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> What about waiting for full FDA approval?

Because it's pointless, and because the pandemic is killing people right now, not whenever some arbitrary administrative milestone is achieved. But most importantly, because people who bring that point up are typically completely ignorant of what medicine approval entails, why the process is there in the first place, and why it normally takes so long.

Just one element among several: it usually takes a long time because diseases take time to develop and we lack test subjects. Here the disease spread very rapidly, develops insanely fast, and thus judging the efficacy is nearly immediate. As for safety, vaccines almost never have long term side effects, so the risk is low to begin with, whereas the risks of the disease are huge.

In short, this is a specious argument, and a ridiculous proposition on the face of it born of ignorance and motivated by a rebeliousness as callous as it's puerile.
We use Nextcloud at the office. It works really well.

On the other hand, I pulled the trigger and got myself a developer license for insync. That’s a great client for Google drive and Microsoft OneDrive.

I was hesitant at first, but it works really well, and they have some neat features (ignore patterns, out of tree syncing, directory merge, etc.)

They have added Dropbox support lately.
> I have no idea how you got fear-mongering from that article

This is a single first-hand account, was subject to publication bias, and a relatively bad breakthrough case.
That's proprietary. And modern isn't an advantage in itself, unlike open-source for someone requesting open-source.
I had a similar situation with London. Ironically I moved to California as the new annual fires started.
In the middle ages some nobility could be quite cash poor and still have influence. Go back far enough and rulership came out of how many armed men you had loyal to you.

Today, certainly, having lots of money generally gives a person a lot of decisive power as well as general influence (the wealthy are indeed called the ruling class by some).

But OP's argument kind of falls into incoherence given that "elites" is an utterly vague term. The famous and the attractive have some influence, some uniqueness but so do those with expertise, they're a kind of "elite" if we're being that vague.
Largest virtual universe free for anyone to explore
No, there's a "Think 25" rule where if the person looks above 25 you don't have to check.
> gradually transition pieces to use the Rust standard library and to safe code

Is this realistically possible on a non-trivial project? I suppose that porting to safe Rust requires a radical rearchitecture of the code.
And what is being produced in this case is petrol (look at the list of 100 top polluting companies).

So let’s tax petrol, that way we reduce consumption
STL has a lot of weird pitfalls. There was std::vector<bool>. Here you can see some pitfalls of std::unordered_map: <https://youtu.be/ncHmEUmJZf4?t=2220>. The whole talk is interesting to watch. In the beginning you can also see the puzzling design of std::unordered_map (puzzling because of the number of indirections).

I'd reach for abseil first: <https://abseil.io/>.
Two years ago today, the WIV took its bat pathogen database offline
It's the supposed benefits of the post-combustion lead oxide deposits that defenders of leaded gas cite. I have never heard anyone cite the lubricity of TEL itself.

The most popular theory is that the lead oxide fouling reduces the occurence or effects of micro-welds between valve and seat surfaces, which otherwise produce abrasive particles that contribute to valve seat recession. While this theory is plausible, it has not been shown to occur under normal operating conditions in automotive engines, nor in aviation engines as far as I know.

The final report from the EPA's Valve Seat Recession Working Group found no evidence that leaded gas reduces engine wear under any but the most extreme operating conditions:

https://archive.epa.gov/international/air/web/pdf/vsr-finald...

"In real world conditions, virtually no evidence of excessive valve wear has been found in vehicle or engine operation in normal everyday use, and several studies that monitored vehicles in actual daily service in countries that eliminated lead found no excessive valve wear."
Thanks for the proof. Over 100k increase on average. Not surprising.

...and people wonder why software gets slower and bigger over time while doing the same thing. We even get HN articles about that semi-regularly.
> I feel this quite strongly since I get around by motorcycle, so I don't have the benefit of filters and whatnot that cars have.

Are there no helmets with integrated filters? Perhaps something like the Stormtrooper’s helmets? If not, wonder if someone should come up with those..
> If I had a vote whether to ban combustion engines from my city (cars, trucks, mopeds, leaf blowers - everything), with a relatively short transition period (say 5 years), I'd be in favor.

Banning sales of internal combustion engine vehicles and products on a short timeline might be reasonable, but banning the operation of ICE vehicles is financially a very regressive policy.

Buying a new electric car to get to work might not seem like a big deal to professionals in six-figure jobs, but it would be a crushing blow to someone making $15/hr who plans to drive their Honda Civic until the wheels fall off.

Any actual policy decisions will need to focus on new car sales while also incentivizing people to upgrade to EVs. Maybe a cash-for-clunkers style program that takes ICE vehicles off the road and subsidizes the purchase of a new EV.

