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> Just legalizing marihuana would also work.

No it doesn't. I am from NL, we have legalized the (selling to) consumer part for decades, so they'll do other stuff.

I agree it is a difficult political problem ( which we created ourselves ), but just as other 'simple' solutions are not feasible, simply allowing them to work is equally infeasible.
While my personal energies are geared towards physics, there are some underlying mechanisms in biology we collectively do have a solid grasp on. We're far away being from always being able do the X that results in Y, but we are getting to the point where we can rule out some actions. Like if you drive a ford pinto into a tree, it might crumple, it might combust, but it will almost certainly not undergo nuclear fission.

Since we're not replicating the entirety of the virus, just a segment with a particular geometry, we can say with some confidence what kinds of things it /can't/ do.
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I am near the cut-off age for active duty enlistment for many services. I have a BA from a decade ago and have not used it much. I have no family or binding connections. I am seeking to acquire the maximum amount of technical skill in minimum time and expense (not necessarily just coding but more electrical or information systems). I think I would do better in a structured environment since I
sometimes have issues with procrastination.

Anybody have a story of enlisting in their early 30s and sucessfully learning technical skills that are also valuable on the outside?
The same is true in every imperialist culture, like France, UK, Russia, China, India... The claim to be superior to others is a huge problem.
Australia doesn't have a distance limit afaik. Commercial links need a telco license though (or did 10 years ago anyway)
> Would you similarly argue that the postal service needs to open every letter and inspect it to ensure there aren't photos of child porn contained within?

The reason that isn’t done has nothing to do with law or ethics, it’s purely not done because it is impractical. In countries where it’s illegal to mail currency, all letters carrying currency are intercepted, because it’s easy to do.

I for one would not for one second mind if they had a machine that made a sound if a letter carrying cp went through was used to intercept cp. Would you really be against this?
The whole point of using Stripe for it would be not to have the documents in question. Kind of like you don't hear about companies using stripe losing their customers' card numbers.
Some level of workplace socialization is enjoyable and I’ve made friends that way who I’ve stayed friends with. But nobody ever tells you a workplace is like family unless they’re picking your pocket.

That said, the letter writer is probably not benefiting from being so openly hostile to all social events.
Cross-reference it to https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/leaky-vac...

I suspect we have the deadlier variants not despite, but because we are vaccinating and the vaccination is not effective in preventing spread.
There is no such thing as zero risk. With anything. But you can compare risks with the alternative (not getting a vaccine).

There’s already been billions of doses administered and millions of Covid patients. We know risks pretty well.
Having your car burst into flames at random times is a fun feature they tried to introduce in the Chevy Luv and Pontiac Fiero; they obviously learned a lot form those debacles...
Which is irrelevant: the booster vaccines are to provide sustained protection against the variants we have now and reduce the risk of serious complications.

There is no situation in which it is a good idea to be infected with a virus rather then vaccinated against it, and comments on provided immunity from infection are irrelevant: you either become immune to what infected you or it kills you.
Does anybody else pronounce Janet in 2 ways at the same time while reading all of this?
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Tangentially related but I’m on day 9 of COVID infection which is easily the longest I’ve been sick in years. I got two shots of Pfizer last one on the 13th of July. If the vaccine has kept this relatively mild then I’m very glad. It sucks. My main symptoms are a stuffed up face, cough, sore throat, aching body and an extremely fuzzy head that seems to come and go. I had a slightly raised temp at the start but otherwise it’s been normal and no problems breathing.

Annoyingly my first test was negative even though I was symptomatic so I was wandering around being infectious for seven days. I’m now in isolation and my wife and kids are quarantined. Thankfully my wife tested negative yesterday, she was a couple of weeks ahead of me in terms of getting vaccinated so hopefully a combo of that and me having a relatively mild case means she stays healthy. I’ve got at least another 13 days of being stuck by myself in an apartment to go before I can rejoin the world.

TLDR; please get vaccinated, this sucks.
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… Yes? But I'm not receiving more information than is in the digital photograph, because my eyes aren't magic.
They probably did both. You end up remembering physical lab stuff differently than problem sets.

I still remember some of the shake table stuff I did 30 years back.
> Like a family, eh? So let us see who from my office turns up and does my daily groceries, takes care of my kids and cleans my house if/when I am suffering from a sickness - doesn't even have to be a prolonged case, a few weeks would do.

It's a simile/metaphor, not a literal statement.

When they say like a family they mean treating each other with kindness, friendship and compassion. They don't mean that everyone has to be around each others houses at Christmas.

