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The virus mutates quickly so the vaccine can't be expected to be as effective at new variants compared to the variants it was designed to combat.
There is presently to my understanding a lot of claims of severity reduction, but I would like to see evidence and an explanation for it. My working model is that a consistent alternative explanation is the vaccine reduces infection risk dramatically but once infected severity can be the same.
Asylum seekers usually don't have the right to work until their request for asylum is approved.

Paying freelancers abroad could work - but what happens if they don't deliver? Or disappear with your data or code?

Bitcoin doesn't solve issues of legal liability.
Having a household of nothing but adults probably helps immensely. But the procedure is: flip the magnet when starting the dishwasher. Flip it back when the dishwasher is emptied. However, I can see how young kids in the house, or just plain lazy roommates, could make this less optimal.
The one exception to this is libraries for that language.
Every article that leads with this kind of stat is guilty of lying by omission. The typical immune response produces 10,000-100,000 times more antibodies than “necessary” to fight an infection.

If delta needs 8x more antibodies, then, well, our immune response is only overkill by a factor of 1,250-12,500.

Perhaps that’s enough for some of the virus to escape. But it’s still plenty to prevent severe illness!

Of course, these are just averages, and the 8x number does mean that people who have a depressed immune response are more likely to just not have enough antibody production, though the relationship between “8x” and this response is complex.

And in reality, transmission is driven in part by how much viral replication happens before antibodies are generated in large numbers. Delta is also better at this, presumably.
I dislike double handling.

If the dishwasher is awaiting dirty things, then whoever carts their own dishes into the kitchen can stick it straight in rather than place it on a bench for anyone else.

If the dishwasher is full of clean things. Then empty it, and put your dirty thing in.

Of course, it is a fantasy to ensure others in my household see things the same way.
Well duh.

This is what all Coronavirus species do and have done for millennia. The idea that COVID could be "conquered" and eliminated is about as stupid as thinking Prohibition of alcohol cold ever work, the War on Drugs could ever work, or the War on Terror could ever work. At best hubris and Dunning-Kruger; at worst pro-totalitarian scare tactics.
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This dream of penny transactions is as old as the web — even HTTP status code 402 was reserved for this purpose [1], but a unified solution never happened.

Many startups have tried building add-ons and other solutions for this, but it doesn't seem to be a very attractive proposition to a larger user base. People seem to prefer subscriptions rather than nickel-and-diming each piece of content. (Consider how Spotify and Netflix triumphed over the iTunes Store model of 99-cent transactions.)

The blockchain backing of so-called "Web3" is not a great fit for micro-transactions because fees are very high and the networks are congested. You'd be paying several dollars in transaction fees for that 25-cent purchase, and waiting several minutes for it to go through.

Of course this can be mitigated by a centralized solution that can handle higher volumes. But then it's no different from all the micro-transaction startups that already failed.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402
Looks like a small demographic of east-coast financial professionals was studied? Anyway that's the examples given. May have nothing to do with 'us'.
Eh, there’s a lot of “evangelicals” in my social sphere, some that you may even consider radical, and none of them think this.

The whole “hurricanes are God’s wrath on the US for gay rights” kinda thing isn’t really a wide swath even for the more evangelical set.

At least in my experience which is a bit considerable.

In fact the only time I’ve encountered that sort of rhetoric has been from mainline denominations.
Good thing we have approved non-mRNA vaccines for you to choose from.
You do realize ISIS or Al Qaeda can just find a white convert to send through? Or that there are white Muslims to begin with (Balkans)?
Have you ever tried to get work though Elance etc? Even with non-anonymous people and proper banking the trust (and pay) is through the floor. I see no way anything like this would work in practice for legal activities.
Yep, totally true - in the same way that you will die in the next 3-4 minutes unless you reset the timer by taking a breath.
I don't know the stats behind it, but I've heard from news that those with the vaccine do still host the virus when exposed and even continue to pass it along (although they experience lesser/no symptoms).

If vaccinated people do become infected at the same or similar rate to unvaccinated (and a whole lot of other assumptions), it almost seems like there is a scenario where the vaccine could be worse than the virus because we're essentially creating many Typhoid Marys that continue to host and spread the virus unaware that they're contagious, giving the virus a massive pool to mutate within.
What do you mean, incorrectly? For the vast majority of folks, work isn't fun - not when compared to not working, anyway. I mean, do you really think that most retail or foodservice workers think their job is fun?

And even when folks like their jobs, there are practical limits. Some jobs are stressful and lower work hours minimize mistakes. Would you rather have emergency room employees in their 35th or 65th hour on the clock that week?

