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I try to ask myself this question about any important decision I make.

When it comes to the vaccine, I got the first shot (Moderna) and had such a terrible week following it that my doctor was fairly convinced I probably already had COVID. Everyone I know had a much stronger reaction to the second shot than to the first, so I've opted to remain partially vaccinated.

With Delta in full swing, I'm now reconsidering that, but am making arrangements in advance to be out of work for another week or two, as that's my expectation going in.

All of that said, the folks I know who are unvaccinated have either already had COVID, so they're just trusting their immune system, or they are in a relatively low-risk group, and are concerned about long-term vaccine side-effects. All of them are fully vaccinated in all other regards, just not with COVID. Make of that what you will, but very few of them fall into the caricatures I see bandied about in the comments here.

Incidentally, I'm also concerned about long-term side effects, but I figure at this point, we'll have to solve that problem as a society, if they ever show up enmasse.
Keep in mind the initial dose is highly relevant to the impact of the virus in your body. There's a big difference between getting a single virus, enough to cause an infection, and enough to be highly overwhelmed before your immune system kicks in.
Surprisingly, people don't speak in rigorous, syntactically correct if-statements.
There are very few people who can legitimately not get vaccinated for science reasons.

The immunocompromised will have accelerated shots etc.

More generally, we can't solve for the 0.5%, we have to solve for the 98%.
The wiki page for hypergraph has some nice applications.
> > Secure by default. No file, network, or environment access, unless explicitly enabled.

> Great, but we're talking about server software so the first thing any project is going to do is enable all of that. And it's not like you can trust this on the server, you'd still need to sandbox to process if you truly want isolation.

See below re: static builds, but they're making decisions that render Deno much more useful for cross-platform desktop distribution ("what do you mean, cross platform scripts are already easy to distribute" LOL I mean cross-platform including Windows) than Node, or most other scripting languages, for that matter.

> > Supports TypeScript out of the box.

> Okay so it's coupled to Microsoft's take on Javascript. What about Flow or any of the other compiles-to-Javascript languages? What's wrong with using Babel with sourcemaps?

Having it built in means your JS build Jenga tower can be a little shorter, which is great, because the JS build ecosystem is batshit crazy. TypeScript's the right horse to back because it's become a de facto standard already—its tooling is much better than Flow, for one thing, and a lot of people seem to prefer its style. It's a better choice than other compile-to-JS languages because it's very close to vanilla Javascript, to the point that you can tell it to compile to JS that looks hand-written and clearly maps to what you wrote in the TS (this is because its compilation process is mostly just stripping out all the TS stuff). To adopt something like Elm would be to ask developers to develop a completely different language, not just JS-with-static-types. Why static types built-in at all? It can allow for good advances in tooling and performance that wouldn't be available without it.

> > Ships only a single executable file.

> I guess that could be convenient but I'm struggling to think of a situation where installing node has ever been a problem.

This is, to be blunt, fucking wonderful if you're distributing to both Unixy operating systems and Windows, especially if you don't have tight administrative control over all machines involved. Vendoring in stuff like your script runtime is brilliant for preventing all kinds of problems, and if it's a single static binary or (even better) produces static bins that bundle your script, too, then that's very easy to do. Besides, dealing with NPM (or any other language package manager—pip, etc, they're all a pain in the ass when it comes to distribution) on the user end sucks, so you're going to want to bundle everything up in one file anyway, one way or another, if you can.

> > Has built-in utilities like a dependency inspector (deno info) and a code formatter (deno fmt).

> Is this not the job of the package manager? Or does deno force you to use itself as the package manager? Will that not just bring about another npm situation in a few years?

This is one thing Go got very right. Building in the basic tools is the right thing to do.
True, I thought they were asking about tokenized assets in general
Docker basically only exists as a popular product because of how terrible Python installation is, but okay good luck with that.
Then I fear you've oversimplified your model. I believe there is a lot of grey area between being placed behind physical bars and being forced to pay for services.

For example, let's say one comes down with a horrible disease, clearly they are not being directly charged in cash and no police have been involved. Yet I can't shake the feeling that they have been parted with some freedoms.

Anyway, food for thought. This thread is perilous.
Almost nobody is at risk from COVID-19. The 600k+ people who died from it so far in the US represents a tiny, tiny percentage of the population. Even after every single person has been exposed to the virus, it seems likely that the individual risk will remain extremely small.

The problem with COVID-19 has never been the risk it poses for you as an individual, but the public health aspects. It is highly infectious; some number of cases require hospitalization; if too many people require that at the same time, the public health implications are substantial, much broader than COVID-19 itself, and potentially lethal.

