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So your argument is that we need to compare 80 year old whites to 80 year old blacks, both of which reached adulthood in the Jim Crow era?
They murdered untold thousands of people and ruined millions of lives. They are criminals and should be treated as such. Basic justice is not 'vengeance', it's simple justice.

Also there is no deterrent for future criminals. There is no dissuading jail time; our society just says, hey can you ruin some lives and make some money? You'll get to stay rich and out of jail!

It's not sustainable - future criminals will see the royal treatment that the Sacklers' got and be unworried about hurting more people while they get richer.
I would like a neurology site called brainlets.

I think it would appeal to young people. Brainlet is a popular slang word these days.

What do you think my friends?
Wasn't aware of Video Background Play Fix add-on, thanks for mantioning it!
Just links to generic search page.
In Europe I'd say Italy takes that prize. I suspect it's the fact that there are a lot of different climates within the country (much like California). Spain grows a lot of produce for Europe, but things like cucumbers don't taste as good as they do from cooler climates.
More importantly, how much money they get for putting someone on a vent.
I dislike subs. Any plans for one-time-purchase with offline support?
Its interesting that the article do not mention a rather interesting finding in the study. For the age groups of < 50 years the effect was not statistically significant with the control and the mask wearing villages having similar rate of covid-19.

Why aren't masks effective to reduce the spread for that age group? The discussion part of the study don't explore it. Is the distancing behavior of people aged 50 or higher different than those below?

I would like to see further studies being done on the younger demographic in order to explain why the data is looking like it is.
I respect that person's perspective, but more failed drug war is the completely wrong answer. It has solved nothing and has exacerbated many of the complaints mentioned on the twitter feed.

Comparing pill mills and online sales of drugs to safe injection sites is a bad take. The staff at the safe injection site make no additional money for getting more people addicted. Being under professional supervision all but eliminates the risk of overdose.

The real answer is prevention: strengthening communities, increasing opportunity, and mitigating hopeless situtations for everyone, so they don't get ensnared in addiction in the first place. For those who are already addicted, harm reduction while exploring paths to recovery is the most effective way to help people.
That makes sense and I respect your opinion, but I don’t share the concern.

My country, Spain, has reached just 29 deaths per million inhabitants and year due to road accidents by focusing on the big risk factors, such as dui, speeding, lack of seatbelt use, overall disregard for traffic rules, texting and handling phones, bad infrastructure status, etc. and I don’t think talking while driving is a big part of the remaining risk factors that contribute to deaths.

That last part is just my opinion though; I’m just saying the problem is serious but imo lies elsewhere.
Yes... and -- the minimum experience needed to identify, say, chicken of the woods (Laetiporus spp.), chanterelles (Cantharellus spp.), or lion's mane/bear's tooth/coral tooth (Hericium spp.) is very, very low.
Pint: A Python library for representing physical units
My recollection is that the flamboyant gay rollerbladers zipping around places like Venice Beach became a meme of sorts.
In a word: money.
How could you possibly construct a double blind study on masks?
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The point you raise here about how regulatory choices contributed to the crisis is spot on.

But when you say this:

> customers would have had an incentive to push back against the banking behaviours that led to these mass failures

I'm not persuaded. Do you think that customers would have gotten savings and loan corporate officers to provide them with detailed documentation of the S&L's risk portfolio and then would have analyzed this in detail and chosen where to save their money based on the results? Because I don't believe ANY customers could have done that. As you point out, regulators didn't even do that, and they are experts whose full-time job is to do this kind of analysis!
> I managed to purchase a System76 laptop in the meantime, typing from it now.

If I could just get a decent higher-than-1080 panel from System76, I might consider it for my next laptop. I've been spoiled by Macs. As it is I might go with a Framework laptop instead.
Even if there were fewer anti-vaxxers, the Delta variant is so contagious that we won't be able to reach a level of herd immunity sufficient to protect unvaccinated people. All of us can expect to be exposed eventually.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
> Is the war on drugs OK now again? There should be more people in prison for selling drugs now instead of less?

You don’t see shades of grey between years in prison for marijuana possession and no jail time for causing a nationwide opioid epidemic?
If Apple wanted to make the iPhone a sandwich, we could eat it. But until then you can't.

Apple could read your whole phone content and send it to governments without your consent if they wanted to, on device-scanning or not. Util they do, there is no breach of privacy.