Maybe work isn't the point, especially considering the unpaid work most of us do (and someone working 70 hours a week is surely expecting others to do, paid or not).
No that quote is 100% wrong scientifically and logistically.

But we humans, even today, often compare ourselves to Gods with infinite power even though that is no where close to possible.
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Zig has painless cross compilation, with gcc or clang it's a nightmare
I can count the number of times I've been sick in the past 10 years on one hand. I've only had a few vaccines during that time. I take supplements that benefit my immune system, call it a day, and that seems to have done well enough.

Oddly enough, the people in my life who are vocal about getting vaccines and booster shots on a regular basis all get sick much more frequently than I do.

It's the same situation with my girlfriend. Both of us rarely get sick and we are apparently more confident in our immune systems than this relatively vocal group of people. I don't think our lifestyle choice makes us deserving of the "anti-vaxxers" slur and the animosity that comes with it.

It's not like I'm on social media posting evil "anti-vaxxer" content. It was actually a 2014 broadcast on WPFW 89.3 that made me aware of facts that many seem to be ignorantl of or actively suppress:

- The similarities between 19th/20th century recorded symptoms of polio sickness and similar symptoms of lead/arsenic poisoning.

- Lead/arsenic pesticides were used on crops back then, lead contaminated many things ingested by people, and people did in fact get paralyzed as a result of these things.

- Polio was declared an infectious disease on a very flawed experiment where spinal fluid from a paralyzed cadaver was injected into a monkey that subsequently became paralyzed.

- The resulting vaccines from this research resulted in more paralysis and deaths.

- Many scientists believed toxins were the cause of polio, but their voices were suppressed by the US government when national vaccine trials began in the 1950s.

- The government-approved polio vaccines caused paralysis and deaths.

One would be correct in saying that the foundations for government-run vaccine programs are shaky at best. The fact that 100 years later, researchers are still trying to nail down the polio virus, might make one wonder that the elusiveness of a solution is a product of a made-up problem. Yes, polio viruses have been "identified", but no one can say for sure how many of of those who were paralyzed before were the result of poisoning vs. a random virus.

Then you have Bill Gates experimenting on India's people with his polio vaccine investments - is an equal amount being invested to research toxins as the cause of polio-like symptoms there too?

Anyways, please excuse me for waiting a some months to get my COVID vaccine. I suppose it's been enough time to watch the antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) risk play out. Next week I'm due for my 2nd Moderna shot. My girlfriend already has hers due to a questionable job requirement. Don't fault me for feeling uneasy about it, seeing how in Japan last month, Moderna doses were found to be contaminated.
“Larger, more expensive turbine catches more wind”

FTA: “the system is over three times as tall as an average wind turbine”, and it doesn’t start near the ground as a single pole, so larger, it certainly is. The “more expensive” part is my guesstimate.

I would also guess that removing the near-ground turbines from this device is a net win if you look at dollars/MWh.
True, and also keep in mind that expectation value incorporates not just relative odds of occurrence, but relative harm as well.

The immediate harm of getting the vaccine is much lower than the immediate harm of contracting the virus, and furthermore the vaccine reduces both the odds and harm of the virus.

All that is factored into the comparative E(V) too.
To the defendant who doesn't have $500,000 or $400,000 (maybe $1-10k is available), whether it's court or IPR seems like splitting hairs. It doesn't matter what kind of legal proceeding, because they can't afford to participate in any legal proceedings at this level anyway. They also can't afford to pay for more than superficial advice.

What I'm getting at is: $500k is more than most people's entire assets, and more than the assets in many small businesses and organisations. With software patents like this one, most infringements are likely done by the "little guy", who can end up threatened when they publish code, or have to operate in fear of that happening, if they know about it. They simply cannot challenge the patent through any legal method that has a fee like $500k.

If the rational closed-source company will pay Unity's hypothetical fee because it's less than the IPR fee, and the open-source defendant doesn't have any choice because they can't afford any of the options... who is left that is both motivated and capable to use the IPR procedure?

In the case of this particular patent by Unity, the techniques are things people thought of decades ago, but like most "inventions" of this kind, it's only when you have a specific project (typically paid) where they'd come in useful that you typically get around to using it. Nobody has time to document and explain every little "invention of the day" every time they think of a new technique just to feed the prior art corpus. I tried that once. When you've come to see how low the threshold is for patentability in software (and to be honest, in some digital hardware too), it's seems literally impossible to write down every patentable insight as fast as they come once you're on a roll; you'd need a support team just to do the documenting.

It's upsetting to think up a technique, flesh it out, not have a use for it for 10 years (you're busy, right?), then find one day when you want to use the fruits of your own figuring out 10 years prior on a project, it cannot be used any more. Even more so when it follows naturally from techniques dev communities have been discussing for years in the field.

