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It's completely and incontrovertibly bullshit that vaccines don't help unvaccinated people.

Vaccines drastically reduce hospitalisation. That frees up medical resources for everyone, especially those who aren't vaccinated and those that need care.

We are already seeing medical procedures get postponed and hospital staff being pushed at the breaking point. The help to your community of being vaccinated is simply huge.
Perhaps true, but the interesting bit in the linked article is that some al-Qaida bomb-making training course in Afghanistan gave you a free F91W to be used as a detonator.

And apparently the US then decided that meant possession of an F91W on its own was reasonable evidence of terrorism. Despite 90+ million of them being sold over the years.
I’m not aware of suspects who aren’t convicted receiving restitution for jail time. Is there federal law for that?
Why do you think it would increase your safety? That's not at all obvious to me.
Unfortunate name choice.
All the data suggests that vaccines significantly reduce transmission, both by decreasing the likelihood of infection and onward transmission from vaccinated individuals.

Additionally, anything that incentivizes more people to get the vaccine will result in higher uptake, which benefits everyone in terms of lower overall spread and hospital usage.
Exactly. Really good food and fun stuff like homemade fudge and homemade? Jerky by the lb.

Great sandwiches too. And fun to shop around.
I'm switching to a ruby career. Any advice for a young rubyist?
The wheels on my Tesla hold up the batteries from gravity easily but in a plane you have to continuously lift them, does that change the dynamic?
The article never mentions the elephant in the room: if these men are put on a public trial, the government will have to reveal intelligence information that may embarrass or endanger the lives of people in the intelligence community.
This is great advice.

I am an amateur in a lot of different arts (music, painting, writing being the main focus). I have friends who are professionals in these areas and each of them of them has a day job they don’t care for to support their art. I was moderately close to making an attempt at being a professional musician in my early 20s, but playing enough local shows and only making $50-100 to split between 4 people dissuaded me of that notion. Now I have a fairly hard, but not stressful job in STEM that pays well and has good work life balance.

I find I have a couple advantages because of my reasonable stream of STEM based income:
- I don’t ever have to care about selling anything I create, which makes it less stressful
- I can afford almost anything I want to tinker with for a particular art

Consuming and creating art is a very critical part of my being, but given the realities of our modern economy and the insane competition in the arts, I am glad that I will be a “forever amateur”.
It has a lot to do, he's talking about the performance accounting on gas stations.

Yes, gas stations make low margin on gasoline.

Also, gas station owners in the < 15 location category are cheating taxes to get there.

Think of them as Mini-Bezoses. :)
No, that's the thing about conspiracy theorists: every time a factual claim they made is demonstrably wrong, they claim it "reinforces their conclusion."
Well, the aircraft mockup on their website[1] has what looks like 4 ducted fans in the tail and 6 on each wing. Might be an older mockup from when they thought they would need 18 motors.

Though, I suspect very little engineering thought has gone into that mockup. Looks more like something marketing threw together in an afternoon.

[1] https://www.weflywright.com/wright-1
The daily briefings in NSW (Australia) ceased this week and there was immediate criticism that it was a vital service that should've been maintained.

The media and public create that public brand; the health rep is generally just doing their job. In my state, the relevant person happens to have a recognisable hairstyle. It's not like she has a PR team going out telling people to dress as her for halloween or parties, people just do things like that, then the media covers that, and people send the link around and on it goes. Given the intense reactions that are the norm around this pandemic, I'm sure she'd feel safer without that level of attention.
TL;DR: do it! But do it strategically.

The good news is that you're young at merely 27.

More good news: you have a someone financing you, your current job.

Think about being an Artist as being an entrepreneur running your own startup, the beauty here is that you control every single aspect:

- you control the product: you can change it and tweak it at any time. Discontinue a product line, or take it back

- you control the pricing: free or $1,000,000, BOGO; it doesn't matter, you control it as you see fit

- you control the branding: NFT or mass production, the choice is yours, and you can always change your mind

- you control the positioning: for the elites or for the masses? Mass e-commerce distribution or atelier-style single sales?

Just like a start-up you will need:

- some type of business plan, where you address all the choices outlined above; a timeline, a capital budget, and timeline of activities

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product

Continue to work full time as you start moonlighting at your new venture. With time you'll increase the moonlighting and possibly decrease the dayjob. At some point there will be an inflection point where you jump ship and pursue the new venture full time and either drop the dayjob or scale it down to part-time / free lance.

