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> Expecting draconian regulations on social media to work is a recipe for failure.

Regulations come in flavors other than draconian. Do you have a specific policy proposal which you're referring to? Otherwise it seems somewhat disingenuous to predict the failure of something which we don't even have enough detail to discuss.
I think about this a lot but almost never hear it brought up, so I agree that the point gets overlooked often. For every death there are probably many people experiencing serious effects. Anyone who has experienced significant long term health problems knows that they can have a massive impact on your life.

This reminds me of a bad take that comes up from time to time around war casualties. Some will see that only a thousand soldiers out of a million died in some conflict and think that it wasn't that dangerous, but for every death in war there can be dozens of people who suffer severe mental and physical harm that negatively affects the rest of their life.
> the social interactions they provide are every bit as addictive.

I'm not familiar with actual research in this space, but i would imagine that its similarly addictive to being with friends IRL?

(To me) social media is a great tool to connect with friends and stay present even after we move away and work and pandemic quarantine. Its a suppliment for IRL relationships. I used to live with friends in college, and i used to go out and get food or drinks or whatever almost daily to get my "fix" of socialization.

Are social networks really that different? I recognize that some (teen girl?) people might wish they looked like a supermodel on social media or get jealousy of the lives of influences, but is that different from old magazine and movie stars? Is the mixture of "social" and "influences" to one news feed detrimental? Is there more exposure? What makes social networking more "addictive" (and therefore dangerous) than actual socialization?
If anyone needs a Python script to help identify which TravisCI projects (could have been) affected, we put one together: https://gist.github.com/xavdid/f8d89a98d4f791c7b347d73652a47...
This is interesting. One of my major complaints of Nix (of which i'm typing on, NixOS) is that my app states easily clobber each other. Ie moving between large nix changes can break, and even rolling back is broke, because the state is not managed in the same safe way that apps themselves are.

If this solves that problem i'd definitely be interested in trying it out. As the only thought i had was manage to put 100% of my state into my nix config which seems.. a nightmare.
The point is that they STILL haven't considered natural immunity. Why not? That is a bizarre oversight, especially at this point.
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I know a guy who hates McDonalds and Burger King, but loves Wendy's. There's no universal rule that applies to everybody.
Do you have a source for that? The manga I remember being quite accurate (though it's been a decade at least since I last read it). The anime diverges drastically story wise from the manga (the main characters are even different).
Successor generations to the Baby Boom have had lower per-capita wealth at the equivalent life stages, which fully rebuts this line of argument.

Generation X (born from 1965 to 1980) came of age during the era of wage stagnation and growing inequality ushered in by the 1970s and ’80s. When the typical Gen Xer reached 35 in 2008, his or her share of the nation’s wealth was just 9 percent, less than half that of boomers at a comparable point in life.

Millennials haven’t hit the 35 mark yet — that won’t happen until about 2023 — but their financial situation is relatively dire. They own just 3.2 percent of the nation’s wealth. To catch up to Gen Xers, they’d need to triple their wealth in just four years. To reach boomers, their net worth would need a sevenfold jump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/03/precariou...

https://www.attainablehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Ba...
I have pretty much stopped thinking about promotions within the same team. IMO you need much more work to change peoples perception of your level than you do to just interview and talk your way into an opening at that level. This is after working at companies that will tell you a promotion is coming until the cows come home. It never materializes until you have another offer.
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We've already don't plenty of covid tests on people throughout the past year or so. Why not start with giving anyone who has a previous positive test a card saying they have the best possible protection.
Fantastic. I was concerned that this might be a thing.
From their Design page:

> Spectrum will, for now, be a Linux-based system, derived from NixOS.
> It stands to reason that the number of CAEs in a COVID infection would be a subset of hospitalizations.

No, the CAEs in the vaccine study included a lot of transient issues that didn't require hospitalization. Most cases of myocarditis resolve on their own relatively quickly.

Myocarditis is common after COVID infections, too. They're just less likely to be explicitly noted because everything gets chalked up to COVID and the patient is already resting anyway, which is the primary treatment for myocarditis. It's not clear why the authors didn't try to compare against that.
> If there really were a 1.1-fold reduction in risk due to mask-wearing it could still be beneficial to encourage it.

That's understating it. The study doesn't measure the reduction in risk due to mask-wearing, but rather the reduction simply from encouraging mask-wearing (which only increases actual mask wearing by a limited amount). If the study's results hold up statistically, then they're really impressive. With the caveat of course that they apply to older variants with less viral loads than Delta - it's likely Delta is more effective against masks simply due to its viral load.