Outright banning ICE transportation is a no-go unless we have a plan to alleviate the financial burden a sudden change puts on the lower class vehicle owners. It can be done, but it would be expensive.
We are not cattle no matter what you public policy wonks have been led to believe.
It is possible to test to differentiate between those currently shedding the virus and those who are recovered with natural immunity.
Those with natural immunity actually do themselves harm by taking a double vaccine dose according to some immunologists.
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Didn’t another scientist named O’Neill also propose using railguns to bring payloads into orbit from the moon?

Would be interesting to use the moon to test alternative means of reaching orbit since the low-G environment and lack of atmosphere would make it pretty forgiving for that task.
So you are suggesting that the per-capita material well-being in Nigeria has gone down all this time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria#/media...

I don't doubt that wealth can be a factor, but those systems are a whole lot more complicated than that. Money+Low Gini = Low birthrate is a meme as much as it is a primary driver.
It was actually possible to delegate subsets of descriptors to child processes doing the poll()/select(), making polling have the same time complexity as /dev/poll and kqueue/epoll, and avoid being CPU bound. Even better if you delegated cold subsets, and kept a hot subset in the main process.

But few knew the trick so it didn't catch on.
It's a wonder anyone wants to do the job at all, knowing all this in advance. I almost became a teacher once. Figured all the abuse would be a degrading waste of my efforts.
They are about organ misuse, which these days would likely include donations (less common at the time).

>you surely have larger problems

Maybe, but that's one more incentive, and not a small one either. Even the definition of "braindead" is somewhat controversial in many circumstances, nowadays, with doctors having the power to make some pretty radical choices - occasionally even against the explicit wishes of patient and family.
Stockholm is built on islands that helps, and the rains are not frequent but heavy enough to clean the city a bit, waste management is good. Thera are also fewer people are active in the center of Stockholm compared to Paris; Stockholm 5 214 pop/km², Paris 20 909 pop/km² (this disregards important factors about how those numbers work, but it's an interesting indication.)
In a narrow sense I strongly agree, but more generally, I think this is impossible without reversing the neoliberal slide and massively increasing the welfare floor — look at the Yellow Vests in France.
Can you share sources/data?

The fact that Americans are so obese it’s draining down their lifespan in a collective way is still something that sounds worthy of study.
Turns out they are so loud that:

- You are not allowed to use them on Sunday or holidays.

- On other days only between 9:00-13:00 and 15:00-17:00, with exceptions for official street cleaning, industrial only areas etc. (Which I guess explain why I normally not seeing them and if then when used by the BSR ;=) )
These are not incompatible thoughts though are they? One can think that we should help the homeless while also think that the public transport is not usable for their own usage while it also acts as a homeless shelter.

I’m not living in a city where this is a problem, so maybe my viewpoint is naive here. I want my tax to be spent on helping the homeless, even if that means that I have to pay more, and I also don’t want to sit next to someone on the bus who had no opportunity to wash in the last weeks. I don’t feel that these thoughts are in conflict.
If you’re on gravel or sand I agree, leaf blowers are way better. But honestly on Asphalt they seem less effective than a big wide broom.
>There might be better bang for the buck by starting with the more highly polluting things. Other than CO2, things like leaf blowers are _vastly_ worse than cars.

You also need to multiply that effect by how many cars are active versus how many leaf blowers are active. On a per-household basis, you might be racking up 1.5 car-hours per day:

(2 commuters × 30 minute average commute × 2 commutes per day × (5 working days in each 7 day week) + some arbitrary amount to account for weekend/non-commuting trips

On the other hand, how often are you using a leaf blower? Maybe every time you cut the grass? Suppose you do it once a month and each time you blow for 30 minutes. That works out to 0.0167 hours per day, or 90 times less. And this is all assuming that everyone even bothers using a leaf blower. Maybe I live in a ghetto area, but I'd estimate that less than 1 in 10 houses uses a leafblower.
I notice it's worse in cities with extremely dense urban cores, like NYC. There was a distinct smell (not just garbage, but something I basically call 'the NYC smell' in my head) in many parts. Other cities never seemed quite so bad; at least not bad enough I can still remember that smell.
Not a crisis, but climate change was similar
I've had that happen more than a couple of times at this point (often on Chinese or Japanese torrents), and I find it very strange. I always assume that some long replaced-but-not-thrown-away computer was turned on to find some old file, and it immediately and automatically resumed its mission to send bits of a 90s soap opera intercontinentally. Then after the owner finds what they need, the computer goes off and into the closet again, as I send those bits back to China, to the other 5 people who are silly enough to leave these things open for years.
Likewise with disinformation’s role in electing officials that don’t take climate change seriously, or who roll back EPA protections.

