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Meta-reply: at time of writing your comment is grey enough to be on -2, yet nothing you say is trolling or unhelpful. In fact, your comment contains merely two questions and a supposition. I've seen this on HN particularly for COVID related topics and I don't think it's at all helpful. I reckon very few on here are outright anti-vaxxers in the traditional sense of the term (e.g. given to those implying a link between MMR and autism, etc.) yet these days anyone asking questions that may portray, perhaps merely indirectly, some SARS-CoV-2 prophylactics/treatments in a bad light are downvoted. It's not good for curiosity and doesn't help us collectively get to the truth on matters and I think we can do better as a community.
Censorship is happening. A friend of mine (who happens to be a former Congressman) was silenced by Facebook for 30 days for merely citing Pfizer’s profit on the vaccine as reported in a WSJ Article.

Don’t be fooled by the narratives Facebook permits.
Classic shell change just the start menu. The rest of the crap stays the same.
Nah most of it is people buying things online and the failure of these older establishments to successfully transition.

They lose revenue and the stores start to look dated and because they have to pay rent they cant compete with a big warehouse. Eventually everything looks dated and costs more so people stop going.
Sure, it is a nicely done job. If it is driving 40% of the traffic to your startup, I'm assuming that is from the link on the top of the page?

Have you measured whether that traffic is actually driving any conversions? Or is it just traffic?
Strong disagree. Incompetence is the reason. It starts with incompetent management who push unrealistic deadlines and hire people who promise the world to pad their resumes and leave in-flight. Incompetence is the reason why the messengers of realistic/bad news are punished and why snake oil salesmen are promoted.
Absolutely it would. Which is why it's a good idea to get vaccinated even if you have been infected or think you may have been.

The article backs this position up as well, though the headline belies that:

"The researchers also found that people who had SARS-CoV-2 previously and then received one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine were more highly protected against reinfection than those who once had the virus and were still unvaccinated."
I remember Allegro used to have double functions for Palette and Pallet.

You may notice that a lot of the code in Allegro spells 'palette' as 'pallete'. This is because the headers from my old Mark Williams compiler on the Atari spelt it with two l's, so that is what I'm used to.
Those who think this is supporting evidence for not getting vaccinated should think it again.

You must think in terms of risk of hospitalization and/or long covid with or without vaccination over the course of the whole path you choose.

ps. Moderna seems to be much more effective against Delta than Pfizer-BioNTech.
Covid didn't destroy local businesses - ham-fisted (or maybe even intentionally malicious) policies destroyed local business. Considering Bezos' regular sociopathic behavior, I wouldn't even be surprised if it came out that Amazon lobbied various local governments to severely restrict small businesses under the guise of public health during covid. It's what Bezos does in the space industry and he even owns a media outlet (Washington Post) to push his agendas.
also select is really project (and where is select), but that's the battle for another day.
Your recourse is to stop using FB.
Made me think of https://schema.org/
> Covid destroyed

Not covid. The response to covid, which was a choice with tradeoffs.
I have had luck running newer MacOSes on my 2008 Macbook Pro with http://dosdude1.com/software.html

The machine isn't really usable with the current OSes, being dog slow at everything.

But you do bring up an interesting point. I have had the same issues with Windows on older hardware.
Which makes me wonder why hardware with 2.5-3GhZ CPUs and SSDs is not enough to run a current version of an OS even with 4-6 GB of RAM.
Yeah, sorry, I don't think being ill for a bit warrants such dramatic recount. You are absolutely fine. You suffered very little in the grand scheme of things. Stop ballooning it out of proportion. If this is the worst you'll endure, 90% of humanity would swap places with you in an instant.
The solution is Zakat. Look it up.
Not to nitpick, only FYI, in Italian, one salame (piccante), two salami (piccanti).
I think the demise of department stores is only partially related to ecommerce.

