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> In an interlinked multidimensional state space optimization problem, it has everything to do with CSS and the focus on form over function. We stopped thinking about how to make information exchange better, and instead on how to make it look good.

You don't get to just decide that CSS is the most significant component that caused lack of magical unicorn semantic web.

Sure, if you want to look at the complete vector of reasons, maybe "John spent 2 years working on a CSS engine instead of accidentally inventing semantic unicorn web while high one day" is probably in there. But its weight is quite likely next to zero.

Wanna optimize the world? How about fight for more automatization of low-salary jobs, better education, and forming organizations around the initiatives you wanna see? Oh and let's ban reality TV shows and spectator sports while we're at it.

Said unicorn semantic web didn't happen for the same reason unicorns didn't happen. Just because a magical horned horse can be drawn or photoshopped together doesn't mean you have the actual thing.

Semantic web is ironically not semantically sound. Google fought for the semantic web in the 90s, saw it was 99% abused by spammers, and moved on. We still have microformats and so on.

This entire argument is just bunch of losers nerding over a failed concept from the 90s that was DESTINED to fail.
So... that path exists in tech too. As you say, a "big tech from CS school" trailhead. Politics, and tech versions of rainmaking play a role sorting into senior positions from there too.

Up to this point, a tech career has a lot more options and opportunities. Didn't get google? Work at a bank, a startup, a salesforce solutions techshop.... Didn't get MIT? There are other paths forward, including quirky ones that will work too.

Past this point, well-to-do lawyer at Biglaw has the cushier path. Law firms respect seniority. They give them nice offices, autonomy. Senior partners don't worry about wippersnappers running circles around them in some new law paradigm. They don't need to relearn contract law periodically.

The point about happiness is valid, but complex. That competitive prestige game is, empirically, often misery making. Programming has more realness, but there can be a lot of performance stress, especially if you're thinking in decades.
I remember thinking as a kid "why don't we breed out stupidity" - turns out breeding out stupidity is a terrifying phenomenon to witness and there is a ton of collateral damage that I didn't think about as a child. Having said that, at the point we are at right now, there is a part of me that is glad that unvaccinated people are dying. Fuck them, their stupidity is leading directly to them no longer existing and I'm okay with that - it's just the collateral damage I am chewing my nails about.
> What’s bad about a vaccine passport?

Other people have covered that in many comments throughout this thread. I personally don't want to live in a world where I am asked to show my papers -- whatever those papers may be -- to participate in daily life.

> Do you think unvaccinated people should be allowed to travel internationally?

I think so, but it's certainly within the rights of any nation to choose the rules by which foreigners may enter their country. I care less about this than I do about having to show a "passport" to get food.

> Isn’t that really dangerous?

In a highly vaccinated population? No. That's the point of vaccines. Once the threat of (involuntary) serious and illness and death has been abrogated, SARS-CoV2 takes its place amongst the pantheon of other respiratory viruses that we have lived with for centuries.
You are still wrong. This portion of the UI in this case doesn't care about the routing mechanism itself, but it does care about the history, which page is the current, and it also wants to trigger route navigations. This is a navigational component after all!

If your app needs to show, say, a menu bar, you need those things. Maybe some apps don't, but most of them do.

How would you implement this communication in your ideal system?

Let's see:

This component lives around two or three levels down from the entry point of your React tree (the part which communicates with the router). Which way is simplest way to connect this to the router indirectly? One way is by passing values and callbacks via props, from layer to layer, until it reaches the menubar. This works and is completely isolated, you basically have plain-simple-Javascript-objects "injected" from the top level, or instances of an interface, if you're doing Typescript! This follows the I of SOLID: Interface Segregation Principle. It also provides you with the S, Separation of Concerns.

But the "prop-drilling" is way too cumbersome. Let's maybe use the Context API, which is a way of replacing prop-drilling? It's still properly isolated.

Congratulations, you just re-invented the wheel and re-implemented exactly what withRouter does.

Sure you could have your own homegrown interfaces. Or maybe you could have no menu at all in your app! It's your choice. But it doesn't matter: this is still following the rules you are calling for.
Appreciate NYC finding ways to push up vax% but not sure what to say about the app they are promoting.