(A number of us also have stories of publishing a sketch of a technique on some forum, only to find it patented later. It happened to me with a texture-mapping graphics technique in the 90s, where I found a later patent actually cited my Usenet post; in practice that meant I couldn't develop it further because the obvious next steps were blocked.)
I don’t, I work about 35, and right now I’m taking a three month hiatus.

Always take time to see the bigger picture.
Zig is a very interesting language. You are able to do thing that would require wizard level skills in C with simple plain language construct. Like serializing/deserializing an enum variants over the wire for example in the most efficient way (look at std.json.{parser, stringify} [0]).

> soon we’ll also have a package manager

This. If they succeed to do this (and I have my doubts) it will be a paradigm shift for low-level "system" programming.

Let's hope this is not vaporware.

Finally, it's relatively easy to contribute to Zig. Andrew Kelley is very opinionated on where the language should go with an emphasis on simplicity which sometimes can make things awkward but he is also persuasive and welcoming. I have been using Zig for a month and I am still positively surprised so he must be onto something.

[0]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/json.zig#...
I think that QUIC and HTTP/3 are great, but I worry that HTTP/1.1 will eventually be abandoned. I think it's important to be able to implement basic HTTP functionality with a few lines of code.
Loop Habit Tracker.
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Why do they bother with this repackaged vintage technology? Intel should focus on new products, that could compete with M1 and Ryzen, instead they waste time on another generation of the same old underwhelming tech.
Before I answer: why are you asking this in response to the definition of a piece of technical jargon? What makes something "web3", and whether anyone should care about "web3", are separate questions.

Nevertheless, the answer is: because web standards don't allow browsers and other only-speaks-HTTP clients, to interact with regular peer-to-peer protocols, preventing them from participating in [the existing networks serving] peer-to-peer use-cases. You can't write a blockchain node as Javascript that executes in a browser and have it talk to the same network peers that other native nodes for that chain interact with.

Instead, if users want to participate in such use-cases (e.g. to download a torrent on a Chromebook), they must use technologies like WebTorrent, that stand up their own, incompatible p2p networks based on WebRTC and other web-specific carrier protocols. This creates isolated "web p2p" networks (e.g. the WebTorrent swarm) divorced from their regular-p2p equivalents (e.g. the BitTorrent swarm.)

Web3 is one way of avoiding this network split: it is a [nascent] set of standard APIs, allowing browsers and other only-speaks-HTTP clients to interact with p2p protocols by holding relationships with "p2p protocol 'light client' over HTTP" gateways, that expose the p2p protocols in standard useful-over-HTTP manners to browsers.

Another way of avoiding such a network split, instead of web3, would be creating lower-level gateways that allow browsers and other only-speaks-HTTP clients to directly tunnel p2p wire protocols over HTTP, where the gateway would terminate the HTTP tunnel and then route the p2p packets to peers as normal.

However, most p2p protocols are a really bad fit for having all communications linearized into a TCP stream. Peers connected through such gateways would be really badly-behaved peers from the perspective of the network.

Web3 "solves" this by not having the browser speak the p2p protocol itself, but instead having the gateway speak the p2p protocol and act as the finite-state-machine keeping the p2p state, while the browser just gets to interact with the state model that the gateway node builds up through its p2p interactions, via either RPC request-response flows, or event streaming flows, both of which are much better behaved over an HTTP carrier than p2p traffic generally is.
the threats are legitimate and every death counts but it also makes sense to prioritize and focus our limited attention to areas where it has the most impact.

Terrorism kills something like 28k/year whereas Covid has killed 5 million.
If thats true why the boosters? Or are you claiming the boosters have been upgraded with latest variants?
To be fair I "get iffy" when i look down!
Lower hospitalization rates amongst the vaccinated seem to suggest less people are getting seriously ill.
> The Securities Exchange Act explicitly exempts bank notes with duration of less than 9 months from SEC regulation.

No, it is broader than that; it is not limited to bank notes or durations less than 9 months, but to any bank-issued security; but since Coinbase is not a bank as defined in the Securities Exchange Act [0], the bank-issued securities exception is immaterial.

[0] to wit, per 15 USC § 77c(a)(2): «any national bank, or banking institution organized under the laws of any State, territory, or the District of Columbia, the business of which is substantially confined to banking and is supervised by the State or territorial banking commission or similar official; except that in the case of a common trust fund or similar fund, or a collective trust fund, the term “bank” has the same meaning as in the Investment Company Act of 1940 [15 U.S.C. 80a–1 et seq.]»
I use Tutanota. Canceled payed accounts of Proton in 2018.
I don't encrypt messages. And I don't expect privacy.
I use this services because of more clean UX than Gmail or competitors.

