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> Why don't we lockdown our highways when there are 600,000 deaths from auto accidents?

We mandate seat belts, air bags, guard rails, road construction standards, backup cameras, crumple zones, and quite a few other elements involved in road safety. Per-mile road deaths have been on a precipitous decline for decades due to ongoing increases in safety mandates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
Self-hosting e-mail is exceptionally easy. I've been doing it for almost a year now without problems. In fact, it's easier than a service. I use https://nixos-mailserver.readthedocs.io/_/downloads/en/lates... and rent space in a data center, so to cloud IP space.

But expecting non-technical people to do it would be a nightmare, that I agree with.
Keeps me wondering what you're gonna do for a living with a nickname like that.
On the other hand if it does drop, and the death toll drops by a lot (like in Israel) ... then you're argument is akin to:

"Why stop hitting people with cars when the people hit don't die in 100% of cases ?"
who even cares? many bad things are here forever ... why is this such a shock to many people - I don't get it.
I don't understand what is innovative or new about this, and I'm highly dubious of the quoted numbers.

"33% more efficient" is repeated in several company documents and videos, but I can't find the baseline for that measurement.
This approval doesn't change a thing, about no known long term effects of viral vector vaccines (first time approved by any medical agency in world in November 2019) and mRNA vaccines (first time approved by any medical agency in world in December 2020).

Sorry for not wanting to inject myself with unproven technology with unknown long term effects. Why politicians and certain pharma companies keep pushing these vaccines instead offering conventional inactivated virus vaccines? Heck maybe I'd go even for protein based one (Novavax).

As healthy non-obese non-smoking relatively young person I'm not afraid of COVID, but I'd be willing to take safe vaccine with technology proven by decades of track record to make some people happy (though ideally everyone should have same rights vaxxed or unvaxxed and this should be entirely voluntary same as influenza, hepatitis and other vaccines nobody requires when you travel to neighboring country or visit restaurant).

For instance these are currently my options in EU, if I want conventional vaccine against COVID approved by EMA or any COVID vaccine using any technology approved more than 2 years ago:

EDIT: I wonder if all those people defending these new technoloy vaccines also use all their software running Alpha/Beta versions and don't wait for Stable version. But it seems when it comes to one's own health it's less important than software for most.
It wasn't anywhere near close to a war of attrition. It was a war of different value systems, and one of these value systems simply can't win certain types of war. For Taliban it was not a problem to hide among the civil population, and for the Americans it was problematic to commit China-style ethnocide, or at the least institute authoritarianish high-security measures, depopulate the rural areas, to actually win this war.
You make a good point. Sure, some will just move their goalposts, but I personally know at least one person who initially voiced skepticism about the vaccine, and sort of locked himself into a position where he can't get it now without looking like he's "submitting to the man" or whatever.

We have all known people who will double down on their arguments after being proven wrong because they've gone too far. This could give them an out.
At least in the US, it would be illegal for them to do so under the ACA.
I tried 3 different mice on macOS and finally just bought a Magic Touchpad. I never understood why Mac folks were obsessed with keyboard shortcuts, but now I know. Mouse on Mac completely sucks and it's embarrassing.

I have a Mac machine and a Linux machine side by side and my efficiency on Linux is like double that of on Mac, even though I use the Mac 90% of the time.

(Mac destroys everything else on 4k scaling, though. Linux is atrocious at that. Windows is just "good enough.")
Using Java for shell scripts (using a shebang) is on my todo list. IIRC, there's a GraalVM or Truffle or something interpreter that'd work.
>By that i mean that we need more time to assess the long-term effects, something that many pro-vaccine people seem unwilling to accept. That is unfortunate.

We are way past the time frame for long-term effects to manifest themselves for a corona-like vaccine.
Your health Minister seems to be spreading misinformation.
It means there's not a 3rd party that can prevent the transaction, reverse the transaction, or initiate a new transaction without the current owner's permission.

For example, Steam games can be traded user to user on the platform, but it's all at the whims of Valve. At any moment Valve could shut down, freeze your account, disable trading etc.
See comparison here: https://deno.land/manual#comparison-to-nodejs

The big one for me is, ability to use async/await instead of supplying callback methods.
>No human endeavor is perfect

This should be posted to the front page of the site. I get so tired of seeing comments pointing out some flaw in an institution and concluding that the institution is therefore useless. It really is lazy thinking.
Ah, yes, it's <insert minority here>'s fault that America doesn't build mechas. Go crawl back in to your cave.
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Surely you mean chip design and not manufacturing.
Which major City are you referring to that demands vaccination for grocery shopping?
I work from home in the middle of nowhere and I've had the real deal. It might seem small to someone who already has made their decision but its certainly some small injustice to have people vaccinated against their will for no apparently good reason. Now, consider how I feel about my children.