Just checked this "NYC COVID Safe" app[1] which is claimed to be "Key to NYC". All it does is taking and storing a photo on the phone. It obviously meant to be CDC paper card, but there seems no validation, client side or server side. (update it does phone home for some apparently analytics event like onboard, added card, etc)

In contrast the NYS Excelsior Pass app [2] at least did some check on server side on personal information like name/DOB and place/date of vax before generate a QR code. Also there's another app for business side to verify the consumers' generated QR. It may not be 100% perfect but at least did some diligence.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nyc-covid-safe/id1565213506

[2] https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/excelsior-pass
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This is a really interesting point. And I felt the same exact way, but over the past few weeks, there seems to be more and more people on HN that are against all this government overreach. So, I personally, am starting to feel better that there are many more that feel like I do than I thought.
FDA approval for Pfizer is expected in a matter of weeks.
Now this is a really interesting statement, ompaLompa, given that you pretty much never wrote anything and only activated on my comment against the US state propaganda.
Standards - the thing that we need more of and that we have too many of.
It's an infectious disease. This isn't an issue of "you can risk your own life and health" - unvaccinated people are risking the lives of many others in their communities.

You can't kill your neighbor's grandmother by bungee jumping.
I'm not a dev, I just like tech stuff. I say this because I actually work with lower middle class Black and Brown people, though I'm White and lower middle class.

Let me explain something to you guys, we worked through each "wave" and didn't really care. We were not "forced" to work. It was never a big deal.

The whole "woe is the working class during Covid" was just an excuse for neurotic professional class workers to WFH.
You're ignoring that a significant portion of #2 have already got resistance via infection. There is no point whatsoever for those people to get vaccinated, apart from padding out the pockets of Big Pharma.

With the scale of vaccinations that we already have, COVID is firmly in the realm of influenza in terms of potential future deathtoll. In fact, for much of this year the UK had higher influenza deaths than COVID deaths:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/22/flu-pneumonia-de...

Why don't we pressure people to get influenza vaccines yearly?
Unless you sustain 1850°C
> What's the harm in letting unvaccinated people spread covid amongst themselves? Vaccinated people aren't at risk.

Yet

> The only concern in theory is that a vaccine-immune covid variant could develop amongst unvaccinated populations. Is there any evidence for that though?

Every human with covid is a variant factory. Even the vaccinated are.

And every variant is a new fire which could burst out again - there was a comment that "Everytime we open up, there's a new variant", as if the variant spike was somehow unrelated to the opening up.

This isn't theory.

We should somewhat be thankful that vaccines work with Delta, because if the variant on the uptick was the Gamma variant, the acquired immunity wasn't as effective at preventing a severe disease [1].

If the virus isn't eradicated, then it will keep making comebacks as newly infected people provide more opportunities for more "successful" variants.

Also kids, don't forget kids. Some of them are babies.

[1] - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/10/21-1427_article
From a pure energy standpoint, simple thermodynamics would dictate he's right. Producing industrial quantities of coffee in a commercial brewer would be much more efficient than individual coffee pots. However all the confounding factors you mention probably balance it in favor of home production.
I still think plus is fine in this case. And really, my expectation is, that anybody who thinks about adding a months, knows about their own intention. Because I suspect just adding the month is not what most people are actually doing, I guess in 90% of the cases most developers will add another step, rounding to the last (or first) day, or to the next same weekday, whatever.

The one thing nobody wants, is to add a month and land in the month one over.

So even if the semantic differs between libraries for adding a month, it actually doesn't mather that much. Because for all the other cases one could imagine, most people will add days or weeks, if staying on the same day matters.
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Ya if astronomy was done by taking photos of the sky 30 years ago, erasing them, and only using their verbal descriptions after 30 years to draw a hypothesis.
Folks - if someone you know is not vaccinated at this point in time (in the US) - it's entirely on them if they get sick. And guess what - they already know this, made that decision, and nothing you rant and rave about is going to change it.

Quit trying to drum up some mandatory vaccine rhetoric - or villianize these people. Just leave them alone and go about your life in whatever way you think is appropriate for your own wellbeing.

Vaccinated people do not need to wear masks to protect unvaccinated people at this point in time.

It's time to stop catering policy towards a small percentage of the population that has decided for whatever reason to not get vaccinated. These people largely understand what they are doing - leave them alone and get on with life!
That's how roads are formed in ostriv, an alpha title.
It’s also worth pointing out that this isn’t exactly a new policy. Most forms of education from kindergarten through college requires proof of various vaccines. I remember having to get a whole slew of boosters at 18 because we couldn’t find the old records in order to go to college.

You’d think that after a pandemic has killed 600,000 of our fellow citizens we’d be able to come together and simply repeat as adults what we do for most children, but alas we live in a deeply unserious time.
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> Delta variant necessitates a higher level of herd immunity because it's so much more transmissible.

How much higher? 100%?

> No, it's very obviously about stopping covid.