Every message that I send is mainly related to work and personal communication is related to consumerism topics.
Everything else is communicated in physical presence of the person that will receive the talk.

It is over. Internet is commercial outlet. I use it as such.
Our devices are data collection tools. Our future is engineered towards automation of policing and processing.
Decentralization of Internet will not be allowed and possibly be outlawed in the coming years.

In the moment in which VPN is prohibited I am prepared to go totally offline.
I have so many books to read, and music to listen to without paying corporations a dime.

The basic computer functions that are needed in this context can be provided by old computers with Linux without a problem.

Welcome to the future, where you censor yourself willingly and avoid corporate technological advancements as a plague.
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Sadly solution to this is to become a dick, be rude to people and just filter your interactions a great lot - otherwise lots of "nice" people will softly offload their job on you for free.
I almost enjoyed it. I need a better ad blocker. That site sucks on mobile.
Well said... I feel like someone out there has developed a dashboard like this.
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Nim is garbage collected, thus is a higher level language but doesn't fit the high performance low overhead of "systems programming" requirement.

While Zig is manual memory managed like C and nearer to the core, but harder to program.
I'm not taking the COVID-19 shot.
Thoughts on Clojure UI Framework
This is kind of an antithesis to his message in the post; that nothing is actually permanent, and while many people are concerned about continuity of service, ultimately perfect continuity is impossible, whether that's due to the organization running out of money, bad backup practices and a fire, global warming wiping Ashburn Virginia off the map, or the end of the human civilization by some other means.

I've helped with a couple risk registers at tech companies. Two things I've never seen appear in a risk register: The company runs out of money. Human society is wiped out. I've been laughed at once for bringing up variations on these. They're out of scope; risks stop being a threat when there's no one left to care about them.

I think the goal of keeping an internet-scale level of data accessible and searchable, for longer than one lifetime, is an impossible task. Maybe Archive.org/Archive.is can pull it off; I doubt it. Its an insane amount of data. Most of it is totally pointless, but its really difficult to pick-apart what's useful and what's useless, so you have to keep as much as possible without bias. All of that is on hard disks which violently spin around at 8 meters per second, accessed by software which we all know breaks every day but are too afraid to admit it, over a network of other computers with all the same flaws, distributed globally, yet can be significantly disrupted by one roadside construction worker and a jackhammer.

The internet didn't increase the lifetime of data; it decreased it. Sure, we have far more of it at our fingertips than any other point in history, but that's not lifetime; that's just volume. And that volume has desensitized us; its fundamentally impacting our innate biological memory capacity, and the social structures we form around memory. We know the Library of Alexandria existed because people wrote about it; the pages laid for thousands of years; its memory passed verbally from person to person.

If all computers stopped functioning tomorrow, not even disappear, they're still there, they just don't work: Would the memory of Stranger Things still be known in two thousand years? I doubt it, but: if the only thing which offers us a satisfying "Yes" is "we keep the computers running, accessible, indexable, searchable"; that seems, at the very least, given the extreme challenges we as a species will be facing over the next century, beyond the scope of human possibility
When Snowden did it he wasn't expecting that he'd keep his job.
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One of the difficulties about being a creative is that bullshit is often required to earn enough to live off of. When you write a book, you may spend a very long time to write the work, then you spend a long time editing the book. Once it's actually purchased, your advance doesn't come in all at once but actually is split into 3/4 payments over the course of potentially 2 years. So if you get a 20k advance, you're actually only getting much less than that per payment. You have to then make up that shortfall with talks, interviews, patreon, and access to you in general as a published author which puts you in an authority position for advice.

Unless you make it to well above bestseller level, and potentially even then, you have to participate in the bullshit pyramid described here if you want to be able to afford a living + paying your own healthcare.
If someone told you they'd pay you $5m per year spent in prison, would you take it?
This is in comparison to the Alpha variant. Better quote:

>compared with the Alpha variant - in other words, it takes eight times as many antibodies from a vaccinated individual to block the virus.

Needing 8 times the antibodies int a problem if you have anitbodies to spare. Most vaccinated people do, but not all, depending on their immune system, exposure level, and vaccine reaction. This is why we see only slightly lower efficacy for the vaccine against Delta vs Alpha, not an 8X reduction in efficacy.
These days the best-of-breed are all web-based, which is fine by me since it's web-based content I'm reading, anyway.

I personally run tt-rss and I quite like it precisely because it's light, fast, has good keyboard shortcuts, and has a solid Android app.

I used to use Feedly and it's also an excellent option if you're not into hosting your own infrastructure.