Maybe you are not talking about "me" but I guess I couldn't tell from your comment.
The acheivable goal of lockdowns outside of effictively island countries is to keep hospitals open with sufficient capacity. When hospitals don't have enough capacity, any reason to go to the hospital has a worse outcome. Physical beds are one thing, but staffing is a bigger issue.

The problem is it's a tricky system to manage. We can measure hospital utilization, but that lags infections. We can mandate lockdowns, but compliance varies and too many changes risks more non-compliance.

Also, there are existing reasons leading to too many people in hospitals that reduces capacity. And systemic issues that make staffing a challenge.
Transcription causes mutations in the spike that causes clotting issues? Do you have any idea how much transcription happens in your cells, every moment of every day? You need to reconsider where you’re getting your information.
Because getting COVID becomes a problem for every person you come in contact with! Getting vaccinated protects you first, but also stops you from personally handing a disease to everyone you're in contact with. The people around you shouldn't be punished because you like Fox News.
The comment above is asking "how many employers, colleges, etc. are now willing and legally able to require vaccination."

You're welcome to choose not to get vaccinated, and not to go to any such employers, colleges, etc.
After US withdrawal the Taliban probably had a massive financial advantage. They probably used the last years to save up billions which they used to buy them a "critical mass" of fighters that would steamroll the country with no chance of resistance.

Even when factoring out corruption, the government's ability to muster up funds for keeping it's own military is severely hindered by them having to upkeep basic services throughout the country and having to go through the usual government bureaucracy.

Now the tables have turned somewhat and being faced with the cost of occupying the country, the Taliban will have trouble keeping their freckle allies.
It'll be so easy to walk away from a company if they tried to force me to do Anything. But i make tons of money off all this fearmongering, it's great. I can't wait until you have to take a 4th shot, money all the way to the bank. I caught covid for a day, still showing the strongest markers, i never noticed it, all I did was take vitamins and exercise, good friend got the vaccine, still can't walk, sick as a dog.
India's "compliance officer" demand is not for the corporation to look into customer issues. The compliance officer's role is to look into only censoring of content and does not AT ALL include looking into customer support issues.

The "Compliance Officer" job is for the Indian government to have a neck to squeeze if that social media company allows some content on their site which doesn't toe the official line from the Indian government.
When the US and China both get around to banning crypto (China already started), it's going to be a hard landing.
Often people use the argument that this vaccine was really rushed and there could potentially be side effects to such a rushed vaccine.

There is one example of this actually happening.
Have a look at what happened with the pandermix vaccine:

narcolepsy.org.uk/blog/important-ruling-pandemrix-case

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/20/swine-flu-vacc...
The vaccines are not failing. They are incredibly effective at preventing infections _and_ reducing severity of breakthrough infections. The Delta variant is more easily transmitted and more likely to cause breakthrough infections, but that does not account for the majority of the surge [0]. It's largely a surge amongst unvaccinated populations, buoyed by a smaller proportion of breakthrough infections. The ease with which Delta spreads, combined with relaxed restrictions on gatherings and masking, accounts for the surge in infections.

Despite the decline in vaccine effectiveness (I've seen conflicting studies of how much this has changed), they're still incredibly effective compared to any other protection we have at the moment.

None of this changes the fact that people are going to continue to die until a higher proportion of the population receives a COVID vaccine -- and that we _can_ mitigate this through other measures. None of these things lead me to the conclusion that we should return to normal and accept an increased healthcare system burden and death rate.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
I wonder would you have felt the same way when the chickenpox vaccine, or MMR vaccines, or any of the other common vaccines we get today, were new.
When the law enforcement institutions are a demonstrable enemy of your community, and seen as a threat rather than a resource, lawlessness will naturally result. The intra-community violence is a symptom (a serious symptom, but a symptom nonetheless) of the systemic problem.

One sees the same thing in refugee camps, which I think are directly analogous.

The only alternative explanation is "these types of people are violent and lawless by nature", which I do not accept.
The vast majority [0] of cases in Victoria are for the 20-29 age group. There are as many cases for the 10-19 age group as the 40-49 age group.

The vast majority of currently active cases right now are for the 0-9 age group.

Whilst there isn't a current breakdown of mortality by age rate, the overall mortality rate for Victoria is 4%, meaning that there is a high risk to children.

The data does bear out the risk.

[0] https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/victorian-coronavirus-cov...
I think that depends on the theories that one has. Either choice would be based on missing or incomplete data.