Resources:

* Jerry Saltz book: How to be an Artist

* Follow jerry on IG/Twitter

* Paul Graham book: Hackers and Painters
Yes, you can explicitly set up additional aliases that will bounce incoming mail (or redirect it). It's an option in "New Alias" screen - "Reject (bounce) all mail sent to this address (disable the alias)". While everything else not explicitly configured would get caught by the wildcard alias and delivered to the inbox you specified for it.
Even if they do report for the BBC at other times, they aren’t reporting for the BBC in this tweet. The BBC being mentioned here is misleading.

The fact remains that these are just tweets and there is no fact checked reporting of it by the BBC or any other journalistic outlet that I can find.
> The reason gas stations run aggressively on cash is because they're running two different sets of books a majority of the time.

This is why I get annoyed when I hear people say "the 'rich' aren't paying their taxes." In fact it's the "poor" -- or rather the people who purport to be poor -- who aren't paying their taxes. Every dime I earn the Government knows about.

But every time I have to do business with a someone who will only accept cash, I see much evidence of shady bookkeeping.
Well, we are on HN, are we not?

Many people, such as doctors, nurses, certain manufacturing jobs wear masks for much longer stretches of time, for many decades already. They are fine, it works really well.

But you are right, I do not understand the effect of mask wearing on vaccination. Care to elaborate?
Exactly, the attack rate of vaccinated individuals who are infected is significantly lower.
Oh so that is the "merit" everyone keeps talking about needed to get a FAANG job. I guess Merit the generic name for Adderall.
> Why would we have dedicated plots of land for just chargers?

To have cover out of the rain. To have room to charge with a trailer attached. To charge larger vehicles.
> against free and informed consent

This is a problem - it is often not very informed.

As for medical history, we have to show vaccination records for a number of things - school, travel sometimes, certain lines of work.

Proof of vaccination against a highly mutation-prone virus in the midst of a pandemic doesn't reveal anything more about you than it would about anyone else - which is specifically allowed via HIPAA, for example. It's no more medical history than knowing your age.

These points don't really stand up for me. It's like saying "I choose to believe they cause autism, I've been informed by my other Facebook Mom group members, thus I do not consent."

None of it is based on science or rationality, in my opinion.
> If you're vaccinated, you can still get and transmit covid. You just don't get as sick. The vaccine protects
you.

The vaccine reduces the chance you can get and transmit covid. 40-60% protection against infection, and even when there is a breakthrough case viral load declines faster than in an unvaccinated person meaning less chance and time to spread the virus to others.

> So why these vaccine mandates? Vaccine passports? Etc.
Because people simply enjoy the act of getting to tell others what to do. Anybody who has ever interacted with an HOA will be familiar with this.

No, it’s because lots of people are literally dying. An HOA arguing with you over the color of your garage door or the height of your lawn is, at most, trying to protect property values or as you say just being a busybody.
Interesting, so the specific issue almost exclusively occurs with the second dose. The researchers suggest that only doing a single dose may be a happy medium.

”The overwhelming majority of myocarditis appears after the second dose of vaccine, so offering single shots could protect children while reducing their risk of the side effect even further.”

It’d be interesting to have single dose trial data to see how that would affect % effectiveness.
So when I visit your house I can put my feet up on your couch like Rick James/Dave Chappelle? Take New Orleans for example. Do they have to let nonresident tourists determine their policies?
We elect them. They are us.
I won't get into a debate on HN on whether the underlying rule is good or not, but the justification for holding enemy detainees is founded on historical practice during times of war. And, traditionally, the authority to do that ends when the conflict is over.

The agreement with the Taliban and the withdrawal from Afghanistan, in my view, brings the authority to continue military detention of many of these individuals into question.

The chief argument to the contrary would be that these are not purely military courts and not purely military detention. Congress set up the commissions system as an Article I court, rather than this existing purely under the President's Article II war powers.
Wow, that article is unfortunate.
I have no idea what you mean. Even Storybook's front page shows a video of completely isolated components. And every single example reinforces the idea of isolated components.

As if components existed in a void.
The fundamental yellowness of sunlight is not Rayleigh scattering, but the sun's natural black body spectrum. See my reply to the sibling comment.
Fixing anything is impossible without properly identifying what is currently wrong with the way things are.
I for one fully support a complete ban on humans manually operating motor vehicles as soon as we can get to self driving cars.

A scarier argument that I saw yesterday was something called a welfare check or something in which a police officer and a jail doctor can just declare you something like insane and you no longer have any medical autonomy.

You don't have to reach for hypotheticals about how we will ban people from eating a second cookie or a full size candy bar. This is the law we have today. People with mental health issues apparently have effectively no rights. Imagine making the wrong people angry and you end up drugged up in a strait jacket... Or if you want to go conspiracy theorist, a specific set of photos appears in your iCloud account and you face prison time where you are very likely to face abuse from the guards and other prisoners alike. This is also the reality we already have, no need to reach for hypotheticals.
I want to be able to have variation in perceived brightness, but not as a side effect while browsing for a hue. I doubt most designers would argue otherwise.