Then why are those who already got covid told to get the vaccines? Doesn't make much sense does it?

> Don't be obtuse.

Are you part of the team downvoting anyone who is simple asking basic questions? The covid brigading is rather obvious and hilarious.
OK, so what were those reasons?
To be blunt, you haven't been paying attention. Here's the situation in Arkansas[0], Texas[1], and Florida[2], all within the last two weeks.

[0] https://www.kait8.com/2021/07/29/surge-covid-19-cases-arkans...

[1] https://www.kut.org/covid-19/2021-07-30/intensive-care-capac...

[2] https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/07/20/central-f...
Awesome, thanks for the link.

So I signed up for the free tier. There's an option to compose mail that's paylocked. Do I need my own domain for that? If not, i.e if I'm using paced for outbound mail, how are you currently managing reputation management?
You'd also save billions, if you forced diets on people, forbid cigarettes, stopped selling sugar water with colorings, forbid driving, forbid skiing, hiking, climbing, and all other dangerous sports, keep social isolation every flu season, forbid casual sex (stds, unwanted children),... you'd just somehow have to stop suicides in the end.
> And then you have the possiblity of mutations. The longueur the virus is on circulation. The more likely it is to mutate with worse outcome.

Yeah, but mutations are most likely gonna come from the billions that are unvaccinated outside the US. If this is the main concern, we should be doing all we can to make sure people in other countries (many of whom are very willing to take the vaccine) are getting the vaccine.
> I am in cohort #1. I don't want to continue to increase the chances of breakthrough mutations and I do not want others to do so.

I'm very much with you, but I think that ship sailed between the lack of international coordination, the lack of vaccination mandates or other measures to improve rates even in the well-supplied-with-vaccine US, and the rush to remove other measures like closures and mask mandates way before it made any sense to.

Instead, we're running an active program to train COVID to overcome the "miracle" vaccine we're so proud of. Should be... interesting.
I have a hunch there’s quite a few people who just don’t like needles, and are happy there are so many creative excuses to avoid getting the shot.
And the egg and cholesterol example is even more complex.

Because the cholesterol that is ingested does not necessarily increase amount of cholesterol in your body. Because body produces cholesterol on its own and when you ingest cholesterol -- it just produces less of it.

At least assuming you are healthy person. If you are not and your body already has problems regulating cholesterol - adding more cholesterol might actually be a bad idea.

This shows how important it is to actually understand processes and relations and not just rely on correlations.

Studies are flawed because we are looking for correlations and then immediately try to look at study result as a general rule to guide our decision process.

What we should do instead, we should still do these studies, but then we need to follow with more research to actually understand where these correlations come from exactly. Like understand actual biochemistry of what is going on.
> Getting a vaccine to cross an international border is not the same as getting a vaccine to walk to a bar on your own street in your own country.

In NY it's trivial to get this vaccine. Getting it is certainly easier than getting any other government id (state id, permit, driver's license etc). Certainly ID is needed to purchase alcohol, drive a car, etc. Maybe not at a bar, but often for purchasing alcohol from a liquor or wine store.

> Besides, people who have not had the Covid vaccine are not directly preventing anyone from enjoying life.

Of course they are. They're taking up space in hospitals, endangering public health, and causing unnecessary harm by spreading covid and increasing the risk of a new variant.
Well, Raise Dead is pretty pricey. And face it, nobody is out there paying to assassinate farmers. If you really want a particular farmer dead, ask some of the nearby lizardfolk to do it for a song.

Farmers are really interesting in the tax records, at least a function of property. They're the plankton of feudal society: necessary but otherwise nobody pays much attention to them. The miserable hamlets of D&D have an over-representation of every conceivable occupation but that of the farmer. Aside from being menaced by various low hit die creatures or being subject to the odd bout of lycanthropy, they're background figures only. Sad, but true.
Not the op, but if the nas was pre-existing, and already serving other network clients, no reason to add a second one.
Restrictions have been eased. There are indications that the virus has mutated into a more threatening form while keeping it’s high transmissibility. Louisiana appears to be running out of beds.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/565793-louisiana-ho...
Also Oklahoma: https://www.birminghamstar.com/news/270565700/covid-19-oklah...
Thanks for the recommendation.

Just briefly reviewing it, this is the kind of book I tend to shy away from. I'm sure it's a good reference for a particular type of group theory but I doubt I would use this type of book for anything but a reference.

I can't find any mention of "strong generating set" or algorithmic considerations of how to actually compute with permutation groups. As with many of the Springer books, it feels like a collection of scattered knowledge without a cohesive narrative.