> The salient issue (taking up most of the piece) seems to be not the size of the effect but rather the statistical methodology the authors employed to measure that size. The p-value isn't meaningful in the face of an incorrect model -- why isn't the answer a better model rather than just giving up?

Exactly. The irony of this article is that this is an example where effect size is actually not the issue - it's potential issues with statistical significance due to imperfect modeling, and an inability for other researchers to rerun an analysis on statistical significance, due to not publishing the raw data.
No, that's not lying.
Namecheap offers it for free as well if you’re looking for a place to move.

I use namecheap as my registrar and cloudflare for dns. Though the free namecheap dns worked completely fine for the years I used it too.
'Mandatory medical treatment' sounds like a big deal, but the tragedy of the commons happens with every vaccine. No one benefits much from their own vaccination, we all benefit must from others'. Which is why vaccinations almost always have a requirement, or they don't work (cf flu, cf hpv).

When 1500 Americans are dying every day of a preventable disease, it is absolutely reasonable to take feasibility of enforcement into account. And enforcement has to be done where the greatest risk of spreading occurs. People might not like getting carded at a restaurant, but there is a point where lots of people are dying and it makes sense, right? We card for alcohol, we card for driving, and those we do every day.

I would think someone who tested positive should be able to get a ca state qr code. It seems the science supports that. Having each validator check that the test is the right test, and the doctor and hospital exist, seems not feasible, but getting a state qr code - then using that at the point of enforcement - seems practical.
I have a common medical condition which is easily monitored via a common blood test.

It seems to fluctuate quite a bit, and if I could get frequent readings I could figure out what is affecting it, and I could better understand it's effect on me.

But the medical system in my country does not allow for frequent readings, probably for good reason - it would be very expensive. And a hassle going to a lab frequently.

So I'm excited to read about this device and hope the tech matures quickly.
> Still I don't understand the current approach to COVID in the US. Vaccines are safe and available yet we only just approved the use in children under 12

The main issue here is that covid is less of a problem for people who are younger.

That means rarer issues can start to outweigh benefits. It's easily possible for vaccines to be beneficial over a certain age and detrimental under.

Also - while the vaccines lower transmission they do not stop it entirely so again it comes to weighing benefits.

The other issue is about testing how well the vaccines work in different groups. Just because it works well in a 65y grandfather doesn't mean it'll work well in a 2mo baby, or help with dosing decisions.
The research I've seen is that people with a previous infection are much more protected than the vaccinated.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
downvoted because they clearly said 'pre-requisite' which is in no way an overstatement.
It's not that complicated -

No one has died getting their immunity from the vaccine, but lots die in the process of getting natural immunity from the actual virus.

The vaccine is a much safer way to get your antibodies going.
Ultimately the votes at ISO are on behalf of sovereign entities, and so you should be glad that it rarely comes to that, since I don't think you necessarily agree that Ireland and Kenya each ought to have the same weight as the United States of America when it comes to C++.

I would suggest the "reduced contributions" means that - unsurprisingly - Google thinks Chandler, Titus and co. were right and so since the C++ Committee doesn't endorse the performance goals that means C++ will gradually become less suitable for them and they should expect to begin migrating off it in the foreseeable future.

In Prague in 2020 the committee also signalled that it recognised the concerns about Undefined Behaviour from much of the C++ programmer community, but as with Epochs, the enthusiasm for actually doing anything is extremely limited, the committee promises that it doesn't want to actively make things worse if possible, which is as Antonin Scalia would say "Weak sauce".

So, I think the direction of C++ for the next decade is, maintain old C++ code, ensure opportunities for people writing books and selling consultancy, don't worry too much about making it any faster, nor any safer. Plenty of people will be happy with that. Lots more will not.

One of the things to watch from Google will be whether it deprioritizes LLVM or mostly Clang. Lots of other interesting projects care about LLVM and traditionally benefited from work done to make Clang better, but if Clang ceases to be the priority the LLVM work still needs to be done.
Very interesting. I do this with my security cameras right now but mainly to find out who left poop in front of my house or who left the trash can behind my garage door. The second use case is much easier than the first since a lot of dogs walk past my house, a lot of dogs poop in front of my house, but not a lot of dogs walk by that leave poop behind (or sometimes the poop is out of view).

Interesting idea nonetheless
Energy is not free. Humans can always find something desirable/influential that requires more energy than is cheaply available.