Everyone should try to have a heart of gold to their other coworkers (To be clear, this is a metaphor and doesn't mean that you should replace your own heart with one manufactured from gold. It would be an unsuitable material to build an artificial heart from).
It can also be used to make text easier to understand, for example:

The client connected to the server, then it crashed

vs

The client connected to the server, then the server crashed.
"test your explanations!
...running an explanation by a few people who don’t already know the concept helps to catch incorrect assumptions I’ve made."

I love this.

As I get more skilled with a thing I think I can have more confidence that I'm doing it well and according to best practices up front but that my highest level of confidence comes from employing the thing in practice and observing the results.

That could be deploying code to prod with monitoring, having another dev review my code to see if it's readable, having users interact with my system while I observe, or in this case seeing if someone can read my explanations and understand the ideas I'm trying to communicate.
I understand the why for embedded DSLs for things such as database queries, regex and the like but a general purpose embeddable language?

I wonder how many users these sort of languages have, aside from its creators and perhaps the company where it has been born. There are tons of embedded languages, many with libraries and all sort of utilities, why should someone invest themselves in such languages with all the risk it takes?

Problems such as: additional build steps, security, ecosystem, train employees and maintainers into new languages, additional maintenance barrier, etc
> having inconsistent expectations of the reader’s knowledge

I come across this one the most and suspect it's the most common reason people suddenly stop following an explanation. Whether it's in a book or a Wikipedia article. I guess when the author already knows something, it's a difficult skill to maintain the full perspective of the audience - some things they obviously don't know and are easy to explain, so they nail it, then for others they are difficult to explain and it may not even be clear to the author how they came to understand it in relation to the primary subject - which is when they tend to drop the ball and do some hand waving.

Multidisciplinary subjects probably make it harder still, since there is relevant knowledge that the target audience may or may not know due to their different backgrounds.
From what I've seen they think its like a 50/50 chance of the first starship blowing up, but they are already building the next couple ones, so they are ready for that. They are not just building one rocket, they are building a rocket assembly line and it seems like they have cracked the code on that. Not a chance one explosion will end spaceX, I'm not sure how you could seriously think that if you have been following the development.
> public services seemed not to be dismantled

It's a very progressive process, not a binary flag. See for example David Graeber's CCC talk on "Managerial feudalism and the revolt of the caring classes". All in all most of the global north appears to have strong public services and cultivate that image to please the middle classes who are happy to pay taxes for that, but they've worked hard to make them harder to reach and impossible to sustain (see also, Covid crisis and public hospitals) in order to "attract people and investors".

There's no way a society with good public services can be attractive to private investors, because good public services provide better services at a much lower price than private services. It's either one or the other, and the presence of investors and gentrification is a factor that the social fabric and public services have already been heavily damaged.
It's the "Unknown Unknowns" that bite you. Via simulations and calculations you can be fairly sure that everything you've thought of will be fine, but there may be things you haven't thought of, and they may prove fatal to the design.

In a later comment you say:

> "I expect the replica to be full of dangerous approximations: scaled weight of the stones not realistic, friction of the material not taken into consideration, earthquake ground vibrations not properly emulated by just shaking plates, etc"

How do you know that your model accurately represents the earthquake ground vibrations? How do you know that your model accurately represents the friction? Compressibility and friability of the materials? The scaled weight of the stones?

How many times have you written a large and complex program, only to find that there are real world cases you haven't considered?

I'm sure they did the computer modelling, but personally, I'm happy to see people building real-world versions to verify their (software and mathematical) models.
Indeed (see also "embedded Linux" being a thing), people insisting if something doesn't run on a tiny PIC it can't be useful for "embedded" is a pet peeve of mine.

Depending on the context, "embedded systems" go even larger, although usually people stop calling it "embedded programming" at some point. Obviously many problems in large embedded systems are different from small ones, but others remain similar.
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There are reasons to believe, and some experience to point to, that this effect doesn’t work with vaccines as much as it does with antibiotics.

It’s a long story, but part of the reason is that bacteria evolve resistance in the presence of the antibiotic, while here, the virus would need to randomly evolve it in the unvaccinated, then sustain useless adaption for a while until it gets the opportunity to infect a vaccinated person.
You're still sending untyped streams of bytes through the pipes, which must be marshalled and unmarshalled at the endpoints.