50+ years ago people dressed like their parents and there was much less consumer choice so that you could go to a department store and find everything you needed. Now fashion is much more tribal and there are speciality stores for specific goods that give better prices, choice and service.

The only department stores that seem to be thriving have a niche - very good food hall, high end fashion, or discount.
I still don't feel safe with flying. Literally every time I get on a plane I get sick, you cannot convince me they are safe against the spread of Covid. There's more to that than just air circulation.
My BMW beeps rather angrily if you dare to walk behind it whilst I am reversing. It's neat.
> Why is "natural infections and recovery produce a better immune response than a vaccine" so controversial? Has it been this controversial for any other disease?

Confirmation bias
I have my email attached but here it is - matthewabt1@gmail.com
The nature of leadership is that your decisions are highly leveraged, and have huge impact.

I think every single day he makes decisions which could destroy $750m or create $750m. He could wipe billions with a bad tweet. If they greenlight (or cancel) a product that increases revenue 0.1% and that single decision could make (or loose) the company billions.

If a board thinks a CEO will get 0.1% better returns than the next best option, that is worth billions of compensation.
I got downvoted for saying this here a while back. Anyone with good immunology experience would guess this to be accurate no matter what some half baked study says (which was what a bunch of people were telling in that earlier thread). Again doesn’t mean you should go get Covid or avoid the vaccine. The vaccine only helps. If you got Covid and then also got the vaccine it only helps more.
same here. I think its the combination of ublock and default firefox settings thats blocking some files and causing this issue.

btw, congrats on the launch. I consulted for similar startups in india and everyone is trying to get into the "kirana" model
The Archer tv show used to call its main spy org ISIS. And then one day, they just stopped referring to it by name at all. Gave it the silent treatment.
A few reasons I guess.

For as long as I can remember, we have had adult predators going online posing as young girls/boys with different levels of malicious sexual intent. I understand that that isn't the objective here, but I can't help making that connection. Like "Oh! You weren't actually a 15 year old girl, you are a 30 year old guy pretending to be". That makes me uncomfortable.

The anime stuff always seem to be overly sexualized. Skimpy outfits. Traditionally sexy bodies (Legs, boobs, ass, etc. Yes, that is highly subjective but I think you can see my point).

Same goes for the furry stuff. Always the more or less "sexy", more or less "naked" looks. As an outsider it seems to be a sexual fetish more than anything else.

I have absolutely nothing against people wanting to be more fluid with genders. Or wanting to be sexy. Or roleplaying as whatever. I welcome that. It's just a bit weird that it's such a common choice to be [sexy child] or [sexy animal]. And in a setting that, to me, is not where sexy things happen, or where sexy things are even really wanted?
An old programming joke compared c# (ie .net) to a laser cannon strapped to a donkey, that oddly enough doesn't work as well without the donkey. Does this still ring true to you seeing as you are using the laser cannon sans donkey
Elm is awesome! I would really like an equivalent for software/game dev
I actually enjoy this kind of work. Wonder if they're hiring.
I prefer that 80+% of the price of big purchases I make ends up paying for R&D, materials, or labor used to make the item.

But with most stuff bought from a department store, usually half the money ends up paying city center rents, salaries of people working the till, and other logistics costs.

The end result is you pay a high price and get mediocre goods.
Ha! The system we built there was something that I'm really proud of - by integrating with both UPS and FedEx (and other couriers), we were able to have instant negotiating leverage if one carrier offered better service levels or pricing. That was one of the inspirations for this business - why can't all companies benefit from this kind of choice?
PHP+JS+CSS+HTML.
Vanilla is my favorite flavor.
> It’s not proven that the mRNA therapy won’t worsen covid reaction in the long run.