For example, one could question the potential for autoimmune conditions due to the way the mRNA vaccine works and how the immune system typically targets multiple proteins on the cell. There's no data or studies our there about this longterm possibility or even the incidence of autoimmune antibodies produced by vaccination. This likely isn't a problem for the elderly since it can take years or decades to present/progress, and their value proposition is different than for younger people. It starts to get more questionable as the value proposition changes dramatically in the youngest age groups. The question of vaccinating one's child for covid is certainly a topic with a diverse set of opinions and very little data to perform a thorough longterm cost/benefit analysis.
Okay, that's silly but also amazing. And interesting! It brings out the structural form of compositions.
being obese is socially irresponsible in these times, yet I don't see obese people banned from buying junk food and going to eat junk food in restaurants
You mentioned “recycling” and “reducing”, but the third and often-overlooked part of the process is “re-using”. It takes much less energy to repurpose these devices than to melt them down and make new ones. “Reduce, re-use, recycle” - all three are important.
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Ehh, on a macro level.. does advertising help make earth a better place. I’d guess no.

On the micro, we do have thousands of happy customers whose business are more profitable, so those folks’ worlds are much better places.
The fact that so many people are getting CS degrees and yet can't even FizzBuzz is alarming.

Is it the students? How many people are going into CS because they've had a taste of programming somewhere outside of school and decided they want to be a software engineer, and how many of them just get into CS because they heard that CS grads have very good employment prospects (Low unemployment, high salaries)? Anecdotally, I can tell you that during my senior project for my CS degree, someone in my group admitted to hating coding, but was pushed into CS by family, and that he couldn't code worth a damn.

Or is it the schools? In my school, the first two years were much heavier on the code, where the latter two years were heavier on CS theory. But in both cases, the quizzes and tests were on syntax and other things that could be answered with a short answer, or they were multiple choice. The only time your coding ability was tested was in the homework, which is easily plagiarized with Google and Stack Overflow.
Sure, and every institution should also be allowed to keep them out based on that decision.
From the author's bio, "Space Lawyer and Founder. Former Singapore Army officer. Sci-fi author in general." Though I suspect the uniforms in the third and fifth pictures aren't Singaporean or American.
In the US, what you're talking about is referred to as "detainment" which is very different from an arrest. I think that's where a lot of the confusion is coming from.
I've been using Linux for 2 decades now, and cannot remember a time a mouse didn't just work. Mostly Logitech, from PS2 to USB to wireless.
As someone who has had both COVID (before vaccines were available) and a COVID vaccine, this reasoning seems frankly dumb as bricks.

There is uncertainty about long-term effects of both. There is no uncertainty about the short-term effects of COVID, which are magnitudes worse than the short-term effects of a vaccine. COVID for me was a multi-week flu that scared the shit out of me because I didn't know how bad it would get or if I'd live through it. I took months to get my smell/taste back, three months to get back to previous fitness levels, hair loss, and significant mental fog and memory problems. The jab was one day of tiredness and I ran a marathon two days after no problem.

I really can't fathom how anyone could put themselves and those around them at such great risk, rather than taking a vaccine.
I'm really baffled at (e-)bike prices remaining so high. There's certainly not more research than what goes into cars, admittedly amortized over smaller production runs, and battery packs should (should, but don't) cost very little (at 100$/KWh, my bike's pack should be a whopping 43 bucks, let's say 100 if we include the frame mount, the lock, the wiring and the charger).

There is SO LITTLE material overall in a bike, with 99% of the tech having changed little since the '70s, so I guess it's not patents or IP either. It's not the wheels, I can buy replacements for little. It's not the shifting system, a crappy one is 100 EUR and a decent (low-end) Shimano is under 200. It's not the chain, those are 10 bucks, maybe 25 for the higher strength ones appropriate for an e-bike. It's not the motor, as I can get a conversion kit off ebay for 150-200, which includes a wheel and electronics.

Yet, 25kg of ebike costs 12% of 1000kg of a low end city car, while using 40 times less material and not having to undergo all the same rigorous testing, homologation and what else.

What am I missing? Is it all in the frame? Is it all profit? Am I looking at this from a completely wrong perspective ?
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> So you found someone who had a perfectly reasonable explanation for his choice of tools.

Really depends on your definition of "reasonable". I could invoke Goodwin's law :)
It's relative, with several tens of thousands of generations of selective breeding zebras can be domesticated. It's just not doable over a few dozen generations.
I know one person who walked away from a job months ago because he figured he'd be required to vaccinate, and another who is prepared to walk away if her job requires it.

I don't think this is a decision they made lightly.
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Additionally air conditioners should transfer heat to tap water, not outside air. Water as a medium to discard heat is more efficient.

There are downsides to this: wasted tap water and hot sewers. Probably certain municipalities should disallow such air conditioner water heaters except to make hot water for showering and bathing.

Also see: https://www.hotspotenergy.com/air-conditioner-water-heaters/...
As JulianMorrison notes, this is common in finance. The FDIC strongly recommends that banks enforce this[1] – you can't cook the books when you have no access to the systems.