If you believe Apple can implement one-party consent snitching on iPhone without telling anyone, then you shouldn't use closed source software in the first place, because there is zero reason to believe that they haven't already implemented this.
Or the terrible culture of accepting the framing that phones are not only computers but the only computers that matter, since it erases the existence of those of us who use computers.
Yeah sorry, I was a little vague. I consider that willingness to comply as already having been compromised. And I think, to be fair, if companies like Apple are ever in the position of using technologies like this to track individual dissidents of an authoritarian regime, we are already royally screwed.

But, to be clear, you make a legitimate point.
He didn't but I'll give you mine:

Microsoft
Oracle
Facebook
Exxon
McDonalds
CocaCola
Monsanto
Apparently I signed this 6 years ago.
At the end of the day if the reduction is 11%, even if that works (because that reduce by 11%) that is still useless in order to control the epidemic. Unless we find 10 measures like that. But what they show is probably not the same that the impact of mask mandate or an `always wear mask` at the personal level. So not much is applicable about that study. Only that mask kind of reduce covid spread
The conclusion that cloth masks are ineffective against viruses with an airborne spread, while a properly worn n95 mask does provide real protection is hardly premature.

Here's the quote above from one of the scientists on President Biden's Covid advisory board in context:

>Needless to say, masking is political hot button beyond anything I've ever seen in public health.

At the same time i think we've all done a disservice to the public.

When you actually look at face cloth coverings, they actually only have very limited impact in reducing the amount of virus that you inhale in or exhale out.

Studies that have been done show that if an individual might get infected within 15 minutes in a room, by time and concentration of the virus in the room, add a face cloth covering you only get about five more minutes of protection.

I've been really disappointed with my colleagues in public health for not being more clear about what can masking can do or not do.

On the other hand if you use the n95 respirators and fit them tight to your face, you can actually spend 25 hours in that same room and still be protected.

The bottom line though is by telling people that in fact just putting a face cloth covering on is going to protect you is simply not true.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/do-masks...

People are flailing away to claim that cloth masks "do so do something" in a very counterproductive way. I'm reminded of Ivermectin proponents.
> "Cloth masks" can mean anything [...]

I guess the point is "not certified".
Integrated electricity systems must be more resilient: Kemp
Most of them do nowadays. I used both Anker and Xiaomi and both were excellent.
Yeah, I don't think the term intelligence helps define the novel behavior of fungus in this article. The better way to describe their behavior is adaptive. Fungus adapt in a way that's more like a resilient network than as a conscious being or organism. And that's really something we ought to focus on especially when it comes to engineering them for better use cases. I've seen one case of fungus being used for making insulation bricks for houses (non-load bearing) and it looks quite impressive considering it's cheaper and biodegradable.
Thanks, really appreciate all those details! Guess a NUC looks awesome---that plus FreeNAS with 2 drives essentially replaces my current setup but in a much nicer form.

(I share your reservations wrt. Synology; it's working for my parents so far but I like the extra degree of control)
It's a shame that they missed the opportunity to coin the phrase "mycoid intelligence". dang, can we edit the title?

(Just kidding about editing the title, of course.)
I hope this makes a difference - traceroute was invaluable when I first started working in networked environments, but over time, it's become effectively useless because it just reports "* * *" after the first couple of hops. I always assumed that was because of network security policies, but maybe it was just timing out the whole time.
I first learned about this from the regional box art variations for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994):

- JP: https://info.sonicretro.org/File:Sonic3-box-jap.jpg

- US: https://info.sonicretro.org/File:Sonic3_md_us_cover.jpg

- EU: https://info.sonicretro.org/File:S3-eu-box.jpg
There's a tradition of skullduggery-related names: Guile, Gambit, Gauche, Heist, Larceny (with variants Petit Larceny and Common Larceny), Racket, and Stalin (it optimizes your code -- brutally). "Chicken" is I believe related to an actual rubber chicken (which of course is also unreal).
Maybe lower mask adherence among younger people or different behaviors-- older people in villages might stay at home more.
Are you working at a large org? If you want internal mobility, particularly for IC -> manager in software eng, I would highly recommend moving to a startup. My experience at startups has generally been that the company can't convince enough of the engineers to move into management so the transition is extremely easy for those who are willing.
> Is the war on drugs OK now again?

It was always OK.

> What's the new conventional wisdom?