What are you defining by "long run"? We're quickly moving into a year with mRNA therapies. I'm not aware of any instance of this occurring with previous vaccines, and we can't just say "well mRNA could be different" because if we do that all the possible "what-ifs" we quickly swing into the absurd.
* To go to toilets when traveling
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The decision (taken before millennials were born) to offshore as much work as possible was taken to undercut the wages and conditions of UK (and more generally, western) workers. The quarrel shouldn't be with China though - our politicians chose this because it made the wealthy wealthier.
LTT did a video review and there was a very simplified right click context menu that you could click "more options" and it returned to the Windows 10 style menu. That will be extremely painful to use if that is not customizable.
Yep, I have passwords enabled. I don't want to see the in-game purchase features at all. The alternative right now is, don't install the game.

Used to be, you could get the ad-free version of an app for a small price, or the ad-supported version for free. I'd happily pay money for an ad-less, in-game-purchase-less version. Instead I have to teach money management and de-escalate an upset kid explaining why they can't have this amazing in-game-purchase feature that is only available for the next 30, 29, 28.. minutes else it is gone forever.

It's exhausting when it's supposed to be fun.
I think it's a great idea if its executed well. Don't see anything wrong with the OP, I'd use it if it was fleshed out. For example if I wanted to migrate from firebase to some other service, this would be valuable.
Female octopuses throw things at males that are harassing them
I just want a Facebook like place to interact with my friends and family, that I pay something for, and has no ads, news, likes or social manipulation. But no one would invest in such a thing, and if they did, Facebook would just buy out the investors and kill it.
Yes, but why are people buying online? My argument is that less free times makes the convenience aspect of online shopping more compelling.
He said "My 4-year-old phone", not "My 4-year-old's phone" -- he has a phone that is four years old.
This feels like an irresponsible title on behalf of the author. People don’t get the vaccine strictly on the strength of the vaccine. It’s considering the risk of getting COVID, understanding the long term side effects, and minimizing risk for those around you. It’s also about avoiding mutations of the virus as the higher availability of the virus only provides more opportunities for it to mutate into something more resistant or possessing other less desirable traits.
I understand that the post goes into these types of details but with the proliferation of “I read the title so I read the article” types a much less clickbait title should have been chosen. This only vindicates people looking to confirm their biases and leaves out the nuance that is so important to science.
The question is not "how can anyone choose to be an anime fox", it's "why do so many of them do that".

If say 40% of all quarterbacks were named James, you are not explaining that by saying "James is a perfectly normal name, just like Richard or John".
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Doing it “free” is impossible, hence the ad-tech shitshow.
Yesterday NPR was shaming US Military memebers for spreading this information as COVID misinformation.

I'm so disqusted with the media right now.
For us non-english speakers: what precisely is a department store?
That's pretty much a truism: data is all dirty. You spend more time (2x? 10x?) dealing with that, than dealing with the normal data.

My son has a startup. Its trying to collect certain datasets and organize them in a tool. But every dataset of this kind is dirty, in a different way. They identify unique assets with different identifiers, or a fingerprint, or nothing. Its crazy trying to eliminate duplicates, find references between or even simply import a dataset.

On the plus side,that's a barrier to entry for a product of this kind.
>I feel a lot of arguments for ORMs boil down to "I can't really be arsed to learn SQL properly"

I learned SQL almost 30 years ago and used it in Oracle/Informix/Sybase/IBMDB2/MSSQL/MySQL/SQLite/etc and have written exam questions on SQL for outer-joins, nested subqueries, crosstab, etc.

All that said, concatenating raw strings to form SQL that has no compile time type-checking is tedious and error prone. Thankfully, my "expert" knowledge of SQL does not blind me to the benefits of what a well-written ORM can do for productivity. (E.g. results caching, compile-time validation, auto-completion in the IDE, etc)

The real technical reason why ORMs persist as a desirable feature is the decades-old technical concept of "working memory of field variables" that mirror the disk file table structure.