PowerShell, by contrast, operates directly on objects with strongly typed fields.
In Python, I use the PDB/PDB++ debugger extensively. When you get a confusing or nonsensical error from deep inside an under-documented 3rd party library, sometimes stepping through that code with a debugger is the only way to figure out what mistake you've made, or what under-documented assumptions the library makes. I also use it a lot for diagnosing test case failures, especially in property-based testing when I might have accidentally generated something I shouldn't have, or otherwise can't figure out why a test is failing.

The experience is even nicer in the Pycharm IDE, where I can set breakpoints with arbitrary conditional logic just by pointing and clicking. It's so easy it almost feels like cheating.

That said, Pycharm is a heavy beast. Psychologically it's not worth the overhead of opening it or even switching projects within it unless I'm working on something involved for an extended period of time. So figuring out how to do something like this in Neovim has been on my to-do list for a while.

I also use the built-in Python logging framework to help me identify where problems might be happening in the first place.
> governments will have to adopt Bitcoin standard and use bitcoin as their reserve currency. Whoever does it first, wins.

El Salvador already did it. Feel free to move there.

Meanwhile, there's no chance Bitcoin will be that reserve currency. But then again I've been wrong about Bitcoin's trajectory for 12 years now
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You can do pretty fine with very little non business personal chatting. Getting along with people has a huge range bro.
If you've ever cut yourself in a non-sterile environment, then you have been exposed to thousands of times more genetic material and invading pathogens then a vaccine contains, bent on doing much more serious damage.

For some reason people worry about "what vaccines might do" but not "what the virus that invades your cells, co-opts the replication machinery, and then invades more cells uncontrolled" will do. The virus that literally did not exist in nature till 1.5 years ago when it started infecting humans and killing them.

Like it does not only produce more viruses either - that's the goal but it's a stochastic process. You also get filled with bits of viral RNA from sheared up viruses, or ones that run into an enzyme, or from viruses where the cell shuts down or dies early and it blows fragments of viral protein into your blood stream.
TIL Linus Torvalds' father is a Member of European Parliament.
Good! I hope they'll buy it from SoftBank and bring it back into British control. It would put ARM in an even better position to challenge Intel and AMD.
There is always somebody that wins and somebody that loses, what really counts is if people lives better under the new ruler or not.

Do you think that to occupate the nazi germany was wrong? Or that Cuba was a fine democratic place when ruled by the dictator Batista? Are you aware that the British Company of East India assasinated anybody that would stand in the middle of their way or that US United Fruit Company assasinated more than 1800 people and promoted coups in several countries?

If everybody is evil there is not any difference when people in power change.

Americans thinking that Cuba is a terrible place now and should be punished by that (and it IS a terrible place in lots of ways, for sure), forget that living under the iron fist of the big fruit companies was a slave distopic nigthmare. But this never was a problem for them, for some reason.

Is ridiculous if we think about it. Americans are taxed since that "to keep alive, generation after generation, the flaming revenge of a bunch of great-grandpa mobsters that everybody today would find despicable". A terrible business for US that were paying good money to people for things like to infiltrate and put concrete in the milk truck of Cuban scholars. Benefit to the operation for American people: Zero; here is your bill. How many years the US people will need to pay still for this dusty "revenge business" nonsense?
HN should implement a rule that makes it mandatory to link twitter threads through one of those services that make them readable. It's quite frankly obnoxious.
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Yep. We’ve seen Covid spread a lot in many rural states. It’s not about living in rural area, it’s more about living without seeing any human for a very long time.
I understand your comment as suggesting that body models are races, but I take a different view.

Maybe, other things being equal, some heritable traits are good. People possessing them might have superior body models. However, I think racism needs two more beliefs:

1) that race objectively exists

2) that race correlates with superior/inferior body models
An untrained individual who starts training with weights will gain much more than 2.5kg of muscle per year. As the individual accumulates muscle mass the rate of muscle gain will decrease gradually.
Isn't the rule that the answer to any headline that asks a yes/no question is always no?
In 2001, Microsoft "constituted unlawful monopolization" under Antitrust Act for bundling a web browser with their operating system.

20 years later, Apple and Google bundle not only their browsers, but whole irreplaceable app stores with no legal consequences.

I don't know how the law sees it, but it's simply illogical from the common sense standpoint.
>Doesn’t that go against the less random nature of matchmaking in real life?