Ergo, we have a civic responsibility to take steps to reduce the chance of this happening, and the simplest way to do that is vaccination and masks.
Unvaccinated people are prolonging the pandemic, and everything about it: restrictions, lockdowns, healthcare workers' extreme overwork, you name it. Let's also not forget those of us who have friends and family who have compromised immune systems or who cannot be vaccinated for legitimate medical reasons, or children under 12 who cannot yet be vaccinated. Anti-vaxxers are actively causing those people harm.

I care because humanity has been screwed over by this virus for a year and a half now, and the virus could be completely controlled by now in any country with a sufficient vaccine supply. But it's not, because people refuse to do their part in helping to take care of their community. That's disgusting and unforgivable to me. The blame for any COVID-related death that occurs in the US now falls squarely on the shoulders of the unvaccinated.
Here's one of the scientists on President Biden's Covid advisory council being interviewed on PBS.

TLDR: To get the sort of protection people imagine that cloth masks provide, you would need to be wearing an n95 mask, tightly fitted to your face so no air leaks in through the sides.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/do-masks...
Maybe without a vaccination card or other pass that you're ineligible for the vaccine you get triaged right back out the door. That would help the hospital capacity, encourage vaccination, etc but it will probably need to get a bit more morgue capacity ramped up. Easier to train for.
To play Devil's Advocate, didn't the US have to label the Taliban as terrorists at that time? I think given their association with Bin Laden, and the 9/11 attacks, most people in the US considered the Taliban to be terrorists, and it would have completely destroyed the credibility of the Pentagon or Bush administration to be negotiating with them a mere 60 days after 9/11.
Whoever named it Comirnaty needs to stop taking Hydroxychloroquine.
My Dell laptop had an 800MB Realtek audio driver update. If I uninstall the Realtek stuff then the 3.5mm headphone socket doesn't work.
Then why did the Americans not accept the Taliban surrender? No, this was not a war of value systems, this is just proof of how hard someone can fight if you do not allow them to surrender.
> Well, what would it take for you to change your mind?

A lot of things, but just the top two would be enough:

1) Being able to sue. If you can sue J&J for baby powder, should be able to sue Pfizer for vaccines if anything goes wrong.

2) Falsifiability in government actions. Many rights have been taken away (some permanently) by saying "we just need to do this and then it will all be over" like "a few weeks to flatten the curve", "the last lockdown", and "x% vaccinated and we'll be back to normal".

But when they don't work, the people are blamed, more rights are taken and more restrictions imposed. It's never that the actions were wrong.

I expect something like if "70% of people are vaccinated then we expect no more than 5000 cases per day" and if the statement turns out to be false there will be no more vaccine impositions because it clearly will have turned out to be wrong.

If something doesn't work you shouldn't double down.
There is also an attempt to explain the violence in recent days as acts by few and not the reflection of the leadership. But I do not think that really is the case. Remains to be seen, how long they allow internet to be available to the citizens.
Here in North America, most ebikers just wear bicycle helmets. Bicycle helmets are only rated for a fall from 2.0m onto the ground, or about 22km/h. [0] Ebikes tend to go much quicker than this.

[0]https://www.astm.org/Standards/F1447.htm
Crypto mining is solving math equations.

Just like AI.

Lots of fud aroud this is spread by entities who has way more commercial interest than "doing good".

I have absolutely no reservations about it.

I'm all for making energy sources more efficient and green and whatnot.
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So you are selfish, because you could have passed it on to a number of people in the meantime for whom it will not be a common cold.
Ive already walked away from my FAANG job because they are _considering_ changing the terms of my employment to include vaccination.

Several small startups I’ve talked to are already requiring proof of vaccination. But it’s legal and insurance demanding it, not their team. And these are for _fully remote_ positions. I suspect FAANG is finding itself in a similar position.

Tin foil hat: I’m starting to suspect someone (gov? Pharma?) is leaning on insurance companies to in turn pressure the industry to mandate vaccination.

> Walk away from a job because of it

It’s starting to seem like you’ll be free to not vaccinate in the U.S., but it’s more than walking away from a job. If insurance requires it, you’ll have to find a company that has an insurance company willing to float you an exemption for non-protected class reasons; it’s not clear how much the market is going to allow for that.

BTW: I’m vaccinated. I left my job not to avoid vaccination, but because they thought they could remove my agency.
> A lot of it is simply narcissism

Im sure it’s involved to some degree but I don’t think anyone has sufficient data to know by how much. It could be insinuated that the demonization of the unvaccinated and the call for the use of force against them is an expression of narcissism by the vaccinated who are frustrated that their “genius” is being ignored. Both accusations have equal plausibility and lack of data.
The long term effects of all of those listed are fairly well understood. It's about known risk vs. unknown risk.
this comment is getting down voted, but I think it's correct. The author later states:

> "professionalism means being able to knuckle down and shift your mindset into one focused on working, one aimed at achieving an objective or mission success"

Which explicitly removes dealing with "the whole person" from the definition of professionalism. If a co-worker's spouse died last night, the professional thing to do is compartmentalize. This is the opposite of empathy
> what's the point of force-vaccinating people who have obviously contacted the infection on many occasions and still are Okay?