If anything social media has a capacity for indirect harm that is in some cases greater than the original harm in question.
It's great with all the quarantine going on, we all stay home and no air pollution! Problem solved!
What's next, a water shortage?
I've heard this complaint a couple of times recently. I find it odd because I'm using the latest Firefox and the contrast is pretty good. I wonder if we are using different themes?
> Her main achievement since becoming commissioner was obstructing an investigation into police corruption

I think you have your answer. She’s a “team player” as far as the police ans the government are concerned. As with any organisation, promotions are contingent not on doing a ‘good’ job, but on doing what the higher ups consider to be in their interests. It would seem the senior management in her department have made their priorities clear
Skill in covering up failure is the key to success in British politics. Have you seen our Prime Minister?
It means anything which violates the social norms and laws that undergird a society, one of which is suicide. Another might be illicit drug use, including psychedelics. Any solution or help a state-linked therapist provides must necessarily steer away, if necessary by force, from anything that involves these. This even may be if something like psychedelics could help the individual, although psychedelics are likely to become legal in the future for this purpose. Suicide in most jurisdictions is entirely illegal not excepting euthanasia and in such jurisdictions, a therapist engaging with a rational terminally ill person as you describe would not be allowed in an official capacity to have an honest discussion about euthanasia as an option for their situation.

> There is no strong evidence that suicidal people have a genuinely held belief that they wish to stop living, as opposed to a psychiatric episode that once passed does not reflect their actual world view.

I would argue that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that suicidal people have a genuine held belief that they wish to stop living, in the form of genuine and sometimes successful suicide attempts. To redescribe it as a "psychiatric episode that once passed does not reflect their actual world view" is to simply negate the validity of the belief by viewing it through a medical rubric which affirms suicidality as something pathological. This is a value judgement. Compound with the complication that, as described through the comments on this post, any discussion of intent towards suicide can have severe consequences and therefore suicidal people will necessarily be coerced into denying their true beliefs of things, and must acknowledge the consensus view that their desire to kill themselves was in fact not "a genuine beliefe". That they may come at some point (possibly much later on) to have genuinely changed their mind not to kill themselves or to have kill themselves may be great but does not invalidate their previous belief at the time they were suicidal.

For comparison, imagine a society in which intent towards abortion was viewed as a pathological state of mind, and any talk towards such was met by extreme force from the state similar to that which it is for suicide, to wit: forced imprisonment, pharmaceutical intervention and koshing of a person until they no longer expressed (openly) a desire to have an abortion. A statement like "There is no strong evidence that these women have a genuinely held belief that they wish to not have their baby, as opposed to a psychiatric episode that once passed does not reflect their actual world view." may sound valid to people living under such a value system but we might recognise something more going on here.
> There are no way to know the long terms effects

Vaccines almost never have long term side effects, and there is no reason to believe the vaccines at hand have any reason to have any. But maybe it does. What's the probability? Based on those priors, extremely low. Not zero, but extremely low.

The disease, on the other hand, definitely has long term side effects. We know that.

If the risk of infection was low, you'd have a point. Maybe. But the fact is, without vaccine, everyone stands a very significant chance of getting infected. The very small risk of long term side effects is just ridiculous compared to those of the disease, and unlike the vaccine, the disease does not care about your "freedom."
I’ve noticed she always (at least publicly) backs her officers no matter how badly they mess up. I guess that makes her popular in the force.
Replace 2 teenagers with "homeless guy that shit himself" or "criminals" [1] and you have a different story. If you have proper security this sort of class of behavior is entirely prevented.

[1]: https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-takeover-robbery-5...
A leaf blower is how you move in the air when flying hooked up to a bunch of balloons:

https://readingasawriterhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/rus...
>> I'm generally an avid beliver in free markets as an agent for positive change, so these types of "revelations" are really disheartening.
>There are many such examples... one of the chemists developed a treatment for a fairly common disease... We were a startup so didn’t spend any effort doing a study much less a full program.

It's understandable that a startup could not invest further in something they can't sell. The problem seems therefor deeper than a general invocation of 'free markets'.

Perhaps the real problem is that apparently there was no way or perhaps incentive to publish the result without an expensive full study. Had the idea been published perhaps someone else would have picked it up. Would the recent fashion of preprints have helped?

Or maybe the problem is that pharmaceutical business/research income depends on patents alone, and we should have some form of public investment which guaranteed profits for development of treatments regardless of patents?
The Freaking Article, in other words, the linked article whose thread this is.
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> I initially thought you meant "you can know you're at risk of spreading COVID, because everyone is at risk of spreading COVID."

No. That wouldn't be a particularly useful statement.

Dismissing the aggregate risks solely based on your own is short sighted.
Too bad that addressing the issue is once again political suicide.
Yes and leaf blowers were not a common sight in America until the late 80s. How did we get through life before then?
Zero warnings is the kind of thing that should be enforced as a pre merge check rather than a build showstopper.
I know they rounded up that number, but that's not correct, nor scientific. Do we fucking love science or not? 0.1 billion years is 100 million years, you can't just round them up like they don't mean anything.
A Crash Course in Monads (2007)
Fauci Was Untruthful to Congress About Wuhan Lab Research
> Effectiveness of attacks was also reduced with physical security like cast iron/concrete bollards making truck bombs.