But sometimes it's not just about cooking the books: the last "SSL cert expiration" fire I lived through happened because the person who had credentials to Digicert had to take sick leave. It was never a documented/defined process because "just flip Tim an email" was always sufficient, Tim didn't mind doing the work, and Tim didn't like going on vacation.

Two week lockouts mean there's no chance of shadow IT/back channel work happening, and forces you to document your processes.

[1]: https://www.fdic.gov/news/financial-institution-letters/1995...
You literally posted the part describing how much effectiveness has dropped with variants.
Does Steermouse support per-app button mappings like Logitech Options and Karabiner?
> All pushed on people by algorithms that our community has created in a desperate attempt to maximise “engagement”.

And remember, the maximum engagement one can possibly get is the open warfare. Facebook has been a tool of war propaganda, too, Zuckerberg is all for it if he can display some ads to the participants, last I've heard.
A lot of this is starting to result in talking semantics of what an IDE is. A powerful/smart code editor, extended to have the functionality most will ever use an IDE for (and definitely incorporating the base definition of what an IDE is), ends up being argued as different because the base product didn't start as an IDE or it isn't as feature-rich as the mature, big-brand IDEs people have grown up hearing. Why people are even playing semantics with this when the topic is making points against tooling, that programmers are very much using with tools like VSCode, I really don't understand.

The tooling and layout of the same functionality you choose to use is something more modern tools, and product versions, have improved upon but is unrelated to what an IDE is. It also differs between tools and IDEs. For you to say you've never used an IDE with simple or fast file handling is either a lie or a severe lack of experience, as almost all decent ones have a 1 or 2-click approach via the explorer (and toolbar/hotkeys if you don't like an explorer side-pane). I actually can't think of any half-decent IDE that doesn't have the same approach for files as popular code editors, and I've used a lot of both for different platforms and languages. The only time I've had noticeable experiences is in cases via command/terminal but we're talking GUI editors here.

Worth noting, I have never in my career found myself mentioning any Eclipse-based IDE as an example of a good IDE. In fact, almost every dev I've ever met regards them as the worst IDEs they have experienced, not as a baseline standard for or expectation of IDEs. It's basically redundant to comment on x experience being bad as anyone that has ever used one already knows that is expected.
Here you go:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/05/27/why-are-aztrazeneca...

https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/155536/bre...
> Some vaccinated people have been found to carry the same levels of the virus as unvaccinated people, so stating that unvaccinated people could be increasing risk to others is also a moot point

Some is in this case a small minority. In general you have the same level up to about day 5, then vaccinated drops down to zero over the next few days while vaccinated levels keep raising for several more days.
Time to start asking more about security and OOP on interviews

OOP is kind of topic that everybody is expected to know, yet for some reasons there are huge gaps between people when it comes to proficency at it, at modeling systems and domains correctly.
Any digital scan will never be a 100% accurate re-creation of an original artwork.

Even the best digital display technology can only display a fraction of the human perception, something that pigments are not limited to. Pigments are also physical materials, which can reflect light in drastically different ways, which can only be appreciated in person. Finally, paintings are actually 3 dimensional, with the different brush strokes creating a detailed texture on the canvas (look at a Van Gogh for an extreme example), which won't be accurately depicted in a scan.
Quite right, the Uber case is here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54175359

So what happens with the human driver (you) if the same accident happens ?

If the Uber case sets the standard, then negligent homicide is a likely charge.
The sentence for that in the US is "A minimum of 4 years in prison and up to a maximum of 8 years in prison" according to this link:

https://www.feldmanroyle.com/homicide/negligent-homicide/

You better hope you can explain it was a bug in the software in this situation.
OK so WTF is the game-plan?!!

The game is all about controlling users, gaining rights in a standard take-it-or-leave-it "bargain." These companies rarely sell you anything just for revenue. It's always a play to aggregate data, aggregate users, create network effects and dominate their emergent properties.

There's usually no value to data, for example, unless its aggregated. I think consumers might need to "unionize^" in some fashion. It may not resemble a trade union at all, but consumer rights, increasingly, resemble labour rights issues.
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Youtube is a great example. There are multiple classes of users/consumers: watchers, youtubers, advertisers. All of them are completely expendable, and youtube's relationship with all of them is 100% take-it-or-leave it. No one is important enough to speak to the boss.

It's actually not hard to see how youtubers would unionize. It might even resembles a labour union quite a lot. If enough youtubers users strike, for example...

Advertisers I dunno. In some industries/segments, adwords and FB are basically a tax. The norm is spending >10% of your gross on advertising. OTH... it's hard to see them being a factor.

I don't even have a mental model of how an organized usership might look, but data aggregation probably needs to be a part of it.