I don't know but, fwiw, Europe is considering prior infection proven by an antibody test as equivalent to being vaccinated.
The U.S. ignored corruption within the Afghan government. Did that lead to fall?
I think the OP's point is that any malicious code residing in the USB driver has access to a much larger attack surface in kernel space than the UI app running in userspace.

If I were attacking the system along this vector, my exploit would sit in the USB driver, not the UI code.
> Writing foundational algorithms/data-structures libraries (e.g. language-runtime stdlibs like libc) is usually treated as a sort of sacred ritual in programming—something where it’s “obvious” that it should be done slowly, carefully, and without distraction, with each change audited carefully by many peers before accepting a merge.

I'll be honest, I think you're vastly overestimating how well these things are actually developed :) I agree with what you said, I just found this part a little bit funny.
>> And Pfizer doesn't "make" 1.9b of 100m doses.

True.

> Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine generated $7.8 billion in revenue in the second quarter[1].

Note that with Pharma, there is a fixed cost up front. After that, the marginal cost is relatively small and every extra dose prints money.

Also, there are people in other countries who are being called back for a fourth dose right now.

[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-g...
> In the past two years, a network of quantum gravity theorists, mostly millennials, has made enormous progress on Hawking’s paradox.

Wonder why they feel the need to mention that they are mostly millennials?
You ever been in a car with a driver’s seat that has way too many options, so you can never really get the right position? That’s why I’ve never tried Steermouse. I’m afraid I’ll spend all my time trying to get all the settings right and constantly be frustrated.

But after this thread, maybe I just just try it.
Now that I read that, it seems obvious that static fields and RF wouldn't interact like that... Thanks!

The video is very well done (for a semi-pro it seems?), it's one of those things where people (including me) might think "oh yeah magnets, I know about those" but you actually don't, or at last not at the scale that you might need.

That reminds me of this LPL video about Gallium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeghGhVdt9s where you might think: oh yeah, metals, those are sturdy blocks that you need to weld or saw.
I don't want a real time video compositing tool, I want a tool that records (one window, one region of the screen, or one capture device) at its native resolution. And ShareX (a Windows-only screenshot tool) manages to achieve the first 2 with a better UI than OBS Studio (though possibly with lower performance), though OBS Studio recently added "Resize output (source size)" which makes OBS's UI substantially smoother for this use case.
Don’t forget Vioxx!
And for simplicial complexes there's a neat data structure: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02581

It's implemented (minus some features) in e.g. GUDHI.
The EU standardised on 112 a few years ago. Old numbers continue to work.

Also, the GSM system (so almost all mobile phones, world wide) must support 112.
I struggle with the same, and I have exactly the same thought process.

Occasionally, I have a filtering session when I am going through everything and narrowing them down, however extra items are appearing until the next filtering session and the same goes again. It is a vicious cycle.
Because Node is the new IE.
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Boosters are aptly named, they boost your antibody levels.

You are correct the flu shot targets different strains, but the H1N1 strain has been part of the annual flu shot since 2009 simply because it has continued to circulate. So just like you get an H1N1 shot every year (to boost your antibody levels), you will likely get a COVID shot every year to boost those antibodies.
You’re not going to lose access to your bank accounts merely from losing an email address. At worse you’ll be inconvenienced for a day, and maybe not even that long because with a phone call and your SSN and account number, you can get anything you need done including a change of email address for your online banking.

Every financial or governmental institution is going to have some kind of failsafe for verifying you if you lose access to an email address.

If you’re worried about being put into a position that you’ll never have what you need to recover from a loss of an email address, then the onus is on you to make sure that doesn’t happen.

I know you had a larger argument you were articulating, but it was undermined by your example.
15 kW per tile, 12 tiles per rack… 180kW per rack at 480V three-phase is 375 amps per rack. Jesus. Good luck finding a rack that can support that. Either you build your own rack (and this could be Tesla’s plan, but I couldn’t find details on that), or you put maybe 3 tiles per rack. Hell, most GPU installations won’t put more that 4 GPU servers per rack for this very reason. I can’t imagine how heavy the wiring would be.
>>Changing this to dark means forcing new default.

No one is changing the default. Websites are merely respecting YOUR choice.