In the older languages like 1960s COBOL, and later 1980s/1990s 4GL type of business languages such as dBASE, PowerBuilder, SAP ABAP... they all have data tables/records as a 1st-class language syntax without using any quoted strings:

- In COBOL, you had RECORDS and later versions of COBOL had embedded SQL without quoted strings

- dBASE/Foxpro had SCATTER/GATHER which is sort of like a built-in ORM to pull disk-based data from dbf files into memory

- SAP ABAP has built-in SQL (no quoted raw strings required) with no manual typing of variables or structs to pull data into working memory

The issue with "general purpose" languages like Python/Javascript/C++ is that SQL is not 1st-class language syntax to read database data into memory variables and write them back out. The SCATTER/GATHER concept has to be bolted-on as a library ... hence you get the reinvention of of the "db-->memory-->db" data read/write paradigm into Python via projects like SQLAlchemy.

After tediously typing out hundreds of variable names or copy-pasting fields from SQL tables via strings such as ... db.execquery("SELECT cust_id, name, address FROM customer WHERE zipcode=12345;")

... it finally dawns on some programmers that this is mindless repetitive work when you have hundreds of tables. You end up writing a homemade ORM just to reduce the error-prone insanity.

Yes, a lot of ORM projects are bad quality, with terrible performance, bugs, etc. But that it still doesn't change the fact that non-trivial projects with hundreds of tables and thousands of fields need some type of abstraction to reduce the mindless boilerplate of raw SQL strings.
It sure looks like it's using the DOM in the inspector.

Which is cool but a custom rendered UI would be cooler.
> He created a contract. That's all.

OK then.
The study you're probably talking about focuses on hospital survivors, not on the broad group of "naturally infected people".
If you got Covid before vaccines were available that risk assessment is irrelevant.

If you get COVID after vaccination, your immune system may not learn how to fight COVID-19 as well, because the vaccine is present and doing something.
> managing a Nextcloud instance sounds like more work than I want to do.

there are multiple hosted options where you don't have to manage the server - instead, you'll get admin access to your nextcloud, you can add accounts for Family members or freelancers whenever needed and it mostly "just works". When using a Nextcloud client, the only additional step that is needee compared to Dropbox etc is providing the server URL.
That's right. Accessibility is one of the last things to figure out after all of the other tricky things: proper event handling for sane keyboard navigation, efficient layer clipping / redraw, advanced text layout / style, animations, expanded compatibility across platforms, etc, etc.

And then accessibility brings with it the integration with different OSes via disparate APIs, so it will take some effort to offer a cross-platform API to the library user.

You'll notice that Iced is not >= 1.0 yet, so you shouldn't expect it to be fully-baked.
The photon does experience change over time and space. Take gravitational lensing by the Sun. The photons that we see from behind the Sun, are definitely affected by the Sun. From the photon's point of view, it is experiencing changes through time and space. Thoughts?
Passing by value can be fine for small size structs, but it is not the common practice.

I expected to see any of this function to use const reference.

For general guidelines on parameters passing (and other guideilines), the C++ core guidelines are pretty useful for those who want to learn:

https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines...
I could be wrong but I interpreted the contact information mention this way.

AFAIK it intends to disallow transactional emails like signup (welcome to netflix) from pushing third-party IAP:

> Developers cannot use information obtained within the app to target individual users outside of the app ... (such as sending an individual user an email about other purchasing methods ...

But that generic sentence means you can have a bulk mailing list with messages that mention your own payment option:

> Developers can send communications outside of the app to their user base about purchasing methods other than in-app purchase.

(edit: found this comment which explains it more concisely https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28324005)
If Europeans were to argue about theft and slavery between themselves we would have endless wars and constant World War scenarios. Europe, since Ancient Greek time, was at war with itself literally all the time. I believe not a single day has passed in the history of Europe were there wasnt war waged up until modern times. Slavery and war treasures were omnipresent. its just the name of the game.
My initial reaction is that this feels brittle (because people are incentivized to break it) and and hard to scale, but thinking about it more, it might be more scalable than I'd thought -- e.g., I'll only migrate from Chartio to Sisence once, but Sisence may want to use this service for hundreds of incoming customers.