No. Holy cow. Those are my biases. I can choose to act on them or not. I get pigeonholed after a few weeks on every dating platform, it’s brutal and very depressing. In the wild I can choose to go to a different grocery store, go to a different park, hang out in a different cafe, go play mini golf… whatever.
I am very open minded, I go out of my way to talk to a lot of different people from every walk of life, despite having a healthy group of loving friends and not being particularly extroverted, but I can only talk to those who are willing. I can try to talk to those who catch my fancy, and believe me I do, but our “stranger danger”, dopamine addled, earbuds-in, narcissistic and anxiety ridden culture makes this a fairly poor strategy. Perhaps in another life this would have been how you meet people, but generally speaking as a male in the modern heterosexual dating culture of millennials and gen z, you aren’t going to have much luck meeting people “in the wild” because talking to people unprovoked —-if you even can, everyone is plugged in all the time— is either creepy, weird or annoying- or at least that’s been my experience living throughout Northern California and the Bay Area. And covid has made this phenomenon significantly worse.
And I know what this sounds like, so I’ll just come out and say it: I’m conventionally good looking, tall, fit, well dressed and a good conversationalist, not a creep. In settings where it’s appropriate, like, say, a music festival or a party, I’m good at meeting people, so I really don’t think it’s me. But on apps it’s just the same people.
With apps there’s basically two options, I give a lot of people a chance and my MMR tanks and I only see a certain kind of person, or I’m selective for people I think would be a good fit and I see a different higher MMR group, which eventually devolves into the first group as it seems MMR decays over time.

I’m currently single again and almost 30 and I recognize a lot of the women I get in my feeds from dating at other points in my life. I use many apps, have no filters and cast my net quite wide. If I didn’t understand that this is essentially to be expected from social media for profit, I’d be befuddled and confused, but it’s really just upsetting. Romantic love is a huge piece of the human experience being gate kept by mega corps.

OkCupid getting bought by Match Group was horrible; now it’s search functionality is gutted and it’s got the same matchmaking bullshit all the others do, and matches me with the same groups of people and inactive accounts just like the rest.

Anyway, what you wrote triggered me, and I felt quite compelled to scream into the void about it. Modern dating apps feel like I have overly aggressive parents trying to put me in an arranged marriage. Its downright suffocating and makes this whole messed-up-planet, extremely socially divided, and ethically bankrupt life feel that much more dystopian.

Rant over.
>"do children need vaccinating at all, or does a lifetime of encountering build a good immune defence?"

>"However, he said the argument in children had "already been won" as "40-50% have already been infected and most weren't ill or particularly ill"."

This sounds like a pretty different conclusion than CDC guidelines to have children wear masks in school. I understand it might just be to slow the spread but it seems inevitable that the virus has to move through the population and those who aren't vaccinated right now aren't going to get vaccinated in the future.

Another question no one is asking in a lot of these is should people who have had covid get one dose or two? (Pfizer / Moderna) Every study on the subject seems to point to higher immunity after one shot than people who haven't had covid getting 2. This would have greatly increased the supply and rate we could immunize others.
Speaking about France specifically, that's not true. People 50 years mostly knew how to recognize French from Italians. Not with 100% certainty of course, but what you say about " once they speak french it’s pretty hard to differentiate an italian from a southern french or corsican" is a bit like when people say asian people look all the same. Also, immigrants in France 50 years ago made more sacrifices to intergrate themselves (be it Italians, North Africans or Asians). They took French names, spoke French at home, things like that. I've seen a few documentaries about this. It was frequent from Asian to suddenly be told "now your name is <French name> and not <Asian name>", and be told to not speak anything else than French outside of home. Same for Italians, same for North Africans. The immigration was also more limited at the time, which allowed some people from North Africa, especially young women, to get away from their traditions and have a better place in society.

That is not what is happening right now. I'm not sure of the causes, but things have changed.

Edit: as some other people mentionned, work might make a big difference. The grandfather of a friend was a bus driver all his life, and that friend and his father are well integrated. If you can't access a job like that it's going to be hard to fit into society.
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This is the sort of valid point that one will tend to avoid discussing because it is likely to be misused by the ideological critics of vaccination.

As an alternative I haven’t heard much of, updating the vaccines would seem to be a good option, as well? The first round was developed fast enough to almost outrun variants, so it should work quite well second time around.

It’s important to avoid the naturalistic fallacy: infection is not necessarily better protection. That is why, for example, tetanus and rabies vaccines work even when given after infection.
What about a third dose of a different vaccine? all the available ones targets the same and only protein?
You just described being polite and respectful to colleagues. Being polite does not family make.

It’s an empty and hollow metaphor when your colleagues are nothing actually like family.

I’m polite and respectful to most strangers I meet. Just like I am to many of my colleagues, who are effectively strangers to me.
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