Compare it to waiting for a compiler: Sure, you can use the time off to stretch and take a sip of tea but there would be no serious opposition to compilers working at double speed tomorrow. It's simply better to not have to wait (all else being equal). But it's something you accepted and you deal with it, so wait you will.

The current color pickers are an annoyance that we have lived with since, well, always, but an annoyance nonetheless. Happy to adopt these pickers if they gain adoption. OKHSL and OKHSV look spiffy.
I've got a sneaking suspicion we ought to go through everything else Thomas MIdgley Jr. invented and ban it, just to be sure. Leaded gas, CFCs, and the contraption he killed himself with is a worrying pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
Costs of the 20-year war on terror: $8T and 900k deaths
There is a well known trade off between public safety and personal freedom. I believe that is the point the parent comment is trying to make.
And that's why you have gotten and will get no change, because "it's not your fault".

You all literally have guns for this reason. Get you some change.
I played around with a perceptual color space and made an interactive doodle that you can see here: https://hexpansion.io/ → click on "Colors".

The blobs attempt to spread out in a perceptual color space. You can add more blobs with + and remove them by clicking on their pie slices or on a blob directly.

Code is based on an older perceptual color space: https://github.com/neolefty/hexerals/tree/master/src/color
>I'm wondering if I should decide on taking the plunge, or at least plan for it... since I do feel the friction in transitioning getting a bit higher as I spend more time in this field.

I spent 25 years in tech before transitioning into non-profit work. The friction/inertia was a bell curve for me and was primarily driven teo things:

Money: For the first 15 years or so, the money/benefits were the archetypal golden handcuffs. At first, the more I made, the more financial responsibilities I took on. But I didn't keep upgrading my lifestyle past a certain point and I kept increasing my savings rate. At the end of my time in tech, my savings allowed me to choose my career without consideration of the money.

Skills: I realized I wanted to do something else and so I shifted my career away from narrow specialization in hands on tech to more strategic roles (product and people management). This gave me a wealth of skills that were more easily translatable to roles outside of tech.

Note that I am not specifically advocating for the path I took, but just giving my perspective on how it worked out for me.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27983845
This was posted yesterday and there was a discussion thread on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28497023
This is the main problem today. Good journalism costs money, and that money can come from ads, but that's usually not enough to pay the freight. Hence paywalls.

Or... it can be free.

But it also costs money to run a site. Especially if you're serving up millions of pages of content and images.

So... someone is paying the bills. The question is who, and why?

Bottom line is that "free" news either comes from someone selling you and your personal information, or it comes from someone with an agenda.

And that's the problem I spoke of earlier. You're either getting information from a recommendation engine designed to promote "engagement" and as such tends towards serving up controversy... or you're getting your information from someone with a specific agenda... which means they're feeding you what they want you to think.
Because covid is 10-50x more deadly than the flu, it makes more sense to advocate for precautions against it.

Just got my flu shot this week, but even for the young and healthy covid is more dangerous than the flu, except possibly in young children ages 0-12.
> It would be a bit embarrassing

No, it would kidnapping: a crime. Sanctioned at the highest levels of government.
I think my parent comment gets pretty close to the heart of the issue. I don't think it deserves its downvotes. It is a problem of employee incentives.

There are multiple internal approaches to building things. Several of these approaches get funding and head count based on the amount of influence of the people who back them.

Decisions about which product to present to the public are made on technical merit with little consideration to consistency in user experience. The resulting chaos leaks to the end user.

Once a product has launched successfully, the best members (not just engineers) of the team that built it diffuses back into the main body of Google to work on other cool projects (they now have the required political momentum). Product enters stagnation phase.

In 2 - 4 years a technologically slightly better alternative is picked. No one thinks about how to make this switch seamless for their users. End users suffer even harder.

Used to work at Google.
WeChat, Tencent, TikTok will clean China cyberspace from Korean-pop in China
Several rights are now considered universal and weren’t not that long ago. We are not discussing gay marriage in 1682.

Besides, marriage is now entirely decoupled from making babies. Some people might wish it weren’t the case, but it is.
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> Despite 90+ million of them being sold over the years.

It’s a feature not a bug, wouldn’t want to run out of “terrorist suspects” or else the war on terror would be difficult to sell.
> Symptoms can begin about 2 days (but can range from 1 to 4 days) after the virus enters the body. That means that you may be able to pass on the flu to someone else before you know you are sick, as well as while you are sick. Some people can be infected with the flu virus but have no symptoms. During this time, those people may still spread the virus to others.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm
I don't get it. I read case I, and I don't see how Jones is 'justified' in believing (e), since his belief is based on a false premise derived from hearsay. But maybe I'm missing some technicality in the meaning of 'justified.'