It's completely possible I'm missing something with this book, especially since I haven't read it, and that for more mathematically minded folks, this book is a better introduction.
Hospitals are in fact struggling... again...

Florida hospitals postpone elective surgeries as another record set for COVID-19 daily admissions
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/08/04/florida-hospitals-pos...

Louisiana Doctors Cancel Brain Aneurysm Surgeries to Deal With Influx of COVID Patients
https://www.newsweek.com/louisiana-doctors-cancel-brain-aneu...

COVID cases, other factors push Las Vegas hospitals to limit
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/covid-ca...

Covid-19 Patients Overwhelm Busy Hospitals as Delta Variant Spreads
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-patients-overwhelm-bus...
The venal, profit-driven corruption in academic nutrition science is exactly why we should stop paying attention to it and start paying much more attention to philosophies of health that humanity has tested over decades and centuries: ayurveda, TCM, and osteopathy.
Which is typical. What you're referring to is part of the hype campaign of the last year. Hospitals' ICU are _normally_ at about 70% occupancy. The data below is from 2010, in fact.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-hospitals-...:

"The national average I.C.U. occupancy in 2010 was 67 percent, according to the Society of Critical Care Medicine, though the occupancy baseline changes depending on the place, time of year and size of hospital. "
I see this opinion a lot and I think we can title LTFD or Let Them F** Die. Aside from the practical concerns about hospital crowding and the spread of potential breakthrough cases, I think it's also shamefully sadistic and punitive. I strongly disagree with anyone who is hesitant about getting vaccinated, but I still feel obligated to protect them as human beings and not just abandon their safety even if they don't want to protect themselves.
I did’n quite intended to sound as if I think it would be unacceptable but the method name sounded too comical to me to be honest. Almost as if the intention is to say this method is a bit of a joke don’t use it please.

Maybe move() might work better here or moveToCalendarNearest() or something to flag up that in certain cases you need to be extra careful as mentioned in the article.

It is really hard to get this right and personally I would be flagging it up in javadocs.
Two things I took from that interview:

* the quip about people spending a lot of time to optimize something unnecessary,

* the quip that you must be wary about recommendations made by smart people, because you will tend to trust smart people too much and they can still make mistakes.
Who are they harming? Literally everyone else in the space that is now more likely to be exposed to someone with the virus (and who has taken fewer precautions to avoid being contagious)

People’s rights to swing their fists around wildly end at my face
100 out of 100 vaccinated people were happy they didn't die from covid.

See how your argument sounds?
My historical accuracy may be lacking here, but IIRC weren't "tax rates" in roman and subsequent medieval times relatively light as a percentage of one's wages? Specifically in Mideval england, the taxes were mostly on land, which the majority of the population would have had to pay, since most weren't land owners. I mean obviously taking a dollar when you only make 100 a year will feel disastrous, but I mean, it's nothing compared to what we experience today in the developed world. It might be one reason for why this particular mechanic isn't so prominent. I would imagine if you were making an industrial age/Americana game some 100-200 years in the future, tax policy would be a primary mechanic.
Do vaccines being approved by government make the government not a nanny state? Isn't that still a matter of government knowing what's good for you, as a parent would?
Starbucks gives, restarted in June (per a reply to another comment of mine here), a 10 cent discount for using a reusable cup. It's not a sliding scale, and it's not a ton of money back. But it's something, and probably more of a discount than the paper cup would cost them.
That is painful for sure.
It's a serious question. Why downvote? Because you think it's coming but don't want to warn people?
A colleague of mine just lost his best friend. It was the second time he had the virus. They think it was two different variants.

Something like 2.4 billion people have had at least one shot of vaccine. How many more need to before you think its safe?
In slovenia, you need a vaccine passport (or a <48h old test) to drink coffee outside, infront of the cafe, in fresh air... yes, we're sliding deep and fast.
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This reads like a fluff piece to hype a “pandemic” who barley killed as much people as the diarrhoea has in the same lapse of time.

Not a single word about treatments other than artificial ventilation. Ivermectin as controversial as it may be but also antibody therapy seem to be completely ignored in this article just as in most hospitals.
A gentle reminder that no children under 12 have been vaccinated yet, and so the behavior of unvaccinated adults affects more people than you're talking about here.
I don't have much inside info, but the contents of the QR codes on Alibaba, JD.com, and others differ substantially, so I suspect each is building their systems in-house, though in China, I would think there's more of an established playbook for building them given its prevalence. I haven't run across a dedicated library/package for this.

In the West, WhatsApp and Discord have massively different schemes for QR login.
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