You're allowed to have your own opinion on issues. You don't have to follow the herd, trust me.
I don't see the connection between the war on drugs and big pharma pushing drugs. I think you're looking for an angle on this topic that does not exist. The war on drugs and big pharma murdering people by selling addictive drugs are not related.
And people would upgrade if an upgrade wouldn't typically either be a risk to cause data loss, brick the device, downgrade it, mess up hardware support, install spyware, telemetry and other junk.
Quite a few RDBMS today are "columnar" and do exactly what he wants internally.
Foreign aid isn't the problem. It's the problem of the market pushing out local production and making countries entirely dependent on imports from hypercapitalist countries. What countries need is industrial and technical support to be more self-sufficient with aid filling the gap rather than replacing their entire economy.

This means trade barriers, tech-transfer, and not bombing the shit out of places.
> Why assume that more output doesn't come with more input? It doesn't seem presumable to me one way or the other.

It isn't. There is such a thing as too much. Inputs that wash off in the rain is wasted money. Inputs beyond what the plant needs are best sit around (or wash off - see above), but sometimes will make the plant grow taller instead of grow more food - or worse will kill the plant from too much.

There is a lot of room though. Today we can target small areas of land with different amounts of each input. 100 years ago you tried to give each field the same amount of every input since you didn't know what it really needed, and didn't have the ability to do anything about it even if you did.
freedoms
> the Media will keep coming up with all the variants they want, until they realize people are not tuning in anymore.

The virus is changing and the changes are being tracked, and then reported by the media. Ignoring that there are variants doesn't make them go away. This was a deadly virus to start with, and so far it seems that some of the variants are even worse. What good does it do to ignore that?

My concern is with the large portions of unvaccinated Americans. If there was a higher vaccination rate nationally, I would be less concerned.
Yep, this is what I usually end up doing while traveling. The battery doesn't care about the data lane even if the charger is somehow malicious, and my devices get pure juice.
This feels a bit like part of a pendulum swing from Human Exceptionalism to recognizing how far back eukaryotes developed certain traits.

I suspect it’s closer to the truth to say that fungi exhibit instincts of a sophistication that we usually expect from the insect and animal kingdom, and less so from plants and fungi.

The botulism bacteria is capable of voting, but I hope we don’t try to cheapen that discovery and others by calling it a hive mind to sell ads.
>...Maybe the actual point being made is that the nicer neighborhoods are much less available to minorities?

This just serves to decenter the discussion from the racial aspect of it. No one legitimately thinks the financial and social standings of the parents don't cascade to the children. In addition, entrance into nicer neighborhoods depends on capital, which by law was denied to minority groups. And should those groups acquire the necessary capital to move into a nicer neighborhood, covenants and redlining ensured that would never happen.
This story has absolutely no meat. Supreme court uses mechanisms it has had in place since the first day it began operating to decide cases.
> They will always find new "variants of interest."

Right, they've found variants. It seems like you're implying that they are "chicken little" and the variants are some sort of "ploy."

Except that "these people" identified variants that were many times more contagious, and predictably those variants went on to cause the exact problem you'd predict, large sudden spikes in cases, and waves of hospitalizations and deaths all at once.

Don't blame the messenger. In terms of interest to end this, I'd say the anti-mask, anti vaccine folks are the ones with no interest to end this. It's a bad plan to let covid brew strain after strain in unprotected hosts and just see what happens.
Is taking our freedoms sine die the best solution, though?
> In India, for example, they use the lines between the segments of the fingers to count.
> This means each digit can represent four numbers and the whole hand can represent 20.

The first part is true, but not the second part. You use the thumb as a pointer to track the lines on the other 4 fingers. So you count up to 16 on each hand. Besides, the thumb has 1 line segment less than the other fingers.
Yeah, I think the fruitbooting label killed it more than just that one joke.
Must be super hard to stay motivated on this team, if it exists.
Anyone who is legitimately concerned about COVID transmission should be wearing at least a KN95 mask. It would be interesting if the study had compared effectiveness against higher performance masks and respirators.
It's gone beyond proposal to actually happening in some places. There are some scary examples coming out of Australia.

https://youtu.be/XOKPtYdDh20?t=232

https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/14330657788032655...
I'd call that out as totally unfair... if I haven't found myself doing that many times before hahaha.
I'm a bit interested in why all the European countries standardized on STOP for that sign. Apparently that's mandated by the convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Sign... which has wide support in Europe and sporadically other places.