In any case, "justified true belief" seems like a flimsy basis for epistemology, since we have no independent oracle to ask whether our beliefs are true. So this definition doesn't seem to do anything to help us separate knowledge from non-knowledge.
They do not care about the injustices that their elected government committed and that they funded via their taxes, as long as they can have their iphone and starbucks coffee in peace.
Thats interesting the guy who invented the mRNA technology
thinks that vaccines make COVID-19 infections worse.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-m...
Big fan here of the shadowjar Gradle plugin, which produces a single self-contained JAR file with your app and all dependencies, no classpath to worry about, no versioning headaches.
Overweight and elderly is not something you can fix in an hour with a free vaccine shot. Don’t you see the obvious difference?
I guess this doesn't help on Windows, but with the stable release of Drive on macOS I just symlinked the volume to the location of the original directory.
You will go to jail for repeatedly driving drunk even if you never have an accident.

Do you also want prison time for unvaccinated people who repeatedly go out in public? I support you if you do.
Gettier cases are not cases where erroneous logic leads to a correct conclusion. The reasoning in a Gettier case can be perfectly fine; this is why the belief of Gettierized subjects remains justified. The issue is, rather, that because of "luck" there is a risk for reasoning/belief formation mechanism to go wrong, at the same time that it turns out to have produced a correct/true belief. The issue derives from there being a gap between a proposition being justified and it being true (Linda Zagzebski has a great paper that shows that whenever that is the case, you will end up with an analogous problem).
J Stieglitz: Inequality, Living Standards and Economic Growth (2015) [pdf]
The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll
It's probably something along the lines of: You can easily compare gas prices and many/most people (correctly) consider it a commodity. So, while they may or may not go out of their way to find a cheaper price, it often makes sense to wait for a cheaper price so long as they have margin to spare.

Whereas the chips and cold soda are something of an impulse buy. People probably don't think about the price too much. It's something they want and, if they do think about the price, they figure (probably correctly) that it won't be cheaper at the next convenience store. And, even if a supermarket is handy, they're not going to spend 20 minutes dealing with that.
I'm not even talking about reproducible builds, pre-installed phone ROMs are one step below that, there's no "builds". You just have no idea at all what's in it, there's not even a simple list available of what's in it...

Here's a reminder that there's not a single android phone on the planet which runs AOSP.

> They're probably better off using a locked down phone with OEM ROM (you already have to trust the OEM) than with a locked down phone that can possibly be replaced with malicious firmware.

I don't think so, unless OEM are going to increase their standards, a thirdparty ROM will always be better since they can be reviewed and have at least a list of what's in there. That's a very low bar indeed but preinstalled ROMs have such low standards, that makes it better.

> source?

Which source? They aren't publishing any. Those services blobs have full permission to do whatever they want. They update in the background, can escape the sandbox, send device data home...
> Still heavy cash transactions for the bootstrapped <15 location gas station franchises.

What counts as "heavy"? 5%? 15? 50%? Based on my observations it doesn't look like it's happening at a significant enough scale for it to meaningfully make a dent on gas station profitability numbers.

>ATMs, etc...

Why would someone use an ATM to pay for stuff? I don't think I ever saw a gas station that didn't accept debit. If anything gas stations offer a free "ATM" in the form of "cash back" transactions.
It can be both art and programming! Here's a paper showing how programmers work with artists to develop the classic TF2 half lambert [0]. This shader also makes use of an efficient method for representing diffuse environmental contributions using low order contributions on a spherical harmonic basis which is similar to techniques from quantum mechanics [1].

[0] https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/NPAR07_Illus...

[1] https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ravir/papers/envmap/envmap.pdf
Luc Montagnierd joint recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus HIV has argued the virus was created in a lab.

"French Nobel prize winner: ‘Covid-19 was made in lab’"

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Disputed-French-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier

Again, just another appeal to authority, to be analyzed further. I find curious his personal Wikipedia page still characterizes the controversy has him being accused of spreading a conspiracy theory, while today, its looking as one of the most likely causes.
I've wondered how hard it would be to hack old LED signs into OSC touch control surfaces.
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Having sex is irrelevant. Marriage is about social status and taxation as much as religion.
Wong Kar-wai might disagree with you.
My experience with Freenode/Libra Chat is that they either don't implement geo DNS or don't do a very good job of it. I'm on the US west coast and lookups to irc.libera.chat often return servers in Europe.

Edit: Double checking Libra Chat's website I see that they have added regional hostnames so I guess that's their solution.