Ex.: the Star Trek replicator requires staggering amount of energy. Owning one, and affording the fuel, would provide power and status. Were energy cheap enough to give everybody one would enable something next level scarce and desirable/influential.
The vaccines only reduce risk of long COVID symptoms by about 50% on average:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
How is something you need to actively do every day and has a significant impact on your QoL even comparable to a two time shot. Honestly it's very hard to take post like this seriously.
Yesterday in England, they published statistics that showed (among other things) the rate of non-covid deaths among vaccinated people greatly increased from March to August. By a factor that dwarfs the improvement in covid-related deaths. For some reason they didn't feel it was necessary to comment on or explain this surprising pattern. I can think of a number of explanations, but it makes me wonder if they are really on the ball, and would really make sound judgements on other matters such as natural immunity.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
> Your note that the world is sexist and many things make women, teens and girls continously negatively evaluate themselves

How did you pull this from a rather benign statement about high school prom and magazines?
So this is of course very cool, but I would say that one of the main appeals of a hardware modular is the tactile nature of it. It feels very different to experiment with vs plugging virtual cables in software.
> Harassment and threats of violence are illegal.

And Epik continued to host sites that were taken offline specifically for those reasons.

That's your cognitive dissonance.
So you are in defense of cyber-criminals in gaining unauthorised access to breaching someone else's internet business then? Such activity is illegal and those affected can report this and involve the authorities to track them down.

It is now worse since innocent users are involved in this leak.
I used to have a synth buying guide. For people just starting out I would go for:

• Get Reaper. It’s a mainstream DAW, is fully functional, a free download, and only $60 to register after 90 days.

• Valhalla Supermassive for reverb: https://valhalladsp.com/shop/reverb/valhalla-supermassive/

• The VST fork of VCVrack for a modular synth: https://github.com/bsp2/VeeSeeVSTRack#downloads

I would get a keyboard controller with full sized keys and a 5-pin DIN MIDI out for just over $200, but that can come later.

One thing to avoid is the rabbit hole of concentrating on what gear to buy over actually making music with the gear.
That's not the relevant part of the comparison: the point we were talking about is that there are plenty of examples of things where society uses regulation rather than expecting most individuals to make good choices all of the time.

Where the impact of cigarettes is relevant is in the discussion of how _strong_ a particular regulation should be. A deadly threat certainly warrants stricter rules than something minor, just as we do not enforce zoning violations with the death penalty.

If there's a specific policy proposal you could talk about whether you think it'd be effective or overkill but instead you appear to be arguing that there's no need to even consider the range of policy options.
> what have they been doing this whole time?

Working on the most cost-effective, life-saving way to manage the pandemic: encouraging everyone who is able to to get vaccinated. Unfortunately, they had to work against an absurd scenario where an equal-opportunity virus has been politicized.
the world doesn't get less divisive because you ignore the burden that people have on resource limited public health systems. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil?

You're exactly right that not being vaccinated is not unique in this regard. Which is an argument for more intervention. People should obviously be treated even if their illness is a consequence of choice, but this also implies we can have a say in what people do. Population health is always a collective matter, as this pandemic shows. We all share the same ecosystem.

Singapore spends 6% of its GDP on healthcare compared to 20% in the US. In Singapore the live expectancy is 83 years, the highest in the world. Some American states rank below mainland China, the nation ranks below Cuba.
Regardless of their motivation, remaining unvaccinated is a selfish choice, same as driving around burning gasoline recreationally.
So wouldn't the correct comparison be comparing hospitalizations due to CAE to hospitalizations due to covid?
There was a sub sandwich place near the University I went to. Went in one day and was told they were out of bread. I figured that meant they were really in trouble, probably fell behind on paying for supplies.
So you are making a common mistake, you are considering a huge swath of people from a wide range of demographics and political persuasions as a single cognitive entity. They are not. Let's say you don't shame, you get an additional 15% uptake. Let's say you do shame, you only get 5%. Shaming is part of the problem for reasons I stated above. It certainly makes the people shaming feel better about themselves, but it's a net negative to the outcome of which those people are purporting solve.

Bottom line, shitting on people is never effective.
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Fucking hell, widespread famines in 20 years and a 7° C temperature increase. We're fucked very, very soon.
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Individual atoms, or small numbers of them, may be beneath some noise floor, but not combined atoms.

A salt crystal (Lattice of NaCl atoms) is nothing like a pure gold nugget (clump of Au atoms).

That difference is a massive effect.

So to begin with, we have this sort of massive effect which requires an explanation, which is where atoms then come in.