Somewhat off topic, but I do wonder if some of these have been a net negative in terms of people injured. Shortly after someone drove a van along the pavement on Westminster Bridge all the major bridges had concrete barriers built between the road and pavement, and while I see the reasoning for it, it does seem to me that cyclists who could previously fall relatively harmlessly onto the pavement if caught alongside a bus or other vehicle are now going to be dragged along a concrete blockade instead.
uBO + IDCAC is still worse than uBO + Consent-O-Matic. Not the right solution.
In Santa Clara county (Silicon Valley), 87.6% residents over 12 have has one dose, 82.4% are fully vaccinated. I have no idea if people eager for boosters are getting double counted.
Are there any freedoms fought over in America that truly do no harm to others? Most discussions revolve around tradeoffs between harm and benefit.

It seems like "as long as I don't harm others" means "I consider the small harm to others worthwhile for the benefits". And "regardless of harm to others" is using the same approach to come to a conclusion you disagree with.

There's a lot of different ways to approach freedom, but I don't think "I don't care about others" and "I would never inconvenience others" is an accurate binary taxonomy.
With around than 1% getting long COVID, which used to be called "viral fatigue" pre 2020, I'm not certain its something to worry about.
Choosing to follow a bad trend is indeed the fault of the bandwagon-jumper.
AstraZeneca.

Neither Moderna nor Pfizer were available and AZ seemed a better choice than Sputnik or any other available vaccine at the time.
Definitely a theme thing. The default theme is similar to the article, the buttons are just icons with no hint that they are buttons.
Transmission itself.
I highly recommend the image built by the linuxserver.io: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/transmission
I am pretty sure it can be worked around or even emulated in Clojure with minimal effort if needed
I know it's proprietary, it isn't my language of choice, but it's a lot better than GNU APL.

If they really want something open source and good, J, open source ks, or BQN will be better. But if you're suggesting an APL dialect, Dyalog is much better than GNU despite being proprietary.
The f**ing article. A piece of internet slang that goes back many years, possibly originating on Slashdot and referring to the article that we're discussing here.
UK has a massive elephant in the room when it comes to terrorist attacks in the UK as the vast majority come from a certain minority group in the UK.

The UK has to skew figures convicted people of right wing terrorism for literal thought crime. A guy was charged for his political views and for owning legal to own books the judge even said he didn't have any evidence the man was going to commit a terroist act.

Unfortunately all videos on crimebodges YouTube channel have been hidden so I can't find the link
The lack of generics for C makes it difficult to write those sorts of libraries in an efficient way.
> What nastiness are we subjecting ourselves to today?

I'm gonna go with overfishing. Anyone who has been shopping since the 1990's has seen fish diversity decline and prices skyrocket beyond inflation (not to mention a sharp increase in farmed and faux-colored fish like salmon). Illegal fishing is impossible to combat.

See China's illegal fleets:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27412691
[2] https://twitter.com/epineyro_ok/status/1378112721628114947
Yeah it’s true but I’d rather not enrich a bunch of middle men. I think the system is unfair and I don’t want to contribute
I mean --no-check-certificate.

It's still better than http:. Eavesdropping requires an active attack instead of simply a passive one.
The most revealing thing about all these calls for back doors "for the children" and "to stop terrorists is that I never truly realized that child exploitation and terrorism were invented around 1996. It is also interesting that we never caught any criminals involved in these things before 1996. Pay phones were a pretty hard thing to track and monitor back in the day and we never had calls to outlaw them.

Solarwinds gives me no incentive to trust in the technical competence of any law or government group.
They are, but it's a little difficult (hence the longevity.) Now that you know it exists, a little determination will get you there, and it'd love to have you.

Yes, it's good enough that this discussion can only possibly refer to one place.
It should. I plan more traditional packaging (exe/app) too, but jar will probably be the first option before that
Not exactly what you asked for but I would highly recommend "To mock a Mockingbird".
It's similar how with a torrent you can start seeking into a particular spot in a file and start playing by requesting particular chunks at that spot. Some clients like webtorrent support this behavior but it changes the dynamics of the network somewhat if many clients do this kind of thing. You can build some supplementary peer info to help the process along for different p2p networks depending on if they let you create side-channels or let you make more explicit connections to peers. For peermaps, the database is file and directory based so most of that peer tree traversal should be handled already by the network. And there are more ways to optimize the connections with additional tricks once you get the basics working with a somewhat slower and less sophisticated transfer method.
You might be able to find some inspiration and tools at http://preciousplastic.com/
Tay would be the first death by ToS.
Exhaust isn't the only car pollution. There's also tire and brake wear. But I'm not sure which is worse at this point.