>>The safer bet would be to provide a choice but keep defaults to general (light)

This is literally how this works already - default is light theme, changing it to dark theme is a choice - I still don't understand what your issue here is.
This makes it sound like there was some groundbreaking CDC study that got hidden for political reasons.

It was a study of a single month in Georgia before Delta. Aside from the narrowness of the inputs I highly doubt school policy and ground truth were aligned.

That study is not enough to be driving policy.
Ummm, you could use this reasoning on obesity, STDs, etc…
The killer app of centralized chat systems is their general protections against unwelcome abusive contact from strangers (spam, harassment, death threats). Everyone focuses on the protocol but I focus on the experience, what with having been stalked for twenty years by an Internet-competent stalker. So I see nothing in this Modern XMPP website that is competitive on that point, which means I'll likely continue ignoring XMPP, same as I do IRC these days. Is there something I've missed that Modern XMPP implements that protects against abusers?
Its a reality. If you not vaccinated, you will get COVID, and you could die or end up with Long COVID for 12 months -- and we will not feel sorry for you or shutdown.
Firefox follows Chrome and prepares to block insecure downloads
Though it is worth pointing out that it was in that earlier model where ISPs covered most "infrastructure services" that the internet was most often classified as a utility. Your utility provider gives you all the services that you need to use your utility.

Now we are in a much weirder situation where services to use the utility are provided by companies you don't have a direct utility provider relationship with. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's a new thing that doesn't follow the traditional "rules" and analogy models of traditional utilities. If you have electrical problems you call your energy company. If you have telephone problems you call your phone company. If you have internet problems you can't just call your ISP to fix them.

I think a lot of these growing pains with "is the internet a utility?" and "is email a utility?" and "is Facebook a utility?" are happening precisely because we've passed a boundary of what "utility" means both governmentally and culturally. When your ISP was your email provider, the government had power to regulate it is a utility service: if your ISP didn't support things that kept you safe the government in theory could mandate it as a part of the limited regional monopoly rights granted to an ISP. When Google is your email provider the government has no such rights, and yet Google has far and away de facto become much of a "regional monopoly" for email than was ever expected to possible pre-internet. A lot of the specifics of Facebook weren't exactly on the radar as 1990s internet services, but suddenly for many people are required services with monopolistic lockdown.

There aren't easy answers here. We've passed beyond the 20th Century definitions of "utility". We probably need a new vocabulary for all of this. We probably need to collectively "sit down" and establish what all our new boundaries are, what powers we expect corporations to have over our lives, and which we expect to return to governments (as regulatory powers), and which we expect to collectively need to disrupt (through existing monopoly laws and trust busting exercises). Unfortunately no easy answers, just a lot of work to do that we'll probably collectively continue to procrastinate.
In my locale, mopeds / scooters had a very narrow niche, among college students and some employees, because they could be parked for free. You didn't want to be driving through the campus in between classes because of the scooter traffic. When the university started restricting and charging for scooter parking, the scooters vanished. At the same time I've seen practically no e-bikes in the racks on campus. Most student housing has no indoor bike storage, and they're hard to carry up stairs so it's a problem to find a way to charge them. On the other hand, as I've told my kids, "you were born with feet, you can pedal a bike." Conventional bikes have returned to their proper place at the top of the student transportation food chain.
I've been using Zen for a couple of months now, and it's been really helpful in helping me stand up straight (I use a standing desk). Very unobtrusive and still works even though I'm on Zoom all day. The team is great too -- they've been super responsive any time I've run across a weird edge case (it's been a long time since it's happened, but when it did they had it sorted super quickly)
Mainframes work completely different than unix, but hey your a unfunny troll and we leave it at that.
Then those people can choose a light theme, it's all about your choice as a user.
Not boobytrapping it, just literally blowing up and otherwise rendering it non-functional.
There is an alternative, more reasonable way to look at the Apple proposal.

The scanning occurs in order to upload files to iCloud photos. Your device is attesting that data you upload to iCloud photos is not pre-established CSAM. If you do not like the privacy implications of having your content inspected locally, on your device, simply choose another cloud photo provider and turn off iCloud photos.

You are told about the system and you are free to turn the service off. That doesn't sound like a massive privacy invasion to me.
> the Pfizer vaccine works and is safe

Yes the vaccine has been proven to be safe for most adults in the short-term. But blanket statements like this over-simplify the reality of the situation.

People need to be aware that for certain sub-populations (eg pediatrics & pregnant women), there is insufficient scientific evidence - in terms of clinical trials and longitudinal studies - to conclude that the benefits of vaccination always and universally outweigh the risks.

Until consensus has been established in the scientific literature - and even after that - everyone should be making their own decisions based on personal risk evaluation with the consultation of doctors and other medical professionals.