Maybe the right language here is not that we need an effect rather than statistical significance, but that we need a clear, unmistakable phenomenon. There has to be a phenomenon, which is then explained by research. Research cannot be inventing the phenomenon by whiffing at the faint fumes of statistical significance.
It seems like the best solution, if you're a healthy adult, is to get vaccinated then expose yourself to a variant better tolerated by the vaccines.
If you're referring to the "people who physically killed them" as the individual(s) who operated the drone(s), I imagine they are the ones who need the most (mental) help, after learning their superiors provided faulty intelligence and allegedly killed innocent people.[0]

The two(+) that are perhaps the most relevant are those that provided the intelligence (framing), and those that made the decision to act on it.

[0] I don't know how much liberty drone operators have to make live decisions in the .. "field" about whether to engage or not, but I suspect this case involved some level of abstraction.
The data I've seen is not great, in part because reinfection is pretty rare. This study [0] indicating rates of 31.0% and 3.4% respectively is the best I've seen, but I'd hazard a guess that there's some sampling bias - i.e., healthier people are less likely to get symptomatic reinfection and therefore to get tested, so unhealthy people are overrepresented in the data - so those rates are probably overestimates.

[0] https://ehrn.org/articles/covid-19-testing-and-possible-rein...
That doesn't sound insane at all. Where can I sign up for Team Psychopath? I need to hurry as I'm told patience is wearing thin.
> Probably because everyone and their uncle self-diagnosed a bad cold as COVID-19 and plenty more would lie about having natural immunity.

I think this is the main point.

We are dealing with a large anti-vax disinformation campaign that America's enemies are fanning [0] because they want to destabilize the country.

Many of the anti-vax people people are now pushing natural immunity.

Yes there is something to be said about natural immunity in conditions in which, say, vaccine supply was critically low and needed to be triaged.

But when there is approximately zero marginal cost to getting vaccinated, and very high likelihood of fraud among the nature immunity promotors, it doesn't make sense as policy.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-removes-russian-...
There are records of every coin purchased that is staked. Unless you were able to get someone to anonymously sell you a stake worth, staking is very far from anonymous.
In practice, most are going to be using staking providers or delegated proof of stake, and these are corporations that will absolutely be corrupted by states.

Mining is anonymous and portable.
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The problem is accounting for the 1-25, 1-125, 1-625 possibilities that are still legal, but you can’t meaningfully do anything about (and a 1-625 crit sequence trivializes any boss fight, and a 1-625 miss sequence makes a trivial enemy impossibly powerful). It really amounts to a 1-625 chance that combat just breaks down altogether.

Another alternative is you have so many rolls individual rolls don’t matter (e.g. mass combat), or you have such cheap restarts / difficulty that a 1-625 game breakage doesn’t matter (ADnD, roguelikes).

Tail risk is probably a the least interesting type of risk, unless the game is specifically designed for it (it runs long enough that encountering a tail risk is an expected proposition)
Regardless of where we end up with respect to vaccination of children for COVID-19, I hope we can all agree that the child's opinion is irrelevant, given that they are not equipped to make an informed decision.
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Just a Pixel 4a. I have 20/10 eyesight and scale the UI down as small as it'll go.
> Average New York City metropolitan area house prices are up 706% since 1980 (or 376% more than US consumer prices, and 326% more than US wages). For San Francisco the rise is 932%.

Mortgage interest rates were 14% in 1980, they are less than 3% now. This explains much (but not all) of the rise in the nominal cost of housing compared to wages. When people bought $50,000 houses in the nicest parts of Palo Alto in 1975, other people thought they were crazy because of the interest rates.
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That's an interesting point that without the interstate highway system (which had many benefits) we might be using rail a lot more than we are currently and therefore emitting less CO2.

Another way of looking at it is that we could consider the interstate highways only half-complete, and that the important part that was never built was an electrical delivery system for the cars and trucks that use it, so they can recharge their batteries without even stopping. It's what we would have been forced to build if fossil fuels weren't plentiful and cheap and we still wanted to use cars and trucks for our main transportation. We could have built that in the 70's in response to the oil crisis, and we could've had 50 years of electric vehicles by now, and it could have worked even using awful lead-acid batteries if cars didn't have to go more than twenty miles or so between electrified road sections.

Building the same thing now would be a lot easier. Battery technology is good enough that it would only be needed at regular intervals on the major freeways, and we can pair the electrified road sections with cheap solar power where it makes sense to do so.