That said, you'll likely only have a handle of repeat customers for each integration. A couple of Chartio's competitors will want the Chartio integration. A couple of Wix's competitors will want the Wix integration.

(And if Chartio is shutting down, that integration is only useful for a brief period of time, but it could be extremely popular for that short period of time.)

You'll definitely build up expertise in exfiltrating data, and develop as a collection of internal(?) tools to make it easier. I'm just curious if that's enough to make building new integrations cost-effective.

Zapier has a similar limitation and has managed to succeed, but they're more generalized, whereas this is a single use case for each service. I feel like this makes the most sense as a high-end "We build custom migration solutions" service. (Rereading your post, that might align with how you're treating it.)

I hope I'm wrong about the scalability, though! If y'all can make migrations cheap and easy across a broad range of services, that's hugely beneficial to users. It's unfortunate that every service benefits from having a moat. Every user will benefit from the bridges you're building. Best of luck!
> I've been setting up firewalls with NAT for 20 years, but I'm still not sure how its all going to work with IPv6.

The same way: tracking of state.

An IP connection is started from the 'inside' to the 'outside', and the source-destination tuple is recorded. When an outside packet arrives the firewall checks its parameters to see if it corresponds with an existing connection, and if it does it passes it through. If the parameters do not correspond with anything in its table it assumes that someone is trying to create a new connection, which is generally not allowed by default, and therefore drops it.

The main difference is that with IPv4 and NAT the original (RFC 1918?) source address and port are changed to something corresponding to the 'outside' interface of the firewall.

With IPv6 address/port rewriting is not done. Only state tables are altered and checked.

New connections are not allowed past the firewall towards the inside with either protocol, and only replies to connections opened from the inside are passed through.

There's no magical security behind NAT: tuples and packet flags read, looked up in a state table, allowed or not depending on either firewall rule or state presence.
Perhaps it's takes a certain breed of people, but I'm not sure what I would DO with $750m. Buy a super-yacht I guess? Invest the money and make 10x more of it? But then what?

We've seen the new space race, but that domain seems crowded at the moment.

Use the money to cure cancer or other global health problems? Wealthy people don't tend to spend their money like that (Bill Gates being an exception). Why is this?

Buy influence and dictate politicians in backroom deals? Seems pretty cynical, but a possibility.
Helping the homeless also takes out the squat baron; if we bring the homeless inside there won't be vacancies for the baron to squat in.
I don't see survivor bias here at all. This is simply a study that caters to a rather significant population who justifiably want to know what they stand to gain from this vaccine.

What this study has done is identified a sub population who stand to gain such minuscule benefit from vaccination that it would be unethical to include them in a study (most studies DO exclude previously infected individuals, huh wonder why?) Furthermore it is unscientific discrimination to penalize people when they could prove prior infection and/or immunity.
So, there's a few factors in my own choice of shopping that makes them a bit redundant:

1) 25 years ago, supermarkets (with exception of Coop) didn't really sell appliances, books, video games consoles, etc. in the same quantity that they do now. So people don't need to go to a department store as frequently because of that, because they can pick up household. It's maybe not the best example, because it's been killed by the collapse of Philip Green's empire, but until recently my local Tesco had outlets for Topshop, Outfit, etc. in it. Sainsbury's has Argos in it in lots of stores now. And these are much more local to people's houses.

2) On top of that is online shopping. That's another place you can go that's more convenient than going to a department store. They have stock online! Often department stores did not.

3) When you do go to a department store, they're usually more expensive for the same or lower quality as elsewhere. John Lewis and Selfridges are the only ones I've purchased anything in in the last 10 years and that's because they have a good range of stuff, and for John Lewis in particular, it's known for having good customer service on things like returns of faulty goods and long warranties. It's also the only one of them that actually had stock in? Debenhams and BHS prior to closing were a mess for e.g.