ruling Trump v. Hawaii. Jacobson v. Massachusetts has been used as the basis for 116 years worth of cases where public health has to be weighed against other factors, and is not in he same precarious position as Korematsu v. US.

What's the alternative method for making decisions when there are competing legal arguments?
I don't see how sousveillance and gaslighting are related.
Yes, here, in the US! According to the WHO, we're gonna need something like 11 billion vaccines[0] to cover the planet, however.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/world/vaccine-coronavirus...
Are restaurants and bars known to be problematic?
I think they were just reorganized when it happened? Or the company had been acquired. Anyways, it became the new way to evaluate devs not long after he joined.
> What happens if you want to buy a condo in a competitive market that requires a 200k downpayment? Or have a medium-sized wedding? Or have two kids in day-care?

If you mean after you retire, you'd plan for those things within your 4% swr budget just like you would if you were making a salary.

If you mean before, then it depends on whether you're planning on getting married annually for the rest of your life, or if it is a one time expense. If it is a one time expense, I'm sure everyone here is capable of doing the math to figure out how much a large one-time expense will delay your retirement. (hint: it is one-time expense / earnings)

If it is recurring, then the math still applies.
I really don't need or want this flexibility in a production DB. One less cause of bugs without it IMO.