It's impressive/weird to me that the convention got all the countries to use the english word on the stop sign, for consistency.
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> loose trust into the devices they own.

I already did and have moved on. And I was with them for a long time. Thousands of dollars, also. Thousands.
It's interesting how much you can find out about the operation of an air freight carrier by using publicly available data.

It would also be interesting to see comparable data for FedEx.
This website has had so many interesting articles over the years. I really appreciate it.
Thanks. That is helpful. I would like to be able to be more informed if I am told that a software stack is reactive because it is using React.js.
Siri on the Mac isn’t this bad but it is also horrible. Getting it too never appear and never try to help is an irritating step which is required on a new install.
Yes, if someone from one group states a position, someone from another group will rebut it. It's not a quirky pattern, it's just how discussion works.
You'd have to actually have a reasonable chance of catching pedophiles though. If the system is as trivial to bypass as turning off photo sync it isn't a very good justification.
> Systems built as Reactive Systems are more flexible, loosely-coupled and scalable.

I'm so weary of this kind of language. Literally everybody trying to sell you an architecture - good or bad - would probably describe it as "more flexible, loosely-coupled and scalable". Not to mention the open question: relative to what? Average? Every other possible approach? The approach currently seen as dominant?

I just wish people would skip the pageantry and go straight to the benefits/tradeoffs. If you elide or deny the existence of tradeoffs, that's only going to deepen my skepticism even further.
I'm on RubyMine with vim navigation.
I find extremely helpful in everyday work and it's not only perceived feeling - I pair program sometimes with people that use VS Code and they tend to be much slower in finding things just because of the clunkiness of the VSC's UI.
Very few people are going to prison for possession. At the federal level, virtually all of the people in prison for drug offenses are traffickers.

That's been the war on drugs, busting small time traffickers to go after big time traffickers. Is that cool now again?
> James later deleted his tweet, which included a photo of the officer, later identified as 18-month veteran and Air National Guard member Nicholas Reardon, as well as the comment "you're next." Reardon was taken off street duty amid an investigation, Columbus police officials said.

The shooting in question that so outraged LeBron: Body camera and security camera footage released after the shooting shows Bryant brandishing a knife and charging two women consecutively, leading up to the moment Officer Reardon fired four shots; Bryant was struck at least once. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ma%27Khia_Bryant
We, the US, have fumbled all our opportunities to stop the rise of Nazi China and are now an observer from the sidelines waiting to see if it implodes before it casts half the world in shadow.
My first reaction was to consider this as pretty damning of mass use. But when I considered it more I don't think the study is as damning of masks as it is of mask mandates.

The problem is only ~30% more people wore masks in the intervention arm of the study. So the best possible outcome, removing 30% from the infection group entirely (essentially taking them out of the population -- a "perfect spherical mask" approximation), is a 30% reduction in cases. Which is substantial, but no one expects masks to be that effective anyway. 11% seems a reasonable ballpark.

If everyone had worn masks it would have been easier to measure the effect of just the masks.

Still, it's worth considering the big picture. If mask mandates aren't enforced, they're not worth a whole lot. Especially if you have limited political capital to spend.
I would expect this would be a small number of people and therefore be a non issue.
Just look at Australia right now...
I've not used a System76 laptop, but I had a coworker who used them for a long while. He never had particularly kind things to say about the polish. I'm overall not too impressed by what I see on their website; I really want a higher-res display at least.

The coworker did eventually move to a Mac, but has recently expressed dissatisfaction and may move back to Linux. Not sure if that'll be with a System76 machine, though.
Seems like there should be a bug report to include more detailed information on the new page.
yes, distancing does most of the work in most common situations. a mask can only work when conversing closely for a time indoors. otherwise masks do nothing, no matter the filtration rate of the mask, because there's nothing to filter in the first place. distancing is a more universal and sensible mitigation (we're distanced from nearly all of the world population all the time).

this is why mask mandates, as currently constructed, are misguided and ignorant at best. the mandate should be to wear a mask when you're intimately sharing air (within ~3ft/1m) with another person indoors. the reason we don't have that sort of mandate is because it would mean we'd have to wear them around friends and family rather than those gross strangers who are out to kill us with their ignorance and malice (they're not).

this is also why the current mandates for restaurants (and most retail) makes no sense, as we're only going to be intimately sharing air with our friends and family in those places anyway.
The biggest vaccine hesitancy is among Trump voters. Who are super unlikely to be black.